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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP, posted Sept. 10, 2016) – The Standing Rock Sioux's effort to block a four-state oil pipeline got a lifeline when the federal government temporarily stopped the project, a move some say likely may forever change the way all e...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — After seven months and 28 races, NASCAR has hit that part of the season that really matters. The start of the playoffs signifies a shift in attitude and aggression, and if there was any doubt the mindset h...

Last year, Oklahoma State played a bunch of games decided in the final minutes and managed to win most of them. This year, the Cowboys were not so fortunate in their first close contest, and it dealt a blow to their playoff hopes. Mason Rudolph was...

The eight-man officiating crew that botched the end of the Central Michigan-Oklahoma State game has been suspended for two games, the Mid-American Conference announced Sunday. And the Big 12 announced that the two-person video replay crew that worked...

Oklahoma State dropped out of The Associated college football poll after a controversial loss, and Georgia and Clemson fell after close calls against lightly regarded opposition. Alabama is still No. 1, receiving 56 out of 61 first-place votes...

PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — Shane Truelove threw three touchdown passes, two in the fourth quarter, and Division II Oklahoma Panhandle State beat Arkansas-Pine Bluff 20-16 on Saturday night. The Aggies were down 16-7 when T...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — Oklahoma can finally talk about Ohio State. Baker Mayfield passed for 244 yards and three touchdowns in a half of work, and the 14th-ranked Sooners beat Louisiana-Monroe 59-17 on Saturday night in a w...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — Arkansas appeared on its way to a big early season victory over No. 15 TCU following a pedestrian debut and a year after a stunning Week 2 loss to Toledo. Then the Razorbacks looked like they had let t...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — Ohio State's stout defense hasn't allowed a touchdown in two games against overmatched Bowling Green and Tulsa. Urban Meyer knows the first real test will come at No. 14 Oklahoma next week. The Buckeyes in...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — Thomas McSherry embarked on "the adventure of a lifetime" on a September morning full of promise in 1984. The Catholic priest and his friend and fellow clergyman, Don Wolf, drove out of Norman on their w... Full story

ADA, Okla. (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — Arch Bonnema showed a visitor a photo of a combined school and orphanage 30 miles south of Hyderabad in southern India. "The lower (level) is for the school, and the kids sleep upstairs," he told The Ada News...

TULSA, Okla. (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — Police in Tulsa are investigating an early morning shooting as a possible "stand your ground" case. Sergeant Dave Walker says someone called police just before 2 a.m. Sunday after hearing a woman yelling a...

TULSA, Okla. (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — The Oklahoma Department of Human Services spent $14 million on employees who resigned or accepted voluntary buyouts during the past year, which was 70 percent more than it spent on that the previous year. T...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — Following the wettest year on record, parts of Oklahoma are dry again, with moderate drought or abnormally dry conditions affecting more than 640,000 Oklahomans. About 48 percent of the state is a...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — Six people were injured, one critically, after a gunman fired shots at a group of people in Kansas City's Westport entertainment district, police said. Two people were arrested after the shooting a...

SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — Two people were critically injured and a suspect was killed by a good Samaritan during a shooting in the parking lot of a suburban Kansas City Wal-Mart. Police said the confrontation Sunday afternoon in S...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — After Dean Klenda went missing in action during the Vietnam War, his sister worked relentlessly with the U.S. military for decades to keep a search going for his remains. When they finally called and t... Full story

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — Seven states and more than 30 teams were represented at the 2016 World Championship Squirrel Cook-off in northwest Arkansas. Amateur and professional chefs set up dozens of tents Saturday on the B...

SEARCY, Ark. (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — After speaking with Harding University alumni working in area law enforcement agencies that couldn't afford to equip them with body armor, a Harding professor and former CIA agent was motivated to set up a...

HOUSTON (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — More than a dozen teachers and administrators from across Texas say they delayed or denied special education to disabled students in order to stay below the benchmark state officials set for the number of s...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — The Navajo Nation's opposition to capital punishment is in the spotlight following recent outcry for New Mexico to reinstate it in cases of child killings. The mother of an 11-year-old Navajo girl a...

DONNELLSON, Iowa (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — Two garbage bags. For a child being moved into a foster care setting, that frequently is all the luggage they have when the social worker comes to take them to their temporary home. The Hawk Eye (...

PAULDING, Mich. (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — "I can see it right now!" Bob Anderson said excitedly, staring into the trees. It was a cool summer evening, and the 61-year-old from L'Anse had brought a few of his fishing buddies down a dead-end road i... Full story

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — Nearly 160 years after the massacre of a wagon train in southern Utah, the pioneers' descendants got their first glimpse of what is believed to be their gravesites. The Spectrum of St. George reports (...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP, posted Sept. 11, 2016) — Mosquito control officials in northeast Florida have proposed building a wind tunnel, among other investments, to help attract researchers and grant funding. The St. Augustine Record reports (...