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 By Dave Skretta    Sports    August 18, 2017

K-State hopes returning secondary can hold up in Big 12

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The school that once produced Chris Canty and Thorpe Award winner Terence Newman has struggled to defend in recent years in the pass-happy Big 12. It still draws Kansas State coach Bill Snyder's ire. The hard-to-please Hall...

 

Kansas man found guilty of threatening to spit on pizza

LARNED, Kan. (AP) — A former employee of a restaurant in central Kansas has been found guilty of threatening to spit on a customer's pizza. Twenty-seven-year-old Jacob Ohnmacht was found guilty Wednesday of threatening to contaminate food. Trial...

 

Tulsa mayor announces plan to build city jail

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Tulsa officials are planning to build a city-run jail with operating costs estimated at $1.2 million a year. Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum announced plans for the facility Wednesday, saying the move will also serve as a cost-saving...

 

Cherokee Nation says opioid lawsuit belongs in tribal court

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Cherokee Nation is urging a federal judge to allow a tribal lawsuit against distributors and retailers of opioid medications to be litigated in the tribe's own court. Cherokee Nation Attorney General Todd Hembree has filed...

 

Spanish plan for carnage started with botched explosion

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A cell of at least nine extremists meticulously plotted to combine vehicles and explosives in a direct hit on tourists, and managed to carry off most of their deadly plan, killing 14 people, authorities said Friday. Police...

 

Trump studying options for new approach to Afghan war

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is "studying and considering his options" for a new approach to Afghanistan and the broader South Asia region, the White House said Friday after the president huddled with his top national security aides at...

 

State Department email restored after worldwide outage

WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department email service has been restored after a nearly 12-hour worldwide outage hit its entire unclassified system. Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said service resumed slowly shortly after midday Friday and was...

 

Finnish police shoot man who stabs 8 people in Turku; 2 dead

HELSINKI (AP) — A man stabbed eight people Friday in Finland's western city of Turku, killing two of them, before police shot him in the thigh and detained him, police said. Authorities were looking for more potential suspects in the attack. A...

 

Charlottesville exposes new threat for college campuses

BOSTON (AP) — On college campuses, white supremacists and other far-right extremist groups see fertile ground to spread their messages and recruit followers. But for many colleges, last weekend's deadly attack at a rally near the University of...

 

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 are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out; here are the real facts: NOT REAL: Char...

 

Widow won't sign, and that puts timeshare giant in a bind

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — There's a new twist in the standoff between an octogenarian widow in Florida who refused to sell her townhome and the giant developer that constructed a timeshare resort around her vacant, two-story building anyway. In order...

 

Pentagon chief to visit Ukraine amid tensions with Russia

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will visit Ukraine next week to reassure government leaders that the U.S. does not accept Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region. The visit comes as the Trump administration...

 

NASA, PBS marking 40 years since Voyager spacecraft launches

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Forty years after blasting off, Earth's most distant ambassadors — the twin Voyager spacecraft — are carrying sounds and music of our planet ever deeper into the cosmos. Think of them as messages in bottles meant...

 

Estimates of North Korea's nuclear weapons hard to nail down

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. intelligence agencies' assessments of the size of North Korea's nuclear arsenal have a wide gap between high and low estimates. Size matters and not knowing makes it harder for the United States to develop a policy for...

 
 By JACK MOORE    Regional    August 18, 2017

The DC public school that taught a president's daughter

WASHINGTON (AP) — In January 1977, the 9-year-old daughter of newly inaugurated President Jimmy Carter started classes in a three-story brick school in downtown D.C., improbably nestled between a maze of concrete-and-glass office buildings. This...

 

Court rules New York had power to deny key pipeline permit

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — In a decision held up as an affirmation of the right of states to reject major oil and gas infrastructure, a federal court ruled Friday that New York acted properly when it blocked plans for a 124-mile natural gas pipeline from...

 

US rig count decreases by 3 this week to 946

HOUSTON (AP) — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. decreased by three this week to 946. A year ago, just 491 rigs were active. Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes said Friday that 763 rigs sought oil and 182...

 

The real revolution in NKorea is rise of consumer culture

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Like all North Korean adults, Song Un Pyol wears the faces of leader Kim Jong Un's father and grandfather pinned neatly to her left lapel, above her heart. But on her right glitters a diamond-and-gold brooch. Song is w...

 

California tightens rules on popular pesticide for farmers

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California is tightening the strictest rules in the nation on a pesticide that is popular with farmers over new health concerns, officials said Friday. Farmers use chlorpyrifos (klor-PHIR-e-fos) to kill pests that attack a...

 

Roberts, McCaskill discuss protecting nation's food supply

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The nation's focus on protecting its agriculture, food and livestock from terrorism and infectious diseases has waned since it became a top priority after the Sept. 11 attacks but it's time to refocus on the issue, U.S....

 

Nebraska drivers warned about cinder blocks in bags on roads

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska authorities are warning motorists about cinder blocks hidden inside of cattle feed bags on rural roads. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that sheriff's offices have received reports of the 30-pound blocks appearing on...

 

Indiana couple's farm wins top rural preservation award

FLORA, Ind. (AP) — A central Indiana couple has won a statewide rural preservation award for their farm featuring a century-old English-style barn. Tim and Beth Sheets received the Arnold Award for Rural Preservation on Thursday during the Indiana...

 

Nebraska family finds success in making goat milk soap

LYONS, Neb. (AP) — It is an idyllic place. Green trees dot the landscape of gently rolling hills. An Australian shepherd puppy named Maverick scampers in tall grass near a barn. Green grass carpets an area around the house. Inside, Angie and Blake...

 

Harvard study strengthens link between breast cancer risk and light exposure at night

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) A new study from Harvard has found greater risk of breast cancer in women who live in neighborhoods that have higher...

 

The Latest: Expert says Arkansas may have good drug supply

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Latest on Arkansas' plan to execute inmate Jack Greene and possibly others (all times local): 3:15 p.m. After putting four men to death in April before one of its lethal injection drugs expired, Arkansas says it is...

 

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