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ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Ouachita falls to Henderson State after a second half comeback. Sophomore Kendarious Smith led the Tigers with 15 points and 7 rebounds in the rivalry game. Mahlon Martin and Matt Stanley both added 14 points in the affair as t...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Three Lady Tigers score in double digits as Ouachita drops the first meeting of the year with Henderson State. Alivia Huell led the Tigers in the Battle of the Ravine with 14 points and eight rebounds, four offensive. Sophomore E...

MONTICELLO, Ark. – Senior Snyder Cenecharles and freshman Jalen Brooks combined to knock down five three-point shots in the final seven minutes of Thursday night's thrilling Great American Conference clash with in-state rival Arkansas-Monticello a...

Monticello, Ark. – The SAU Women's basketball team snapped their 11-game losing streak on Thursday in a 62-56 contest that saw the Muleriders shoot 53.7 percent from the field (22-41) and 66.7 percent from three-point land (8-12). The win marks t...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The University of Oklahoma says it's investigating after a video began circulating on social media showing one of its students wearing black paint on her face and using a racial epithet. The video posted Friday to Twitter s...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's new governor is adding an Oklahoma City restaurateur and a longtime transportation official to secretary-level positions in his cabinet. Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt announced Friday that Oklahoma Turnpike Authority E...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma officials anticipate problems with funding the state's rural firefighting services if the partial federal government shutdown persists. The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture's forestry division received communication f...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has told a federal judge he's completed extra legal education that she required of him as a sanction in a voting rights lawsuit. Kobach filed documents Friday in federal court s...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The future of a much-criticized database that checks if voters are illegally registered in multiple states is up in the air after its patron, Kris Kobach, lost the Kansas race for governor and is out of elected office. A s...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kris Kobach, a vocal ally of President Donald Trump and an advocate of tough immigration laws, confirmed Friday that he is considering a run for the U.S. Senate in 2020 after losing the Kansas governor's race. Kobach, the f...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A key part of Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly's proposed budget dealing with pensions appears doomed, creating potential trouble for her efforts to boost spending on public schools and expand the state's Medicaid health insurance p...

SMITH CENTER, Kan. (AP) — A 15-year-old Kansas boy who was injured in a confrontation with law enforcement officers last month has been arrested in Salina. Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents served an arrest warrant Thursday at Saint Francis C...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Newly elected Democratic Kansas Congresswoman Sharice Davids says her top priority is reopening the government. In a speech Friday at a Kansas City, Kansas, Chamber of Commerce forum, Davids called the partial government s...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas customers are paying more for electricity than in neighboring states because of investments in coal and wind power, according to the state's public utilities commission. The Kansas Corporation Commission recently p...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita police are asking the public for help identifying whoever dumped a dog that was shot to death and showed signs of abuse and scars. The brown pit bull's body was found earlier this week south of downtown Wichita. Police s...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State University's horticulture center near Wichita might not be closing after all. The university in June said it planned to close the John C. Pair Horticulture Center in Haysville, as part of a $3.5 million budget r...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas sheriff has been sentenced to two years of probation for selling a .45 caliber pistol and ammunition to a convicted felon. Court records show former Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple was also ordered Thursday t...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — There are two ways to get a pick-me-up at the Dillons East Starbucks: drinking caffeine and talking to barista Shirley Wilson. "When I first started down there, this one lady came in," Wilson said. "She was so grumpy, she n...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Shed hunting is a popular pastime for many outdoors enthusiasts, and an assist from man's best friend can help take that hobby to the next level. Roger Sigler, of Smithville, Missouri, breeds and trains dogs that are s...

CHESHIRE, Conn. (AP) — Authorities in Connecticut say school officials were told weeks before an 11-year-old girl killed herself that she was being bullied. Anjelita Estrada's death two days before Christmas was ruled a suicide. The sixth-grader b...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The mother of a University of Utah track athlete who was killed in October by an ex-boyfriend can be heard telling campus police that she was worried for her daughter's safety in audio recordings released Thursday. Jill M...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico legislators are being briefed on an oil-industry funded analysis that highlights the state's leading position in obtaining revenue from the production of oil and gas. The presentation Friday to a House b...

PHOENIX (AP) — A long-term care facility where an Arizona woman in a vegetative state was raped and gave birth said Friday that it's investigating another patient's allegation of physical abuse. Hacienda HealthCare officials said in a news release t...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas has issued its first six licenses for companies to sell medical marijuana in the state. The Department of Finance and Administration on Friday said six of the 32 dispensaries the state Medical Marijuana Commission h...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota began issuing medical marijuana cards this week to patients and caregivers after nearly two years of work developing and implementing a distribution system for the drug approved by voters in 2016. Medical m...