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SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist will send five athletes and a relay team to the 2019 NCAA Division II Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Senior Hayden Ashley qualified for the championship meet in the men's decathlon. He will be j...

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – A dramatic victory over top-ranked Barry University lifted the SWOSU Women's Golf team into the National Semifinals, where they gave #5 Florida Tech a great battle before being eliminated in the second round of match p...

SAN ANGELO, Texas – The Rogers State Baseball team moved one win away from advancing out of the South Central II Region, defeating host and No. 4 ranked Angelo State 9-8 Friday night in the first game of a best-of-three series between the two p...

DANIELS, W. Va. -- The Wonder Boys tee off Monday at the NCAA Division II Men's Golf National Championship. This is Arkansas Tech's third straight national championship. The Wonder Boys are coming off a third-place finish at last week's Central...

DALLAS (AP) — A spate of tornadoes raked across the Southern Plains, leaving damage and causing few injuries, and parts of the region were bracing for more severe thunderstorms and possible flooding. Tornadoes touched down Friday in Kansas and r...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Officials monitoring Oklahoma's Department of Human Services have said the agency's child-welfare system has had its best performance to date but have also warned it needs to increase the number of foster homes for children w...

MEDFORD, Okla. (AP) — No injuries have been reported following a 4.4 magnitude earthquake in northern Oklahoma. The U.S. Geological Survey says the temblor was recorded shortly before 3:30 p.m. Friday about 9 miles (15 kilometers) south-southeast o...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police in southeastern Kansas are investigating a fatal shooting. Television station KAKE reports that the shooting happened Friday afternoon in southeast Wichita. Officers were called to the area shortly before 4:30 p.m. F...

DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say there have been no reports of serious injuries from a spate of tornadoes that raked southwest Kansas Friday night. The National Weather Service says eight tornado sightings had been reported in the area by l...

EL DORADO SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — Scientists are preparing to end a seven-year program that has reintroduced the first federally endangered species to Missouri because the beetles have shown encouraging signs that they could survive on their own. The St....

GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) — Hispanic residents make up more than half of the population in Ford, Finney and Seward counties, but there is only one Hispanic elected official in all three southwestern Kansas counties and their three largest cities. Some l...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is reporting that its unemployment rate remained at 3.5% in April and that the number of private sector jobs grew slightly over the previous year. The state Department of Labor is reporting that the seasonally adjusted A...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas plans to award a posthumous master's degree to a 30-year-old student who died in class. Mahmoud Samak, a graduate student from Cairo, will receive the award from the university's Religious Studies D...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers finished work Friday for their annual session. Here's a look at some of the bills that passed: ABORTION Prohibits abortions at 8 weeks of pregnancy except in medical emergencies. If overturned in c...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abused and neglected children are again sleeping overnight in the offices of Kansas foster care contractors because homes cannot be found for them quickly enough. Since January, when Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly took office, m...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are renewing a truce offer with Kansas in a long-running battle over businesses in the Kansas City area. Legislation given final approval Friday would prohibit Missouri tax incentives from being used t...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders wants to suspend taxpayer funding of new charter schools and ban those that are for-profit as part of his plan to overhaul public education that he released on Saturday. Saying c...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers will study school safety after a fatal shooting and a reported threat refocused attention on the issue this spring. Democratic and Republican leaders announced the eight-member committee on Friday. Members will be a...

GERONIMO, Okla. (AP) — The Latest on severe weather in the Southern Plains (all times local): 5:15 p.m. Authorities have confirmed a tornado with winds up to 130 mph (209 kph) touched down in southern Oklahoma. The National Weather Service says t...

LONDON (AP) — Thousands are marching in Northern Ireland to demand that the region's leaders permit same-sex marriage. The demonstrators in Belfast on Saturday want same-sex couples to be treated the same way in Northern Ireland as they are in the r...

HOBBS, N.M. (AP) — Two New Mexico counties remain among the top oil-producing counties in the U.S., according to new federal numbers. Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows that Lea County was the No. 2 oil-producing county in J...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Commercial airliners flying over the Persian Gulf risk being targeted by "miscalculation or misidentification" from the Iranian military amid heightened tensions between the Islamic Republic and the U.S., American d...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Employees of energy giant ExxonMobil have begun evacuating from an oil field in the southern Iraqi province of Basra but work at the field is still ongoing, Iraqi officials said Saturday. The evacuation comes amid rising tensions betwe...

BAGHDAD (AP) — When U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sat down with Iraqi officials in Baghdad last week as tensions mounted between America and Iran, he delivered a nuanced message: If you're not going to stand with us, stand aside. The m...