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COPPELL, Texas (AP) — Retail gasoline prices in Texas and the rest of the country have declined this week. AAA Texas on Thursday reported the statewide price at the pump slipped a nickel to average $2.14 per gallon. Nationwide retail gasoline prices are down 4 cents this week to reach an average $2.32 per gallon. The association survey found Amarillo has the cheapest gasoline in Texas this week at an average $1.98 per gallon. Drivers in Dallas and Fort Worth face the highest gasoline prices statewide at an average $2.19 per gallon. AAA e...
BERLIN (AP) — Germany and Austria voiced sharp criticism Thursday of the latest U.S. sanctions against Moscow, saying they could affect European businesses involved in piping in Russian natural gas. The United States Senate voted Wednesday to slap new sanctions on key sectors of Russia's economy and individuals over its interference in the 2016 U.S. election campaign and its aggression in Syria and Ukraine. The measures were attached to a bill targeting Iran. In a joint statement, Austria's Chancellor Christian Kern and Germany's Foreign M...
MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on Russian President Vladimir Putin's live call-in show (all times local): 4:15 p.m. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ended his marathon TV show without saying if he plans to seek another term next year. During Thursday's call-in show that lasted four hours, Putin dodged several questions about his intentions. Asked if he was grooming a successor, he answered that he has some personal preferences but it's up to the voters to decide who will be Russia's next leader. He similarly dodged a question if the annual s...
TOKYO (AP) — Global stocks fell Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate and the Bank of England revealed it was unexpectedly close to hiking its own benchmark rate at its policy meeting. KEEPING SCORE: Germany's DAX fell 0.9 percent to 12,690 while the CAC40 of France sank 1.1 percent to 5,188. The FTSE 100 of Britain dropped 1.1 percent to 7,393. U.S. shares looked set to open lower, with Dow futures down 0.4 percent and S&P futures off 0.6 percent. INTEREST RATES: The Federal Reserve raised interest rates for t...
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri plans to close a bed-and-breakfast that has been both a business and a way to educate hospitality students for more than 20 years. The Gathering Place Bed & Breakfast, located across from the Columbia campus, will close in December. It's one of several programs being closed or reduced as the university responds to budget cuts. The College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, which oversees the university's hospitality program, said it was closing the business because it didn't meet e...
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials are launching an expanded review of predator-killing cyanide traps and additional guidelines for workers deploying the devices after one sickened a young boy in Idaho and killed his dog. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday the expanded review should be finished this fall and workers, meanwhile, will follow interim guidelines intended to make sure anyone near a device is alerted. The spring-activated devices called M-44s look like water sprinkler heads embedded in the ground but spray cyanide w...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Republican Gov. Eric Greitens is among governors meeting with President Donald Trump. Greitens' spokesman Parker Briden said Thursday Greitens will be in Washington, D.C. He and seven other governors are meeting with Trump to discuss workforce development as part of the president's weeklong focus on the issue. The visit is the fifth Greitens has made to the nation's capital since January. Greitens in March visited Washington, D.C. to meet with federal officials, including Trump and Department of A...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The Latest on the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (all times local): 2:40 p.m. Authorities say they are examining a cell phone, a computer and a camera found inside a white van where the gunman who wounded a top Republican congressman and several others had been living. Investigators said in a statement that the FBI has searched the van, which was parked not far from the Alexandria, Virginia, baseball field where Wednesday's shooting took place. Investigators are still studying James T. Hodgkinson's s...
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey company is recalling nearly 32,000 pounds of precooked meat products that might contain milk, which is not listed on the product labels. Newark-based Golden Platter Foods says the recalled products were sent to locations in Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. They include certain chicken tenders, chicken patties, chicken nuggets, meatballs, turkey patties and beef patties. Consumers are urged to throw them out. The company says it discovered on June 6 that there might be milk in the batter a...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — President Donald Trump has declared a major disaster for Arkansas and ordered federal assistance for areas affected by recent severe storms, flooding and tornadoes that struck the state in April and May. The federal disaster declaration was announced Thursday. Federal funding will be available for affected individuals in 13 counties, including Yell, Pulaski and Benton counties for damage caused during the period of April 26 to May 19. Assistance can include grants for temporary housing, low-cost loans to cover u...
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Drone technology is helping some farmers in North Dakota keep tabs on their livelihood like never before by giving them an aerial perspective on field conditions and crops. Jeremy Wilson has been planting corn, soybeans and wheat in the Fargo area for nearly two decades and has seen his share of advancements in technology. "Neat seeing things that work and how it works. And some things that don't work that well but was a valiant effort," said Wilson. The drones have provided a new vantage point for farmers, saving them time a...
SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — In 1971, Roger Allen was teaching art at San Angelo Central High School and looking for a piece of property where he could live cheaply, make pottery and not worry about his studio being torn down by landlords with development dreams. The Houston Chronicle reports what he found after a year or so of looking was a weed-choked 3-acre plot on the nondescript northeastern edge of town. The property, including nine dilapidated, junk-filled buildings, had been a poultry-processing operation before the big boys, Pilgrim's P...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Republican congressman, members of the U.S. Capitol Police, a congressional aide and a lobbyist were injured when a gunman opened fire at a baseball practice. The assailant later died after the incident. — Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., House Majority Whip and third in leadership. Elected in 2008, he represents a district in Louisiana that includes New Orleans suburbs and the southwest part of the state. — Matt Mika, former aide to Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., who said Mika is a graduate of Adrian College and a former baseball...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An online startup that sells sustainable beef has expanded its service to Washington, D.C. WTOP-FM reported on Wednesday (http://bit.ly/2tpfroK ) that Crowd Cow beefed up its reach to the Washington-area and is working with local farms nearby including Virginia ones in Front Royal and Beaverdam. The less than two-year-old Seattle-based startup uses a crowdfunding model to sell cuts of meat one cow at a time from small farms nationwide. Consumers log on to the company's website and select desired cuts from a featured cow. O...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading Republican senator is calling for immediate action to stabilize shaky health insurance markets around the country, amid concerns that the GOP will get blamed if constituents' lives are disrupted. Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee called on the Trump administration Thursday to guarantee payment of billions of dollars in disputed "cost-sharing" subsidies at least through next year, and probably in 2019 as well. The federal money allows insurers to reduce deductibles and copayments for people with modest incomes b...
U.S. regulators have approved new competition for EpiPen, the emergency allergy medicine that made Mylan a poster child for pharmaceutical greed. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Adamis (ad-DEHM-iss) Pharmaceuticals Corp.'s product, which should go on sale later this year. Symjepi (sim-JEPP'-ee) is a syringe prefilled with the hormone epinephrine, which helps stop life-threatening allergic reactions from insect stings and bites or eating foods such as nuts and eggs. San Diego-based Adamis says its product is easier to use...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ashish A. Deshmukh, University of Florida and Anna Likhacheva, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (THE CONVERSATION) Women with breast cancer have long faced complicated choices about the best course of treatment. One particular concern has been the daily radiation therapy many women with breast cancer receive for six weeks after surgery. This form of therapy, also known as conventionally fractionated external beam ra...
DENVER (AP) — A former Veterans Affairs Department executive who was harshly criticized by Congress for massive cost overruns at a new Colorado VA medical center said he was never told the price had ballooned to more than $1.7 billion before he left the agency, and does not know how it happened. "I'm just astounded, quite frankly, I'm absolutely astounded," Glenn Haggstrom told The Associated Press in a rare interview. Haggstrom, who was the VA's top construction official when the project nearly collapsed amid legal disputes and skyrocketing c...
The first two claims in the NFL's billion-dollar concussion settlement were announced Thursday, a total of $9 million in benefits. The U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania overseeing the process was notified Thursday through a joint status report filed by the class and the NFL that the claims were approved. The names of the former players were not disclosed as part of the filings. The payouts were for $5 million for a qualifying diagnosis of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), and $4 million for a qualifying diagnosis of CTE...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An Army veteran from Reno County has admitted he pretended to be blind in order to receive more than $70,000 in benefits. U.S. Attorney Tom Beall announced Thursday that 62-year-old Billy Alumbaugh, of Turon, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the government. His ex-wife, 58-year-old Debra Alumbaugh, also of Turon, pleaded guilty to concealing the crime. Alumbaugh admitted that he received special monthly pension benefits after falsely telling the Veterans Administration he was blind and homebound. In r...
NEW YORK (AP) — Teen vaping, which has been skyrocketing, fell dramatically last year in the United States. A government survey released Thursday suggests the number of high school and middle school students using electronic cigarettes fell to 2.2 million last year, from 3 million the year before. Health officials have worried about the booming popularity of vaping products among kids and the potential impact on adult smoking rates in the future. "It certainly is a public health win," said Brian King, an expert on smoking and health at the C...
FULTON, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors are reviewing evidence in the case of a 31-year-old developmentally disabled Missouri man whose body was found encased in concrete. Fulton Police Chief Steve Myers says he believes prosecutors will decide what charges to file in the coming weeks. Carl DeBrodie was reported missing April 17 from a home for the developmentally disabled in Fulton. His body was found April 24 encased in concrete in a container inside a storage area. Investigators determined he was missing from the Second Chance Homes for months. T...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump promised to make health care more affordable but a government report finds that out-of-pocket costs — deductibles and copayments — would average 61 percent higher under the House Republican bill. And even though the sticker price for premiums would be lower than under the Obama-era law, what consumers actually pay would edge up on average because government financial assistance would be curtailed. The report from the Office of the Actuary, a nonpartisan economic unit at the Health and Human Servi...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's top health official has rejected state Medical Cannabis Advisory Board recommendations to add opiate dependence and Alzheimer's disease to the list of conditions that qualify a person to legally buy medical marijuana. State Health Secretary Lynn Gallagher rejected the recommendations on Wednesday. Gallagher said she's concerned about opiate abuse both in New Mexico and across the U.S., but she isn't certain whether cannabis would be a safe or effective treatment. She cited a lack of scientific research t...
HOPE, Maine (AP) — A Maine woman says a rabid raccoon attacked her while she was out for a run, so she drowned it in a puddle. Rachel Borch, of Hope, says she was running in woods near her home June 2 when she saw the raccoon charging with its teeth bared. She says she knew the animal was going to bite her, so she held out her hands so it would bite her there. The 21-year-old says she then noticed a puddle in a nearby swampy area. She ran over with the rabid animal still biting down on her thumb and held its head underwater until it drowned. H...
