Articles from the April 5, 2018 edition
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Eighth inning the difference for No. 25 Southern Arkansas in 9-6 win over Arkansas Tech
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Two base hits, a pair of walks and a hit-by-pitch coupled with an Arkansas Tech fielding error led to four runs in the top of the eighth inning and broke a 5-5 tie for No. 25 Southern Arkansas, which received solid relief...
Police: YouTube shooter was calm in interview before attack
MENIFEE, Calif. (AP) — Just hours before she shot and wounded three people at YouTube headquarters, Nasim Aghdam calmly told police who found her sleeping in her car that she was having family problems and had left her home. During the 20-minute...
Dems, GOP using immigration in House races, but differently
WASHINGTON (AP) — Both Democrats and Republicans think the stalemate between President Donald Trump and Congress over immigration can help them in November's congressional elections. Each could be right. In House races across the country, both...
As Oklahoma teachers strike drags on, frustration mounts
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — When Oklahoma Republicans finally passed a massive tax hike for hundreds of millions of new dollars for public schools and teacher pay raises, they thought they would get a thank you. Instead, educators and their supporters...
Congress' challenge: How to tame industry giant Facebook
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook isn't just a company. It's a behemoth, with 2.1 billion monthly users, $40 billion in revenue and more than 25,000 employees worldwide. And that leaves Washington with a daunting task: How do you tame a corporate giant?...
Facebook scandal affected more users than thought: up to 87M
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook revealed Wednesday that tens of millions more people might have been exposed in the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal than previously thought and said it will restrict the user data that outsiders can access. Those...
Cosby jury filled as defense alleges discrimination
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A jury of seven men and five women — 10 of them white, two of them black — was seated Wednesday to decide Bill Cosby's fate in the biggest celebrity trial of the #MeToo era, after a day marked by defense accusations of ra...
MLK honored as thousands march to 'keep the dream going'
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — With thoughts on the past and eyes to the future, thousands marched and sang civil rights songs Wednesday to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the "apostle of nonviolence" silenced by an assassin 50 years ago. At events...
AP source: Mueller says Trump not criminal target currently
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Mueller's team of prosecutors has informed President Donald Trump's attorneys that the president is not currently considered a criminal target in the Russia investigation, according to a person familiar...
On the brink: US and China threaten tariffs as fears rise
WASHINGTON (AP) — The world's two biggest economies stand at the edge of the most perilous trade conflict since World War II. Yet there's still time to pull back from the brink. Financial markets bounced up and down Wednesday over the brewing...
Trump scales back US goals in Syria, leaves future to others
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is dramatically scaling back U.S. goals in Syria as he pushes for a quick military withdrawal, Trump administration officials said Wednesday, abandoning plans to stay long-term to stabilize the country and...
Erdogan: Turkey to keep pushing Kurds out of Syria's north
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that his military "won't stop" trying to oust Syrian Kurdish fighters from northern Syria, as he met with the leaders of Russia and Iran for talks on trying to resolve the...
Russia loses vote to join spy poisoning probe; next stop UN
MOSCOW (AP) — The international chemical weapons watchdog on Wednesday rejected Russia's call for a joint investigation with Britain of the nerve-agent poisonings of an ex-spy and his daughter in England. But Russia said the number of countries tha...
Trump signs order sending National Guard to US-Mexico border
WASHINGTON (AP) — Asserting the situation had reached "a point of crisis," President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a proclamation ordering the deployment of the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to fight illegal immigration. "The...
Wind gusts cause hangar collapse at Hobby Airport in Houston
HOUSTON (AP) — Strong winds that swept through the Houston area have caused a hangar to collapse at one of the city's airports, damaging planes and scattering debris. The National Weather Service says gusts of about 80 mph (129 kph) were recorded...
The center of the Milky Way is teeming with black holes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The center of our galaxy is teeming with black holes, sort of like a Times Square for strange super gravity objects, astronomers discovered. For decades, scientists theorized that circling in the center of galaxies, including...
4 Marines killed in helicopter crash in California
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four Marines were killed when their helicopter crashed while they were practicing desert landings in Southern California, the Miramar air station in San Diego said Wednesday. The Marines took off from a ground-combat center in...
US forces in Syria seen setting up new front-line positions
MANBIJ, Syria (AP) — A week ago, there was just a single house where U.S. soldiers had hoisted an American flag on a hill not far from a tense front line in Syria. On Wednesday, there was a growing fortified position with a perimeter of large sand...
Mexico starts giving caravan migrants transit visas
MATIAS ROMERO, Mexico (AP) — The Mexican government began handing out transit or humanitarian visas to people in a caravan of Central American migrants, and said the procession of 1,000 or so migrants that drew criticism from President Donald...
Survey: Partisan divide in US on views of sexual harassment
NEW YORK (AP) — Democrats and Republicans, on the whole, have markedly different views about sexual harassment in the workplace, according to a new, large-scale survey by the Pew Research Center conducted against the backdrop of the #MeToo...
Escalating US-China trade dispute heightens global concerns
WASHINGTON (AP) — An escalating trade dispute between the world's two biggest economies heightened fears Wednesday of a global trade war, sent global stock markets tumbling but also left the door open to a negotiated settlement that might prevent...
France puts 78,000 security threats on vast police database
PARIS (AP) — France has flagged more than 78,000 people as security threats in a database intended to let European police share information on the continent's most dangerous residents — more than all other European countries put together ...
Russian officials accuse West of fomenting new Cold War
MOSCOW (AP) — Top Russian defense and security officials on Wednesday launched diatribes at the West, accusing it of fomenting a new Cold War in a bid to retain waning influence in global affairs. Moscow used an annual security conference attended...
China vows 'same strength' measures against US tariffs
BEIJING (AP) — China on Wednesday vowed to impose measures of the "same strength" in response to a proposed U.S. tariff hike on $50 billion worth of Chinese goods in a spiraling technology dispute that has fueled fears it might set back the global...
Prosecutor seeks adult sentences for 4 teens accused of rape
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A prosecutor has requested that four former Oklahoma high school football players be sentenced as adults if they are convicted on rape charges. The Bixby High School students are accused in an attack on a 16-year-old boy with a...