Articles from the March 8, 2019 edition
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Apple CEO trumps Trump, reframing his name game
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — To President Donald Trump, it was an awkward slip of the lip. To Apple CEO Tim Cook, it was an opportunity to poke some sly fun at a president who has often clashed with the tech industry. A day after Trump mistakenly referred...
A nanny state? Vermont town elects goat as honorary mayor
FAIR HAVEN, Vt. (AP) — A 3-year-old Nubian goat named Lincoln is poised to become the first honorary pet mayor of the small Vermont town of Fair Haven. The nanny goat was chosen this week by townspeople for the one-year post at the community's...
Ex-Trump campaign boss Manafort sentenced to 47 months
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced Thursday to nearly four years in prison for tax and bank fraud related to his work advising Ukrainian politicians, much less than what was called for under...
Judge dismisses porn star's hush money suit against Trump
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday tossed out porn actress Stormy Daniels' lawsuit against President Donald Trump that sought to tear up a hush-money settlement about their alleged affair. U.S. District Court Judge S. James Otero in...
Run, bull, run. Longest bull market looks to keep going
Wall Street has rewarded its most patient investors handsomely over the past 10 years. Is there more to come? The S&P 500, the U.S. market's benchmark index, has gained about 309 percent since bottoming out at 676.53 points in March 2009 during...
Colorado man discloses details about killing wife, daughters
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man strangled his pregnant wife in their bed before driving her body and their two daughters to a worksite where he smothered the girls with a blanket, according to records of an interview he gave police from prison....
Pentagon may tap military pay, pensions for border wall
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is planning to tap $1 billion in leftover funds from military pay and pension accounts to help President Donald Trump pay for his long-sought border wall, a top Senate Democrat said Thursday. Sen. Dick Durbin,...
Catholic Church cardinals implicated in sex abuse, cover-ups
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The conviction of French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin for failing to report a known pedophile priest to police deepens the crisis confronting an already discredited Catholic Church hierarchy. The verdict handed down by...
Lady Rangers take No. 1 seed SWOSU to brink in GAC tournament battle
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. – The season came to a heartbreaking end Thursday night for the Northwestern Oklahoma State University Lady Rangers as they fell to the No. 1 seed Southwestern Oklahoma State, 78-73, in the opening round of the Great American Co...
Judge orders Oklahoma County jail to check inmates
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A local judge has issued the first-ever court-sanctioned check of all inmates in Oklahoma County's jail after learning one detainee was lost in the criminal justice system for nearly eight months. County court documents show...
Oklahoma treasurer reports overall collections still strong
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's new state treasurer says overall collections to the state treasury are continuing to increase, aided in part by a $50 million boost last month from a new package of tax increases. Treasurer Randy McDaniel released...
Hearing stayed for Oklahoman charged in children's deaths
OKMULGEE, Okla. (AP) — A court hearing has been delayed for an eastern Oklahoma woman charged with killing two of her teenage children and trying to kill a third. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals delayed a scheduled Friday preliminary...
Kansas doctor sentenced to life in prison for patient death
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas doctor was sentenced to life in prison Friday for unlawfully prescribing medication blamed for an overdose death, the latest prosecution in a government crackdown on physicians amid an opioid epidemic. Steven R....
Kansas governor concedes pension proposal unlikely to pass
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is acknowledging that her proposal to reduce Kansas' annual contributions to its public pension system probably won't pass the Republican-controlled Legislature this year. But Kelly said Friday that...
Kansas GOP leader compares tax plan to returning a billfold
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A top Republican in the Kansas House brushed aside criticism Friday that an income tax relief plan nearing final passage risks repeating a tax-cutting experiment that failed a few years ago, suggesting the new proposal is akin...
Fire marshal: Death investigations 'falling through cracks'
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas fire marshal says investigations of fatal fires are too often "falling through the cracks," and he wants lawmakers to do something about it. Fire Marshal Doug Jorgensen on Thursday proposed a reform plan. The Topeka...
Struggling rural Missouri hospital booted from Medicare
SWEET SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — A rural Missouri hospital has been cut off from the federal Medicare program after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found serious deficiencies threatening patient health and safety. The federal health agency...
Kansas professor removed from teaching class after comment
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A University of Kansas engineering professor says administrators removed him from teaching a course for the rest of the semester after he told a student to "learn English." The Lawrence Journal-World reports Gary Minden, a...
Man sentenced in beating death of Topeka man during burglary
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A 32-year-old man was given the maximum sentence possible for beating a Topeka man to death during a burglary. Howard Dale Burchfiel was sentenced Friday to 16 years for involuntary manslaughter and aggravated battery. Topeka...
Kansas Supreme Court rejects mom's appeal in son's death
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court has denied a 37-year-old Kansas woman's appeal of her conviction for killing her son. Lindsey Blansett was convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated assault in the December 2014 death of her son,...
$2.8 million gift funds scholarships for KU Med students
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas School of Medicine says a gift of more than $2.8 million will fund scholarships for medical students. The school announced the gift from the estate of Alton and Helen Knechtel, of Chula Vista,...
Riley County: 2 recent deaths likely caused by fentanyl
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Riley County police say a second death in Manhattan this month likely was caused by fentanyl found in heroin. The department says a 35-year-old Manhattan man was found dead on Tuesday. A 50-year-old man who was taken to a...
Mom sues Missouri school district after son commits suicide
CAMERON, Mo. (AP) — A northwest Missouri woman alleges in a lawsuit that her son's school district didn't do enough to stop students who bullied him because of his Jewish faith, causing him to commit suicide. Susan Welchel is suing the Cameron...
Air Force Academy dismisses hazing charges against 3 cadets
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) — The Air Force Academy says it dismissed hazing charges against three members of the school's swimming team. The academy said Wednesday the charges were dropped after an investigation determined that a conviction...
World Bank: Venezuela must pay Conoco more than $8 billion
WASHINGTON (AP) — A World Bank arbitration panel ruled on Friday that Venezuela must pay U.S. oil giant ConocoPhillips more than $8 billion as compensation for a decade-old expropriation dispute, roughly the same amount as the South American...