Articles from the February 15, 2019 edition
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Tech Defeats Harding in Shootout in Russellville
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Harding and Arkansas Tech combined to make 27 3-pointers, but a Tech run early in the second half proved to be the difference in an 88-82 Arkansas Tech win in Great American Conference action at Tucker Coliseum. The 11-0 Tech...
Harding Blows Past Arkansas Tech, Remains Second in GAC Standings
RUSSELLVILLE – Harding sophomore Kellie Lampo scored 24 points, and the Lady Bisons showed off the Great American Conference's top-ranked defense in a 72-48 victory over Arkansas Tech Thursday at Tucker Coliseum. With the victory, Harding improved...
Informant testifies FBI paid him $23K in bomb plot probe
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An FBI informant says he was paid more than $23,000 for cooperating in an investigation that led to charges against a man accused of trying to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound (450-kilogram) bomb outside an Oklahoma...
Boren's attorney describes university probe as 'persecution'
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An attorney for former University of Oklahoma President David Boren said Thursday Boren denies any inappropriate behavior during his more than 20 years at OU and described a university probe as a "character assassination." The...
Lawmakers mull fines for railroads that delay road traffic
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma lawmakers are considering whether to grant law enforcement the authority to issue citations to rail companies whose trains block roads for longer than 10 minutes without good reason. The amended legislative measure...
Conviction, life sentence upheld for man in Lawton slaying
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the murder conviction and life without parole sentence of a man in a Lawton motel slaying. The court on Thursday rejected appeals by 33-year-old Roy Lee White Jr. that included...
Under new governor, Kansas redoing child welfare grants
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has terminated grants to two nonprofit agencies for services for troubled families and plans to renegotiate the grant terms to four agencies for services for foster children, Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly announced...
Sedgwick County recovers stolen property worth $170,000
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office is looking for the owners of a huge cache of stolen items. The sheriff's office received information Tuesday from the Sumner County Sheriff's office that stolen property was being kept in a...
Kansas' abortion uncertainty fuels response to New York law
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas abortion opponents are as eager as ever to impose new restrictions but aren't sure of their options because the state's legal climate is uncertain. So in the meantime, they're putting their energy into condemning New...
Small hospital, clinics in southeast Kansas will close
OSWEGO, Kan. (AP) — A hospital in a small southeast Kansas town is closing immediately, in part because it doesn't have enough money to pay employees. The board of directors of Oswego Community Hospital announced the decision Thursday. The board...
Kansas man who threatened to 'blow up' White House sentenced
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man accused of threatening to "blow up" the White House has been sentenced to 10 months in federal prison. A court filing shows Brandon Koss of Wichita was sentenced Wednesday on a misdemeanor charge of willful...
Kansas library will keep 3 challenged books in kids section
ANDOVER, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas public library has rejected a request to move three children's books with LGBT characters out of the children's section. The Andover Public Library board of directors voted Wednesday to keep children's books "George,"...
Kansas students send sweet notes to Florida students
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Students in suburban Kansas City have sent thousands of sweet notes of encouragement to students in Parkland, Florida, on the first anniversary of a shooting rampage that left 17 people dead. The Kansas City Star reports...
Researchers find clues that depression may speed brain aging
WASHINGTON (AP) — Memory and thinking skills naturally slow with age but now scientists are peeking inside living brains to tell if depression might worsen that decline — and finding some worrisome clues. Depression has long been linked to certai...
Pompeii dig uncovers Narcissus fresco in ancient atrium
MILAN (AP) — Archaeologists have discovered a fresco in an ancient Pompeii residence that portrays the mythological hunter Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection. The discovery announced Thursday is in the atrium of a house where a...
Nightmare: Man's car stolen while he's asleep in back seat
NEWARK, Del. (AP) — A man's nap in the back of his car in Delaware turned into a nightmare after the car he was sleeping in was stolen and crashed. Musician Justin Koerner told the News Journal he had spent a night playing music with friends, went...
Cockroaches named after exes to be fed to Texas zoo animals
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Not in the Valentine's Day spirit? A Texas zoo has a cockroach that can help. The El Paso Zoo is running a promotion called "Quit Bugging Me" that allows people to name cockroaches after ex-spouses, former friends or anyone...
100 days after Paradise burned, the stories of the victims
On that frantic morning, TK Huff was calm. The 71-year-old amputee sat in his wheelchair, pointing a garden hose at what quickly became the deadliest wildfire in California history. Nobody knew at the time, early on Nov. 8, how bad it would be. When...
AP Interview: Maduro reveals secret meetings with US envoy
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A month into Venezuela's high-stakes political crisis, President Nicolas Maduro revealed in an AP interview that his government was in secret talks with the Trump administration and predicted he would survive an...
Congress OKs border deal; Trump will sign, declare emergency
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress lopsidedly approved a border security compromise Thursday that would avert a second painful government shutdown, but a new confrontation was ignited — this time over President Donald Trump's plan to bypass lawmakers...
Oregon official: texts show police-extremist collusion
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A member of Portland's city council said Thursday a newspaper's report that the commander for the police rapid response team exchanged friendly text messages with a leader of far-right protests that have rocked the city...
Deadly blue 'Mexican oxy' pills take toll on US Southwest
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Aaron Francisco Chavez swallowed at least one of the sky blue pills at a Halloween party before falling asleep forever. He became yet another victim killed by a flood of illicit fentanyl smuggled from Mexico by the Sinaloa...
Police: Teen charged after gunshot at New Mexico high school
RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — A 16-year-old student suspected of opening fire inside a high school in suburban Albuquerque was charged Thursday with attempting to commit murder and carrying a deadly weapon on school grounds, police said. The shooting,...
William Barr sworn in for 2nd stint as US attorney general
WASHINGTON (AP) — William Barr was sworn in Thursday for his second stint as the nation's attorney general, taking the helm of the Justice Department as special counsel Robert Mueller investigates Russian interference in the 2016 presidential...
Humbug holidays: US retail sales drop 1.2 pct in December
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. retail sales fell in December, posting the biggest drop since September 2009 and delivering more evidence that last year's holiday sales fizzled unexpectedly. Even e-commerce suffered a big setback. The Commerce Department...