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Happy Birthday To May 31: Tamela Wise June 1: Vickie Johnson, Brittany Doyle June 2: Kendra Wardrop, Carlene Culver June 3: Nadia Boydstun, Billy Parker June 4: Betty Harris, Betty Whittet, Sarah Beeley June 5: Martina Cell, Christian Ledford June...

The order of services on Sunday, May 27, at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Invocation by Pastor Woody Hamon Call to Worship: Psalm 25:1-10 led by Dixie Stansberry Opening hymn “The Old Rugged Cross” Affirmation...

The 35th annual Welty Reunion was held at the Freedom American Legion Building on Sunday May 27. After a potluck dinner and a craft auction, the afternoon was spent visiting and going to cemeteries. Those attending were: Charles Welty; Jessie Welty;...

SHAWNEE – Four Oklahoma Baptist athletes were named All-America for the 2018 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field season, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced Tuesday. Breanna Hurlbut, JoziRose M...

SEARCY – Harding track and field's Raianne Mason earned Google Cloud Academic All-District 7 honors Tuesday from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Mason, a senior from North Lima, Ohio, is a public relations major with a...

SEARCY – Two members of the Harding men's track and field and cross-country teams earned Google Cloud Academic All-District 7 honors Tuesday from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). It was the third straight academic a...

MAGNOLIA, Ark. – A week after being named as a consensus All-Central Region First-Team player, Southern Arkansas senior third baseman Jacob Richardson is now a consensus All-American as he has been named to all three of the major DII Baseball m...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State avenged its loss to Alabama from four years ago while blasting the Crimson Tide to win the NCAA men's golf championship on its home course Wednesday. Vitkor Hovland never trailed in the opening match against L...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A Delta Air Lines flight from Portland, Oregon, to Atlanta was diverted to Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Wednesday because of an onboard disturbance involving a passenger, and a U.S. attorney said his office will determine whether that p...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The two-time defending national softball champion Oklahoma Sooners might be better than ever. The Sooners blew through the competition to post a 55-3 record and return to the Women's College World Series. The offense, led by f...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The president of a Texas-based wind energy trade group has been subpoenaed to appear before an Oklahoma grand jury looking into a state lawmaker's claim that someone connected to the industry put a tracking device on his p...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Items found in the home of a man who shot and wounded patrons inside an Oklahoma City restaurant last week include ammunition that matches the type of gun he used in the shooting, according to a search warrant filed in d...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma attorney general's office has sided with a group trying to repeal recently approved tax hikes meant to fund teacher pay raises. The office on Tuesday said the wording of the group's referendum petition for a s...

VINITA, Okla. (AP) — A northeast Oklahoma jury has convicted a former teacher of sexually abusing an 8-year-old student. The Tulsa World reports that the Craig County jury convicted 49-year-old Ronald Manners of one count of child sexual abuse. M...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma man has been charged with first-degree murder for the 2017 drug overdose death of a woman in southern Oklahoma. Attorney General Mike Hunter says the charge was filed Friday against 36-year-old Howard Timken Jr. of D...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas plans to cut $20 million from its Lawrence campus during the next fiscal year. The university announced Tuesday that the reductions will mean about a 5.9 percent budget decrease for all Lawrence campus u...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Two maintenance workers at a Kansas water park where a 10-year-old boy was decapitated on a waterslide were indicted Wednesday for obstruction of justice. David Hughes, maintenance supervisor at the Schlitterbahn Water P...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A prosecutor says the stepmother of a 5-year-old Kansas boy whose body was found three months after he was reported missing is expected to be released from jail without charges. Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett r...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The homicide rate in Wichita so far this year is double that from the same time period last year. The Wichita Eagle reports 16 people were killed in Wichita between January and April. Three more people have been killed in May. L...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — In chilling cellphone videos released Wednesday, the suspect in a February massacre at a Florida high school announced his intention to become the next school shooter, aiming to kill at least 20 people and saying "...

DALLAS (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday called for schools to have more armed personnel and said they should put greater focus on spotting student mental health problems but he proposed only a few small restrictions on guns following a s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will be meeting with the families of the victims of a Texas school shooting during a visit to the state Thursday. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders made the announcement at the White House b...