Articles from the December 2, 2018 edition
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Police seek couple who lost engagement ring in Times Square
NEW YORK (AP) — Police have an urgent message for the couple who lost their engagement ring in Times Square: We have the ring. The New York Police Department says a man was proposing to his girlfriend just before midnight Friday when he dropped t...
Royal Mail delivers: Postman, can you take this to heaven?
LONDON (AP) — A 7-year-old Scottish boy who sent a birthday card to his father in heaven has received a heart-warming reply. A Royal Mail official responded to Jase Hyndman after seeing the card addressed: "Mr. Postman, Can you take this to heaven f...
By US, China reach 90-day ceasefire in their trade dispute
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The United States and China reached a 90-day ceasefire in a trade dispute that has rattled financial markets and threatened world economic growth. The breakthrough came after a dinner meeting Saturday between P...
Trump sets aside political differences in honoring Bush
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Donald Trump, the disruptive, anti-establishment president who spent years deriding much of what George H.W. Bush stood for, set aside differences in politics and temperament Saturday to honor the late president. T...
Bush hailed across party and global lines as man of decency
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush is returning to Washington as a revered political statesman, hailed by leaders across the political spectrum and around the world as a man not only of greatness but also of uncommon decency and k...
From Bush to Clinton, a grace note for the ages
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a grace note for the ages. "Dear Bill," George H.W. Bush scribbled Jan. 20, 1993, to the Democrat about to succeed him as president. "When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I...
Calls for justice during funeral of black man killed at mall
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson delivered the eulogy Saturday for an African-American man shot to death by a police officer following a shooting at a crowded Alabama shopping mall. Jackson said the Hoover police officer who shot E...
Worst riot in a decade engulfs Paris; Macron vows action
PARIS (AP) — France's most violent urban riot in more than a decade engulfed some of central Paris on Saturday as "yellow jacket" activists torched cars, smashed windows, looted stores and tagged the Arc de Triomphe with multi-colored graffiti. P...
George H.W. Bush dies at 94; made greatest mark in Gulf War
HOUSTON (AP) — He was the man who sought a "kinder, and gentler nation," and the one who sternly invited Americans to read his lips — he would not raise taxes. He was the popular leader of a mighty coalition that dislodged Iraq from Kuwait, and was t...
G-20 agrees on trade, migration, US goes own way on climate
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Leaders of the world's top economies agreed Saturday to repair the global trading system as they closed a Group of 20 summit that saw the Trump administration at odds with many allies over the Paris accord on climate c...
Ukraine cites massive buildup of Russian forces along border
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia is building up its land forces and weapons along the border, Ukraine's president said Saturday as German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Russia not to block Ukrainian ports in the Sea of Azov. Tensions between Russia and U...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's thin grasp of trade, science policy
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump floated the idea this past week of using tariffs to make America rich, as if these taxes are a pipeline of cash from Asia, which they're not. He displayed a slippery grasp of science as well as trade policy a...
Rural Iowa schools look to innovate as enrollment declines
ANDREW, Iowa (AP) — Tristan Sikkema starts his day at Andrew (Iowa) Elementary School. As a physical education teacher, the Andrew native plays games with the students to get them physically active. At about 10:30 a.m., Sikkema packs up and drives s...
Whale songs and war: The less talked-about climate impacts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Near Antarctica, whales are singing in deeper tones to cut through the noise of melting icebergs. In California, a big college football rivalry game was postponed until Saturday because of smoky air from wildfires. And Alaskan s...
Bob Stoops Returns to Announce the Paycom Jim Thorpe Award Winner
OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 3, 2018--College football’s top defensive backs will learn Thursday night who among them will take home the coveted Paycom Jim Thorpe Award. Presenting the award on behalf of the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame (...
Oklahoma Insurance Department Staff Shows Commitment to Professional Development
OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID) is one of the most highly trained insurance departments in the country. Under the leadership of Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak, employees have earned a total of...
US Marshals offer $5K to help catch Oklahoma fugitive inmate
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of a man convicted of murder who escaped from an Oklahoma jail. Federal marshals said Monday that they have joined state and l...
Oklahoma wheat crop continues to shrink
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Farmers in Oklahoma are producing less wheat because of a global surplus, low prices and the weather, turning instead to cotton, soybean and corn, according to state and federal agricultural officials. Figures from the U.S. Depart...
Remains of unaccounted for Oklahoma WWII sailor identified
GARBER, Okla. (AP) — The remains of a U.S. sailor from Oklahoma unaccounted for since the battleship USS Oklahoma was sunk at Pearl Harbor almost 77 years ago have been identified. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Monday that the r...
Oklahoma State RB Justice Hill to enter NFL draft
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State running back Justice Hill will skip his senior season and enter the 2019 NFL draft. Coach Mike Gundy announced Monday that Hill will not play against Missouri in the Liberty Bowl on Dec. 31. Hill made his a...
