Articles from the May 6, 2018 edition
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Chuck wagon donated to Cherokee Strip Museum
Recently, a chuck wagon that made the Oklahoma run in 1893 was donated to the Cherokee Strip Museum by Verna and Calvin Graybill, in honor and memory of the Haun family from Carmen. This is a brief...
Alva School Board to hire several teachers for next year
As the school year ends, teachers are looking at job opportunities and school boards are coping with vacancies for next year. The Alva Board of Education will be discussing and voting on several teaching applicants for next fall during the regular...
Final two AMS and AHS vocal concerts coming up
The final Alva Middle School School concert of the year will be held on Tuesday, May 8, at 7 p.m. at the Alva High School Memorial Auditorium. The title of the event is "I'll Never Stop Singing." The...
Baseball Sees Two Honored on 2018 All-GAC Teams
ENID, OKLA. – The East Central University baseball team was represented on the 2018 All-Great American Conference teams by sophomore Cale Ridling and senior Bryce Dimitroff. Ridling earned second team honors as an outfielder, while Dimitroff was a...
Seven Bison Honored by GAC
SHAWNEE – Seven Oklahoma Baptist baseball players were honored Saturday morning with All-Great American Conference honors. Named to the First Team were Juan Gonzalez, Brett Berghammer and Jake Gozzo. Earning Second-Team honors were Caleb Bly, Zach Fo...
Baseball Trio Earns All-GAC Honors
DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern closes out the first season under head coach Zach Crabtree with Austin Ferguson, Travis Spinney, and Brett Akins each taking home All-Great American Conference honors on Saturday. Ferguson and Spinney each earned s...
Eagles drop pair to Rogers State
OKLAHOMA CITY (May 4, 2018) – A pair of big innings late in each baseball game propelled Rogers State to a doubleheader sweep of Oklahoma Christian at Dobson Field on Friday. A six-run sixth-inning outburst lifted the Hillcats a 10-3 win in the o...
Baseball Sweeps OC to Start 4-Game Series in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City, Okla. – The Rogers State baseball team took two games from Oklahoma Christian on Friday (May 4) to start a four-game series at Dobson Field in the final four games of the 2018 season for the navy and red. The Hillcats (25-23, 11-15 Hea...
Suns blank Crimson Storm, advance to GAC championship game
BENTONVILLE, Ark. – Megan Goodnight fired a five-hit shutout, while both Janie Knowles and Makenzie Addis had two hits apiece as the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns softball team (42-17) downed Southern Nazarene (26-27-1) in the semifinals of the Great Ame...
Guest Leads Harding Baseball's All-GAC Honorees
SEARCY – Harding utility man Grant Guest became the first Bison to earn first-team All-Great American Conference honors since 2015 Saturday, as the conference announced its postseason honors. Starting pitchers Tanner Smith and Jackson Ward and outfie...
Softball Defeats Henderson State Late Friday; Advances to Play Southern Arkansas Saturday
BENTONVILLE, AR – The No. 6 seeded Harding softball team defeated No. 4 seed Henderson State 6-2 in an elimination game in the Great American Conference Tournament Friday at the Tiger Athletic Complex. The Lady Bisons advance to face top seeded a...
Haralson, Langston Highlight Six Reddies on 2018 All-GAC Baseball Teams
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. — Henderson State's Bryant Haralson and Taylor Langston were each named to the 2018 All-Great American Conference First Team on Saturday morning, highlighting a group of six Reddies that were named to the All-GAC squads for this s...
Harding Defeats Henderson 6-2 to End Reddies' GAC Tournament Run
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Henderson State hung with Harding for three innings on Friday night, but the Lady Bisons broke the game open in the fourth and fifth to get past the Reddies 6-2 and eliminate them from the 2018 Great American Conference T...
Heartbreak in Extras for Ouachita
BENTONVILLE, Ark. – The Ouachita Tiger softball team season ended on Friday afternoon with an 8-6 loss in extra innings to Southeastern Oklahoma State. For the first time since the 2014 season, Ouachita (25-29) failed to win a game in the Great A...
Richardson and Vasquez claim top individual honors; headline SAU contingent on All-GAC teams
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Southern Arkansas baseball team totaled seven All-Great American Conference selections for the 2018 season as well as a pair of Distinguished Scholar-Athletes as the league released its annual All-GAC Baseball teams and s...
AHS soccer continues to grow; young talent contributes on pitch
ALVA, Okla. – The Alva High School boys and girls soccer teams closed up work on the pitch last week, and despite final records of the squads, the coaches were pleased with the continued improvement of the young programs. “I was really satisfied wit...
Therapy program helps Kansas inmates forge new path
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Teddy Kleiner, an inmate at the Shawnee County Jail, said a program at the facility aimed at reducing recidivism has given him the opportunity to "dig down deep." The Moral Reconation Therapy program has prompted Kleiner to come t...
'Little House on the Prairie' cabin to be rebuilt in Kansas
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — "In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were n...
Missouri sanctuary rewilding 4 endangered wolf pups
EUREKA, Mo. (AP) — It was just before 5 a.m. and four critically endangered wolves were tucked under a seat on a commercial flight from St. Louis to Arizona. The Mexican gray wolf puppies, among the most endangered subspecies of the gray wolf in t...
Northern Colorado farmers determined to stay in business
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — As farmers toil with crops, chickens and hogs at Raisin Roots Farm, cars whiz by at the nearby intersection of Vine Drive and North Taft Hill Road. A housing development borders the Fort Collins property, with eight f...
Harrowing crisis sparks woman to action
AMBRIDGE, Pa. (AP) — Fingertips of her index and middle fingers rhythmically compress his tiny chest. "Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive." Her baby, just several days shy of 9 months, isn't breathing. He's in cardiac arrest. "Ah, ha, ha, h...
AP review shows consequences of arming adults in schools
They are the "good guys with guns" the National Rifle Association says are needed to protect students from shooters: a school police officer, a teacher who moonlights in law enforcement, a veteran sheriff. Yet in a span of 48 hours in March, the...
Trump says he won't let right to bear arms 'be under siege'
DALLAS (AP) — Months after the horror of the Parkland school shootings in Florida, President Donald Trump stood before cheering members of the National Rifle Association and urged them to elect more Republicans to Congress to defend gun rights. T...
Rescue workers in Poland located 3rd coal miner, 4 missing
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Rescuers have located a third miner out of seven who went missing after an earthquake struck a coal mine Saturday in southern Poland, a mining official said. Two were rescued earlier with non-life threatening injuries. Daniel O...
Company: Most well work outside Greeley school hours
GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — An oil and gas firm says 80 percent of its drilling operations near an east Greeley school will occur outside of school hours. The Greeley Tribune reports the announcement by Extraction Oil and Gas caps two years of c...
