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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP, Oct. 1, 2016) — Bob Shipley dislikes illiteracy and enjoys repurposing things. So, fashioning a couple of used newspaper vending machines into libraries seemed like a natural thing to do. The now-retired educator, bicycle shop owner and engineer had been volunteering as a mentor in an adult literacy program, knowing that "reading proficiency in this state is abominable," he said. Wanting to do something else to combat the problem, he set up the Little Free Library stations in front of his home on the 6900 block of B...
DENVER (AP, Oct. 1, 2016) -- A proposal to build one of the biggest wind electric power projects in Colorado to provide clean energy to the Front Range has won approval from the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. Xcel Energy is planning to build 300 wind turbines across more than 110,000 acres in Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson, and Lincoln counties in eastern Colorado as part of the Rush Creek Wind Project. A 90-mile transmission line to a substation near Deer Trail will bring the power to the Front Range, the Denver Post reported...
BEACH HAVEN, N.J. (AP, Sept. 30, 2016) — Police say a 59-year-old man who wore a bikini fashioned out of see-through plastic wrap on a New Jersey beach is facing a criminal charge. They say Stephen Wojciehowski spent two days on a Long Beach Island beach wearing a homemade bikini in which his genitals were clearly exposed and was charged with lewdness. NJ.com reports the Stafford Township man was arrested Monday and was released pending further court proceedings. A woman who answered the phone at his house said "nobody's here" and hung up. I...
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP, Sept. 30, 2016) — Police say a Pennsylvania drug dealing suspect was found hiding 110 small bags of heroin in his buttocks. Authorities say 32-year-old Carbondale resident Corey Davis was arrested Thursday in Scranton, where police conducted an undercover drug buy. Police say they found the other drugs when they searched Davis after his arrest. Davis remained Friday in the Lackawanna County jail, where he was unable to post bond. Online court records show he faces a preliminary hearing Oct. 6. He doesn't have an attorney l...
NEW YORK (AP, Oct. 1, 2016) — Ever hear about the gargantuan octopus that dragged a New York City ferry and its 400 passengers to the river bottom nearly 53 years ago? A cast bronze monument dedicated to the victims of the steam ferry Cornelius G. Kolff recently appeared in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan, erected a stone's throw from a handful of other somber memorials to soldiers, sailors and mariners lost at sea or on the battlefield. But if you can't recall the disaster it could be because the artist behind the memorial, J...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP, Sept. 30, 2016) — Crediting "barstool science," a small-town tavern in central North Dakota is laying claim as the center of North America after snatching the title from a nearby city that allowed its trademark to lapse. Hanson's Bar in Robinson — a town of fewer than 40 people — is now touting its continental bull's-eye status, dismissing Rugby's decades-long claim as the continental nucleus. And people in Rugby, a town of about 2,900 about 85 miles north, are miffed. "It's upsetting," said Dale Niewoehner, Rugby's former m...
PRAGUE (AP, Sept. 30, 2016) — A rare museum in the Czech capital is moving to Prague's Old Town in a move to become better accessible to tourists. What started with a discovery of Gothic and Baroque toilets during a reconstruction of a 13th-century building near Prague has become an unusual pastime of collecting historical chamber pots and toilets. Later, a museum of toilets opened in 2014 in Prague's 2 district. Among some 2,000 pieces on display — with the oldest dating to the 15th century — is a chamber spot acquired for the Lincoln Bedro...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP, Oct. 1, 2016) — Cheryl Henry remembers putting on her first pair of glasses in second grade and getting a whole new view of her family's Iowa farm. "Mom," she recalls saying, "did you know you can see to the end of the driveway?" She switched to contact lenses as a high school freshman — she was a volleyball player — and had worn them ever since. Recently, however, Henry, 63, threw out her contact lens solution. She'd developed the beginnings of cataracts, so she scheduled the first of two cataract surgeries to replace her c...
WARSAW, Poland (AP, Sept. 30, 2016) — A team of explorers say they've discovered that a cave in the eastern Czech Republic is the world's deepest flooded fissure, going at least 404 meters (1,325 feet) deep. Polish explorer Krzysztof Starnawski, who led the team, told The Associated Press on Friday that he felt like a "Columbus of the 21th century" to have made the discovery near the Czech town of Hranice. Starnawski, 48, determined Tuesday that the flooded limestone Hranicka Propast, or Hranice Abyss, which divers, including him, have e...
WASHINGTON (AP, Oct. 1, 2016) — Hackers have made their way into state election systems "in a few cases," but the federal government hasn't found "any manipulation" so far of voting information, the Homeland Security secretary said Saturday. Twenty-one states have contacted the agency for help in safeguarding their election systems, and Jeh Johnson is urging additional requests for cybersecurity assistance. "We hope to see more," Secretary Jeh Johnson said in a statement. A department official told The Associated Press on Friday that hackers h...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP, Sept. 30, 2016) — A federal judge has rejected an attempt by three conservative states to block the U.S. government from ceding oversight of some of the internet's core systems. U.S. District Judge George C. Hanks Jr. in Galveston, Texas, denied Friday a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Texas, Oklahoma and Arizona. They sought to keep the Commerce Department from relinquishing oversight of ICAN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The internet relies on the domain name system, or DNS. That i...
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP, Sept. 30, 2016) — Two suburban New York school districts are beefing up security after alerting police of so-called creepy clown reports. Newsday reports (http://nwsdy.li/2cHNvn5 ) that the Central Islip and North Babylon school districts on Long Island have been targeted by clown-related social media threats. Suffolk County Police Chief of Department Stu Cameron says his department has received reports of people wearing clown costumes while acting in a menacing manner but has not confirmed any of the reports. C...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP, Oct. 1, 2016) — The sprawling encampment that's a living protest against the four-state Dakota Access pipeline has most everything it needs to be self-sustaining — food, firewood, fresh water and shelter. Everything, that is, except permission to be on the federal land in North Dakota. Federal officials say they won't evict the Oceti Sakowin, or Seven Council Fires camp, due to free speech reasons, even though it's on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land near the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers that many Nat...
HOUSTON (AP, Sept. 30, 2016) — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by 11 this week to 522. A year ago, 809 rigs were active. Depressed energy prices have sharply curtailed oil and gas exploration. Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday that 425 rigs sought oil and 96 explored for natural gas this week. One was listed as miscellaneous. Among major oil- and gas-producing states, New Mexico gained three rigs and North Dakota was up two. Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, O...
HONOLULU (AP, Sept. 30, 2016) — Prosecutors from around the world say the fight against sex trafficking is moving online as traffickers use popular websites to advertise sexual services. They talked Friday about how they can crack down on the problem at an international sex trafficking summit in Waikiki that drew prosecutors from Asia, the U.S. and Canada. The challenges each nation faces are similar, and victims are often unwilling to cooperate with investigators because they've endured a history of abuse, said Jackie Lacey, Los Angeles C...
MONTICELLO (Oct. 2, 2016) — The University of Arkansas at Monticello football team took down the Bison of Oklahoma Baptist University Saturday afternoon, in a home Great American Conference match-up. Final score in this contest was 31-27 in favor of Arkansas-Monticello. The Weevils (2-3, 2-3 GAC) balanced an offensive attack that saw UAM total 320 passing yards and 141 rushing yards. On the other side, OBU (2-3, 2-3 GAC) totaled 248 passing yards along with 149 rushing yards, however the Arkansas-Monticello defense provided big play after b...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (Oct. 2, 2016) -- Evan Lassiter threw for 311 yards and the defense recorded eight tackles for loss as No. 7 Henderson State beat Arkansas Tech 27-20, Saturday in Russellville, Ark. Lassiter, in his first start as the Reddie quarterback, completed 26-of-37 passes and a pair of touchdowns. Henderson, 5-0 on the season, scored on the opening drive as Lassiter hooked up with Al Lasker for a 5-yard score to finish a 10-play, 6-yard drive. Lassiter completed 5-of-6 passes on the drive including a 25-yard pass to Courtney Whitehead...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. (Oct. 2, 2016) - The Ouachita Tigers fell to 3-2 on the year after a grueling battle with the 20th-ranked Harding Bisons in Searcy, Ark. on Saturday by a final of 24-20. Despite holding the Harding rushing offense to only 108 yards on the ground through the first three quarters, a 75-yard run by Harding's Park Parish in the fourth quarter set up the Bisons' winning score. Ouachita quarterback Austin Warford went 8-17-1 for 165 yards and two touchdowns, including a 77-yard bomb to Tarrodd Collier. The Tigers managed 341 yards...
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (Oct. 2, 2016) – The Southern Arkansas Mulerider Cross Country team returned to action after last week's hiatus and recorded a 14th-place finish overall in the Non-Division I field at the always competitive Chile Pepper run hosted by the University of Arkansas on Saturday morning. TEAM FINISH Southern Arkansas (14th Non-Division I) INDIVIDUAL FINISHES Senior Doug Palmer led SAU for the fourth-consecutive meet and did so with a 52nd-place finish overall at 25:39.83, while being the sixth Great American Conference runner to c...
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP, Oct. 2, 2016) — Baker Mayfield and Oklahoma took advantage of their fresh start in Big 12 play, even with a far-from-perfect effort. Mayfield made up for two lost fumbles with four touchdowns, running for two and throwing two long ones to Dede Westbrook, and the Sooners held on to win their conference opener, 52-46 at 21st-ranked TCU on Saturday. "To come into a road environment like that and battle back, and kind of take over the game, just completely take momentum, it's good to see," Mayfield said. "The biggest thing is...
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP, Oct. 2, 2016) — TCU coach Gary Patterson was admittedly upset with the officiating, especially the intentional grounding penalty against Kenny Hill when the 21st-ranked Horned Frogs had the ball for one last drive in a 52-46 loss to Oklahoma. Patterson also felt there was a lack of holding calls. And that all led to an apparent swipe at Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield. "I got a quarterback who writes a whole article on me, how I treated him wrong, but I can't talk about officials," Patterson said after the game S...
TULSA, Okla. (AP, Oct. 2, 2016) — Black residents were between 2½ to 4 times more likely than white residents to have force used against them by Tulsa police officers in the past six years, according to an analysis of police data. Even though rates involving police use of force against black residents dipped in 2014 and 2015, officers still used force 2½ times more frequently against blacks than whites last year, the Tulsa World reported (http://bit.ly/2diDbbt ). The per-capita analysis relied on use of police force data by race for the pas...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP, Oct. 2, 2016) — Family members and a woman who was in a relationship with a Kansas City, Kansas, man who died after a traffic stop have filed federal lawsuits accusing police of wrongdoing. Craig J. McKinnis, 44, died in May 2014 after police stopped his then-girlfriend, Phyllis Salazar, for a traffic violation. Police said he tried to flee and then died after a brief struggle. They said officers realized he was unresponsive and tried to help him before he died. His relatives and Salazar have filed two separate federal l...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP, Oct. 2, 2016) — A 21-year-old University of Kansas student who won $10,000 in a half-court shot game has plans for the money: help her grandmother who rescued her from foster care when she was 10 years old. "I was just thinking about my Nana and what I was going to do to help her," said Jordan Stiers, a sophomore from Independence, Missouri, who won the money Saturday when Brennan Bechard, director of Kansas basketball operations, made the half-court shot during Late Night in the Phog in Lawrence, The Wichita Eagle r...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP, Oct. 2, 2016) — A 22-year-old Wichita, Kansas, man who hiked 2,190 miles of the Appalachian Trail through 14 states is crediting God and Dr. Seuss for giving him the inspiration. Joshua Gribble completed the Georgia-to-Maine, 158-day trek on Sept. 15, the Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/2dxmYhR ) reported. Gribble said the motivation came from a 2015 church service in which he heard the pastor quote Dr. Seuss, "You're off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting! So get on your way!" Gribble, an avid h...
