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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP, posted Sept. 20, 2016) — Law enforcement officials are warning that people involved in a rash of creepy clown hoaxes across the state could be prosecuted. Decatur police said Tuesday that a 16-year-old and 12-year-old were arrested in connection with "Klown" social media accounts that made threats against area schools. Police said there was no valid threat of danger; the messages were an attempt to disrupt school activities and spread fear through the community. The Montgomery Advertiser reported that Montgomery Police C...
FARGO, N.D. (AP, posted Sept. 20, 2016) — A joint task force of North Dakota and federal officials is investigating a clash between Dakota Access pipeline protesters and private security guards earlier this month, a county sheriff announced Tuesday. The Morton County Sheriff's Department is heading up the probe of the Sept. 3 incident on private land, after which private security guards and protesters reported injuries. Tribal officials say about 30 protesters were pepper-sprayed and some were bitten by dogs at the construction site near the St...
Neil Young is joining the protest against the four-state Dakota Access pipeline with his new song, "Indian Givers." The music video for the song shows clips of Young driving his car and footage of the recent anti-pipeline protests, including a man who chained himself to construction equipment last week. Hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from around the country have gathered at an encampment north of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota over the past weeks to protest the construction of the four-state, $3.8 billion...
DENVER (AP, posted Sept. 20, 2016) — State records show an oil and gas industry group donated $1 million to support a measure on the November ballot that would make it harder to amend the Colorado constitution. Colorado Public Radio reported Tuesday (http://tinyurl.com/jz2gju3) the donation came from a group called Protecting Colorado's Economy, Environment and Energy Independence. The group had been campaigning against proposed ballot measures that would impose new restrictions on the industry, but officials say those measures didn't a...
ATLANTA (AP, posted Sept. 20, 2016) — Gasoline should begin flowing again Wednesday — through a temporary bypass on a critical pipeline — after a major leak in Alabama forced a shutdown that led to surging fuel prices and scattered gas shortages across the South, a company official said Tuesday. The roughly 500-foot (152-meter) section of pipe serving as the bypass is now complete, but supply disruptions may continue for days, Colonial Pipeline spokesman Steve Baker told The Associated Press. "When Line 1 restarts, it will take several days...
WASHINGTON (AP, posted Sept. 20, 2016) — Top officials for Monsanto and Bayer defended their proposed $66 billion merger before skeptical senators on Tuesday, insisting that the deal would lead to greater investments in technology that could help American farmers. Monsanto, the American seed and weed-killer, and Bayer, the German medicine and farm-chemical maker, responded to concerns from Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Grassley warned that consolidation and competition in the U.S. seed a...
Caleb Tyler Kimberling and Hana H. Rashe Newman, both of Turpin, have filed for a marriage license with certificate ($5)....
