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Oklahoma executes inmate for couple's 2000 deaths

Yahoo National News - 34 min 7 sec ago

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a 36-year-old man on Tuesday for taking part in the brutal killing of a ranching couple 13 years ago.


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3 charged with enslaving disabled Ohio mom, child

Yahoo National News - 34 min 19 sec ago

ASHLAND, Ohio (AP) — A mentally disabled woman charged with shoplifting a candy bar asked to be jailed because three people "had been mean to her" — then went on to tell authorities about her time spent in unfathomably cruel servitude, along with her young daughter, at the hands of three people, authorities said Tuesday.


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Author, teacher of endangered Lakota language dies

Yahoo National News - 34 min 25 sec ago

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The endangered Lakota language has lost one of its greatest supporters.


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Patriots TE Gronkowski undergoes back surgery

Yahoo Sports - 46 min 29 sec ago

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski underwent back surgery on Tuesday, his fourth operation this year.


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U.S. in danger of losing humanities, social sciences edge: panel

Yahoo National News - 47 min 15 sec ago
By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is in danger of losing its advantage in the humanities and social sciences, just as China and other rivals move toward the U.S. model of a broad education in the liberal arts, a federal panel warned in a report to be released on Wednesday. The congressionally mandated Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences said the embattled liberal arts sector needed support similar to the campaign to boost study of the STEM subjects of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. STEM has the public support of President Barack Obama. ...
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Yankees INF Youkilis needs surgery, Teixeira to DL

Yahoo Sports - 52 min 45 sec ago

NEW YORK (AP) — They come back for a bit, then they're gone again. So it goes for the New York Yankees and many of their ailing stars this season.


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10 Things to Know for Wednesday

Yahoo National News - 53 min 15 sec ago

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday:


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Airborne laser reveals hidden city in Cambodia

Yahoo World News - 55 min 49 sec ago

SYDNEY (AP) — Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating a bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temple complex.


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Airborne laser reveals hidden city in Cambodia

Yahoo National News - 55 min 49 sec ago

SYDNEY (AP) — Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating a bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temple complex.


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Colorado wildfire destroys more than 500 homes, new blazes menace West

Yahoo National News - 1 hour 1 min ago

By Keith Coffman and Alex Dobuzinskis DENVER/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The number of homes destroyed by a Colorado wildfire rose above 500 on Tuesday as rain dampened the flames and allowed damage assessment teams to enter charred neighborhoods, and other threatening blazes grew in Alaska and elsewhere in the West. Authorities said the so-called Black Forest Fire, which has burned in the rolling hills outside Colorado Springs for the past week and killed at least two people, was 85 percent contained by Tuesday. ...


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Oly sprinter Campbell-Brown suspended amid probe

Yahoo Sports - 1 hour 1 min ago
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Veronica Campbell-Brown's agent insists one of the cornerstones of Jamaica's wide-ranging sprint success "is not a cheat," even though the test results read differently.
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Especially grim encephalitis toll feared in India

Yahoo World News - 1 hour 4 min ago

GORAKHPUR, India (AP) — A mosquito-borne disease that preys on the young and malnourished is sweeping across poverty-riven northern India again this monsoon season in what officials worry could be the deadliest outbreak in nearly a decade.


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WikiLeaks' Assange fears U.S., says will stay in London embassy

Yahoo World News - 1 hour 6 min ago

By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will not leave the sanctuary of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London even if Sweden stops pursuing sexual assault claims against him because he fears arrest on the order of the United States. In an interview with Reuters and others to mark the one-year anniversary of taking refuge in the cramped diplomatic building, Assange said he remained hopeful he might be able to leave but offered little evidence to suggest he would be finding new living quarters anytime soon. "I wouldn't say I wouldn't leave," he said. ...


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United 787 heading to Tokyo diverted to Seattle

Yahoo National News - 1 hour 11 min ago
SEATTLE (AP) — United Airlines says an oil filter issue has prompted the crew of a Boeing 787 flying from Denver to Tokyo to divert to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
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United Dreamliner diverted due to possible oil filter problem

Yahoo National News - 1 hour 11 min ago
SEATTLE (Reuters) - United Airlines said on Tuesday that a Boeing Co 787 on its way to Tokyo from Denver was diverted to Seattle after an indication of a problem with an oil filter, but the plane landed without incident. The unscheduled diversion is the latest hiccup for Boeing's newest plane, which has been beset with a range of problems and only recently returned to the skies after regulators grounded it worldwide due to problems with its batteries. ...
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Outbreak of deadly piglet virus spreads to 13 U.S. states

Yahoo National News - 1 hour 18 min ago
By P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO (Reuters) - A swine virus deadly to young pigs, one never before seen in North America, is spreading rapidly across the United States and proving harder to control than previously believed. The virus now has spread to 13 states - with more than 100 positive cases to date - since it was first diagnosed in the United States last month, said Montserrat Torremorell, the Allen D. Leman Chair in Swine Health and Productivity at the University of Minnesota's College of Veterinary Medicine. ...
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Current Weather Conditions In Caldwell, KS (67022)

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Sunny, and 88 ° F. For more details?
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Your Local Doppler Radar

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This map shows the location and intensity of precipitation in your area. The color of the precipitation corresponds to the rate at which it is falling. This map is updated every 15 minutes.
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Pollen Trend for Caldwell, KS (67022)

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Falling. View complete PollenCast?
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Video: Your Regional Weather Forecast

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Watch what the experts at The Weather Channel® have to say about the weather trends in your area.
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