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AUSTIN, TX — Arkansas Tech took first place at the St. Edwards Invitational at Onion Creek Country Club Tuesday. The Golden Suns, who carded a first round score of 301 (+21), capped the second round with a 302 for a total combined score of 603 (+43). The Suns were 17 shots ahead of their closest competitors, Southwest Oklahoma State and Rogers State University, who tied for second place at 620 (+60). Pia Nunbhakdi led the way for Tech by finishing second overall with a pair of 73's, giving her a total of 146 (+6). She was just two strokes b...
SEARCY – Harding baseball scored 23 runs on 20 hits, and seven Bison pitchers allowed only two earned runs Monday in a doubleheader sweep of NAIA opponent Williams Baptist at Jerry Moore Field. Harding won by scores of 10-1 and 13-3 to push its winning streak to nine games, it longest since a nine-game streak in 2011. Harding (9-3) returns to action this weekend against Southern Arkansas in Magnolia. The Bisons were one of four teams to sweep their season-opening conference series, winning all three against Arkansas-Monticello. Game 1 Connor K...
SEARCY – The Harding softball team swept both games of a doubleheader Monday against Emporia State. The Lady Bisons won 4-3 and 7-2. Harding was the visiting team in game one of the doubleheader because Emporia State was supposed to be the home team on Saturday in Arkadelphia when the game was postponed. Harding improves to 8-2 on the season. Emporia State falls to 2-9. Game One Key Innings (Harding 4, Emporia State 3) - Harding got on the board in the second inning when Briley Feringa hit a solo home run to center field. It was her first of th...
PLANO, Texas – Women's Tennis capture first regular season win of the year in Collin College Super Six Tournament over the weekend. The Tigers faced off in three matchups during the weekend and defeated New Mexico Military Institute to give Coach Rachel Jones her first Tiger regular season victory. In the first match the Tigers would face off against host Collin College. In the doubles matchups the Ouachita duos would all fight hard but fall in the end putting the Tigers down 0-3. However, in the singles matchups the Tigers roared back to m...
Arkadelphia, Ark. – The Tiger's baseball team (1-2 GAC, 5-5 Overall) capped off the series against Arkansas Tech with a 9-8 win. Junior Brandon Matros took the mound for the Tigers on Sunday and pitched five and two-thirds innings. Matros gave up three runs on the day and threw for five strikeouts in his start. In the third inning, The Tigers plated two runs off of a solo-homerun by senior Aaron Studdard and a two-out single by Hunter Gautreaux to score Tyler Riebock and give Ouachita the 2-0 lead. In the top of the fifth and sixth innings, t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Board of Agriculture on Tuesday approved proposals for new or expanding poultry operations requiring them to be a certain distance away from homes and schools, but some eastern Oklahoma residents say the plan doesn't go far enough. The board voted 3-2 for the rules that include "setback" requirements that operations with fewer than 150,000 birds be at least 500 feet (152 meters) from homes and larger operations be at least 1,000 feet (305 meters) away. All operations must be at least 1,500 feet (457 meters) f...
LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma law enforcement authorities have arrested two more suspects in the shooting death of an 18-year-old man in Grady County last month. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday that 16-year-old Dmillion Williams and 18-year-old Malcolm Jackson were arrested Monday night after a short police foot chase in Lawton, about 78 miles (126 kilometers) southwest of Oklahoma City. Grady County court records indicate both are charged with first-degree murder in the Jan. 28 shooting death of 18-year-old Arnold A...
CHICKASHA, Okla. (AP) — No injuries were reported after a 3.0 magnitude earthquake shook parts of central Oklahoma. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake was reported at 12:08 p.m. Tuesday about 7 miles (12 kilometers) north-northeast of Chickasha, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) southwest of Oklahoma City. The temblor was recorded at a depth of about 8 miles (12 kilometers). No damage was immediately reported. Geologists say damage is unlikely in temblors below magnitude 4.0. Thousands of earthquakes recorded in Oklahoma in recent years h...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — State lawmakers are considering a bill that would use Medicaid expansion funds to boost Oklahoma's private-insurance subsidy program. Insure Oklahoma provides health coverage for low-income, working residents or Oklahomans who don't have employer-provided benefits. The measure would require the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, the state's Medicaid agency, to seek federal approval for a waiver to expand Insure Oklahoma. A Senate Committee approved the proposal Monday. Sen. Greg McCortney, the bill's sponsor, said Oklahoma w...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Tulsa say a physician will pay the government nearly $85,000 to settle allegations he was involved in an illegal kickback scheme. U.S. Attorney Trent Shores said Tuesday 42-year-old Dr. Brandon Claflin, an osteopathic physician, had entered into a civil settlement agreement with the government to recoup costs that resulted from the alleged kickbacks. Shores says the settlement resulted from an investigation into health care providers who wrote prescriptions for pain creams compounded and sold by OK C...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A plan to force more Oklahoma school districts to return to five-day school weeks has cleared a Senate committee. The Senate Education Committee voted 11-6 on Tuesday for the bill by Claremore Republican Sen. Marty Quinn. Senate Bill 441 now heads to the full Senate. According to the State Department of Education, 92 of Oklahoma's more than 500 school districts are currently operating on four-day school weeks. Quinn and supporters of his bill say there's little evidence to suggest the four-day week results in better s...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has named a Topeka attorney who has specialized in tax cases as her new acting secretary of revenue. Kelly announced Tuesday that Mark Burghart would lead the Department of Revenue. He replaces interim Secretary Mark Beshears, who took over the agency temporarily when the new Democratic governor took office last month. Burghart previously worked as a legislative researcher and as the Department of Revenue's chief counsel for seven years, starting in 1987. His appointment as secretary will require s...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Advocates for low-income families joined small-town grocers and others encouraging Kansas lawmakers to reduce the state's sales tax on groceries, while lobbyists for some organizations warned doing so might lead to efforts to reduce other types of taxes. A hearing Monday before the House Taxation committee was the first testimony on a bill to reduce the 6.5 percent state tax rate on groceries by 1 percent. The reduction would lower state revenues by $60 million, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported . Oberlin City A...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will receive about $922,000 as its part of a national settlement with Walgreens concerning over-dispensing of insulin pens to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. Attorney General Derek Schmidt's office said in a news release the settlement resolves allegations that Walgreens repeatedly dispensed more insulin than had been prescribed to patients. The company was accused of submitting false claims for reimbursement to Medicare and Medicaid. Schmidt said Walgreens agreed to pay the U.S. and states $209.2 million, w...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An ex-convict has been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting outside a Wichita motel. The Wichita Eagle reports that the 31-year-old suspect was arrested Monday night. It wasn't immediately clear if he was formally charged. The shooting happened Sunday night when a man in his 30s was shot behind the Citi Host Motel. He was pronounced dead at the scene. His name has not been released. Police at the scene said the victim and shooter were acquainted. The suspect was under state supervision for multiple crimes c...
RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy accused of firing a gun at a New Mexico high school last week on the anniversary of the Parkland, Florida, shooting that killed 17 told officers 11 months earlier that voices were telling him to "shoot up the school," according to a police report. A police officer in the Albuquerque suburb of Rio Rancho was called to V. Sue Cleveland High School in March 2018 after a girl told school officials the teen had sent her text messages about bringing a weapon to campus, the Albuquerque Journal reported . "...
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — Twenty-five years after Michael Davis died from injuries suffered in a brutal fraternity hazing ritual at Southeast Missouri State University, his death still has far-reaching consequences. Davis was pledging the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity when he died from internal bleeding on Feb. 15, 1994, after collapsing a day earlier. The autopsy found fractured ribs, lung, liver and kidney damage, a bruised and bleeding heart, and spinal hemorrhaging. More than a dozen men associated with Kappa Alpha Psi, a traditionally black...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior White House officials pushed a project to share nuclear power technology with Saudi Arabia despite the objections of ethics and national security officials, according to a new congressional report citing whistleblowers within the Trump administration. Lawmakers from both parties have expressed concerns that Saudi Arabia could develop nuclear weapons if the U.S. technology were transferred without proper safeguards. The Democratic-led House oversight committee opened an investigation Tuesday into the claims by several u...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that he will seek the Democratic presidential nomination again, a decision that will test whether he can still generate the progressive energy that fueled his insurgent 2016 campaign. "Our campaign is not only about defeating Donald Trump," the 77-year-old self-described democratic socialist said in an email to supporters. "Our campaign is about transforming our country and creating a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice." An e...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Scientists at a premier U.S. laboratory have helped to unravel some of the mysteries about a rare gold specimen discovered at a Colorado mine more than 130 years ago. Officials at Harvard University's mineral museum were anxious for Los Alamos National Laboratory's assistance in understanding more about the structure of the specimen of wire gold, which looks as if it were formed by twisting together a bunch of thin strands of gold. The 263-gram specimen is named the Ram's Horn, and Harvard officials have said it is t...
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A segment of the Keystone pipeline that was shut down in early February when a leak was discovered in Missouri is now back in service. Terry Cunha of pipeline operator TransCanada Corp. says the segment from Steele City, Nebraska, to Patoka, Illinois, was restarted Thursday morning. A leak was discovered Feb. 6 near the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources says 12 barrels of crude oil, or 504 gallons (1,908 liters), have been removed from the release site. Also, 1,087 barrels o...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The wife of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Tuesday that a bill she filed that would change state securities law "has literally nothing to do" with her husband facing criminal charges of defrauding investors, even as experts said the proposal appears to strike near the heart of his indictment. Republican state Sen. Angela Paxton was elected in November, when Ken Paxton was re-elected as Texas' top law enforcement officer. He won a second term despite his criminal indictment from 2015, when he was charged with two fel...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday directed the Pentagon to develop plans to create a new Space Force within the Air Force, accepting less than the full-fledged department he'd wanted. Before signing a document instructing the defense secretary to draft proposed legislation, Trump said space is the "future" and the "next step." "We have to be prepared," he said in the Oval Office, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan and other top officials. Trump initially said he wanted a Space F...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — And now for the weather on Mars: NASA's newest lander is offering daily reports on the red planet's frigid winter. Starting Tuesday, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is posting the highs and lows online , along with wind speed and atmospheric pressure from the InSight lander. On Sunday, InSight recorded a high of 2 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 17 Celsius) and a low of minus 138 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 95 Celsius). Compare that with Sunday's coldest U.S. temperature: minus 27 degrees (minus 3 Celsius) in Taylor P...
BERLIN (AP) — A German court has ruled that a dog owner isn't fit to carry a firearms license after his dog shot him with a rifle. The Munich administrative court on Tuesday dismissed the man's appeal against an earlier decision by Bavarian authorities to withdraw his license to own a rifle, as well as his hunting permit. The decision followed a 2016 incident in which the man, a passionate hunter, was shot in the arm after his dog managed to release the trigger on a loaded rifle that was lying in his car. The court ruled the hunter couldn't b...
