BENTONVILLE, ARK. – After waiting for three days to actually start the 2019 Great American Conference Championship Tournament, the East Central University softball team fell 3-2 to rival Southeastern Oklahoma State. Scoring SEOSU 1st – E. Watson SAC...

ENID, Okla. – Starting pitcher AJ Merkel turned in a complete game, scattering seven hits, as the fifth-seeded OBU baseball team knocked off No. 2 seed Southern Arkansas in the opening round of the 2019 Great American Conference Tournament S...

NORMAN – The Oklahoma Baptist University STUNT Team complete day one of competition at the 2019 Stunt National Championships. OBU has advanced to the semifinals. The Lady Bison started off the day falling in a close match with Alma College, f...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. – Southeastern used a three home run third inning to pick up a 7-4 win over Ouachita Baptist in the Great American Conference Tournament semifinals, earning the program's fourth trip to the GAC title game scheduled for Sunday a...

ENID, Okla. – SWOSU Baseball was limited to two hits on Saturday evening as they dropped a 5-2 decision to Arkansas Tech in their opening game of the Great American Conference Tournament at David Allen Memorial Ballpark in Enid. With the loss, S...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. – A valiant effort from the SWOSU Softball team came up just short as the Bulldogs fell 8-5 to No. 14-ranked Arkansas Tech in a GAC Tournament elimination game on Saturday morning at the Tiger Athletic Complex in Bentonville. The g...

Bentonville, Ark. – Tigers make history being the first eighth ranked team to knock off the number one seed. However, the fall in the end of the second game with a score of 7-4 to Southeastern Oklahoma. The Tigers began the day squaring off with top...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Every business starts as an idea. Sometimes they grow from small seeds, others materialize in a flash, but they all had to start somewhere. Dr. Tom Lumpkin, director of entrepreneurship and economic development at OU's Price Coll...

EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — More than 100 people marched in the rain to protest the fatal shooting of a naked, unarmed teenager by police in the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond. The group marched about a half mile (0.8 kilometer) Friday from the school a...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's effort to expand Medicaid in Kansas this year died Saturday when enough moderate Republicans bowed to the wishes of the GOP-controlled Legislature's conservative leaders and ended an impasse that h...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A regulatory ombudsman hired by former Gov. Jeff Colyer billed Kansas taxpayers thousands of dollars for travel and food after his official workstation was quietly switched from a state office building near the Capitol to his Sali...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The Manhattan-Ogden School Board has approved guidelines for transgender students in the school district. The board voted 6-1 Wednesday to approve the guidelines, after discussing the issue since December. The Manhattan M...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — One of the world's biggest and most powerful steam locomotives is chugging to its big debut after five years of restoration work. Big Boy No. 4014 rolled out of a Union Pacific restoration shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on S...

PAINESVILLE, Ohio (AP) — An iguana injured when a man pulled the lizard from under his shirt and threw it at an Ohio restaurant manager remains in protective custody at a humane society that is awaiting court permission to provide medical t...

STERLING, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump criticized social media companies after Facebook banned a number of extremist figures, declaring that he was "monitoring and watching, closely!!" Trump, who tweeted and re-tweeted complaints Friday and S...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — An explosion and fire at an Illinois silicone factory claimed a second victim Saturday when an employee taken to a hospital after the blast died, a local coroner confirmed, and the official death toll is expected to rise to four...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A military-chartered jet carrying 143 people landed hard, then bounced and swerved as the pilot struggled to control it amid thunder and lightning, ultimately skidding off the runway and coming to a crashing halt in a r...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Seven Venezuelan military officers were killed on Saturday when their helicopter crashed while heading to a state where President Nicolás Maduro appeared alongside troops, days after the opposition called in vain for a milit...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean state media on Sunday showed leader Kim Jong Un observing live-fire drills of long-range multiple rocket launchers and what appeared to be a new short-range ballistic missile, a day after South Korea e...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian militants on Saturday fired over 250 rockets into Israel, drawing dozens of retaliatory airstrikes on targets across the Gaza Strip in a round of heavy fighting that broke a month-long lull between the e...

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Saturday he's reached an agreement with key lawmakers on a plan to legalize recreational marijuana in the state starting next year. The legislation would allow adults 21 and older to legally buy c...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Witches were still being burned at the stake when Sir Matthew Hale came up with his legal theory that rape could not happen within marriage. The 17th century English jurist declared it legally impossible because wedding vows imp...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The "no-collusion" chorus sang loudly this past week, with President Donald Trump in full-throated roar and even Russian President Vladimir Putin chiming in. The upshot: substantial misrepresentations of what the special counsel's R...