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OKLAHOMA CITY (Feb. 13, 2018) – Oklahoma Christian's sweep of Southwestern Oklahoma State on Tuesday afternoon came in a pair of softball games about as different as possible from each other. The Lady Eagles used a seven-run first inning in the o...

CLAREMORE, Okla. – The Rogers State softball team picked up two wins in the home opener against Northwestern Oklahoma State on Tuesday (Feb. 13) at the Diamond Sports Complex. The Hillcats won both games of the doubleheader by the scores of 4-0 a...

SEARCY – Harding had nine-run innings in each of its games Tuesday against Williams Baptist and swept the Eagles 14-6 and 19-0 in a nonconference doubleheader at Jerry Moore Field. Harding (4-3) erased an early four-run deficit in game one with a n...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – It took the Ouachita Tigers baseball team an extra inning to do it, but Jakahari Howell(Arkadelphia, Ark.) hit an RBI single down the left field line to give the Tigers a 5-4 win over Lyon College on Tuesday afternoon. The win s...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. - Despite playing just two games last weekend due to weather cancellations, Southern Arkansas again claimed one of the league's weekly top performers as freshman infielder Sarah Pitre was named the Great American Conference's...

NEW YORK (AP) — America's new top dog is set to become best in a Broadway show. Flynn the bichon frise is taking quite a victory lap on Valentine's Day, hours after he won the Westminster Kennel Club dog show at Madison Square Garden. The white p...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney on Thursday will announce his bid for Utah's Senate seat held by retiring Orrin Hatch, a position some hope the 2012 GOP presidential nominee will use to continue his biting criticism of President Donald Trump. Romne...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stormy Daniels, the porn star whom Donald Trump's attorney acknowledges paying $130,000 just before Election Day, believes she is now free to discuss an alleged sexual encounter with the man who is now president, her manager told T...

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A former student opened fire at a Florida high school Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and sending scores of students fleeing into the streets in the nation's deadliest school shooting since a gunman attacked an e...

GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's tallest peak rises above the streets of downtown Portland, its gorgeous snow-capped slopes luring 10,000 climbers a year. The picture postcard view of Mount Hood makes it one of the most visited snow-capped p...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump at last broke his silence Wednesday to explicitly denounce domestic violence in the wake of allegations that a top White House aide had abused two former wives. Chief of staff John Kelly, under fire for m...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has broken months of silence about his frequent premium-class flights at taxpayer expense, saying he needs to fly first class because of unpleasant interactions with other t...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Jacob Zuma resigned on Wednesday in a televised address to the nation, ending a turbulent tenure marred by corruption scandals that sapped the popularity of the ruling African National Congress and hurt o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump White House's handling of abuse charges against men in its midst is frustrating prominent Republican women as the party's yearslong struggle to attract female voters stretches into the 2018 midterm elections. "It's the m...

CHICAGO (AP) — Two babies, born 15 months apart to the same young woman overcoming opioid addiction. Two very different treatments. Sarah Sherbert's first child was whisked away to a hospital special-care nursery for two weeks of treatment for w...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, fighting for his political life after being accused of taking bribes from billionaire supporters, is no stranger to scandal. Over a three-decade political career, Netanyahu has been accused of every...

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — An unauthorized vehicle tried to enter the secure campus of the National Security Agency at Fort Meade on Wednesday morning, sparking a confrontation that left three people injured, authorities said. Gunshots were fired d...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation pressures appear to be building in the U.S. economy, a prospect that is heightening anxiety about potentially higher borrowing rates that could slow economic growth. The latest source of concern was a report Wednesday t...

PARIS (AP) — A French court on Wednesday acquitted a man charged with harboring Islamic extremists after they carried out the 2015 Paris attacks, bringing a surprising end to the first criminal trial linked to the country's deadliest extremist v...

PARIS (AP) — A former military dog trainer confessed Wednesday to "unintentionally" killing a 9-year-old girl whose disappearance from a wedding party in the Alps last year prompted nationwide concern and months of fruitless searching. I...

LONDON (AP) — Talks to restore a government to Northern Ireland ended in failure Wednesday, just two days after the main Catholic and Protestant parties said they were close to resolving a 13-month political impasse. The two sides traded blame for f...

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday urged European allies and Canada to keep ramping up defense spending, as the alliance expands its command headquarters in response to a more assertive Russia. Only eight of the 2...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Families camped out from early morning to catch beads and stuffed animals thrown from float riders. Revelers took to the streets in elaborate or funny costumes evoking Marie Antoinette, President Donald Trump and glamorous v...

MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Police released an edited interview from last year that shows a former Oklahoma state senator denying that he took a 17-year-old to a motel for sex. Moore police released the video interview with then-Sen. Ralph Shortey on T...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The ex-wife of an Oklahoma governor's aide who resigned after allegations of spousal abuse says the family "had one bad night six years ago," and that attention should be focused on those currently struggling with domestic v...