Articles from the July 21, 2017 edition
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For 1st time, over half of people with HIV taking AIDS drugs
LONDON (AP) — For the first time in the global AIDS epidemic that has spanned four decades and killed 35 million people, more than half of all those infected with HIV are on drugs to treat the virus, the United Nations said in a report released...
Teachers union chief: School choice rooted in segregation
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of one of the country's leading teachers' unions charged Thursday that school choice, a key policy agenda of the Trump administration, is rooted in segregation and racism. Randi Weingarten, president of the American...
The Latest: Detained student's mother: police want "ransom"
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Latest on an American student detained in China more than a month after a dispute with a taxi driver (all times local to Montana): 3 p.m. The mother of an American college student arrested in China following an...
Texas Senate aiming to move divisive bills at breakneck pace
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Senate staged an unusual midnight floor session Thursday as conservatives who dominate the chamber rushed to revive abortion restrictions, school vouchers and a "bathroom bill" targeting transgender people before...
Canadian tribe opposes proposed powerline project in US
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Supporters of a controversial project that would bring Canadian hydro power to markets in southern New England like to talk about how this would use much cleaner energy than the coal-fired power plants that once dominated the r...
NC governor on Trump drilling plan: 'Not off our coast'
ATLANTIC BEACH, N.C. (AP) — Under pressure from President Donald Trump, North Carolina's governor announced his opposition on Thursday to drilling for natural gas and oil off the Atlantic coast, saying it poses too much of a threat to the state's...
Lawsuits claim Texas loopholes allow illegal air emissions
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — An environmental group is attempting to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to tighten Texas air pollution control permits that it says have loopholes that allow for illegal emissions, according to five federal...
Minnesota investigating weed killer after farmers complain
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is investigating about two dozen complaints from farmers about a weed killer used on genetically modified soybean fields that can tolerate the herbicide. Minnesota agriculture department...
Mexico City floating farms, chefs team up to save tradition
MEXICO CITY (AP) — At dawn in Xochimilco, home to Mexico City's famed floating gardens, farmers in muddied rain boots squat among rows of beets as a group of chefs arrive to sample sweet fennel and the pungent herb known as epazote. By dinnertime...
Who's avoiding sex, and why
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Sex has a strong influence on many aspects of well-being: it is one of our most basic physiological needs. Sex feeds...
Texas company recalls coffee with Viagra-like substance
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) — A Texas coffee company is recalling one of its roasts because it was making some men a bit too excited. Bestherbs Coffee LLC issued the voluntary recall for its New of Kopi Jantan Tradisional Natural Herbs Coffee after t...
Apollo 11 bag laced with moon dust sells for $1.8 million
NEW YORK (AP) — A bag containing traces of moon dust sold for $1.8 million at an auction on Thursday following a galactic court battle. The collection bag, used by astronaut Neil Armstrong during the first manned mission to the moon in 1969, was...
Wichita man catches 80-pound catfish
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A man has caught an unusually large flathead catfish in a lake northeast of Wichita and locals think it's the largest fish of any kind reeled in during the lake's 50-year history. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/2uewgWD )...
Kansas Democratic Party names executive director
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Democratic Party's new executive director is a lawyer who has worked on voting rights litigation. The party announced in a news release Thursday that Ethan Corson, a former U.S. Department of Commerce official, will...
Baby Amur tiger neglected by mom headed to Oklahoma zoo
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A rare baby Amur tiger cub that was neglected by its mother after its birth at the Philadelphia Zoo this month is being sent to Oklahoma to integrate with a tiger cub litter there. The Philadelphia Zoo says 10-year-old Koosaka...
Ex-Tulsa Jail officials say inmates routinely denied meds
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Two former Oklahoma jail officials allege a physician routinely delayed or denied medications to incoming inmates. Former Capt. Billy McKelvey and former Maj. Shannon Clark of the Tulsa Jail filed testimonies Friday in a former...
Oklahoma agencies receiving $34.6 million in leftover cash
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's finance secretary says cash-strapped state agencies will receive $34.6 million in leftover cash from the previous year. The Oklahoman reports (http://bit.ly/2tkfzpV ) that the revenue had not been allocated when the...
Man accused of killing 2 in Oklahoma says he's innocent
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting two people in central Oklahoma says he didn't commit the crime. KFOR-TV (http://bit.ly/2udfbL7 ) reports that 33-year-old Roshaun Jones is accused of killing 42-year-old Nekia Jackson and...
Woman dead, son critically wounded in Oklahoma shooting
CORDELL, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a woman has died and her 14-year-old son was critically wounded in a suspected home invasion and shooting in western Oklahoma. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says 36-year-old Tammi Thomas died at...
Oklahoma court upholds 2 life sentences in women's deaths
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the life-without-parole prison sentences of a 27-year-old man convicted of the 2014 shooting deaths of two women. The court handed down the decision Thursday in the case of...
Kansas couple purchases second house to hold collection
PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. (AP) — Marianne Noll calls it "the creep." Hundreds of boxes brimming with Kansas City-themed postcards, ashtrays, plates, paintings and more began to creep outside their regulated zones. First, Marianne allowed her husband...
Kansas inmates create nonprofit by producing vegetables
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — On summer evenings when Kevin Gunby works in the Garden for Good, he's overcome with a sense of what freedom might feel like. "This is the next best thing to being out," said Gunby, who has spent the past 15 years in prison...
Greek iconographer shares religious art knowledge in Kansas
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Theodoros Papadopoulos has painted images of Christ, the Virgin Mary and angels that cover the walls and ceilings of churches. Those images are not decorations, he said. Rather, they are a way of "meeting with the divine."...
Judge tosses lawsuit against Kansas sexual predator program
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Kansas sex offenders who are confined indefinitely in a state program for post-prison mental health treatment, saying they didn't do enough to substantiate their claims. U.S....