University Center meeting held Aug. 3
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The University Center (UC) Board of Trustees held their regular monthly meeting on Thursday, Aug. 3 in the UC conference room at 8:30 am.
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Defense gives glimpse of alibi from Bryan Kohberger, charged with murdering Idaho students
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BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of murdering four University of Idaho students in November, said he was going for a drive on the night of the killings, according to a new court filing.
UFOs had their day in Congress.
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A red square the size of a football field hovered in the sky for nearly a minute before zipping off. That’s how a former Navy pilot described a mysterious, unidentified aerial phenomena that was spotted at Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central Coast in 2003, brought to light last week during a House Oversight subcommittee hearing.
Armed personnel must be on every Texas campus, leaving some schools scrambling to adjust
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Journey Jones, 10, was backto- school shopping with his mom this summer when he asked for a bulletproof backpack to protect him in case of a shooting. “It could happen anytime,” he said.
Ukraine and Russia say they shot down each other’s drones
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MOSCOW — Kyiv and Moscow said Thursday that they had destroyed each other’s drones, with Ukraine reporting 15 downed Iranian-made Shahed drones Russia fired overnight and Russia saying it destroyed six Ukrainian ones.
Trump indictment: Three things we learned about events in Georgia
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ATLANTA -- This week’s federal indictment included a few new details of Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. On Tuesday prosecutors filed a 45-page indictment accusing the former president of conspiring to defraud the United States and other charges as he sought to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.
Russia sentences Putin foe Navalny to 19 more years in jail
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A Russian court sentenced opposition leader Alexey Navalny to another 19 years in prison after convicting him of “extremism,” a decision he had earlier described as “Stalinist.” The closed hearing Friday held inside a strict-regime prison found President Vladimir Putin’s most outspoken critic guilty of charges of founding an “extremist” group and six other related counts. The judge ordered the new term also to be served in a strict-regime prison.
Billions for clean energy caught in a partisan tug of war
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WASHINGTON -- The next few months will be critical for the success or failure of the biggest environmental program in last year’s climate, tax and health care law: the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
Workforce Challenges
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As your Lieutenant Governor, I have had the privilege of visiting with countless businesses in all 77 counties. Most of the time, I’m included in celebrations – welcoming a new company coming to town or breaking ground on an expansion. I’m grateful for the opportunity to celebrate those economic development wins, and I’m particularly excited when those happen in rural Oklahoma.
Homeless youth walk a hidden path in rural Oklahoma
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WOODWARD, Oklahoma — Anika Drew is drawn to beauty. Her boyfriend said she can stand in a barren field and still point out a pretty flower. Drew dreams of going to beauty school to become a makeup artist and moving to Japan to see the pink cherry blossoms.