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MONTICELLO, Ark. – The No. 14-ranked Southern Arkansas softball team completed their season series against rival Arkansas-Monticello on Wednesday afternoon at Blossom Field, and SAU and UAM split the twin-bill in a pair of low-scoring affairs. Wednesday's split also forced a split in the four-game season series. TEAM RECORDS #14 Southern Arkansas Lady Muleriders (36-12, 26-10 GAC) Arkansas-Monticello Cotton Blossoms (31-15, 24-10 GAC) PITCHING DECISIONS – Game 1 W – Kaylee Garner (17-1) L – Kendra Coleman (18-5) S – NONE HOW IT HAPPENED...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Remembering the Oklahoma City bombing has taken on a new meaning for Brian Martinez in the era of Donald Trump. His father, a pastor, was among the 168 people killed in the explosion at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, that remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism on U.S. soil. What happened to Martinez and his family was defining for them and the nation, the 31-year-old said Wednesday, the 22nd anniversary of the bombing. But starting with the grueling 2016 presidential campaign, he said t...
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker held casual constituent meetings he describes as "community conversations" in Oklahoma to address questions and concerns about the Trump administration. U.S. Sen. James Lankford held the meetings Tuesday in Claremore and Broken Arrow. About 50 people were in attendance at both meetings, the Tulsa World (http://bit.ly/2orFVTC ) reported. Lankford said the relaxed setting in Broken Arrow, where a succession of five groups gathered in a restaurant, gave him a chance to address more people and a...
LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — A southwest Oklahoma woman fatally shot a man who police say was trying to break into her home. Police say 37-year-old Rocky Stamper wasn't responsive when authorities arrived on the scene Tuesday morning in Lawton. He later died at a hospital. Officers took the homeowner to the police department for questioning, but she was later released. The woman says she woke up to Stamper standing over her with a handgun pointed to her head. She says she used a gun kept under her pillow to defend herself. She says she and Stamper h...
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Seven inmates have been charged in a 2015 riot at a private prison in Oklahoma in which four prisoners were stabbed to death. Online court records indicate the charges were filed Monday in Payne County District Court. Each defendant is charged with participating in a riot, a felony punishable by up to life in prison. The deadly melee occurred on Sept. 12, 2015, at the Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing, which is a private prison owned and operated by Tennessee-based Corrections Corporation of America. A...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma House has passed legislation to repeal the trigger that would lead to a cut in the state's individual income tax rate. The House approved the measure Wednesday on 75-12 vote and sent the bill to the state Senate for final passage. Legislation passed in 2014 provided a mechanism to reduce Oklahoma's top tax rate from 5 percent to 4.85 percent when tax collections increase by about $100 million annually, enough to cover the cost of the tax cut. Since then, state revenues have plummeted and the state faces a b...
KIOWA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma police officer has been cleared in the fatal shooting of a man as the two fought following a traffic stop. The McAlester News-Capital reports (http://bit.ly/2orGL2p ) that Kiowa officer Fred Hart was found to be justified in shooting 50-year-old Marvin Washington of Coweta. Pittsburg County District Attorney Chuck Sullivan said Hart shot Washington on Jan. 30 outside a convenience store in Kiowa after stopping him for speeding. Investigators have said Hart was frisking Washington when he felt a gun in his coat p...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The three largest universities in Kansas will be allowed to ban guns at large sporting events beginning in July. The Kansas Board of Regents' governance committee on Wednesday approved a request by the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University to install security measures such as metal detectors and guards — either temporary or permanently — at games. Kansas universities are required to allow concealed handguns on campuses beginning July 1 unless they provide both metal detectors and armed...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas regulators on Wednesday rejected the proposed sale of the state's largest electric company to a Missouri firm, concluding that the $12.2 billion price was too high and would leave the combined utility financially weaker than the separate companies. The Kansas Corporation Commission issued its order against a proposal from Kansas City, Missouri-based Great Plains Energy Inc. to buy Topeka-based Westar Energy Inc. after consumer advocates and the commission's own staff criticized the acquisition. Opponents argued t...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a Kansas teenager who used bitcoin to buy a grenade on the dark web. A criminal information filed Wednesday charges Carlos Francisco Martin of Coffeyville with receiving an explosive meant to destroy property. Defense attorney Steven Gradert says his client is just "kind of a dumb 18-year-old kid" who wanted to blow up a truck as revenge because someone had damaged his mom's car. He says his client plans to plead guilty. Gradert says the purchase initially drew the attention of the F...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' top elections official has asked a magistrate judge to stay his order requiring him to turn over proposed changes to voting rights laws that he took to a meeting with President Donald Trump. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach filed the motion Wednesday. That was the deadline U.S. Magistrate James O'Hara had set to turn over two documents to plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging a state law requiring voters provide proof of their U.S. citizenship when registering. O'Hara gave the American Civil Liberties Union u...
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The federal government is opening another investigation on how Kansas State University handles reports of off-campus sexual assaults. The Manhattan Mercury (http://bit.ly/2pBHaBr ) reports the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights opened the recent investigation in late March. The office hasn't released any information pertaining to the new investigation. The university's policy for investigating sexual assault allegations off campus has been under scrutiny, with this being the fifth investigation l...
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — Six Kansas high school journalists who published a story that led to the resignation of their school's new principal will be special guests at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. The Pittsburg High School students and their teacher, Emily Smith, are receiving an all-expenses paid trip to the April 29 dinner in Washington D.C., courtesy of the Huffington Post. The group made national news after a story published last month in the student newspaper questioned the credentials of Amy Robertson, who had been hired to b...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police in Wichita, Kansas, say they're seeking three men suspected in a baseball bat attack on a homeless man. KAKE-TV (http://bit.ly/2oVwsHU ) reports that the 53-year-old victim reported that he was under a bridge near the city's downtown early Wednesday when three men approached. The homeless man said one of them hit him on the back of the head with a baseball bat. Police say the victim was taken to a hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening. His medical status was not immediately clear later Wednesday. _...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence will slash incentives to developers of an upscale hotel to settle a lawsuit that alleged fraud and racketeering. The Lawrence Journal-World (http://bit.ly/2oLzwGh ) reports that commissioners agreed Tuesday to the settlement in the city's lawsuit against The Oread hotel near the University of Kansas campus. The city's attorney says the settlement makes financial sense. As part of the settlement, The Oread will have to reimburse the city $650,000 and agree to significant reductions in the hotel's m...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The mayor of Nebraska's capital city has complained to Kansas officials about smoke from its agricultural burning that sometimes makes it unhealthy to breathe in some parts of Nebraska. The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department issued health warnings about the smoke three times earlier this month. Officials have said the smoke originates mostly in the Flint Hills area of Kansas, where farmers and ranchers burn grassland yearly to stave off invasive species, preserve pasture, improve cattle forage and limit fuel for w...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will use $291 million in internal government borrowing to avoid a deficit in its current budget and pay bills on time through June. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback signed the budget bill into law Tuesday. The measure allows the state to avoid short-term cuts in aid to public schools, social services and other programs. The state plans to liquidate a special investment fund and loan most of the proceeds to its main bank account to cover general spending before the fiscal year ends on June 30. The loan would be paid b...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that it will decide an important case on the separation of church and state in favor of a Missouri church that wants state money to put a soft surface on its preschool playground. The case is being closely watched by proponents of school vouchers, who hope a broad ruling would remove obstacles to voucher programs in some states. Liberal and conservative justices alike seemed troubled by Missouri's decision to exclude the church from a grant program that pays for playground surfaces made o...
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The University of Wyoming is reviewing an encounter between students and a state senator over an academic project on guns that the students presented at a recent public forum. Two students say Republican Sen. Anthony Bouchard threatened to use his political influence to fire a professor and end funding for an academic program because he disagreed with their project. But Bouchard, of Cheyenne, denied making any such threats. "Never said that ... fake news," Bouchard said in an email response to the Casper Star-Tribune (...
HELSINKI (AP) — The trial of a 17-year-old Danish girl suspected of planning bomb attacks against two schools has begun near the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Police arrested the girl, who was 15 at the time, in January of last year. The girl, who was not allowed to be named, has been kept in custody since her arrest. Prosecutors have said her targets were her previous school west of Copenhagen and a Jewish school in the capital. Charges against a 25-year-old man, initially believed to have been an accomplice, have been dropped. The trial, w...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal court has killed a large wind energy project in southeast Oregon over concerns about a declining sage grouse population that needs the area to breed. The U.S. District Court in Portland vacated plans for the project Tuesday, bringing an end to lengthy litigation over the proposal by Columbia Energy Partners. The project proposal was for wind energy development on roughly 10,500 acres of private land in Harney County near Steens Mountain. The project called for 40 to 69 wind turbines and a 230-kilovolt t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Exxon Mobil is seeking permission from the U.S. government for approval to resume drilling around the Black Sea with a Russian partner, state-owned Rosneft, according to a person familiar with the matter. The oil giant's request is being reviewed by the Trump administration and is certain to draw extra scrutiny because it involves a company formerly run by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who cultivated close ties with Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. The drilling venture was blocked when the U.S. imposed s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is once again seeking to scuttle cuts to pollution from coal-fired power plants. The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court in Washington to postpone consideration of 2012 rules requiring energy companies to cut emissions of toxic chemicals. The agency said in a court filing it wants to review the restrictions, which are already in effect. Nationally, most utilities are already on pace to comply with the new standards. It is the latest in a string of moves by P...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge said Wednesday that she will fine California $1,000 a day if state officials don't start providing swifter care for mentally ill inmates. U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller said she is fed up with the treatment delays that have plagued the prison mental health system despite two decades of federal oversight. She gave the state until May 15 to end a chronic backlog in sending inmates to state mental facilities. The $1,000-a-day fines for each inmate whose treatment is delayed would start a...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge followed through on his promise Wednesday and blocked abortion-restricting rules in Missouri, saying he's bound by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and that the state is denying abortion rights "on a daily basis, in irreparable fashion." Missouri's attorney general swiftly pledged an appeal, calling the ruling "wrong." U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs' preliminary injunction came roughly two weeks after he announced in a memo that he would take the action, which was sought by Planned Parenthood a...
