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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Research shows that feral hogs are doing millions of dollars in damage in South Carolina. The Post and Courier in Charleston (http://bit.ly/2fCAyzT ) reports that a Clemson University report has found that the hogs do about $115 million in damage each year. The report says the animals root up lawns and other plantings and drive off game while creating problems for the agriculture, livestock and timber industries. Report author and Clemson professor Shari Rodriguez says the hogs eat just about anything. "They are e...
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Electronic medical records have spawned a new health care profession: medical scribe. Working alongside doctors, scribes enter information into a computer, their fingers furiously typing away so the doctors' digits don't have to. "I feel like it benefits me, but it benefits the patients more," said Dr. Meena Agarwala of St. Luke's Northern Valley Primary Care in Hanover Township, Lehigh County. That's because she spends less time facing a computer screen and more time face-to-face with the individuals in her exam room. T...
LONDON (AP) — In Britain, Big Brother just got bigger. After months of wrangling, Parliament has passed a contentious new snooping law that gives authorities — from police and spies to food regulators, fire officials and tax inspectors — powers to look at the internet browsing records of everyone in the country. The law requires telecoms companies to keep records of all users' web activity for a year, creating databases of personal information that the firms worry could be vulnerable to leaks and hackers. Civil liberties groups say the law e...
SABATTUS, Maine (AP) — In the worlds of birders and craft beer lovers, there's a new paradigm, and it involves searching for ales along with the eagles, pairing stouts with swans and enjoying some bocks in tandem with buntings. Tours and events aimed at attracting both beer nerds and bird enthusiasts are popping up all over the country, attracting bearded microbrew lovers, field-guide-wielding bird buffs and folks with a passion for both suds and sparrows. Bird-and-beer happenings are taking place from Los Angeles to Minneapolis to Hampton, N...
DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — While his mother was preparing food in the kitchen, a 5-year-old Florida boy called 911 to invite law enforcement officers over for Thanksgiving dinner. Monica Webster of the Walton County Sheriff's Office tells the News Herald (http://bit.ly/2gs8nkH ) that with all the bad calls they receive every day, this was a happy call. But young Billy Nolin's family had no idea he'd invited guests to dinner. Mom Landi McCormick says she was cooking when Billy's grandfather noticed him talking to someone on an old c...
DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern's offense went cold over the final eight and an half minutes between regulation and overtime and found itself on the wrong end of a 78-73 overtime loss to Texas A&M-Commerce on Sunday afternoon in the season's home opener in Bloomer Sullivan Arena. The loss drops the Savage Storm to 3-2 overall on the year heading back into Great American Conference play on Dec. 1 against Ouachita Baptist at 5:30 p.m. in Bloomer Sullivan Arena. An Olivia Potter transition bucket would put SE up 70-63 with 3:29 to play, however t...
KINGSVILLE, Texas – Southeastern picked up its third-straight win and left the TAMUK Thanksgiving Classic with a 64-59 win over host Texas A&M-Kingsville on Saturday night in Kingsville, Texas. The Savage Storm improves to 4-3 on the season and will return home on Dec. 1 for its first home Great American Conference matchup when it hosts Ouachita Baptist at 7:30 p.m. Nathan Jackson turned in 17 points on a 5-of-8 shooting from the floor with a 7-of-9 performance from the free throw line. Kevin Buckingham followed with 12 points with a pair of t...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Maddie Manning had 16 points and nine rebounds and No. 13 Oklahoma used a strong third quarter to defeat Colorado State 70-55 on Sunday. The Sooners (5-0) made 12 of 16 shots and scored a season-high 28 points in the third quarter to stretch a 31-23 halftime advantage to 59-36. Colorado State (2-3) hit three 3-pointers in the fourth quarter and cut the lead to 12 before Derica Wyatt blunted the surge with a 3-pointer with 1:40 to play. Oklahoma made 8 of 10 free throws in the fourth quarter to finish 20 of 25 for the g...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A lawsuit by a partner of Oklahoma City energy magnate Aubrey McClendon challenges the distribution of funds from McClendon's estate. McClendon, the chairman and CEO of now-closed American Energy Partners LP, died in a March 2 vehicle crash in Oklahoma City. The lawsuit by AEP Chief Financial Officer Scott Mueller says portions of the $136.5 million sale of SCOOP Energy Company and SCOOP Holdings should go to him, Chief Investment Officer Ryan Turner, company lawyer Tom Blalock and other company employees. The lawsuit f...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Like many lifelong Oklahomans John J. Dwyer briefly strayed south to what appeared to be greener pastures. After journalism school at the University of Oklahoma he felt a calling to the seminary and spent some time teaching history in Texas. The seminary taught him research and assimilation skills he never learned or needed as a sports journalist or newspaperman, according to The Norman Transcript (http://bit.ly/2fpNshj ). It was an invitation to research, write and edit a comprehensive text on Oklahoma history that b...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Dressed in white shirts and white knee-length skirts, the roughly 50 young women are arranged in six tiered rows. But even in that well-pressed sea of white, Margaret Laird is easy to spot. Just look for the biggest smile. The photo, which depicts Laird's Navy WAVES training class at Hunter College in New York City, is preserved in a tattered scrapbook, along with the dozens of other pictures she brought back from her military service — one of the side benefits of serving at a Navy photographic lab. While it's been more tha...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A spokesman for Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt says Pruitt is to meet with President-elect Donald Trump. Lincoln Ferguson told reporters that Pruitt will meet with Trump and his transition team Monday in New York City. Pruitt is a Republican and former state legislator. He was elected attorney general in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. He is not eligible to run for re-election again because of term limits and has been considered a possible future candidate for governor. Gov. Mary Fallin and former state House S...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Overseeing chronically overcrowded, rapidly deteriorating facilities, Oklahoma's prison director is seeking to triple his department's budget in hopes of reversing decades of deferred maintenance and neglect that has jeopardized a linchpin of public safety. "We're not a listing ship. We are a sinking ship," Department of Corrections Director Joe Allbaugh said after the state Board of Corrections approved his nearly $1.65 billion budget request for the fiscal year that begins July 1 and sent it to state lawmakers for t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Here's the breakdown of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections' nearly $1.65 billion budget request for the fiscal year that begins July 1: SALARY INCREASES: About $10 million to pay for 5 percent salary increase to recruit and retain staff. IMMEDIATE FACILITY NEEDS: More than $123 million to repair and replace aging and deteriorating infrastructure and systems at all facilities. INMATE HEALTH CARE: Almost $161 million to maintain standards of health care, as well as combat rising medical and mental health costs and take c...
MEDFORD, Okla. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded a magnitude 3.4 earthquake in north-central Oklahoma. The quake was recorded at 8:34 a.m. Sunday seven miles southeast of Medford, about 85 miles north of Oklahoma City. No injuries or damage have been reported, but the USGS reports the earthquake was felt as far away as Claremore, 115 miles to the east and from central Oklahoma to near Hutchinson in south-central Kansas. Geologists say damage is unlikely in earthquakes below magnitude 4.0. Oklahoma's earthquakes have been linked t...
DENVER (AP) — Descendants of Native Americans killed in the Sand Creek massacre are on the last leg of their annual healing run marking the 152nd anniversary of the attack. Cheyenne and Arapaho runners started the journey on Thursday after a ceremony at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site near Eads, where nearly 200 tribal members were killed on Nov. 29, 1864. On Sunday, they'll visit Denver's Riverside Cemetery to pay tribute to two U.S. Army officers who refused to participate in the attack before continuing on to the state C...
DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — Electricity from a wind farm under construction in western Kansas will help supply the power for a Microsoft data center in Wyoming. The Hutchinson News reports (http://j.mp/2fG6Hq5) that Microsoft signed a 10-year-contract to buy all 178 megawatts of power from the Bloom Wind Project, which is under construction on 15,000 acres in Ford and Clark counties, about 20 miles south of Dodge City. Alberta, Canada-based Capital Power owns the project, and expects to go online late in 2017. Microsoft will couple the K...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Donations have been pouring in for a Wichita baby who was kidnapped after her mother was shot to death. A GoFundMe account set up to collect money to bury the mother of a kidnapped Wichita infant was close to meeting its $15,000 goal, The Wichita Eagle reported (http://j.mp/2fzl1Rf). Laura Abarca-Nogueda, 27, was shot to death in her home last week. Her 6-day-old baby, Sophia, was reported missing and was recovered a couple days later at a home in Dallas. The baby has been reunited with family. Abarca-Nogueda's funeral i...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A mammoth plan to save nuclear power plants in Illinois, derided as a corporate bailout by consumer advocates but hailed as a leap forward in energy-efficiency by environmentalists, faces an uphill climb this week in the final days of the General Assembly's fall session. What began as a means of rewarding Exelon Corp. for generating "clean" nuclear energy and of keeping open unprofitable plants in Clinton and the Quad Cities has evolved into a far-reaching, if contentious, revamp of state energy policy. Here are some q...
NEW YORK (AP) — A multimillion-dollar trove of seized Impressionist art believed to have been owned by the regime of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos has sat for five years in a climate-controlled Brooklyn warehouse, the subject of a bitter legal fight. At issue is whether the 50 works — which include an 1881 painting by Claude Monet — should go to thousands of victims of the now-dead dictator, to the current Philippine government or to the personal secretary to Imelda Marcos, who contends she was rightfully given some of the art as gifts...
BOWIE, Md. (AP) — The mob hauled Henry Davis out of the county jail on Calvert Street, led him through the Clay Street neighborhood to Brickyard Hill overlooking the end of College Creek and hung him from a Chestnut tree. Their rage not satisfied, they shot him 100 times or more. A man took pictures of Davis, and sold postcards, two for a quarter. One customer bought 50 copies. The Evening Capital headline read: "Assault on woman avenged - Davis dragged from jail and lynched - Mob riddled Negro ravisher with bullets." "The people in the old F...
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — When Principal Badonna Dardis sent fliers home with Carlton Palmore Elementary students offering to visit one family's home each month, she didn't expect to get as many invites as she did. "I knew I'd get at least 12," Dardis said. She received 226 — more than half the school's student population. That's enough to keep her busy for more than 18 years. "We may have to increase our visits to two visits a month," said Dardis, who randomly selects invites from a large stack. This is Dardis' second year as principal at Car...
OGALLALA, Neb. (AP) — One of Nebraska's largest farms will be up for auction later this week. The Thomas Land Co. holds 28,645 acres of ranch and farmland that overlooks Lake McConaughy in western Nebraska, the Omaha World-Herald reported (http://bit.ly/2gMDXh3 ). The auction has drawn interest from more than 500 people already. Scott Shuman with Hall and Hall Auctions in Eaton, Colorado, says he expects the bidders to be a mix of farmers, ranchers and investors. The farm consists of a ranch operation, irrigated farmland and non-irrigated l...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A new vaccine against HIV, to be tested in a trial to be launched in South Africa Wednesday, could be "the final nail in the coffin" for the disease if it is successful, scientists say. The study, called HVTN 702, aims to enroll 5,400 sexually active men and women aged between 18 and 35 at 15 sites across South Africa. It will be the largest and most advanced HIV vaccine clinical trial to take place in South Africa, where more than 1,000 people a day are infected with HIV. "If deployed alongside our current armory of proven...
MECHANICSBURG, Ohio (AP) — The van bumped its way down the long country lane, and before it got to its destination at the red barn at the bottom of the hill, Michael Fuller already was smiling and waving from the back seat. He knew what awaited him there: Rocky Grimes, a go-cart and 30 minutes of unbridled joy. Trapped in a body twisted and bent by a congenital chromosomal disorder, 16-year-old Michael needs help just to get out of the van. And Rocky is there. "Hey, buddy. How ya doin'?" Michael grins. They waste no time as Rocky, a V...
