Articles from the June 29, 2018 edition
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Lawrence retirees turn backyard into bee sanctuary
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — It's just past 9:30 a.m. at Mary Donnally's house in suburban west Lawrence, where the doting grandmother of 12 prepared a pancake breakfast for her family. Three-year-old Finnegan and 4-year-old Madigan are visiting from Boulde...
Oklahoma governor: No special session needed on marijuana
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says she won't call the Legislature into a special session on medical marijuana after all. The term-limited Republican said in a statement Friday she has conferred with House and Senate leaders and t...
Board approves bonuses for speech, hearing professionals
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma education officials say they have voted to restore a $5,000 bonus for 730 nationally certified speech-language pathologists, audiologists and school psychologists. A release from the Oklahoma State Board of Education s...
Feds: Oklahoma medical marijuana users can't possess guns
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Federal officials say Oklahoma residents with medical marijuana cards will be prohibited from obtaining gun permits after voters recently approved the medical use of the drug. State residents voted in favor of the marijuana m...
Kansas lawmakers request audit of electric utility
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A bipartisan coalition of Kansas lawmakers is requesting an independent audit of an electric utility's operations before the company is allowed to raise its rates. The lawmakers asked the Kansas Corporation Commission for a r...
Former Kansas police officer gets 3 years for sex crimes
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas police sergeant has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for sex crimes. The Wichita Eagle reports that former Valley Center officer Thomas Delgado was sentenced Friday. He pleaded guilty in May to s...
Report: Kansas farmers planted fewer acres of corn, soybeans
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A government report shows Kansas farmers planted fewer acres of corn and soybeans and more sorghum this spring compared to previous season. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Friday that Kansas growers s...
Police: Man could be responsible for 17 Wichita break-ins
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 29-year-old Wichita man is in custody after his arrest at the scene of one burglary, and police believe he may be responsible for 16 more. KAKE-TV reports that the suspect was arrested Sunday after police responded to a b...
Man convicted in shooting that wounded Kansas tax agent
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A man who owed almost $400,000 in taxes has been convicted of walking into a tax office in Kansas and shooting and wounding a state tax agent who was working on his case. Ricky Wirths, 52, was found guilty Thursday of a...
Woman dies after house fire in north Wichita
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say an 82-year-old woman has been found dead after a fire in her Wichita home. The Wichita Fire Department says heavy smoke was pouring from the home when crews responded Friday morning. Firefighters found the w...
Man accused of deadly hoax call in Kansas pleads not guilty
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A California man accused of making a hoax phone call that led police to fatally shoot an unarmed man in Kansas has pleaded not guilty. A judge on Friday set the jury trial for 25-year-old Tyler Barriss for Oct. 1 in Sedgwick C...
Volunteers flock to Kansas town to help after EF-3 tornado
EUREKA, Kan. (AP) — Residents of a Kansas town where a tornado injured eight people and damaged dozens of homes are starting to clean up the mess. The state Adjutant General's Department says in a news release that more volunteers are needed in E...
Teacher accused of sex assault, trying to hypnotize girls
HUMMELSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A third-grade teacher is accused of sexually assaulting a girl at a Pennsylvania elementary school and police say he tried to hypnotize others and make them vow to obey him. James Mentzer, of Hummelstown, was charged T...
Maryland attack tells journalists to take threats seriously
NEW YORK (AP) — Threats of violence against journalists for doing their jobs are commonplace, and a coping strategy for many is the thought that the words are mostly empty — until that small comfort was shattered by the shooting deaths of five peo...
Arkansas commission report calls for armed school security
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas School Safety Commission has crafted a preliminary report calling for every school campus to have some form of armed security when children and staff are present. The assessment concludes armed security is a "...
Family of bullied girl sues school district over suicide
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The parents of a 12-year-old girl who took her own life are suing a northern New Jersey school district, saying officials failed to protect their daughter from bullying. The family of Mallory Grossman filed their wrongful death l...
Libya to declare force majeure on 2 contested oil ports
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libya's National Oil Corporation says it anticipates declaring a "force majeure" on two oil ports as the self-styled Libyan National Army in the east prevents loadings by blocking vessel entries to ports. Friday's NOC s...
Jurors slap pork giant Smithfield with $25M for nuisances
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal jury is punishing the world's largest pork producer with a $25 million verdict after jurors decided that two neighbors of a hog farm suffered unreasonable nuisances from flies, buzzards and rumbling trucks tied to an i...
Japan to US: Auto tariff would damage US, world economy
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's government warned in a report Friday that a higher U.S. tariff on auto imports could backfire, jeopardizing hundreds of thousands of American jobs created by Japanese auto-related companies, raising prices for U.S. consumers and...
China tariffs could erode remaining US shark fin business
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A new set of Chinese tariffs on U.S. seafood including items made from shark fins could further erode what remains of the American industry for the controversial products. China announced the 25 percent tariffs in mid-June t...
Colorado cares for bear cub that burned its paws in wildfire
DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — An orphaned bear cub that suffered painful burns to her paws in one of a half-dozen wildfires scorching Colorado is being nursed back to health, state officials said Friday. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers believe the b...
Polish stork vanishes from GPS but delivers huge phone bill
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish environmental group that was using a mobile-phone transmitter to track migratory movements of a stork has received a phone bill of 10,000 zlotys ($2,650) after the bird went missing in Sudan and someone started using t...
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue headlines of the week. None of these stories is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out. Here are the real facts: ___ NOT REAL:...
Father, son who disagree on Trump running against each other
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A father and son in Rhode Island who disagree about President Donald Trump are running for the same office, one as a Republican, the other as an independent. David Quiroa Sr., 47, and David Quiroa Jr., 22, both filed T...
Republicans propose using sales tax money for new tax cuts
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A U.S. Supreme Court ruling making it easier to collect online sales taxes could yield billions of dollars for state and local governments — if they decide to keep it. Rather than spend the windfall on schools, prisons or...