Articles from the November 4, 2016 edition
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Police: Wichita stabbings leave 1 girl dead, 2 others hurt
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita police are trying to piece together the how and why behind stabbings Friday that left one girl dead and her younger sister and mother critically injured. Police responding to an accident call before 7 a.m. found the 6...
Louisburg mill: business not source of E. coli outbreak
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The president and general manager of the Louisburg Cider Mill says products made at the mill are not the source of an E. coli outbreak. State health investigators have confirmed seven cases of E. coli that may have originated d...
By Man manages Kansas State University's sheep
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Joseph Hubbard's farming dreams were more than just counting sheep. While he was in high school, Hubbard set his sights on becoming the sheep and goat specialist of Kansas, The Manhattan Mercury (http://bit.ly/2f6MHO0 ) r...
Kansas City students learn moves from professional dancer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The rhythmic crack and pop of Brazilian drums filled a classroom at the Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts, and students dressed in dance attire began to sway, shimmy and tap their feet against the hardwood floor. M...
Cerebral palsy doesn't stop Oak Ridge student from running
OAK RIDGE, Mo. (AP) — Having cerebral palsy doesn't mean Alexis Johnson is the only cross country runner that falls during a race. It just makes it more likely to occur. So much so that as a seventh-grader at Oak Ridge competing for the first t...
Incarcerated Texas teens turn to gridiron to help find path
GAINESVILLE, Texas (AP) — On a sunny Tuesday afternoon, the Tornadoes are like thousands of other Texas high school football players. They're out on a practice field, trying to get better, trying to be ready for their next moment under the Friday n...
E-sports gain popularity at University of Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — At the University of Minnesota, Nathan Ernst's sports regimen bears resemblance to other college athletes. His team practices four times a week, coaches review play-by-play tapes and he scrimmages with other groups around the n...
Q&A: Can America relearn civility from its founding fathers?
BOSTON (AP) — Think back to America's founding fathers, and you'd be forgiven for imagining plenty of prudence and self-restraint. You'd be wrong: A lot of riotous rhetoric sprang from those stiff upper lips. Political bombast is nothing new — it'...
Break through the hype of unlimited data plans
Cellphone carriers are going all in on unlimited data. T-Mobile ditched its data packages in favor of a single unlimited plan. Sprint slashed the price of its own unlimited plan, making it one of the carrier's cheapest options. And Cricket Wireless,...
Arctic farming: Town defies icy conditions with hydroponics
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The landscape is virtually treeless around a coastal hub town above Alaska's Arctic Circle, where even summer temperatures are too cold for boreal roots to take hold. Amid these unforgiving conditions, a creative kind of f...
Nebraska company to renew American beef exports to Israel
HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska company is the first in the United States to send beef to Israel in more than a decade. Nebraska officials gathered in Hastings Thursday to congratulate WR Reserve, which is sending the first shipment of American b...
Elkhart schools looking to expand new agriscience program
ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — Big plans are in the works for the newly developed agriscience department in the Elkhart Community Schools. With Elkhart County standing as the second-largest agricultural county in Indiana, Elkhart schools staff members have e...
EPA proposes expanded use of new herbicide, Enlist Duo
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed more than doubling the number of states allowed to use a new version of a popular weed killer on genetically modified crops despite its earlier concerns. Environmentalists a...
Forsyth woman creates historic clothing
FORSYTH, Ill. (AP) — A stitch in time is Rachel Crowther's stock-in-trade. The Forsyth woman is a walking fashion encyclopedia, her mind wrapped in the latest trends quickening the discerning shopper's pulse back in the day when Abraham Lincoln w...
Student says Northeastern mishandled sex assault complaint
BOSTON (AP) — A Northeastern University student who says she was raped on campus after a 2013 Halloween party alleges in a lawsuit that the school mishandled her case. Morgan Helfman alleges negligence, breach of contract, intentional infliction o...
Report: Pipeline wouldn't cause major environmental problems
DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staffers say a proposed natural gas pipeline that runs through Kentucky would not have a significant environmental impact — but people concerned about potential environmental problems con...
US rig count up 12 this week to 569; Texas gains 6
HOUSTON (AP) — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by 12 this week to 569. A year ago, 771 rigs were active. Depressed energy prices have sharply curtailed oil and gas exploration. Houston oilfield services c...
Paris climate change deal becomes international law
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Paris Agreement to combat climate change became international law on Friday — a landmark deal about tackling global warming amid growing fears that the world is becoming hotter even faster than scientists expected. So far...
Paris climate deal enters force ahead of schedule. Now what?
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Paris Agreement on climate change enters into force Friday — faster than anyone had anticipated — after a year with remarkable success in international efforts to slash man-made emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warmin...
Company: 'Substantial progress' on digging blasted gas line
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Workers have made "substantial progress" excavating a pipeline that exploded and burned in central Alabama earlier this week, killing one person and injuring five, even though a small fire continued Thursday, the pipeline c...
Chesapeake narrows 3Q loss and tops expectations
NEW YORK (AP) — Chesapeake Energy Corp. on Thursday reported a narrower loss during its third quarter as lower costs helped ease the ongoing impact of low commodity prices. The results topped Wall Street expectations and sent shares up more than 3 p...
Why health care eats more of your paycheck every year
Millions of Americans are finding out this month that the price of their health insurance is going up next year — as it did this year, last year, and most of the years before that. And it's not just that the price is going up, it's that it goes up f...
Topeka woman finds art to be therapeutic for mental illness
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Art has been an invaluable outlet in Laura Silverberg's fight against mental illness. Jewelry making, painting and collaging have helped Silverberg become more patient and feel a sense of pride in her creations. "I have grown b...
CDC: Progress reducing uninsured rate threatens to stall
WASHINGTON (AP) — With deep divisions over President Barack Obama's health care law reappearing in the election's final days, a government report shows that progress in reducing the number of uninsured Americans has slowed to a crawl. The study r...
Arkansas court won't reconsider ruling on medical marijuana
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Supreme Court said Thursday that it won't reconsider its decision last week to disqualify a medical marijuana proposal from the ballot after thousands of people had already voted. In a 5-2 decision, the j...
