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'Jeopardy!' returns with new setup and new role for Jennings

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Jeopardy!" is returning for its 37th season, with greater social distance between Alex Trebek and the contestants, and a new role for all-time great contestant Ken Jennings. A redesigned set for the coronavirus era will allow f...

 

Oklahoma treasury collections fall 5% in August amid oil dip

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Overall collections to the state treasury last month were nearly 5% below collections from August 2019, driven mostly by a slump in oil and gas prices, Oklahoma Treasurer Randy McDaniel said Friday. The decline in August m...

 

Oklahoma upgrading COVID data, expects increase in positives

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is making a number of changes to how it reports coronavirus data and expects an increase in the number of confirmed positive cases as a result, health officials said Friday. Among the changes, positive results from r...

 

FBI: Kansas coach posed as a teen girl to get explicit pics

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The FBI says an assistant boys high school basketball coach in Topeka posed as a teenage girl on social media to get explicit photos from other teenagers. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the FBI is seeking tips from a...

 

Authorities recover 26 firearms during Kansas search

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Local and federal law enforcement authorities recovered 26 firearms while executing a search warrant at a Topeka house, police said Friday. Topeka police said in a news release that Rodolfo V. Arzate, 42, of Topeka was taken i...

 

Kansas man sentenced to 40 years on child sex crimes

ELLSWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man spend more than 40 years in prison on child sex crimes, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Friday. Karl Van Nice, 59, of Ellsworth was sentenced Thursday on two counts of rape, one count of aggravated i...

 

More Kansas schools to play sports; state adds 23 deaths

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Amid protests and lawsuits, two more large Kansas school districts are reversing course and allowing sports to proceed despite increases in the number of coronavirus cases and deaths. The school board for the Olathe district, w...

 

4 Kansas cities seek to land U.S. Space Command headquarters

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Four Kansas cities have submitted proposals for the new U.S. Space Command headquarters, the governor's office said Friday. Wichita, Derby, Leavenworth and Kansas City, Kansas, responded to requests from the federal government w...

 

Authorities: South Carolina student drowned at Kansas lake

HAYS, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have identified a college student from South Carolina as the victim of a drowning earlier this week at a Kansas lake. Khalil Fulton, 18, of Lake City, South Carolina, drowned Wednesday after doing a flip off the dock a...

 

Grave mistake: 'Casket' seen in river turns out to be dock

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Police in Maryland investigating reports of a casket photographed bobbing up and down in a river discovered the object was something far less macabre. A post to a local radio station's Facebook page Tuesday showed a r...

 

Phew! Revolting spit and poo brews shown in Swedish exhibit

MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Desperate for a drink? There is spit-fermented wine, liquor fermented in prison toilets, and a strong Scottish brew served from the mouth of a taxidermied squirrel. The Disgusting Food Museum in Malmo, Sweden, which has served u...

 

Portland killing suspect and victim had guns, documents say

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — ‎Both the suspect in the slaying of the right-wing protester in Portland, Oregon last weekend and the victim had handguns when their confrontation started after dueling street demonstrations, according to court documents mad...

 

Biden slams Trump over alleged comments mocking US war dead

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden declared President Donald Trump "unfit" for the presidency on Friday, delivering an impassioned reaction to a report that Trump — who never served in uniform — allegedly mocked Ameri...

 

US Forest Service police dog survives second stabbing attack

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A highly decorated U.S. Forest Service police dog suffered nine stab wounds during a marijuana raid in Northern California. But he survived after he was airlifted to a veterinary clinic, the agency said Friday. What's m...

 

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