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DENVER (AP) — Russell Stover Chocolates has announced its candy plant in Montrose will close seven months ahead of schedule because of the coronavirus pandemic, a decision that will leave 217 employees without work. The Kansas City, Missouri-based chocolatier said in January that the plant and a retail store in Montrose would close by March 2021, with operations shifted to facilities in Texas and Kansas, The Denver Post reported. "Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which was impossible to anticipate or foresee in January of 2020, we have been f...
PRATT, Kan. (AP) — A man has died in a rollover crash in south-central Kansas, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol. The crash happened around 4 p.m. Tuesday in northeastern Pratt County, Wichita television station KAKE reported. Jacob Davis, 35, of Macksville, was driving a sport utility vehicle southbound on a rural road when the SUV went into a ditch and rolled several times, a patrol report said. The patrol said Davis was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash. He was pronounced dead at the scene....
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma State Department of Health on Wednesday reversed course on its decision from earlier this week to no longer release COVID-19 infection data by city and zip code. The agency made the move after consulting with Attorney General Mike Hunter, who advised them releasing epidemiological information for statistical purposes is legal as long as no individual person can be identified. Hunter said in a statement the release of the more detailed infection data by locality "threads the needle of providing up-to-date i...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police in Tulsa and Oklahoma City said Wednesday 49 people were arrested during several days of protests in the state's two largest cities. Nearly half of the arrests happened Friday night in Oklahoma City when protesters marched to a downtown police station and some clashed with officers. Most arrests were for disorderly conduct and rioting. Seventeen of the 23 people arrested Friday were from the Oklahoma City area, police said. Eight people were arrested in Tulsa: one on Sunday, four on Monday and three on Tuesday. Most...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma State Department of Education released guidance Wednesday for how public schools could reopen in the fall that includes recommending the use of masks for staff and students to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The department's Return to Learn Oklahoma framework for reopening schools lists several factors for individual districts to consider as they reopen. The State Board of Education moved to shut down schools on March 16 amid the coronavirus outbreak, and schools then began implementing distance-lea...
POTEAU, Okla. (AP) — A police officer in southeast Oklahoma shot and killed a knife-wielding woman in her home early Wednesday, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said. Officers from Poteau, Oklahoma, and LeFlore County responded at about 4:14 a.m. to a domestic disturbance call, entered a home and ordered 39-year-old Mary Lawrence to show her hands, according to a preliminary investigation by the OSBI. When the woman showed her hands, an officer noticed she was holding a knife. When the officer ordered Lawrence to drop the knife, s...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A full autopsy of George Floyd, the handcuffed black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police, was released Wednesday and provides several clinical details, including that Floyd had previously tested positive for COVID-19. The 20-page report released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office came with the family's permission and after the coroner's office released summary findings Monday that Floyd had a heart attack while being restrained by officers, and classified his May 25 death as a homicide. B...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's Pentagon chief shot down his idea of using troops to quell protests across the United States Wednesday, then reversed course on pulling part of the 82nd Airborne Division off standby in an extraordinary clash between the U.S. military and its commander in chief. Both Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Esper also drew stinging, rare public criticism from Trump's first defense secretary, Jim Mattis, in the most public pushback of Trump's presidency from the men he put at the helm of the world's most p...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors charged three more police officers Wednesday in the death of George Floyd and filed a new, tougher charge against the officer at the center of the case, delivering a victory to protesters who have filled the streets from coast to coast to fight police brutality and racial injustice. The most serious charge was filed against Derek Chauvin, who was caught on video pressing his knee to Floyd's neck and now must defend himself against an accusation of second-degree murder. The three other officers at the scene were c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama is taking on an increasingly public role as the nation confronts a confluence of historic crises that has exposed deep racial and socioeconomic inequalities in America and reshaped the November election. In doing so, Obama is signaling a willingness to sharply critique his successor, President Donald Trump, and fill what many Democrats see as a national leadership void. On Wednesday, he held a virtual town hall event with young people to discuss policing and the civil unrest that has followed t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and some of his supporters are claiming authorities did not use tear gas against people in a crackdown outside the White House this week. There's evidence they did. Law enforcement officials shy away from describing crowd-dispersing chemical tools as tear gas; it evokes police gassing citizens or the horrors of war. But giving those tools a more antiseptic name does not change the reality on the ground. Federal institutions such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Army M...
NEW YORK (AP) — As an African American parent, Cassandre Dunbar in Charlotte, North Carolina, always knew she and her husband would have "the talk" with their son, the one preparing him for interactions with law enforcement. But she never dreamed it would be necessary at 5 years old. "I thought the cops were supposed to help us? Are they only helpful to white people?" he asked after taking in TV coverage of protests and overhearing his parents discuss the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. Dunbar explained to her e...
A malaria drug President Donald Trump took to try to prevent COVID-19 proved ineffective for that in the first large, high-quality study to test it in people in close contact with someone with the disease. Results published Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine show that hydroxychloroquine was no better than placebo pills at preventing illness from the coronavirus. The drug did not seem to cause serious harm, though -- about 40% on it had side effects, mostly mild stomach problems. "We were disappointed. We would have liked for this...
