Articles from the April 29, 2018 edition
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Reddies Blank Tigers
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The Ouachita Tiger's baseball team lost 6-0 on Friday night to arch rival Henderson State. Ouachita (13-35, 8-22 GAC) have lost both meetings to Henderson State (29-16, 21-10 GAC) this season. J.F. Matros (Arkadelphia, Ark.) s...
Timely hitting helps Tigers come away with day one sweep of Oklahoma Baptist
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The Ouachita Baptist softball team won a pair of 1-0 games on Friday afternoon to Oklahoma Baptist University. With the wins on Friday afternoon Ouachita (23-27, 19-23 GAC) all but locked up their spot in the Great American C...
No. 4 Lady Muleriders and Savage Storm split doubleheader for second-straight day to conclude regular season
DURANT, Okla. – The Lady Mulerider softball team concluded regular season play in a Great American Conference series split with Southeastern Oklahoma on Saturday afternoon as SAU run-ruled the Savage Storm in five innings to take game three, 9-1, b...
Lady Muleriders split day one in Durant with Southeastern Oklahoma
DURANT, Okla. – The Lady Mulerider softball team combined for 13 runs on 17 hits with 11 total walks in Friday's doubleheader that resulted in an 8-2 victory in the series opener, followed by a 5-8 loss in game two that allowed Southeastern O...
Muleriders fall short to Arkansas-Monticello in series opener, 3-2
MONTICELLO, Ark. - Senior ace Hunter Vasquez scattered nine hits and allowed just one earned run in a complete game effort and the Muleriders received a game-tying home run off the bat of junior Dakota Wright in the eighth inning, but...
Missouri court: Woman in Greitens case must turn over phone
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A woman who had an extramarital affair with Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens must turn over her cellphone for a forensic investigation following a decision by the Missouri Supreme Court. The high court's decision follows the w...
US reaffirms its 'ironclad commitment' to defend South Korea
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis spoke on Saturday with their South Korean counterparts after the historic meeting between leaders of the two Koreas, and Trump said "things are going very well" as he prepares...
Suspect in killing of Maine sheriff's deputy now in custody
NORRIDGEWOCK, Maine (AP) — A man accused of killing a sheriff's deputy was arrested Saturday outside a remote cabin, ending an intense manhunt in its fourth day in the woods of central Maine. A law enforcement team used the slain deputy's h...
Asylum-seekers in Mexico snub warnings of stern US response
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — U.S. immigration lawyers are telling Central Americans in a caravan of asylum-seekers that traveled through Mexico to the border with San Diego that they face possible separation from their children and detention for many m...
Trump says Democrat should quit over VA nomination brouhaha
WASHINGTON (AP) — A furious President Donald Trump on Saturday called for the resignation of the Democratic senator who assembled and released what he called "false" allegations that scuttled the nomination of the White House doctor who'd been in l...
Drugmakers push back against lawmakers' calls to tax opioids
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Facing a rising death toll from drug overdoses, state lawmakers across the country are testing a strategy to boost treatment for opioid addicts: Force drug manufacturers and their distributors to pay for it. Bills introduced in...
Man indicted on 135 counts in fatal Illinois bus shooting
ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A northern Illinois man has been indicted on 135 counts stemming from the fatal shooting of three men aboard a party bus. A Winnebago County grand jury Wednesday indicted 22-year-old King of Rockford on 126 counts of f...
Russia: Floating nuclear plant towed to sea for fueling trip
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — A floating nuclear power plant built in Russia has embarked on its first sea voyage so its reactors can be loaded with fuel. The floating plant, the Akademik Lomonosov, was towed on Saturday out of the St. Petersburg s...
Land deal will preserve site linked to Lost Colony mystery
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Efforts to unravel the mysterious fate of North Carolina's fabled Lost Colony could benefit after a preservation group took out its first-ever loan to buy a coastal tract where some colonists may have resettled hundreds of y...
Fitted with ankle bracelet, Cosby to be prisoner inside home
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two days after his conviction, Bill Cosby has already started life as an inmate — though his surroundings are far nicer than they likely will be in a few months. A judge says Cosby will be confined to the same suburban Phi...
Judge agrees to delay Stormy Daniels' lawsuit against Trump
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Friday delayed a civil lawsuit by porn actress Stormy Daniels against President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, citing a criminal investigation the attorney is facing. U.S. District Judge S. James Ot...
Nevada leader to give first Hindu prayer in Oklahoma Senate
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A spiritual leader from Nevada will deliver the Oklahoma Senate's first Hindu prayer, part of an interfaith movement in a Legislature in the Bible Belt that has faced criticism its lack of religious diversity. Rajan Zed, p...
Judge rejects DA bid to introduce graphic autopsy photos
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A judge has rejected a bid by prosecutors to introduce graphic autopsy photos to jurors deciding the first-degree murder case involving the stabbing deaths of five family members in an Oklahoma suburb. Tulsa County District J...
Kansas GOP lawmakers block $1B schools plan in advancing fix
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kansas on Saturday blocked a plan from Democrats to nearly double the amount of new spending on public schools provided by a recently enacted education funding law, as GOP leaders juggled budget-boosting p...
Lost city in Kansas open for tours
ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Limited tours of a lost city are being offered in south-central Kansas. Donald Blakeslee is an anthropologist and archaeologist at Wichita State University. He announced last year that he had solved a 400-year-old mystery a...
Man convicted in shooting at Wichita restaurant
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A man shot during an attempted robbery at a Wichita restaurant has been convicted of attempted murder for shooting the restaurant's owner. A Sedgwick County jury found 27-year-old Reginald Kane guilty Friday of that and other c...
Death toll rises to 9 in China school stabbing attack
BEIJING (AP) — The death toll has risen to nine in Friday's stabbing attack outside a middle school in northwestern China allegedly carried out by a former pupil seeking revenge for having been bullied. The Mizhi county government in Shaanxi p...
Landowners join forces to restore New Mexico grasslands
CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — Ranchers and land owners in southeastern New Mexico are joining forces to restore grasslands in the area amid the growth of invasive plants and severe drought conditions. They are seeking to replace invasive bushes such as s...
Apple controversy: Who can sell Cosmic Crisp trees?
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — It's an apple that could upset the cart. Or at least disrupt it a bit. Washington growers are so excited about the Cosmic Crisp's potential, they already planted a half-million trees and plan to add another 5 million this y...
New discovery could help in Lyme disease vaccines testing
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Researchers identified the bacterium behind the debilitating Lyme disease decades ago. They have understood its life cycle requires an interaction between infected deer and the specific species of ticks that feeds on them. And...