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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — It's no joke — Tupac Shakur lives in Kentucky and needs unemployment benefits to pay his bills. The Lexington man's name was brought up by Gov. Andy Beshear on Monday night as he spoke about how the state is trying to process all unemployment claims filed in March amid the coronavirus pandemic by the end of April. According to Beshear, a few "bad apples" including a person who filed an unemployment claim under the name of rapper Tupac Shakur — who was killed in a 1996 shooting — are responsible for slowing down the sta...
A nasty virus that originated in China has caused havoc across the globe with a pandemic. Known as the Coronavirus, COVID-19, the threatening virus has closed down the U.S. Economy and way of life as Americans know it as people have stayed-at-home trying to flatten the curve. This week parts of the country are finally trying to open back up in hopes of finanacial salvation and a sense of normalacy. Mostly in March, schools across the nation closed for the remainder of the year. This first-ever situation had caused a rollercoaster of emotions....
Starting Monday, May 4, Kiowa's City Office will be open from 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday....
Last week Gov. Kevin Stitt announced plans for reopening of Oklahoma from COVID-19 restrictions. Individuals and businesses are advised to adhere to state and local guidelines as well as CDC guidance regarding social distancing. Personal care businesses such as hair salons, barbershops and nail salons were allowed to open last Friday. They’re still expected to observe social distancing and take measures such as asking patrons to wait in their vehicles until it’s time for their appointments. Les...
Nearly 25 visitors attended the Burlington Public School Board of Education meeting the evening of April 20. Board President Terry Graham called the meeting to order with all but one member present including: Robert Hill, April Kisling and Aaron Smith. T.J. Rockenbach was absent. Burlington Superintendent Dr. Stacey Croft was present as was Principal Tim Bart and Minutes Clerk Tamre McGinnis. President Graham recessed and moved the meeting from the superintendent's office to the school auditorium. After President Graham welcomed visitors, he re...
OKLAHOMA CITY – Last week, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections began testing all discharging inmates for COVID-19 prior to their release, using tests provided by the Oklahoma State Department of Health. One of the inmates from William S. Key Correctional Center in Fort Supply tested Monday, April 20, was released Wednesday, April 22, a few hours prior to ODOC receiving his positive test results. Once an inmate has served his sentence, ODOC has no legal authority to hold them. This inmate showed no symptoms at the time of his testing nor t...
Happy Anniversary To April 30: Mr. & Mrs. Dale Sample May 3: Mr. & Mrs. Jim London May 5: Mr. & Mrs. Larry Powers May 12: Mr. & Mrs. Loran Morris, Mr. & Mrs. Chad Grimes May 15; Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Darr, Mr. & Mrs. Ron Bliss, Mr. & Mrs. Devin Ferguson May 17: Michael Horntvedt & Katie Blunk, Mr. & Mrs. Ron Culver, Mr. & Mrs. Steve Pierce May 21: Mr. & Mrs. Travis Bradt, Mr. & Mrs. Don Murray May 23: Mr. & Mrs. Rod Ferguson, Mr. & Mrs. Harold D. Hepner May 25: Mr. & Mrs. Hal Ferguson, Mr. & Mrs. Kameron Hensley (Note: Send corrections, additions...
Happy Birthday To April 30: Christopher Melkus, Vaughn Rader, Darla Harper May 3: Ethan Murray, Melissa Headlee, Roxann Bliss May 4: McKinzie Kirkpatrick, Bill Savely, Lonn Luddington May 5: Denis Carlson, Becky Morris May 6: Traci Schwerdtfeger, Vilene Hansen May 7: Wayne Wares, Stephanie Bradt, Dennis Smith May 9: Kenneth Scates, Jana Stein May 17: Bryan Kurz May 18: Albert Williams May 19: Roger Daughhetee, Andy Daughhetee May 20: Gary Gerloff May 21: BJ Baker May 22: Reagan Eden, Holli Wares May 23: Johnnie Sue Olson May 24: Cody atson,...
According to the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH), Woods County still has three confirmed cases of COVID-19. In surrounding counties, Major County has three, while Alfalfa, Harper and Woodward counties have one each. Garfield County has 15, the same as Tuesday. As of this OSDH advisory on April 29, there are 3,473 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 in Oklahoma. There are seven additional deaths; three of them occurred in the past 24 hours and the others died between April 16 and April 26: Two in Oklahoma County, a male in the 65...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma health officials reported seven new COVID-19-related deaths in the state on Wednesday, bringing the statewide death toll to 214. Three of the deaths occurred in the last 24 hours, while the others died between April 16 and Monday, according to the state Department of Health. More than 40% of Oklahoma's COVID-19 deaths — 86 in all — have been residents of nursing homes or long-term care facilities, according to OSDH data. Health officials announced this week plans to start testing all 42,000 long-term care resid...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republican state leaders in Oklahoma and Utah are facing scrutiny for spending millions of dollars combined to purchase malaria drugs promoted by President Trump to treat COVID-19 patients that many other states obtained for free and that doctors warned shouldn't be used without more testing. While governments in at least 20 other states obtained more than 30 million doses of the drug through donations from the federal reserve or private companies, Oklahoma and Utah instead bought them from private pharmaceutical c...
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Worried relatives are demanding that Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly release some inmates to allow better social distancing to control the spread of the coronavirus in prisons, the corrections department said Wednesday, as an outbreak at one facility topped 150 cases and led to a second virus-related death. Seventy-five members of staff at the Lansing Correction Facility have tested positive, amounting to 18% of the prison's workforce, according to data posted on the Kansas Department of Corrections' website. Fifteen of them h...
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State athletic director Gene Taylor, football coach Chris Klieman and basketball coach Bruce Weber have agreed to salary reductions along with every athletic department employee making more than $100,000 annually. Taylor said in a statement Wednesday that the cuts, made to help deal with a budget crunch brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, will begin with the new fiscal year starting July 1. Klieman and Weber agreed to 13% reductions, employees who make more than $150,000 will have 10% cuts and those making m...
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — A federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday that Kansas can't require voters to show proof of citizenship when they register, dealing a blow to efforts by Republicans in several states who have pursued restrictive voting laws as a way of combating voter fraud. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals panel in Salt Lake City upheld a federal judge's injunction nearly two years ago that prohibited Kansas from enforcing the requirement, which took effect in 2013. The appeals court, in a ruling that consolidated two appeals, f...
O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's largest city will reopen with significant restrictions next week, as jurisdictions in the state's two urban areas begin to move away from stay-at-home orders that sought to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas announced Wednesday that starting May 6, some "nonessential" businesses, along with religious gatherings, may resume, with limits on crowd sizes and, in some cases, requirements that contact information of those in attendance be recorded. "We're saying it's important for us t...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Longtime Wichita radio host and Wichita State University basketball announcer Don Hall died early Wednesday morning in a crash at a busy Wichita intersection, and police arrested another driver involved in the crash Hall's employer, Entercom Communications, shared the news of Hall's death with employees in an email. Police said the crash happened around 4:30 a.m. at an east Wichita intersection when a driver ran a red light and hit Hall's vehicle. Hall died at the scene, and police later arrested Ray Watkins, 42, of W...
LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities in suburban Kansas City say a Clay County Jail deputy has been placed on leave after being accused of sexually assaulting a man being held on charges in the jail. The inmate was taken to a hospital Saturday after accusing the deputy of rape, the Kansas City Star reported Wednesday. He was later returned to the jail, where he's being held in a restricted area, according to Clay County Sheriff's spokesman, Capt. Will Akin. An investigation into the allegations has been launched, Akin said, and the alleged victim w...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A teen charged in the 2018 Kentucky school shooting that killed two students has pleaded guilty to murder. Gabriel Ross Parker was 15 when he fired a handgun into a crowd of students before classes started at Marshall County High School on Jan. 23, 2018. Parker was arrested at the school and charged with murder. He later was charged as an adult. Marshall County Commonwealth's Attorney Dennis Foust said the plea deal gives Parker a life sentence. Along with the murder convictions, he also pleaded guilty to 14 counts of a...
NEW YORK (AP) — With a barrel of crude oil costing less than a New York pizza, many U.S. shale producers are being pushed to the brink of bankruptcy and experts are wondering when, and if, the oil industry will recover. The price of benchmark U.S. crude oil closed at $12.34 a barrel Tuesday. At the start of the year, the price was around $60. Demand for oil has been decimated by the coronavirus pandemic, especially as shelter-in-place orders reverberated around the globe. "International travel, certainly by air, has essentially ceased, and that...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Big meatpacking companies that have struggled to keep plants running during the coronavirus crisis said Wednesday that they welcomed President Donald Trump's executive order requiring them to stay open, but unions, some employees and Democrats questioned whether workers could be kept safe. Trump used the Defense Production Act to classify meat processors as critical infrastructure to prevent supermarket shelves from running out of chicken, pork and other meat. Meatpacking plants across the country have closed as C...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Two uncooperative coronavirus patients have been ordered by a New Mexico court to self-isolate. Department of Health spokesman David Morgan declined to identify the targets of the orders or why they were imposed, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported. "The people we are isolating are entitled to privacy as their quarantine resulted from a medical issue," he said. "Any patient in New Mexico is entitled to the same level of patient privacy." Meanwhile, confirmed coronavirus infections surged Wednesday in a rural New Mexico c...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida's restaurants and retail stores will be allowed to reopen Monday at 25% capacity, if the local government allows it, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday, as the state begins the slow climb from the economic abyss caused by the coronavirus. The governor specifically excluded hard-hit, heavily populated Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, saying their businesses will begin phase one when it is safer. His order will also allow hospitals and surgical centers statewide to restart nonessential, elective pro...
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Wednesday that a coronavirus testing site would be opened at Perdue Stadium on the state's Eastern Shore in response to outbreaks at poultry processing plants. The testing site will be opened in Salisbury, Maryland, to test workers at the Perdue plant there and the Amick processing plant in Hurlock, Maryland, Hogan said. Maryland now has 262 lab-confirmed virus cases associated with poultry workers, Hogan said. "These outbreaks are not only a serious public health concern," Hogan s...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) After weeks of sleepless nights spent scrutinizing grainy images relayed from our remote cameras, mostly of waving grass and tumbling leaves, finally, there it is. A live coyote with a loop around it's neck. On October 8, 2019, my colleagues and I caught the first member of the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources pack, #19CU001. We captured, collared and released this coyote to help answer...
The world's economic pain was on full display Thursday as Europe and the United States were releasing more figures showing the devastating impact on jobs and companies of lockdown measures designed to battle the coronavirus pandemic. In Europe, where over 132,000 people with the virus have died, the fear of renewed infection spikes that could again overwhelm hospital emergency wards was tempering hopes that economies on life-support will regain their vigor as workers return to factories, shops and offices. Figures released Thursday showed that...
