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RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Behind Hunter Eshnaur's eighth double-double of the season, the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns (15-8, 8-2 GAC) defeated Southern Nazarene (13-14, 5-5 GAC), 3-0, on Saturday afternoon at Tucker Coliseum. NEXT UP Arkansas Tech will r...

MONTICELLO, Ark. – The UAM Blossoms (4-22, 2-9) picked up their second straight win with a 3-0 thumping of conference foe East Central University (0-23, 0-11) on Saturday. Back-and-forth action defined most of the first set of the match. The teams e...

SEARCY – The Harding women's soccer team fell to Oklahoma Baptist 2-0 Saturday in Great American Conference action at the Stevens Soccer Field. The Lady Bisons fall to 5-7-0 on the season and 5-3-0 in the GAC. Oklahoma Baptist improves to 10-4 o...

WEATHERFORD, Okla. – No. 24 Harding's fast start Saturday against Southwestern Oklahoma lasted all the way into the third quarter. Harding scored touchdowns on each of its first six possessions, including two passing touchdowns for the for the f...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Courtney Bolf and Abby Blackburn collected double-doubles, but it was not enough to knock off the Southwestern Oklahoma State Bulldogs as the Reddies fell 3-0 (22-25, 17-25, 19-25). The loss is just the second for Henderson at h...

MAGNOLIA, Ark. – Southern Arkansas hit .258 (46-14-124) on Saturday afternoon inside the W.T. Watson Center; the team's highest attack percentage against a Great American Conference opponent this season, but Southeastern Oklahoma produced 14 s...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State broke huddle against Oklahoma State at one point Saturday with three running backs joining quarterback Skyler Thompson in the backfield, the quartet making a unique diamond-like formation that coach Bill Snyder s...

BRAGGS, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the body of a missing Oklahoma man has been found in the Arkansas River. Troopers say the body of 29-year-old Luke T. Dennis of Muskogee was discovered about 10 a.m. Saturday southwest of B...

FAIRFAX, Okla. (AP) — The operator of one of Oklahoma's first medical marijuana businesses says he's selling all of the seedlings he can produce. Scott Huffman owns Wild Herb LLC in Fairfax, about 89 miles (143 kilometers) northeast of Oklahoma C...

PAULS VALLEY, Okla. (AP) — A financially troubled community hospital in southern Oklahoma has closed its doors and discontinued ambulance service. Officials at Pauls Valley Regional Medical Center closed the facility on Friday. A telephone call by T...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Officials say more than 300,000 people have visited Tulsa's Gathering Place riverfront park since it opened last month. The Tulsa World reports that Gathering Place drew 55,000 visitors during its Sept. 8 opening weekend alone. T...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Arkansas man who was electrocuted last month after he jumped into a canal in Oklahoma City's downtown entertainment district to try and save another individual who had fallen in has been released from a hospital. Brandon G...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A fifth-grade teacher from suburban Topeka has been honored with the nation's first Milken Educator Award for the 2018-19 year. The Capital-Journal reports that Linda Dishman, who teaches at Berryton Elementary, was surprised w...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas public school districts are finding it harder to fill vacant teaching positions this year, even though increased funding allowed many districts to offer higher salaries, according to a report released this week by the K...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Faneuil, a Virginia-based company that plans to bring hundreds of jobs to downtown Wichita, is looking to hire 250 workers in the next few weeks. The company says it will interview customer care representatives on Tuesday for a...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Female veterans now have their own Veterans Affairs' health center in Topeka. The Topeka VA opened the new women's center on Friday. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports said nearly 4,000 women veterans use the VA Eastern Kansas H...

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Records released by prosecutors reveal that Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz trespassed on school grounds about six months before the massacre that left 17 dead. A Parkland computer science teacher says she saw C...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Five years after Arkansas banned the use of out-of-school suspension as a punishment for truancy, dozens of schools are still suspending children who repeatedly miss classes. A study last month out of the Office for E...

DENVER (AP) — Republican Walker Stapleton promised a good gubernatorial debate performance Saturday as he urged a small group of Denver Republicans to get out the vote hours before taking the stage in Colorado Springs. "Tonight I'll give Rep. P...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hurricane Michael has shown that President Donald Trump can't always be counted on to give accurate information to the public when a natural disaster unfolds. Trump wrongly stated that the hurricane moved across land with blazing s...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is heading toward a postelection showdown over President Donald Trump's wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, as GOP leaders signal they're willing to engage in hardball tactics that could spark a partial government shutdown a...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Guatemala's Volcano of Fire is spewing ash just months after an eruption killed at least 110 people. The country's seismology and volcanology institute said Saturday that hot lava is spilling from the crater and flowing toward a r...

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