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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced Thursday that he is calling state lawmakers into special session next month to consider bills he vetoed on science education and expanding drug treatment courts. Parson said in a news r...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts scrambled Thursday to patch a tiny hole in a Russian capsule that was allowing air to leak from the International Space Station. NASA and Russian space officials stressed the six astronauts were in no danger. T...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A top Missouri senator says an expected special legislative session likely will deal with treatment courts and science, technology, engineering and math education. Republican Assistant Majority Floor Leader Bob Onder in a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Increasingly convinced that the West Wing is wholly unprepared to handle the expected assault from Democrats if they win the House in November, President Donald Trump's aides and allies are privately raising alarm as his circle o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is canceling pay raises due in January for most civilian federal employees, he informed Congress on Thursday, citing budget constraints. But the workers still could see a slightly smaller boost in their pay u...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — At least four people were killed and others were seriously injured Thursday in a head-on crash involving a commercial passenger bus and a semi-truck along Interstate 40 in New Mexico, near the Arizona border, authorities said...

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the opening of the first public grizzly bear hunts in Wyoming and Idaho in more than 40 years, as he considers whether the government was wrong to lift federal protections on t...

DALLAS (AP) — The head of Dallas' oldest and largest police employee organization said Thursday that good officers want bad ones off the streets and that a former suburban officer convicted in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager was held...

PHOENIX (AP) — A former vice president, an NFL star and other friends remembered Sen. John McCain as a "true American hero" — and a terrible driver with a wicked sense of humor and love of a good battle — at a crowded church service Thursday for t...

OULAD AYAD, Morocco (AP) — The mother of a 17-year-old Moroccan girl who told police she was gang-raped, forcibly tattooed and held against her will for two months recalled how her daughter was dumped at the family's home by two men, the scars of h...

GENEVA (AP) — Fearing a military offensive, the U.N. envoy for Syria proposed Thursday that civilians holed up in the rebel-held region of Idlib could evacuate to government areas — a move that would send many back into parts of Syria they once fle...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after announcing the departure of his White House counsel, President Donald Trump teased Thursday that he's excited about his choice for a replacement but isn't ready to share his new lawyer's name. Trump said Wednesday on T...

VIENNA (AP) — Iran continues to comply with the nuclear deal reached in 2015 with major powers even after the withdrawal of the United States, the United Nations' atomic watchdog said Thursday in a confidential report. In the quarterly report d...

BRUSSELS (AP) — In his sixth week of detention, Cafer Topkaya stopped counting the days in his prison diary, realizing he wouldn't be going home anytime soon. Like many caught up in the crackdown after the failed military coup in Turkey two years ago...

DURANT, OKLA. – The East Central University volleyball team played its first two matches of the South Central Classic at Southeastern Oklahoma State. The Tigers (0-6) fell 3-0 to both Washburn and Wayne State. Washburn Match Highlights Set One: L, 2...

ADA – The East Central University soccer team was coming off a 2-0 victory the day before, but the Tigers (1-1) ended up falling to Texas Woman's 2-0 at Tiger Field in the second match of the season. Despite allowing two goals in the final 10 m...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Oklahoma Baptist went 1-1 on Friday at the Bahama House Labor Day Classic, sweeping Bentley 3-0 (25-19, 25-20, 25-17) before dropping a decision to Eckerd College 3-0 (21-25, 19-25, 28-30). In the first match, Jenna Gremmel d...

DURANT, Okla. — Southern Nazarene totaled 189 yards with 119 on the ground and 70 through the air in a 35-0 loss at Southeastern Oklahoma State in the 2018 opener. Jacob Spady led the way for the Crimson Storm (0-1, 0-1 GAC) as he rushed for a team-h...

DURANT, Okla. — Southern Nazarene fell 3-1 (25-14, 25-19, 20-25, 25-10) to No. 20 Wayne State (Neb.) in its first match at the South Central Classic before losing 3-0 (25-21, 25-14, 25-21) to Texas Woman's in its final match of the night. Bailee Tura...

BETHANY, Okla. — In the first home event of the 2018-19 season, Northeastern State took home the victory at Wes Harmon Field over Southern Nazarene in a 3-1 fashion. The Riverhawks (1-0) out-shot the Crimson Storm (0-1) 19-4 for the game, which p...

WEATHERFORD, Okla. – SWOSU Quarterback Casey Freeman tied the Great American Conference record by throwing for seven touchdown passes as he led the Bulldogs to a 49-35 victory over Arkansas-Monticello in the ASAP Kickoff Classic on Thursday night. A...

WEATHERFORD, Okla. – SWOSU Soccer took defending National Champion Central Missouri to the limit but fell short in a 3-2 heartbreaker. The Bulldogs led the Jennies by two goals midway through the second half before the UCM offense came alive to s...

OKLAHOMA CITY (Aug. 30, 2018) – The temptation playing against a team that entered having won only one of its previous 89 soccer games was to relax, but instead, Oklahoma Christian took care of business on Thursday against Southwest Baptist (Mo.). G...