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DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — Huddled around the open books, the women intently discussed detailed passages about the lives of sea turtles and the cave paintings of the Mayans. For three hours a day, twice a week, they gather at Carrie Matthews Recreation Center to study science, social studies, math and language arts in hopes of fulfilling a common goal — to pass the GED tests. "I quit high school decades ago and never went back. I'm 40 years old now and have four daughters, all who graduated from high school. I'm so proud of them," Debra Reed sai...
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Students at Auburn University are trying to connect with friends and strangers to talk about mental health. The Opelika-Auburn news reports that the student organization Active Minds held a series of events throughout last week to promote mental health awareness. On Monday, students could meet with counselors and service dogs. On Tuesday, the annual "Send Silence Packing" event saw the Campus Green Space filled with backpacks, each representing someone who has committed suicide. More events were held Wednesday and T...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — On Dec. 14, 2018, Aaron Cole was about to buy a new house and received an email that he thought was from his title company, directing him to make a $123,000 deposit. Cole complied, not realizing that a sophisticated hacker network had likely been spying on his communications with the title company and that although the email looked like others he had received from the title company, this time, the email address was slightly different. A week later, the title company called, advising him it was time to send money. The O...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Nearly a century ago, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built a large dam near Augusta to supply water for the steam locomotives that at the time were chugging across the dusty Kansas prairie. Today the aging Santa Fe Lake Dam is considered a high-hazard dam because of its potential for the loss of life if it fails. An analysis by The Associated Press of dams across the country has found that it's among more than two dozen potentially dangerous dams in Kansas that are in such poor shape they are vulnerable to f...
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — So far, electric vehicles haven't been accepted in the United States, with fewer than 1.5% of new-vehicle buyers choosing them over internal combustion engines. That surely will change as more manufacturers offer vehicles with longer range and fast-charging networks keep growing. Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., Volkswagen AG, Tesla Inc. and others are placing big bets on the technology. Next week in Los Angeles, Ford will show off an electric SUV that is inspired by the Mustang performance car. It's the company's f...
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Officials from a tech startup at the University of Notre Dame have developed a prosthetic hand that they say would cost less than those currently on the market and require less training for amputees. ProstheTech hopes to finish testing its myoelectric prosthetic hand — which works by using existing electrical signals in an amputee's muscles — by the end of this year. The firm recently received $20,000 from Elevate Ventures, an entrepreneurial development advocacy organization, to finalize its prototype. In order to re...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Despite a fresh injection of four big movies into the marketplace including a Stephen King adaptation, a World War II epic, a glossy, holiday-themed romantic comedy and a family friendly comedy, audiences largely stayed away from theaters this weekend and the North American box office is hurting. Down nearly 27% from last year, the sluggish weekend allowed for a few big surprises however. The biggest surprise was the fact that the Roland Emmerich film "Midway," which slightly overperformed, snagged the first-place spot over W...
Back in 1973, tens of millions of Americans tuned in to what Variety called "the hottest daytime soap opera" — the Senate Watergate hearings that eventually led to President Richard Nixon's resignation. It was a communal experience, and by some estimates, more than 80% of Americans tuned in to at least part of the Watergate telecasts. They were offered by ABC, CBS and NBC, as well as PBS, which won acclaim and viewers by showing not only the live hearings but also the full-length replays in prime time. Seeing the witnesses lay out the case a...
SHAWNEE – Entering the week in pole position to claim the program's first-ever No. 1-seed for the Great American Conference Tournament, Oklahoma Baptist volleyball is set to close out the regular season against Southeastern Oklahoma State and Northwestern Oklahoma State. The Bison will close out their home slate on Tuesday, Nov. 12 against the Savage Storm at 5:30 PM inside Mabee Arena at the Noble Complex. Oklahoma Baptist then travels to Alva for a big showdown against the Rangers. In conjunction with Samaritan's Purse, Operation Christmas C...
SHAWNEE, Okla. – The East Central University men's basketball team started on the right foot, with an 89-76 victory over Wayne State College at the Central Region Challenge, hosted by Oklahoma Baptist. Scoring First Half: 43-34 Both teams scored in the opening minute for a 2-all tie, before going cold for the next two minutes ECU was the first to get scoring again, going on a 3-0 run to take the lead The Tigers (1-0) used small runs throughout the stanza to push the lead out to as many as 9 (19-10), with 11:35 left The Wildcats (0-4) then w...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The persistent concern about Oklahoma's defense has returned to the front of the picture of the Sooners' season. Last year, the Sooners fired their defensive coordinator and eventually posted some of the worst numbers in school history. Oklahoma hired Alex Grinch, and a turnaround appeared to be in the works when the Sooners went six straight games without allowing more than 27 points. The past two games have seemed more like last year. Oklahoma gave up 48 points against Kansas State, and then 41 against Iowa State. The 1...
Wheat for Dec. fell 4.50 cents at 5.0575 a bushel; Dec. corn was off 4 cents at 3.7325 a bushel, Dec. oats was rose 8 cents $3.1225 a bushel; while Nov. soybeans lost 14.50 cents at $9.05 a bushel. Beef was higher and pork was lower on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Dec. live cattle rose .62 cent at $1.1987 a pound; Nov. feeder cattle was up .57 cent at $1.4757 a pound; while Oct. lean hogs was off .82 cent at $.6330 pound....
TULSA, Okla., Nov. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Samson Resources II, LLC ("Samson" or the "Company") announced today that it recently turned to sales two additional operated horizontal Frontier formation wells in Converse County, Wyoming. The Bohlander Fed 3974-1720 2FH generated an IP 24 rate of 3,408 barrels of oil equivalent per day ("boe/d") and an IP 30 of 2,248 boe/d (60% oil) from a 9,472-foot lateral length, or 237 boe/d per 1,000 lateral feet. The Allemand 21-2017 39-74FH produced an IP 24 rate of 3,044 boe/d and an IP 30 of 2,127 boe/d (5...
A small-town Oklahoma policeman was charged with killing his chief after what authorities described as an alcohol-fueled brawl in a Florida Panhandle hotel room. The two men had been staying at the Hilton on Pensacola Beach over the weekend for a law enforcement conference, said Escambia County Sheriff's spokeswoman Amber Southard. At some point early Sunday evening, hotel security was called because the two men were being disruptive, Southard said. Later that evening, hotel staff called the sheriff's department because the men were fighting....
FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — A 70-year-old Oklahoma man has been sentenced to 15 days in an Arizona jail for concealing the dead body of his wife in his vehicle. Rodney Puckett also was sentenced in Pinal County Superior Court to three years of supervised probation. He's already served more than 180 days in jail and is scheduled to be released Nov. 23. Puckett, of Sand Springs, was arrested May 13 after an Eloy restaurant worker reported seeing a car going through the drive-thru with a naked body in the front seat. Police say Puckett told them he w...
ALVA, Okla. - Twenty years ago, Northwestern Oklahoma State University's football team brought home the school's only team national championship, completing an undefeated season and winning the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics crown. Northwestern will celebrate the 20th anniversary of that championship season by welcoming home team members for a reunion and recognition at Saturday's football game. "The 1999 championship season remains one of the great historical moments in Northwestern's history, and brings back fond memories...
Although most young Americans believe in the value of higher education, many still consider a high school diploma alone to be enough for success, according to a survey of teens and young adults by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The findings alarm some experts who say young Americans don't seem to be getting the message that college pays off. Federal labor data shows a wide earnings gap between Americans who do and do not have a college degree, and unemployment rates are far lower for those with a bachelor's or...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some good health news: Americans' cholesterol levels are dropping, and more people at especially high risk are getting treatment. Researchers say Monday's report suggests a controversial change in recommendations for cholesterol treatment may be starting to pay off. "It is very heartening," said Dr. Pankaj Arora of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who led the study. "But there is more to do." Heart disease is the world's leading killer and high cholesterol is a key risk factor — but not the only one. Doctors long tre...
CHICAGO (AP) — An arctic air mass that brought snow and ice to an area stretching from the Rocky Mountains to northern New England on Monday was poised to give way to record-breaking cold temperatures. In mid-Michigan, three people were killed in a two-vehicle crash that the Eaton County sheriff's department attributed to heavy snowfall. And in Kansas, the highway patrol reported that a truck lost control on an icy highway and slammed head-on into another truck, killing an 8-year-old girl in the other vehicle. In Chicago, where as much as 6 i...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Commission will vote this week on whether to restrict turkey hunting harvest in parts of Kansas for at least two years. The commission will take up two measures Thursday in Scott City. A proposal from state biologists would reduce spring turkey tag limits to one per person and another would cancel the fall turkey season, beginning in 2020-21, for segments of the state. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the proposals would affect most of northeast Kansas; south-central Kansas and s...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The state transportation agency says Kansas hit a 10-year high for deer-related crashes last year. The agency says 10,734 deer-related wrecks were reported in 2018 in Kansas. The Department of Transportation says that accounted for 16.5% of total wrecks for the year. The department's big game coordinator, Levi Jaster, said the increase in crashes is partly because of an increase in the deer population. Disease reduced the population beginning in 2008 until 2013, which is when the agency recorded the lowest number of d...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri is criticizing the tactics of a group that led a successful campaign to remove Martin Luther King's name from a Kansas City street. During an appearance Sunday on MSNBC's "PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton," Cleaver was particularly upset that some "Save the Paseo" members staged a silent protest during a rally at a black church the Sunday before last week's election , which restored the name of the street to The Paseo. Cleaver, the first black mayor of Kansas City, said even the Ku K...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks mostly fell on Monday as uncertainty continues to hang over U.S.-China trade talks, or at least over investors' perception of them. The stock market has been rallying for five weeks in part on optimism that the United States and China are nearing a stopgap deal to calm their dispute. But President Donald Trump said over the weekend that reports about U.S. willingness to lift tariffs were "incorrect," only two days after a Chinese official said both sides agreed to rollbacks if talks progress. Stocks dropped as soon a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The view among the national security officials was unanimous: Military aid to Ukraine should not be stopped. But the White House's acting chief of staff thought otherwise. That was the testimony of Laura Cooper, a Defense Department official, whose deposition was released Monday in the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. "My sense is that all of the senior leaders of the U.S. national security departments and agencies were all unified in their — in their view that this assistance was essential," she said. "An...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Mini Mercury skipped across the vast, glaring face of the sun Monday in a rare celestial transit. Stargazers used solar-filtered binoculars and telescopes to spot Mercury — a tiny black dot — as it passed directly between Earth and the sun on Monday. The eastern U.S. and Canada got the whole 5 ½-hour show, weather permitting, along with Central and South America. The rest of the world, except for Asia and Australia, got just a sampling. Mercury is the solar system's smallest, innermost planet. The next transi...
