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WICHITA FALLS, Texas (Sept. 26, 2019) – Oklahoma Christian had hoped to perhaps catch NCAA Division II men's soccer power Midwestern State (Texas) sleeping, as the Mustangs were coming off a tough loss and had another big game coming up later this w...

SEARCY – Harding's speedy reserve forward Jeremy Nwonumah set up two goals with his pace down the right flank and led the Bisons to a 2-1 Great American Conference victory over Newman Thursday at Stevens Soccer Field. It was the first meeting b...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Tigers tie in their Great American Conference opener against Fort Hays State with a final of 2-2 at Kluck Field. The Tigers got the scoring started early with a shot outside of the box from Hector Duron on an assist from Nery F...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Democrat Kendra Horn surprised even her own supporters in 2018 when the first-time candidate eked out a victory in an Oklahoma City congressional district that had been in Republican hands for nearly four decades and had voted he...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) — The new chief of the Cherokee Nation plans to invest $16 million into the Oklahoma-based tribe's language preservation program, including a new cabinet-level position focused on its language, culture and community. P...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City school district plans to sue a leading e-cigarette maker as the number of deaths from a vaping-related lung disease continues to climb. The Kansas City Star reports that the Olathe school board voted F...

LINWOOD, Kan. (AP) — Northeast Kansas farmer Mark Tinberg views his work as a calling. But the land is vanishing out from under him. More than 600 acres of crop fields he tended have been lost to commercial development over the years. Factories, w...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A 76-year-old northeast Kansas man has pleaded guilty to trying to rape a 4-year-old girl. FOX4KC reports Galen Hurt, of Linwood, pleaded Thursday in Leavenworth County court to attempted rape and aggravated child e...

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — The mother of a teenage girl killed in a 2017 New Mexico high school shooting is suing district officials over separate allegations that a teacher sexually harassed and abused her daughter and officials did nothing to stop i...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Colorado law enforcement has initiated an investigation after a handgun was found in the backpack of an elementary school student. The Gazette reported Thursday that El Paso County Sheriff's Office is conducting an i...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) When states like Florida pass laws to put more police officers in schools, the idea is to keep kids safe. But as the...

MENTONE, Texas (AP) — By late afternoon on most weekdays, the orange brick Loving County Courthouse becomes an island in a rising tide of snorting, lurching oil field trucks. The San Antonio Express-News reports at peak congestion, the wait to m...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge is blocking a Missouri law banning abortions based on signs of Down syndrome. U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs temporarily put the ban on hold Friday as a lawsuit against it plays out in court. Abortions m...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials said Friday that their investigation into an outbreak of severe vaping-related illnesses is increasingly focused on products that contain the marijuana compound THC. Most of the 800 people who got sick vaped T...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Three Greeks and two Georgian nationals appeared in court Friday on charges of belonging to a criminal organization that allegedly sold babies for adoption. All five denied the charges before a Thessaloniki magistrate. T...

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting his girlfriend, who didn't realize she survived a bullet to the brain until she went to the hospital for treatment of headaches. News outlets report 39-year-old J...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Health officials in eastern Missouri have added a seventh person to the list of Missourians diagnosed with lung illnesses related to vaping. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Jefferson County Health Department says a m...

In his now-infamous July phone call with Ukraine's president , President Donald Trump referred briefly to a long- discredited conspiracy theory that tries to cast doubt on Russia's role in the 2016 hacking of the Democratic National Committee. Some...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats took their first concrete steps in the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump on Friday, issuing subpoenas demanding documents from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and scheduling legal depositions for o...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is attempting to crack down on contraband cellphones inside the state's prison system after an outbreak of gang-related attacks that left one inmate dead and more than a dozen hurt. Stitt issued an e...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Researchers at the University of Minnesota developed a virtual reality canoe simulator as part of a larger project that aims to revitalize cultural Indigenous traditions. Professors Vicente Diaz and Daniel Keefe, among others, have...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Friday warned tech company executives, diplomats and financiers that the race to create artificial intelligence and other forms of digital development pose the risk of increasing social inequality unless the w...

HEMEIMEEM AIR BASE, Syria (AP) — The Russian military said Friday it has downed dozens of drones and rockets launched by militants this year targeting Russia's air base in Syria. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said t...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jayur Mehta, Florida State University and Tara Skipton, Florida State University (THE CONVERSATION) Native North Americans first...

GENEVA (AP) — An international conservation group is warning that more than half of the European tree species that exist nowhere else in the world are threatened with extinction. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature said in a new r...