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SEARCY – The 6th-ranked Harding softball team swept Southeastern Oklahoma on Saturday in Great American Conference action. It marked the fifth GAC series sweep of the season. The Lady Bisons got a walk-off hit by Autumn Humes to win game one 4-3 i...

SEARCY – No. 39 Ouachita Baptist won three three-set singles matches to break a tie and defeat Harding men's tennis 6-3 on Saturday in a Great American Conference match at the Harding Tennis Courts. The match was the first of three GAC matches for Ha...

DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern Oklahoma completed a three-game sweep of the Harding baseball team with an 11-1 victory over the Bisons on Saturday at the Ballpark in Durant. Southeastern won 9-1 and 5-4 in Friday's doubleheader. Harding dropped to 1...

GAME ONE: Arkansas-Monticello shut down Henderson State at the plate to take a 3-0 win in the third game of the Great American Conference series on Saturday. The Blossoms struck quickly with two runs in the bottom of the first on an error and a...

Henderson State dropped a Great American Conference double-header to Arkansas-Monticello on Saturday, as the Weevils beat the Reddies 13-3 and 4-2 at Clyde Berry Field. The Reddies, 19-12 overall and 13-8 in the GAC, lost its first series at home...

Henderson State put together a strong effort against No. 41 Southeastern Oklahoma, but the Reddies fell short losing to the Savage Storm 5-4, in women's tennis action Saturday at the Bettye Wallace Tennis Center in Arkadelphia, Ark. The Reddies...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The Ouachita Tigers' softball team (13-23, 7-17 GAC) lost both games of a doubleheader Saturday against #8 Southern Arkansas (31-5, 21-3 GAC). The Tigers lost the first game by a score of 4-5 and the second by a score of 0-3. Ouac...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The Ouachita Tigers' baseball team (11-23, 8-13 GAC) lost both games of Saturday's doubleheader against #11 Southern Arkansas (26-6, 19-2). The Tigers faced a solid pitching performance in the first game and were only able to pick...

MAGNOLIA, Ark. | the Lady Mulerider softball team took a pair of games from Ouachita on Saturday after a 5-4 final score in game one, and a 3-0 finale in game two. Saturday's sweep over the Lady Tigers allowed SAU to sweep the GAC series. TEAM...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Acclaimed Russian poet Yevgeny A. Yevtushenko, whose work focused on war atrocities and denounced anti-Semitism and tyrannical dictators, has died. He was 84. Ginny Hensley, a spokeswoman for Hillcrest Medical Center in the e...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of investigation says three men have been arrested in connection with the death of a man whose badly burned body was discovered inside a smoldering fire in rural Payne County. Firefighters found t...

WEST BRANCH, Mich. (AP) — Nearly two dozen semi-trailers and other trucks are delivering grain, hay, fencing and other supplies from Michigan's Ogemaw County to ranches in Kansas that suffered damage from wildfires. The convoy left the West Branch a...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A proposed master plan for the Kansas State Fairgrounds would replace the century-old racetrack with a new horse exhibition area and practice arena in an effort to modernize the fair and generate revenue, Fair Manager Susan S...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers will spend next week working to solve a complicated puzzle to fix the state's serious budget problems. They're trying to decide how much to increase taxes without being certain about how much they'll spend on p...

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — This hardscrabble Wyoming city of about 30,000 people proclaims itself the "Energy Capital of the Nation" on the mayor's blue blazer and even the parking ticket payment boxes. Nearby are some of the world's largest open-pit m...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's occasionally warm weather this winter has created confusion for honeybees, adding to a list of problems facing bees as researchers investigate how to help them survive and continue to pollinate crops. Bees huddle for w...

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Artist Catherine Edgerton starting making stained glass kaleidoscopes the year she stopped drinking. "I was leading a pretty extroverted, chaotic life, and stopping drinking was kind of a shock. Making kaleidoscopes was a way o...

CLARKSVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Clarksville High School industrial technology students are helping to preserve memories of sick and terminally ill patients at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital. The school's two product development c...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — In the middle of a circle of veterans, Dave Dunklee slowly pronounced the vowels of "Mississippi." With each vowel, he strummed the guitar, creating a rhythm for the beginners in the room. The 14 veterans around him started f...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When she was 6 or 7, Mona Minkara's eyesight began to fade. Eventually diagnosed with macular degeneration and cone rod dystrophy, the post-doctoral research fellow in the University of Minnesota's chemistry department is now w...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The story of how an Iowa college student came to invent life-saving wearable technology for pigs sounds a bit like an infomercial. Matthew Rooda was working in a massive swine-raising operation while going to school and g...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Soybeans are reinforcing their place as Mississippi's king crop, but cotton is at least back to being the prince. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Friday that soybean acreage is expected to rise 10 percent to 2.25 m...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The circle of patients gathered for group therapy at a doctor's family practice in McKenzie could well represent the face of the state's opioid epidemic. They were in a small city in a rural county, fertile ground for p...

Baseball players are wired up. Yankees reliever Dellin Betances wears a sleeve around his elbow to measure stress on a ligament. Chris Coghlan spent spring training with the Phillies using a wrist band to check his sleep and recovery. Others have...

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — A pilot project by Dubuque schools to install Wi-Fi on seven school buses is already a hit with students who say they can get work done during long trips to and from school. Dubuque Community School District officials launched a...