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ARKADELPHIA, Ark. - Ouachita Baptist women's tennis team once had eight players, but due to injuries and transfers the Tigers are down to four and one of those retired from an injury twice during Harding's 9-0 blanking Wednesday at the Heflin Tennis...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Charges could be filed Thursday against an Oklahoma state senator who police say was found with a teenage boy in a motel room in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, according to a local prosecutor. Cleveland County District A...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — New Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter has announced some staff changes in his office, including the return of former top assistant Tom Gruber to the agency. Hunter said Wednesday that Gruber would serve as his senior d...

PAWNEE, Okla. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey reports two small earthquakes in northern Oklahoma. A 3.2 magnitude quake was recorded Wednesday near Pawnee, about 70 miles northeast of Oklahoma City and a 3.0 magnitude quake was recorded near W...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say human remains found more than 24 years ago near Tulsa belong to a local woman who was only reported missing in 2012. The Tulsa County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday that DNA analysis has determined the remains a...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation says the "worst-case scenario" for a potential 14.5 percent budget cut would involve closing 16 state parks and ending publication of Oklahoma Today magazine. Officials told The T...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The Cleveland County Budget Board has approved a transfer of money so the county can make payroll for jail employees next month. The board voted Tuesday to transfer $350,000 from the sheriff's office operational budget into t...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry has sent seven wildland firefighters to Woodward, Oklahoma, to fight wildfires there. Commissioner Mike Strain said Tuesday that they'll be in Oklahoma for about three w...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' top court official pitched legislators Wednesday on increasing pay for judicial branch employees and salaries for judges, a potentially hard sell with the state facing serious budget problems. State Supreme Court Chief Jus...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A top Republican legislator in Kansas promised Wednesday to push to cut spending to help fix the state's serious budget problems, while a state agency warned that lawmakers are on track to harm services designed to keep d...

HESSTON, Kan. (AP) — An American United Nations worker who was among six people kidnapped in the Democratic Republic of Congo was doing humanitarian work and has had some success in persuading militia leaders to give up child soldiers, his father s...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas state agency says an action taken by a legislative committee would devastate in-home services for the disabled and their providers. Spokeswoman Angela de Rocha said Wednesday that the state Department for Aging and D...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A lawsuit by the state of Kansas accuses the man at the center of a multi-state lottery number-fixing scam of working with two others to redeem two rigged lottery tickets for $44,000. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt a...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — University of Kansas officials did not seek a Title IX investigation after a women's basketball player said Jayhawks star Josh Jackson vandalized her car and that she was treated unfairly when she reported it, the woman's f...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas House unanimously passed a sales tax exemption for supplies and services to repair or construct fencing for agricultural land. The bill passed Tuesday by the House is in response to fires that burned hundreds of t...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Permit holders who receive active shooting training would be able to carry concealed weapons almost anywhere in Arkansas, even the state Capitol, under a measure lawmakers sent Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday that goes f...

PRESCOTT, Ark. (AP) — Authorities say two teenagers in south Arkansas face charges of aggravated assault and possession of a weapon on school property after a gun accidentally discharged in a bathroom at Prescott High School last week. No one was h...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is rolling back an Obama administration rule requiring companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking. The a...

DETROIT (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to re-examine federal fuel economy requirements for new cars and trucks. The requirements were a centerpiece of President Barack Obama's strategy to combat global warming. But Trump appears to be making goo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer prices rose at a slower pace in February. Clothing and housing costs rose last month, while motor vehicle and gasoline prices dipped. Consumer prices rose 0.1 percent in February, a sharp deceleration from the 0.6 perc...

YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota judge has dismissed ABC anchor Diane Sawyer from a defamation lawsuit over the network's reports on a beef product that critics dubbed "pink slime." First Judicial Circuit Court Judge Cheryle Gering granted S...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Senate has approved a bill that limits damages in nuisance lawsuits filed against livestock producers, with supporters arguing that the operations are in the public interest. Sen. Dan Zumbach , R-Ryan, told The Des M...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that would let companies sue anyone, including employees, if they share a secretly made videotape aimed at harming a business owner. The bill was set up to target animal r...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — It's not quite spring, and lettuce is sprouting in Casper. But the romaine isn't clawing its way to the sun from underground. The butterhead isn't vulnerable to bugs or other threats. To find the Swiss chard, you have to look u...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Senate has rejected a proposal that would have allowed terminally ill patients to end their lives with help from a doctor. The Democrat-led Senate voted 20-22 on Wednesday against a bill opposed by the local R...