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RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. - Following a 44-19 season that saw the Arkansas Tech softball team turn in a second-place finish in the Great American Conference, the 2019 Golden Suns were picked to match that finish in the preseason coaches' poll, announced Tue...

Russellville, Ark. – The SAU Baseball team came out on top of the preseason GAC Coaches Poll released Tuesday afternoon. The Muleriders totaled 114 points while receiving 7 out of 12 first-place votes. The Muleriders are coming off a 2018 campaign t...

Russellville, Ark. – The coaches of the GAC have picked SAU Softball to finish at top of the league in the coaches poll released Tuesday morning. The Muleriders received 121 points and 11 of 12 first-place votes, and are returning thirteen players f...

Judge denies recusal request in Oklahoma mom's murder case OKMULGEE, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma judge has denied a request to step aside from the case of a woman accused of fatally shooting two of her teenage children and wounding her third child. C...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is joining other states in giving out February food stamp benefits early because of the partial government shutdown. The Oklahoma Department of Human Services announced Tuesday that those already receiving S...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Collections to Oklahoma's main government operating fund are continuing to outpace the estimate, but state finance officials are cautioning that lower oil prices are expected to start driving some of those collections down. T...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma has hired Roy Manning as cornerbacks coach. The school announced the move Tuesday. Manning was UCLA's outside linebackers and special teams coach this season when Oklahoma beat the Bruins 49-21. He was linebackers c...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Students in the Oklahoma City school district with medical conditions that require cannabis are now permitted to use the drug at school. The Oklahoma City Public Schools board voted to approve the policy Monday night, The O...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's new Gov. Kevin Stitt is putting more of his key hires in place, including the appointment of his chief operating officer to head up the state's Office of Management and Enterprise Services. Stitt issued seven o...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced a $1 million gift to The Greenwood Art Project in Tulsa. Bloomberg, a potential candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, announced the gift Tuesday from t...

OKEMAH, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma law enforcement agencies have discovered the bodies of a man and a woman in clandestine graves in rural Okfuskee County as part of their search for two missing Texas residents. The Oklahoma State Bureau of i...

The setting is different, but the complaints of teachers who are out on strike Tuesday in Los Angeles are echoing those heard in walkouts nationwide. Unlike protests that closed schools last spring in states including West Virginia, Kentucky,...

TECUMSEH, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs says an 18-year-old female offender in its custody has died. The Oklahoman reports the offender was housed at the Central Oklahoma Juvenile Center in Tecumseh when she was taken to a h...

HAYWARD, Okla. (AP) — Officials say there are no reports of damage after a 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck northern Oklahoma on Tuesday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake was centered near Hayward, or about 50 miles (80 kilometers) n...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Somali immigrants can testify at the sentencing this month of three militia members convicted of plotting to bomb their apartment complex in a southwest Kansas city, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Defense attorneys had hoped t...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — The mother of a suburban Kansas City teenager who was fatally shot by police as he backed a minivan out of his family's garage has reached a $2.3 million settlement with the city. In the settlement, the city of Overland P...

DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — Amid mounting legal fees in a lawsuit that seeks to expand voting access, Ford County is expected to announce two new polling locations in Dodge City for this year's local elections. The county will mail notices to voters info...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' new Democratic governor on Tuesday reinstated a ban on anti-LGBT bias in state agencies' employment decisions that a Republican predecessor had repealed, and she also expanded the policy to cover government contractors. G...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 20-year-old Wichita man has been convicted in the shooting death of another man in what police say was a botched marijuana deal. The Wichita Eagle report s Mark Holley III was found guilty Monday of first-degree felony m...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas military school failed to adequately supervise cadets entrusted to its care and intentionally inflicted emotional distress in 2014 on a bullied 11-year-old student who had been physically tied together with his h...

FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz. (AP) — Jonathan Nez delivered a message of hope, resilience and change Tuesday in his inaugural address as president of the Navajo Nation, drawing from the tribe's history as a way to move forward. He and Vice President Myron L...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis wants to use better-than-expected tax revenue to implement free full-day kindergarten. Polis released a budget request Tuesday that includes $227 million so that all school districts can offer full-day k...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Latest on opening day of the New Mexico Legislature (all times local): 3 p.m. New Mexico has sworn-in its first Muslim American lawmaker in state history. Rep. Abbas Akhil, an Albuquerque Democrat, took the oath of office o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic measure rebuking Republican Rep. Steve King for his comments about white supremacy won easy approval Tuesday in the House. In a twist, the nine-term Iowa congressman was among those supporting the measure of d...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An intensive care doctor ordered "significantly excessive and potentially fatal" doses of pain medicine for at least 27 near-death patients in the past few years after families asked that lifesaving measures be stopped, an O...