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OKLAHOMA CITY (Aug. 30, 2018) – No way is Oklahoma Christian women's soccer coach Meagan Anderson satisfied with a 2-0 loss like her team suffered Thursday, but her respect for Central Oklahoma's program is so great that she wasn't too unhappy. OC h...

CLAREMORE, Okla. – Junior forward Chris Sowder scored a brace in a 2-0 win for the Rogers State men's soccer team over Drury on Thursday (Aug. 30) as the Hillcats opened the 2018 season at Soldier Field. Sowder, a Broken Arrow, Oklahoma native, total...

CLEVELAND, Tenn. – Allie Anderson turned in a 27-kill afternoon, while Tymber Riley notched 13 kills with a .324 hitting percentage as the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns volleyball team (3-3) swept to a pair of victories on day one of the Holiday Inn E...

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Harding volleyball team defeated No. 17 Colorado School of Mines 3-0 (25-20, 25-23, 25-22) but fell to UINDY 3-1 (25-15, 17-25, 25-22, 25-19) Friday on the first day of the UINDY Tournament. Harding moves to 4-2 on the s...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The Harding women's soccer team fell 3-1 to Emporia State Friday in its season opener in its first game of the GAC/MIAA Challenge. The games were moved to Ouachita Baptist's field in Arkadelphia, Arkansas due to heavy rains in S...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. — Henderson State racked up 324 yards of total offense on Thursday night, but No. 7 Harding scored 21 points off of three Reddie fumbles and pulled away to win the season opener for both teams, 41-17. The win is Harding's t...

ALVA, Okla. – For the 12th consecutive season the Ouachita Tiger football team will begin the year with a 1-0 record as they defeated Northwestern Oklahoma State 29-21 at Ranger Field on Thursday night. With a 1:48 left in the game junior running b...

DURANT, Okla. – It was a tough afternoon in southeastern Oklahoma for the Southern Arkansas Volleyball team as the Muleriders dropped a close five-set match to New Mexico Highlands of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, before falling in three se...

MAGNOLIA, Ark. – It was all Southern Arkansas from the opening kickoff as the Muleriders defeated Arkansas Tech handily behind a balanced offering that included an explosive offense and a stifling defense which led to a 38-0 Great American Conference...

TAHLEQUAH – 21 unanswered points by Emporia State in the third quarter deflated the RiverHawks in their home opener on Thursday evening and fell 34-7 at Doc Wadley Stadium. Northeastern State newcomer Ryheem Brummitt had them team's lone scoring p...

DURANT, Okla. (Aug. 31) – No. 19-ranked Central Oklahoma rolled to its fourth straight win – and fourth straight sweep – with a rout of Texas Woman's here Friday afternoon on the first day of the South Central Classic. The Bronchos rallied from...

DENVER, Colo. – The Colorado Premier Challenge got off to a great start for the No. 10 ranked Regis University volleyball team (3-2) as they made quick work of No. 21 ranked Missouri Western State University (4-1), winning the match 3-1. How It H...

August 30, 2018-Emporia State forced four turnovers and scored 14 points off them on their way to a 34-7 road opening win at Northeastern State on Thursday in Tahlequah, Okla. The win sets up a huge early season matchup next Thursday between Emporia...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma providers who treat patients covered by Medicaid may soon get their first pay rate increase in nearly a decade. The Oklahoma Health Care Authority announced Wednesday it's considering raising rates paid to providers, t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office says an inmate has died in his cell. Sheriff's spokesman Mark Opgrande says 41-year-old Jeremy Lee Simmons was found unresponsive in the cell Wednesday night by jailers. Jail staff began l...

SEDALIA, Mo. (AP) — After weathering nearly eight decades and two notable tornadoes, a piece of Pettis County's farming history is slowly being dismantled. The Reine dairy barn, built in 1939 by Robert R. Reine and Charlie Allcorn and now owned by R...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Imagine paying less than $20,000 for your dream home. Now imagine being able to take that home with you wherever you travel. That's the reality for Wichita couple Sam and Jordan Page — and Penni the Yorkie-Poo. Over the past eig...

SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — The sweet sound of piano music engulfed the Burke family's Shawnee home. In their family room one recent afternoon, Heidi Burke sat atop a blue velvet ottoman pulled up to the upright piano. Heidi, 14, was born without the l...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new innovation center and, down the road, a science and technology park are some of the big items on the list of Greater Topeka Partnership's new innovation leader Katrin Holzhaus. As the senior vice president of innovation f...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A church that was spared destruction during the 1921 Tulsa race riots has been added to the National Register for Historic Places. The Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church is in the Greenwood District of Tulsa where the r...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Republicans on Friday pushed a new GOP state lawmaker to resign and end his campaign to keep his seat over a woman's allegations that he allowed two of her foster children to sit in his lap and rub his chest. State Rep. M...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The final, official margin of victory is 343 votes for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach in his Republican primary race against Gov. Jeff Colyer. A three-member state board on Friday certified final results from the Aug. 7 p...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas energy regulators have continued to allow oil and gas drillers to apply for injection-well permits without providing adequate public notice despite complaints on the matter, according to an attorney. The Kansas C...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas has hired a law firm to examine its handling of allegations of sexual abuse by its priests going back nearly seven decades. Archbishop Joseph Naumann wrote in a column published Friday...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A man convicted in a 2016 murder of a former Topeka high school principal has been sentenced to life in prison. Michael Timothy Hall was sentenced Friday for felony murder in the May 2016 death of 64-year-old Curt Cochran. Hall w...