By KATHY MATHESON (PHILADELPHIA, AP) — Even as Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the nation’s official flag in 1777, another American banner was making history on Revolutionary War… Read more »

By KIMBERLY HEFLING (WASHINGTON, AP) — Even before a judge’s scathing ruling against California’s teacher tenure policies, the once-sacred protections that make it harder to fire teachers already had been… Read more »

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR (WASHINGTON, AP) — Insurers want to change President Barack Obama’s health care law to provide financial assistance for people buying bare-bones coverage. That would entice the healthy… Read more »

(WARRENSBURG, Mo.) – A University of Central Missouri alumna was recently named Miss Kansas and is now headed for the Miss America pageant in September. Amanda Sasek was crowned by… Read more »

By JAMES A. FUSSELL The Kansas City Star (LENEXA, Kan., AP) — Most people just have cars, bikes and lawn mowers in their garage. George Westwater has a droid. As… Read more »

(WARRENSBURG, Mo.) — University of Central Missouri senior left-handed pitcher Zach Davis was selected in the 25th round of the 2014 Major League Baseball Draft on Saturday by the Houston Astros…. Read more »

The Associated Press Friday is the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings of Allied troops in Normandy, the largest amphibious invasion in history and a turning point in World War… Read more »

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY (NEW ORLEANS, AP) — For months, 19-year-old Cpl. Roland Chaisson and his demolition squad had trained in England to invade Normandy. Twice a day they scrambled down… Read more »

(WASHINGTON, AP) — The White House is paying tribute to pro-democracy protesters who stood up against the Chinese government in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 25 years ago, and calling on Chinese… Read more »

By JOE MANDAK and ERIC TUCKER (WASHINGTON, AP) — A band of hackers implanted viruses on hundreds of thousands of computers around the world, secretly seized customer bank information and stole… Read more »