Articles from the April 12, 2018 edition
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1,350 oil, gas wells reactivated after fatal Colorado blast
DENVER (AP) — An oil and gas company has reactivated more than 1,350 wells in northern Colorado that were shut down last year after a fatal house explosion blamed on a severed pipeline. Anadarko Petroleum said Tuesday it inspected and tested p...
New Mexico State University names chancellor finalists
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico State University has named five finalists for its next chancellor and one of them is the state's secretary of higher education. The NMSU Board of Regents voted this week to approve a short list of candidates to l...
By Minority residents target zoning rules in civil rights claim
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Zoning laws in New Mexico's largest city are discriminatory and leading to the erosion of one of the oldest and most historic neighborhoods in Albuquerque, a group of residents alleged Wednesday as they asked federal h...
Attorney: Judge's exemption on herbicide ban should stand
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An attorney is asking the Arkansas Supreme Court to let stand a judge's order allowing six farmers to use an herbicide banned by state regulators. The state Plant Board's dicamba ban will run from April 16 through October 3...
Navajo Nation latest to sue over opioid epidemic in US
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — One of the country's largest American Indian tribes is the latest to sue pharmaceutical companies and drug distributors, alleging their conduct caused the opioid crisis. The Navajo Nation's lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. D...
3 research-based things a doctor says should be part of your weight loss efforts
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Imagine that you are running a company, but you cannot get to your goal because all of your good workers keep...
Arkansas pauses marijuana dispensary applications' review
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas regulators have stopped reviewing applications from businesses that want to sell medical marijuana, weeks after a judge struck down the state's licensing process for growing the drug. A spokesman for the D...
Iraq war vet gets life for stabbing girlfriend 50-plus times
CROFTON, Md. (AP) — An Iraq war veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder has been sentenced to life in prison for stabbing his girlfriend more than 50 times. Forty-year-old Ryan Gregory Hollebon said in court Tuesday that he stabbed h...
Ohio court to decide if ex-player can sue over concussions
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court will decide whether the widow of a former University of Notre Dame football player can sue the school and the NCAA over allegations her husband was disabled by concussions from his college career in the 1...
5 years on, marathon bomb survivors inspire medical advances
BOSTON (AP) — In the five years since the Boston Marathon bombing, medical science has made promising advances in amputations and artificial limbs, in part because of lessons learned from the victims and research dollars made available as a result o...
Record number of Arkansas flu deaths now stands at 215
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The record number of deaths due to the flu in Arkansas has increased by five to now stand at 215. The Arkansas Department of Health reports the number includes 161 deaths of people aged 65 or older and five deaths of those 1...
Zuckerberg faces 'Grandpa' questions from lawmakers
NEW YORK (AP) — Mark Zuckerberg faced two days of grilling before House and Senate committees Tuesday and Wednesday to address Facebook's privacy issues and the need for more regulation for the social media site. Yet the hearings in Washington m...
Is Facebook regulation 'inevitable'? Not so fast
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told lawmakers that regulation of his company is "inevitable," but still came to Capitol Hill prepared to defend against proposals he thought went too far. He rarely had to. After about 10 hours of hearings on Tuesday...
AP FACT CHECK: Does Facebook collect data on non-members?
Mark Zuckerberg cited "security purposes" Wednesday when asked by several lawmakers about Facebook's collection of personal data on people who never signed up for the social network but whose online behavior is nevertheless tracked by the company....
DNA leads to cold case suspect sketches from 1987 slayings
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Authorities in Washington state on Wednesday released composite sketches based on DNA evidence of a suspect in an unsolved, 30-year-old double slaying of a young Canadian couple. Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18, and Jay Cook, 20, of B...
Stand up for science: More researchers now see engagement as a crucial part of their job
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) As the first anniversary of the March for Science approaches, researchers continue to reflect on the relationship...
Meet Electronic Caregiver: A new Las Cruces tech company
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Electronic Caregiver is an emerging national tech company, the kind that could readily be found in Silicon Valley. But instead, it's chosen to headquarter its operations in the Mesilla Valley — a fact the company made muc...
Search for women who took life-size cardboard ad at airport
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Police in Vermont are trying to find two women shown on airport video surveillance removing a life-size cardboard cutout advertisement of a restaurant owner. Police say the women had just gotten off an inbound flight a...
All Woods County incumbents file with election board
As of 4 p.m. Wednesday, all four Woods County incumbents had filed for re-election. Filing continues until 5 p.m. on Friday. Filing with the Woods County Election Board on Wednesday were John Smiley, District e Commissioner; David Hamil, District 1...
