AP News Digest – Great Plains To see stories that have already moved, please visit AP Newsroom. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – NEWS —————————— US–ELECTION 2026-IOWA-GOVERNOR DESCRIPTION: Iowa looked a lot different in 2010, when Kim Reynolds was
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POLO, Mo. – Irma Lee (Wilson) Fewins, 94, passed away April 14, 2025. She was born Nov. 5, 1930, to Emmett and Anna (McDaniel) Wilson, in Stewartsville, Missouri. Irma married Benny Fewins Dec. 24, 1947, in Cameron, Missouri. She was a homemaker and helped her husband on the family farm. Irma was a member of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. – Dr. Gary Walter Bell, 82, passed away at home on April 12, 2025. Dr. Bell was born on Aug. 14, 1942, in St. Joseph, to Harry and Vlasta (Spiegel) Bell. He graduated from Benton High School in 1960 where he participated in multiple sports and was senior class president. He graduated from
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GREENSBORO, Ga. – Paul Nathan Livingston, 89, of Greensboro, Georgia, passed away Thursday, April 10, 2025. He was born Jan. 20, 1936, in Albany, Missouri. He married Kathryn Jean Lyle on Feb. 9, 1963. She sadly passed away March 16, 2007. Paul most enjoyed laughing and spending time with his family. He was especially fond
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WEATHERBY , Mo. – Helen Joeann Saunders, 85, Weatherby, Missouri, died at home on Monday, April 7, 2025. She was born July 19, 1939, in Parks, Kansas, to parents Mack and Laura Hurd. She graduated from Parsons Jr. College in 1958 and Bethany Hospital School of Nursing in 1961 and obtained her B.S.N from U.M.K.C
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Dee Ann Sutherland, a beloved mother, musician, and friend, passed away peacefully at the age of 76. To her children, Dee Ann was not just a mother but a source of music and joy from the very beginning. “From the beginning of my life until the end of hers, mom has always meant music to
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Mary Lynn Wiedmaier, 68, passed away peacefully Tuesday, April 15, 2025. Family and Home Instead caregivers remained with her throughout the final weeks of her courageous journey, granting her wish of home-care comfort and companionship with the tenderest love. She was born March 2, 1957, in St. Joseph, to Albert John Wiedmaier Jr. and Mary
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Late Notices Ruth Crawford Ruth Crawford, 71, of St. Joseph, died April 17, 2025. Arrangements are pending at Rupp Funeral Home. Steven Hood Steven “Buck” Hood, 69, of St. Joseph, died April 15, 2025. Service arrangements are pending at Rupp Funeral Home. Wilma King Wilma King, 98, of St. Joseph, died April 17, 2025. Arrangements
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Our civil rights will soon be in jeopardy The other day, a group of masked Homeland Security employees picked up a lady on the street in Somerville, Massachusetts, cuffed her, took her cellphone and sent her to an immigration prison in Louisiana. A graduate student from Turkey, with a valid visa, she has not been
Continue Reading By KATE PAYNE and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Several thousand students, staff and faculty packed a plaza at Florida State University for a vigil Friday evening, bowing their heads in a moment of silence honoring the two people who were killed and six others who were wounded in a shooting rampage
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By Kareem El Damanhoury and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — The death toll from US airstrikes on an oil port in western Yemen has risen to at least 74 people, the Houthi-run health ministry reported, marking the deadliest day since the United States escalated its aerial campaign against the Iran-backed group last month. US Central
Continue Reading ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — St. Joseph experienced wrenching change from the late 1990s through the early 2000s with the downsizing or closing of major manufacturing employers. The names of these companies — Quaker Oats, Mead, Stetson Hat and Wire Rope – evoke memories of St. Joseph’s blue-collar glory days. The city and the
Continue ReadingPor Morgan Rimmer y David Culver, CNN El senador Chris Van Hollen dijo que se reunió este jueves por la noche con Kilmar Ábrego García, el hombre de Maryland deportado erróneamente a El Salvador. “Dije que mi objetivo principal de este viaje era reunirme con Kilmar. Esta noche tuve esa oportunidad”, dijo el demócrata de
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — America’s only rare earths mine heard from anxious companies soon after China responded to President Donald Trump’s tariffs this month by limiting exports of those minerals used for military applications and in many high-tech devices. “Based on the number of phone calls we’re receiving, the
Continue Reading By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — America’s only rare earths mine heard from anxious companies soon after China responded to President Donald Trump’s tariffs this month by limiting exports of those minerals used for military applications and in many high-tech devices. “Based on the number of phone calls we’re receiving, the
Continue Reading By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — America’s only rare earths mine heard from anxious companies soon after China responded to President Donald Trump’s tariffs this month by limiting exports of those minerals used for military applications and in many high-tech devices. “Based on the number of phone calls we’re receiving, the
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By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Republican and Democratic lawmakers made their first trip to Taiwan under the new Trump administration a bipartisan one, aiming to show both Taiwan and China that U.S. support for Taiwan’s defense remains broad, despite the harsh words and heightened tariffs President
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By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — First the nation’s top law firms. Then its premier universities. Now, President Donald Trump is leaning on the advocacy groups that underpin U.S. civil society. Trump said Thursday that the administration is looking at the tax-exempt status not just of Harvard, but environmental groups and specifically
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — It was an ordinary afternoon for Jayden D’Onofrio, who was spending time with a friend at their apartment complex when they received a text that made their blood run cold. An active shooter was on campus, and their friend was hiding in the library. Without a second thought, they
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By SARA CLINE and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press JENA, La. (AP) — Amid rural Louisiana’s crawfish farms, towering pine trees and cafes serving po’boys, nearly 7,000 people are waiting at immigration detention centers to learn whether they will be expelled from the United States. If President Donald Trump’s administration has its way, the capacity to
Continue Reading By SARA CLINE and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press JENA, La. (AP) — Amid rural Louisiana’s crawfish farms, towering pine trees and cafes serving po’boys, nearly 7,000 people are waiting at immigration detention centers to learn whether they will be expelled from the United States. If President Donald Trump’s administration has its way, the capacity to
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Continue Reading ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again”
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