By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Oklahoma State lost at least eight starters among the 18 players who went into the transfer portal since last season. The Cowboys also added 14 players from the portal. “I attribute it to the times,” coach Mike Gundy said Wednesday at Big 12 football media
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Miracle and Jason Kravarik, CNN (CNN) — The planned demolition of the house where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death last year will be delayed until October, officials at the university said Wednesday. The university in Moscow was given the three-story home on King Road earlier this year by its
Continue ReadingSabrina Clay, CNN (CNN) — Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is facing a civil rights investigation into how Black women giving birth are treated in its hospital. “Maternal health is a priority for the Biden-Harris Administration and one in which the HHS Office for Civil Rights is working on around the country to ensure
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By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Interior Department official who has played a key role in negotiations over the shrinking Colorado River will leave her job next month. Tanya Trujillo tells The Associated Press that she informed the agency of her plans to resign six weeks ago and
Continue Reading By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Millions of people around the Southwest are living through a historic heat wave. Even the heat-experienced desert city of Phoenix is being tested Wednesday as temperatures there hit 110 degrees Fahrenheit for more than a dozen consecutive days. Phoenix is currently America’s hottest large city with temperatures
Continue Reading By GISELA SALOMON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A hamburger and drink combination called the Lionel Messi. A huge sketch of the soccer star’s smiling face on a restaurant wall beside a viral meme from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. A beer with a pink label matching the color of the Inter Miami jersey
Continue Reading By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to bolster his country’s nuclear fighting capabilities as he supervised the country’s second test-flight of a new intercontinental ballistic missile designed to strike the mainland U.S. North Korea’s state media on Thursday disclosed Kim’s comments, after confirming
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has lashed out on social media against the U.S. Justice Department after it stopped supporting his claim that the presidency shields him from liability against a defamation lawsuit. He said Wednesday on his social media platform that the reversal announced a day
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A former Catholic priest in Louisiana has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to drugging and molesting 17 men he had met in New Orleans’ French Quarter, according to prosecutors. Stephen Sauer, 61, admitted to targeting men who appeared to be “intoxicated,
Continue Reading By The Associated Press A solar storm forecast for Thursday is expected to give skygazers in some states along the U.S.-Canada border a faint glimpse of the Northern Lights, which — at their peak — produce a colorful sky show when solar wind hits the atmosphere. Northern Lights, also known as aurora borealis, are most
Continue Reading By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The NCAA has found 175 infractions of its sports-betting policy since 2018, and there are 17 active investigations. That is according to a letter from NCAA President Charlie Baker that was obtained by The Associated Press. The NCAA says less than 0.25% of its approximately
Continue Reading By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer The SRX series of all-star racing returns to ESPN with the relaunch of “Thursday Night Thunder,” the program that helped make drivers such as Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon famous. Stewart was a regular on the program in the 1990s, when he was running midgets and Silver Crown cars
Continue ReadingBy Steve Almasy and Rob Frehse, CNN (CNN) — Surveillance cameras caught inmate Michael Burham’s escape from a jail in northwestern Pennsylvania last week, Warren County Commissioner Jeff Eggleston said in a news conference Wednesday. Burham was in the recreation yard – a 40 feet by 40 feet space on the top floor – of
Continue Reading By RANDALL CHASE and DAVID BAUDER Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A former Donald Trump supporter who became the center of a conspiracy theory about Jan. 6, 2021, filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News, saying the network made him a scapegoat for the U.S. Capitol insurrection. Raymond Epps, a former Marine who said
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As maternal mortality appears to decrease nationwide, Missouri’s political leaders are working to decrease deaths in the state.
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — Four people on a Florida-bound Allegiant Air flight were being examined for injuries after the flight encountered severe turbulence Wednesday afternoon, the airline said. Allegiant Air Flight 227, which had taken off from Asheville, North Carolina, “experienced severe turbulence before landing” at St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport, airline spokesperson Andrew
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SEDALIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man faces multiple charges after he allegedly kidnapped a woman from Louisiana and brought her to Missouri. William Howe, 55, of Walker, Louisiana, is charged with second-degree kidnapping and being a fugitive from out of state. Howe is being held in the Pettis County Jail and will be detained pending trial,
Continue Reading By JANIE HAR and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s 127-year-old Anchor Brewing Co. will shut down and liquidate after years of declining sales, citing tough economic conditions. Anchor was a trailblazer in the U.S., brewing craft beers in the 1970s when most Americans were loyal to a handful of
Continue Reading By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The long, expensive court fight over the will of soul singer Aretha Franklin provides a cautionary tale for people who want to make sure their wishes are carried out after their death — and for their families. A Michigan jury determined on Tuesday that a handwritten document
Continue Reading ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — In a story published July 11, 2023, about a plane crash that killed Alaska bush pilot Jim Tweto, The Associated Press quoted Clint Johnson with the National Transportation Safety Board as saying the plane struck a tree, rendering its vertical stabilizer inoperative. The strike damaged the plane’s left horizontal stabilizer.
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