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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Two big rigs and two passenger vehicles collided and spilled diesel fuel across a Florida highway Thursday, sparking a massive fire that killed six people, authorities said. The wreck happened on Interstate 75 about a m...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cheering Democrats returned Nancy Pelosi to the House speaker's post Thursday as the 116th Congress ushered in a historically diverse freshman class eager to confront President Donald Trump in a new era of divided government. P...

ROME (AP) — North Korea's top diplomat in Italy has gone into hiding along with his wife, according to a South Korean lawmaker, raising the possibility of a defection of a senior North Korean official. The news came from South Korea's spy agency, w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Everywhere President Donald Trump looks, he sees a wall. As he lobbies for money for his long-promised border wall, Trump keeps talking up other barricades. He's pointing to walls in Israel, at the Vatican, even at former P...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With President Donald Trump warning that it "could be a long time" before the partial shutdown of the government ends, concerns are rising about potential economic damage given that the shutdown is coinciding with other threats. M...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's foreign affairs ministry has formally asked the United States government to conduct a thorough investigation into a Jan. 1 incident in which U.S. agents fired tear gas into Mexico to stop crossing migrants. In a s...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. Army's chief of staff made a surprise visit to the Afghanistan's capital, where he met President Ashraf Ghani to discuss prospects for a peaceful end to the country's 17-year war, the United States' longest. In a s...

ADA, OKLA. – The East Central University men's basketball team extended its home-winning streak to six games, with an 82-74 victory over Harding in Great American Conference action at the Kerr Activities Center. Scoring First Half: 41-35 The teams t...

ADA, OKLA. – The East Central University women's basketball team moved their winning streak to five games, with a 75-66 victory over Harding in Great American Conference action at the Kerr Activities Center. Scoring First Quarter: 18-19 The Bisons (8...

SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist University kept its spot atop the Great American Conference men's basketball standings with an exciting 89-77 victory over visiting Henderson State. The win upped OBU's record to 6-5 overall and 4-1 in the league s...

SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist University put together a determined effort and gave visiting Henderson State a stern test before falling 86-62 in women's basketball action Thursday in Shawnee. The loss dropped OBU to 5-6 overall and 1-4 in the Great A...

DURANT, Okla. – DJ Henderson connected on eight threes, including a late dagger with seven seconds to play, and finished with 24 points to lift Southeastern to a 90-86 win over Arkansas Tech on Thursday night in Bloomer Sullivan Arena. The win l...

DURANT, Okla. – Briley Moon and Kamryn Cantwell each turned in double-doubles as Southeastern cruised to an 80-59 victory over Arkansas Tech on Thursday evening in Bloomer Sullivan Arena. The win lifts the Savage Storm to 6-4 overall and 4-2 in G...

BETHANY - On a night where No. 19/22 Southern Nazarene only shot 41% from the field, 16% from deep, and 68% from the charity stripe, the Crimson Storm got a returning starter back, an unlikely scoring hero, and tough defense to grind out a gritty...

BETHANY, Okla. — Southern Nazarene opened the new year of 2019 on Thursday night in dazzling fashion, as they took down Ouachita Baptist 74-55 inside the Sawyer Center. The Crimson Storm (3-8, 2-3 GAC) had new goals in place to ring in the New Y...

WEATHERFORD, Okla. – For the second straight season, the SWOSU Women's Basketball team has put together a 10-game win streak after taking down Arkansas-Monticello 79-53 on Thursday evening at the Pioneer Cellular Event Center. The Lady Bulldogs ...

WEATHERFORD, Okla. – Bulldog Basketball outscored Arkansas-Monticello 39-22 in the second half on Thursday night, erasing an early 21-point deficit before falling to the Boll Weevils in the final seconds by a score of 67-65. The Bulldogs came out o...

DURANT, Okla.– RJ Glasper turned in a 25-point performance, while Will Adler added 23 of his own, but the Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys basketball team (2-9, 0-5 Great American Conference) was unable to overcome the clutch late shooting of S...

DURANT, Okla.– Hannah Villines turned in a 12-point effort, Leighton Taylor added 10 points and Ryann Goodsell grabbed 10 boards, but the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns basketball team was unable to overcome a slow start offensively as the Golden Suns (...

UAM STATS Darnell Wright - 16 points, 8 rebounds KJ Lesure - 13 points, 3 rebounds Marcus Gilbert - 11 points, 5 rebounds Keelin Jackson - 10 points, 10 rebounds FIRST HALF The Weevils went up and grabbed 19 rebounds to SWOS's 12. Marcus Gilbert led...

UAM STATS Mackenzie Johnson - 13 points, 5 rebounds Berniezha Tidwell - 11 points, 11 rebounds Chari Swift - 8 points, 3 rebounds FIRST HALF SWOSU went on a 25-2 run on the Blossoms from 5:01 in the first quarter to 5:15 in the second quarter....

ADA, Okla. – Camron Talley, the Great American Conference's second-leading scorer, made five 3-pointers and scored 28 points to lead East Central to an 82-74 victory over Harding on Thursday in conference play at the Kerr Activities Center. East Cent...

ADA, Okla. – East Central made 11 3-pointers, held Harding to 37 percent shooting and defeated the Lady Bisons 75-66 Thursday in Great American Conference action at the Kerr Activities Center. East Central shot 43 percent (27 of 63), the first t...