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ALVA, Okla. – Ranger Baseball player Johnnuelle Ponce has been named Great American Conference Player of the Week for his historic weekend in a 2-1 series win over Harding University. The Puerto Rican launched towering grand slams in back-to-back d...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Following the fall portion of the 2017-18 season of competition in the Great American Conference, the league office announced that 360 student-athletes achieved Academic All-Conference honors in the sports of football, v...

ALVA, Okla. – Due to the winter storm in the Southern Plains, the Northwestern Oklahoma State University athletic department has announced changes to its weekend schedules for men’s and women’s basketball, baseball and softball. The NWOSU men’s...

MANHATTAN, Kan. – The colors at Kansas State University are purple and white, but the championship round of its rodeo looked a lot like Northwestern Oklahoma State University. The Northwestern contestants made up 25 spots in Sunday's short round in M...

VICTORIA, Texas – The Northwestern Oklahoma State women's golf team braved 40-mile an hour winds in brutal scoring conditions to finish out the 2018 Clad Jacobs Invitational in a tie for sixth place. The Rangers posted a final round score of 365 a...

ALVA, Okla. – On Tuesday, the local basketball coaches had a chance to update a group of supporters at The Other Place restaurant as the leaders from Alva High School and Northwestern Oklahoma State addressed the Quarterback Club at its weekly m...

ALVA, Okla. – The Alva Goldbugs and Ladybugs were supposed to begin regional play on Thursday afternoon at Chisholm High School. However, due to the winter storm, the schedules have been changed by the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activities Associatio...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis grand jury on Thursday indicted Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens on a felony invasion of privacy charge for allegedly taking a compromising photo of a woman with whom he had an affair in 2015. The Republican governor r...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida inmate convicted of raping and killing a college student decades ago screamed and yelled "murderers!" three times, thrashing on a gurney as he was being put to death Thursday. The governor's office said Eric Scott B...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dramatically escalating the pressure and stakes, special counsel Robert Mueller filed additional criminal charges Thursday against President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman and his business associate. The filing adds a...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The armed officer on duty at the Florida school where a shooter killed 17 people never went inside to engage the gunman and has been placed under investigation, officials announced Thursday. The Valentine's Day shooting a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation should keep assault rifles out of the hands of anyone under 21, President Donald Trump declared Thursday, defying his loyal supporters in the National Rifle Association amid America's public reckoning over gun v...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California state senator accused of sexual misconduct resigned Thursday just ahead of a possible vote to expel him, delivering a scathing resignation letter that called the investigation a farce and underscored the L...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday spared the life of a convicted killer shortly before the man's scheduled execution for masterminding the fatal shootings of his mother and brother. In sparing the life of Thomas "Bart" W...

BEIRUT (AP) — World leaders called Thursday for an urgent cease-fire in Syria as government forces pounded the opposition-controlled eastern suburbs of the capital in a crushing campaign that has left hundreds of people dead in recent days. The U...

MOSCOW (AP) — Thirty years ago, he was in prison. A decade ago, he was serving fancy meals to President Vladimir Putin. A week ago, he was among 13 Russians indicted in Washington on charges of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The j...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders of the National Rifle Association on Thursday accused gun control advocates of exploiting the deadly Florida school shooting, striking a defiant tone amid a renewed debate over guns and school safety. NRA Executive Vice P...

National Public Radio has adopted a series of measures to improve its workplace culture, following an independent investigation into sex harassment issues stemming from the ouster of a top executive. The new measures, adopted unanimously by NPR's...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading liberal policy group is raising the ante in the health care debate with a new plan that builds on Medicare to guarantee coverage for all. Called "Medicare Extra for All," the proposal Thursday from the Center for A...

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Donald Trump's outsider candidacy rattled the conservative movement. But more than a year into his presidency, the onetime Democrat now holds what seems to be a near-total grip. The largest annual gathering of conservatives h...