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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A woman has pleaded guilty in federal court to phoning in a bomb threat that forced the evacuation of seven schools in Claremore. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Tulsa announced Thursday Stephanie Louise Montgomery pleaded guilty to providing false information about bombs in schools. Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 11. As part of her plea agreement, Montgomery will pay $12,000 in restitution to law enforcement agencies for costs incurred responding to the false threat. Montgomery's attorney, John Russell, says she is "very s...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Country singer and "The Voice" star Blake Shelton has been appointed to the board of a foundation that will raise money for wildlife conservation in his home state of Oklahoma. Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation spokesman Micah Holmes said Shelton was appointed Tuesday to the newly formed board of the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Foundation. The foundation will fundraise for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. The state agency doesn't receive appropriated money from the Legislature and operates o...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A proposed $6.95 million settlement has been filed to end a class-action lawsuit alleging Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy co-founders Aubrey McClendon and Tom Ward conspired to rig bids on leases for land to explore for oil and natural gas in northwestern Oklahoma and southwestern Kansas. The proposal filed late Wednesday in federal court calls for thousands of people in Oklahoma and Kansas to share in the settlement proceeds, and said it comes after two mediation sessions conducted earlier this year by a retired f...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Police in Tulsa say two adult brothers were fatally shot while getting out of their car in the parking lot of a shopping center. Police Capt. Malcolm Wightman said officers were called to the lot in southeast Tulsa about 11 p.m. Wednesday and found 61-year-old Keith Williams and 53-year-old Glenn Williams dead next to their car. Sgt. Brandon Watkins later said the brothers are from Muskogee and supervise cleaning crews at several businesses. Watkins said one of the crews called the men because of a suspicious vehicle in t...
MIAMI, Okla. (AP) — Two members of Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in a plane crash at the Southern rock band's peak will be inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. The Miami News-Record reports guitarist Steve Gaines and backing vocalist Cassie Gaines will be inducted Saturday in Miami, where the siblings were raised. Both were killed along with lead singer Ronnie Van Zant when the band's chartered plane crashed in Mississippi in 1977. Gene Odom was Van Zant's bodyguard and says he will travel to Miami to honor the brother and sister. Odom r...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A liberal Kansas activist is challenging Secretary of State Kris Kobach's right to appear as the Republican nominee for governor on the November ballot, alleging that perhaps hundreds of legally cast ballots were not counted in his close primary race with Gov. Jeff Colyer. Davis Hammet, of Topeka, filed an objection Thursday to Kobach's nomination with the secretary of state's office. His filing, a little more than a page long, asks to have ballots "illegally rejected" by county election officials unsealed and counted. "...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democrat Sharice Davids looks directly into the camera in a recent ad for her campaign in a competitive Kansas congressional district and declares: "I don't support abolishing ICE." She's responding to an earlier ad from a Republican super PAC that plays a brief part of an interview in July in which she says the exact opposite. Abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been a rallying cry for some on the political left, who accuse the agency of using heavy-handed tactics under President Donald Trump in rounding...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A months-long dispute between a Kansas City school district and students alleging free speech violations has escalated into a court battle involving the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU of Kansas asked the U.S. Court for the District of Kansas this week to allow its lawsuit to proceed against the Shawnee Mission School District, the Kansas City Star reported . The response came after the district filed a motion last month asking to dismiss the federal lawsuit filed in May. The dispute began April 20 when s...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man is charged with killing a woman while they were aboard a cruise ship in January. Federal prosecutors announced 53-year-old Eric Newman was charged with second-degree murder and made his initial court appearance Thursday. The indictment alleges the Topeka man and 50-year-old Tamara Tucker, of Lawson, Missouri, were aboard the Carnival Elation, a vessel registered in Panama. The cruise departed and arrived from Jacksonville, Florida. Tucker's obituary and a news release from Park University, where she taught, d...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Lawrence police officer who shot at the car of a man suspected in a double shooting will not face criminal charges. Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson announced Thursday that Sgt. Robert Neff would not be charged in the July 2 shooting in Lawrence. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Neff followed at a vehicle that police believe was associated with a double shooting earlier in the day. The suspect in the car, Tommy May, drove away and eventually crashed into a yard. Police say Neff got out of his patrol c...
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A 35-year-old Olathe man running for a seat in the Kansas House of Representatives has been charged with election perjury. Adam Thomas, a Republican candidate in the 26th District House race, was charged Thursday. The Kansas City Star reports charging documents allege that Thomas submitted a falsified document to state or county election officials on May 31. This summer, Democratic lawmakers called for an investigation into Thomas. They alleged he provided false information about where he lived when he filed to run in the e...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A rookie Kansas police officer charged in a shooting that wounded a man during a confrontation at a seat-belt enforcement site told investigators that she intended to fire her Taser but instead used her firearm, according to an affidavit released Thursday. The affidavit in the case against Lawrence Officer Brindley Blood said she didn't realize she had shot Akira Lewis until she looked for the Taser wires to see if they had hit their mark and realized there weren't any, the Lawrence Journal-World reported. Blood, who g...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say man has been arrested in a Kansas City, Kansas, bank robbery. FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton says in a news release that the robbery happened around 8:35 a.m. Thursday at the Bank of Labor. Patton says in an email that the robber gave a note to the teller before fleeing with an undisclosed amount of cash. The robber was arrested near the bank without incident. The release says the robber didn't show a weapon, and no one was hurt....
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Fans attending the Kansas State-Mississippi State game Saturday are encouraged to arrive early to look for parking spots. Kansas State Athletics announced Thursday parts of grass parking lots around the football stadium are still under standing water or muddy because of torrential rains that hit the Manhattan area this week. The school said parking will be reduced in some of the lots. Some areas received up to 10 inches of rain and more is forecast through Friday, leaving little time to improve ground conditions before t...
SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — Officials at a Houston-area high school where a shooting in May left 10 people dead say that two students who exchanged threatening text messages will face disciplinary action. The Houston Chronicle reports the threatening messages come less than a month after students at Santa Fe High School began the new school year. In a letter to parents, Principal Rachel Blundell says administrators learned of the threat on Wednesday afternoon and contacted authorities. Blundell says in the letter that "any threat against student s...
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A judge has ruled that the University of Missouri's campus ban on concealed guns doesn't conflict with state law. Circuit Judge Jeff Harris' ruling on Wednesday rejected arguments that the school's ban violates a law protecting state employees from prosecution for having concealed guns in their parked cars while on state property, The Columbia Daily Tribune reported . The state law being cited "addresses criminal conduct, and does not determine what defendants can regulate as a civil matter on their own property," Harris w...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal government plan to ship weapons-grade plutonium from South Carolina to a U.S. nuclear materials handling facility about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from Las Vegas drew protests and official outrage Thursday from Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and a bipartisan group of the state's congressional delegation. The Republican governor, whose term ends in December, posted a vow on Twitter to, in his words, "fight ... at every level" the U.S. Energy Department announcement that it will store radioactive bomb-making material at t...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A political fund for environmental conservation causes in New Mexico plans to devote $500,000 to highlighting financial ties between Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Pearce's and the oil and natural gas industries, starting with local television ads this week. Conservation Voters New Mexico Executive Director Demis Foster said the ads — including social media outreach — take aim at Pearce for accepting campaign donations from the oil and gas sector while siding with the industry in Congress over concerns about...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi protesters stormed and set fire to a provincial government building in the southern city of Basra, despite a curfew imposed by authorities Thursday to try and quell demonstrations against poor public services and unemployment that have turned violent. Three protesters were shot dead by security forces, according to a medical and a security official. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release information. Iraq's popular Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for an urgent parliamentary s...
DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — A unique type of trout thought to be extinct has been rescued from southwestern Colorado streams where ash from a wildfire threatened their survival, state officials said. Nearly 60 Colorado River cutthroat trout were taken to a hatchery in Durango where they can be bred and then reintroduced into streams they once inhabited, Colorado Parks and Wildlife said Tuesday. Their appearance is nearly identical to other Colorado River cutthroat, but they are genetically different, agency spokesman Joe Lewandowski said. Tests done...
Lots of Trump administration officials were quick on Thursday to scratch their names off the list of potential authors of an unsigned New York Times opinion piece by a member of the so-called resistance working to thwart "reckless decisions" by President Donald Trump. Among the officials who have spoken out: "The Vice President puts his name on his Op-Eds. The @nytimes should be ashamed and so should the person who wrote the false, illogical, and gutless op-ed. Our office is above such amateur acts." — tweet from Jarrod Agen, communications d...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Damage estimates are soaring in southern Wisconsin after weeks of severe flooding and storms destroyed pavement and damaged hundreds of homes. Here's a look at where things stand: ___ HOW BAD IS IT? Gov. Scott Walker tweeted Thursday that the flooding and storms that began on Aug. 17 have caused at least $208.7 million in damage, including $98.2 million in damage to homes, $40.8 million in damage to businesses and $69.6 million to public infrastructure. Emergency officials expect those numbers to rise. Many communities a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. services companies grew at a faster pace in August as business activity and new orders rebounded. The Institute for Supply Management said Thursday that its services index rose to 58.5 last month from 55.7 in July. Readings above 50 signal an expanding economy. The services sector, where most Americans are employed, has now grown for 103 straight months, or more than eight years. The index was boosted by monthly increases in business activity and new orders, both of which had cooled in July. The employment component of t...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Staff at two senior care centers abandoned residents during an evacuation as wildfires swept through Northern California last October, state officials said Thursday as they moved to revoke licenses from the Santa Rosa facilities and their top administrators. Nobody in either facility died. A Department of Social Services complaint says more than 20 people would have died when a dementia facility burned to the ground if family members and emergency responders hadn't evacuated them after all staff left. The investigation...
NEW YORK (AP) — Six American and British veterans who walked across the U.S. to raise awareness about mental health problems related to combat service finished their trip Thursday in New York City, where they were met by former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill. The group visited the national Sept. 11 memorial at the World Trade Center and then finished their trip a few blocks away, at a garden that memorializes British victims of the 2001 terror attacks. Walking 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) from Los Angeles to New York City was e...
