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ADA – The East Central University soccer team finished its first Great American Conference match of the 2017 season by earning a 0-0 tie with Southwestern Oklahoma State at Tiger Field. Photo Gallery The Tigers (3-3-1, 0-0-1 GAC) were led by j...

Box Score ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The Bison are back in the win column thanks to a 1-0 road win over Ouachita Baptist at Kluck Field in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, in both squads' Great American Conference opener. Oklahoma Baptist's defensive front of S...

SEARCY, Ark. — For the second straight match, Southern Nazarene was ousted by one goal as Harding won 3-2 in SNU's Great American Conference opener. Also in the second straight match, it was Meagan Chase who struck first. She netted her second g...

ADA, Okla. – Two overtime periods couldn't decide a winner between SWOSU Soccer and East Central, as the two played to a 0-0 clean-sheet draw in Ada on Thursday. The Bulldogs dominated on the statsheet, outshooting the Tigers 32-12 including 11-4 o...

AUSTIN, Texas – The Rogers State women's soccer team suffered its first loss of the season at No. 6-ranked St. Edward's by the score of 2-0 on Thursday afternoon (Sept. 21) at Lewis-Chen Family Field. In a battle of two of the top teams in the Heartl...

Searcy, Ark. - The University of Arkansas at Monticello volleyball team was defeated by the Bisons of Harding University Thursday evening, by a final score of 3-0 on the road. Final set scores from the match were 9-25, 15-25, and 15-25 in favor of th...

SEARCY – The Harding volleyball team improved to 2-1 in Great American Conference action after defeating Arkansas-Monticello 3-0 (25-9, 25-15, 25-15) Thursday. The Lady Bisons improve to 13-2 overall. Arkansas-Monticello falls to 5-8 overall and 0...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. - Adrianna Hartmann had 12 kills and Sariah Boney notched a double-double with 23 assists and 11 digs, as Henderson State rolled past Southern Arkansas 3-0 (25-17, 25-22, 25-21) in its home opener on Thursday night. SET ONE: The...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Ouachita Baptist (9-5, 2-1 GAC) dropped its first conference match of the season Thursday night as the Tigers hosted No. 24 Arkansas Tech (16-0, 3-0 GAC). Ouachita hung tight with the Golden Suns, but lost the match in three s...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The Southern Arkansas Lady Mulerider team faced a tough task inside the Duke Wells Center on Thursday night as Henderson State played in front of its home crowd for the first time this season. HSU topped the Lady Muleriders in thr...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Latest on North Korea's nuclear program (all times local): 10:15 a.m. South Korean media report North Korea's top diplomat says his country may test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean to fulfill leader Kim Jong Un's v...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in an extraordinary and direct rebuke, called President Donald Trump "deranged" and said he will "pay dearly" for his threats, a possible indication of more powerful weapons tests on the h...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump added economic action to his fiery military threats against North Korea on Thursday, authorizing stiffer new sanctions in response to the Koreans' nuclear weapons advances. Its leader Kim Jong Un issued a r...

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is slowly acknowledging the outsized — if unintended — role it played in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. Bowing to pressure from lawmakers and the public, the company said it will provide the contents of 3,000 ads b...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Top diplomats from Germany, Russia, China and Italy insisted Thursday there can be no turning back on the Iran nuclear deal after President Donald Trump suggested that he may seek a renegotiation or simply walk away from the p...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. investigators will help Iraq collect evidence to build potential war crimes cases against Islamic State extremists, under a resolution the Security Council approved Thursday. Iraq, council members and some human rights a...

NEW YORK (AP) — If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Especially if a baby is watching. Children around 15 months old can become more persistent in pursuing a goal if they've just seen an adult struggle at a task before succeeding, a new s...

MOSCOW (AP) — A stern Russian warning Thursday against targeting its special forces in eastern Syria heightened concerns over direct clashes between rival Moscow- and Washington-backed forces fighting for the energy wealth to be found among the Islam...

NEW YORK (AP) — Abolishing militant hideouts in Pakistan is critical to establishing peace in neighboring Afghanistan, the Afghan leader said Thursday before meeting President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. Neither T...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A private Catholic school for girls in Kansas City says it has disciplined a group of students who posed at a party with a swastika made from red plastic cups. Administrators at St. Teresa's Academy notified parents Monday a...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado regulators started work Thursday on new rules for thousands of pipelines that crisscross oil and gas fields in the state after a fatal home explosion blamed on a gas leak. The state Oil and Gas Conservation Commission o...

DENVER (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday sidestepped a decision on whether oil and gas regulations enacted by the Obama administration are legal, noting that the current administration plans to rescind them. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A new $20 million methane plant at a landfill in Lawrence is turning trash into an energy source. The plant at the Hamm landfill has begun collecting harmful greenhouse gas produced by rotting trash and turning it into fuel for...

COPPELL, Texas (AP) — Retail gasoline prices in Texas and across the country declined this week as recovery continues from hurricanes Harvey and Irma. AAA Texas on Thursday reported the average price at the pump statewide was down 4 cents to s...

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