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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran says that the head of the International Atomic Energy Organization is arriving in the country for talks with Iranian officials. Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran's envoy to the IAEA, said in a tweet that Rafael Grossi is arriving Saturday, and will travel to Tehran this afternoon. He's scheduled to meet Iran's vice-president and head of the country's atomic organization, Mohammad Eslami, on Sunday. It will be Grossi's first visit to the country since new president Ebrahim Raisi took office. Gharibabadi said the two sides will i...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The unusual legal strategy used to ban most abortions in Texas is already increasingly being employed in Republican-led states to target pornography, LGBT rights and other hot-button cultural issues. While private residents filing lawsuits is a fixture of some arenas like environmental law, some warn that expanding it and applying it to new areas could have a boomerang effect if Democrats were to use it on issues like gun control. When Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the Department of Justice would sue over t...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — State Sen. Mike Groene was frustrated but not terribly surprised last year when Nebraska's legislature rejected, for the seventh time, a measure that would have forced voters to show a government-issued identification at the polls. The issue is a slam dunk in most conservative states, where Republican majorities simply brush aside Democratic objections to pass more restrictive voting laws. But not in Nebraska, a GOP stronghold whose quirky, nonpartisan Legislature enables more liberal lawmakers to derail bills that are w...
LONDON (AP) — A U.S. court will hold a pretrial conference Monday in the civil suit filed by a woman who claims Prince Andrew sexually assaulted her as the two sides argue over whether the prince was properly served with documents in the case. Attorneys for the woman, Virginia Giuffre, say the documents were handed over to a Metropolitan Police officer on duty at the main gates of Andrew's home in Windsor Great Park on Aug. 27. But Blackfords, a law firm that said they represent Andrew "in certain U.K. matters,'' have questioned whether the p...
LAWTON, Okla. – The Northwestern Oklahoma State Men's Cross Country team was back on the road Saturday afternoon for a morning meet at Cameron University, running in the 8,000-meter race. This was a part of the Aggie Duels/Conference Preview meet. The Rangers finished the afternoon placing third in the competition out of six teams, only behind Oklahoma Christian and Cameron. Science & Arts, Southern Nazarene and Redlands CC rounded out the results. "Felt the men were ready for a breakthrough and obviously they took the challenge well to e...
KEARNEY, Neb. – The Northwestern Rangers soccer team traveled to Kearney, Nebraska, to face off against the Lopers for the second game of the four game trip. The Rangers were able to capitalize on an early second-half goal after which they would never lose the lead. The opponents' loss drops the Lopers to 1-2 on the season as the Rangers improve to 2-1 on the year. "Our first clean sheet of the season! We had a great team defending all over the field today, which we transitioned into some dangerous attacking opportunities. The goal came from a...
WICHITA, Kansas – The Northwestern volleyball team traveled to Friends University for a Thursday night matchup where the Rangers fell 3-1. Friends jumped out 2-0 before the Red-and-Black took Set 3. The Rangers were led in kills by Addison Wimmer with 19 followed by Kaydee Honeycutt with 18. Abby Davis and Kelsey Ripperger led the team in assists with 24 and 13 respectively. Honeycutt led with 17 digs with Wimmer and Tarra Parks each with 14 on the evening. Set 1 In Set 1, Honeycutt led the way for the Rangers with four kills, with Parks l...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it successfully test fired newly developed long-range cruise missiles over the weekend, its first known testing activity in months, underscoring how it continues to expand its military capabilities amid a stalemate in nuclear negotiations with the United States. The Korean Central News Agency said Monday the cruise missiles, which had been under development for two years, demonstrated an ability to hit targets 1,500 kilometers (932 miles) away during flight tests on Saturday and Sunday. The North h...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco's Grace Cathedral on Saturday. The Rev. Megan Rohrer will lead one of the church's 65 synods, overseeing nearly 200 congregations in Northern California and northern Nevada. "My call is ... to be up to the same messy, loving things I was up to before," Rohrer told worshippers. "But mostly, if you'll let me, and I think you will, my hope is to love you and beyond that, to love what you love." Rohrer w...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Women in Afghanistan can continue to study in universities, including at post-graduate levels, but classrooms will be gender-segregated and Islamic dress is compulsory, the Taliban government's new higher education minister said Sunday. The announcement came as a Taliban official said Qatar's foreign minister arrived in the Afghan capital of Kabul — the highest level visitor since the Taliban announced their interim Cabinet. There was no immediate confirmation of the visit by Qatari officials. Earlier Sunday, the hig...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Four former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights are scheduled to be arraigned in federal court Tuesday at a hearing that could also address some pretrial motions. A federal grand jury indicted Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao in May for allegedly depriving Floyd of his rights while acting under government authority on May 25, 2020, as Floyd, 46, was held face-down, handcuffed and not resisting in a restraint that was captured on bystander video. His death led to w...
HOUSTON (AP) — Tropical Storm Nicholas hit the Texas coast early Tuesday as a hurricane and dumped more than a foot (30.5 centimeters) of rain along the same area swamped by Hurricane Harvey in 2017, drenching storm-battered Louisiana, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people and bringing the potential for life-threatening flash floods across the Deep South. Nicholas made landfall on the eastern part of the Matagorda Peninsula and was soon downgraded to a tropical storm. It was about 15 miles (25 kilometers) south-southwest of H...
LEEDEY, Okla. (AP) — A Dewey County man is in the county jail after a Monday double killing in Leedey, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said. The OSBI said in a press release that two women were found shot to death at an ambulance barn in the western Oklahoma town, about 130 miles (209 kilometers) northwest of Oklahoma City. The women were identified as Angel Boyd, 44, and her sister-in-law, Stacy Boyd, 31. Angel Boyd was an emergency medical technician for the town, the OSBI said. A man later called authorities to turn himself in, s...
Kansas State coach Chris Klieman says he was never worried the Big 12 would disband or become irrelevant, even with the lingering questions about the conference's future when Oklahoma and Texas head to the Southeastern Conference. "I knew none of that was true," Klieman said. The Big 12's swift response to expand with the additions of BYU, UCF, Cincinnati and Houston certainly helped answer a lot of those questions and created some stability moving forward for the league that some didn't think would survive the departures of its only football...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's Pardon and Parole Board on Monday recommended the governor commute the death sentence of Julius Jones, who has maintained his innocence in a 1999 killing that has garnered national attention. The five-member board voted 3-1 to recommend Jones' sentence be commuted to life in prison after board member Scott Williams recused himself because of a professional relationship he had with one of the attorneys who spoke on Jones' behalf. Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt ultimately will decide the fate of Jones, who claims h...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A decision is expected Friday on whether judges in Jackson County should be disqualified from hearing court arguments that could determine whether a man is released from prison after serving more than 40 years for a triple murder in Kansas City. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt's office has asked that the Jackson County judges be removed from the case of Kevin Strickland because of perceived bias in Strickland's favor. At a hearing on Monday, Judge Kevin Harrell heard the attorneys for the attorney general argue t...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Monday that sharp spikes in natural gas prices last winter appear to violate Kansas law and he is seeking outside legal help to investigate them. Schmidt's office said it is looking to retain a law firm with expertise in the natural gas marketplace to help with the probe and any potential civil litigation aimed at enforcing the state's anti-profiteering law. His office opened an investigation in February to determine whether the price increases violate state law, Schmidt said. "State law p...
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas farmers have been busy planting next year's winter wheat crop and harvesting the state's other major crops. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that about 4% of the winter wheat has now been planted in Kansas. That's about equal to the state's five-year average for this time of year. The agency also noted in its weekly crop update that about 11 percent of the state's corn crop has been harvested. Just 1% of the sorghum crop has been cut so far in Kansas....
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas legislator accused of kicking a high school student in the testicles pleaded guilty Monday to three lesser misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and was placed on a year's probation under a deal with the local prosecutor. Republican Rep. Mark Samsel also agreed not to use social media for personal purposes or have any contact with the high school student who said he was kicked and another another student who complained of an interaction with Samsel. The lawmaker also agreed to write letters of apology to both s...
VALLEY CENTER, Kan. (AP) — A Valley Center man will be sentenced Nov. 23 for a crash that killed a Wichita police officer and the officer's 10-year-old son. James Neal Dalrymple, 39, pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of involuntary manslaughter while driving under the influence. Prosecutors said Dalrymple, 39, pulled his pickup truck into the path of a motorcycle at a Wichita intersection on April 27, 2018. Stacey Woodson, 37, and his son, Braeden, were on the motorcycle. The elder Woodson died the day of the wreck and Braeden died two d...
