Articles from the October 4, 2019 edition
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SWOSU Senior Kaitlyn Dillon Makes School History
WEATHERFORD, Okla. – SWOSU senior volleyball player and libero Kaitlyn Dillon tallied her 2,000th dig last Thursday at Southeastern Oklahoma State – becoming the first in SWOSU history to do so. Dillon is an excellent volleyball player, but coach Jos...
Men's Soccer: Eagles put on offensive showcase in road rout of Texas-Permian Basin
ODESSA, Texas (Oct. 3, 2019) – In one of the best offensive performances in Oklahoma Christian's NCAA Division II era, five Eagles each scored a goal as OC routed Texas-Permian Basin 5-0 on Thursday night at the UTPB Turf Field. OC (4-3, 1-1 Lone S...
OC Women's Soccer: Thomas scores but scrappy Eagles fall to St. Edward's
OKLAHOMA CITY (Oct. 3, 2019) – Natalie Thomas scored her first career goal to pull Oklahoma Christian even midway through the first half, but St. Edward's (Texas) eventually pulled away for a 4-1 win over the Eagles on Thursday night at the Eagle S...
Volleyball: Golden Suns fall in Monticello
MONTICELLO, Ark. - The Arkansas Tech Golden Suns could not hold off the University of Arkansas at Monticello, falling in straight sets (25-23, 25-11, 25-21). Allie Anderson led with eight kills and Madison Grantham had three aces. NEXT UP The Golden...
Volleyball: Slow Start Trips Reddies in Loss to Ouachita
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Henderson State was unable to overcome an 0-2 deficit as the Reddies fell to Ouachita Baptist 3-1 (25-14, 25-18, 16-25, 25-21) on Thursday night in the Duke Wells Center. Courtney Bolf collected her fourth-straight d...
Saudi man sentenced to more than 12 years for visa fraud
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Saudi man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to not disclosing he had attended an al-Qaida terrorist training camp in Afghanistan before entering the U.S. Federal court records i...
Audits of Oklahoma dioceses identify 22 accused clerics
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Separate internal audits of the Roman Catholic dioceses in Oklahoma City and Tulsa have identified nearly two dozen clerics for whom investigators found substantiated allegations of sexual abuse of children. An investigation r...
Spirit churns out fuselages despite 737 Max grounding
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Aircraft parts maker Spirit AeroSystems has seen its stock price decline by 20% since the Boeing 737 Max jet was grounded but continues to churn out fuselages in anticipation of a rebound when the plane returns to the sky. Spirit...
Wichita woman, man charged with murder in 2-year-old's death
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The mother of a 2-year-old Wichita boy and a man she lived with are charged with murder in his death. Prosecutors say 24-year-old Stephanie Aviles and 31-Bernardo Gonzalez-Mejia were charged Thursday with first-degree murder. T...
District attorney investigating Wichita mayor over contract
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Sedgwick County District Attorney is investigating Wichita Mayor Jeff Longwell’s actions regarding a city contract for a new water plant. District Attorney Marc Bennett said Thursday in a news release that his office rec...
Gasoline fundraiser for school supplies rankles and pleases
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A major U.S. oil company encountered criticism and appreciation Thursday for its pledge to donate $1 to local school projects for every tank of gasoline purchased, as New Mexico schools and state government grapple with an i...
The search is over: Dog turns up a year after gas explosions
NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. (AP) — A dog that disappeared after the chaos of the natural gas explosions and fires in Massachusetts a year ago is back in the arms of its owner. Altagracia Baldera tells The Eagle-Tribune that when the explosions shook the M...
Going with the floe: Scientists to set up Arctic ice camp
BERLIN (AP) — Scientists have chosen an ice floe on which to begin setting up a research camp for a year-long international expedition to study the Arctic, Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute said Friday. After several days of searching, res...
Ban could block Capitol Christmas Tree from New Mexico
TAOS, N.M. (AP) — A tree to be displayed outside the U.S. Capitol building over the holidays is supposed to come from a northern New Mexico forest. That’s if the U.S. Forest Service can get an exception from a tree-cutting ban across all New Mex...
Crusading tech mogul aims to prove CEOs can be activists too
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Salesforce founder Marc Benioff oversees a $130 billion software empire from a 62-story skyscraper that towers above everything else in San Francisco. But he sits uneasily in his lofty perch because of a worsening economic d...
Diplomats pushed Ukraine to investigate, dangled Trump visit
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. diplomats encouraged Ukraine's newly elected president to conduct an investigation linked to Joe Biden's family in return for a high-profile visit with President Donald Trump. It soon escalated into what one diplomat f...
Iraq's top cleric urges calm as deadly clashes continue
BAGHDAD (AP) — Security forces opened fire on hundreds of anti-government demonstrators Friday in central Baghdad, killing one protester, hours after Iraq's top Shiite cleric warned both sides to end four days of deadly violence "before it's too l...
Unsupervised accused priests teach, counsel, foster children
Nearly 1,700 priests and other clergy members that the Roman Catholic Church considers credibly accused of child sexual abuse are living under the radar with little to no oversight from religious authorities or law enforcement, decades after the...
Ukraine reviews cases on owner of firm that hired Biden son
ZHYTOMYR, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's Prosecutor General said on Friday that his office is reviewing several cases related to the owner of a gas company where former Vice President Joe Biden's son sat on the board, as part of a review of all the c...
Married priests, saviors of the faith or part of an agenda?
SANTA ROSA, Brazil (AP) — At dusk in this small indigenous village, Antelmo Pereira calls local Catholics to prayer, changes into a white robe and leads a religious service that is the closest thing the faithful in this remote part of the Amazon c...
Investigators focus on rogue vape brand as illness spreads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's a widely known vape cartridge in the marijuana economy, but it’s not a licensed brand. And it’s got the kind of market buzz no legitimate company would want. The vape cartridges that go by the catchy, one-syllable name “Dank...
US adds modest 136,000 jobs, lowering unemployment to 3.5%
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added a modest 136,000 jobs in September, enough to help lower the unemployment rate to a new five-decade low of 3.5%. The figures show that hiring has slowed this year as the U.S.-China trade war has intensified, g...
US sanctions squeezing Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon
BEIRUT (AP) — The conflict between Iran and the U.S. that has created tensions throughout much of the Middle East is now also being felt in Lebanon, where Washington has slapped sanctions on the Iran-backed Hezbollah and warned they could soon e...
Reports of rape nearly double at 2 Oklahoma universities
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Crime statistics show that reports of sexual assault nearly doubled at Oklahoma's two largest public universities from 2016 to 2018, which advocates suggest could be partly due to Title IX reforms enacted during Barack Obama's p...
Hughes County man sentenced to no-parole life sentences
HOLDENVILLE, Okla. (AP) — A Hughes County man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole after pleading guilty earlier this year to two counts of first-degree murder for the 2018 shooting deaths of his father and grandmother in H...