Articles from the May 8, 2019 edition
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Genealogy site, DNA used to help solve decades-old murder
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Forensic genealogists followed a trail built on decades-old DNA evidence to help identify a woman whose body was found near a Lake Tahoe hiking trail in 1982 and her killer who confessed to three other murders, investigators said T...
Can US, China salvage their talks and end trade war?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Heightened trade tensions between the United States and China are spooking financial markets and putting a chill on prospects for the global economy. Chinese officials are heading to Washington to try to salvage negotiations a...
Debt collectors to use email, texts under new Trump rules
NEW YORK (AP) — Debt collectors will be able to start contacting borrowers via text and email under new regulations proposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The rules released Tuesday are an update to debt collection regulations e...
What geology reveals about North Korea's nuclear weapons – and what it obscures
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) North Korea’s leader, Chairman Kim Jong Un, clearly is in no hurry to demilitarize his country. In the wake of two h...
Science Says: Why biodiversity matters to you
You may go your entire life without seeing an endangered species, yet the globe's biodiversity crisis threatens all of humanity in numerous unseen or unrecognized ways, scientists say. A massive United Nations report this week warned that nature is...
Eagle with 8-foot wing span crashes into Alaska home
KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — Many are familiar with uninvited guests unexpectedly crashing at the house, but an eagle took such a scenario to new heights in Kodiak. An eagle grabbed a piece of freezer-burned halibut that someone had thrown out, and a...
Whose poo is this? Prague Zoo takes a closer look at dung
PRAGUE (AP) — After producing plenty of elephant dung and other manure for years, Prague Zoo has capitalized on its expertise by creating a new permanent exhibit on the world of animal excrement. It displays information and samples of everything f...
Authorities: Woman pulls gator from pants during stop
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) — Sheriff's officials say a Florida woman pulled a small alligator from her yoga pants during a traffic stop. The Charlotte County sheriff's deputy stopped a pickup truck Monday afternoon after it ran a stop sign and 2...
Witness testifies on secret society's 'sex slave' initiation
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman testified on Tuesday that shortly after being recruited for a secret "master-slave" society within an upstate New York self-help group she got a disturbing message from her handler: It was her turn to "seduce" the group's l...
White House launches new uphill bid to overhaul immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) — Reviving a deeply contentious issue that has stymied both Congress and the administration, the White House launched a new bid Tuesday to overhaul a legal immigration system that President Donald Trump has long railed against. T...
AP Interview: President says Sri Lanka now safe for tourists
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's president says "99%" of the remaining suspects in the Easter attacks on churches and hotels have been arrested and their explosive materials seized, and it is safe for tourists to return to the Indian Ocean i...
Newspaper: Trump lost more than $1 billion from 1985 to 1994
WASHINGTON (AP) — The New York Times reported Tuesday that Donald Trump's businesses lost more than $1 billion from 1985 to 1994, based on tax information the newspaper acquired. The Times said it has acquired printouts from the future president's o...
FBI chief: No evidence of illegal spying on Trump campaign
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Chris Wray said Tuesday that he does not consider court-approved FBI surveillance to be "spying" and said he has no evidence the FBI illegally monitored President Donald Trump's campaign during the 2016 election. His c...
US official: Intel indicates Iran moved missiles by boat
WASHINGTON (AP) — The decision to send an aircraft carrier and a group of Air Force bombers to the Middle East was based in part on intelligence indications that Iran had moved short-range ballistic missiles by boat in waters off its shores, an A...
Denver holds 'magic mushroom' decriminalization vote
DENVER (AP) — Voters on Tuesday were deciding whether to make Denver the first U.S. city to decriminalize psilocybin — the psychoactive substance in "magic mushrooms" — and add a new chapter to the city's role in shaping wider drug policy. A citiz...
Pakistani Christian girls trafficked to China as brides
GUJRANWALA, Pakistan (AP) — Muqadas Ashraf was just 16 when her parents married her off to a Chinese man who had come to Pakistan looking for a bride. Less than five months later, Muqadas is back in her home country, pregnant and seeking a divorce f...
Sandra Bland's own video of 2015 Texas traffic stop surfaces
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Cellphone video recorded by Sandra Bland, a black woman found dead in a Texas jail following a confrontational 2015 traffic stop, shows for the first time her perspective as a white state trooper draws his stun gun and points i...
5th annual 'Timberlake's Got Talent' huge success
Timberlake students participated in the 5th annual “Timberlake's Got Talent” show. Sharing in the top honors were seventh grader Chase Pierce playing “Debussy's Claire de Lune” on piano, ninth grader Carver Sands playing Mozart's “Allelu...
Snow-Ridgway announce engagement
Philip and Jamie Snow would like to announce the upcoming marriage of their daughter, Cassie Snow, to Philip Ridgway, son of Max and April Ridgway. Cassie is the daughter of Philip and Jamie Snow of...
South Barber vocalists do well at music contests
Under the direction of Naicee Sutter, the South Barber vocal department received all I (Superior) or II (Excellent) ratings at recent music contests. At the HOPL league contest, the high school Mixed...
Barber County Wheat Plot Tour
Area farmers, crop producers and anyone with an interest, are invited to the Barber County Wheat Plot Tour on Thursday, May 16, at 10:30 a.m. The event will begin at the American Legion in Isabel, Kansas. The featured speakers from Kansas State...
