PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Businessman Lewis Katz and philanthropist H.G. “Gerry” Lenfest are taking over Philadelphia’s two largest newspapers with an $88 million auction bid.

Katz and another businessman, George Norcross, had bought the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philly.com news website for $55 million in 2012. But they began feuding and competed to take control at Tuesday’s auction.

Katz made his fortune investing in the Kinney Parking empire and the Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network in New York. Norcross had owned just over 50 percent of the company. Katz held a 26 percent stake and his ally Lenfest, a former cable magnate, a 16 percent stake.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is teaming with businesses, nonprofits and others on a program to fund locally designed soil and water conservation projects nationwide.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is scheduled to announce the program Tuesday near Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay in Michigan, where farm runoff causes algae blooms that degrade water quality. The area is among many that are expected to generate funding proposals.

USDA officials provided details of the program to The Associated Press ahead of the announcement.

They said the purpose is to involve private companies, sporting groups, local governments and others more directly in conservation initiatives tailored to meet local needs.

USDA will spend $1.2 billion over five years and seek the same amount from partners.

JUNCTION CITY — The search is still on for a man who fell overboard and never resurfaced while fishing at Milford Lake early Sunday morning.

Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf confirmed late Monday afternoon that crews were still searching for the man in the West Rolling Hills area of the lake. He explained that pin pointing the location of where the man fell in has been difficult because they have received conflicting stories from witnesses.

“That’s pretty common, because when you’re out there on the water and you drop something or something like this happens, when you get back to the shoreline you turn around to look and point out where it happened its going to look different,” Wolf said. “There’s no landmarks in the water.”

Wolf did say that they do have an area figured out but an exact location, no. They are using sonar in an attempt to locate items on the bottom of the lake. Crews have located several anomalies, however, but after further investigation they turned out to be logs or large rocks.

The topography of the lake bottom has made the search process more difficult, as well.

“We’ve got peaks, we’ve got valleys, and we have a layer of rick, a ridge down there underneath the water, in probably 15 to 20 feet and under the water and then there’s a drop off,” Wolf said. “Sonar does not look or see into those rocks very well. We’re having a hard time with that area right there, that rock ridge.”

Wolf said that the rock ridge runs the entire length of that cove and does not make dragging the bottom very easy.

The name of the victim is not being released at this time and the search will continue.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Dr. William Roy, a Democratic member of Congress from 1971 to 1975, has died at the age of 88.

Roy’s son, Bill Roy Jr., told The Topeka Capital-Journal that his father had surgery at the Mayo Clinic but died early Monday.

Roy served two terms in the House of Representatives before running unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate against Sen. Bob Dole in 1974 and against Nancy Kassebaum in 1978. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1976 and 1984 and also served on the Kansas Board of Regents.

Roy, a doctor in Topeka from 1955 to 1989, also wrote a column for the Capital-Journal.

Gov. Sam Brownback and the Kansas Democratic Party issued statements Monday praising Roy’s service to the state.

WHITING, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Rural Center is hosting a workshop aimed at conserving and increasing habitat for bees and other pollinators.

Conservation experts will talk about habitat design and plant selection, planting techniques for wildflowers and shrubs and Agriculture department programs for pollinator habitats, among other topics.

The event runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on June 13. The morning session is at Stull United Methodist Church in LeCompton. In the afternoon, attendees will tour pollinator habitat plots in northwestern Douglas County

The workshop is free. A $15 lunch will be offered for those who do not bring their own.

FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) — Soldiers of the Army’s 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley are converting to a new model of the M4 carbine used in combat.

The division is the first in the Army to begin converting to the new weapons. The Army expects to replace about 500,000 carbines through 2020. Fort Riley soldiers are expected to continue converting to the new model through June.

Fort Riley officials say the new version, called the M4A1, has a slightly heavier barrel that withstands heat and gives soldiers a longer rate of fire. The newer version weighs slightly more than the standard M4 which is attributed to a backup sight, forward pistol grip, empty magazine and sling.

The M4A1 has been used by the U.S. Special Operations Command since 1994.