Articles from the November 22, 2020 edition
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School accountability measures up in the air amid pandemic
PHOENIX (AP) — The coronavirus outbreak prompted the Arizona Legislature to cancel statewide standard tests and skip assigning new A-F grades to schools for the 2019-2020 school year. But what about the current school year? It's not yet clear w...
Oklahoma virus hospitalizations top 1,500, 3,663 more cases
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The number of people hospitalized in Oklahoma with the coronavirus surpassed 1,500 on Saturday and the number of reported cases increased by 3,663, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health. The department reported 1...
By Experts: Officials failed Kansas student twice in rape case
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Nearly a year after Douglas County prosecutors dismissed false report charges against a KU law student who said she'd been raped by a classmate, a lawsuit and experts say Title IX investigators at the university doubled down o...
How ecotourism can help west Alabama take flight
NEWBERN, Ala. (AP) — You can hear the excitement in Christopher Joe's voice as he begins to tell you about the birds. There are egrets, wood storks and great blue herons around the pond on the eastern side of his family farm. In the property's h...
Kansas to launch pro-mask campaign but faces skepticism
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is preparing to launch a media campaign aimed at getting more of its residents to wear masks so that the coronavirus doesn't keep spreading rapidly, though some officials are skeptical that it will move the needle much. The...
Retailers brace as virus bears down on consumers and economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — LaTonya Story is every retailer's worst fear. With the viral pandemic re-surging through the country and the economy under threat, Story has decided to slash her holiday shopping budget. She'll spend less than $2,000 this season, d...
Trump team requests recount of Georgia's presidential race
President Donald Trump's campaign requested a recount of votes in the Georgia presidential race on Saturday, a day after state officials certified results showing Democrat Joe Biden won the state, as his legal team presses forward with attacks...
Georgia Cancer Center offers skin cancer screenings on phone
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Dr. Loretta Davis takes the device attached to her iPhone and presses it against a sunspot on the wrist of Dr. Jorge Cortes, the director of the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University. After glancing at the sharp image it s...
White House Rose Garden adds Japanese American's sculpture
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House Rose Garden has a new addition, but it isn't a floral variety. Melania Trump announced Friday that artwork by Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi has been installed on the east terrace of the famous garden, w...
Dylan papers, including unpublished lyrics, sell for $495K
BOSTON (AP) — A long-lost trove of Bob Dylan documents including the singer-songwriter's musings about anti-Semitism and unpublished song lyrics has sold at auction for a total of $495,000. Boston-based R.R. Auction said Friday the collection p...
The show goes on at Madrid´s opera house despite pandemic
MADRID (AP) — No one performing onstage in Spain's Teatro Real opera house is masked, and that alone looks odd these days amid a pandemic. And that's even before the second act scene in Antonín Dvořák's "Rusalka" — about a water nymph who falls...
Takeaways: Playing through pandemic predictably frustrating
The college football Saturday started with another game being postponed, the 18th of the week, and a dispute between Clemson and Florida State. Clemson wanted to play, even though it brought a player to Tallahassee who ended up testing positive on...
Family that got virus warns public to spend holidays at home
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Arlington is using one family's brush with the coronavirus as a warning to others who might be considering big get-togethers this Thanksgiving. Alexa Aragonez told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that her family weighed the risks...
Advocate worries over New Mexico utility's growing power
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — In a fight that was already lopsided, the Goliath could be getting steroids. At least that's what Mariel Nanasi, executive director of the nonprofit New Energy Economy, fears is possible with major changes coming for the New M...
Man arrested in deadly attack at Nebraska Sonic restaurant
BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities arrested a 23-year-old man in an attack at a Nebraska fast food restaurant in which two people were shot and killed, two were wounded and officers responding to a report of a possible bomb inside a moving truck in t...
Ga. Salvation Army bell ringer thwarts charity bucket theft
ALBANY, Ga. (AP) — A Salvation Army volunteer in southwest Georgia says he couldn't bear to stand aside after thieves snatched his donation bucket. Instead, 65-year-old Larry Adams sprang into action when someone grabbed his bucket outside the A...
Pandemic forcing some Arkansas school districts to adjust
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic is forcing some school districts in Arkansas to adjust their operations and consider possibly switching to virtual instruction. Bryant Public Schools is seeing an increase in the number of positive c...
Oklahoma reports 3,406 new COVID-19 cases, 10 new deaths
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The number of reported cases of the coronavirus increased by 3,406 and the number of deaths from the virus increased by 10, the Oklahoma State Department of Health reported on Sunday. The department reported that 1,446 people w...
Toppled Civil War statue at Colorado Capitol to be replaced
DENVER (AP) — The Civil War statue toppled by protesters outside the Colorado state Capitol over the summer will be replaced by a sculpture of a Native American woman mourning the atrocities of the Sand Creek Massacre. The Capitol Building A...
Omaha neighbors take advantage of restored park
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — On one of this month's unseasonably mild afternoons, laughter and giggles filled the playground at North Omaha's Miller Park. Children ran from slides to swings and on to something else as parents and grandparents watched from p...
Tucson zoo prepares to start next phase of expansion
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Tucson's Reid Park Zoo is taking the next steps in an ambitious decade-long, $80 million expansion plan. The zoo is adding more acres this spring to accommodate a bigger tiger habitat, an aviary and other improvements, the A...
Analysis: Edwards embraced veto pen for La. special session
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards liberally used his veto pen for the majority-Republican Legislature's latest special session, striking down 15% of the measures that reached his desk in another indication of sharp disagreements over h...
Forest Service allows Christmas tree cutting with permit
RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — Vermonters who want to cut down their own Christmas trees can do so in the Green Mountain National Forest with a $5 permit. Permits will be available to buy online with a $2.50 service fee or in-person at a Green Mountain N...
In Wisconsin recount, Trump challenges pile up, slow tally
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin recount observer Ardis Cerny stretched her neck as far as she could toward a Plexiglas divider separating her from two vote counters, eagle-eyeing them as they scrutinized ballot papers one by one. When one tabulator t...
For rookie Thanksgiving cooks, expert tips to avoid disaster
NEW YORK (AP) — After Christopher Hughey tweeted that he's tackling his first Thanksgiving turkey this year, the advice started rolling in. Brine it. Don't bother. Try "spatchcocking" -- grilling the bird split open. Remember to turn on the oven, and...
