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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An attorney for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is seeking to delay the release of a video of Kobach being questioned in a federal voting-rights lawsuit to avoid hurting his campaign for governor. A court filing late Wednesday by Sue Becker draws an explicit link between stopping the video's release and Kobach's campaign as the Republican nominee for governor, The Wichita Eagle reported. Becker is general counsel for the secretary of state's office. The video was played during the trial of a lawsuit by the American C...
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors are calling for a man who kidnapped and raped a suburban Kansas City sheriff's deputy to serve more time in prison than what's called for in Kansas sentencing guidelines, saying he also raped another woman while her toddler was present. Johnson County prosecutors made their case Wednesday, alleging Brady Newman-Caddell, 23, is a dangerous sexual predator who poses a risk of committing future crimes, the Kansas City Star reported. Newman-Caddell pleaded guilty in May to charges of rape, aggravated sodomy and aggra...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — More than 70 Kansas religious leaders and community activists are asking the state's political candidates to stop vilifying immigrants. The Kansas City Star reports that interfaith leaders signed an open letter to candidates saying that immigrants in the country legally and illegally are vital parts of communities and contribute to the economy. Organizers said the letter will be sent this week to scores of Democrats and Republicans seeking state and federal offices. The group did not single out particular candidates. L...
JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says it has arrested the Geary County sheriff at his office. The agency said in a news release that 44-year-old Geary County Sheriff Anthony "Tony" Wolf was arrested Thursday morning. KBI says the sheriff was arrested for felony theft, for allegedly giving a county-owned firearm as a gift and for misusing public funds. He could not be reached for comment, and it is unclear whether he has a defense attorney yet. The charges stem from an investigation the KBI initiated in August. D...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas authorities are looking for an inmate who escaped from a work crew in Topeka. The Shawnee County Department of Corrections says 27-year-old Brian Andrew Worrell ran away Wednesday on his first day with that crew. Maj. Tim Phelps. Worrell told the Topeka Capital-Journal that Worrell is not thought to be an active threat to any member of the public. Worrell was part of a community work crew was helping with code compliance work. Worrell ran away when the crew supervisor began taking photos of the work. The remaining i...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A man and a woman have been arrested in the shooting of 4-year-old boy in an apparent road rage incident after one vehicle cut off another in a Kansas city. Wichita Police Chief Gordon Ramsay says the boy was shot in the stomach Wednesday evening and is in stable condition. The boy was one of six children inside a sport utility when someone in a silver Ford Mustang fired two shots just before 5 p.m. The Wichita Eagle reports that the Mustang took off after the shooting but was later stopped. Police said Thursday that a 2...
CHICAGO (AP) — Black women who have just given birth in Illinois are more likely to die from pregnancy-related issues within a year than non-Hispanic white women a new study finds. The Illinois Department of Public Health on Thursday released a study of statewide trends in maternal deaths. The study analyzed the cases of women who died between 2008 and 2016 while pregnant or within one year of pregnancy. Researchers found an average of 73 Illinois women died within one year of pregnancy. They also found black women are six times as likely to d...
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — In an otherwise innocuous part of Facebook's expansive Silicon Valley campus, a locked door bears a taped-on sign that reads "War Room." Behind the door lies a nerve center the social network has set up to combat fake accounts and bogus news stories ahead of upcoming elections. Inside the room are dozens of employees staring intently at their monitors while data streams across giant dashboards. On the walls are posters of the sort Facebook frequently uses to caution or exhort its employees. One reads, "Nothing at F...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Weeks before the 2016 election, federal officials started making mysterious calls to the head of elections in Inyo County, California. They asked her to contact them if she noticed anything unusual. But they wouldn't elaborate. "I asked them: 'How am I going to be able to protect against it if I don't know what it is?'" said the official, Kammi Foote. Now, Foote communicates regularly with federal officials. They came to her small county of about 10,000 registered voters to analyze the security of her ballot system. She p...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Winter looks wet and especially mild for much of the country, thanks to a weak El Nino brewing, U.S. meteorologists said. The National Weather Service on Thursday predicted a warmer than normal winter for the northern and western three-quarters of the nation. The greatest chance for warmer than normal winter weather is in Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, Montana, northern Wyoming and western North Dakota. No place in the United States is expected to be colder than normal, said Mike Halpert, deputy director of the government's C...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Space, that final frontier, is something that catches the attention of a country naturally inclined to believe in ideas like “Manifest Destiny” and American exceptionalism. But how well does a Space Force fit that bill? And would a Space Force reignite a military space race and fuel diplomatic tensions with China and Russia? Growing up in Florida, I was lucky enough to watch space shuttle launches with something t...
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — A Virginia store has had 20 right-foot shoes stolen over the course of three break-ins this year. The Roanoke Times reports Roanoke County police arrested 21-year-old Manuel Carlos Ramirez-Godoy in Sunday's burglary of Clean Soles, seizing seven right-foot Nike Air Jordans and a sweatshirt printed with "Call My Lawyer." Clean Soles operator Rob Wickham previously said he typically keeps right shoes on display, while their other halves rest behind the counter. A warrant says police had found a cash register behind the s...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska's no longer nice, at least in its next tourism campaign. The new sales pitch has a decidedly self-deprecating bent: "Nebraska. Honestly, it's not for everyone." The slogan, which the Nebraska Tourism Commission unveiled Wednesday at a Nebraska City conference, will replace the current "Through My Eyes" campaign this spring, commission marketing manager Jenn Gjerde said Thursday. State tourism director John Ricks told the Omaha World-Herald that because Nebraska consistently ranks as the least likely state t...
SEATTLE (AP) — Prior to his death on Monday, billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen invested large sums in technology ventures, research projects and philanthropy, some of it eclectic and highly speculative. What happens to those commitments now? Outside of bland assurances from his investment company, no one seems quite sure. Allen died in Seattle from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, according to his company Vulcan Inc. He was 65. He never married and had no children, and details of his estate aren't known. Forbes recently e...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump acknowledged Thursday it "certainly looks" as though missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead, and he threatened "very severe" consequences if the Saudis are found to have murdered him. His warning came as the administration toughened its response to a disappearance that has sparked global outrage. Before Trump spoke, the administration announced that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had pulled out of a major upcoming Saudi investment conference and a U.S. official said Secretary of State Mike P...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A former FBI agent in Minnesota who admitted leaking classified internal documents to a reporter was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison. Terry James Albury, 39, pleaded guilty in April to one count each of unauthorized disclosure of national defense information and unauthorized retention of national defense information. He appeared to cry in court and took several moments to compose himself as he read a statement before he was sentenced. "I truly wanted to make a difference and never intended to put anyone in dang...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A high-level meeting to lay out security plans for Afghanistan's upcoming parliamentary elections had just concluded when an elite Afghan guard turned his gun Thursday on the departing delegation in an attack that killed the powerful Kandahar police chief but missed the top U.S. commander in the country, Gen. Scott Miller. The audacious assassination strike, which killed at least one other senior Afghan official and was claimed by the Taliban, underscored the harrowing lack of security in Afghanistan just two days b...
The United States Constitution went into effect in 1789. It had been written several months earlier – in the summer of 1787 – and had been ratified by the states only after a vigorous campaign by its supporters to “sell” the document to the country’s white male voters. Many people were afraid of the government that the Constitution would create. Some thought the U.S. government would have so much power that the states would become insignificant. That, of course, did not happen. Others objected...
ALVA, Okla. – The Northwestern Oklahoma State men’s basketball team has been predicted to finish sixth in the 2018 Great American Conference preseason coaches poll that was released Thursday. The Rangers earned 78 points in the poll and came in with the only other first-place vote outside of Southern Nazarene. In a league expected to run deep with talent once again, only 14 points separated Northwestern from second-place Southeastern Oklahoma State (92 points), with Arkansas Tech (86), East Central (83), and Southern Arkansas (80) at the fro... Full story
Northwestern Oklahoma State University volleyball end their three-game road trip with a loss to the Crimson Storm of Southern Nazarene (14-14, 6-6 GAC) in three straight sets [25-27, 19-25, 23-25]. Northwestern and Southern Nazarene both came out strong in the first set as each battled back and forth, not allowing each other to gain control of the lead. Tied up at 20-20, the Storm then went up 21-24 on the Lady Rangers, but they would not go away so easily. The Black and Red tied it up yet again at 25-25; however, it would not be enough as an... Full story
The Alva Goldbugs kept fighting but took a hard loss against Oklahoma Christian School Thursday night in Edmond. The Goldbugs move to an 8-2 record for the season, and OCS is now 5-3. Alva went into the game with a disadvantage due to the loss of senior quarterback Mitchell Meyer with an injury. The Goldbugs also missed junior Reece Martin who was out with a bad ankle. Then they lost the power running of Dalton Hess in the second half after he sat out with a possible injury. OCS put the first... Full story
WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS – In the final race before the 2018 Great American Conference Championships, the East Central University men's and women's cross country teams both finished first at the 2018 Midwestern State Endurance House Stampede. The Tigers also saw senior Larry Filer and redshirt junior Anna Mora earn the individual titles in both races. Women' Performances RJr. Anna Mora: 18:18.0 (1st) Jr. Kelsey Horner: 19:15.2 (3rd) So. Kyleigh Norris: 19:36.4 (4th) RJr. Yvette Felix: 19:57.2 (6th) So. Katie Cowger: 20:05.5 (9th) Jr. Abbie W...
SHAWNEE, OKLA. – The East Central University volleyball team dropped a 3-0 (25-15, 25-13, 25-16) decision at Oklahoma Baptist in Great American Conference action. Scoring Set One: L, 15-25 Oklahoma Baptist led from start to finish Set Two: L, 13-25 One tie scores/one lead change Tie at one after ECU earned the first point OKBU then took control for good with a 4-0 run Set Three: L, 16-25 Three tie scores/two lead changes The Bison (14-14, 7-5 GAC) started on a 4-1 run The Tigers (0-24, 0-12 GAC) tied the set at eight, with a 7-4 run ECU led 9...
ADA – The East Central University soccer team dropped a 3-1 decision to Southern Nazarene in the first of three match in the next five days. Scoring 1st – 8:04 – ECU: Stephanie Wainscott (1), Allie Verner 2nd – 63:32 – SNU: Alejandra Andrade (1), Kelsi Bussert 2nd – 73:22 – SNU: Rebecca Moore (1), Kylee Payne 2nd – 76:19 – SNU: Kelsi Bussert (7), Natalie James Tiger Quick Shots The Tigers (3-11, 1-7 GAC) outshot the Crimson Storm (3-13, 2-8 GAC) 27-16 First half: 19-9 Shots were close to even in the second half (8-7) Jr. Stephanie Wainsco...
BOLIVAR, Mo. – Oklahoma Baptist posted its second consecutive win Thursday, besting Southwest Baptist 6-3. OBU's six goals represent a new season high, topping the four-goal outing earlier this week at Southern Nazarene. The Bison got on the board quickly with Dominic Gibson scoring in the fifth minute with an assist by Alejandro Castillo. Castillo got another assist in the ninth minute with Jonathan Martinez getting the goal. OBU went ahead 3-0 in the 27th minute when Jesus Andrade scored. Alec Young picked up the assist. SBU got its first g...
