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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Two U.S. senators from Kansas and Missouri say an emphasis on protecting the nation's food supply has waned since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and it's time to make the issue a priority again....

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri lawmaker who temporarily posted a Facebook comment expressing hope that President Donald Trump would be assassinated could face an effort to remove her from office....

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Two St. Louis police officers are injured after a car crashed into their police car....

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A spokeswoman for Missouri's top election official says a new right-to-work law has been suspended after opponents delivered boxes of signed petitions to put it to a public vote....

RAYMORE, Mo. (AP) -- Authorities are investigating whether police were targeted when someone tossed an explosive device at a patrol car along a Missouri highway....

ABERDEEN, Wash. (AP) -- One-hundred-fifty baskets of pink petunias hang from the light posts all over this city, watered regularly by residents trying to make their community feel alive again. A local artist spends his afternoons high in a bucket truck, painting a block-long mural of a little girl blowing bubbles, each circle the scene of an imagined, hopeful future....

LOLO, Mont. (AP) -- One of several wildfires burning in Montana destroyed two homes after jumping control lines as firefighters braved another day Friday of high temperatures, gusty winds and low humidity....

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- The mayor of Charlottesville called Friday for an emergency meeting of state lawmakers to allow the city to swiftly remove the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee....

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- The nation's largest utility is dropping a demand for an advance payment to cover the possibility of delinquent power bills from a museum that honors a historic lunch-counter sit-in....

DOVER, Del. (AP) -- A Delaware judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed by former stockholders of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia over the company's 2015 acquisition by Sequential Brands....

CHURCHILL, Pa. (AP) -- A former principal who was placed on leave after state officials published recordings of him threatening to punch a 14-year-old student will likely receive a benefits package for his resignation....

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Charlottesville mayor asks for emergency meeting of state lawmakers to allow removal of Confederate statue ....

DALLAS (AP) -- Dallas' four black city councilmen are calling for the city's Confederate statues to be removed as a way to heal the area's racist history....

HOUSTON (AP) -- More than 250 sex buyers and traffickers have been arrested in the Houston area during a monthlong sting operation, authorities said Friday....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A judge says an ex-treasure hunter should remain jailed on contempt-of-court charges....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Transit officials have decided to alter subway tiles at a Manhattan station that have a cross-like design similar to that of the Confederate flag....

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- Triplets born prematurely just five days before a deadly tornado slammed Joplin, Missouri, have started school....

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) -- Authorities are investigating after a noose was founding hanging outside a north Alabama church....

CLINTON, Md. (AP) -- Police said Friday they are determined to make an arrest in the killings of three children in a home outside Washington, D.C....

RAYMORE, Mo. (AP) -- Authorities are investigating whether police were targeted when someone tossed an explosive device at a patrol car along a Missouri highway....

TOGIAK, Alaska (AP) -- A 6-year-old Alaska child has died after being accidentally shot by another child....

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Authorities have launched an investigation into a natural gas explosion in Lincoln that seriously injured two people, leveled a house and significantly damaged nearly 20 other homes....

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Marion Lambert is unapologetic about the abundance of Confederate flags that surround him....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- There's a new twist in the standoff between an octogenarian widow in Florida who refused to sell her townhome and the giant developer that constructed a timeshare resort around her vacant, two-story building anyway....

ABERDEEN, Wash. (AP) -- In Grays Harbor County, a rural community on the coast of Washington state, the rate at which people die from despair - from drugs, alcohol and suicide - is nearly twice the national average. The county embraced Donald Trump's call to America's forgotten corners, and flipped Republican in a presidential election for the first time in 90 years....

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The Rev. Francis X. DiLorenzo, who served as bishop of the Diocese of Richmond for 13 years and made a return to conservative values his top priority, has died. He was 75 years old....

BOSTON (AP) -- Organizers of a counterprotest to what's being called a free speech rally in Boston say they expect as many as 20,000 to 30,000 people to join them....

MIAMI (AP) -- Hunters have killed 500 Burmese pythons during an elimination program in the Florida Everglades....

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- The Latest on developments related to a violent white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia (all times local):...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Workers have removed the words "black power" that were spray painted across the statue of a former Philadelphia mayor and police commissioner....

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- A statue of the U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery and denied citizenship to African Americans was removed from the grounds of the Maryland State House early Friday morning....

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MIAMI (AP) -- Tropical Storm Harvey is bringing rain to the Windward Islands as it approaches the eastern Caribbean....

EDEN, N.C. (AP) -- Authorities say a North Carolina police officer shot and wounded a suspect fleeing the scene of a double stabbing....

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A California judge is expected to rule Friday whether a convicted mass killer should be spared the death penalty because of a long-running scandal over authorities' use of jailhouse informants....

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- The white nationalists behind last weekend's violent rally found an appealing target in the historic town where Thomas Jefferson founded a university and an outspoken, progressive mayor declared his city the "capital of the resistance" to President Donald Trump....

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Mourners will gather to remember one of the two Virginia state troopers who died in a helicopter crash while monitoring a white nationalist protest in Charlottesville....

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- Its jagged, soaring peaks rise high over northwest Wyoming, but Grand Teton National Park is always in the shadow of its world-renowned neighbor, Yellowstone National Park....

HUNTINGDON, Pa. (AP) -- The oldest known living person in the United States is celebrating her 114th birthday in Pennsylvania....

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HONOLULU (AP) -- The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday it was now searching up to 50 miles (80 kilometers) off Hawaii for five soldiers missing after their Black Hawk helicopter crashed during nighttime training....

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says in a draft report that the Saudi-led coalition was responsible for more than half the children killed and injured in Yemen's civil war last year....

DETROIT (AP) -- Michigan State University on Thursday denied a request by a group headed by white nationalist Richard Spencer to rent space on the campus for a September event, following rejections by other large schools....

DALLAS (AP) -- In a story Aug. 15 about Dallas spending millions of dollars to settle police misconduct lawsuits, The Associated Press erroneously attributed the story to KDFW-TV. The story was done by KTVT-TV....

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The United States and Sweden called Thursday for the United Nations to follow up initial inconclusive investigations into the murder of U.N. experts from their countries in Congo - but Congo says it opposes an independent international inquiry....

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) -- The final home of the president of the Confederacy is being offered as a new home for Confederate monuments....

WOLFEBORO, N.H. (AP) -- Two months after more than 80 dogs were removed from a New Hampshire mansion, Gov. Chris Sununu (soo-NOO'-noo) has revamped a committee that advises the state on animal welfare in hopes of strengthening laws to prevent future cruelty....

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- North Korea warned the United States that it will never put its nuclear weapons program on the negotiating table as long as the Trump administration keeps up its "hostile policy and nuclear threat."...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Officials with the National Park Service said the Confederate monuments at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania will not be removed from the battlefield....

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas has a new supply of a controversial lethal drug months after the state put four men to death over an eight-day period, and the attorney general wants the governor to set an execution date for an inmate....

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee sheriff and judge violated the constitutional rights of jail inmates by promising to reduce their sentences if they underwent birth control procedures, an ex-inmate says in a federal lawsuit....

CHULAFINNEE, Ala. (AP) -- Many white Southerners are upset that neo-Nazis, white nationalists and the Ku Klux Klan have become a face of the fight over Confederate monuments....

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The mayor in traditionally liberal Madison, Wisconsin, has ordered the removal of a cemetery's monuments to Confederate soldiers, saying the Civil War was "a defense of the deplorable practice of slavery" and "an act of insurrection and treason."...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The white Ohio police officer who fatally shot a black 13-year-old boy after a suspected robbery last year feared a "gun fight" with the teen, who the officer said pulled a gun from his pants, records show....

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- The New Hampshire Republican Party says "malcontents" are responsible for spraying the word "Nazis" inside a hand-drawn heart on the rear of his headquarters building in Concord....