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PERKINS, Okla. – The Ladybugs weren't about to let it be a two and done situation for them in the playoffs as they easily rolled over Hennessey in the regional opener, 53-35. The Ladybugs got the best of Lady Eagles in their only other meeting this season, 53-34, at the Pioneer Tournament. With the win over the Lady Eagles, the Ladybugs moved on to face Oklahoma Christian School on Saturday at Perkins-Tryon High School. They continued their playoff run with a win over OCS, 46-32, keep their p...
ADA – The East Central University men's basketball team fell to Northwestern Oklahoma State, 67-66, in Great American Conference action at the Kerr Activities Center. The Tigers (14-11, 12-9 GAC) were led by junior Gabe McKenzie, who garnered 20 points, four rebounds and an assist. Sophomore Camron Talley added 15 points, three boards, an assist and two steals. The Rangers (20-6, 16-5 GAC) started the game on a 7-0 run in the first 3:30 minutes. ECU countered with a 13-0 run in the next 4:30 minutes to take the lead for the rest of the first h...
ADA – The East Central University women's basketball team dropped a key game in Great American Conference action to Northwestern Oklahoma State, 76-71, at the Kerr Activities Center. The Tigers are now in a four-way tie with Oklahoma Baptist, NWOSU and Southern Arkansas for seventh in the GAC standings. The Tigers (9-16, 8-13 GAC) were paced by junior Tia Williams, who tallied 18 points, two rebounds, four assists and two blocks. Senior Devon Branch added 10 points and senior Aaliyah Blakley netted nine points and nine boards. ECU started t...
WEATHERFORD – Oklahoma Baptist won its NCAA-era best 10th game of the season, taking down Southwestern Friday afternoon, 101-89. Vladimir Nemcok and Chandler Rickey had double-doubles and both joined Brantly Thompson with a career statistical best. Nemcok had 29 points, career-best 14 rebounds and was three assists shy of a triple-double. Rickey had 14 points, 10 rebounds and a career-best six assists. Thompson added a career-best 21 points. Harrison Stoddart added 16 points. The Bison never trailed and led for the last 37:45 of the game. T...
BETHANY, Okla. – Southeastern had a tough time on the glass on Friday night and a second-half run by Southern Nazarene would spell trouble for the Savage Storm in a 68-54 loss in Bethany, Okla. The loss drops the Savage Storm to 14-12 overall and 13-8 in Great American Conference play heading into the regular season finale on Saturday night against Northwestern Oklahoma State at 7:30 p.m. in Bloomer Sullivan Arena. A'Torey Everett led all scorers with 17 points, while Jett Jobe was next in line for the Storm with nine. Adam Dworsky and M...
BETHANY, Okla. – Southeastern struggled form the field over the final three quarters and despite a fourth-quarter rally, was unable to pick up a road win at Southern Nazarene, falling 62-55 on Friday night in Bethany, Okla. The loss drops the Savage Storm to 12-14 overall and 10-11 in Great American Conference play heading into the regular season finale on Saturday evening at 5:30 p.m. against Northwestern Oklahoma State. Sa'Liesha Hunter led the way on offense with 16 points on the strength of four threes, while Courtney Bradyfinished with 1...
BETHANY, Okla. — Micah Speight notched his second double-double of the season and nearly had a triple-double for Southern Nazarene in a 68-54 win Friday night against Southeastern Oklahoma State. The sophomore poured in 14 points, 11 rebounds and six assists for the Crimson Storm (23-2, 20-1 GAC) who won their 15th straight home game and moved to 12-0 at home this season. Coleman Edwards added 11 points off of the bench was he was 4-for-10 from the field and went 3-for-8 from 3-point range. Noah Starkey nearly had a double-double with nine p...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. — Henderson State battled on Friday evening but was swept by Mississippi College 9-0 at the Ward Tennis Center. The Lady Choctaws put the Reddies in a hole early by taking all three doubles matches. Henderson's Sydnee Parker and Mariah Bartlett fell 8-1 at No. 2 doubles and then the Reddies' No. 1 team of Annie Shannon and Thea Minor followed suit in an 8-4 defeat. Lorraine Banimataku and Lorish Puluspene, the No. 3 team for HSU, put up the best fight, but ultimately fell as well, 8-5, to put the Reddies down 3-0 heading i...
NEW YORK (AP) — The National Rifle Association, and now the State of Florida, faced a growing backlash Saturday as companies cut ties to the gun industry following the latest school massacre, and student survivors called for tourism boycotts of their home state until gun control measures are enacted. The latest companies to end their ties with the NRA were Delta and United Airlines, the first and third largest U.S.-based airline companies by revenue, respectively. Corporate ties to the NRA aren't the only elements undergoing scrutiny in the w...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Once again, it was the images of children that propelled President Donald Trump to act. Trump spent the first days after the Feb. 14 school shooting in Florida fixated on the grieving and anguished students and parents. While at his Florida estate for the long weekend after the shooting, Trump studied the students' appeals on cable news, listened to their accounts during a visit to a hospital and processed their words not just as a president but as the father of an 11-year-old. The shooting made "no sense," Trump has told a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Governors assessing the fallout from the latest school shooting said Saturday that the gun control debate has changed after the sorrow in Florida, a shift helped driven by public outrage and student activists. But they are skeptical Congress can seize the moment, overcome its partisan divide and enact measures intended to prevent more tragedies, so governors are preparing to take the lead and have states push ahead with new gun restrictions. The Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, t...
BEIRUT (AP) — A new wave of airstrikes and shelling on eastern suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus left at least 22 people dead and dozens wounded Saturday, raising the death toll of a week of bombing in the area to 500, as the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution demanding a 30-day cease-fire across Syria. The weeklong bombardment has overwhelmed rescuers and doctors at makeshift hospitals, many of which have also been bombed. Activists say that terrified residents have been hiding in underground shelters where dozens of...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Investor Warren Buffett says Wall Street's lust for deals has prompted CEOs to act like oversexed teenagers and overpay for acquisitions, so it has been hard to find deals for Berkshire Hathaway. In his annual letter to shareholders Saturday, Buffett mixed investment advice with details of how Berkshire's many businesses performed. Buffett blamed his recent acquisition drought on ambitious CEOs who have been encouraged to take on debt to finance pricey deals. "If Wall Street analysts or board members urge that brand of CEO t...
PANAMA CITY (AP) — One of President Donald Trump's family businesses is battling an effort to physically evict its team of executives from a luxury hotel in Panama where they manage operations, and police have been called to keep the peace, The Associated Press has learned. Witnesses told the AP they saw Trump's executives carrying files to a room for shredding. Representatives of the hotel owners' association formally sought to fire Trump's management team Thursday by hand-delivering termination notices to them at the Trump International Hotel...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Motorists pulled aside and well-wishers lined freeway overpasses to see the Rev. Billy Graham's motorcade barrel through his beloved home state of North Carolina on Saturday in a running tribute to "America's Pastor." Adults and children stood behind wooden barricades and yellow tape as police officers saluted and admirers captured the moment on cell phones. Fire trucks parked on overpasses along Interstate 40. "He has never really reveled in all of the celebrity. It's come with the territory," said Joe Tyson, a family f...
DENVER (AP) — When President Donald Trump raised the idea of banning "bump stocks" and curbing young people's access to gun, gun owners and advocates who helped his political rise talked about disloyalty and desertion. Trump's flirtation with modest gun control measures drew swift condemnation from gun groups, hunters and sportsmen who banked on the president to be a stalwart opponent to any new restrictions. He's pledging to make schools safer and reduce gun violence after the Florida school shooting. But gun advocates see a weakening r...
LONDON (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross has joined the list of prominent charities that have uncovered sexual misconduct among its staff. ICRC Director-General Yves Daccord says 21 staff members have resigned or been fired since 2015 after violating policy by paying for sexual services. Two others did not have their contracts renewed because of suspected sexual misconduct. "I am deeply saddened to report these numbers," he said. "This behavior is a betrayal of the people and the communities we are there to serve." Daccord s...
The first blow to college basketball came in September, when a federal investigation revealed hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks being funneled to influence recruits. The games went on under the dark cloud hanging over the sport, the season playing out while everyone wondered when the other sneaker would drop. It did on Friday, when a Yahoo Sports report revealed documents from the federal inquiry showing more than two dozen players and their relatives received a wide range of impermissible benefits, from meals to five-fig...
ROME (AP) — Italians demonstrated Saturday against racism, revivals of fascism, labor reforms, mandatory vaccines and other hotly-debated issues, at some points clashing with police, as antagonism flared between far-left and far-right activists in a violence-marred election campaign. It was the last weekend for political rallies ahead of Italy's March 4 national election, and protesters held at least a dozen marches or rallies in several Italian cities. In Milan, far-left demonstrators clashed with police trying to block them from reaching a f...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — For years, Russia has worked to gain influence in Southeast Europe, using Serbia as a foothold to establish a friendly pocket on a hostile continent. The European Union finally is pushing back. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is embarking on a seven-nation Balkans tour Sunday to promote the EU's new eastward expansion strategy. Russia mainly wants to discourage the Western Balkan countries — Albania, Bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Serbia — from joining NATO. But Moscow also is trying to de...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — It didn't take long after Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens was indicted for alleged invasion of privacy for Missouri Democrats to tie him to Attorney General Josh Hawley, the presumed GOP front runner in Missouri's hotly contested U.S. Senate race. Nor did it take long for Republicans to link the prosecutor who announced the charges to a prominent national Democratic financier. The quick injection of politics was a strong sign that Greitens' potentially prolonged legal battle stemming from an extramarital affair could h...
MOSCOW (AP) — He's been indicted in the U.S. for meddling in the 2016 presidential election with an army of trolls and his private military company has trodden battlefields in Ukraine and Syria. Still, the Russian multimillionaire dubbed "Putin's chef" runs yet another asset that is valuable to the Kremlin: a sprawling Russian media empire. St. Petersburg restaurateur Yevgeny Prigozhin is believed to control more than a dozen news portals in Russia that attract tens of millions of visitors and serve as an important state propaganda weapon as P...
NEW YORK (AP) — Recently filed federal charges against President Donald Trump's ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort could also pose legal and regulatory risks for the banks that loaned him millions of dollars against his New York real estate in recent years. The most serious exposure may be for a Rhode Island-based bank that employed a "conspirator" in Manafort's scheme to obtain a loan he couldn't afford, according to the 32-count new indictment unsealed this week. Dubbed "Lender B" in court papers, Citizens Bank not only lent Manafort $3.4 m...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A team of Tulane University archaeologists and an international group of researchers have uncovered a network of thousands of ancient Mayan structures previously hidden for centuries under the thick canopy of the northern Guatemalan jungle. Using a technology called LiDAR (light detection and range technology) the team which includes Marcello A. Canuto, the director of Tulane University's Middle American Research Institute, and Francisco Estrada-Belli, a research assistant professor and director of the Holmul A...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A local amateur scientist is partnering with a University of Minnesota researcher to identify micrometeorites from Twin Cities rooftops. Scott Peterson, a military veteran, stay-at-home-dad and engineering student, works with a university research associate and her brand-new technology to image and identify the composition of his samples of tiny rocks from space. Peterson started collecting the samples around 2010 and first succeeded in finding a true sample last year. 2017 was a big year for Peterson. His first child was bor...
