Articles from the February 22, 2017 edition
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Court considers constitutionality of Ohio execution process
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal appeals court plans to consider arguments over the constitutionality of Ohio's lethal injection process as the state tries to start carrying out executions once again. At issue is whether a contested sedative, m...
Utah moves to toss school ban on 'advocacy of homosexuality'
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers took the first step Tuesday to get rid of a state law that bans the "advocacy of homosexuality" in schools, a move driven by a court challenge from gay rights groups. The Senate Education Committee voted u...
Trump administration working on trans bathroom guidelines
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is working on a new set of directives on the use of school bathrooms by transgender students, the White House said Tuesday. The announcement alarmed LGBT groups across the country that have urged P...
Valparaiso schools looking at 'Teen Court' discipline effort
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana school board is exploring the idea of adding a "Teen Court" for students who get in minor trouble. Joe Frankus is a student advocate in Valparaiso Community Schools' Culture and Student Services D...
Arkansas Senate panel endorses revised campus guns bill
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas Senate committee has advanced legislation that would allow people 25 and older to carry a concealed handgun on a college campus if they undergo certain training. The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday e...
School district teams with Sandy Hook mom to teach empathy
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) — Nelba Marquez-Greene believes the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which killed her 6-year-old daughter, could have been avoided if more had been done years earlier to address the social isolation and mental health p...
Young Cubans make pedal-powered Model T for transport, fun
HAVANA (AP) — In a country where few can afford a car, some Cuban high school students have built a replica of a Model T Ford propelled with pedals instead of a gasoline engine. They painstakingly acquired and installed thousands of nuts, bolts a...
Colorado fruit growers worry over unseasonably warm weather
PALISADE, Colo. (AP) — Peach farmers in western Colorado are worried unseasonably warm weather could mean trouble for their upcoming crops. KJCT-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2lr9Viz ) that farmers in the Grand Valley say peaches will soon be budding a...
Rains increase California demand for goat grazing services
CHINO, Calif. (AP) — Southern California businesses that rent goats for brush control say demand is high for their services this winter. The San Bernardino Sun reports (http://bit.ly/2kHuQ3I ) that Chino resident George Gonzales and fellow goat o...
Life expectancy to keep rising; S. Korean women could hit 91
LONDON (AP) — While most people born in rich countries will live longer by 2030 — with women in South Korea projected to reach nearly 91 — Americans will continue to have one of the lowest life expectancies of any developed country, a new study...
Rise in premiums lays bare 2 Americas on health care
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Schwarz is a self-employed business owner who buys his own health insurance. Subsidized coverage through "Obamacare" offers protection from life's unpredictable changes and freedom to pursue his vocation, he says. Brett D...
Lawmakers urge VA to explain rising cases of drug theft
WASHINGTON (AP) — The heads of two congressional committees said Tuesday they want the Department of Veterans Affairs to better explain its efforts to stem drug theft and loss in light of rising cases of missing prescriptions and other u...
Testosterone gel shows no benefit for older men's memories
CHICAGO (AP) — Testosterone treatment did not improve older men's memory or mental function in the latest results from landmark government research that challenges the anti-aging claims of popular supplements. While testosterone use for one year a...
Mosquito saliva vaccine? NIH tests new way to fight illness
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wanted: 60 people willing to be bitten by mosquitoes to test a new kind of vaccine — one that acts against the bugs' saliva. Rather than separate vaccines against Zika or other mosquito-borne diseases, the new approach aims to pro...
Yahoo salvages Verizon deal with $350 million discount
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is taking a $350 million hit on its previously announced $4.8 billion sale to Verizon in a concession for security lapses that exposed personal information stored in more than 1 billion Yahoo user accounts. The revised a...
How the 'guerrilla archivists' saved history – and are doing it again under Trump
(THE CONVERSATION) On Inauguration Day, a group of students, researchers and librarians gathered in a nondescript building on the north side of the University of California, Los Angeles campus, against a backdrop of pelting rain. The group had organi...
NASA aims to measure vital snow data from satellites
DENVER (AP) — Instrument-laden aircraft are surveying the Colorado high country this month as scientists search for better ways to measure how much water is locked up in the world's mountain snows — water that sustains a substantial share of the glo...
Man who smashed Trump star to pay damages, serve probation
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who destroyed Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has been sentenced to three years of probation for vandalism. An attorney for James Otis says he pleaded no contest to the felony Tuesday in Los Angeles S...
Michelin Guide misguided as local cafe gets star in error
BOURGES, France (AP) — It's a case of culinary mistaken identity. The Michelin Guide has accidently awarded one of its coveted stars to a lowly local cafe that shares its name with a gastronomic restaurant 150 kilometers (93 miles) away. In the a...
Bull that led police chase after slaughterhouse escape dies
NEW YORK (AP) — A plucky bull escaped from a slaughterhouse and led police on a wild chase through the streets on Tuesday only to die on its way to a shelter. Police corralled the bull in a backyard in Queens after a two-hour chase that continued eve...
Lieutenant governor gets resignation letter _ from husband
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey's lieutenant governor has received a letter of resignation — from her husband. Kim Guadagno's husband, Michael, is an appeals court judge. To collect his pension, he's required by law to notify Kim Guadagno in her dua...
Follow that horse: German police track manure to culprit
BERLIN (AP) — Police in Bavaria say they were able to track down a man responsible for a hit-and-run by following the hoof prints and manure left behind by the horse pulling his carriage. Police in Grafenrheinfeld said the 78-year-old man scraped a...
Kellogg's unveils Pop-Tarts pizza, tacos at NYC cafe
NEW YORK (AP) — Pop-Tarts might not just be for breakfast anymore. Kellogg's is giving the public a taste of some unique flavor combinations featuring the morning time treat by transforming its New York eatery into a Pop-Tarts Cafe this week. Some o...
Police: NY man with chain saw cuts through door, hurts boss
LYONS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — State police say a 29-year-old man used a chain saw to cut through a door at his boss's upstate New York home, causing severe injuries to the employer's hand. Troopers say Kyle Poore, of Lyons Falls, used a running chain s...
Avalanche in Arctic Norway tosses kids around, no injuries
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A resident in Arctic Norway says four adults and two children were inside a house when an avalanche hit, knocking the building off its foundations, but all managed to get out safely. Tuesday's avalanche in Longyearbyen, t...