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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The late great Muhammad Ali went from a fast-talking fireball of a boxer to a stiff, shaky man who could hardly speak at the young age of 43. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's, and spent the rest of his life nearly immobilized by the disease. At the time, his doctors speculated that his Parkinson's was likely spurred by 30 years of head trauma suffered in boxing. So it's all the more fitting that a growing group of Helenans have found relief from the debilitating neurological disease by stepping into the ring. A...
BOSTON (AP) — A group dedicated to preserving the legacy of John F. Kennedy hopes a global scavenger hunt will help keep the slain U.S. president on the map. The JFK Library Foundation launched the hunt Friday, providing clues to help people populate an interactive online map with the hundreds of schools, streets and parks named for Kennedy. The "Where in the World is JFK" map allows anyone in the world to add places named for JFK and upload an image of the location or a selfie. Foundation executive director Steven Rothstein says the project i...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) It’s been 60 years since the cover of Popular Mechanics magazine gave us the promise of flying cars. But our personal mobility options remain, today and for the foreseeable future, earthbound. Will the promise of self-driving cars be as elusive? In short, no. The dream of taking a road trip in which we pay more attention to a new book or movie than we do to the driving task is well within reach. Still, we’re not...
MOSCOW (AP) — From the early days of online stock scams to the increasingly sophisticated world of botnets, pseudonymous hacker Peter Severa spent nearly two decades at the forefront of Russian cybercrime. Now that a man alleged to be the pioneering spam lord, Pytor Levashov, is in Spanish custody awaiting extradition to the U.S., friends and foes alike are describing the 36-year-old as an ambitious operator who helped make the internet underground what it is today. "Levashov is a pioneer who started his career when cybercrime as we know it t...
FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — Tesla Inc. has finally made its long-promised affordable electric car. But it could take years to get it to all the people who want to buy it. Tesla delivered the Model 3 small car to its first 30 customers — all employees — at a company party Friday night. CEO Elon Musk said Tesla will build the cars as fast as it can, but acknowledged that supply issues and other complexities will make it tough to reach his goal of making 500,000 cars next year. Fourteen-year-old Tesla has never made more than 100,000 cars in a year....
EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on the latest disturbance at a maximum-security Kansas prison (all times local): 4:55 p.m. A spokesman for the Kansas Department of Corrections says it has found no evidence of a significant episode of unrest at a state prison reported earlier by a union for state workers. Department spokesman Todd Fertig said Saturday it investigated whether a group of inmates refused to follow orders Friday evening and did not find that such an incident occurred. The report that such an incident occurred came from the K...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The warden of a maximum-security Kansas prison that's had four reported inmate disturbances in the past three months took a new job within the state Department of Corrections a day before the latest incident, the department confirmed Saturday. James Heimgartner stepped down Thursday as warden of the El Dorado prison, department spokesman Todd Fertig said. The warden of another maximum-security prison in southern Kansas will take over the warden's duties in El Dorado while the department searches for a permanent r...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A northeast Kansas doula, an assistant to women giving birth, has started a nonprofit to help teenage mothers, incarcerated pregnant woman and low-income single mothers. Juliet Swedlund told The Topeka Capital-Journal that women in these underserved groups may not even be aware that a doula is an option because they are not covered by most insurance in Kansas. "Most of the women you will find who are getting a doula are middle-income white women," she said. "But there are whole populations of people who are missing out on th...
GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) — A man faces September sentencing now after being convicted of a terrorism charge for forcing his way into a western Kansas judge's home and holding him hostage at gunpoint. A Finney County jury on Friday also convicted 34-year-old Jason Linn Nichols of kidnapping, aggravated burglary, aggravated assault, criminal threat and criminal restraint. The Garden City man was acquitted of a second terrorism count. Authorities say Nichols forced his way into the state judge's Garden City home in May of last year, held him h...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A state agency director was arrested in Florida earlier this month after throwing a cup of water on a family member during a confrontation, but her case was dismissed because prosecutors and the family member decided not to pursue charges, the official said Saturday. Terri White, the commissioner for the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, was jailed July 21 on a misdemeanor battery complaint after calling police in attempts to deescalate the dispute. White, who didn't identify the family m...
Services for Shirley Joy Beltz will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, at 11 a.m. at First Baptist Church in Cherokee, Oklahoma. On July 27, 2017, the Lord took Shirley Joy Beltz for a lifetime commitment made when she was baptized Dec. 8, 1946, at the First Baptist Church in Cherokee, Oklahoma. Shirley was born on July 31, 1934, in Lambert, Oklahoma, to Ben B. Beltz and Delia W. Beltz. From age 2 she lived in California until returning to graduate from Lambert High School. She is survived by her two sons, three grandchildren, a niece,...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States flew two supersonic bombers over the Korean Peninsula on Sunday in a show of force against North Korea following the country's latest intercontinental ballistic missile test. The U.S. also said it conducted a successful test of a missile defense system located in Alaska. The B-1 bombers were escorted by South Korean fighter jets as they performed a low-pass over an air base near the South Korean capital of Seoul before returning to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the U.S. Pacific Air Forces said in a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House stepped up demands Sunday for revived congressional efforts on health care and suggested senators cancel their entire summer break, if needed, to pass legislation after failed votes last week. Aides said President Donald Trump is prepared in the coming days to end required payments to insurers under the Affordable Care Act as part of a bid to let "Obamacare implode" and force the Senate to act. It was all part of a weekend flurry of Trump tweets and other statements insisting the seven-year GOP quest to r...
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Farmers and foresters in the Northeast facing challenges posed by climate change are the focus of a newly announced University of Vermont project. The University of Vermont Extension's center for sustainable agriculture says it will use a $248,900 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to create a curriculum geared at helping such workers plan for and adapt to climate change. The center's coordinator Joshua Faulkner says the emphasis will be on helping farmers and foresters learn from each other to help their b...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A suspect is expected to change his plea in the kidnapping, sexual assault and killing of an 11-year-old girl in a remote part of the largest American Indian reservation that prompted an effort to expand the Amber Alert system into tribal communities across the U.S. More than a year after the May 2016 death of Ashlynne Mike in Navajo Nation, Tom Begaye is scheduled to attend a change-of-plea hearing Tuesday in an Albuquerque federal court. It's not known if his lawyers and federal prosecutors have struck a deal. B...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Farmers in Minnesota are working to balance heightened expectations for environmental stewardship and the day-to-day challenges of operating a farm. Three-quarters of the state's cropland grows corn and soybeans, Minnesota Public Radio reported. Those crops come with greenhouse gas emissions, water quality degradation and soil erosion. Farmers want to build healthy soils that can withstand heat, drought and heavy rain but struggle to justify the extra cost. Scott Haase, who farms in Blue Earth, planted cover crops this y...
NEW YORK (AP) — Hormel sees potential new customers for its shelf-stable foods: cancer patients. The company known for Dinty Moore stews and Spam canned meats is promoting microwavable meals it says cater to people who are going through chemotherapy and are sensitive to certain tastes. Its Vital Cuisine meals, launched last year, are also marketed as delivering the nutrients and convenience people might want if they're too exhausted to cook or leave the house for food. Whether they catch on remains to be seen. If loss of appetite is a p...
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Research points to a link between the significance and meaning blacks attach to their race and mental and physical health. So University of Alabama assistant professor Wanda Martin Burton wondered if racial identity also had a role to play in explaining the persistent disparity between the birth weights among children of black mothers and their white counterparts. Stress experienced by mothers can have an impact on birth weights, noted Burton, who is a faculty member in the College of Human and Environmental Science. P...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. Navy is working to develop a new high-tech gadget that can quickly identify whether a debilitating iron sulfide mineral exists in concrete, the same problem that's plaguing thousands of Connecticut homeowners with crumbling foundations. Late last year, unbeknownst to many Connecticut officials, the Navy began seeking out small businesses to invent a device that can quickly detect pyrrhotite in concrete. The mineral is known to naturally react over years with water and oxygen, causing devastating damage to c...
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Satellites in space and a robot under Lake Erie's surface are part of a network of scientific tools trying to keep algae toxins out of drinking water supplies in the shallowest of the Great Lakes. It's one of the most wide-ranging freshwater monitoring systems in the U.S., researchers say, and some of its pieces soon will be watching for harmful algae on hundreds of lakes nationwide. Researchers are creating an early warning system using real-time data from satellites that in recent years have tracked algae bloom hotpots s...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — If you plan to livestream next month's solar eclipse from one of the prime viewing spots, here's a thought: Keep your phone in your pocket, put on your paper shades and just enjoy the celestial wonder. The Aug. 21 solar eclipse, when passage of the moon completely blocks out the sun, will be seen first in Oregon and cut diagonally across 14 states to South Carolina. It will be the first total solar eclipse visible coast-to-coast since 1918. The best places to see it fall within a 60- to 70-mile-wide swath known as the "path o...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been ordered to stand trial in the shooting death of the sister of a girl whose kidnapping 17 years earlier sparked a massive manhunt before she was found dead in Missouri. A judge in Kansas' Wyandotte County on Friday ordered the trial after 41-year-old Emenencio Lansdown's preliminary hearing on charges of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a firearm, The Kansas City Star reported . Lansdown's attorney entered pleas of not guilty Friday on his behalf. Lansdown is accused of killing C...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Police say a man's body has been found in a wooded area west of downtown Tulsa, near the Arkansas River. Police told reporters the body was found Sunday after a person walking in the woods reported smelling a foul odor shortly before noon. Police say the man has not been identified and it isn't known how long the body had been in the woods. The body is being sent to the state medical examiner's office to identify it and determine the cause of death....
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A Tulsa man has been sentenced to life in prison and his girlfriend to 20 years for the death of the woman's 5-month-old son. Court records show 53-year-old Kevin Crawford and 24-year-old Anna Marie Hyden were sentenced Friday in Tulsa County District Court after pleading guilty earlier this year to child neglect in the January death of Arrow Hyden. Crawford was sentenced to an additional 15 years for related drug charges. Crawford's attorney said he will seek to withdraw the guilty plea because of the sentence. Hyden's a...
DETROIT (AP) — Courtroom 801 is nearly empty when guards bring in Bobby Hines in handcuffs. More than 27 years ago, Hines stood before a judge to answer for his role in killing a man over a friend's drug debt. He was 15 then, just out of eighth grade. Another teen fired the shot that killed 21-year-old James Warren. But Hines had said something like, "Let him have it," sealing his punishment: life in prison with no chance for parole. The judgment came during an era when many states, fearing teen "superpredators," enacted laws to punish j...
