Articles from the October 12, 2018 edition
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Stocks plunge again; Dow's two-day loss reaches 1,300 points
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks sank more than 2 percent Thursday, the second day of steep declines around the globe driven by concerns about rising interest rates and trade tensions that could slow economic growth. The Dow Jones Industrial Average f...
Facebook says it purged more than 800 spam accounts, pages
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook said it has purged more than 800 U.S. pages and accounts for spamming users with politically-tinged garbage links and clickbait just weeks ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. The banned accounts and Facebook sites e...
More cases potentially tainted by high lab worker tossed out
BOSTON (AP) — Thousands of additional drug cases tainted by a former chemist authorities say was high almost every day she worked at a state drug lab for eight years must be dismissed, Massachusetts' highest court ruled Thursday. The Supreme J...
DNA confirms a great white shark bit California boy
SAN DIEGO (AP) — DNA testing has revealed the shark that attacked a 13-year-old boy last month off a Southern California shore was a great white, according to a report. Scientists gathered the shark's DNA by swabbing the wet suit Keane Webre-Hayes w...
US, Russian astronauts land safely after rocket failure
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — The problem came two minutes into the flight: The rocket carrying an American and a Russian to the International Space Station failed Thursday, triggering an emergency that sent their capsule into a steep, harrowing f...
NASA film by Rory Kennedy revisits her uncle's challenge
NEW YORK (AP) — Filmmaker Rory Kennedy couldn't resist the obvious place to open her new documentary on NASA. That's a news clip of her uncle, President John F. Kennedy, challenging the space agency to land a man on the moon by the end of the 1...
Russia's launch failures affect manned, unmanned spacecraft
MOSCOW (AP) — The booster rocket failure that forced an emergency landing for two astronauts headed to the International Space Station was the first launch accident for Russia's manned-space program in 35 years. But several launches of unmanned P...
West Texas an 'extraction colony' as oil, gas exports surge
MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — Drilling booms have come and gone in this oil town for nearly a century. But the frenzy gripping it now is different. Overwhelming. Drilling rigs tower over suburban backyards. There's a housing crunch so severe that rents a...
Giant mosquitoes flourish in floodwaters that hurricanes leave behind
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) After Hurricane Florence, reports started rolling in of “giant mosquito” sightings – and bitings – through...
Giant hammer artwork stolen in Northern California
HEALDSBURG, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in Northern California are looking for a hammer. A really, really big one. The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat says police in Healdsburg in California's wine country are looking for an enormous artwork that vanished o...
Help stamp out breast cancer
WASHINGTON – October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is reminding customers they can help fund the cause by purchasing the Breast Cancer Research Stamp. These 6...
Katrina Henning talks about Madagascar Peace Corps experience
Northwestern Oklahoma State University alumna Katrina Henning recently returned to the United States after serving two years in the Peace Corps in Madagascar. The 2016 graduate recently shared a littl...
Oklahoma Veterans Affairs to build new center
ARDMORE, Okla. (AP) — The state Department of Veterans Affairs plans to build a new veterans center in southern Oklahoma. The agency announced on Wednesday that a new Ardmore facility will replace the city's existing center, The Oklahoman reported ....
Oklahoma murderer is denied appeal in razor attack on lawyer
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma man serving three life prison terms in the murders of two girls and his fiancee has lost an appeal of his conviction on a separate assault charge. Kevin Sweat attacked his attorney, Peter Astor, with a razor blade i...
Sooners' loss leaves Big 12 looking like playoff outsiders
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Oklahoma's chances of reaching college football's playoff may have been washed down the Red River last weekend, and there is a good chance the Big 12's championship aspirations went right with them. The Sooners were the c...
Man arrested in hit-and-run that killed 2 students
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Overland Park police have arrested a suspect in a hit-and-run collision that killed two students. The Kansas City Star reports the 45-year-old Olathe man was arrested Thursday and booked into the Johnson County jail on s...
Longtime Kansas city clerk charged with embezzlement
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A retired city clerk has been charged with embezzling more than $36,500 from the Kansas town where she worked for nearly 40 years. U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister announced an indictment Thursday that accused 69-year-old C...
Wichita school warns of stalled trains endangering students
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita school's officials are raising concerns about trains stalling for long periods of time on nearby tracks, which is leading students to crawl under boxcars and across the couplings to get home. Hamilton Middle School P...
2 men sentenced for fatal shooting at Lawrence motel
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Two friends who were convicted of a fatal shooting at a Lawrence motel will serve different sentences. Twenty-year-old Tyrone Carvin was sentenced Wednesday to more than 23 years in prison, while 23-year-old Ramone Singleton w...
APNewsBreak: Army expelled 500 immigrant recruits in 1 year
Over the course of 12 months, the U.S. Army discharged more than 500 immigrant enlistees who were recruited across the globe for their language or medical skills and promised a fast track to citizenship in exchange for their service, The Associated P...
DA drops a Weinstein charge amid detective, witness concerns
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in New York City abandoned part of their sexual assault case against Harvey Weinstein on Thursday after evidence surfaced that a lead police detective coached a witness to keep quiet when she raised doubts about the v...
'Unimaginable destruction': Hurricane smashes rows of houses
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — The devastation inflicted by Hurricane Michael came into focus Thursday with rows upon rows of homes found smashed to pieces, and rescue crews began making their way into the stricken areas in hopes of accounting for h...
In black neighborhoods, Trump's economic boasts ring hollow
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — It's one of President Donald Trump's favorite talking points in promoting his administration's success: the record low rate of black unemployment. But on a recent sunny afternoon in Vernon Park in Philadelphia's Germantown n...
GOP, home to Trump and Tea Party, decries Dems' mob rule
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans are forecasting nightmarish Democratic "mob rule" to amp up GOP voters for next month's critical midterm elections, flipping the script from complaints that it's Trump and the Tea P...
