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ATLANTA (AP) — Stacey Abrams spent years telling donors that Democrats could win in Georgia if they would provide the money to build a statewide political operation. In 2020, Georgia finally delivered its 16 presidential electoral votes to a Democrat, Joe Biden, and sent two Democrats to the U.S. Senate. Other Southern states are now trying to follow, and Georgia is eager to help. The Georgia Democratic Party is combining forces with other state parties in the region for joint fundraising appeals, aiming to help those states make e...
The videos are difficult to watch. In one, a man dangles over the edge of an Oklahoma City overpass, his legs swinging in midair as police grab his arms and pull him from the brink. In another, a woman hangs high above the Los Angeles Harbor as a half-dozen officers drag her, head-first, up the side of the bridge. The panicked voices of cops cry out, "We got you, we got you!" just before they pin her to the ground and pull out handcuffs. ____ EDITOR'S NOTE — This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, p...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The bodies of a man and woman were found stabbed to death in a home in northwest Oklahoma City, police said Monday. The bodies were discovered Saturday morning inside a home on NW 32nd Street, said police Sgt. Gary Knight. No arrests have been made. Knight said the woman was identified as 59-year-old Kim Nguyen. He said police are still awaiting positive identification of the man from the medical examiner's office. The killings are Oklahoma City's 61st and 62nd homicides of 2021....
AUGUSTA, Kan. (AP) — A man wounded in a police shooting near Wichita has been booked into jail on probation violations. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said in a news release that 49-year-old Barrye Lightner, of Augusta, was taken Sunday night from Wesley Medical Center to the Sedgwick County jail. He was shot Friday night after Augusta police received a strange 911 call in which no one said anything but didn't hang up. Police tracked the call to a convenience store, where the caller said there was a man inside with felony warrants for h...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Debates about mask mandates and vaccine requirements have intensified in Kansas amid the surge in COVID-19 cases caused by the highly contagious delta variant. In Lawrence, a homeless shelter and theater decided to require vaccinations. "It just isn't safe in a congregate setting — we don't have walls, nobody has a room," said Meghan Bahn, the director of community engagement at the Lawrence Community Shelter. She said most of the shelter's 40 guests were either fully vaccinated or had received one shot. But she added tha...
TOWANDA, Kan. (AP) — A teenager died after driving into a pond in Butler County during the weekend, Butler County authorities said. The truck went into the pond north of Towanda late Friday or early Saturday, the Butler County sheriff's office said. Another juvenile in the truck was able to make it to safety. Search and rescue workers recovered the boy's body early Sunday. No other details were released....
HAYS, Kan. (AP) — A western man is dead after he was accidentally shot over the weekend by a roommate, police there said. The shooting happened around 10:30 p.m. Friday in Hays, when first responders were called to home for a shooting, police said. Arriving Hays police officers and Ellis County Sheriff's deputies found a man with a gunshot wound to his head. The man was rushed to a Hays hospital, where he later died. An investigation found that one of the man's roommates was trying to repair a gun when it unexpectedly fired, shooting the v...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. gave full approval to Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine Monday, potentially boosting public confidence in the shots and instantly opening the way for more universities, companies and local governments to make vaccinations mandatory. The Pentagon promptly announced it will press ahead with plans to require members of the military to get vaccinated amid the battle against the extra-contagious delta variant. Louisiana State University likewise said it will demand its students get the shot. More than 200 million Pfizer doses h...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Confronting their party's most powerful leaders, nine moderate Democrats are tapping the brakes on President Joe Biden's multitrillion-dollar domestic program and insisting on their own priorities. The inter-party showdown is headed for a test vote Monday evening in the House. The band of moderates has threatened to oppose a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint unless the House first approves a $1 trillion package of road, power grid, broadband and other infrastructure projects that's already passed the Senate. They could c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military reported its biggest day of evacuation flights out of Afghanistan by far on Monday, but deadly violence that has blocked many desperate evacuees from entering Kabul's airport persisted, and the Taliban signaled they might soon seek to shut down the evacuation. Twenty-eight U.S. military flights ferried about 10,400 people to safety out of Taliban-held Afghanistan over the 24 hours that ended early Monday morning, a White House official said. The chief Pentagon spokesman, John Kirby, said the faster pace of e...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Andrew Cuomo defended his record over a decade as New York's governor and portrayed himself as the victim of a "media frenzy" Monday as he prepared for a midnight power transfer that will make Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul the state's first female governor. Cuomo, a Democrat, was set to end his term at 11:59 p.m., just under two weeks after he announced he would resign rather than face a likely impeachment battle over sexual harassment allegations. Hochul was scheduled be sworn in just after midnight by the state's chief judge, J...
WAVERLY, Tenn. (AP) — Search crews worked through shattered homes and tangled debris on Monday, looking for about a dozen people still missing after record-breaking rain sent floodwaters surging through rural Tennessee, killing at least 22 people. Saturday's flooding took out roads, cellphone towers and telephone lines, leaving people uncertain about whether family and friends survived the unprecedented deluge, with rainfall that more than tripled forecasts and shattered the state record for one-day rainfall. Emergency workers were searching d...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A firefight outside Kabul's international airport killed an Afghan soldier early Monday, highlighting the perils of evacuation efforts even as the Taliban warned any attempt by U.S. troops to delay their withdrawal to give people more time to flee would "provoke a reaction." The shooting came as the Taliban moved to shore up their position and eliminate pockets of armed resistance to their lightning takeover earlier this month. The Taliban said they retook three districts north of the capital seized by opponents the d...
