Happy Anniversary To Jan. 7: Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy Burks Jan. 15: Mr. & Mrs. Bryan Pierce Jan. 20: Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Schultz, Mr. & Mrs. Mick Ferguson Jan. 24: Mr. & Mrs. Albert Williams (Note: Send corrections, additions to: [email protected]...

Happy Birthday To Jan. 3: Steve Headlee, Rob Daughetee, Jay Lohmann, Steve Kirkpatrick Jan. 4: Janice Wardrop, Jason Fitzgerald, Kalea Jo DeVine, Mae Sample Jan. 5: Larry Wise, Danita Walker, Kobe Gainer, Ariel Pierce Jan. 6: Joe Jessup, Dixie...

On Sunday, Dec. 30, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Lighting of Candles: Shay Wilson Announcements: Invocation by Pastor Todd Finley Call to Worship: Psalm 130, led by Julie Russell...

RUSSELLVILLE, ARK. – East Central University women's basketball senior Tia Williams has been named the Great American Conference Player of the Week for Jan. 2. Williams matched her season high as she netted 19 points in the Tigers' 75-56 victory a...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a suspect in the robbery of a central Arkansas bank has been apprehended in northeastern Oklahoma. Tulsa County Jail records indicate that 21-year-old Kendrick Davenport Jr. was booked Wednesday following his a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma has a new state treasurer. Republican former state Rep. Randy McDaniel was sworn in to the statewide office Wednesday during a ceremony at the State Capitol. McDaniel was elected treasurer in November and was a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police in Oklahoma City say they are looking for a man who fired a gun into a Taco Bell after he didn't get the sauce he wanted. Authorities say the confrontation happened after 1 a.m. Monday. No one was hurt, but a drive-thru w...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The Delaware Tribe has abandoned plans to develop an agricultural heritage center northeast of Lawrence. Chief Chester Brooks said the tribe's council decided the proposed center would not produce enough revenue to cover the e...

FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — Thousands of Arkansas residents with valid medical marijuana licenses can receive a temporary medical marijuana adult license in Oklahoma, authorities said. The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority has issued more than 3...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The number of poultry operators in northeast Oklahoma is dropping but the farms are raising more birds per facility, according to data from the state. The Tulsa World requested 20 years of data on poultry operations from the Oklah...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita State University President John Bardo has asked Provost Richard Muma to be acting president while Bardo recovers from lung surgeries. Bardo, who is 70, was hospitalized in November with a chronic lung condition. He was e...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' new Democratic congresswoman is preparing to vote for legislation drafted by her party's leaders for reopening parts of the federal government, and she hopes President Donald Trump will accept the package. Rep.-elect Shari...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 38-year-old Wichita man who admitted beating his girlfriend to death with a shovel has been sentenced to 35 years in prison before he is eligible for parole. Travis Becker Jr. was sentenced Wednesday for the death of 4...

DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — A county in western Kansas has paid more than $70,000 so far to a legal firm hired to defend an official who moved Dodge City's only polling place to outside the iconic Wild West town ahead of the November election. Ford C...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Kansas Gov.-elect Laura Kelly says she's aware the state may need to help higher education institutions but has more pressing issues she needs to focus on during her first legislative session. "We're going to have t...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors say text messages show that a woman plotted her ex-boyfriend's death with a friend for more than a month before his body was found inside a burning home near Lawrence. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that p...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a fire that erupted after a New Year's Eve party has destroyed a Hutchinson commercial building that was being used as a wood hobby shop. The Hutchinson News reports that the party ended around 3:30 a.m. T...

JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Department of Health is warning of another case of possible hepatitis A exposure, the latest development in an ongoing epidemic in the northeastern part of the state. The agency said in a statement Wednesday t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is, at once, demanding billions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury for a border wall and insisting the wall won't really cost America anything. As he's done before, Trump argued Wednesday that Mexico is f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — On his first working day in charge of the Pentagon, Pat Shanahan got a taste of President Donald Trump's scattershot way of looking at the world. As Shanahan sat to Trump's left at a Cabinet meeting at the White House, the p...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican experts have found the first temple of the Flayed Lord, a pre-Hispanic fertility god depicted as a skinned human corpse, authorities said Wednesday. Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History said the find w...

LAUREL, Md. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman. Ultima Thule, as the small, icy object h...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) The great museums of the world harbor a secret: They’re home to millions upon millions of natural history s...