Articles from the May 14, 2017 edition
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Cultural sites uncovered in Alaska island survey
KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — A recently completed survey of an island in the Kodiak archipelago uncovered 14 new cultural sites, including five dating to prehistoric times. Discoveries made during a survey of Whale Island, located between Kodiak and A...
An alert researcher, cooperation helped stem cyberattack
LONDON (AP) — The cyberattack that spread malicious software around the world, shutting down networks at hospitals, banks and government agencies, was stemmed by a young British researcher and an inexpensive domain registration, with help from a...
Mississippi business recalls meat, poultry frozen products
PEARL, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi-based business is recalling about 130,000 pounds of meat and poultry frozen entree products due to bacterial contamination. Listeriosis, the infection caused by the listeria bacteria, can cause fever and muscle a...
Sister: Weakened 'Sandra Bland Act' in Texas 'gut-wrenching'
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The sister of Sandra Bland, a black woman found dead in a Texas jail following a confrontational traffic stop with a white state trooper, says it is "gut-wrenching" that lawmakers stripped police reforms from a bill named after h...
Experts: Conditions behind cyberattack may be hard to mimic
NEW YORK (AP) — The cyberextortion attack hitting dozens of countries spread quickly and widely thanks to an unusual confluence of factors: a known and highly dangerous security hole in Microsoft Windows, tardy users who didn't apply Microsoft's Marc...
Where the global cyberattack has hit hardest
NEW YORK (AP) — Here is a look at some of the places hit by the global cyberattack. EUROPEAN UNION — Europol's European Cybercrime Centre, known as EC3, said the attack "is at an unprecedented level and will require a complex international inv...
AP Explains: What is ransomware?
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Computers across the world were locked up and users' files held for ransom when dozens of countries were hit in a cyber-extortion attack that targeted hospitals, companies and government agencies. Here's a look at how malware a...
AP Explains: What is bitcoin? A look at the digital currency
NEW YORK (AP) — It's worth more than an ounce of gold right now, it's completely digital and it's the currency of choice for the cyberattackers who crippled computer networks around the world in recent days. When the attackers' "ransomware" sprang i...
Benjamin Harrison collection to be available _ online
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site is making its collection of artifacts for the 23rd president widely available online — and in 3D. The Indianapolis-based museum is using digital scanning technology to offer 2D and 3D ren...
Egypt discovers new necropolis in Minya, first in area
MINYA, Egypt (AP) — An Egyptian archaeological mission has found a necropolis holding at least 17 mummies near the Nile Valley city of Minya, in the first such find in the area, the antiquities ministry said on Saturday. The discovery was made in t...
Undercover agents find registered church to be sex club
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Undercover inspectors have determined that a building registered as a church was being operated as a sex club. WTVF-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2qcR8f2) that the city of Nashville has filed a complaint against the owners for "...
Late Run Sends Harding to Central Region Super Regional
SEARCY – Harding sophomore Alexus Lawellin scored on a wild pitch with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning to give the Lady Bisons a 4-3 victory over Winona State and the NCAA Division II Central Region 1 Tournament championship on Sunday a...
Reddies Baseball Finish as GAC Tournament Runners-Up
For the third consecutive year Henderson State finished as runners-up at the Great American Conference Baseball Tournament as the Reddies lost to Arkansas-Monticello 6-1 in the championship game, Sunday in Arkadelphia. Henderson collected just four h...
What to Watch: Why school vouchers may be back from the dead
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas House thought it had killed school vouchers. The Senate is resurrecting them. A Senate committee last week attached a plan offering vouchers to special education children while approving a $1.6 billion House proposal t...
Rucker sets new career home run record in 9-5 elimination loss to Henderson State
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Southern Arkansas senior outfielder Trevor Rucker now sits alone atop the SAU record book for career home runs as he blasted his 42nd career homer in the Muleriders' 9-5 loss to Henderson State in an elimination game at the 2017 G...
What child would sexually assault another kid, and why?
Thousands of elementary and secondary school students are disciplined or treated in the United States each year for sexual aggression. While sexual violence has made headlines on college campuses that scrutiny has not extended to adolescents and...
School sex complaints to federal agency rise _ and languish
HOUSTON (AP) — Hector and Itza Ayala sat in a conference room at Houston's prestigious performing arts high school, clutching a document they hoped would force administrators to investigate their 15-year-old daughter's claim of a classroom sex a...
Schools face vexing test: Which kids will sexually attack?
The children who sexually assault other children may be the popular jocks, the loners or anyone in between. There is no typical attacker, no way for schools to predict who might inflict that kind of torment on a classmate. Thousands of school-age...
A timeline of rulings, regulations about student sex assault
A timeline of court rulings and evolving regulations that have affected how schools respond to student sex assault allegations: ___ — 1967: The Office for Civil Rights is created as a federal agency to enforce school desegregation, three years a...
More than just horse sense
DALZELL, S.C. (AP) — On a recent cool morning north of Dalzell, Jackpot, a 13-year-old quarter horse, was eagerly grazing on some fresh green grass as Dr. Sarah Blackwell prepared to do some dental work on the chestnut gelding. Blackwell went over t...
A suicide at age 8? Very rare, but not inconceivable
NEW YORK (AP) — The death was startling even to the coroner: a boy only 8 years old apparently killing himself in his Cincinnati bedroom. Now Gabriel Taye's January death is being re-examined, after it emerged that he was bullied and knocked u...
'Burper' case involving 7th-grader back to a Gorsuch court
WASHINGTON (AP) — One of Neil Gorsuch's sharpest dissents as an appeals court judge came just six months before he was nominated for the Supreme Court. That's when he sided with a New Mexico seventh-grader who was handcuffed and arrested after his t...
BNSF appeals review of Washington coal terminal project
LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — BNSF Railway has appealed an environmental review of a coal-export terminal in Washington state, arguing it miscalculated or overstated the risk of cancer for some residents. Millennium Bulk Terminal-Longview has long wanted t...
Frozen burritos maker relocates after recall, listeria scare
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico company that recalled more than 252,000 pounds of frozen burritos because of possible listeria contamination says it's relocating. Green Chile Concepts LLC said it will start making food products at its new m...
Cuomo: large hydroponic greenhouse coming to western NY
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the nation's largest commercial hydroponic greenhouse is coming to western New York. Clearwater Organic Farms LLC plans to build a 15-acre, 650,000-square-foot greenhouse at Eastman Business Park i...
