HONOLULU (AP) — At least seven people were injured Saturday in the collapse of a large tree branch in Honolulu’s Waikiki neighborhood, Hawaii News Now reported. A large branch of a banyan tree came crashing down about 12:15 p.m. at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in the heart of the popular tourist district, Honolulu Emergency Medical
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department held a recruitment event Saturday at the Molly Bowden Neighborhood Policing Center. Sgt. Kim German told ABC 17 News crews that CPD currently has 14 police officer openings. German says the department goes around the state to job fairs, police academies, and colleges/universities to find new recruits. According
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The state now has a seven day positivity rate of 10.2% on Saturday. The change in positivity comes along with 1,749 additional confirmed cases bringing the total to 661,110 since the start of pandemic. Health officials also recorded 584 new probable cases with a total number of 138,220 antigen test results being positive. Sixteen new
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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Dave Aranda spoke proudly this week about how Baylor had established an offensive identity on the ground this season. It didn’t change against Kansas on Saturday. Gerry Bohanon threw for 269 yards and two touchdowns while running for another score, and Baylor had its way
Continue Reading By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Dave Aranda spoke proudly this week about how Baylor had established an offensive identity on the ground this season. It didn’t change against Kansas on Saturday. Gerry Bohanon threw for 269 yards and two touchdowns while running for another score, and Baylor had its way
Continue Reading By JOHN BOHNENKAMP Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Tyler Goodson ran for a career-high 153 yards and three touchdowns and No. 5 Iowa beat Kent State 30-7 on Saturday. The Hawkeyes are 3-0. They have won nine straight games overall and 14 straight nonconference games. Goodson had a 46-yard touchdown run in the
Continue Reading Associated Press RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Mourners in California said prayers and their final goodbyes Saturday to three Marines killed in last month’s bombing in Afghanistan. Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, Cpl. Hunter Lopez and Sgt. Nicole Gee were among 13 U.S. troops killed in a suicide bombing at Kabul airport, which also claimed the lives
Continue Reading LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence police have arrested one suspect in the shooting death of a 21-year-old Wichita man near the University of Kansas campus and are looking for a second suspect. Police spokesman Patrick Compton said in an email that 18-year-old Javier Isidro Romero was arrested on Friday night in connection with the Sept.
Continue Reading By CODY FRIESEN Associated Press MANHATTAN, Ks. (AP) — Will Howard pushed into the end zone on a 1-yard touchdown run to cap a 21-point fourth quarter, which sealed a 38-17 victory for Kansas State over Nevada. Howard rushed for 56 yards and two touchdowns. The sophomore quarterback went 7 of 10 in the air
Continue Reading By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A trailblazing tourist trip to orbit has ended safely with a splashdown in the Atlantic. A SpaceX capsule carrying four people parachuted into the ocean just before sunset Saturday, right off the Florida coast where their chartered flight began three days ago. The all-amateur
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, CNN The FBI has announced a reward for information on Mary Johnson, a Native American woman who went missing from the Tulalip Reservation in Washington state in December 2020. The agency is offering $10,000 for information leading to the “identification, arrest, and conviction” of whoever is responsible for her disappearance, according to
Continue Reading TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A man jailed in a deadly Topeka shooting has died of what officials are describing as an apparent heart attack. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Marshall Stewart IV was 38. He pronounced dead at 5:35 p.m. Thursday after he was taken from the Shawnee County Jail to a Topeka Hospital. Maj.
Continue Reading WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — More than 200 people have marched to the Wichita State University police station to protest the handling of a reported rape in a dormitory. The Wichita Eagle reports that students gathered Friday at Shocker Hall, where the sexual assault is alleged to have occurred Sept. 12. They then marched to the
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The Columbia Police Department has confirmed two people were shot at 5th and Walnut St. in downtown Columbia on Saturday morning.
Continue Reading By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Browns safety Ronnie Harrison was fined $12,128 by the NFL for unsportsmanlike conduct after he shoved Kansas City assistant coach Greg Lewis during a skirmish in last week’s season opener. Harrison was ejected early in Cleveland’s 33-29 loss for his aggressive action toward Lewis, who had
Continue Reading A Kansas nurse who texted a co-worker a picture of a dementia patient slumped over in a wheelchair and then suggested she was responsible and deserved thanks has pleaded guilty to intentionally administering the wrong medication. The Kansas City Star reports that 37-year-old Jennifer Lynn Reavis, of Atchison, is free on bond as she awaits
Continue Reading By CEDAR ATTANASIO and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol hopes to free up agents to go back into the field by hiring civilians to perform tasks like checking holding cells and collecting information for immigration court papers. It says agents spend about 40% of their time caring for
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BOSTON (AP) — A former classmate has testified that one of the students prosecutors say was admitted to the University of Southern California with bogus athletic credentials in the college admissions bribery scheme didn’t even make her high school’s varsity basketball team. The testimony came Friday as prosecutors wrapped up the first week of their
Continue Reading BOSTON (AP) — A former classmate has testified that one of the students prosecutors say was admitted to the University of Southern California with bogus athletic credentials in the college admissions bribery scheme didn’t even make her high school’s varsity basketball team. The testimony came Friday as prosecutors wrapped up the first week of their
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin said Saturday that he was diagnosed last November with early stage chronic myeloid leukemia but that he responded well to treatments and is now in remission. Zeldin is a Long Island Republican who’s running for New York governor. He said the diagnosis had no impact on his
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