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Hopes that the tech industry was on the cusp of rolling personal robots into homes are dimming now that several once-promising consumer robotics companies have shut down. The latest casualty was San Francisco startup Anki, maker of the playful toy...

Marriage Filings Kenneth Eugene Edelman and Keitha Ann Dale both of Jet: marriage license ($50)....

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. government searches of travelers' cellphones and laptops at airports and border crossings nearly quadrupled since 2015 and were being done for reasons beyond customs and immigration enforcement, according to papers filed Tuesda...

A Michigan college student says pro-Trump agitators recruited him to falsely claim he was raped by Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, then published the smear without his permission. Hunter Kelly, a 21-year-old gay Trump supporter,...

Real Estate Transfers Book 845 page 202: ES Auto Repair LLC conveys unto Richard D. Croft II and Stacey Croft: lots 1 through 7, lying south and east of the right-of-way of the Denver, Enid and Gulf Railroad Company, except the west 15 feet of lot...

DALLAS (AP) — The former Dallas police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in his own home told a 911 dispatcher "I thought it was my apartment" nearly 20 times as she waited for emergency responders to arrive, according to a recording of t...

Tuesday, April 23, 2019 During this day there were four traffic stops, three controlled burns and two civil papers served. 9:10 a.m. – Caller advised of a copperhead snake stuck to a sticky trap under her stove. Officer captured the creature and e...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A baby sea lion wandered onto a busy highway in South San Francisco Tuesday, stopping vehicles and alarming motorists before officials whisked it away. SFGATE reports California Highway Patrol received the call around 8:30 a...

April 23, 2019 Deputy Maze investigated a call of harassment by phone. April 27, 2019 Deputy Maze took a report on damage to property in Sharon, Kansas. During the week officers received seven reports of cattle out, three reports of a horse out,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Asylum seekers waiting to get into the U.S. sleep in small tents set up by the border, depending on volunteers and churches to bring them food and clothing. Some scrape together 25 cents to pay a toll to get on an international b...

A regular meeting was held Monday morning by Alfalfa County commissioners who took less than 30 minutes to complete the agenda. The routine items (last meeting's minutes, maintenance and operation warrants for payment, blanket purchases orders and pa...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Facebook is launching a major redesign of its app and website built around letting people connect with groups that share their interests — an attempt to shift its focus away from the untrammeled public sharing that has hel...

Capron Cemetery Association's annual meeting will be held Tuesday, May 7, at 2:30 p.m. in the Capron Rural Fire Department Building. On the agenda will be election of officers. Current officers are Eleanor Ring, chairman; Mark Gray, vice-chairman...

MITSERO, Cyprus (AP) — British forensics experts helping to tackle the Cyprus serial killer case visited a toxic lake Tuesday where a suitcase was found with a decomposed body inside as criticism mounted of how Cypriot police initially handled the di...

The April meeting of the Kiowa District Hospital (KDH) had a full agenda from a change of administrators at the manor to hearing about ways to deal with a larger than expected “payable status” to Medicare. KDH Board President Pat Myers called the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Democratic congressional leaders agreed Tuesday to work together on a $2 trillion infrastructure package — but put off for later the difficult question of how to pay for it. Senate Minority Leader Chu...

The news was definitely an “extra, extra, read all about it moment” Tuesday morning, but the weekly publication of The Kiowa News was nowhere to be found. Rex Zimmerman and his wife Diann have owned The Kiowa News for 40 years exactly this week. You...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some people told they have Alzheimer's may instead have a newly identified mimic of the disease — and scientists say even though neither is yet curable, it's critical to get better at telling different kinds of dementia apart. Too...

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