For city officials who, he said, finally understand what a top-notch skate park could do for the city, who listen to those who will be using it. For a representative from a Los Angeles-based skate park design firm to be standing before them with a plan. And asking their opinions. Onel said the design will take into consideration the natural topography of the site, and designers will be thoughtful about how it interacts with the other amenities of the park including a water feature, trails, a hearth feature and an...

SAN ANTONIO – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration have issued an emergency warning after a cluster of 22 people in 11 states reported adverse effects from counterfeit or mishandled botulin toxin injections. The states impacted include Texas, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, and Washington. The people affected were women ages 25 to 29 years old, who received injections by unlicensed, untrained individuals or in non-health care settings, like homes or spas. Dr.

Taking on two of the state's top squads in the event at Tuesday's A-3 district meet at Lincoln High, it was the Knights who ran a season best to win the race and a trip to next week's state meet in Omaha. "We all knew we were going into this feeling good," said Kale Muir, who ran the leadoff leg for Southeast. "And we knew if we were all feeling good and we were all firing on all cylinders, we could put a good time up." It wasn't a great...

The American Red Cross is responding to the tornado which devastated a small town in northwest Oklahoma Monday night, while continuing to help people impacted by last week’s tornadoes and Texas flooding. Meanwhile, millions of people face the threat of more tornadoes today. Trained Red Cross disaster workers and partners are responding across Oklahoma. They are providing a safe place to stay, food, relief supplies, health services, and emotional and spiritual care for people in Barnsdall affected by Monday’s devastating tornado and helping people in the southeast part of the...

New Hampshire could become the latest US state to ban child marriage after its House of Representatives passed a bill that would raise the minimum age for marriage to 18. Until 2016, child marriage – defined as a union involving at least one person under 18 years of age – was legal in all 50 states, sometimes only under specific circumstances, such as pregnancy. But since the US signed up to a United Nations plan to end the practice by 2030, 12 states have passed laws banning it, beginning with...

Reece Smith finishes his Northwest Missouri State University career a perfect 4-for-4 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association outdoor meet. The former Garner-Hayfield-Ventura prep star captured the title of the event on his home Herschel Neil Track on Saturday, running 8 minutes, 48.85 seconds, and leads off this edition of the WEEKEND UPDATE of the best performances by Iowa-based collegiate and postcollegiate distance runners and triathletes. Smith has established himself as one of the all-time greats in Bearcats program history.

By Alexa St. John, Sean Murphy and Jim Salter | Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY — A tornado destroyed homes, forced the evacuation of a nursing home and toppled trees and power lines when it roared through a small Oklahoma town, one of several twisters that erupted in the central United States amid a series of powerful storms that stretched into Tuesday. At least one death was reported. The tornado ripped through the 1,000-person town of Barnsdall, about a 40-minute drive north of Tulsa, on Monday night. It was the second...

Federal, state and university leaders launched construction of the USDA's National Center for Resilient and Regenerative Precision Agriculture with a May 6 groundbreaking in Lincoln, Nebraska. From left: Chris Kabourek, interim president of the University of Nebraska; Rodney D. Bennett, chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts; U.S. Rep. Mike Flood; Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, Chavonda Jacobs-Young, USDA under secretary for research, education and economics and chief scientist; U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer; NU Regent Paul Kenney; U.S. Rep.

One person has died after several tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma and multiple other states amid an ongoing severe weather outbreak early this week. Authorities with the Osage County Sheriff's Office announced the tornado-related death shortly after a massive twister struck Barnsdall late on Monday, May 6, according to FOX affiliate KOKI-TV and NBC News . This is the second time Barnsdall has been hit by a tornado in the last five weeks, CNN reported. An EF-1 twister hit the town on April 1. The storm this week then moved into...

• Utah was ranked the best state in the country in U.S. News & World Report’s Best States rankings. • The ranking began in 2017 and evaluates states performance in eight categories using over 70 different metrics. • New Hampshire, Nebraska and Minnesota made it to the top five spots in the ranking. Utah earned the top spot in U.S. News & World Report’s Best States rankings. This is the second year in a row Utah has been ranked the best state in the country with the outlet attributing the...