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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department is considering only partially forgiving federal loans for students defrauded by for-profit colleges, according to department officials, abandoning the Obama administration's policy of erasing that debt. Under President Barack Obama, tens of thousands of students deceived by now-defunct for-profit schools had over $550 million in such loans canceled. But President Donald Trump's education secretary, Betsy DeVos, is working on a plan that could grant such students just partial relief, according to d...
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a showdown 25 years in the making: With the world itching to finally get a look at classified Kennedy assassination files, and the deadline for their release just hours away, intelligence officials were still angling for a way to keep their secrets. President Donald Trump, the one man able to block the release, did not appreciate their persistence. He did not intend to make this easy. Like much else surrounding investigations of the 1963 killing of President John F. Kennedy, this week's release of 2,800 records from t...
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Texans owner Bob McNair has released a second apology and is attempting to explain his comments, a day after a report revealed that he said "we can't have the inmates running the prison" during a meeting of NFL owners about players who protest by kneeling during the national anthem. McNair, who first apologized in a statement on Friday, released a second statement regarding his comments on Saturday. He says he wasn't referring to the players in what he calls a "very regretful comment." Instead he says he was "referring t...
HONOLULU (AP) — Trapped on a storm-battered boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for months, Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava were just about out of food and beginning to believe they were completely out of luck when they finally saw it: a U.S. Navy ship chugging toward them. "When I saw the gray ship on the horizon, I was just shaking," Appel told reporters Friday. "I was ready to cry, I was so happy. I knew we were going to live." On Wednesday the pair, followed by their dogs, Zeus and Valentine, boarded the USS Ashland, all four looking r...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Saturday the threat of nuclear missile attack by North Korea is accelerating. In remarks in Seoul with South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo at his side, Mattis accused the North of illegal and unnecessary missile and nuclear programs — and vowed to defeat any attack. Mattis said North Korea engages in "outlaw" behavior and that the U.S. will never accept a nuclear North. He added that regardless of what the North might try, it is overmatched by the firepower and coh...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Even without a week of practice, Mason Rudolph outshined Will Grier in the rain. Rudolph threw three touchdown passes and ran for another score to lead No. 11 Oklahoma State to a 50-39 victory over No. 22 West Virginia on Saturday. A senior, Rudolph earned his 29th win as a starter, breaking the school record set by current coach Mike Gundy from 1986 to 1989. Rudolph was in uniform but held out of practice over the past week in order to rest. Gundy said Rudolph was "dinged" after a win at Texas but didn't specify any i...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A full-scale replica of the Museum of the Bible's Gutenberg Gates has opened in Oklahoma City as part of a five-city tour before the museum opens in Washington, D.C. The Museum of the Bible commissioned the Gutenberg Gates for an entrance. The replica was erected Saturday. The gates display the first 80 lines of Genesis in Latin, as originally printed in the Gutenberg Bible. That was the first major book printed using moveable metal type. It was named for the man who created the method of printing. The replicas will be o...
OKARCHE, Okla. (AP) — A first-class relic of "native son" Stanley Rother was presented to his hometown parish during a recent much-anticipated Mass and special gathering. The relic — a piece of the priest's rib — was carried down the aisle in a reliquary shaped like a cross by his brother, Tom Rother, during the Mass on Oct. 15 at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, which Tom Rother and his family still attend, The Oklahoman reported. The relic gifted to the Okarche church was the same that was viewed and venerated during the beatification Mass...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Both the Oklahoma House and Senate adjourned minutes after convening with neither taking action on a $215 million budget hole. The Senate convened at 10 a.m. Saturday and immediately recessed while the House gaveled in at 11 a.m. and recessed nine minutes later. The special session was called to fill the budget hole, but lawmakers have been unable to reach consensus on ways to raise revenue. A key issue is a proposal to increase the production tax on oil and gas that Democrats have called for since the regular l...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The city where parking meters were born more than eight decades ago is phasing out the last of the coin-gobbling contraptions that reshaped America's downtowns in favor of computerized models seen in many other places. Parking meters came into the picture as the streetcar age gave way to the era of the automobile, remaking urban transportation and the way civic planners and business owners imagined commerce centers for more than three generations. But old-school analogue meters have been disappearing, as cities have been i...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — About 75 people attended the first meeting of a group opposing bringing a Tyson processing plant to Sedgwick County. The Wichita Eagle reports Sedgwick County is one of three finalists for the plant, which the company says would bring 1,600 jobs to its new location. Cloud County and Montgomery County are the other finalists. Don Stull, who has studied the meat and poultry industry for 30 years, warned the crowd Saturday that the plant would mean deplorable working conditions, injuries and police issues. He said Tyson p...
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A Lenexa woman has pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud and has been ordered to pay $88,880 in restitution. Kansas prosecutors say 48-year-old Kerri Jo Hal pleaded guilty Thursday to two felony counts of making a false claim to the Medicaid program. Investigators say Hall, a social worker, billed Medicaid for mental health therapy that she said provided to several eligible recipients but she did not keep records to support the billings. Most of the people denied receiving services or receiving only part of services claimed by H...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police in Kansas City, Kansas, are planning a surprise for a fallen officer's son who was bullied at school after his father died. Officer Mitch Kelchen from Anamosa, Iowa, was killed in a car crash during Labor Day weekend when another driver crossed the center line. At Kelchen's funeral, his oldest son collected business cards from the officers who came to honor his father. But at school another student ripped up the cards, KMBC-TV reported. When two Kansas City, Kansas, officers found out about the bullying, they d...
SOLOMON, Kan. (AP) — A central Kansas woman is riding horses in an effort to raise cancer awareness. Brook Wallace, 22, of Solomon has ridden more than 50 times this month. She dedicates the rides to individuals who have cancer, survived cancer or died of cancer, the Salina Journal reported . "Everyone I've dedicated to has been so overjoyed. It makes me feel so good to be able to bring some light into their day," Wallace said. "Many are survivors and some are still fighting. It means a lot to anyone who has had cancer to be thought of. They w...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man who pleaded guilty in the death of his 7-year-old son whose body was fed to pigs wants a new trial. The Kansas City Star reports court records show 46-year-old Michael Jones will appear in court Friday seeking to withdraw his guilty plea in the 2015 death of Adrian Jones. Jones was sentenced in May to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years after a trial that detailed horrific abuse Adrian suffered from his father and stepmother before he died. Jones pleaded guilty in March to first-degree m...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita State police say they plan to start writing tickets — rather than issuing verbal warnings — for traffic offenses on campus. Beginning Nov. 1, bad driving habits like running stop signs will bring tickets and fines. Police said in a news release the plan is designed to change the perception that driving violations are tolerated on campus, and to protect people from unnecessary accidents. The department says it has received several complaints, particularly about drivers running stop signs and not yielding to pedes...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs officials say an unauthorized, secret waiting list for psychotherapy appointments at Omaha's VA hospital delayed care for 87 veterans this year. Letters addressed to Iowa Sens. Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley and Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse — all Republicans — blamed the unauthorized list on "training deficiencies" involving the hospital's medical support assistants, the Omaha World-Herald reported Saturday. The VA's response to Sasse said no employees were fired, but one employee who was involve...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his vice president came out this past week with initiatives that are not as big, bold or immediate as they appeared. Despite the drum-roll implied in Mike Pence's recent remarks to Christians, the U.S. is not suddenly walking away from U.N. humanitarian relief programs and switching all that money directly to persecuted religious groups. And Trump's action on the opioid epidemic counts on a powerful anti-drug punch from advertising, a feeble weapon at least in the past. A look at their statements a...
NEW BOSTON, Texas (AP) — A Texas prison inmate has been convicted of capital murder in the 2015 beating death of a guard who was escorting the handcuffed inmate to a cell. Billy Joel Tracy was convicted Friday in New Boston. The attack happened July 15, 2015, as Corrections Officer Timothy Davison was escorting Tracy from a dayroom back to his cell at the Telford Unit. The punishment phase begins Wednesday. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Investigators say Tracy slipped one hand out of a cuff, grabbed Davison's tray slot bar and u...
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A construction method rarely used in the United States underpins a new student housing project at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Large panels of wood and glue-laminated wooden beams from a European supplier will form the main structural elements of two five-story halls built to house 710 students, said Daniel Clairmont, the university's director of engineering and construction. The alternative to steel framing and concrete is expected to add roughly $1.3 million in construction costs to the estimated $79 mil...
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AP) — When North Korea launches a ballistic missile over the Pacific, the United States top leaders turn to the National Air and Space Intelligence Center based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Analysis by NASIC keeps the White House, Congress and the Pentagon aware of air, space and cyber threats and determine what dangers a missile from the rogue country has for the U.S. and its allies. "It is no exaggeration to say that the assessments NASIC generates can make the difference between war and p...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Before he can focus on Bedlam, Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy wants to eliminate some sloppy play that slowed the Cowboys in a double-digit win in rainy West Virginia. West Virginia recovered a blocked punt in the end zone for a touchdown. Less than a minute later, Oklahoma State's Mason Rudolph threw an interception that was returned for another score in the Cowboys' 50-39 win Saturday. Gundy's tone was subdued afterward and mixed more with disappointment than celebration. He suggests the 11th-ranked Cowboys are not y...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — For a while, it looked like No. 10 Oklahoma and Texas Tech were going to re-create their record-breaking offensive output from last year, when each team piled up 854 yards in Oklahoma's 66-59 victory. Each team scored touchdowns on its first three possessions Saturday, but Oklahoma's defense made some key adjustments to back star quarterback Baker Mayfield in a 49-27 victory Saturday night. Mayfield completed 22 of 34 passes for 281 yards and four touchdowns and ran for another score. "Great team win - really proud of t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says three people have been killed in crashes on state roads. The patrol says in a preliminary report that 20-year-old Emily Barrera died Sunday morning in Creek County after being ejected from her vehicle. Troopers are still investigating the cause of the crash. On Saturday afternoon, 71-year-old Larry Johnson was killed in Greer County near Granite. The patrol says Johnson's truck went off the road, across the center median and eventually came to rest in a creek bed. Earlier Saturday, 2...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The city of Lawrence will allow anyone with a proper permit to carry concealed firearms to bring weapons into public buildings starting in January. The Lawrence Journal World reports City Attorney Toni Wheeler says Lawrence has decided to allow concealed weapons now because the law requires additional security measures if they are banned. Wheeler says the city won't be in position to reinstate its ban on concealed weapons unless it adds more security guards and metal detectors to certain buildings. Mayor Leslie Soden s...
