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ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The Reddies got home runs from Ashlyn Taylor, Madie Green, and Cecily Rodriguez, as Henderson State came from behind to defeat rival Ouachita Baptist in the second game of a mid-week doubleheader on Tuesday evening. Helping the R...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. — The Reddies' offense, which had been explosive in the last two weeks, was held in check on Tuesday night, as Henderson State fell 6-0 to Arkansas Tech at Clyde Berry Field. HSU (15-14, 9-9) was limited to just four hits in the g...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Tiger Softball splits double header with rival Henderson State as the Tigers continue to shine winning 11 of their last 18. Macy Wilson went 4-7 on the day driving in one run and scoring two runs herself. Marissa Butler threw a c...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Ouachita Baseball sweep double header against Ecclesia College on the backs of good pitching and timely at bats. Cade McBride led the Tigers on the day going 3-5 with three runs batted in and scoring twice himself. Noah Fowler a...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference awarded Southern Arkansas Men's Tennis player Stuart Rehfuss with his second weekly honor on Wednesday afternoon as league announced its players of the week. A native of Xanten, Germany, Rehfuss p...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference announced its weekly award winners for Men's and Women's Tennis on Wednesday afternoon and garnering her first career honor is Southern Arkansas Women's Tennis player Angela Vargas. A native of D...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — John Cook looked at the items before him on the table: an empty plastic bottle, cotton balls, gravel and charcoal. Separately, they may not mean much to him. But John, a sixth-grader at Whittier Elementary, learned recently t...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Just because you invite a rattlesnake to enjoy the warmth of your living room, that doesn't mean it won't try to bite you, especially if it's a big, tough western diamondback as pugnacious as one nicknamed "Samson." "When we were...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Preliminary work began in early March on a tiny home community to house teens living on their own in the Oklahoma City area. Students from Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City and from Metro Technology Centers are helping w...

As the nation's opioid crisis has devastated thousands of families, it also has taken a crippling financial toll on cities, small towns and counties around the country. Packed jails, increased ambulance runs and overworked coroners, sheriff's...

LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — A volunteer's determination matched the Museum of the Great Plains' vision for the restoration of the old one-room Blue Beaver School No. 61. On the fenced grounds east of the museum building rests the old school along with t...

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) — Community leaders in Broken Arrow have dedicated a memorial park on the former site of a home where five members of a northeastern Oklahoma family were killed by other family members. A ceremony was held Wednesday to d...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma City Council has provisionally approved a $26 million loan for a $287 million project to redevelop the First National Center. The First National project is the most substantial private historic building renovation i...

CHICKASHA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man convicted of injuring several law officers in a September 2017 shooting has received 10 life sentences. Grady County court records indicate 62-year-old Alex Klingler was convicted of six counts of shooting w...

YUKON, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says there were no injuries reported when a school bus carrying eight students was involved in a crash near Yukon. OHP spokeswoman Sarah Stewart says the Wednesday morning crash occurred just n...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Jurors have been shown videos shared by an Oklahoma zookeeper and former gubernatorial candidate accused of trying to hire someone to kill the operator of a Florida animal sanctuary. Prosecutors say Joseph Maldonado-Passage, a...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Criminal charges against a former police officer in Kansas who shot a man last year were dismissed Wednesday after a judge ruled the officer meant to use her Taser and mistakenly drew her gun during the confrontation. E...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Police on Wednesday barred three college students from the Kansas Statehouse for a year after they helped hang large banners inside saying that top Republican legislators who oppose expanding Medicaid have "blood on their h...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers have blown several informal deadlines for boosting funding for public schools to satisfy a court mandate because Republicans who control the Legislature are at odds over how to allocate the new dollars and what p...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas House has approved a bill that provides legal protection for people who treat medical conditions with CBD oil containing a small amount of the chemical in marijuana that produces a high. The House approved the bill W...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — One of five people charged in the deaths of three people at a Topeka house was convicted after prosecutors argued he helped hold down the victims while they were killed. Joseph Lowry, 32, was found guilty Wednesday of three c...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — People as young as 18 would be allowed to carry concealed weapons under a bill that won final passage Wednesday in the House. The 83-41 vote sends the bill to the Senate for approval. Opponents argued that the measure could e...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. jury on Wednesday awarded more than $80 million in damages to a California man who blamed Roundup weed killer for his cancer, in a case that his attorneys say could help determine the fate of hundreds of similar l...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration must halt all primate experimentation at an Arkansas laboratory until allegations of negligence and abuse are properly addressed, U.S. congressmen demanded in a bipartisan call for action. U...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's space agency says pioneering Soviet-era cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, who made the first of his three flights to space in 1963, has died at age 84. Roscosmos said Bykovsky died Wednesday, but it didn't state a cause of death. B...