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CONWAY, Ark. – Three members of the Harding women's outdoor track and field team are taking on three members of the Hendrix College team in the heptathlon Friday and Saturday at the Hendrix Spring Break Multi. After the first day of competition, which includes the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put and 200-meter dash, Harding sophomore Kaylin Turley leads and teammate Emily Shell is second. Turley has 2,319 points, earning her highest point-total in the 200 meters. She ran 26.87 and collected 723 points. Shell has 2,261 points with the 1...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A former Oklahoma state senator charged with child prostitution will have a preliminary hearing conference next month. Ralph Shortey, an Oklahoma City Republican, made his first court appearance in the case Friday in Cleveland County District Court in Norman. The preliminary hearing was set for April 11 on charges of engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church and transporting a minor for prostitution. Shortey did not speak to reporters as he entered and left the courthouse, and h...
PERRY, Okla. (AP) — A principal and a teacher north of Oklahoma City may resign after being accused of failing to report alleged child abuse. An agenda shows that the Perry Public School board will meet Monday to consider the resignations and resignation agreements of Upper Elementary School Principal Kenda Miller and math teacher Jeffrey Sullins. The educators are charged with failure to promptly report child abuse or neglect, The Oklahoman (http://bit.ly/2n1ngOB ) reported. The charges came after 86-year-old teaching assistant Arnold Cowen w...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A newly released audit of an Oklahoma sheriff's office shows thousands of items valued at more than $3.3 million missing from its inventory, including vehicles, firearms, computers and other equipment. The audit released Friday was conducted by state Auditor & Inspector Gary Jones' office following the departure in February of former Oklahoma County Sheriff John Whetsel after 20 years as sheriff. Whetsel's former office also is being investigated by District Attorney David Prater for potential criminal wrongdoing. The a...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has ruled that a Tulsa police officer charged with first-degree manslaughter won't have further preliminary hearing proceedings. The Tulsa World (http://bit.ly/2mYxDBG ) reports 42-year-old Betty Shelby remains on track for trial on May 8. A status hearing is scheduled for Wednesday. Shelby is charged with first-degree manslaughter in the Sept. 16 shooting death of 40-year-old Terence Crutcher. On March 10, District Judge Doug Drummond denied a defense request to stay proceedings p...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma food company is recalling more than 466 tons (422 metric tons) of breaded chicken because of possible metal in the food. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday that OK Food, Inc. is recalling 933,272 (423,329 kilograms) pounds of the food shipped nationwide that was produced between Dec. 19, 2016, and March 7, 2017, and includes the number "P-7092" inside the USDA inspection mark. The USDA said in a news release that contamination came from metal conveyor belts and was discovered Tuesday. An agency s...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the life prison sentence of a 28-year-old man convicted of killing his girlfriend's 19-month-old daughter. The appeals court handed down the decision Friday in the case of Scott Allen Bolden, who was convicted by a Tulsa County jury of first-degree murder and child abuse in the May 2013 death of Angel Benjamin. Prosecutors said the girl had numerous bruises on her body and died of bleeding in the brain. Defense attorneys argued the injuries were accidental. The child's m...
MIAMI, Texas (AP) — Stiff winds quickly spread a wildfire in the Texas Panhandle across 94 square miles before rain helped firefighters contain the flames. The Texas A&M Forest Service says the wildfire spread Thursday across Ochiltree (AH-k'l-tree) and Roberts counties in the northeast corner of the Panhandle near the Oklahoma border. Firefighters were able to save at least three homes as the fast-moving flames forced the closure of roads and prompted authorities to call in air tankers to assist. There were no apparent injuries. The fire b...
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — The fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, a deadly disease to hibernating bats, has been found for the first time in Texas, state researchers revealed Thursday. The fungus was detected in samples taken from three bat species — tri-colored, cave myotis and Townsend's big-eared bats — in Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Hardeman, King and Scurry counties of northwestern Texas, according to a statement from the Texas A&M Institute of Renewable Natural Resources and Bat Conservation International. No cases of the d...
GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — A woman has pleaded guilty in connection with the deaths of two Oklahoma men who were found in a burning pickup in northern Colorado. The Greeley Tribune reports (https://goo.gl/PtUwMM ) 27-year-old Samantha Simmons pleaded guilty Wednesday to being an accessory to a crime. As part of a plea deal, she agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and testify in the case's upcoming trials. Simmons was one of five people arrested after Zach Moore, of Prague, Oklahoma, and Joshua Foster, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, were found dead at t...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Officials in a Kansas City suburb where a fire destroyed a multimillion-dollar apartment building under construction and spread to about two dozen homes estimate the blaze caused as much as $23 million to $25 million in damage. The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/2nfQji7 ) reports that Overland Park based the estimate on exterior damage and property values, and that a more precise figure would emerge once insurance adjusters finish evaluating the fire's impact. Fire officials say a welder accidentally ignited w...
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — An affluent suburban Kansas City woman with a history of shoplifting has been ordered to spend a year and seven months in prison for the thefts. Forty-seven-year-old Kelli Jo Bauer of Overland Park, Kansas, also was ordered Friday in Kansas' Johnson County to pay more than $22,000 in restitution to merchants. Bauer has admitted she stole tens of thousands of dollars of clothing and merchandise she was peddling out of her nearly $1 million home. Bauer had two prior Johnson County theft convictions when she was charged in 2...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators who have resisted proposals to legalize marijuana for medical use are advancing a proposal aimed at making the state an industrial hemp powerhouse. The state House gave first-round approval Friday on a voice vote to a bill that would allow state universities and colleges to grow industrial hemp and conduct research on it. The House plans to take a final vote Monday to determine whether the measure goes to the Senate. A 2014 federal law allowed states to set up such programs. Supporters said hemp could b...
CENTERVIEW, Mo. (AP) — Jackson County is pulling its roughly 40 inmates out of another western Missouri county's jail where authorities say a riot left no injuries. Jackson County Executive Frank White Jr. said in a statement Friday that Jackson County inmates will not be returned to the Johnson County lockup until he's assured that site's operational issues have been addressed. The Kansas City Star reports that inmates upset over a television show caused a disturbance Thursday night at the Johnson County lockup. The inmates reportedly tried t...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A father has been charged with fatally shooting his 17-year-old son during an argument in Wichita. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/2odgHZf ) reports that 41-year-old Glen Farrow is jailed in Sedgwick County on $150,000 bond. He was charged Wednesday with second-degree intentional murder in the death Sunday of Michael Farrow. Sedgwick County Chief Public Defender Mark Rudy says an attorney hasn't met with him yet. Keri Brooks described her son as "loyal" and said that what happened was "incomprehensible." She said she h...
GYP HILLS, Kan. (AP) — As his mud-covered pickup comes over a rise on a recent morning, mist blankets the horizon of Gyp Hills grass. Rancher Dave Johnson is out feeding his pregnant cows like he does several days a week during the winter. They follow behind his pickup as he drops them cake — or high-protein supplement pellets. They eat it up as if it were candy as Johnson drives through another gate, preparing to feed another herd. As spring sets in, the pastures are awakening with green grass and colorful wildflowers. Young wobbly-legged cal...
INMAN, Kan. (AP) — The 1980s are still seared in the minds of farmers: crushing debts, foreclosure auctions and the loss of generations-old family farms. Now, those bad old days may be staging a comeback in Kansas farm country. It's not just that wildfires scorched more than 700,000 acres and killed thousands of cattle in southwest and central Kansas, amid the return of drought in much of the state. It's that most farmers in Kansas and nationwide haven't been able to make much, if any, money farming for more than two years. It's not at c...
SALINA, Kan. (AP) — Salinan Marty Rundall-Manion and her husband, Jack Manion, waited one year and five months for this moment. Emotions were running high as the two headed east on Interstate Highway 70, neither knowing what awaited them, just that that their dream was about to become a reality. It was early afternoon on Feb. 2, and the two were on their way to Kansas City, Kansas, to meet the parents of Rundall-Manion's heart donor. That meeting, now deeply embedded into both of their memories, brought everything that Rundall-Manion has b...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The tumors and cysts that blinded Barbara Sales in her left eye and, years ago, lodged in her brain have robbed her of far more than her sight and memory. "I have photos of her face all bruised up because she got up in the middle of the night, had a seizure and fell into the dresser," said her daughter Alicia Kroll, 25, who is a surgical nurse. Three seizures forced Sales, 53, a former Lenexa resident, to lose a job she'd hoped to get full time. Her maladies and medications, treatments for a rare genetic disease, have ma...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican Gov. Eric Greitens will be visiting the U.S. Capitol this weekend to talk policy with federal officials, including President Donald Trump. A text Friday from Greitens' spokesman Parker Briden says the governor will meet with federal officials, including the president and Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, to talk about Missouri's policy priorities. The Republican governor's trip to Washington comes after the Republican-led U.S. House canceled a scheduled vote on a bill to replace the f...
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — The University of Minnesota has ordered a review of how it handled allegations of sexual assault involving football players last fall. Board of Regents chairman Dean Johnson announced at the board's meeting in Duluth on Friday that the university's chief auditor will manage the review. "Over the past several months the University of Minnesota endured a difficult period," said Johnson. "We must take a step back and learn so we can do better." The university has been praised and criticized for how it handled allegations by a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump greenlighted the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, declaring it a "great day for American jobs" and siding with energy advocates over environmental groups in a heated debate over climate change. The presidential permit comes nearly a decade after Calgary-based TransCanada applied to build the $8 billion pipeline, which will snake from Canada through the United States. Trump's State Department said the project advances U.S. national interests, in a complete reversal of the conclusion P...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — President Donald Trump may have approved a federal permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, but the fight is far from over in Nebraska, the one state in its path that has yet to approve the project. The pipeline's fate once again rests with the Nebraska Public Service Commission, an independently elected group of four Republicans and one Democrat. Organized opposition in Nebraska has hindered pipeline developer TransCanada, but leading opponents acknowledge they'll face more of an uphill struggle this time. Some key things t...
President Donald Trump is calling his administration's approval of the Keystone XL pipeline a new era for American energy policy. As expected, the State Department reversed a decision by the Obama administration and favored energy development over environmentalists' objections to the pipeline, which will carry thick Canadian crude oil to Nebraska, where it can flow on to refineries along the Gulf Coast. Trump on Friday called it "a great day for American jobs." The costs and benefits of the pipeline have been hotly debated, however, and many ex...
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus said Friday it won't give up a search for oil and gas off its shores despite a call to stop by Turkey which warned that it would "take all necessary measures to protect its interests" in the eastern Mediterranean, as well as those of breakaway Turkish Cypriots. Cyprus' government said it's regrettable that Turkey is resorting to "threats" to advance its own interests under the guise of concern for the rights of Turkish Cypriots. "The Republic of Cyprus will resolutely continue its policy in the field of h...
