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SHAWNEE, Okla. — Drake Salsman gave Henderson State an excellent start in frigid conditions on Saturday, but Oklahoma Baptist broke open a tie game with four runs in the eighth to win the rubber match 6-2 and take series from the Reddies. H...

SHAWNEE, Okla. — Henderson State got a big lift from its bullpen on Friday and outlasted Oklahoma Baptist 4-3 in the first game to split the road doubleheader. Starter Austin Cross gave the Reddies three innings in his second appearance of the w...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark – Pink Jones filled up the stat sheet and Maci Mains poured in a career high 14 points on Saturday, but the Reddies could not climb out of a double-digit first half deficit and fell to East Central at the buzzer on Senior Day, 6...

Magnolia, Ark. – The SAU Women's Basketball team broke their 11-game losing streak on the penultimate day of the season with a dominant 73-58 victory over Oklahoma Baptist that marks the Muleriders' first win in six weeks, and their first win at h...

LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — A 1913 firetruck and a horse-drawn hose cart from the 1850s will be returned to an Oklahoma community where both were used before being donated to a museum. The Lawton Constitution reported Saturday that the Lawton Fire D...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An attorney for former University of Oklahoma President David Boren says a law firm representing the school has asked to speak with Boren amid an unspecified investigation. In a statement Saturday to The Associated Press, Bob B...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 12-year-old Oklahoma girl is the 500th young heart transplant recipient at St. Louis Children's Hospital and Washington University Heart Center. Anary Suazo of Tulsa underwent the transplant on Jan. 23, and the hospital a...

FAIRWAY, Kan. (AP) — Police have identified a man shot and injured in a gun battle with police across the street from an elementary school in suburban Kansas City. Fairway police say 26-year-old Dylan Ruffin was injured Friday afternoon when he e...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A north-central Kansas woman has admitted in court to mailing a faked modified will of a Kansas banker that would have given her half of his $20 million estate. The Wichita Eagle reports that 66-year-old Wanda Oborny, of Hays, p...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The Delaware Tribe has requested an archaeological field survey to look for artifacts or human remains at a site in Lawrence where county officials plan to build a mental health center and housing complex. Brice Obermeyer, direc...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City pharmacist has pleaded guilty to bilking Medicaid out of tens of thousands of dollars. The Kansas City Star reports that Steven Baraban, the former director and managing partner of Stark Pharmacy, pleaded g...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a 33-year-old woman injured in an Olathe apartment fire has died. The Kansas City Star reports that Alexandria Armstrong died Friday at a hospital where she had been taken in critical condition Thursday night a...

GOODLAND, Kan. (AP) — Much of Kansas is expected to see another winter storm that could bring up to 8 inches (20.32 centimeters) of snow in northwestern parts of the state and up to 7 inches (17.78 centimeters) in eastern parts. The National W...

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — In a slashing speech packed with braggadocio and grievance, President Donald Trump denounced Democrats as the party of "the socialist nightmare," relitigated his crowd sizes back to the inauguration and took on "sick," '...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — It's billed by Democrats as New Mexico's best chance to save thousands of children from a life of poverty by investing more money than ever before in public education and other government programs. For Republicans, it's a c...

BEATTY, Nev. (AP) — Environmentalists are taking over a faded Nevada mining town, but many locals don't seem to mind. The Nature Conservancy has become the largest private landowner in the Nye County community of Beatty, where the national o...

BEIJING (AP) — In an unusual step, China's ceremonial legislature is due to endorse a law meant to help end a bruising tariff war with Washington by discouraging officials from pressuring foreign companies to hand over technology. The battle with C...

LONDON (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Britain has attacked what he described as a "smear" campaign against American agriculture by interests with a protectionist agenda. Woody Johnson said in an article published in the Daily Telegraph on Saturday t...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — More than 400 pre-applications from potential marijuana growers and sellers have already been filed with the state of Missouri, months before licenses will be awarded. St. Louis Public Radio reports that potential businesses have a...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Civil rights leader Dolores Huerta is joining a push in New Mexico, Nevada, New Jersey and New York to legalize medically assisted suicide for terminally ill patients and garner support from Hispanics. The advocacy group C...

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Chelsea Lambert noticed the difference right away. A mental health therapist at Methodist Fremont Health, Lambert handed one of her rabbits to an anxious female patient. "When we gave her the rabbit, she melted almost instantly a...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — America's newest capsule for astronauts rocketed Saturday toward the International Space Station on a high-stakes test flight by SpaceX. The only passenger was a life-size test dummy, named Ripley after the lead c...

TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas commission is examining whether to extend navigation of the Red River into the southwestern part of the state. The Arkansas Red River Commission funded a study with the Army Corps of Engineers and Gulf Engineers &...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A deadly mystery drug sickened hundreds of people in the summer of 2016, ripping a destructive path down Interstate 71 from Cincinnati to Louisville. Many collapsed, struggling to breathe. Doctors sprinted outside emergency r...

NEW YORK (AP) — Big Sexy the cat went on a five-week romp around New York City, bolting from a photo shoot for a bare-chested firefighter charity calendar. The big black feline was finally found Friday on Staten Island after disappearing from a l...