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DURANT, Okla. – The Tyler Fenwick era of Southeastern football is quickly approaching as the Savage Storm will open the 2019 season at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 5 at Paul Laird Field against one of its longest running rivals, Southwestern O...

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. – The Rogers State Women's Golf team started off the 2019-20 season with a strong opening round at the Central Region Fall Preview. The Hillcats shot a round of 302 to end day one with the lead at the Adams Point Golf Club. The H...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas Tech has been voted the favorite to win the 2019 GAC Women's Golf Championship, the league announced on Thursday through the preseason coaches' poll. The Golden Suns have won the previous five conference c...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas Tech men's golf has been unanimously voted as the favorite to win the Great American Conference in the Preseason Coaches' Poll, the league announced Monday. The Wonder Boys garnered 81 points, along with 9 first place v...

THE MATCHUP The Boll Weevils will host Arkansas Tech at Willis "Convoy" Leslie Cotton Boll Stadium for the sixth time. The Wonder Boys lead the all-time series, 9-5, and have also won more games on Arkansas-Monticello's campus, posting a road record...

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. – Harding women's golf played in its fifth Central Region Fall Preview in program history Tuesday at the Adams Pointe Golf Club, but never shot a score like the 308 it shot in Round 1. Not even close. Harding's previous best round a...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Two days before the start of the Great American Conference women's cross country season, the league's head coaches installed defending champion Oklahoma Baptist as the preseason favorite, the conference office announced on T...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two of the top leaders at the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety who were named last month as defendants in a civil rights lawsuit have stepped down from their positions at the agency. A spokeswoman for Gov. Kevin Stitt says D...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Five years ago, for her 27th birthday, Lorelei Bandrovschi gave up drinking for a month on a dare. She was a casual drinker and figured it would be easy. It was, but she hadn't banked on learning so much about herself in the p...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A government snapshot of crop conditions shows the harvest of corn is now under way in Kansas. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Tuesday that 1% of the corn in the state has been harvested, near the 4% a...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas corporate executive with political ties to former Republican Gov. Sam Brownback has launched a campaign to challenge freshman Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids. Amanda Adkins filed paperwork last week with the F...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a suspect in a deadly 2014 shooting in Wichita in which another man was previously charged. Sedgwick County booking reports show that police arrested 57-year-old James Leon Edwards on Sunday on s...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a suspect in a fatal Topeka stabbing. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Andrew Timothy Evans was booked into jail Monday night on suspicion of first-degree murder in the death of 41-year-old R...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A female moose looked like she was trying out for running back as she loped across a football practice field at the University of North Dakota. University spokesman David Dodds says the moose wandered into Grand Forks o...

FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Relief officials reported scenes of utter ruin Tuesday in parts of the Bahamas and rushed to deal with an unfolding humanitarian crisis in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, the most powerful storm on record ever to hit the island...

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Tuesday night that her work on the bench saved her during her cancer treatments, as the judge was given a rock-star reception in the home state of the president who n...

SANTA BARBARA, California (AP) — A broken-hearted mother posted on her Facebook page Tuesday that her three daughters, their father and his wife were among those presumed dead after flames engulfed a dive boat off Southern California over the h...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Tuesday approved the use of $3.6 billion in funding from military construction projects to build 175 miles of President Donald Trump's wall along the Mexican border. Pentagon officials would not s...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Flames roared through a boat of sleeping scuba divers so quickly that it appears none of the 34 people below deck could escape, authorities said Tuesday as they ended their search without finding anyone who was missing st...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Some New Zealand gun owners are upset they're being compelled to hand over their assault weapons for money. Others believe a government-imposed ban on certain semi-automatics following a March shooting massacre is t...

LONDON (AP) — On a day of humiliating setbacks, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a major defeat in Parliament on Tuesday night as rebellious lawmakers voted to seize control of the Brexit agenda, prompting the embattled leader to say h...

NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart says it will stop selling handgun and short-barrel rifle ammunition, while requesting that customers not openly carry firearms in its stores, even where state laws allow it. The announcement comes just days after a mass s...

ODESSA, Texas (AP) — A Texas state trooper was the first to be shot. He pulled over Seth Aaron Ator for failing to signal a left turn, not knowing that Ator had just lost his job or that he was carrying an AR-style rifle. From there, Ator sped m...

ODESSA, Texas (AP) — The gunman in a West Texas rampage that left seven dead obtained his AR-style rifle through a private sale, allowing him to evade a federal background check that blocked him from getting a gun in 2014 due to a "mental health i...