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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a $51,433 default judgment has been entered against the owner of a now defunct Wichita car dealership. Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett's office said Tuesday in a news release that that the lawsuit brought against Lucky 7 Used Cars LLC alleged deceptive and unconscionable practices involving car sales to eight consumers. The complaint alleged Lucky 7 failed to disclose safety recalls, provide titles to customers or honor warranties. The business also was not properly licensed. The judgment a...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal audit has found that a Kansas company received $1.31 million in "ineligible" reimbursements from the U.S. government while it was working on an electrical power project in Afghanistan. The Kansas City Star reports that the U.S. Agency for International Development awarded Overland Park-based Black & Veatch a contract as part of a national initiative to improve the power system in southern Afghanistan as part of the government's counterinsurgency strategy. Auditors commissioned by the Office of the Special I...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas has seen an increase in demand for student mental health services, according to a new report. The university's Student Affairs department has found that counseling and psychological services had a total of 120 visits in May, which is up more than 73 percent from May 2017, The Lawrence Journal-World reports . "While people seeking mental health care may experience increased intensity and need prompt access to services, and individually may be experiencing a crisis, the overall level of demand d...
NEWTON, Kan. (AP) — Two Mennonite churches in Kansas say they could provide sanctuary to immigrants who are living unlawfully in the country. The Shalom Mennonite Church in Newton has voted as a congregation to help such immigrants, and church members are working on transforming part of the basement into living quarters. First Mennonite Church of Christian in Moundridge also says it is willing to offer sanctuary. KSN-TV reports that while neither church has hosted any immigrants, both are ready to help. Shalom pastor Rachel Ringenberg Miller s...
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A 36-year-old Kansas man remains hospitalized with a head injury he suffered three weeks ago when a Joplin police officer used a stun gun on him. Police say James Wary, of Pittsburg, Kansas, was recently moved to a transitional care unit and is listed in stable condition at Freeman Hospital West. The Joplin Globe reports Wary fell July 9 and hit his head on pavement at a Walmart store after an officer used the stun gun to stop him from fleeing. Wary had previously been banned from the store. Capt. Trevor Duncan said when W...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a woman died from injuries she suffered when a vehicle crashed into a Topeka cafe last week. Eighty-year-old Joyce Kasson died Saturday. She was injured Thursday when a sport utility vehicle hit a window and went into Banjo's Cafe. The Shawnee County Sheriff's office said Monday that a preliminary investigation indicated Kasson's injuries were non-life threatening but her condition deteriorated because of complications. The accident is still under investigation. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports 8...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita lawyer who specializes in elder law is charged with mistreating an elderly person. Sedgwick County authorities announced Monday that 70-year-old Larry Toomey has been charged with five felonies. The Wichita Eagle reports court documents indicate the alleged losses total at least several hundred thousand dollars. Toomey's attorney, Steven Mank, says Toomey looks forward to having his day in court. A mistreatment of a dependent adult charge alleges he took advantage of resources valued between $250,000 and $1 m...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's president-elect said Tuesday that he will end fracking, the oil and gas extraction method that has just begun to take root in areas of the country's north. Asked about the potential risks of fracking at a news conference, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said, "We will no longer use that method to extract petroleum." Mexico has a huge potential shale formation in the Burgos basin, similar to the Texas Eagle Ford fields. But while a few wells have been drilled, the Mexican government has only recently scheduled bidding o...
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is creating a center aimed at protecting banks, electric companies and other critical infrastructure against cyberattacks — a threat that now exceeds the danger of a physical attack against the U.S. by a hostile foreign group, Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Tuesday. The National Risk Management Center will work to quickly identify and address potential threats and improve safeguards across a range of industries, she said. It will prioritize risks to industries that most Americans rel...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran reacted skeptically Tuesday to President Donald Trump saying that he's willing to negotiate with his Iranian counterpart "anytime," but top officials did not reject a sit-down out of hand. Ali Akbar Nategh Nouri, a senior cleric and member of the influential Expediency Council, said Trump's suggestion Monday that he would be willing to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani should not be categorically rejected. "It should be discussed in the Supreme National Security Council," said Nategh Nouri, who is also a f...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday wrongly claimed that shoppers need to show photo identification to buy groceries and accused Democrats of obstructing his agenda and his Supreme Court nominee during a raucous rally aimed at bolstering two Florida Republicans ahead of the state's primary. Trump, addressing thousands of supporters in one of the nation's top electoral battlegrounds, was railing against the idea of noncitizens voting and advocating stricter voting laws when he claimed that IDs are required for everything e...
DENVER (AP) — Recently released undercover video showing pigs being kicked, hit and punched at a Kentucky supplier for the world's largest meat producer drew prompt condemnation from animal rights groups and the agricultural industry alike. However, the images sandwiched in between — adult pigs in cages barely bigger than their bodies and a piglet squealing while being castrated — show still widely accepted industry practices, but were aimed at pressuring Brazilian-based JBS to abandon them. Ten states — none major pork producers — have pass...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at the Koch brothers, tweeting that the billionaire industrialists are a "total joke in real Republican circles" and that he is "a puppet for no one." It's the latest salvo between the president and Charles and David Koch, who did not endorse Trump in his 2016 presidential bid and have lashed out at Trump's spending plans and trade policies. On Monday, the political advocacy network created by the billionaire industrialists announced it would not back the GOP candidate in the N...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) The Trump administration plans to give American farmers and ranchers hurt by the current trade war US$12 billion in emergency relief to mitigate the impact of tariffs on their exports. While this may lessen the blow of an already struggling agricultural economy in the short run, it is only a Band-Aid. As an agricultural economist, I know that no one really wins in a trade war. As someone who grew up on a cotton...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado Springs zoo says it decided to euthanize its 8-week-old giraffe after veterinarians determined that her dislocated hip, infected leg and other health complications would severely impact her quality of life. Surgeons at Colorado State University's vet school found an abscess in Penny's abdomen. They also believe she had an infection in three of her legs. They say those two conditions caused Penny's hip to be dislocated. Officials chose to euthanize her Monday night. Penny was born about eight weeks a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Department of Health and Human Services official told senators Tuesday that his agency had warned the Trump administration that separating families would be dangerous for children. But some of the government's top immigration officials used a Senate hearing to largely defend how the policy has been implemented, with one comparing family detention centers to "a summer camp." One official told the Senate Judiciary Committee that while the Trump administration was developing its immigration policies, Health and Human S...
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis-area pilot program that's treated more than 2,000 opioid overdose victims is expanding statewide. Missouri health officials are looking to implement Engaging Patients in Care Coordination, or EPICC, across the state within a year. The program treats overdose victims at emergency rooms with buprenorphine, a medication that mimics opioids without the resulting high and helps with withdrawal symptoms. It also offers a peer counselor to help individuals recover from addiction. The program, which is funded by f...
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado cannabis company is suing another firm in the state for patent infringement of its cannabinoid medical product formula. United Cannabis Corp. of Golden filed the lawsuit in Denver U.S. District Court on Monday against Pure Hemp Collective of Conifer. The Denver Post reports the lawsuit seeks an injunction prohibiting Pure Hemp from copying the United Cannabis formulas as well as damages. A message seeking comment left with Pure Hemp on Tuesday was not immediately returned. The lawsuit says United Cannabis is a b...
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook elevated concerns about election interference Tuesday, announcing that it had uncovered "sophisticated" efforts, possibly linked to Russia, to manipulate U.S. politics and by extension the upcoming midterm elections. The company was careful to hedge its announcement; it didn't link the effort directly to Russia or to the midterms, now less than a hundred days away. And its findings were limited to 32 apparently fake accounts on Facebook and Instagram, which the company removed because they were involved in "...
SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday stopped the release of blueprints to make untraceable and undetectable 3D-printed plastic guns as President Donald Trump questioned whether his administration should have agreed to allow the plans to be posted online. The company behind the plans, Austin, Texas-based Defense Distributed, had reached a settlement with the federal government in June allowing it to make the plans for the guns available for download on Wednesday. The restraining order from U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik in Seattle p...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's appointment of a University of Oklahoma professor as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is being cheered by a leading scientific society. The White House announced Tuesday that the office will be directed by Kelvin Droegemeier. He is vice president for research and the regents' professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. He also serves as Oklahoma Cabinet secretary of science and technology. The chief executive officer of the American Association for the A...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says people would drive more and be exposed to increased risk if their cars get better gas mileage, an argument intended to justify freezing Obama-era toughening of fuel standards. Transportation experts dispute the arguments, contained in a draft of the administration's proposals prepared this summer, excerpts of which were obtained by The Associated Press. The excerpts also show the administration plans to challenge California's long-standing authority to enact its own, tougher pollution and fuel s...
HONOLULU (AP) — Scientists are touting the first sighting of a hybrid between a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin in the ocean off Hawaii. But don't call it a "wholphin," they say. The melon-headed whale is one of the various species that's called a whale but is technically a dolphin. "Calling it something like a wholphin doesn't make any sense," said one of the study's authors, Robin Baird, a Hawaii research biologist with Washington state-based Cascadia Research Collective. "I think calling it a wholphin just confuses the s...
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — An unarmed U.S. Air Force Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile was intentionally destroyed in flight when an anomaly occurred during a test launch from California. An Air Force Global Strike Command statement says the flight was safely terminated over the Pacific Ocean at 4:42 a.m. Tuesday. The Minuteman system's accuracy and reliability is routinely tested with launches from Vandenberg that send a missile's re-entry vehicle on a 4,200-mile (6,759-kilometer) flight to a target in the K...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) The energy-generating potential of solar panels – and a key limitation on their use – is a result of what they’re made of. Panels made of silicon are declining in price such that in some locations they can provide electricity that costs about the same as power from fossil fuels like coal and natural gas. But silicon solar panels are also bulky, rigid and brittle, so they can’t be used just anywhere. In many pa...
