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SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist right fielder Cheyenne Demaree earned Great American Conference Player of the Week honors, the league announced Tuesday. Demaree, a sophomore from Pryor, batted .750 with three home runs and two doubles for a 1.667 s...

GAC Week 12 Players of the Week RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. — Southern Nazarene's senior pitcher Katelyn Brown has been named Great American Conference Co-Pitcher of the Week, as the league office announced it on Tuesday. Brown helped the Crimson Storm go 3...

HAYS, Kan. – SWOSU Rodeo ventured north into Kansas over the weekend to compete at the Fort Hays State Intercollegiate Rodeo. Both of the Bulldog teams had a strong showing at the event, with the women's team placing third while the men brought h...

HORSESHOE BAY, Texas (April 24, 2018) – Garrett White worked at Horseshoe Bay Resort for a few summers and while doing so, he became intimately familiar with the resort's Slick Rock Golf Course. That knowledge paid off in a big way on Tuesday for t...

WACO, Texas – Rogers State baseball's Brendan Griffith was named the Heartland Conference Baseball Hitter of the Week as announced by the Heartland Conference on Tuesday (April 24). Griffith, a junior from Santa Clarita, Calif., hit a team-high ....

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Peerada Piddon earned a first place finish after shooting the second lowest 54-hole tournament score in school history, helping the Arkansas Tech women's golf team secure its fourth straight GAC Championship at the Hot Springs C...

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Harding senior Mason Banger shot 4-under 68 Tuesday in the final round of the Great American Conference Championship and was poised to become Harding's first GAC individual medalist until the last shot of the event. S...

Henderson State claimed its fifth consecutive Great American Conference Men's Golf Championship as the Reddies posted a final round team score of 289 to finish with a 54-hole total of 863, Tuesday at the Hot Springs Country Club. The Reddies' fifth t...

Henderson State posted a final round score of 312 for a 54-hole total of 934 to finish in third-place at the Great American Conference Women's Golf Championships in Hot Springs. Arkansas Tech won the title posting a team score of 905 while Southweste...

For the second time this season, Henderson State's Madie Green was named Great American Conference Softball Freshman of the Week announced by the conference office Tuesday. In four games, Green hit for a .571 average going 8-for-14 at the plate...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. - SAU sophomore right-handed pitcher Victoria Taylor picked up her third weekly honor by the Great American Conference on Tuesday afternoon as they Greenwood, Arkansas, native was named the league's Pitcher of the Week. Taylor...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Kim Jong Un wants a historic, high-stakes meeting as soon as possible and suggested the North Korean dictator has been "very open" and "very honorable," a sharply different assessment of a l...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials on Tuesday announced a nationwide crackdown on underage use of a popular e-cigarette brand following months of complaints from parents, politicians and school administrators. The Food and Drug A...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The man who snatched an AR-15 rifle away from a gunman at a Nashville restaurant told Tennessee lawmakers Tuesday he faced "the true test of a man," drawing a standing ovation during his brief address. As the House hailed h...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Travis Reinking's erratic behavior began years before police say he showed up without pants at a Waffle House restaurant and killed four people with an assault-style rifle. The onetime construction crane operator bounced betwe...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Once an absentee first lady, Melania Trump embraced her moment in the spotlight Tuesday for the French president's state visit, ditching her trademark dark sunglasses and shining in a look-at-me white skirt suit and matching hat. A...

YORK, Pa. (AP) — Black people have long complained about getting pulled over by police for "driving while black," or being eyed suspiciously by store security guards for "shopping while black." Now a group of women says it got into trouble for g...

TORONTO (AP) — The suspect in the deadly van attack in Toronto posted a chilling Facebook message just minutes before plowing into a crowded city sidewalk, authorities said Tuesday, raising the possibility that he may have nursed grudges against w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With exaggerated handshakes and a pair of kisses, President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron professed a sunny, best-friends relationship Tuesday, even as the two allies strained to bridge differences over the I...

WASHINGTON (AP) — So much for an abrupt U.S. pullout from Syria. One month ago President Donald Trump surprised many, including some in his own administration, by announcing, "We'll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon. Let the other people t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A watchdog report ordered in 2012 by Dr. Ronny Jackson — President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs — found that he and a rival physician exhibited "unprofessional behaviors" as they engaged in a...

CHICAGO (AP) — Michigan State University, already reeling from the scandal involving a gymnastics doctor who molested young athletes, maintained ties to a prominent volleyball coach long after he was publicly accused in 1995 of sexually abusing a...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump and Iran's top diplomat traded sharp warnings on Tuesday, with Trump threatening "bigger problems" than ever if Tehran restarts its nuclear program. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif put the president on n...

You hear it whenever someone gets sick or dies soon after losing a spouse: Was it because of a broken heart? Stress might not be to blame for former President George H.W. Bush's hospitalization a day after his wife's funeral, but it does the body no...

One in three older Americans with Medicare drug coverage is prescribed opioid painkillers, but for those who develop a dangerous addiction there is one treatment Medicare won't cover: methadone. Methadone is the oldest, and experts say, the most...