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KANSAS – NEW AND DEVELOPING – NEWS
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US–HIGHWAY CRASH-KANSAS
A fiery highway crash in eastern Kansas kills 8 people, including 3 from Oklahoma
SUMMARY: Authorities say eight people died when two vehicles collided head-on and burst into flames on a two-lane highway in rural eastern Kansas. The victims of Sunday evening’s crash included two high school students, a former teacher-coach and a school employee from Oklahoma. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the crash occurred at about 5:45 p.m. Sunday on U.S. 169 outside of Greeley. One person escaped from a wrecked vehicle and was hospitalized. Tulsa Public Schools confirms that the victims included high school student Donald Laster, former middle school teacher Wayne Walls and transportation team member Ja’mon Gilstrap. Union Public Schools says high school student Kyrin Schumpert also died. The crash is under investigation.
WORDS: 432 – MOVED: 05/05/2025 7:18 p.m. CDT
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US–MEDICATION ABORTION
Trump administration asks judge to toss suit restricting access to abortion medication
SUMMARY: The Trump administration on Monday asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three GOP-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to abortion medication mifepristone. Justice Department attorneys stayed the legal course charted by Biden administration. But they didn’t weigh in on the underlying issue of access to the drug. Instead, the government argued that Missouri, Kansas and Idaho don’t have the legal right, or standing, to sue.
WORDS: 559 – MOVED: 05/05/2025 5:53 p.m. CDT
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MINNESOTA – UPCOMING – SPORTS
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BBO–ORIOLES-TWINS
DESCRIPTION: MINNEAPOLIS — Baltimore plays Minnesota at Target Field. By Brian Hall. 300 words.
UPCOMING: By 05/06/2025 6:40 p.m. CDT, Text, Photo
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MINNESOTA – NEW AND DEVELOPING – NEWS
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US–JUSTICE DEPARTMENT-MINNESOTA
Justice Department plans to investigate prosecutor’s office in Minnesota’s most populous county
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation of the prosecutor’s office in Minnesota’s most populous county after its leader directed her staff to consider racial disparities as one factor when negotiating plea deals. Harmeet Dhillon, the new director of the agency’s Civil Rights Division, announced the investigation in a social media post over the weekend. A spokesperson for Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty says that office got the letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday. He says they’re fully confident their policy complies with the law. The policy has come under conservative fire in recent weeks.
WORDS: 499 – MOVED: 05/05/2025 6:12 p.m. CDT
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US–MINNEAPOLIS HOMICIDES
Bail is set at $2 million for a man charged with killing four people in Minneapolis
SUMMARY: The father of one of four people killed in a mass shooting that shook the Native American community in Minneapolis says it will take a long time to heal. Les Robinson said Monday that his son, 28-year-old LeRas Francis Rainey, seemed happy when he and some friends went to see James Duane Ortley last Tuesday. But prosecutors allege that Ortley shot Rainey and four other people in a car, killing all but one of them, in what investigators believe was a gang-related attack that later led to a retaliatory killing. Bail was set Monday at $2 million for Ortley, who’s charged with murder and attempted murder.
WORDS: 596 – MOVED: 05/05/2025 4:35 p.m. CDT
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US–TRUMP-HHS CUTS
20 attorneys general ask federal judge to reverse deep cuts to US Health and Human Services
SUMMARY: Attorneys general in 19 states and Washington, D.C., are challenging cuts to the U.S. Health and Human Services agency. They say the Trump administration’s massive restructuring has destroyed life-saving programs and left states to pick up the bill for mounting health crises. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Rhode Island on Monday. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. restructured the agency in March, laying off thousands of employees and collapsing multiple agencies under the sprawling HHS umbrella. The attorneys general say that has robbed the congressionally-created health agency of the resources needed to do its job. They say impacted programs include supports for impoverished children, laboratories that test for infectious diseases and the nation’s mental crisis hotline.
WORDS: 560 – MOVED: 05/05/2025 12:53 p.m. CDT
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MISSOURI – UPCOMING – SPORTS
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BBO–WHITE SOX-ROYALS
DESCRIPTION: KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chicago plays Kansas City at Kauffman Stadium. By David Smale. UPCOMING: 300 words, photos. Game starts 6:40 p.m. CT.
UPCOMING: By 05/06/2025 6:40 p.m. CDT, Text
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BBO–PIRATES-CARDINALS
DESCRIPTION: ST. LOUIS — Pittsburgh plays St. Louis at Busch Stadium. By Joe Harris. UPCOMING: 300 words, photos. Game starts 6:45 p.m. CT.
UPCOMING: By 05/06/2025 6:45 p.m. CDT, Text
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MISSOURI – NEW AND DEVELOPING – NEWS
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US–MEDICATION ABORTION
Trump administration asks judge to toss suit restricting access to abortion medication
SUMMARY: The Trump administration on Monday asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three GOP-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to abortion medication mifepristone. Justice Department attorneys stayed the legal course charted by Biden administration. But they didn’t weigh in on the underlying issue of access to the drug. Instead, the government argued that Missouri, Kansas and Idaho don’t have the legal right, or standing, to sue.
WORDS: 559 – MOVED: 05/05/2025 5:53 p.m. CDT
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US–MISSOURI-HOME-EXPLOSION
Federal investigators say a utility wasn’t marked before a deadly natural gas explosion in Missouri
SUMMARY: The National Transportation Safety Board says a deadly explosion that leveled one Missouri home and damaged two others happened after a subcontractor drilled into an unmarked underground gas main while installing fiber optic cable. One person was killed and two others were injured in the April 9 explosion in the 4,500-person town of Lexington, which is about 55 miles away from Kansas City. Liberty Utilities, a subsidiary of Algonquin Power and Utilities Corporation, sent someone out to mark its lines before the subcontractor began digging. But the NTSB said in its preliminary report Monday that the uncapped gas main section involved in the accident wasn’t identified.
WORDS: 241 – MOVED: 05/05/2025 4:03 p.m. CDT
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US-MED–SALMONELLA-BACKYARD POULTRY
New salmonella outbreak is linked to backyard poultry, CDC says
SUMMARY: Health officials say at least seven people in six states have been affected in a new salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry. Two cases were identified in Missouri, plus one each in Florida, Illinois, South Dakota, Utah and Wisconsin. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the outbreak on Monday. The agency says people got sick in February and March of this year. They all had the same strain of salmonella — a version that has been traced to hatcheries in the past.
WORDS: 201 – MOVED: 05/05/2025 3:50 p.m. CDT
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US–ALCATRAZ PRISON-EXPLAINER
How Alcatraz became America’s most notorious prison
SUMMARY: President Donald Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again. It comes more than 60 years after the California island fortress was shut down as too costly. Alcatraz is now part of the National Park Service and a popular tourist destination. Trump says Alcatraz suddenly is needed to house America’s “most ruthless and violent” criminals. It’s where the government sent notorious gangsters Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly as well as lesser-known men. Alcatraz is in San Francisco Bay off the coast of San Francisco and visible from the famous Golden Gate Bridge.
WORDS: 756 – MOVED: 05/05/2025 1:48 p.m. CDT
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NEBRASKA – NEW AND DEVELOPING – NEWS
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US–WARREN BUFFETT-SUCCESSOR
Warren Buffett will remain chairman at Berkshire Hathaway when Greg Abel takes over as CEO in 2026
SUMMARY: Billionaire Warren Buffett will remain chairman of Berkshire Hathaway after Greg Abel takes over as CEO at the start of the new year. The decision by the board of directors at the conglomerate Sunday is likely to relieve investors worried about the future of Berkshire’s remarkable winning streak amid tariff shocks, financial turmoil and a possible recession. The changes come as the former textile manufacturer faces big questions about how to deploy its massive pile of cash after a stock-market defying six-decade run. Abel has already been managing all of Berkshire’s non-insurance businesses for years, so in some ways his job won’t be changing all that much, observers say.
WORDS: 1178 – MOVED: 05/05/2025 4:41 p.m. CDT
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OKLAHOMA – NEW AND DEVELOPING – NEWS
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US–HIGHWAY CRASH-KANSAS
A fiery highway crash in eastern Kansas kills 8 people, including 3 from Oklahoma
SUMMARY: Authorities say eight people died when two vehicles collided head-on and burst into flames on a two-lane highway in rural eastern Kansas. The victims of Sunday evening’s crash included two high school students, a former teacher-coach and a school employee from Oklahoma. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the crash occurred at about 5:45 p.m. Sunday on U.S. 169 outside of Greeley. One person escaped from a wrecked vehicle and was hospitalized. Tulsa Public Schools confirms that the victims included high school student Donald Laster, former middle school teacher Wayne Walls and transportation team member Ja’mon Gilstrap. Union Public Schools says high school student Kyrin Schumpert also died. The crash is under investigation.
WORDS: 432 – MOVED: 05/05/2025 7:18 p.m. CDT
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SOUTH DAKOTA – NEW AND DEVELOPING – NEWS
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US-MED–SALMONELLA-BACKYARD POULTRY
New salmonella outbreak is linked to backyard poultry, CDC says
SUMMARY: Health officials say at least seven people in six states have been affected in a new salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry. Two cases were identified in Missouri, plus one each in Florida, Illinois, South Dakota, Utah and Wisconsin. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the outbreak on Monday. The agency says people got sick in February and March of this year. They all had the same strain of salmonella — a version that has been traced to hatcheries in the past.
WORDS: 201 – MOVED: 05/05/2025 3:50 p.m. CDT
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