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ARKADELPHIA, Ark. - With ever-increasing rain chances looming over the upcoming weekend in Arkadelphia and southwest Arkansas, Ouachita Tigers' softball head coach Mike McGhee and Ouachita athletic director David sharp have announced that the start...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Moments like these are why Phil Forte came back for his sixth year. The 23-year-old senior's 3-pointer with 11 seconds to play was the difference in Oklahoma State's 68-66 win over rival Oklahoma on Monday night for the C...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Hormel Foods Corp. said Tuesday it has stopped accepting hogs from a pork supplier in Oklahoma after an animal rights group released undercover video from a farm the supplier owns showing pigs in crowded pens and being hit w...

The NCAA and helmet maker Riddell are defendants in separate class-action lawsuits alleging they failed to protect football players from long-term head injuries and didn't educate them about the risks. The lawsuits were filed Monday in federal courts...

SALLISAW, Okla. (AP) — A judge has ruled that a Sallisaw man diagnosed with schizophrenia is a danger to society, and will not be permitted weekly outpatient visits to a mental health clinic. District Judge Jeff Payton issued his ruling Monday in S...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the first-degree murder conviction and life prison sentence of a Hinton man. The court on Tuesday rejected appeals by 75-year-old Claude Allen Wilkinson in the 2015 shooting d...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma sheriff's agency where an ex-reserve deputy fatally shot an unarmed black man in 2015 is applying for federal money to outfit 50 of its deputies with body-worn cameras, the sheriff said Tuesday. If the Tulsa County S...

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas truck driver accused of causing a 2014 crash in Oklahoma that killed four college softball players has died by suicide at his home. The prosecutor in the Oklahoma case, Murray County District Attorney Craig Ladd, confirmed to T...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin is touting the state's technology and energy industries at an event in Italy. Fallin spoke Monday at the annual meeting of GE's Oil and Gas Division in Florence, Italy. According to a speech provided t...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected arguments that a Kansas law can shield from federal prosecution anyone owning firearms made, sold and kept in the state — a ruling that casts doubt on the legality of similar laws passed in...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita man says his phone has been "blowing up" since he won a Bud Light promotion giving him Super Bowl tickets for life. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/2kN72es ) reports that it all started at Christmas time when 5...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A lieutenant colonel in Kansas' Civil Air Patrol said in a Facebook post that a state lawmaker should "swing from a tree" for introducing a bill that would undo a law allowing concealed weapons on college campuses starting in J...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man accused of plotting to attack Somali immigrants has asked a judge to free him pending trial. A defense motion filed Tuesday asks U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren to review the detention order for Patrick Stein, w...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A ferret is recovering after being fitted with a pacemaker during a rare surgery at Kansas State University. The 4-year-old ferret, named Zelda, is owned by Carl Hobi of Olathe, who took her to the Veterinary Health Center i...

ST. JOHN, Kan. (AP) — The Sunflower Foundation has approved a statewide pilot program to help fund community-based strategies for addressing food access in rural Kansas. The $120,000 pilot project called Project HERO — Healthy Eating: Rural Opp...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gun-rights lawmakers in Kansas showed Tuesday that they might still have enough clout to ensure that people can carry concealed weapons on college campuses starting in July by keeping a bill to block the policy stuck in a l...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas found that sophomore basketball player Lagerald Vick likely committed domestic violence against a female student in 2015 but it is unclear if Vick was punished. The Kansas City Star (...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man already serving time for a murder in a Kansas City homeless camp is now charged in a 2004 killing that left body parts floating in the Missouri River. Jackson County prosecutors on Monday charged 61-year-old Michael G...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man was sentenced to four years and four months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to export firearms using a hidden online marketplace. Federal officials said 36-year-old Michael Andrew Ryan of Manhattan, also k...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Topeka man with a long criminal record was sentenced to life in prison for a fatal traffic accident that occurred while he was fleeing police. Sixty-three-year-old Sherman Norman Jenkins was sentenced Monday for first-degree m...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A 50-year-old woman is charged with killing a Leavenworth man in a case involving domestic violence. Barbara Marie Frantz, of Kansas City, Kansas, was charged Monday in Leavenworth County with first-degree murder in the k...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — The Latest on the Missouri execution of a man convicted of killing a woman and her two children in 1998 (all times local): 8:30 p.m. A Missouri inmate who was executed for killing two children and their mother mouthed "I l...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — Nearly 19 years to the day that Susan Brouk and her two children were taken to a Missouri pond and killed, one of the men responsible for the crime was put to death Tuesday. Mark Christeson was given a lethal injection — Mis...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's No. 2 Republican state senator is proposing a $10 limit on lobbyist gifts to elected officials. The legislation Majority Leader Mike Kehoe pitched to a Senate panel Tuesday wouldn't completely ban gifts, as R...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled a recent constitutional amendment allows prosecutors to present more evidence in child sex abuse cases, regardless of when the alleged abuse happened. In a 6-0 ruling, Supreme C...