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OKLAHOMA CITY (Nov. 2, 2017) – Addy Clift looked to be in midseason form, while Oklahoma Christian's newcomers showed flashes of considerable promise to lead the Lady Eagles past Manhattan Christian (Kan.) 90-58 in an exhibition game on Thursday n...

DALLAS, Texas – Rogers State women's soccer advanced to the Heartland Conference Championship via penalty kicks after a 2-2 draw with St. Edward's on Thursday (Nov. 2) at Patriot Field. The Hillcats (13-3-3) edged the Hilltoppers in the penalty k...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The Harding volleyball team fell to Henderson State 3-1 (22-25, 25-22, 25-22, 25-19) Thursday in Great American Conference action. Harding falls to 24-4 overall and 12-2 in the GAC. It snapped an 11-match GAC win streak. H...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. — Henderson State had three players with double-doubles and played stellar defense all night to upset Harding, 3-1 (22-25, 25-22, 25-22, 25-19). The win is the program's first over the Lady Bisons since 2009 when the Reddies were m...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The Ouachita Baptist men's basketball team opened its season with an exhibition game against Philander Smith Thursday night, winning 67-56. The Tigers closed out the contest hitting 20 of 52 shots, shooting 38.5 percent from t...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Lady Mulerider Volleyball team fell on the road in straight sets (9-25, 15-25, 21-25) to No. 10-ranked Arkansas Tech in a league matchup on Thursday night. HOW IT HAPPENED A combination of Arkansas Tech's serving game and a...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police said Friday that an actress' rape allegations against Harvey Weinstein are credible, and if the movie mogul were in the state and the accusation more recent, they would move to arrest him immediately. Chief of D...

BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado sheet metal worker could face multiple charges, including attempted murder, in addition to first-degree murder charges related to the shooting deaths of three people inside a Walmart, a prosecutor said Friday. A...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A massive U.S. report concludes the evidence of global warming is stronger than ever, contradicting a favorite talking point of top Trump administration officials, who downplay human's role in climate change. The report released F...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who walked away from his post in Afghanistan and triggered a search that left some of his comrades severely wounded, was spared a prison sentence by a military judge Friday in what President Donald Tru...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With U.S. unemployment at a 17-year low and businesses complaining that they can't fill jobs, you might expect pay to be rising sharply as companies try to attract or keep workers. It's not. The October jobs report showed that p...

BALTIMORE (AP) — A forensic pathologist testified Friday he doesn't believe a seatbelt would have prevented the fatal injury to a black man being transported in a Baltimore police van after his arrest. But a police department lawyer who says the v...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, Republican Rep. Mary Bono endured increasingly suggestive comments from a fellow lawmaker in the House of Representatives. But when the congressman approached her on the House floor and told her he'd been thinking a...

BERLIN (AP) — Governments, scientists, industry groups and environmental campaigners are meeting in Germany next week to discuss implementing a global agreement to curb climate change, despite uncertainty over how the United States will figure i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he is "disappointed" with the Justice Department and won't rule out firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, if Sessions won't investigate Democrats. "Honestly, they should be looking at the Democrats," T...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian troops ousted Islamic State extremists Friday from Deir el-Zour, a major city in eastern Syria, while Iraqi forces retook Qaim, the group's last big town across the border in Iraq, in simultaneous assaults that dealt f...

A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out; here are the real facts: NOT REAL: Two...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was just before noon in Moscow on March 10, 2016, when the first volley of malicious messages hit the Hillary Clinton campaign. The first 29 phishing emails were almost all misfires. Addressed to people who worked for Clinton d...

BERLIN (AP) — A worried resident in Germany alerted police to what he thought was a World War II bomb in his garden. Officers rushed over — and found a particularly large zucchini. Police were summoned to the scene in Bretten, near the sou...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Two U.S. supersonic bombers flew over the Korean Peninsula for bombing exercises that are also a show of force against North Korea ahead of President Donald Trump's first official visit to Asia. A South Korean military o...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said Friday she is seeking an investigation of alleged war crimes committed in the war in Afghanistan, an unprecedented probe that could involve U.S. troops. P...

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. rate for gun deaths has increased for the second straight year, following 15 years of no real change, a government report shows. Roughly two-thirds of gun deaths are suicides and those have been increasing for about 10 y...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's national security adviser says North Korea could be returned to the list of countries the U.S. believes sponsor terrorism, as part of Trump's strategy to counter the North's growing nuclear threat. "...

WASHINGTON (AP) — They sponsor bills. They pass laws. They're some of the most powerful politicians in the United States. But they couldn't even wear pants to work until the mid-1990s. There may be more women in Congress than ever before, but Capitol...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly four years into Janet Yellen's history-making turn as the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve, the economy is growing, the unemployment rate is low and the stock market is setting record highs. President Donald Trump s...