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ADA, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says a 29-year-old man is dead following an officer-involved shooting in southeastern Oklahoma. Investigators say the shooting occurred on Saturday during a domestic dispute in Ada, about 67 miles (108 kilometers) southeast of Oklahoma City. Four Ada officers responded to an apartment and tried to speak with the 29-year-old man who lived there. Investigators say he was not in a relationship with the woman he was arguing with. The OSBI says an altercation occurred and that shots w...
BEND, Ore. (AP) — A university study says a Pacific Northwest bat that that migrates south for the winter faces a serious threat from wind turbines. The Bend Bulletin reports a study by Oregon State University-Cascades concludes that the hoary bat faces an uncertain future because its numbers have declined by 2% per year. A study author, Tom Rodhouse, says bats can be killed by collisions with propellers and by barotrauma, which occurs when bats fly through low pressure zones created by spinning blades of a wind turbine. The sudden change in p...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man is blaming CVS Pharmacy for his stroke, and he says in a lawsuit that the pharmacy filled his prescription for a blood thinning medication with the wrong drug. The Wichita Eagle reports that Ben Huie said in his lawsuit he suffered a stroke in July 2017 after taking the wrong medicine. Kansas CVS Pharmacy said in a formal response it didn't provide the incorrect medicine or cause the stroke. Huie says taking the incorrect medicine lowered the level of warfarin sodium in his system, which contributed to the s...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The newest state park in Kansas is slated to open next month. Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park in Logan County is a rare geological gem that features chalky spires and buttes projecting as high as 100 feet (30 meters) in the air. The park is set to open Oct. 12 and the grand opening ceremony will be followed by free, guided tours that run every hour, The Wichita Eagle reported. Last month, Kansas dropped a $50 visitor's fee to make the park more "public friendly." The fee was intended to serve as a warning to anyone t...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The annual Sensory Safari at Lincoln Children's Zoo will give students with disabilities a chance to explore through sight, sound, touch or smell. The Oct. 2 event is organized by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, along with the Lincoln Children's Zoo and the Nebraska Center for the Education of Children who are Blind or Visually Impaired. Stations will include a live fish touch tank; live native reptiles and amphibians; prairie plants; skulls and pelts of Nebraska mammals; birds of Nebraska; live insects and a...
LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is focusing on reliably Republican Oklahoma with an appearance before the largest annual gathering of the Comanche Nation in the state where rival Elizabeth Warren was born. Sanders' visit may remind some of a sensitive subject for Warren, still criticized after her October release of a DNA test meant to bolster her claim to Native American heritage. That was supposed to rebut President Donald Trump's mocking of the Massachusetts senator as "Pocahontas," but only i...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Honest Company, known for its eco-friendly diapers, wipes and cleaning products, is back on the upswing after a series of stumbling blocks. The digital native company was founded by actress Jessica Alba in 2012. It attained unicorn status — when a privately held startup attains valuation of more than $1 billion — three years later. Its formula? Honest successfully built an online community of young parents looking for safe, affordable products for their children. It initially started out with diapers and wipes along with...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Four Jewish organizations and an Islamic school in Rhode Island are sharing a $150,000 grant to enhance security. The Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency says the federal grant money is available to nonprofits at high risk of a terrorist attack. The recipients are the Islamic School of Rhode Island in West Warwick; Chabad of West Bay in Warwick; Congregation Jeshuat Israel in Newport; Temple Emmanuel in Providence; and Temple Shalom in Middletown. They were selected from among a group of 17 applicants. Mirvat E...
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — The University of Wyoming has received a $15.8 million National Science Foundation grant that will provide weather instrumentation and other equipment for a new research aircraft the university plans to purchase. UW is the only academic institution in the United States that provides a research aircraft facility to the atmospheric science community. The UW Board of Trustees is asking the State Loan and Investment Board for a loan for up to $4.7 million for the purchase of the aircraft. The university's current King Air t...
PHOENIX - September 22, 2019 - ( Newswire.com ) Flex Technology Group (FTG) has recently opened 4 new offices to support their intensive growth initiatives. Expanding rapidly since its inception in 2015, FTG's portfolio of office technology companies now includes fifteen partner dealerships: FlexPrint, Laser Options, ProCopy, Cannon IV, Action Imaging Group, Caltronics, Infincom, Flo-Tech, Marimon, ONNYX, Century, Shamrock, OET, OESA, CBE, Millenium Business Systems, and Laser Technologies Service. FTG continues to grow nationally through M&A...
BOSTON (AP) — Michael Bivins, a founding member of the bands New Edition and Bell Biv Devoe, is turning his attention from music to sports. The Roxbury YMCA in Boston says Bivins has teamed up with Puma to sponsor a basketball league for kids ages 9 to 13. Every Saturday for 10 weeks, eight teams will compete in the league expected to draw 100 youths. Puma and Bivins' BivFam Foundation are covering all expenses. Bivins is a Boston native who still lives in the city and fondly remembers his own days playing youth basketball. In a statement f...
NEW YORK (AP) — Raise your tea cups! The big-screen encore of "Downton Abbey" handily (but very politely) thumped both Brad Pitt's "Ad Astra" and Sylvester Stallone's "Rambo: Last Blood" in theaters over the weekend in one of the more unlikely box-office upsets. "Downton Abbey" debuted with $31 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday, royally trumping the $19.2 million-opening for "Ad Astra" and the $19 million debut for "Rambo: Last Blood." Neither the draw of Pitt in space nor a bandanna-wearing Stallone could match the...
DENVER (AP) — Remember Ike the runaway llama who was on the lam in Yellowstone National Park for three months last year? He made his way out by following a strategically placed herd of llamas owned by Yellowstone Llamas, which rents out the pack animals to tourists. But he wasn't in the clear. On Tuesday, nearly 11 months after leaving the park, his new owner brought him to Fort Collins to take care of the cause of his escapades: A major toothache. "He wanted to get out of a situation that was painful," said Susi Hülsmeyer-Sinay, Ye...
Here are a few pictures taken by Desiree Malicoat and Trey Lunn during the Big Cruise and Car Show this weekend at Alva. It was wonderfully attended! Thanks All who came by and enjoyed the weekend here in Alva....
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State's potent offense gained 494 yards and was in position to score additional points on Saturday that could have led to a victory over No. 11 Texas, but several missed opportunities made the difference in a disappointing 36-30 defeat. Taking on No. 24 Kansas State this weekend at home, the Cowboys are focused on eliminating missed chances, such as the three times they got inside the red zone but wound up settling for two field goals. Oklahoma State (3-1, 0-1 Big 12) also tried a fake field goal that didn't w...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — If you listen to Lincoln Riley, you might think Oklahoma's running game is a mess. The Sooners coach often said the offensive line needs to improve and the ground attack is nowhere near where it should be. Something is working, though. Oklahoma ranks No. 2 nationally in rushing with 324.3 yards per game heading into its Big 12 opener Saturday against Texas Tech. Oklahoma's ground game has helped spark an offense that averages a nation-leading 676.7 yards. The sixth-ranked Sooners (3-0) are averaging 8.3 yards per carry, y...
WICHITA, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 23, 2019-- Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, today announced it has achieved Type Certification by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its innovative super-midsize jet, the Cessna Citation Longitude, paving the way for customer deliveries. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190923005468/en/ The clean-sheet design of the Longitude integrates the latest technology throughout the aircraft, including the...
EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — A prosecutor declined Monday to file criminal charges against police officers in an Oklahoma City suburb for the fatal shooting of a black teenager who was naked and unarmed. Edmond Police Department Officer Denton Scherman "was acting pursuant to Oklahoma statute" in an effort to protect himself and Sgt. Milo Box when Scherman fatally shot 17-year-old Isaiah Mark Lewis on April 29, Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater said Monday. Under state law, an officer is justified in the use of deadly force when the office...
ROCK ISLAND, Okla. (AP) — Authorities in eastern Oklahoma say a hearing-impaired woman has fatally shot an intruder inside her home near the Arkansas border. Le Flore County Sheriff Rob Seale said Monday the woman was uninjured when a man broke into her home about 5:30 p.m. Sunday in Rock Island, about 190 miles (306 kilometers) east of Oklahoma City. Seale says the woman yelled at the man to get out of the house and shot him once when he moved toward her. He says the woman did not know the man and had never seen him before. Deputies d...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a 4-year-old girl and two men have been wounded in a shooting at a Wichita home. KAKE-TV reports that shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. Sunday in the northeast part of the city. Police say an officer rushed the child to the hospital in a patrol vehicle before emergency crews arrived. She was initially in critical condition but now is listed as stable. Police say the men's injuries weren't life-threatening. Wichita Police Sgt. Paul Kimble says the three victims and a 21-year-old woman were in the house a...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The new interim president at the University of Oklahoma is condemning the use of blackface after a student's social media post showed a white man with a black substance painted on his face. OU President Joe Harroz said in a statement late Sunday that while wearing blackface is racist, free speech protections likely prohibit him from removing the student from campus. The university newspaper OU Daily reported that the student said he was wearing a charcoal face mask and had no racist intent. A group of black student l...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is reporting its second death from a vaping-related lung disease in less than two weeks. Gov. Laura Kelly announced Monday that a man over 50 has died. The state health department said it is not releasing the names, hometowns or other details about people who've died or become sick to protect their privacy. The state's first reported death related to e-cigarette use was a woman over 50 and reported Sept. 10. Kelly's office said both people who died had other underlying health issues. Seven other Kansas residents h...
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- September is Defeat Hunger Month and Feed the Children is working to help families and communities achieve stable lives, while providing food and resources to help them today. The nonprofit works 365 days a year to stamp out hunger and make a difference in the lives of children and families across the United States and in 10 countries around the world. You might be surprised to learn that in the U.S., one in every six children will struggle with hunger or food insecurity. But, did you know that...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas received a notice of allegations from the NCAA on Monday that alleges significant violations within its storied men's basketball program, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because neither the NCAA nor the school had announced the notice, which was first reported by Yahoo Sports. That initial report, citing unnamed sources, said the notice included three Level 1 violations tied primarily to recruiting, lack of institutional con...
