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DETROIT (AP) — Electric car maker Tesla Inc. has again fallen short of production goals for its new Model 3 sedan. The Palo Alto, California-based company made 2,425 Model 3s in the fourth quarter. That's only a fraction of the 20,000 per month that CEO Elon Musk promised last summer when the car first went into production. The company exceeded its overall sales targets, delivering 101,312 Model S sedans and Model X SUVs in 2017, up 33 percent over 2016. But all eyes are on the Model 3, which is Tesla's first lower-cost, high-volume car and i...
PHOENIX (AP) — Police officers who put a GPS tracking device on a tractor-trailer without first getting a warrant violated the rights of a man who was later convicted of transporting more than 2,100 pounds of marijuana in the truck, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. However, the court still ruled against 45-year-old Emilio Jean when it refused to throw out evidence from the surveillance, concluding the law on such tracking was unsettled at the time and officers believed their actions were lawful. The tractor-trailer was driven by J...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday named 17 interim U.S. attorneys to temporarily take the place of some of the dozens of Obama administration holdovers he ordered to resign last year. Sessions was facing a deadline. The vacancies had been temporarily filled by prosecutors who are permitted to serve in that position for just 300 days. The White House still hasn't nominated anyone to permanently lead each of the 17 districts, including the high-profile Southern District of New York, which encompasses Manhattan, site o...
HOUSTON (AP) — A press secretary for Houston's mayor was suspended for nearly two weeks without pay after officials determined she'd sent or received thousands of emails related to personal business on city time. A city memo alleges about 5,000 emails from Darian Ward's city account related to her production company or other personal business. The memo says Ward misrepresented the number of emails she'd sent related to personal business. She indicated as part of an open records request that only 30 such emails existed. Mayor Sylvester Turner s...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A revised gender-pay lawsuit seeking class-action status against Google faults the search giant for asking new hires about their prior salary, a practice now banned in California. The suit, filed Wednesday, also adds a fourth complainant, a preschool teacher with a master's degree. The four women allege they were underpaid by Google compared with their male counterparts. The suit, which is led by lawyer James Finberg of San Francisco-based Altshuler Berzon, argues that Google's use of prior compensation to set starting p...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Roku plans to add a voice-controlled digital assistant to its streaming TV players in an attempt to catch up with Google, Apple and Amazon. Roku's voice capabilities are currently limited to performing search requests and launching apps. The assistant will be able to field broader requests about video, music and other tasks tied to entertainment. Still, that's a much narrower scope than the assistants already available from its bigger rivals in the battle to build digital command centers in people's homes. Google's A...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican archaeologists say they have excavated a stone sanctuary in a pond on the side of a volcano east of Mexico City that may have been built as a miniature model of the universe. The National Institute of Anthropology and History says the remnants of the stone "tetzacualco" were in the center of a natural pond below the Iztaccihuatl volcano at an elevation of nearly 13,000 feet. In addition to the sanctuary, decorative pieces associated with the rain god Tlaloc were found nearby. Archaeologist Iris del Rocio Hernandez B...
WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to weather, it's hard to sound scarier than "bomb cyclone." It's a version of a real weather term that applies to a massive winter storm that pulled together Wednesday off the U.S. Southeast coast. But as fearsome as the storm is with high winds and some snow, it may not be quite as explosive as the term sounds. Meteorologists have used the term "bomb " for storms for decades, based on a strict definition, said University of Oklahoma meteorology professor Jason Furtado. After it showed it showed up in a W...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Environmentalists in Brazil say they are trying to figure out why more than 80 gray dolphins have died in less than a month on the coast of Rio de Janeiro state. A statement from the Gray Dolphin Institute says the dolphins died over past 17 days in the Bay of Sepetiba, a coastal district about 70 kilometers (45 miles) west of the city of Rio de Janeiro. The institute is an NGO that monitors and strives to protect the dolphins. The institute says it has retrieved five dead dolphins a day from the bay but what has caused t...
NEW YORK (AP) — DNA from an infant who died in Alaska some 11,500 years ago is giving scientists the best look yet at the genetics of the ancestors of today's native peoples of the Americas. Decoding the infant's complete set of DNA let researchers estimate the timing of key events in the ancestral history of today's Native Americans and indigenous peoples of Canada and Central and South America. Expert said that while the new work doesn't radically change the outlines of what scientists have thought, it provides more detail and better e...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Anchorage, Alaska, was warmer Tuesday than Jacksonville, Florida. The weather in the U.S. is that upside down. That's because the Arctic's deeply frigid weather escaped its regular atmospheric jail that traps the worst cold. It then meandered south to the central and eastern United States. And this has been happening more often in recent times, scientists say. ___ WHY IS IT SO COLD? Super cold air is normally locked up in the Arctic in the polar vortex , which is a gigantic circular weather pattern around the North Pole. A s...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Attorneys for three men accused of plotting to bomb a mosque and apartment complex housing Somali refugees urged a federal judge on Wednesday to include prospective jurors from rural western Kansas because they are more likely to have voted for President Donald Trump. But the government countered that granting the request would as a matter of policy "wreak havoc," saying the defense is seeking to pick a jury pool based on ideology while "opening a dangerous door" to similar requests in other cases. U.S. District Judge E...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles man suspected of making a hoax emergency call that led to the fatal police shooting of a Kansas man told a judge Wednesday he would not fight efforts to send him to Wichita to face charges. Tyler Barriss, 25, was held without bail after waiving his right to an extradition hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court. He stood behind a glass wall dressed in black with his hands cuffed in front of him and provided brief answers to a judge's questions, acknowledging he was the wanted man and voluntarily signed the w...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback has appointed a Kansas Department of Health and Environment attorney to serve temporarily as its top administrator. Brownback's office said Wednesday that the new interim KDHE secretary is Darian Dernovish. He is the department's chief litigation attorney in federal and state courts. He has been a local and federal prosecutor and worked for the Kansas Highway Patrol. He is replacing Secretary Susan Mosier, who is resigning Friday. Dernovish will serve as secretary until a more permanent replacement is f...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Topeka police say the death of a Lawrence man whose body was found inside a burning vehicle is being investigated as a homicide. Police said in a statement Wednesday that the body of 30-year-old Arnulfo Garcia was found inside the vehicle Saturday morning after firefighters responded to a call of a vehicle on fire in Topeka. The statement said arson investigators have ruled the vehicle fire was intentionally set. The coroner's office ruled Garcia's death a homicide. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call a...
BALDWIN CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Baldwin City pastor says Douglas County Sheriff's deputies were unnecessarily aggressive when they searched his church and a Lawrence nonprofit he operates. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the Rev. Mark Halford filed an online complaint with the sheriff's department's internal affairs division after the search on Thursday. He is pastor of the New Life Assembly of God Church in Baldwin City and director of the Heart of America Teen Challenge, which treats addictions. Halford alleges deputies pointed a shotgun at h...
WAMEGO, Kan. (AP) — The State Fire Marshal says a 35-year-old Wamego man died in a house fire in Pottawatomie County. The victim of a fire on Dec. 26 was identified Wednesday as Wade Stewart Parkhurst, whose body was found inside the house. Five other people in the house were able to escape the fire. The fire marshal's office said in a news release that his death was caused by toxic gases from the fire. No foul play is suspected. The blaze began in the home's basement in an area where several electronic components were located. The property i...
WAMEGO, Kan. (AP) — Wamego fire officials say a firefighter died after a fall at a fire station. The department said John Randle died Tuesday from injuries he suffered Monday. Randle had returned to the station after helping to fight a structure fire early Monday. The department says in a release that he fell while he was returning a fire apparatus to service. Randle was airlifted to a Topeka hospital, where he died on Tuesday. Further details were not immediately released....
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say the former St. Louis police chief is among three finalists to lead the police force in Topeka after a year that included a controversial police shooting in Kansas' capital city and a record number of homicides. The city announced Tuesday that the finalists include Sam Dotson, who was the St. Louis police chief until April. He retired on Mayor Lyda Krewson's first day in office but remained with the department as a consultant and received his full salary. The other finalists are Bill Cochran, the current i...
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A woman living in exile after spending two years as president of the east African country of Malawi is speaking at Kansas State University. Joyce Banda's Jan 29 appearance is open to the public. Banda was the Republic of Malawi's first female president from 2012 through 2014. She has also been a women's rights activist, entrepreneur, educator and lawmaker. She is credited with implementing reforms that helped turn around the nation's ailing economy. Police in Malawi issued an arrest warrant for her in July in c...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — In his first year as Oklahoma's head coach, Lincoln Riley came within one more touchdown of playing for a national title. Not bad for a 34-year-old who found out just months before the start of the season that he would be called upon to fill Bob Stoops' big shoes. Riley picked up where Stoops left off as the high-scoring Sooners won their third straight Big 12 title, quarterback Baker Mayfield won the Heisman Trophy and Mark Andrews won the Mackey Award as the nation's best tight end. Riley was Oklahoma's offensive c...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Tulsa officials say the city's new jail may cost hundreds of thousands of dollars more a year to operate than originally predicted when it opens in March. A spokeswoman from Mayor G.T. Bynum's office tells The Tulsa World that the city is finalizing a deal with private contractor G4S Secure Solutions. Under the deal, the company would operate the facility for between $1.2 million and $1.8 million a year. The cost covers food, supplies and personnel. The jail will have 27 beds for men and five beds for women. It will also h...
