Articles from the January 2, 2019 edition
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Lady Bison Dominate on New Year's Eve
SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist closed out 2018 in style, dominating Central Christian College on the way to a 79-53 victory in their final nonconference tuneup of the season. Outside of a brief one-point lead at the start of the second quarter, the L...
Peacock Banks in Game Winner for 82-80 Victory at OBU
SHAWNEE, Okla. – Sophomore forward Brewster Peacock banked in a put-back basket with 0.2 seconds left to lift the Rogers State men's basketball team to a 82-80 win at Oklahoma Baptist on Monday (Dec. 31) at the Noble Complex for the fifth straight vi...
Lampo's 27-Point Effort Leads Harding over UAFS
FORT SMITH, Ark. – Harding sophomore Kellie Lampo scored 23 of her game-high 27 points in the first half, and the Lady Bisons fought off Arkansas-Fort Smith for a 70-59 nonconference victory at the Stubblefield Center on New Year's Eve. Harding's w...
Christian Brothers Holds Off Harding Men's Basketball in New Year's Eve Matchup
SEARCY – Harding pulled to within five points of Christian Brothers seven times in the second half Monday but fell 69-57 in nonconference, New Year's Eve action at Rhodes-Reaves Field House. It was just the third time Harding played on New Year's E...
Toby Keith to perform at Oklahoma governor's inauguration
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Country music star and Oklahoma native Toby Keith will be among the performers at a series of events marking the inauguration of incoming Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt. The three inaugural events will take place between Jan. 10 a...
Oklahoma earthquakes decrease for 3rd straight year
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The number of Oklahoma earthquakes registering a magnitude 3.0 or greater has declined for the third consecutive year after state regulators began directing oil and natural gas producers to close some wells and reduce injection v...
Oklahoma Agriculture Secretary Jim Reese resigns
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gov. Mary Fallin's secretary of agriculture is stepping down two weeks before the inauguration of Oklahoma Gov.-elect Kevin Stitt. Oklahoma Agriculture Secretary Jim Reese submitted a letter to Fallin on Monday in which he a...
Self-defense pushes Wichita's homicide totals past last year
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita amassed more homicides in 2018 than in any year since 1995, in part because of an increase in self-defense killings. At least 43 people died by homicide in Wichita over the past year, up five from 2017, The Wichita Eagle...
Democrat Lujan Grisham takes oath as New Mexico governor
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The top job in New Mexico passed from one Latina governor to another Tuesday as Michelle Lujan Grisham took the oath of office, announcing it was time to spend more money on education and address climate change through the r...
Low carb? Low fat? What the latest dieting studies tell us
NEW YORK (AP) — Bacon and black coffee for breakfast, or oatmeal and bananas? If you're planning to try to lose weight in 2019, you're sure to find a fierce debate online and among friends and family about how best to do it. It seems like everyone h...
Hemp firm partners with UA researchers to develop cannabis
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A northwest Arkansas company plans to work with the University of Arkansas to grow, research and process hemp flowers for the budding cannabis oil industry. Fayetteville-based Arkansas Hemp Genetics LLC says it has s...
Sudan's president orders investigation amid protests
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has ordered an investigation into "recent events" after two weeks of violent protests against his 29-year autocratic rule, as he seeks to placate popular anger over worsening economic conditions. The s...
Plunge in oil prices threatens Iraq's postwar recovery
BAGHDAD (AP) — The latest plunge in oil prices has dealt a heavy blow to Iraq's stagnating economy, threatening the new government's ability to rebuild after the war with the Islamic State group and provide basic services to areas roiled by recent p...
Congress leaders invited to White House for border briefing
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump invited congressional leaders from each chamber to a White House briefing on border security Wednesday as the partial government shutdown wore on over funding for a border wall, with Trump tweeting: "Let's m...
ACA mandate gone, but a few states still require coverage
The mandate directing individuals to obtain health insurance or face tax penalties ends on Tuesday for most, but not all Americans. In Massachusetts, an individual mandate that has been on the books since 2006 will continue in the absence of the...
'Village' network helps older residents stay in their homes
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gone are John Fuller's days of paying his neighbors for rides to Kroger. The 84-year-old Fuller now gets rides to the grocery store from At Home by High, a membership network for older adults in the Short North and surrounding n...
28 Missouri counties unable to locate wireless 911 callers
A December 2017 report by the Missouri Department of Public Safety said 28 of Missouri's 114 counties lacked the ability to identify the location of callers seeking 911 emergency help. Sixteen Missouri counties had only basic 911 service, with call...
Missouri to tax prepaid cellphone service to fund 911 calls
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The cost of prepaid cellphone service in Missouri slightly increased on Tuesday as the state joined most of the rest of the country in charging a tax to fund 911 emergency call centers. But not all customers will pay the e...
Spacecraft opens new year with flyby on solar system's edge
LAUREL, Md. (AP) — NASA's New Horizons spacecraft pulled off the most distant exploration of another world Tuesday, skimming past a tiny, icy object 4 billion miles from Earth that looks to be shaped like a bowling pin. Flight controllers in M...
Teacher accused of feeding puppy to turtle is set for trial
PRESTON, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho biology teacher accused of feeding a live puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students will go on trial beginning Thursday. Preston Junior High School teacher Robert Crosland was charged with one count of m...
US, Israel exit UN cultural agency, claiming bias
PARIS (AP) — The United States and Israel officially quit the U.N.'s educational, scientific and cultural agency at the stroke of midnight, the culmination of a process triggered more than a year ago amid concerns that the organization fosters a...
The Latest: NASA spacecraft dashes by world beyond Pluto
LAUREL, Md. (AP) — The Latest on NASA's New Horizons' New Year rendezvous (all times local): 10: 40 a.m. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has survived humanity's most distant exploration of another world. Ten hours after the middle-of-the-night e...
Russian baby rescued after nearly 36 hours in frozen rubble
MOSCOW (AP) — Laboring through sub-freezing temperatures, Russian rescue workers were digging into a sprawling heap of jagged rubble from a collapsed apartment building when one heard the faintest sound. It was the sound of life. On Tuesday, to every...
US fires tear gas across Mexico border to stop migrants
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — U.S. authorities fired tear gas into Mexico during the first hours of the new year to repel about 150 migrants who were trying to breach the border fence in Tijuana. An Associated Press photographer witnessed at least three v...
German-Jewish author Edgar Hilsenrath dies at 92
BERLIN (AP) — Edgar Hilsenrath, a German-Jewish writer whose fictional account of the Holocaust from the perspective of a Nazi perpetrator became a best-seller, has died at 92. The German news agency dpa quoted Hilsenrath's second wife, Marlene, a...
