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VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — A planning commissioner of Vallejo, California, has resigned after throwing his pet cat and apparently drinking a beer during a Zoom meeting between city officials that was made public, according to a newspaper report. During the April 20 teleconference of the city's Planning Commission, Chris Platzer announced, "I'd like to introduce my cat," and then picked up his pet before suddenly tossing the animal off-screen. Platzer was seen sipping from a green bottle during the meeting, the Times-Herald reported. After the c...
North Texas has more to offer than just the new Rangers ballpark should MLB decide to start the pandemic-delayed 2020 baseball season with teams grouped together in different regions. Among the different plans looked at by Major League Baseball is to use Texas as a mid-American hub. "Depending upon a variety of the other factors, it makes a lot of sense," Rangers general Jon Daniels said Monday, when asked about the possibility of Texas being part of such a plan. "Just given the nature of the market, the proximity of a lot of the facilities,...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas athletic director Jeff Long, football coach Les Miles and basketball coach Bill Self announced Monday they had taken a 10% salary reduction for the next six months in an effort to save the athletic department nearly $500,000. The move comes as the COVID-19 pandemic is putting pressure on collegiate athletic departments nationwide to cut costs to keep afloat. Many schools have asked their highest-paid employees to take salary cuts during the pandemic, and some have taken the more aggressive step of eliminating some s...
TULSA, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 27, 2020-- Gateway First Bank is proud to announce 14 of its team members have been named Top Originators by Scotsman Guide. The most comprehensive and intensely verified list in the mortgage industry, the ranking recognizes the nation's top producing mortgage loan originators. For the last 12 years, Scotsman Guide has ranked thousands of the nation's top-producing residential mortgage originators across ten categories, including Top Dollar Volume, Most Loans Closed and Top Purchase Volume. The longevity,...
McPHERSON, Kan. (AP) — A 7-year-old boy shot in a weekend hunting accident in central Kansas is improving, authorities said. The shooting happened around 5 p.m. Saturday while the boy was turkey hunting with his parents south of Roxbury in McPherson County, Wichita television station KAKE reported. Sheriff's Capt. Doug Anderson said another hunter who believed he was shooting at a turkey shot the boy. Investigators said the hunter was actually shooting at a turkey decoy that the boy was standing near. The boy, who was shot in the head, was f...
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Richard Bergen, the artist who built the 22-feet (6.71 meters) bronze statue of a Native American that sits atop the Kansas Statehouse dome, has died. He was 95. He died Wednesday at an assisted living facility in Salina of complications from a stroke, said his daughter, Lori Bergen. Bergen, who was named Distinguished Kansan of the Year in 2006, created several other public art pieces through the state, including in Marysville, Salina, Junction City, Wichita and Manhattan. But his most well-known work is the 4,420 p...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma State Department of Health on Monday reported two new deaths due to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, pushing the total death toll to 197. There are now at least 3,280 coronavirus cases, up from 3,253 cases reported Sunday, according to the department. The actual number of infections is thought to be far higher because many people have not been tested and studies suggest that people can be infected without feeling sick. Most people recover from the illness. Gov. Kevin Stitt has cited declines i...
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has reported its first death in a prison coronavirus outbreak and saw the number of positive cases in six meatpacking plants rise to 378 as the state works to reopen its economy. Dr. Lee Norman, the state's health director, said most of the infected meat packing workers were asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic. None have died and at most one is hospitalized. Norman also said the number of influenza-like illnesses reported statewide was "dropping like a rock." As of Monday, the number of COVID-19 deaths rose by two t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Dozens of runners participated in a mock run to commemorate the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon after the long-distance race was postponed amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Memorial Marathon is run annual in memory of the 168 people killed in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The race was originally slated for Sunday but has been pushed back to October 4. Kaci Thomas, one of the half-marathon's participants, said she observed the traditional 168 seconds of silence before taking off. After running more than 13 miles (21 k...
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — Colorado's governor announced he is seeking federal aid for farmers impacted by a freeze that wiped out significant portions of the state's peach crop. Democratic Gov. Jared Polis said he sought the aid as a result of an April 14 freeze in Colorado's Western Slope region, The Daily Sentinel reported Saturday. Polis and state Commissioner of Agriculture Kate Greenberg said in a statement they requested a Secretarial Disaster Declaration from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The emergency declaration enables f...
Restaurants opened up to dine-in patrons in at least three states Monday and the governor of Texas allowed movie theaters, malls and eateries to start letting customers trickle into their establishments later this week. Across the country, an ever-changing patchwork of loosening stay-home orders and business restrictions took shape Monday. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott outlined a slow reopening of one of the world's largest economies amid the coronavirus pandemic. Restaurants in Tennessee, Georgia and Alaska's biggest city began opening their doors...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Businesses should close break rooms. Restaurants should consider disposable menus and plates. Schools should have students eat lunch in their classrooms. These are some of the recommendations offered in new federal plans designed to help restaurants, schools, churches and businesses safely reopen as states look to gradually lift their coronavirus restrictions. The draft guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been sent to Washington but still could be revised before the Trump administration unveils i...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve has largely calmed turbulent financial markets. Yet a far tougher task remains: Helping rescue an economy and job market that appear to be free-falling into the worst catastrophe since the Great Depression. Fed policymakers will meet Tuesday and Wednesday against a backdrop of dismal data: More than 26 million Americans have applied for unemployment benefits since the coronavirus forced widespread business closures. Retail sales have dropped by a record pace. Home sales have plunged. In the meantime, i...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay is beginning this unusual NFL offseason with big plans. The millennial coach is always on the lookout for teaching innovations, and he meticulously planned out the next nine weeks by examining everything from the ideal length of virtual meetings to the best at-home workouts. And then McVay accidentally failed to turn on the audio component when the Rams began their initial team meeting Monday morning, leading to several minutes of fumbling for the coach and laughs for his players. "I p...
Their reasons may differ, but crafters agree: Makers gotta make. Those who create things by hand — who weld, weave, play in clay or paints — are pursuing their passions the best they can during the coronavirus pandemic. The creative arts are soothing, fill time, and keep our minds and hands busy. "This is what makes us human," says Melanie Falick, author of the recent "Making a Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live" (Artisan). Falick, a longtime craft books publisher, quit her job to follow her maker's heart. Her...
OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum in western Kentucky is encouraging fans to visit by taking a new virtual tour of its exhibits. The museum in Owensboro has been closed to the public for over a month due to the coronavirus pandemic and thought the online tour, led by Executive Director Chris Joslin, would be a way to continue reaching out to bluegrass fans around the world, a statement from the museum said. The tour takes visitors through each area of the museum with Joslin commenting on exhibits and p...
