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RUSSELLVILLE, ARK. –East Central University soccer senior Chloe Hull has been named the Great American Conference Goalkeeper of the Week for Sept. 18. Hull earned her first solo shutout of the season with a 2-0 victory at Eastern New Mexico. Hull w...

COLBY, Kan. – The 2018-2019 Rodeo season opened in style as the Southeastern men's team took home the top prize at the Colby CC Rodeo, while the women turned in a fourth-place finish. Will Martin helped lead the Savage Storm men to their solid s...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – SWOSU Soccer senior forward Memory Phiri has been named the Great American Conference Offensive Player of the Week. The award was announced on Tuesday afternoon by the conference office. Phiri earned her first Player of the W...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. – Francois Jacobs earned his first career win as a Wonder Boy, as he led the Arkansas Tech men's golf team to a second-place finish at the 20th annual Northeastern State Classic on Tuesday. The Wonder Boys posted a 287 in their t...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference announced the league's Players of the Week for the third week of the men's soccer season. For the second-straight week, Harding swept the three awards as Jason Diaz collected the Offensive honor, J...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A Native American tribe contributed about $1.4 million to a ballot initiative that would authorize four casinos in Arkansas. The Driving Arkansas Forward committee reported Monday that the Quapaw Tribe in Oklahoma donated $...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma is seeing a shortage of beer as convenience and grocery stores move toward switching to stronger beer in October as a new law goes into effect. Stores are balancing the arrival of stronger beer products with the need t...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Mike Gundy wanted to see improvement on special teams. No. 15 Oklahoma State answered its coach's call. The Cowboys blocked two punts, returning one for a touchdown, and made three field goals in a 44-21 win over then-No. 1...

COLUMBUS, Kan. (AP) — A 28-year-old Kansas man has been sentenced to life in prison for sex crimes involving a child. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt say Timothy Russell Frobish, of Galena, was sentenced Tuesday to life without the p...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 37-year-old Kansas City woman who helped smuggle contraband into the Jackson County jail will serve four months of home confinement as part of her probation. Janikkia Lashay Carter was sentenced Tuesday in Kansas City for p...

HOLTON, Kan. (AP) — A man is in jail after a fatal shooting and standoff in northeast Kansas. The Jackson County, Kansas, sheriff's office says deputies went to a home in Holton about 3 a.m. Tuesday after a woman reported her son had shot her h...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Pooka Williams had just taken a handoff from Kansas quarterback Peyton Bender in the second half of their game Saturday when he saw a host of Rutgers defenders converging on him. So the 5-foot-9 freshman reversed field and h...

ATCHISON, Kan. (AP) — The second of two teenagers trapped inside a car that landed upside down in an Atchison creek on Sunday has died. Sixteen-year-old Regan Moger, of Houston, Texas, died Tuesday at the University of Kansas Hospital, where she w...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, a longtime Republican star in Kansas, is endorsing Democratic nominee Laura Kelly rather than Republican Kris Kobach in the state's gubernatorial election. Kassebaum said in a news release T...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas has asked a state court for lists of Johnson County voters who cast provisional ballots and lists of advance mail ballots rejected because signatures didn't match their voter r...

EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — The founder of a popular gravel bicycle race in Kansas says the race has been sold to a Minnesota company. Dirty Kanza co-founder Jim Cummins announced that the event, which begins and ends in Emporia, will be owned by Life T...

FORT SCOTT, Kan. (AP) — A 6-year-old Kansas girl who was hit in the head by an overthrown softball has come home after spending two months in the hospital. KOAM-TV reports that Paizlee Crumby, of Fort Scott, was rushed to Children's Mercy Hospital o...

DERBY, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has taken over a nursing home after an inspector found that it was struggling to pay for food, medicine and utilities. The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services said the takeover was necessary to ensure the w...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — An 18-year-old has been charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old at a suburban Kansas City child welfare contractor's office where children have been kept overnight because of a shortage of beds. Michael Anthony Hamer was c...

NEW YORK (AP) — Four men who said they were sexually abused as boys by a teacher at a Catholic church have reached a $27.5 million settlement with the Diocese of Brooklyn. The New York Times reports Tuesday that the agreement is one of the largest s...

HUNTINGTON, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man was arrested Tuesday after threatening to shoot an 11-year-old boy after losing to him in the video game "Fortnite," according to police. Suffolk County Police Chief of Department Stuart Cameron said Michael A...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday rolled back an Obama-era rule that forced energy companies to capture methane — a key contributor to climate change that's released in huge amounts during drilling on U.S. and tribal lan...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado prosecutors want a judge to block the release of autopsy reports for a woman and two young girls who were killed and dumped at an oil work site, arguing that the cause of their deaths will be critical evidence during trial for...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday that new investments from China will help his country dramatically boost its oil production, doubling down on financing from the Asian nation to turn around its crashing e...

About 1.7 million chickens have been killed in flooding from Florence as rising North Carolina rivers swamped at least 60 farm buildings where the animals were being raised for market, according to a major poultry producer. Sanderson Farms said...