Articles from the September 6, 2019 edition
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Kansas' Pompeo could swing Senate race, but will he run?
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Many attending U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's college lecture Friday in his home state of Kansas will be listening for clues about whether he might run for the Senate next year, though it could be many months before a...
Kansas high school custodian charged with child sex crimes
WINFIELD, Kan. (AP) — A custodian at a south-central Kansas high school has been charged with child sex crimes. Twenty-one-year-old Brenden Jantzen was charged Wednesday with one count indecent liberties with a child, a girl under the age of 16. W...
Researchers say Kansas has underground gas-storage potential
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Large industrial operations — think electrical power plants, oil refineries, ethanol facilities — cough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by the ton. That, in turn, warms the planet. But now some researchers think Kansas could...
Lawrence couple share passion for genealogical research
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Over the years, genealogical research has advanced from tracking down records in libraries and government files to dropping in on ancestral homes via Google Earth — and one local couple has kept up with the technology in hop...
DNA hints the Loch Ness 'monster' might be giant eel
NEW YORK (AP) — A scientist who collected DNA from Scotland's Loch Ness suggests the lake's fabled monster might be a giant eel. Neil Gemmell from the University of Otago in New Zealand says the project found a surprisingly high amount of eel DNA i...
Wheels stolen from New Mexico speed limit monitoring device
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A mobile speed limit monitoring trailer in Albuquerque can still monitor speeding motorists but can't be moved because thieves recently stole its tires. KOB-TV reports that police said Thursday that the wheels of the speed t...
Slovenian flight canceled over a 250-euro penalty
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — A Slovenian news agency says an airliner canceled a flight to Vienna for fear its plane would be seized because of a 250-euro ($275) penalty it owes to an Austrian citizen. The STA news agency said Friday that the debt s...
Man calls police demanding they return his stolen pot
SHARONVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A man confused about Ohio drug laws has called a police department demanding that officers return the small amount of marijuana they "stole" from him. WXIX-TV reports the man told a Sharonville police dispatcher in an e...
US health officials report new vaping deaths, repeat warning
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Friday again urged people to stop vaping until they figure out why some are coming down with serious breathing illnesses. Officials have identified about 450 possible cases, including as many as five d...
In a twist, Colorado asks EPA to lower state's air rating
DENVER (AP) — Colorado took the unusual step of inviting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to downgrade the air quality rating of the state's biggest population center, and not everyone thinks that was a good idea. The EPA held a hearing F...
It's complicated: Zimbabweans see Mugabe's legacy as mixed
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A Zimbabwean politician summed up her reaction to Robert Mugabe's death with one word: Complicated. Mugabe, 95, stood tall on the world stage for decades, first as a celebrated liberator and then as a combative enforcer, l...
Report mostly upbeat about quality of Kansas wheat harvest
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Preliminary data offers a mostly upbeat assessment of the quality of this year's winter wheat harvest in Kansas. The National Agricultural Statistics Service and the Kansas Grain Inspection Service released on Friday its a...
Retired public lands officials criticize Trump plan for move
DENVER (AP) — Former public lands managers heaped criticism Thursday on a Trump administration plan to move the headquarters of the nation's largest land agency from Washington to the West. Thirty past high-ranking officials from the Bureau of L...
Reaching a deal in national opioids case proving difficult
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma made headlines earlier this year when it reached a landmark deal with Oklahoma over the toll the opioids crisis has taken on that state. Attempts to get a national settlement resolving all claims against the company are...
As feds loom, states hit Facebook, Google with new probes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two groups of states are targeting Facebook and Google in separate antitrust probes, widening the scrutiny of Big Tech beyond sweeping federal and congressional investigations into their market dominance. Facebook and Google are t...
Oklahoma pension fund reports $4.2 million cyber theft
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The FBI is investigating after computer hackers managed to steal about $4.2 million in funds from a pension system for retired Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers and other state law enforcement officers, state officials said F...
India loses touch with lander on its final approach to moon*
NEW DELHI (AP) — India's space agency said it lost touch Saturday with its Vikram lunar lander as it made its final approach to the south pole of the moon to deploy a rover to search for signs of water. The fate of the lander — whether it cra...
Dorian's floodwaters trap people in attics in North Carolina
ATLANTIC BEACH, N.C. (AP) — A weakened Hurricane Dorian flooded homes on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday with a fury that took even storm-hardened residents by surprise, forcing people to climb into their attics. Hundreds were feared t...
Modest hiring enough to fuel sluggish but durable US economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hiring by U.S. employers was slower but steady in August, and hourly pay jumped — trends that should sustain the U.S. economy's record-long expansion in the coming months. Yet with the economy still under threat from a weak glo...
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the real facts: ___ CLAIM:...
