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SE's Webb Takes Home All-Region Honor

DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern's Katie Webb continues adding honors to her 2018-19 season, picking up a D2CCA Second Team All-Region selection to cap her honors for the season. Webb recently added the program's first Google Cloud Academic...

 

Storm Men Take Home Title at FSCC

FORT SCOTT, Kan. – Southeastern's men's team picked up its second title of the season, while the women posted their third-straight second place finish at the Fort Scott CC Rodeo in Fort Scott, Kan., over the weekend. Shelby Whiting took home the...

 

Lady Dawgs Place Two on All-Region Team; Priddy Named Player of the Year

WEATHERFORD, Okla. – The Division II Conference Commissioner's Association (D2CCA) announced Tuesday that Southwestern Oklahoma State University senior guard Hayden Priddy has been named the 2018-19 Central Region Women's Basketball Player of the Y...

 

SWOSU's Gloria Choi Named GAC Golfer of the Week

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – SWOSU senior Gloria Choi became the latest Lady Bulldog to be named Great American Conference Golfer of the Week after earning the honor on Thursday, as announced by the conference office. Choi helped her team to a runaway...

 

Hillcats Split Key Doubleheader With Lubbock Christian

CLAREMORE, Okla. – The Rogers State Softball team picked up a doubleheader split with Lubbock Christian University on Wednesday at the Diamond Sports Complex, picking up a convincing run-rule victory in game one before falling in the seventh in gam...

 

Henderson Sweeps McKendree 7-0

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. - Henderson State returned to action on Thursday morning and picked up its third win of the season with a 7-0 victory over McKendree. The Reddies got out to a quick start in doubles play, sweeping the three matches to take a 1-0...

 

SAU Baseball ranked in the Top 15 nationally in pair of prominent polls

MAGNOLIA, Ark. – With the recent release of a pair of national Division II Baseball polls, the Southern Arkansas Muleriders now hold the No. 12 ranking in the country according to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers of America and in the...

 

The Latest: Oklahoma House suspends page program

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Latest on a police investigation into an alleged sexual assault of a teenager participating in a legislative page program (all times local): 3:50 p.m. Oklahoma's speaker of the House says he's suspending a high school page...

 
 By Ken Miller    Regional    March 15, 2019

Lawyer: Man charged in parents' slayings pleads not guilty

EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — An attorney plans to seek a competency hearing for a 19-year-old Oklahoma murder suspect whose brother told investigators he said he killed their parents because he thought they were Satan worshippers communicating with him...

 

Mabee-Gerrer Museum in Shawnee marks centennial with events

SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma's oldest art gallery is commemorating its 100th birthday with a series of special exhibitions and festivities. The Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art in Shawnee is launching its centennial events with the exhibition...

 

Oklahoma GOP governor signs medical marijuana rules into law

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed into law new regulations for Oklahoma's burgeoning medical marijuana industry. The Republican on Thursday signed a measure known as the "unity bill" because it's supported by various factions of the...

 

Man holding knife dies after police shoot him in Oklahoma

SALLISAW, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says a 27-year-old man has died after he approached police officers in eastern Oklahoma with a knife and they shot him. Authorities say Shawn Taylor Watie of Stillwell died Thursday...

 

Oklahoma man gets 9 years in prison after Kansas drug search

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors say an Oklahoma man was sentenced to nine years in prison for trafficking more than 20 pounds of methamphetamine. The U.S. attorney's office said in a news release that 23-year-old Guillermo D. Andrade of Oklahoma...

 

Bill would let Oklahoma voters decide abortion question

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Voters in Oklahoma would decide whether the state Constitution guarantees the right to an abortion under a bill that's heading to the Oklahoma House. The state Senate voted 40-8 on Thursday for the bill that would let voters...

 

Dozens of Oklahoma inmates granted parole under 2018 law

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Dozens of Oklahoma inmates have been granted parole since the process was streamlined last year to reduce prison costs. The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board agreed to discharge all but a few of the 73 nonviolent offenders...

 

Oklahoma man sentenced to 15-25 years in Nebraska stabbing

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An Oklahoma man has been sentenced to 15 to 25 years in prison for paying his niece $200 and meth to cut off his wife's hair and scar her face in a 2016 stabbing in Nebraska. Eddy Stabler of Lawton, Oklahoma, was sentenced...

 

Oklahoma regulators agree to $46 million rate hike for PSO

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma regulators have approved a $46 million annual rate increase for the state's second largest electrical utility. The three-member Oklahoma Corporation Commission voted unanimously Thursday to approve the hike for Public...

 
 By John Klein    Regional    March 15, 2019

Wild Onion Dinner benefits Indian Women's Pocahontas Club

CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) — Ollie Starr can't recall her first taste of wild onions or drink of sassafras tea. "We grew up gathering, preparing and eating those foods," said Starr, former president of the Indian Women's Pocahontas Club. "So I don't...

 
 By John Hanna    Regional    March 15, 2019

Kansas legislators advance schools plan, take up tax relief

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators in Kansas helped advance Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's plan to boost funding for public schools Thursday, while preparing to send her an income tax relief bill that could make it harder for the state to...

 

Former Jackson County inmate files excessive force lawsuit

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Jackson County jail inmate alleges in a lawsuit that a guard smashed his face into a wall in 2014 after he complained about a strip search. The Kansas City Star reports that Rasheed Early sued Tuesday in district...

 

Kansas legislative panels nix funding for expanding Medicaid

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two Republican-controlled committees of the Kansas Legislature have stripped Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's proposed state spending for Medicaid expansion out of budget legislation. The Senate Ways and Means Committee voted 7-6...

 

Man gets 14 years in shooting that killed man, wounded dad

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for killing a 34-year-old man and wounding the victim's father outside a Topeka home. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that 30-year-old John Towner Jr. apologized in court...

 

Kansas senators split on supporting Trump on border security

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kansas' two Republican U.S. senators have split over supporting President Donald Trump's declaration of an emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border. Sen. Jerry Moran was among 12 Republican senators joining Democrats in passing a...

 

Kansas archdiocese denies enrollment to gay couple's child

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A decision by the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas to deny enrollment to the kindergarten child of gay parents has prompted thousands of people to sign dueling petitions. The Kansas City Star reports a recent online...

 

Records: Kansas man charged in shooting wanted to be killed

FAIRWAY, Kan. (AP) — Court records indicate a 26-year-old man who was shot by police near a Kansas elementary school said he wanted officers to kill him. The Kansas City Star reports the records say Dylan Christopher Ruffin was charged after he...

 

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