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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Brooke McCarty led four Texas players in double figures with 13 points and the No. 12 Longhorns beat Oklahoma State 71-60 on Saturday night in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Conference Tournament. Lashann Higgs added 12 p...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Kansas had already clinched its 13th consecutive Big 12 regular-season title, so there was nothing on the line against Oklahoma State. Turns out, the game meant a lot to the Jayhawks. They had dropped three straight in Stillw...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma lawmaker who once likened Islam to cancer required Muslims to answer several written questions — including, "Do you beat your wife?" — before agreeing to meet with them. Republican state Rep. John Bennett's offic...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Young millennials, the group of adults ages 19-24, are seen in many ways as the backbone of our nation's future. But experts worry that some may not see that future if they continue to drive their cars the way they do, the R...

CORRY, Pa. (AP) — They arrived by train, often sobbing. Many of the young women who came to Corry in the 1920s and 1930s were away from home for the first time. And they were humiliated. The address printed on cards they'd been given to hand to l...

YORK, Pa. (AP) — Bill Kohler placed the crossbow in front his 10-year-old son. "All right, heart, are you ready?" Kohler asked him. "Aim small, miss small." The blond boy lined up his shot, his arm wobbling slightly as he steadied it against his c...

BARTLESVILLE, Okla. – Kelsey McClure had a 26-point effort, Cheyenne North added 15 and Anissa Pounds add3d 11, but a second-chance layup in the closing seconds provided the winning margin for Harding as the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns basketball t...

BARTLESVILLE, Oklahoma - The University of Arkansas at Monticello men's basketball team was defeated in the GAC Championship game by East Central by a final score of 82-67. The Weevils (23-6) found itself up at the half against the Tigers of East...

TULSA, Oklahoma — The University of Arkansas at Monticello cheerleading squad won the 2017 Jamfest Nationals this weekend in Tulsa, Oklahoma. UAM complied day one scores of 90.18, and day two scores of 91.53 to ultimately claim the top prize at t...

BARTLESVILLE, Okla. – Harding sophomore Sydnie Jones scored a career-high 30 points Sunday in the championship game of the Great American Conference Tournament. The two most important points came with 3.6 seconds remaining and gave Harding a 75-73 v...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's top auditor says legislation that would allow county officials select who audits them and what type of audit is conducted could lead to more public corruption. The Oklahoman reports (http://bit.ly/2lLofkt ) the m...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A lawmaker's proposal to relocate a state-run nursing home for veterans in rural southeastern Oklahoma that is under investigation following the death of a veteran is raising concern among residents over the economic impact of t...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Standing a head shorter than most of the Fire Station No. 3 crew, firefighter Jennifer Schmidt nevertheless feels like she's one of the guys. Above all, Schmidt likes to be busy and she enjoys helping people. The high call v...

HASKELL, Okla. (AP) — In the mid-1950s, schools across Oklahoma started to field integrated football teams. Now, Joe Harrison and Sylvester Hollis — two men who helped pave a trail for blacks to play football on all-white teams — tell their story...

HESSTON, Kan. (AP) — A year since a gunman killed three people and wounded 14 others at a lawn equipment factory, residents of the plant's central Kansas town say they've not forgotten the carnage but are moving on. Many in Hesston credit the town's...

HARVEYVILLE, Kan. (AP) — Five years after a tornado killed one person, injured about a dozen more and destroyed up to 40 percent of the small eastern Kansas town of Harveyville, officials are proud of the rebuilding progress but acknowledge more n...

HOUSTON (AP) — Oil and gas companies, including some of the most celebrated industry names in the Houston area, are facing increasingly sophisticated hackers seeking to steal trade secrets and disrupt operations, according to a newspaper i...

DECATUR, Ill. (AP) — A raised ranch built near Lake Decatur in 1958 for a doctor who belonged to the Commodore Decatur Yacht Club felt just right. So after the Rev. Dow and Deb Moses vacated the parsonage of New Vision Urban Ministries, they sold t...

DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — The state of Texas wants to stick a seismometer on Terry Hill's ranch, right next to his deer blind. The Houston Chronicle (http://bit.ly/2lqvkf3 ) reports Hill, a fourth generation Texan born and raised in this Rio Grande outpo...

CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — Unseasonably high temperatures have allowed Illinois farmers to work in the fields, but many of them are wondering how the weather will affect their crops and orchards. The Illinois State Climatologist Office said F...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas ranks 10th in the latest national ranking of suicides per capita. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/2n2wlq3 ) that 557 people killed themselves in Arkansas in 2015. The state previously ranked 1...

ALBUQERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico paleontologist says he has uncovered a new species of dinosaur after examining fossilized fragments in a museum collection. Sebastian Dalman works at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and had q...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Researchers are conducting a $2 million study to help people better understand what leads to northern Utah's winter inversions that create a brown, murky haze of air pollution that engulfs the Salt Lake City metro area. They are...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dozens of police departments around the U.S. are amassing their own DNA databases to track criminals, a move critics say is a way around regulations governing state and national databases that restrict who can provide genetic s...

BARTLESVILLE, OKLA. – On the back of a scorching second half, the East Central University men's basketball team earned its first trip to the NCAA DII Central Regional, defeating Arkansas-Monticello 82-67 in the Great American Conference C...