Articles from the May 12, 2017 edition
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Searching for consensus
Things have become increasingly tense at the Capitol as we wind down our last month of session. The final stretch is weighing heavily on every lawmaker in these halls, and the days are starting to see...
Random Thoughts
Arthur Brown of Salt Lake City won election to the U.S. Senate when Utah entered the Union in 1896. During his rise in Republican Party circles in his adopted state Brown became acquainted with a...
2017 football golf tournament information released
Northwestern Oklahoma State head football coach Matt Walter has announced the dates and times of the 21st Annual Golf Tournament. The 2017 event will take place on the last week of May where there will be a hog roast at 5:30 p.m., courtesy of the...
Soccer coaches to host camps throughout summer
Northwestern Oklahoma State Head Women's Soccer Coach Craig Liddell has announced the four separate summer camps that are coming up at the end of the month and in the months of June and July. Out of the four camps, two of those will be held in Alva...
Lady Bison Advance to NCCAA Finals
MOBILE, Ala. – Oklahoma Baptist earned a shot to avenge last year's championship loss with their 5-1 win over Emmanuel Thursday in the semifinals of the NCCAA Women's Tennis Championships. The Lady Bison play Indiana Wesleyan, which held off OBU 5...
Bison Heading to NCCAA Championship Match
MOBILE, Ala. – Oklahoma Baptist plays for its first men's tennis national championship Friday after knocking off Dallas Baptist, 5-0, Thursday in the semifinals of the NCCAA Men's Tennis Championships. It is the third time this postseason the B...
Storm Run Ends in National Quarterfinal
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. – No. 23 Southeastern saw its 2017 postseason run come to an end on Thursday morning with a 5-0 loss to No. 6 Hawaii Pacific in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division II National Finals at Sanlando Park in Altamonte Springs, F...
Late comeback lifts Weevils over Wonder Boys
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Arkansas Tech held a 3-2 lead through eight innings in the final four of the Great American Conference Championships on Thursday, but Arkansas-Monticello scored five runs in the top of the ninth to defeat the Wonder Boys, 7-2. N...
Weevils Baseball powers past Arkansas Tech in GAC Tournament
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. — The University of Arkansas at Monticello baseball team defeated number two seeded Arkansas Tech in the first game of the GAC Championship Tournament Final Four round, by a score of 7-3. The match-up, which had been shifted over t...
Humes Doubles Twice, Pitches No-Hitter; Harding Softball Advances
SEARCY – Harding freshman Autumn Humes doubled twice and pitched her second no-hitter of the season in the Lady Bisons' 8-0 victory over Missouri Western State on Thursday in both teams' opening game at the NCAA Division II Central Region 1 T...
Reddies Use Long Ball to Beat No. 14 Southern Arkansas 13-5
Henderson State belted out six home runs and totaled a season-high 20 hits as the Reddies beat No. 14 Southern Arkansas 13-5 in the opening round of the Great American Conference Baseball Tournament Thursday at Clyde Berry Field. A total of 11...
Top-seeded Muleriders suffer 13-5 defeat to No. 4-seed Henderson State
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The top-seeded Southern Arkansas baseball team suffered its first loss of the postseason on Thursday afternoon as they were upended by No. 4-seed Henderson State by a score of 13-5. The Muleriders will now play an elimination g...
Southern Arkansas (5) upsets Winona State (4) in first round of Central Region Tournament
SEARCY, Ark. – The Lady Mulerider softball team upset No. 4-seed Winona State, 5-0, in first round of the Central Region Tournament on Thursday in Searcy, Arkansas. TEAM RECORDS Southern Arkansas Lady Muleriders: 46-16 Winona State Warriors: 49-12 P...
Police supervisor told officer to say nothing after shooting
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The supervisor of a white Oklahoma police officer who shot an unarmed black man testified Thursday that he told her to say nothing about the incident because he knew the shooting would be racially explosive. Tulsa police Cpl. W...
Police officials resign after arresting city councilor's son
VIAN, Okla. (AP) — A police chief and an officer in an eastern Oklahoma town have resigned, citing pushback they say they faced after the recent arrest of a city councilor's son. The Tulsa World (http://bit.ly/2r5AUTc ) reports Vian Officer Lindsey G...
Lawmaker: Vet citizenship of non-English-speaking schoolkids
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Republican member in the Oklahoma House is suggesting that tens of thousands of non-English speaking students in public schools be turned over to U.S. immigration officials as cost-saving measure in the cash-strapped state. B...
Oklahoma governor names Howard Haralson to vacant judgeship
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma County Special Judge Howard Roy Haralson has been appointed to a vacant district judge's position. Gov. Mary Fallin said Thursday she is appointing Haralson to the judgeship made vacant by the death of former Oklahoma C...
Amazon sorting center coming to Oklahoma City
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Internet retailer Amazon has confirmed that it's building a sorting center in Oklahoma City. The Oklahoman (http://bit.ly/2pCXu4s ) reports that work is underway on the $3 million, 300,000-square-foot facility. Amazon s...
Oklahoma court affirms life sentence in baseball bat beating
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court has upheld the life prison sentence of a 60-year-old man convicted of beating another man to death with a baseball bat. The state Court of Criminal Appeals handed down the decision Thursday to Tony O...
Oklahoma appeals court affirms life sentence in DJ's death
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the life prison sentence of a 45-year-old woman convicted of fatally shooting her boyfriend, who was a radio disc jockey in southwestern Oklahoma. The court ruled Thursday in t...
Kansas may delay amusement park law passed after fatal ride
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Less than three weeks after GOP Gov. Sam Brownback signed tightened rules for Kansas amusement parks, lawmakers who were spurred by the death of a colleague's son are proposing to delay the law's implementation. The House F...
Man charged in connection with triple homicide in Kansas
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 28-year-old man is jailed on $1 million bond after being charged in connection with the shooting deaths of three people in Kansas City, Kansas. Prosecutors in Wyandotte County on Thursday charged Jason R. Tucker with c...
Kansas lawmakers increase penalties for human trafficking
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A measure that would strengthen state laws against human trafficking cleared the Kansas Legislature Thursday without a single vote against it. The bill, which the House approved unanimously on Monday before the Senate's action T...
Records: Slain boy told Missouri authorities about abuse
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An emaciated boy whose father later killed him and fed his remains to the family's pigs told Missouri authorities two years before his death that his dad and stepmother were abusing him, state records show. Adrian Jones was 5...
Kobach nominated to Trump voter fraud commission
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — President Donald Trump has named Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to help lead a voter fraud commission. But Kobach won't be leaving his post in Kansas. Kobach and Vice President Mike Pence will lead a commission to review a...