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Cross Country Finishes Second in Bob Gravett Invitational at OBU

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. - The Henderson State cross country team, behind a dominant effort from sophomore Samantha Nickell, finished with a team score of 28 points to finish second at the Bob Gravett Invitational in Arkadelphia on Friday evening. The Reddi...

 

Lady Muleriders topple Texas A&M International; split Saturday's action at South Central Classic

DURANT, Okla. – The Southern Arkansas Lady Mulerider Volleyball team concluded play at the South Central Classic on Saturday afternoon after splitting the day's action which saw the program knock off Texas A&M International in four sets, before s...

 

The Latest: Memorial held for Texas coach

HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on Harvey and the storm's aftermath (all times local): 7:40 p.m. Friends and family have gathered to remember a former Texas high school football and track coach who disappeared while driving during Harvey. The Tyler (...

 

City struggles to restore water service in Harvey aftermath

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas city that lost its drinking water system to Harvey struggled Saturday to restore service, and firefighters kept monitoring a crippled chemical plant that has twice been the scene of explosions and fires since the storm r...

 

NKorea says it has loaded H-bomb onto ICBM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected the loading of a hydrogen bomb into a new intercontinental ballistic missile, Pyongyang's state media said Sunday, a claim to technological mastery that some outside experts will dou...

 

Upbeat Trump pitches in at shelter for Harvey victims

HOUSTON (AP) — President Donald Trump cupped a boy's face in his hands and then gave him a high-five. He snapped on latex gloves to hand out boxed lunches of hot dogs and potato chips. And he loaded relief supplies into vehicles, patted storm v...

 

Astros return to Houston for 1st game since Harvey

HOUSTON (AP) — Baseball returned to Houston on Saturday with the Astros giving the flood-ravaged city a few hours of entertainment at the end of a terrible and trying week. The Astros beat the New York Mets 12-8 in a doubleheader opener, the first p...

 

US seizes control of Russian posts in San Fran, DC, NY

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States seized control Saturday of three Russian diplomatic posts in the U.S. after confirming the Russians had complied with the Trump administration's order to get out within two days, officials said. As the Kremlin c...

 

'I survived': How 1 woman lived Harvey on social media

HOUSTON (AP) — Katlyn Perkins' first announcement that something was very wrong at her home in northeast Houston came at 8:19 p.m. on Aug. 24, when she updated her Facebook status. "I'm scared." Like many 20-year-olds, Perkins lives out her life on s...

 

Thousands more Rohingya refugees flee Myanmar by land, sea

SHAH PORIR DWIP, Bangladesh (AP) — Tens of thousands more people have crossed by boat and on foot into Bangladesh in the last 24 hours as they flee violence in western Myanmar, the UNHCR said Saturday. Both Myanmar's security officials and i...

 

Maine museum preserves Native American canoe from 1700s

BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) — One of the oldest-known Native American birch-bark canoes will go on display at a Maine historical society museum, possibly as early as this fall, after spending three decades in a barn. Carbon dating by the Pejepscot H...

 

Trump seeks an initial $7.9 billion in Harvey aid

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has sent lawmakers an initial request for a $7.9 billion down payment toward Harvey relief and recovery efforts. The request, expected to be swiftly approved by Congress, would add $7.4 billion to rapidly dwin...

 

We're still fighting, more than 150 years after Appomattox

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — When the Civil War was over, when the dead were buried and the union was reunited, it came time to tell tales and write history. In reunion gatherings and living rooms alike, differing versions of the causes of the conflict b...

 

Flames, smoke at Houston-area chemical plant for a 2nd day

HOUSTON (AP) — Thick black smoke and towering orange flames shot up Friday after two trailers of highly unstable compounds blew up at a flooded Houston-area chemical plant, the second fire there in two days. Arkema says Harvey's floodwaters e...

 

Residents who evacuated for Harvey come home to devastation

CROSBY, Texas (AP) — Silvia Casas' eyes welled with tears Friday as she surveyed the damage from Harvey to what was once a working class, mostly Hispanic neighborhood near Crosby, Texas. Large trees with their roots reaching into the air were p...

 

No decision yet on who gets Trump's pledge of disaster aid

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is still trying to decide who will get President Donald Trump's pledged $1 million donation for Harvey storm relief efforts, one of the largest gifts ever given by a president but one that has evoked his checkered c...

 

Booming Houston built over land meant for flood projects

HOUSTON (AP) — The explosive expansion of Houston subdivisions into prairies far to the west helped make the city affordable for the average 345 people who moved there each day, but it also paved over thousands of acres that the U.S. Army Corps of E...

 

Harvey's dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a young teen and was in the process 28 years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the floodwaters left by Harvey. Cavazos, 42, had recentl...

 

AP EXCLUSIVE: Toxic waste sites flooded in Houston area

HIGHLANDS, Texas (AP) — As Dwight Chandler sipped beer and swept out the thick muck caked inside his devastated home, he worried whether Harvey's floodwaters had also washed in pollution from the old acid pit just a couple blocks away. Long a c...

 

Federal agency approves use of Ohio natural gas pipeline

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal agency has given a company permission to begin using completed sections of its high-pressure natural gas pipeline in Ohio. The Columbus Dispatch reports the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has told Dallas-based E...

 

Ivey issues declaration on price gouging, gas deliveries

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has issued a state of emergency to prevent price gouging in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. Ivey on Friday amended a previously issued emergency declaration to put people and companies "on notice" t...

 

Nebraska reservation moves toward solar energy

WINNEBAGO, Neb. (AP) — An indigenous tribe plans to install 1,000 solar panels at a reservation in northeast Nebraska. The Winnebago Tribe will install panels across more than a dozen sites, generating more than 300 kilowatts of solar power. The i...

 

In 'Gasland' community, new tests revive old drilling debate

DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) — The well water at Ken Morcom and Kim Grosso's house is laced with so much explosive methane that a Pennsylvania environmental regulator who went there to collect samples this summer decided it would be safer to coast her SUV d...

 

What does it take to grow a sheep herd in coal country?

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Across rural areas of southwestern Pennsylvania, there is an ambitious movement to bring back an industry that residents have long considered on the decline. A new $3.5 million program — funded half by federal grant money that is...

 

USDA secretary impressed by NH agriculture innovation

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire may not be part of the nation's farm belt, but U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says he's impressed with what he saw in the Granite State. Perdue on Friday toured Lef (pronounced Leaf) Farms to learn how y...

 

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