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Apr. 29—MITCHELL — Steady rains over the weekend pushed Mitchell’s year-to-date rainfall totals to nearly 2 inches above normal and continued a trend seeing dry conditions easing in many parts of South Dakota, though it will likely be some time before the state moves completely out of drought conditions. Officials with the National Weather Service […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A retired Roman Catholic bishop who was famous for trying to mediate between drug cartels in Mexico has been kidnapped, the Mexican Council of Bishops said Monday. The church leadership in Mexico said Msgr. Salvador Rangel disappeared on Saturday and called on his captors to release him, in a statement. The […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A retired Roman Catholic bishop who was famous for trying to mediate between drug cartels in Mexico was apparently kidnapped, but was later located and taken to a hospital, the Mexican Council of Bishops said Monday. The church leadership in Mexico said in a statement earlier that Msgr. Salvador Rangel, a […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A retired Roman Catholic bishop who was famous for trying to mediate between drug cartels in Mexico was apparently kidnapped, but was later located and taken to a hospital, the Mexican Council of Bishops said Monday. The church leadership in Mexico said in a statement earlier that Msgr. Salvador Rangel, a […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A retired Roman Catholic bishop who was famous for trying to mediate between drug cartels in Mexico was located and taken to a hospital after apparently being briefly kidnapped, the Mexican Council of Bishops said Monday. The church leadership in Mexico said in a statement earlier that Msgr. Salvador Rangel, a […]

FRISCO, Texas – A missing Frisco teacher’s aide was found dead on Monday, according to police. 43-year-old Kylie Doyle was reported missing to Plano Police on April 20, by her husband after she didn’t return from work. Kylie Doyle (Courtesy: Plano Police) Doyle drove away from her job at Lebanon Trail High School around 11:40 […]

Scientific Alchemy A team of scientists in the United Kingdom say they’ve discovered a porous material that has the potential to store large quantities of greenhouse gases, making it a possible new tool in the arsenal to fight climate change. The scientists detailed how they used computational models to develop this material in a newly […]

For the first time since they started the process in February, Broward County Public Schools staff shared with the community two specific plans on Monday to address the critical decline in student enrollment: one that would close three schools and another that would close 42. The first plan, which Superintendent Howard Hepburn recommended, would affect […]

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A man who kicked a bison in the leg was then hurt by one of the animals in Yellowstone National Park, according to park officials. Park rangers arrested and jailed him after he was treated for minor injuries. Park rangers got a call about the man allegedly harassing a […]

CHICAGO — Students at the University of Chicago are now joining many other movements at colleges around the country and protesting the war in the Middle East. Students at the university have set up a camp in the main quad of the campus to stand in solidarity with what’s happening in Gaza. Northwestern reaches agreement […]

Earlier this year, Ai Qing was woken up in the middle of the night by angry chants outside her dormitory in northern Argentina. She peered out of the window to see Argentine workers surrounding the compound and blockading the entrance with flaming tyres. “It was getting scary because I could see the sky being lit […]