Alva Review-Courier -

WEATHERFORD, Okla. – SWOSU Soccer was victorious over rival Northwestern 5-2 on Tuesday, opening up Great American Conference play with a decisive win and bouncing back from the defeat they suffered over the weekend. The Bulldogs led 4-0 after h...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Alimata Rabo has been named the United Soccer Coaches National Player of the Week to go along with her second-consecutive GAC Offensive Player of the Week award after her offensive outburst last week. Rabo netted two first-half a...

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Amanda Milnick has been named the Sports Imports/AVCA Division II Women's Volleyball Player of the Week for the third week of the season, announced by the American Volleyball Coaches Association on Tuesday. Milnick, who was also...

RUSSELLVILLE, Arkansas – University of Arkansas at Monticello football defensive back Jeremy Jackson has been selected as the Great American Conference Defensive Player of the Week after the Weevils took down East Central this past week. Jackson, a...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference announced the league's Players of the Week for the third week of the women's soccer season. Southwestern Oklahoma State's Alimata Rabo captured the Offensive award; Harding's Michelle Morgan e...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to "totally destroy North Korea" if the U.S. is forced to defend itself or its allies against the renegade nation's nuclear weapons program, making his case in a combative debut speech to t...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — This year's U.N. gathering of world leaders put an immediate spotlight Tuesday on deep differences on tackling crises from North Korea to global warming: France's president urged world leaders to work together, while A...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Leaders of several faiths on Tuesday called for peace and justice amid the turmoil that followed the acquittal of a white former St. Louis police officer in the 2011 death of a black man. Several hundred people gathered on a hot, uns...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — For generations, Rohingya Muslims have called Myanmar home. Now, in what appears to be a systematic purge, the minority ethnic group is being wiped off the map. After a series of attacks by Muslim militants last month, s...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump urged world leaders Tuesday to help restore "democracy and political freedoms" in Venezuela, singling out the South American country for some of his most blistering criticism in a speech to the United N...

PASADENA, Texas (AP) — The U.S. government received reports of three spills at one of Houston's dirtiest Superfund toxic waste sites in the days after the drenching rains from Hurricane Harvey finally stopped. Aerial photos reviewed by The A...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of the states that first endorsed the Common Core academic standards are still using them in some form, despite continued debate over whether they are improving student performance in reading and math. Of the states that o...

GENEVA (AP) — U.N. agencies and partners say some 40 million people were ensnared by modern slavery last year, decrying a scourge that disproportionately affects women and girls. The new report by the U.N.'s labor organization, ILO, and the m...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The remains of at least 65 victims have been retrieved from a mass grave recently found in central Bosnia, forensic experts said Tuesday about the site of one of the most gruesome crimes of Bosnia's 1992-95 war. L...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Latest on the U.N. General Assembly (all times local): 9:15 a.m. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning the world's leaders that the threat of a nuclear attack is at its highest level since the end of the Cold W...

BRUSSELS (AP) — An intact German World War I submarine containing the bodies of 23 people has been found off the coast of Belgium, authorities said Tuesday. Western Flanders Governor Carl Decaluwe told The Associated Press that the find on the f...

NEW YORK (AP) — The problems keep piling up for Facebook, and it's unclear how long the internet giant will be able to brush them aside as it barrels toward acquiring its next billion users. The world's biggest social network has unwittingly allowed...

NEW YORK (AP) — One-time pop-punk princess Avril Lavigne has beaten superstar Beyonce at something, but she may not be totally happy with her victory — she's been named the most dangerous celebrity on the internet. Cybersecurity firm McAfee said Tue...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Environmentalists and educators raised new objections Tuesday to proposed changes to teaching standards for science in New Mexico that substitute references to rising global temperatures and climate change with statements a...

FAIRVIEW, Okla. (AP) — An earthquake has rattled parts of northwestern Oklahoma. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 3.2 earthquake was recorded at 5:21 p.m. Tuesday about 18 miles northwest of Fairview, about 100 miles northwest of O...

ARANSAS PASS, Texas (AP) — Fuel oil has been leaking from shrimp trawlers that sank in the Aransas Pass harbor during Hurricane Harvey. That has prompted the Aransas Pass harbor master to close the boat launch at Redfish Bay Boat House until the v...

PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) — A fire at a refinery in the Southeast Texas city of Port Arthur sent black plumes of smoke into the air and caused officials to tell people nearby to shelter in place. Valero Energy Corp. spokeswoman Lillian Riojas told T...

TONGANOXIE, Kan. (AP) — Tyson Foods says its plans to build a $320 million chicken-processing plant near Tonganoxie are "on hold." In a letter to media Tuesday, Tyson poultry president Doug Ramsey says the decision comes after the Leavenworth C...

ALTON, Kan. (AP) — A couple from northern Kansas have donated 2,300 acres of farmland for Kansas State University to develop a research farm to study sustainable agricultural practices. Alton residents Harold and Olympia Lonsinger's donation will b...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas suspended a former Planned Parenthood physician-contractor's state medical license for 90 days for failing to preserve a fetal tissue sample from a 13-year-old girl's abortion so that it could be sent to authorities. The S...