A-B students win speech awards

Sophia Roush, a student at Arapaho-Butler, placed second at the 79th annual American Farmers & Ranchers (AFR) Southwest District Speech Contest held Nov. 18 in Cache.

Building a base

Uriah Ramos works on one of the many lightpole bases on U.S. Highway 183 on the bridge of Interstate 40 in preparation of installing lights on the bridge.

WINDER, Ga. (AP) — The father of a 14-year-old boy accused of carrying out a deadly mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia pleaded not guilty on Thursday to the charges against him.

(AP) — A major storm pummeled Northern California with rain and snow Thursday and threatened to cause flash flooding and rockslides in the latest wave of damaging weather to wash over the West Coast.

(AP) — Police in New Jersey’s capital have shown a pattern of misconduct, including excessive force and unlawful stops, Justice Department officials said Thursday, in a report documenting arrests without a legal basis, officers escalating situations with aggression and unnecessary use of pepper spray.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen opened fire on vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims in Pakistan’s restive northwest on Thursday, killing at least 38 people, including six women, and wounding 20 others in one of the region’s deadliest such attacks in recent years, police said.

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