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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A 27-year-old Tulsa man was being held without bond Monday in connection with a shooting that left a 1-year-old toddler in critical condition, police said. Javontay Jones was arrested on three complaints of shooting with intent to kill and one count of possession of a firearm after former conviction of a felony, jail records show. Jones is accused of opening fire on an SUV Friday outside a Tulsa apartment complex with a man and woman inside, along with the 1-year-old child, Lt. Brandon Watkins said. One of the bullets s...
SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas City area TV meteorologist has announced plans to seek a Kansas Senate seat being vacated by the retirement of one of the Legislature's most conservative members. Mike Thompson, who served as chief meteorologist for WDAF until he retired last year, announced Monday that he is seeking the District 10 seat being vacated in mid-January by Republican Mary Pilcher-Cook. She announced Friday that she is resigning. Thompson, of Shawnee, said he plans to seek the appointment to fill the remainder of P...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A homeless man has been charged with killing a 72-year-old Wichita woman during a sexual assault. Fifty-five-year-old John Pepper was charged Monday in Sedgwick County District Court with capital murder in the death of Rita Golden. Prosecutors allege her death occurred during the commission of an aggravated criminal sodomy, The Wichita Eagle reports. Pepper has been jailed on burglary and theft charges stemming from an unrelated incident. Golden was found unresponsive in her home in July. A doctor listed her cause of d...
JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas police officer has resigned after he admitted to making up a story that a McDonald's employee wrote an expletive and the word "pig" on a coffee cup, the police chief announced Monday. Herington Police Chief Brian Hornaday said at a news conference that the now-former officer "completely and solely fabricated" the allegations. Hornaday said the officer told him the incident was "meant to be a joke." Hornaday did not name the 23-year-old officer, but said he had been with the department about two months a...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — One of the 15 people injured in a explosion at the Beechcraft aircraft manufacturing facility in Wichita remains hospitalized. KWCH-TV reports that a spokesperson for Wesley Medical Center said Monday that the injured patient's condition has improved from serious to fair and the patient could be cleared to go home in the next day or two. A spokesperson for Ascension Via Christi said everyone injured in the explosion who received treatment at its St. Francis hospital has been released. Authorities said the explosion F...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Sedgwick County Sheriff's deputy fatally shot a woman who tried to run down deputies with a car during a police chase, according to authorities. Sedgwick County Sheriff's Col. Brian White said a woman in her 50s died after being shot Monday after a chase that ended in southeast Wichita. Wichita police had tried to stop the woman for traffic violations but she fled, White said. A deputy later spotted the car and began a pursuit that went into Butler County before returning to Sedgwick County, where deputies managed to stop...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Department of Veteran Affairs hospital in Wichita has fired a doctor who is under scrutiny for allegedly harming patients in Missouri while performing robot-assisted surgeries that were beyond his capabilities. The VA hospital confirmed Monday that it fired Christel O. Wambi-Kiesse but declined to give a reason, The Kansas City Star reported. The hospital began investigating the 44-year-old urologist after the Star reported that Missouri's Board of Registration for the Healing Arts was seeking to discipline W...
SCANDIA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a young bull moose has been spotted twice in north-central Kansas. The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism said Friday that the moose was captured on a trail camera along the Republic River near the Republic County town of Scandia. The moose was also spotted earlier this month about 20 miles (32.19 kilometers) northwest of Scandia. State wildlife research biologist Matt Peek said then that the spotting was "very rare." Prior to this month, the last time it happened was when a bull moose w...
SAN JOSE, Cal. (AP) — A plane carrying the Kansas men's basketball team was forced to return to a California airport after one of its engines failed. The university said in a tweet that issues arose Sunday following a road victory over Stanford. After the engine failure occurred about 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot contacted the San Jose Airport, where the team returned and made a safe landing. The tweet expressed thanks to the pilot and the Swift Air flight crew. The tweet says the team was spending the night in San Jose before r...
There are going to be plenty of things dropping for New Year's Eve in Key West, Florida. The Sunshine State's hedonistic, subtropical island has six different "drops" Tuesday evening modeled after New York City's famous ball drop. Among them is Gary Marion, known as the drag queen Sushi, who will be lowered in a huge facsimile of a woman's high heel at a bar on Duval Street. Outside Sloppy Joe's Bar, famous for being a hangout of writer Ernest Hemingway, thousands of revelers are expected to watch the drop of a gigantic man-made conch shell, th...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A 200-pound (90 kilogram) black bear showed up as a walk-on at the University of Tennessee's baseball stadium, but ended up being sent back to its home territory. Tennessee wildlife officials removed the wild creature that was found wandering around the Lindsey Nelson Stadium on Sunday. A UT police officer notified the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency about the bear around 4 a.m., saying it had been wandering around campus and got stuck inside the stadium, according to a post on the agency's official Facebook page. S...
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas (AP) — The man who opened fire inside a Texas church, killing two people before being shot to death, visited the church several other times this year and was given food but got angry when officials refused to give him money, the minister said. Keith Thomas Kinnunen, 43, brought a shotgun into the West Freeway Church of Christ in the Fort Worth-area town of White Settlement during Sunday services and opened fire, killing church members Richard White and Anton "Tony" Wallace, according to police. Witnesses said he was w...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump says he will sign the first phase of a trade deal with China at the White House next month. Trump says Tuesday in a tweet that he'll then travel to Beijing at a later date to open talks on other sticking points in the U.S.-China trade relationship that remain to be worked out. Trump tweeted from his Florida home that, "I will be signing our very large and comprehensive Phase One Trade Deal with China on January 15. The ceremony will take place at the White House." He said high-level Chinese g...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Dozens of Iraqi Shiite militiamen and their supporters broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday, smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area, angered over deadly U.S. airstrikes targeting the Iran-backed militia. U.S. guards fired tear gas and palls of smoke rose over the grounds. An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw flames rising from inside the compound and at least three U.S. soldiers on the roof of the main embassy building. There was a fire at the reception area near the compound's p...
Revelers around the globe are bidding farewell to a decade that will be remembered for the rise of social media, the Arab Spring, the #MeToo movement and, of course, President Donald Trump. A look at how the world is ushering in 2020: ___ AUSTRALIA More than a million people descended on a hazy Sydney Harbour and surrounding areas ahead of the ringing in of the new year despite the ongoing wildfire crisis ravaging New South Wales, Australia's most populous state. The planned 9 p.m. fireworks over Sydney's iconic landmarks was delayed by 15...
CHARLESTON, W. Va. (AP) — West Virginia's governor has fired 34 correction officer trainees who were photographed giving a Nazi salute, and he fired their instructor. He also says four instructors are being suspended without pay. Republican Gov. Jim Justice announced his decision Monday after receiving a report from state investigators that the trainees regularly gave the Nazi salute "as a sign of respect" for their instructor in the weeks prior to the release of the photo. Its release earlier this month triggered widespread outrage. "As I s...
CHICAGO (AP) — One day in May of 1970, an 11-year-old boy and his disabled sister were sitting on the curb outside a Chicago tavern, waiting for their mother to come out. When a priest with crinkly eyes and a ready smile happened by and offered the family a ride home, they could not have been happier. The boy, Robert J. Goldberg, now 61, would pay dearly for the favor, enduring what he describes as years of psychological control and sexual abuse he suffered while working as a child valet for the late Rev. Donald J. McGuire. He remained in the J...
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Wildfires burning across Australia's two most populous states on Tuesday trapped residents of a seaside town in apocalyptic conditions, destroyed many properties and caused at least two fatalities. About 5 million hectares (12.35 million acres) of land have burned nationwide during the wildfire crisis, with 12 people confirmed dead and more than 1,000 homes destroyed. The annual Australian fire season, which peaks during the Southern Hemisphere summer, started early after an unusually warm and dry winter. R...
NEW YORK (AP) — An anti-robocalls measure signed into law Monday by President Donald Trump should help reduce the torrent of unwanted calls promising lower interest rates or pretending to be the IRS, though it won't make all such calls disappear. The new law gives authorities more enforcement powers and could speed up measures the industry is already taking to identify robocalls. And when phone companies block robocalls, they must do so without charging consumers. This should help Americans dodge many of these annoying calls. "American f...
The West is used to being loaded at the top. The East, not so much. But a new year is arriving with a new look in the NBA's Eastern Conference. The league will wake up on Wednesday — the first day of 2020 — with six teams with winning percentages of .600 or better, the first time that's been the case on New Year's Day since 1998. "This is a tough part of the country, a tough part of our league," Philadelphia coach Brett Brown said. He didn't say "finally," but he could have. Just last spring, Brooklyn got the No. 6 seed in the East pla...
TULSA, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 31, 2019-- Williams (NYSE: WMB) announced today that it has successfully placed into full service its Gateway Expansion Project – approximately 11 months ahead of schedule – to meet growing natural gas demand for New Jersey tri-state area consumers in time for the 2019-2020 winter heating season. The Gateway Expansion Project is an expansion of the existing Transco pipeline system, providing 65,000 dekatherms per day of incremental firm transportation capacity to serve PSEG Power, LLC and UGI Energy Ser...
VINITA, Okla. (AP) — A community in northeastern Oklahoma held a candlelight vigil to remember the lives of two girls who went missing more than two decades ago. Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman were 16 years old when they disappeared. About 200 people attended a vigil on Monday night and remembered the girls with a slideshow, songs, prayers, speeches and a balloon release, the Tulsa World reported. Lauria was spending the night at Ashley's family home in Craig County after celebrating Ashley's birthday. Investigators believe that in the early h...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita police officer helped pull two women from a burning car after the driver crashed and ran away. The Wichita Eagle reports that the 25-year-old driver was arrested near the accident early Tuesday morning on suspicion of driving under the influence, aggravated battery, resisting arrest, having outstanding warrants and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Wichita Police Officer Charley Davidson said the car was going north on a street in east Wichita when an officer saw it accelerate rapidly. The officer t...
A year is built one day at a time. It's the busy Tuesdays when you never have a moment and the lazy Sundays when you can finally relax. Focusing on small, cumulative actions can take you far, whether you want to train for a marathon, clean out your garage or start a hobby. This is especially true for money goals, for which daily habits can have big payoffs. But while New Year's money resolutions are common — with 84% of Americans setting money goals, according to a survey from NerdWallet conducted by The Harris Poll (1) in 2017 — so is aba...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' top law enforcement official says boosting spending on services for the mentally ill and treating substance abuse is crucial to reforming the state's criminal justice system. Attorney General Derek Schmidt contends extra funding for such services, particularly in rural communities, will deal with underlying problems fueling many offenders' crimes. He said without such services, local officials frequently face a bad choice of locking up someone who'd benefit more from treatment or leaving that person in the c...
