Police identify woman seen stealing wallet
Woman identified in theft case.
A slow, determined return to football in Texas after Harvey
AP Photo/Matt Rourke HUMBLE, Texas (AP) — Blake Herrera fidgeted with the crisp, white jersey borrowed from another school before wiping an arm soaked in sweat on football pants that didn’t belong to him. The senior didn’t care that the No. 22 across his chest wasn’t his and everything he wore was a hodgepodge of items donated from schools wanting…
Working poor on Minden Street exhausted after Harvey
AP Photo/Gregory Bull HOUSTON (AP) — Like many of his neighbors on flood-ravaged Minden Street, Lino Saldana knows if he doesn’t work, he doesn’t get paid. As volunteers helped him rip out waterlogged, moldy drywall and carpet from his wrecked home, adding to piles of debris along the street that have grown to five feet, Saldana was asked if he…
AP EXCLUSIVE: Toxic waste sites flooded in Houston area
AP Photo/Jason Dearen HIGHLANDS, Texas (AP) — As Dwight Chandler sipped beer and swept out the thick muck caked inside his devastated home, he worried whether Harvey’s floodwaters had also washed in pollution from the old acid pit just a couple blocks away. Long a center of the nation’s petrochemical industry, the Houston metro area has more than a dozen…
AP EXCLUSIVE: Toxic waste sites flooded; EPA not on scene
AP Photo/Jason Dearen HIGHLANDS, Texas (AP) — As Dwight Chandler sipped beer and swept out the thick muck caked inside his devastated home, he worried whether Harvey’s floodwaters had also washed in pollution from the old acid pit just a couple blocks away. Long a center of the nation’s petrochemical industry, the Houston metro area has more than a dozen…
Nurse in Utah hospital arrest video: ‘This cop bullied me’
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah nurse said she was scared to death when a police officer handcuffed and dragged her screaming from a hospital after she refused to allow a blood draw on an unconscious patient. Alex Wubbels said the arrest captured on video that drew attention amid a national conversation about police use of…
Officers handcuffs nurse for refusing blood test on patient
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah police department is making changes after an officer dragged a screaming nurse out of a hospital in handcuffs when she refused to allow blood to be drawn from an unconscious patient.Nurse Alex Wubbels followed hospital policy and advice from her bosses when she told Salt Lake City police Detective Jeff Payne that he…
Houston’s flood zone, by boat: Guinea pigs, guns and despair
AP Photo/Gregory Bull KINGWOOD, Texas (AP) — Stewart Lawrence stood on a bridge that barely cleared the raging floodwaters below. He held two guinea pigs in a cage and seven rifles he’d rescued from his ruined home, and waited for a boat to come by and deliver him to dry land. He’d been evacuated Tuesday after feet of water from…
Houston’s flood zone, by boat: Guinea pigs, guns and despair
AP Photo/Gregory Bull KINGWOOD, Texas (AP) — Stewart Lawrence stood on a bridge that barely cleared the raging floodwaters below. He held two guinea pigs in a cage and seven rifles he’d rescued from his ruined home, and waited for a boat to come by and deliver him to dry land. He’d been evacuated Tuesday after feet of water from…
Justice is kind: Folksy judge, 80, becomes an internet star
AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An 80-year-old judge is an unlikely viral video sensation, but somehow Municipal Court Judge Frank Caprio has been winning hearts and clicks on Facebook with a mix of compassion, humor and a rotating cast of the poor souls who have been ticketed in the city of Providence. Videos featuring the kind-hearted judge…
Lexington Police searching for suspect wanted in a burglary case
The Lexington Police Department is asking the public’s help in identifying a burglary suspect.
From Isaac Asimov to Aimee Mann, ‘robophobia’ plagues humans
AP Photo/David Bookstaver CINCINNATI (AP) — Robots are secretly plotting to kill us. Or enslave us. Or, at best, they will take our jobs, one by one. From science fiction written by Isaac Asimov eight decades ago to “Dilbert” cartoons today, the relationship between robots and humans has long fascinated – and worried – people. There’s even a term, “robophobia,”…
From Isaac Asimov to Aimee Mann, ‘robophobia’ plagues humans
AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer CINCINNATI (AP) — Robots are secretly plotting to kill us. Or enslave us. Or, at best, they will take our jobs, one by one. From science fiction written by Isaac Asimov eight decades ago to “Dilbert” cartoons today, the relationship between robots and humans has long fascinated – and worried – people. There’s even a term, “robophobia,”…
Texas cuts aid to ‘colonias’ after years of offering help
AP Photo/Eric Gay ALAMO, Texas (AP) — While the economy in Texas has boomed over the last 20 years, along the border with Mexico about a half million people live in clusters of cinderblock dwellings, home-built shacks, dilapidated trailers and small houses. Texas has more than 2,300 of these communities known as colonias, the Spanish word for “colony.” For decades,…
Texas cuts aid to ‘colonias’ after years of offering help
AP Photo/Eric Gay ALAMO, Texas (AP) — While the economy in Texas has boomed over the last 20 years, along the border with Mexico about a half million people live in clusters of cinderblock dwellings, home-built shacks, dilapidated trailers and small houses. Texas has more than 2,300 of these communities known as colonias, the Spanish word for “colony.” For decades,…
Like a cut and paste tool, gene editing transforms research
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gene editing is getting fresh attention thanks to a successful lab experiment with human embryos. But for all the angst over possibly altering reproduction years from now, this technology already is used by scientists every day in fields ranging from agriculture to drug development.New gene editing tools let scientists alter the DNA of living cells – from…
US hospitals set record for fast heart attack care
AP Photo/Mark LennihanThere’s never been a better time to be treated for a heart attack. U.S. hospitals have set a record for how quickly they open blocked arteries, averaging under one hour for the first time since these results have been tracked. More than 93 percent of patients now have their arteries opened within the recommended 90 minutes of arrival….
Cal, trio of Cats off to good start in Cairo
A look at World Cup action courtesy of UK Athletics.
TV campaign in Lexington discourages giving cash to panhandlers
Public service announcements will soon be airing in the Lexington market encouraging citizens to give to programs that assist panhandlers, rather than giving them cash.
Doctors reprogram patients’ own cells into cancer assassins
In this photo taken March 29, 2017, Dr. David Maloney of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is greeted by patient Ken Shefveland, whose lymphoma was successfully treated with CAR-T cell therapy. Immune therapy is the hottest trend in cancer care and its next frontier is creating “living drugs” that grow inside the body into an army that seeks and…
Living drugs new frontier for cancer patients out of options
In this photo taken March 29, 2017, Dr. David Maloney of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is greeted by patient Ken Shefveland, whose lymphoma was successfully treated with CAR-T cell therapy. Immune therapy is the hottest trend in cancer care and its next frontier is creating “living drugs” that grow inside the body into an army that seeks and…
Videos show rescue of rape victim, serial killer confessions
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After hearing a woman’s screams inside a large metal container, investigators sawed and pried open the bin, rescuing the woman who had been chained inside for about two months by a serial killer, according to new videos released by prosecutors.The videos also show Todd Kohlhepp, in cold and emotionless detail, confessing to killing seven people in…
Videos, documents detail serial killer’s cold confessions
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — A man who killed seven people in South Carolina told investigators after he was arrested that they would be proud of how he shot four people dead in a motorcycle shop in 30 seconds.Prosecutors released several videos, dozens of pictures and hundreds of pages of documents submitted last month when serial killer Todd Kohlepp pleaded guilty…
Burning bystander seen on video being kicked by police
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — A burning bystander seen on video being kicked by New Jersey police officers after a car chase involving a different man ended in a fiery explosion was in critical condition Thursday and the Jersey City mayor vowed to pursue charges against the officers.The video obtained by Univision shows police kicking at a man and dragging…