Articles from the February 9, 2017 edition
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Big 12 to withhold 25 percent of revenue share from Baylor
The Big 12 Conference said Wednesday it will withhold millions of dollars in revenue from Baylor until an outside review determines the university and athletic department are complying with Title IX guidelines and other regulations in the wake of a...
Texas senator responds to Trump's vague 'destroy' comment
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A state senator who may have been the target of President Donald Trump's suggestions that he and a Texas sheriff could "destroy" her career says she'll keep pushing to reform asset forfeiture laws. Republican Sen. Konni Burton o...
Community banks hopeful as lawmakers target financial rules
NEW YORK (AP) — Community banks and small businesses are optimistic about changes the Trump administration and Congress have promised to laws that tightened supervision of the banking industry after the 2008 financial crisis. The number of small, l...
Chicken farmers say processors treat them like servants
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former chicken farmers in five states have filed a federal lawsuit accusing a handful of giant poultry processing companies that dominate the industry of treating farmers who raise the chickens like indentured servants and c...
Center for Health Security gets $16M grant
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Health Security has been awarded a three-year, $16 million grant to support work on strengthening health security and public health preparedness. The center a...
Oil pipeline foes protest around country in 'last stand'
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — With the federal government about to green-light the final phase of the Dakota Access pipeline, opponents of the project protested around the country Wednesday in an action some dubbed their "last stand." Some members of t...
Energy agency says coal mining will make small gain by 2018
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Coal mining in the Western United States is expected to get a small bump over the next two years after falling last year to its lowest level since 1978. The U.S. Energy Information Administration on Wednesday projected the i...
Carter: Renewable energy can help Trump create jobs
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday millions of jobs could be created in the United States if President Donald Trump embraced renewable energy sources such as geothermal, solar and wind power. Carter, a Democrat who was t...
Carbon tax push from former GOP officials faces uphill slog
WASHINGTON (AP) — A push by a group of senior Republican statesmen for a tax on carbon to help lessen the effects of climate change is already meeting entrenched opposition from within their own party. Former Secretary of State Jim Baker went to t...
$2.8B deal latest land acquisition in energy-rich Permian
DALLAS (AP) — An Austin-based driller said this week that it's buying about 71,000 acres of land in the energy-rich Permian Basin for $2.8 billion, becoming the latest energy company to make a major investment in the region. Parsley Energy said in a...
Retail group: Sales to grow 3.7 percent to 4.2 percent
NEW YORK (AP) — Despite a bumpy holiday season, chains like The Limited shutting down and department stores such as Macy's closing stores, the largest retail trade group says it's still optimistic that sales will grow this year — especially onl...
Qatar says producers sticking to oil output cuts
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatar's energy minister says OPEC members and oil-producing allies are adhering to previously agreed production cuts aimed at taking supply off the market to push up the price of crude. Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada said in Doha on W...
Hundreds of bison sent to slaughter over tribes' objections
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park on Wednesday started shipping hundreds of wild bison to slaughter for disease control, as a quarantine facility on a Montana Indian reservation that could help spare many of the animals sat empty d...
Plague of locusts leads Bolivia to issue state of emergency
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian President Evo Morales is declaring a state of emergency to fight a plague of locusts that is decimating crops in the country's agricultural heartland. Morales announced the decision Wednesday as part of a c...
24 Family Farmers Receive Fund-a-Farmer Grants From FACT
CHICAGO, Feb. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT) awarded over $57,000 in Fund-a-Farmer grants to independent family farmers across the country. Now in its fifth year, FACT's Fund-a-Farmer Project helps farmers improve animal...
evada official eyes summer launch of recreational marijuana
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Recreational marijuana shops could open in Nevada as early as July 1 under a timeline proposed by the state's top tax official Wednesday. Regulators at the state Department of Taxation have been crafting rules and d...
Trump administration weighs health insurance 'stabilization'
WASHINGTON (AP) — Worried about the nearly 20 million people who buy their own health insurance policies, the Trump administration and congressional Republicans are weighing how to stabilize a wobbly market, government and industry officials say. T...
Clinic falsely told dozens they had Alzheimer's, suits say
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Shawn Blazsek knew a string of concussions from high school football and boxing was catching up with him. He would go days without sleeping and was forgetting how to tie his shoes. Still, at age 33, he was stunned when told he h...
Oregon woman uses billboard to request kidney donation
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon woman who needs a kidney transplant is trying to reach potential donors through a highway billboard. Roxanne Loomis, 64, a Eugene nurse, has been on the kidney donor list for four and a half years, reported The R...
Man waives hearing in charges of aiding wife's death
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — A central Pennsylvania man has been ordered to stand trial on a charge that he assisted in his wife's death with a prescription drug overdose. LNP newspapers (http://bit.ly/2lrdvIX ) reports that 60-year-old Philip Benight w...
Dog food recalled after euthanasia drug detected
WASHINGTON (AP) — A pet food company is recalling several lots of dog food because it may be contaminated with a euthanasia drug. Evanger's Dog Food says it's voluntarily recalling five lots of its Hunk of Beef product that may include p...
Veterinarian's assistant relies on school grants
LOGANSPORT, Ind. (AP) — Marley Roudebush had earned college credits while in high school and attended classes at Indiana University-Kokomo and Ivy Tech in Logansport. But trying to balance raising three children and attending classes got to be too m...
Forged racist emails cause stir at University of Michigan
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Someone sent racist and anti-Semitic emails to University of Michigan students and made it look like they were from a computer science professor who pushed for presidential election recounts in several states. About 40 s...
Israel finds cave said to have contained Dead Sea scrolls
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Hebrew University says archaeologists have found a cave that once contained Dead Sea scrolls. The university says Wednesday that while no texts were found in the cave near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, findings i...
Full moon, comet starring in night sky show this weekend
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A full moon and comet share double billing in a special night sky show this weekend. A lunar eclipse starts everything off Friday night. The moon will pass into Earth's outer shadow, or penumbra. The moon won't be b...
