Articles from the April 11, 2018 edition
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BARBARA ANN STULTZ
Memorial services for Barbara Ann Stultz will be at 10 a.m., Monday, April 16, 2018, at the Assembly of God Church with Rev. Mark Bagley officiating. Inurnment will be in the Alva Municipal Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of...
MARLENE KERN
Funeral services for Marlene Kern will be Wednesday, April 11, 2018, at 2 p.m. at Cherokee First Baptist Church with Rev. Garry McNeill officiating. Burial will follow in the Cherokee Municipal...
Southeastern Women First, Men Fourth at GCCC
DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern's women took home the team title, while the men finished fourth at the Garden City CC Rodeo over the weekend. The win closed the gap as the women now trail Northwestern Oklahoma State in the regional standings by 70 p...
Choi Leads Lady Dawgs to Second at Central Region Spring Preview
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – SWOSU Women's Golf finished second at the Central Region Spring Preview, despite entering the day with a seven-stroke lead. The Lady Bulldogs shot 314 (+26) as a team on Tuesday and were overtaken by GAC foe Arkansas Tech who o...
Cantwell Tabbed SWOSU's First GAC Pitcher of the Week
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – SWOSU Baseball has a Great American Conference Pitcher of the Week for the first time in the 2017-18 season following Cooper Cantwell's second consecutive shutout which came against Oklahoma Baptist last Friday. Cantwell threw a...
Ashton Sangster named GAC Softball Player of the Week
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. - Ashton Sangster has been named the Great American Conference Softball Player of the Week for week 10 of the 2018 season, the league office announced Tuesday. Sangster, a sophomore from Van Buren, Ark., led the Golden Suns to a...
Mark Vaughn earns GAC Baseball Player of the Week honors
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Mark Vaughn has been named the Co-Great American Conference Baseball Player of the Week for the tenth week of the season, the league office announced Tuesday. Vaughn, a senior from Salina, Kan. led Arkansas Tech (23-13, 16-8 G...
Piddon ties for first as Suns rally to claim Central Region Spring Preview crown
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Peerada Piddon carded a final-round even-par 72 to finish in a three-way tie for first, while the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns golf team fired a season-low round of 293 to help the Golden Suns erase a seven-stroke opening-round...
Tigers Fall to Southern Arkansas
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The Ouachita Tiger baseball team came up short on Tuesday afternoon with an 18-4 loss to Southern Arkansas. Ouachita (10-29, 6-17 GAC) hung with one of the top teams in the Great American Conference for most of the game. The S...
SAU Softball's Taylor garners second GAC Pitcher of the Week honor
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. - For the second time this season, Southern Arkansas sophomore pitcher Victoria Taylor has been named the Great American Conference's Pitcher of the Week after the right hander was absolutely stellar in three appearances this past...
SAU Softball's Saintignan named GAC's Freshman of the Week
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. - Southern Arkansas freshman center fielder Hallie Saintignan has been honored by the Great American Conference as the league's Softball Freshman of the Week after the rookie's solid performance at the plate in six games for the...
Oklahoma Republicans refuse to bow to teachers' demands
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A top Republican lawmaker said Tuesday that the Oklahoma Legislature has no plans to bow to striking teachers' demand to eliminate a capital gains tax break as a way to end a walkout now in its second week. Rep. John Pfeiffer, a...
Gradual deployment of US troops to Mexico border underway
ROMA, Texas (AP) — The deployment of National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border at President Donald Trump's request was underway Tuesday with a gradual ramp-up of troops under orders to help curb illegal immigration. The Trump administration a...
AP sources: Raid related to payments to women accusing Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents who raided the office of President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, were looking for information about payments to a former Playboy playmate and a porn actress who claim to have had affairs with T...
Bill Cosby lawyer attacks accuser as prosecutors build case
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby's retrial took a far more combative turn Tuesday than the first go-round, as his lawyers launched a scathing attack on his accuser and prosecutors put the first in a parade of women on the stand to portray the c...
TV host resigns after threatening school shooting survivor
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A conservative commentator who sent a tweet saying he would use "a hot poker" to sexually assault an outspoken 17-year-old survivor of the Florida high school shooting has resigned from a St. Louis TV station and been taken off t...
Trump and allies mull possible joint response in Syria
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration officials consulted with global allies Tuesday on a possible joint military response to Syria's alleged poison gas attack, as President Donald Trump canceled a foreign trip in order to manage a crisis that is t...
Sister Jean switches sports, tosses out 1st ball at Wrigley
CHICAGO (AP) — Sister Jean did just fine on the diamond, too. The popular 98-year-old chaplain of the Loyola-Chicago basketball team that reached the Final Four switched sports Tuesday, throwing out a first ball before the Cubs' home opener. S...
Ex-rebel leader's arrest puts Colombia peace process on edge
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — When Colombia's largest rebel army turned over its weapons as part of a 2016 peace deal, its leaders vowed to walk away from a lucrative cocaine business that had fueled its war on the state decades after similar leftist i...
Trump axes trip amid discussions over Syria, raid on lawyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — With federal agents digging into his personal affairs, Donald Trump drove his West Wing into deeper tumult Tuesday, canceling a South American trip to consider a military strike in Syria and bidding farewell to another top aide a...
Zuckerberg discloses Facebook working with Russia probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg disclosed Tuesday his company is "working with" special counsel Robert Mueller in the federal probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign — and working hard to change its own ope...
Yulia Skripal, poisoned daughter of ex-spy, out of hospital
LONDON (AP) — The spy saga that set off international tumult last month took a positive turn Tuesday as Yulia Skripal was released from a British hospital more than a month after she and her father were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent. "...
China president's conciliatory trade gesture raises optimism
BEIJING (AP) — Investors and China watchers welcomed President Xi Jinping's pledge Tuesday to open his country's market wider to foreign competition, hoping it will ease a trade dispute with Washington that has unsettled financial markets and could j...
Chemical weapons experts to inspect attack site in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — The international chemical weapons watchdog said Tuesday it was sending a fact-finding mission to the Syrian town where a suspected chemical gas attack took place over the weekend, following a request from the Syrian government and its...