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RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Arkansas Tech Golden Suns Tennis team moves to 4-1 on the season after defeating Ouachita 9-0 on Thursday afternoon. NEXT UP Arkansas Tech (4-1) will travel to Arkadelphia, Ark. to take on Henderson State on Tuesday, March 6...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. - Arkansas Tech senior Montrell Williams has advanced to the semifinal round of the Dark Horse Dunker competition, after beating Tim Bond of Eastern Michigan 50.6 to 49.4 percent in the second round of the competition. Williams...

BARTLESVILLE, Okla. – Junior guard CJ Elkins scored 16 points and freshman forward DeVante Brooks finished a rebound shy of a double-double with 12 points and nine boards, but a resilient effort from seventh-seeded Southern Arkansas came up just shor...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens used an email address for a veterans charity he founded to arrange political meetings as he prepared to launch his first bid for public office, despite a federal ban on nonprofits p...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Manhattan apartment was eerily quiet for a home with three little kids. The only light glowed from a bathroom. That's where Marina Krim found her two children — covered in blood, slaughtered by the family's trusted nanny. "It...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Action on gun legislation skidded to a halt Thursday in Congress — not for a lack of bipartisan proposals, but because President Donald Trump's stunning shift on gun policy left some in his party confused, irritated and scr...

NEW YORK (AP) — Kroger will no longer sell guns to anyone under 21 at the stores it owns, becoming the third major retailer this week to put restrictions in place that are stronger than federal laws. The moves by Dick's Sporting Goods and Walmart ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Pro-gun Georgia lawmakers Thursday took revenge on Delta for crossing the National Rifle Association, killing a proposed tax break on jet fuel that would have saved the airline millions. A sweeping tax bill with the fuel exemption s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ordering combative action on foreign trade, President Donald Trump declared Thursday the U.S. will impose steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, escalating tensions with China and other trading partners and raising the p...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rattled by two weeks of muddled messages, departures and spitting matches between the president and his own top officials, Donald Trump is facing a shrinking circle of trusted advisers and a staff that's grim about any prospect o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration told Congress on Thursday that it plans to sell Ukraine 210 anti-tank missiles to help it defend its territory from Russia, in a major escalation of U.S. lethal assistance to Ukraine's military. The l...

ATLANTA (AP) — When a north Georgia high school teacher was charged this week with firing a gunshot from inside a barricaded classroom and setting off a frantic lockdown and evacuation, it was not his first troubling encounter with police. Just over...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The Vatican's leading expert on clerical sex abuse wrapped up his fact-finding mission to Chile on Thursday and headed to Rome to brief the pope, concluding one of the most extraordinary months in the Catholic Church's long-run...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia's claim to have developed new strategic weapons impervious to Western defenses seems unlikely to change the balance of global power. Russian nuclear missiles already have the ability to annihilate the U.S., and U.S. d...

CINCINNATI (AP) — Veteran TV journalist Katie Couric recounted Thursday facing demeaning descriptions and "gross comments" during her career. Couric spoke at consumer products maker Procter & Gamble's Cincinnati headquarters in a forum on the s...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — In Kentucky, parents have pooled money to pay an armed officer to begin patrolling schools. A mayor outside Cleveland, Ohio, is urging a security levy to pay for guards. And a town in New Jersey has begun assigning off-duty p...

MOSCOW (AP) — An underwater drone armed with a nuclear warhead powerful enough to sweep away coastal facilities and aircraft carriers. A hypersonic vehicle impossible to intercept as it flies in a cloud of plasma "like a meteorite." President V...

BEIRUT (AP) — The five-hour daily pauses in fighting in Syria's embattled eastern suburbs of the capital Damascus — laid out under a "unilateral" plan by Russia — are not enough to take in aid or evacuate civilians, a top U.N. aid official said...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovak police on Thursday raided houses linked to alleged members of the Italian mafia in connection with the slaying of an investigative journalist and his girlfriend. Slovakia's national police chief Tibor Gaspar told r...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish law that makes it a crime to falsely accuse the Polish nation of crimes committed by Nazi Germany took effect Thursday, part of a wider effort by nationalist authorities to use history to defend the country's honor a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Activist groups are turning to television ads, including on President Donald Trump's go-to network, Fox News, to pressure the White House into allowing transgender people to keep serving in the military. Trump has pledged to ban tra...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half of Americans, including large majorities of blacks and Hispanics, think President Donald Trump is a racist. More than half think his policies have made things worse for Hispanics and Muslims, and nearly half say t...

SEATTLE (AP) — Sherman Alexie, one of the country's most prominent authors, issued an apology Wednesday amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. "Over the years, I have done things that have harmed other people, including those I love most d...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The health of the world's last male northern white rhino has deteriorated, bringing the rhino subspecies a step closer to extinction caused by poaching. The 45-year-old rhino named Sudan, listed as "The Most Eligible Bachelor i...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which selects winners of the peace prize, says someone using a stolen identity has nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the award, the Norwegian news agency said Thursday. The NTB a...