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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The latest government report shows the deteriorating condition of the Kansas winter wheat crop amid the ongoing parched weather. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that 50 percent of the state's wheat crop is in poor to very poor condition. The remaining crop was rated as 37 percent fair, 12 percent good and 1 percent excellent. Topsoil moisture supplies are rated as short or very short across 76 percent of Kansas....
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas Senate committee approved a bill that would make it a felony for fugitives and domestic abusers to possess firearms. Supporters say the new law would allow offenders to be prosecuted in state courts instead of relying on federal courts, which are sometimes too busy to handle such cases. Jo Ella Hoye, a representative for Moms Demand Action, said she was happy with committees' decision. She said the bill advanced Monday bill will help law enforcement protect women and families and ultimately save lives. In a...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Rev. Dan Brown is one of several Baptist pastors leading his congregation to change the church's name in hopes of bringing more people through the doors. Though First Baptist Church of Sunbury will stay Baptist in doctrine, the denomination will no longer be part of the church's name. As of March 25, it will be called The Bridge, a change that Brown thinks newcomers will see as more welcoming, hopefully leading the church to grow beyond its 120 current members. "We want to let people know all the love that's here," he...
LENEXA, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 5, 2018--Mediware Information Systems, Inc., a portfolio company of TPG Capital, announced today that it will build a new 66,000+ square-foot world headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas. A vote by the Overland Park City Council on March 5 finalized Mediware’s position as the anchor tenant for the new CityPlace Corporate Centre III. Mediware will move from its current offices in Lenexa, Kansas when the new headquarters in Overland Park is complete in mid-2019. As Mediware seeks to significantly increase its l...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A man charged with murder and arson in the death of an Oklahoma City bookstore owner has pleaded guilty. The pleas were entered Monday in Oklahoma County District Court by 42-year-old Kenton Eugene Busby, who was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree arson. Firefighters found the body of 66-year-old Kelly Anthony Hays beneath a pile of books after extinguishing a fire inside his bookstore. Investigators say he died from injuries suffered before the fire started and that the fire appeared to have been d...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gov. Mary Fallin says she's reached a deal with legislative leaders and state prosecutors on a package of bills designed to curb Oklahoma's growing prison population. Fallin joined district attorneys and lawmakers Monday to announce support of several bills intended to change criminal sentencing code. The bills mostly target nonviolent property and drug crimes and make it easier for inmates to be released on parole. Fallin says the bills still are being drafted and that no official projections have been calculated on s...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Many Oklahoma law enforcement agencies have yet to comply with an executive order compelling them to audit their untested rape kits, 10 months after it was signed by Gov. Mary Fallin. The 144 agencies that haven't complied missed both an initial December deadline and a February extension set by Fallin, The Oklahoman reported. Fallin signed an executive order in April creating a task force to determine the number of untested sexual assault forensic evidence kits in the state. According to the Oklahoma Attorney General's O...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has signed the final two bills of the 2018 state budget, finishing up a state funding plan that led to two separate special sessions and ultimately reduced spending for all state agencies. Fallin on Monday signed one bill to restore $19.8 million in education funding that was determined to have been supplanted with lottery revenue. Another measure provides $31.7 million this year and $110 million next fiscal year to restore lost federal funding for the state's two medical schools. The budget for t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Busted bricks and cracked windows were revealed Monday after some of those most powerful earthquakes in Oklahoma in the past year rattled the northern part of the state. Oklahoma residents have gotten used to feeling rumbles from a spike in earthquakes blamed on wastewater injection wells from oil and gas production, but most don't cause damage. The threshold for damage usually starts at 4.0, and two quakes measuring a 4.2-magnitude hit Sunday evening in the Breckenridge and Enid areas, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) n...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and trade (all times local): 9:40 p.m. House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican allies of President Donald Trump are pleading with him to back away from his threatened international tariffs, which they fear could spark a dangerous trade war. Trump says he's "not backing down." The president says Canada and Mexico will not be spared from his plans for special import taxes on steel and aluminum, but he is holding out the possibility of later exempting the longstanding friends if they a...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia legislators plan to meet Tuesday to weigh some possible compromise aimed at ending the strike by West Virginia teachers now entering its ninth day. A show of support by thousands of teachers and supporters on Monday didn't immediately sway the lawmakers, who failed to agree on a 5 percent pay raise that would end the strike, forcing districts to continue to cancel Tuesday classes. The governor, union leaders and the House of Delegates agreed to the pay raise for the teachers, among the lowest paid in t...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man filed suits Monday claiming Dick's Sporting Goods and Walmart discriminated against the 20-year-old when they refused to sell him a rifle. Dick's and Walmart restricted gun sales to adults 21 and older in the wake of the Florida high school massacre. The 19-year-old accused in the school slaying bought the AR-15 used in the attack legally. Oregon law allows residents to buy shotguns or rifles starting at age 18. Tyler Watson's lawsuits filed against the retailers in two separate counties claim he faced age d...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee House has passed legislation that would lower the penalty to $250 for a first offense of toting a gun without a handgun carry permit. The Republican-led chamber voted 72-20 Monday on the bill. The bill was amended to let officers decide whether to confiscate ammunition. Republican bill sponsor Rep. Micah Van Huss said under current law, it's up to a $500 fine, confiscation of the gun and possible imprisonment. Democratic Rep. Bo Mitchell said the bill would give people a pass for breaking state gun laws a...
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A bill prohibiting domestic abusers and people under restraining orders from owning firearms became America's first new gun control law since the Feb. 14 Florida high school massacre. "Well done Oregon," Democratic Gov. Kate Brown exclaimed Monday after signing the law on the steps of the state Capitol as some 200 people, including victims of domestic abuse and high school students, applauded and cheered. State Sen. Floyd Prozanski, whose sister was fatally shot by her boyfriend, and Rep. Janeen Sollman, who fled her home a...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Democrat who helped overturn local assault weapons bans as a state lawmaker and before being ousted as Ohio's attorney general said in a column published Sunday that he "was in the pocket of the National Rifle Association" to protect his political career and now regrets it. Marc Dann used his blunt admission on Cleveland.com to urge elected officials to live by their principles as the country debates gun control following the Florida school shooting Feb. 14 that killed 17 people. "The NRA's finely tuned propaganda o...
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON, TERRY SPENCER and GARY FINEOUT TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — In response to a deadly Florida school shooting last month, the state's Senate narrowly passed a bill that would create new restrictions on rifle sales and allow some teachers to carry guns in schools. The 20-18 vote came Monday evening after three hours of often emotional debate. Support and opposition crossed party lines, and it was clear many of those who voted for the bill weren't entirely happy with it. "Do I think this bill goes far enough? No! No, I don't!" s...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Federal agents arrested 23 people on suspicion of being in the country illegally as they served notices of employment audits to over 100 businesses in New Mexico and west Texas, immigration officials said Monday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents made the arrests over the past week, according to an email from agency regional spokeswoman Nina Pruneda. She said three of the arrested individuals face criminal charges related to illegal re-entry to the United States after deportation or firearm possession or b...
LAS VEGAS – (Round Two Results) Oklahoma Baptist men's golf improved 11 strokes from round one to round two, but slipped to 14th Monday at the Las Vegas Desert Classic, hosted by the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The Bison shot 303 as a team at Royal Links Golf Club after an opening round of 314 on Sunday. OBU's 617 two-day total is just seven strokes off Barton College in 10th place. Top-ranked West Florida sits first as a team in 573 and owns the top individual performance with Chandler Blanchet's 12-under 132. Mason Nutt is tied for 2...
EDMOND, Okla. – (Round One Results) An opening round 331 at Kickingbird Golf Club has Oklahoma Baptist women's golf tied for 10th Monday at the Diffee Ford Lincoln Invitational, hosted by Southern Nazarene. In a tightly bunched field, only eight strokes separate the Lady Bison from Arkansas Tech in seventh place. Henderson State leads after an opening round 306 and HSU's Taylor Loeb leads individually at one-over 71. Elly Baze and Sydney Bowman led the way for OBU with matching scores of 82. The two are tied for 35thplace heading into the f...
BETHANY, Okla. — For the first time in school history Southern Nazarene will be dancing at the NCAA Men's Basketball Central Region Championship. The Crimson Storm picked up the automatic bid by winning the Great American Conference Championship and will take on St. Cloud State at noon Saturday in Maryville, Missouri. Northwest Missouri State picked up the top seed and will host the regional Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday inside Bearcat Arena. No. 10 Southern Nazarene earned the 3-seed while St. Cloud is the 6-seed. The Crimson Storm earned t...
Henderson State's Taylor Loeb shot a one-over par 71 and is in first-place after the opening round of the Diffie Ford-Lincoln Women's Golf Invitational in Edmond, Okla. The Reddies have a two-shot lead over Northeastern State compiling an opening round team score of 306. Despite the windy and wet conditions, Loeb totaled four birdies for her round, leads the field in par 4 scoring at 3.90, and has a one shot lead over Imkeleen Meyer of Newman. Sarah Wright is tied for sixth after carding a 75 on the par 70, 5,821-yard Kickingbird Golf Course....
ALVA, Okla. - After a quality season on the course for both Northwestern Oklahoma State cross country teams, they also did very well in the classroom as they made it on the list for NCAA DII All-Academic honors. Overall there were 276 teams - 157 women's and 119 men's teams that picked up All-Academic honors and both Ranger squads were on their respective lists. The Ranger men finished up the fall semester with a 3.04 GPA and had a lot of quality outings on the course as well. For most of the fall season, they were knocking on the door of...
