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A Waynoka man went to the hospital after getting into a physical altercation with a friend. According to court documents, on Dec. 12 Waynoka Police Officer William Barnum was dispatched to the Logan Street Apartments about an earlier fight. He...

ARKADELPHIA, Arkansas – Northwestern Oklahoma State's men's basketball team was closed out in the closing seconds of the game for the second straight contest, this time against Henderson State. Senior Adrian Motley's 27 point performance, which moved...

RUSSELLVILLE, ARK. – The East Central University women's basketball played a well-fought game against No. 13 Arkansas Tech, but ended up falling 43-68 in Great American Conference action on the road. The Tigers (2-8, 1-5 GAC) were paced by junior D...

MELBOURNE, Fla. – Oklahoma Baptist scored a 5-3 win over Florida Institute of Technology Saturday in a dual quickened by weather. "The whole thing took 42 minutes and 13 seconds because radar had lightning moving in and we had a short window," s...

MONTICELLO, Ark. – Oklahoma Baptist suffered through a pair of scoring droughts but forced overtime before falling at Arkansas-Monticello Saturday 89-86. Katy Custer and Tasha Edge had double-doubles with Custer getting a career-best and OBU s...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Ouachita used a 35-16 advantage in the second quarter and shot 56.1% from the field to defeat SWOSU 114-79 on Saturday afternoon at Bill Vining Arena in Arkadelphia. The setback ends a three-game winning streak for SWOSU and drops...

LUBBOCK, Texas – Rogers State women's basketball could never secure the lead Saturday inside the Rip Griffin Center and battled from behind in a 65-49 loss to Lubbock Christian. RSU saw defending NCAA Division II champion LCU build an 8-2 a...

SEARCY – Harding scored the first 20 points of the fourth quarter and erased a 26-point deficit to defeat Southeastern Oklahoma 72-69 in Great American Conference play Saturday at the Rhodes-Reaves Field House. With the victory, Harding remained a...

Brittany Branum scored a career-high 31 points to lead Henderson State to an 87-74 win over Northwestern Oklahoma, Saturday at the Duke Wells Center in Arkadelphia. The sophomore from Greenwood, Ark. surpassed her previous career-high of 15 points...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State came close to upsetting in-state rival Kansas earlier this week. That anger and frustration of not pulling off the upset was used as fuel to push the Wildcats into Saturday's matchup with Oklahoma. Wesley Iwundu l...

MACOMB, Ill. (AP) — Garret Covington scored a career-high 34 points as Western Illinois kept Oral Roberts winless in the Summit League with an 86-71 victory on Saturday. Covington was 12 of 16 from the field including six 3-pointers for the L...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Frank Mason III scored 26 points, Devonte Graham added a season-high 20 and No. 3 Kansas used a big second-half run to put away Texas Tech, 85-68 on Saturday night. Josh Jackson had 17 points and Mason provided the spark for a...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State came close to upsetting in-state rival Kansas earlier this week. That anger and frustration of not pulling off the upset was used as fuel to push the Wildcats into Saturday's matchup with Oklahoma. Wesley Iwundu l...

WATONGA, Okla. (AP) — The state's top law enforcement agency has arrested an Oklahoma man in connection with a Blaine County homicide. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said 35-year-old Alan Dale Brower was taken into custody late Friday a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's tax on gasoline and diesel, untouched since 1987 and among the lowest in the nation, is becoming a tempting target for state lawmakers desperate for revenue amid a third straight year of budget declines. Several R...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and top lawmakers are not on the same page about ending an income tax break for farmers and business owners as the GOP-controlled Kansas Legislature prepares to tackle the state's severe budget p...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A southern Kansas judge is giving attorneys for a man accused of sexually attacking a woman before setting her on fire more time to have him mentally evaluated. KAKE-TV (http://bit.ly/2jkNBJi ) reports 28-year-old Cornell M...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man faces up to two years in federal prison after having admitted his role in what authorities say was a $3.5-million identity theft scheme involving credit cards. Justin Alan Vanley of Rose Hill pleaded guilty Friday i...

ONA, W.Va. (AP) — When it comes to video games, some might say they are a waste of time. However, for Asad Ranavaya, a junior at Cabell Midland High School, playing video games actually paid off, quite literally. Like many kids, Ranavaya spent his s...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Penn State's costs related to the Jerry Sandusky scandal are approaching a quarter-billion dollars and growing, five years after the former assistant football coach's arrest on child molestation charges. The scandal's o...

DIXON, N.M. (AP) — A northern New Mexico village is a model for accessing federal funding, leading to new jobs along with a grocery co-op, vineyard and one of the nation's top libraries. Rural development funding from the U.S. Department of A...

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Alexandra Sexton had always dreamed of becoming a pediatric oncologist. But all that changed about a year ago when she was introduced to Ocala Trinity Catholic High School's Aerospace Career Academy. Alexandra, an Irish-born 1...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A protest against Mexico's 20-percent gasoline price hike turned violent Saturday after a lone protester drove his truck into a line of police guarding a fuel distribution terminal in Baja California. Federal police said seven o...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A onetime North Dakota oilfield executive is accused of breaking federal law by falsely inflating company revenues by tens of millions of dollars. Joseph Kostelecky, of Dickinson, pleaded not guilty in Bismarck on Friday to f...