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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas State Board of Education on Wednesday released a statement saying that critical race theory is not part of state academic standards after hearing from at least one candidate for office who is claiming that it is.

ANNPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Authorities in Maryland have charged a 29-year-old Annapolis man in the killing of a U.S. Naval Academy midshipman’s mother.

The Texas voting bills that prompted state Democrats' flight to Washington this week include a raft of tweaks and changes to the state's election code. Some are dramatic, others highly technical, and a couple could make life easier for voters.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Six of Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities will be consolidated into two new institutions under a unanimous vote Wednesday by the State System of Higher Education's governing board.

LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — University of Massachusetts Lowell Chancellor Jacquie Moloney announced Wednesday that she will step down next June at the end of the academic year.

BERLIN (AP) — Storms caused severe flooding across parts of western and central Europe, with a fireman drowning Wednesday during rescue work in Germany and a man missing after he was swept away by a raging stream elsewhere in the country.

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is telling owners of some older Chevrolet Bolts to park them outdoors and not to charge them overnight because two of the electric cars caught fire after recall repairs were made.

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Wheat for Sep. was up 20.50 cents at $6.5425 a bushel; July corn rose 8.25 cents at 6.8525 a bushel, Sep. oats gained 10 cents at $4.4450 a bushel; while July soybeans was up 29.75 cents at $14.6775 a bushel.

Beef lower, pork higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Aug. live cattle lost .50 cent at $1.2125 a pound; Aug. feeder cattle fell 1.87 cents at $1.5695 a pound; while Jul. lean hogs was up .12 cent at $1.1237 a pound.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A wide-ranging criminal justice measure focused on weeding out problem law enforcement officers in North Carolina and giving mental health aid to others cleared a House committee on Wednesday.

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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An open-air theater surrounded by high desert vistas, the Santa Fe Opera is known as the place to watch the sun set while taking in a performance.

FRANKLIN, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man is accused of dousing his girlfriend and his 5-year-old great nephew with liquid and setting them on fire, killing the child and critically injuring the woman, the state Fire Marshal's Office said Wednesday.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — In a story July 12, 2021, about a building in Lake Charles, La., The Associated Press erroneously spelled the name of the building. It is the Capital One Tower, not the Capitol One Tower.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities in Belarus raided the offices and homes of dozens of human rights activists and journalists Wednesday in a sweeping crackdown a day after the country's authoritarian president promised to “deal with” non-governmental organizations that he accuses of fomenting unrest.

BELFAST, Maine (AP) — The director of the Waldo County Technical Center is charged with assault and unlawful sexual touching stemming from a pair of incidents involving a 13-year-old girl, state police said Wednesday.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Concerns about cybersecurity have led the state of Kentucky to extend its search for a company to modernize its pandemic-stressed unemployment insurance system, Gov. Andy Beshear's administration said Wednesday.

CALEDONIA, Wis. (AP) — An undercover sheriff's investigator who was shot at least twice in an exchange of gunfire that killed a homicide suspect at a Wisconsin gas station is recovering at a hospital, authorities said.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Union members with a phone and internet company in northern New England said Wednesday they have authorized a potential strike.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska hired Trev Alberts as its new athletic director Wednesday, hoping a star from the school's glory years can restore what was once among the nation's most dominant football programs.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri students as soon as next year could have access to scholarships for private school through a new tax credit program signed by Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A week after the state enacted an anti-hazing law in honor of an Ohio University student who died in 2018, the university suspended another fraternity for allegedly violating hazing rules.

When a small restaurant called Chez Panisse opened its doors 50 years ago in Berkeley, California, it wasn’t obvious that it would change how Americans thought about eating.

No one in the residence was injured during the incident, a spokesman for the Redmond Police Department said. 

WASHINGTON (AP) — They are two tiny Caribbean states whose intractable problems have vexed U.S. presidents for decades. Now, Haiti and Cuba are suddenly posing a growing challenge for President Joe Biden that could have political ramifications for him in the battleground state of Florida.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Search crews continue to look for a Montana State University graduate student who is believed to have died in a climbing accident in the Beartooth Mountains in southern Montana.