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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-year-old girl and her 24-year-old mother inside a Jeep that had crashed into an unoccupied van in the parking lot of a strip mall in Wichita. Both had multiple stab wounds, and the girl was pronounced dead at the hospital. Her bleeding 4-year-old sister was found shortly after 8 a.m. several miles a...
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 during the mill's Ciderfest in late September and early October. Mill president Josh Hebert told The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/2fCOUlw ) that state and federal investigators tested manufactured products, processing equipment and some retail items at the mill and all the samples came back n...
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 ) reports. He also wanted to be the largest sheep producer in the state. Today, Hubbard is the unit manager of Kansas State University's Sheep and Meat Goat Center and a farmer in Olsburg. "It's kind of neat to look back and see that I'm somewhat making those goals a reality," Hubbard said. After g...
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. Marcus J. Willis, a former dancer with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, walked to the center of the room, and the high school dancers who had been lost in familiar music hurried to surround Willis for his instruction, The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/2ffOGgo ) reported. One, two, three, four, Willis c...
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 time, Johnson fell in all five races, the Southeast Missourian (http://bit.ly/2ffNKbZ ) reported. At a meet hosted by Kelly on a flat course in Benton, Missouri, she tripped twice over a tree branch. She kept getting back up and finishing the race, but it was discouraging at times. "There was a time w...
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 night lights. The offense looks in good shape as a speedy receiver grabs a short pass in the middle of the field, darts to his right, and then outruns a defender to the end zone. "I'm too fast for him, dude!" he yells. When he turns back toward his teammates, you can see his smile. And behind him, t...
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 nation, the Minnesota Daily (http://bit.ly/2fjVwBt ) reported. In the last five years, Ernst estimates he has spent more than 5,000 hours training, but for a sport deemed unconventional by most. Ernst is part of the growing e-sports community on campus; he's a solo midlane player for the League of L...
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's in our DNA. But so is the concept of civility in public discourse, which sprang from the colonists' initial rough-and-tumble approach to nation-building. Steven Bullock, a professor of humanities at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the author of a new book, "Tea Sets and Tyranny: The Politics of...
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, Boost Mobile and MetroPCS now offer prepaid unlimited data at bargain prices. But most smartphone users would be wise not to take the bait. Why? "Most individual customers don't need unlimited data," says Tammy Parker, a senior analyst for Current Analysis, a telecommunications research firm. "That...
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 farming is sprouting up in the largely Inupiat community of Kotzebue. A subsidiary of a local Native corporation is using hydroponics technology to grow produce inside an insulated, 40-foot shipping container equipped with glowing magenta LED lights. Arctic Greens is harvesting kale, various l...
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 beef to Israel since a 13-year ban was lifted earlier this year. WR Reserve is the only American kosher beef processing plant approved by the Israeli government. Reserve manager Fischel Ziegelheim says shipments will start with 200 head of Angus cattle a week. He says that with this production a...
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 embraced the need for agricultural education. "It's an aspect of our area that we have really overlooked," said Ag Coordinator Cyndy Keeling. The agriscience program was adopted last year and teachers were trained. Nineteen science teachers in the middle schools were trained in the new agriscience p...
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 are outraged with the proposal to increase from 15 to 34 the number of states that could use Enlist Duo, saying the EPA sought court authority last year to withdraw approval of the weed killer. An EPA spokeswoman took issue with that characterization, saying in an email Thursday that the agency had "...
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 was in the White House. Crowther, who has reached the fashionable age of 19 some 115 years after the close of the Victorian era, is a 19th century-style purist who has just launched her own business, "Frozen in Time Clothing Co." She offers meticulously accurate clothes, mostly for women, but some for m...
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 of emotional distress and other violations in the lawsuit filed in Suffolk Superior Court in Massachusetts. The suit names the university and five administrators as defendants and seeks unspecified punitive damages. The Associated Press doesn't typically name people who say they are victims of sexual a...
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 continue to oppose the project. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports (http://bit.ly/2fp45Ke) that the staffers made the recommendation in a report issued this week. If the commission agrees, it could allow the project to go forward without a more detailed, time-consuming environmental impact study. The Ten...
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 company Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday that 450 rigs sought oil and 117 explored for natural gas this week. Two were listed as miscellaneous. Among major oil- and gas-producing states, Texas gained six rigs, Oklahoma was up three, Louisiana and North Dakota increased by two each and Colorado added o...
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, 96 countries, accounting for just over two-thirds of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, have formally joined the accord, which seeks to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). More countries are expected to come aboard in the coming weeks and months. Secretary Gen...
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 warming gases. It means the world has moved a little closer to fixing what scientists say is the root cause of the world's rising temperatures. But only a little. In the Paris Agreement, countries agreed to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and do their best to keep it bel...
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 company said. Colonial Pipeline Co. said the digging began Wednesday night at the site, located about 25 miles southwest of Birmingham, Alabama. The remaining small fire eventually will be extinguished and any remaining fuel will be drained, a company statement said. The large pipeline, which t...
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 percent in afternoon trading. The natural gas company lost $1.16 billion, or $1.54 per share, compared with a hefty loss of $4.7 billion, or $7.08 per share a year prior. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and asset impairment costs, came to 9 cents per share. The results topped Wall Street e...
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 faster than wages and inflation, eating away at our ability to pay for other things we want (beer, televisions, vacations) or need (rent, heat, food). Does it have to be this way? Why does health care grow so much faster than almost any other spending category so consistently? And will it ever s...
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 by doing art," she said. In 1987, Silverberg came to Topeka seeking treatment at the Menninger Clinic. Battling depression has led her to three court-committed stays at psychiatric facilities. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2eY87Kb ) reports that at one point, Silverberg drove to I...
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 released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests the 2010 law may be reaching a limit to its effectiveness. The CDC said the number of uninsured people dipped by only 200,000 between 2015 and the first six months of this year, which it called "a nonsignificant difference." T...
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 justices denied a petition to rehear the ruling, which blocked state officials from counting any votes cast for the proposal, known as Issue 7. The court last week ruled the campaign behind the measure did not follow state law regarding paid canvassers. The court, which rarely grants requests to rehear c...
