Articles from the October 31, 2018 edition
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Virginia man indicted in Missouri in $5M romance fraud
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Virginia man has been charged with swindling women in the Kansas City area and across the country out of more than $5 million in a romance fraud scheme. The Kansas City Star reports that federal grand jurors in Kansas C...
Colorado Supreme Court creates guidelines for frozen embryos
DENVER (AP) — A recent ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court creates guidelines on what divorced spouses should do with their frozen embryos if the former couples are unable to come to an agreement. The ruling issued Monday said courts must attempt t...
New Mexico agency: 30 residents diagnosed with salmonella
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — State health officials say 30 New Mexico residents have been identified as being diagnosed with salmonella after preparing raw ground beef at home since late August. The Department of Health said Tuesday the illness duration a...
Arkansas health officials confirm outbreak at cancer center
PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Department of Health has confirmed that 52 patients recently treated at Arkansas Cancer Institute have tested positive for a previously unknown bacterial infection, and more than 100 others are at risk. Three p...
Front Range again fails to meet healthy air standards
DENVER (AP) — Monitoring results by Colorado's Air Pollution Control Division show air quality in Denver and the northern Front Range has worsened and the region missed an extended deadline to meet federal health standards. The Colorado Sun r...
By Halloween can be deadly for pedestrians, traffic study says
Trick-or-treaters beware: Halloween can be deadly for pedestrians and children face the greatest danger. Research published Tuesday found a 43 percent higher risk of pedestrian deaths on Halloween night than on other nights near that date. The study...
Google spinoff to test truly driverless cars in California
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The robotic car company created by Google is poised to attempt a major technological leap in California, where its vehicles will hit the roads without a human on hand to take control in emergencies. The regulatory approval a...
Chinese intelligence officers charged in US aviation hacking
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal prosecutors say Chinese intelligence officers and hackers working for them have been charged with commercial espionage that included trying to steal information on commercial jet engines. Prosecutors say the indictments a...
For Jewish journalists, online harassment goes with the job
NEW YORK (AP) — For many Jewish journalists in the U.S., persistent online anti-Semitic harassment has become part of the job. The phenomenon became pervasive during the 2016 presidential campaign, and there's been a resurgence in recent months a...
Officers searching waterways for Illinois professor, husband
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Officers were searching rural Illinois waterways Tuesday for the bodies of a college professor and her husband a day after charging the couple's 21-year-old son in their deaths. Crews were focused on streams near the Henry C...
Missouri governor signs bill on high school computer science
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has signed a bill to allow high schoolers to apply a computer science credit toward math, science or practical art credits needed for graduation. Parson signed the bill Tuesday. It takes effect i...
US troops deployed at the border limited in what they can do
PHOENIX (AP) — The more than 5,200 active-duty troops being sent by President Donald Trump to the U.S.-Mexico border will be limited in what they can do under a federal law that restricts the military from engaging in law enforcement on American s...
Florida man sues Tesla over autopilot feature, crash
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man says the autopilot feature of his Tesla vehicle failed to detect a disabled car on a highway, leading to a collision that left him with permanent injuries, according to a negligence lawsuit filed Tuesday. Shawn Huds...
About 1,000 brooding octopuses found off California coast
MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — Scientists exploring the sea floor off the coast of central California for deep-water coral and sponges instead found an unprecedented sight: Hundreds of octopuses tucked between rocks with their tentacles inverted and coverin...
Kepler telescope dead after finding thousands of worlds
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary. Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope's demise Tuesday. Already well past its expected lifetime, the 9...
Spy chief wanted ban on China telecoms from Australian 5G
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's critical infrastructure including electricity grids, water supplies and hospitals could not have been adequately safeguarded if Chinese-owned telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE Corp. were allowed to h...
Indian couple who died in Yosemite took risks for photos
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — She was a self-described "adrenaline junkie," and he took "wow-worthy photos" of the couple posing at the edge of cliffs and jumping from planes that appeared on social media and a travel blog that attracted thousands of f...
AP Explains: How US birthright citizenship emerged, endured
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants to end a constitutional right that automatically grants citizenship to any baby born in the United States. Trump, in an interview with "Axios on HBO," said his goal is halting g...
Trumps pay tribute at synagogue where 11 were fatally shot
PITTSBURGH (AP) — One stone and one white rosebud for each victim. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump paid homage Tuesday to each of the 11 people slain in the worst instance of anti-Semitic violence in American history. As the T...
'I'm going to die': Survivors relive horrors at Tree of Life
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Up in the choir loft, alone, Rabbi Jeffrey Myers whispered to a 911 dispatcher on his cellphone. Below him, down in the sanctuary, eight of his congregants had been felled by a gunman's bullets. Up here, though, Myers couldn't see t...
Guitarist Jimmy Page looks back at 50 years of Led Zeppelin
CORONA, Calif. (AP) — Jimmy Page once painted a dragon, and used it to slay. The guitar guru was so bursting with creative inspiration 50 years ago that he felt compelled to pick up a brush and use his skills from art school to take poster paints to...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump off track on birthright citizenship
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has astonished legal scholars with his claim that he can end birthright citizenship with a swipe of his pen. No, they say, he can't. Trump also went far off track in asserting that the U.S. is the only c...
Amid global uproar, some US colleges rethink Saudi ties
BOSTON (AP) — U.S. colleges and universities have received more than $350 million from the Saudi government this decade, yet some are rethinking their arrangements in the wake of the killing of a journalist that has ignited a global uproar against t...
Progress? Gridlock? How midterm vote could affect US economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has warned that if Democrats regain political power in the midterm elections, the U.S. economy would essentially implode. Democrats, he insists, would push tax hikes and environmental restrictions that s...
A look at the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he wants to order the end of the constitutional right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born in the United States. Section 1, which contains the Citizenship Clause, o...
