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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 the Tigers dropped the game 82-69. The first half started with the Tigers making the first basket of the game with a Wesley Franklin three pointer. The Reddies took a nine point lead until Matthew Ward came in and hit two threes cutting the lead to 16-13. After allowing the lead to reach 29-20 HSU's w...
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 Eden Crow put in a great game also accounting for 13 points and seven rebounds. Madison Brittain dropped 11 points and added two huge blocks in the matchup. The game started slowly for the Lady Tigers as HSU hit three three pointers to take a 9-0 lead. Huell broke the run with a jumper to give O...
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 as (RV) Southern Arkansas put away the Weevils 74-70 inside Steelman Fieldhouse for the team's seventh-straight victory which places the Muleriders alone atop the league standings. SAU (13-2, 8-1) saw four players register double-figures in scoring including a double-double effort from sophomore f...
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 the Muleriders' first win of 2019, their first win against NCAA opposition and first GAC win of the season. Junior Lena Maledon led the Muleriders in scoring with 14 points in 24 minutes. The Parisian shot 4-7 from the field, including making both of her three-point attempts, and shooting 4-6 from the f...
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 shows two women, one of whom is wearing black paint on her face and hands and uses a racial slur. The university confirmed Friday that two OU students were in the video, which it described as "inappropriate and derogatory." A university spokeswoman said both students were remorseful and wanted to p...
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 Executive Director Tim Gatz will serve as his transportation secretary and O&M Restaurant Group CEO David Ostrowe will serve as his secretary of digital transformation and administration. Gatz and Ostrowe still must be confirmed by the Senate. Meanwhile, Oklahoma Department of Transportation D...
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 from the U.S. Forest Service not to suspend any activities on some of their federal grants, despite being unable to access the subsidies for a potential fire hazard, the Journal Record reported. "If we do something and expect payments, we're probably not going to get any money for a while," said M...
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 showing he finished a six-hour course called "Civil Trial: Everything You Need to Know" on Jan. 4. The course included one hour on ethics. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson ordered the extra education last year over what she concluded were violations of disclosure-of-evidence rules. Kobach had until June 3...
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 spokeswoman for Kobach's successor as Kansas secretary of state said Friday the office is reviewing the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program and consulting with other member states about it. "No formal decision has been made either way" about whether to end the program, said Katie Koupal, the 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 former Kansas secretary of state, joins a crowded field of Republicans who are either actively looking at the race or being touted as possible candidates. The list also includes U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts, a four-term Republican, announced earlier this month that he w...
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 program without raising taxes. Opposition hardened swiftly Friday to a proposal from the new Democratic governor to cut the next 17 years' worth of annual payments to the still-underfunded pension system for teachers and government workers. Kelly outlined the measure Thursday, along with the other d...
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 Community Services in Salina, where the teenager has been held since he was released from a hospital in Kearney, Nebraska. The warrant includes charges of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer. He was taken to the Sedgwick County j...
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 shutdown "completely unacceptable." There are nearly 19,000 federal employees in the Kansas City area, where her district is located. Davids says she would push for back wages for furloughed government workers as well as low-wage contractors. President Donald Trump signed a bill Wednesday g...
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 presented its analysis of the state's high electricity rates to lawmakers, the Wichita Eagle reported. The commission found that utilities Westar Energy and Kansas City Power & Light spent billions of dollars over the last decade on coal-fired power plants in Kansas. They also spent hundreds of millions o...
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 spokesman Charley Davidson said the dog had injuries consistent with illegal dog fighting. A witness told police the driver of a yellow station wagon dumped the dog. The Wichita Animal Action League said on its Facebook page that the dog apparently was shot in the head at point-blank range. The g...
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 reduction for the College of Agriculture and Research and Extension. The center's director, Jason Griffin, and a task force were asked to develop a plan to find $230,000 in new revenue sources each year for a center with annual revenue of about $30,000. The Wichita Eagle reports those plans include 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 to pay a $4,000 fine. Whipple pleaded guilty in October and agreed to resign and surrender his law enforcement certification as part of the plea deal. Whipple initially faced three wire fraud charges alleging that he faxed reports falsely certifying that deputies had received training. But under the p...
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 never spoke, never said hi, never smiled. In two weeks, I had her smiling, and she was talking to me." Wilson joked she "probably talks too much," but she has fun. She said it's important for her to smile and be friendly. Wilson, who celebrated her 80th birthday on Dec. 28, works five mornings a week. "...
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 specialized in finding deer antler sheds. He will be one of the featured speakers during the 2019 Topeka Boat and Outdoor Show, which runs Jan. 31 through Feb. 2 at the Kansas Expocentre. "We invented the sport of hunting horns with the dogs 13 years ago and we've trained almost 500 of these dogs, and we have t...
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 began attending Doolittle Elementary School in Cheshire in September after moving from New Mexico. Police reports obtained by the Republican-American say a teacher told school administrators about the bullying weeks before her death. The girl's mother and stepfather told police after Anjelita's death t...
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 McCluskey called on Oct. 10 to request a police escort for her daughter to get her car back from the man after her daughter discovered he had lied about his real name and sex offender status. "I'm worried that he's dangerous," Jill McCluskey said in one recording. She said later, while holding back t...
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 budget-writing panel comes as lawmakers contemplate raising the state's 20 percent cap on royalty rates for oil and natural gas production on state trust land in the Permian Basin. The basin that straddles the Texas-New Mexico state line has become one of the world's most productive oil fields. The study from t...
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 that the female patient accused a registered nurse and a certified caregiver, both women, of abuse. The workers yelled at her and hit her head and arm, she alleged Thursday as federal and state auditors surveyed the Phoenix facility. Officials say the two workers have no history of complaints and d...
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 had announced it would license have paid the $15,000 licensing fee and posted the $100,000 performance bond. A DFA spokesman said the department anticipates the remaining companies will continue to pay and post the bond over the next week. The dispensaries can begin building or preparing facilities b...
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 marijuana could become available in eastern North Dakota within a few weeks, with dispensaries operating statewide by early fall. That's welcome news for people like Sheri Paulson, an eastern North Dakota farmer who suffers from multiple sclerosis. "It's definitely a start in the right direction," Paulson s...
