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RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – SWOSU Soccer junior forward Sandra Nabweteme was has been named the Great American Conference Offensive Player of the Week for the first time this season. The award was announced by the league office on Tuesday afternoon. Nabweteme earns the award for the third time in her career after playing a key role in the Bulldogs offensive attack this week recording four goals and three assists to total 11 points. She registered a hat trick against Oklahoma Baptist scoring all three of SWOSU's goals in the match and would add one g...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The teenager accused of fatally shooting a fellow student at a North Carolina high school appeared before a judge Tuesday as his public defender requested a low bond and permission for the boy to remain home with his mother while awaiting trial. Jatwan Craig Cuffie, the ninth-grade student charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the death of Bobby McKeithen, 16, appeared in Mecklenburg County District Court. Cuffie, 16, showed virtually no emotion as he listened to Judge David Strickland explain the charges he f...
NEW YORK (AP) — With Election Day looming, hate itself colored the campaign trail Tuesday as President Donald Trump sought to console a community shattered by anti-Semitic violence just hours after he unveiled a divisive immigration proposal that raised new questions about the definition of American citizenship. Trump and first lady Melania Trump were visiting Pittsburgh as the first funerals were held for those killed in a weekend synagogue shooting that killed 11 people. With Election Day one week away, however, neither the president nor his...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks climbed Tuesday after solid earnings reports from several big companies. Stocks had closed at five-month lows the day before, and groups of companies that struggled badly made big gains. Many of the best-performing stocks Tuesday came from parts of the market that have fared the worst during the market's plunge this month. Those included smaller and more U.S.-focused companies, internet and media companies, basic materials makers and energy companies. Oreo maker Mondelez and athletic apparel maker Under Armour b...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Democrat Debra Haaland is maintaining her fundraising edge over her Republican and Libertarian opponents for an open U.S. House seat in central New Mexico. According to new Federal Election Commission filings, the Laguna Pueblo member and former state Democratic Party chairwoman raised $159,954 during the first two weeks of October. Republican former state lawmaker Janice Arnold-Jones pulled in $21,510 and Libertarian Lloyd Princeton raised $444, reports show. Haaland's campaign reported having $143,028 cash on hand on...
EUREKA, Utah (AP) — Underneath the mountains and deserts of the U.S. West lie hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines, an underground world that can hold serious danger and unexpected wonder. They are a legacy of the region's prospecting past, when almost anyone could dig a mine and then walk away, with little cleanup required, when it stopped producing. In Utah alone, the state is trying to seal more than 10,000 open mines with cinderblocks and metal grates after people have died in rock falls and all-terrain-vehicle crashes and from p...
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's is taking a stand against what it calls the Trump administration's regressive policies by rebranding one of its flavors Pecan Resist. The company and its founders unveiled the limited batch ice cream flavor Pecan Resist Tuesday in Washington ahead of the midterm elections. The company says Pecan Resist celebrates activists who are resisting oppression, harmful environmental practices and injustice. As part of the campaign, Ben & Jerry's is giving $25,000 each to four activist entities: C...
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's police are stepping in to fight a potato shortage that has caused prices for the staple to soar beyond the reach of many at a time when Egyptians are struggling with steadily rising food costs. Pro-government newspapers and TV stations have been publicizing raids on warehouses where authorities say businessmen are hoarding potatoes to try to drive up prices. The raids have showcased the lengths to which authorities are willing to go to prevent popular discontent from boiling over as they impose a raft of austerity m...
WACO, Texas (AP) — As a Dec. 7 deadline nears for the $2.5 million Doris Miller Memorial under construction on the east bank of the Brazos River, organizers are preparing for a final fundraising push. They got a bump Monday afternoon, when Bank of America and Merrill Lynch representatives marched onto the site bearing a gift: the replica of an $11,500 check made out to Cultural Arts of Waco. The Waco Tribune-Herald reports that brings the total amount raised to $1.58 million, which will finish the first phase of the work, but another $...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Whirlpool Corp. has announced plans for a $55 million expansion that will bring about 150 more jobs to Oklahoma. The home appliance company says in a news release Tuesday that it will build a distribution center adjacent to an existing manufacturing plant in Tulsa. Construction on the 798,000 square-foot facility is scheduled to start in November with a complete date of December 2019. Tulsa mayor G.T. Bynum praised the announcement, saying Whirlpool is a leader in recruiting residents of all nationalities and backgrounds, w...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A campaign to legalize casinos in Arkansas has raised more than $2.7 million this month from two American Indian tribes in Oklahoma and the parent owner of a dog track in West Memphis. Driving Arkansas Forward on Tuesday reported spending more than $2.7 million from Oct. 1 through Saturday on the campaign for a proposed constitutional amendment that would legalize casinos at the Southland dog track in West Memphis and the Oaklawn horse track in Hot Springs. The proposal would also legalize casinos in Pope and J...
Key events in the life of James "Whitey" Bulger, the mob boss who was killed Tuesday in a federal prison in West Virginia: — Sept. 3, 1929: James Bulger is born the second of six children to Irish immigrant parents in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood. His platinum hair earns him the nickname "Whitey." — 1956: Bulger is sentenced to federal prison for bank robbery and is transferred to Alcatraz after being suspected of plotting an escape. — 1960: Bulger's younger brother, William, is elected to the state House of Representatives with campa...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The latest campaign finance reports show mortgage company owner Kevin Stitt has raised more than twice as much as his Democratic opponent in the Oklahoma governor's race, aided in part by nearly $5 million in personal loans to his campaign. Stitt's report shows he's raised $10.2 million so far in his race against former state Attorney General Drew Edmondson, who reported raising about $4 million. Stitt is the owner of Gateway Mortgage Group and a political outsider who has said he would match contributions to his c...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oil and natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy Corp. plans to acquire Houston-based WildHorse Resource Development Corp. in a nearly $4 billion deal. The companies announced the agreement Tuesday. The boards of both companies have approved the sale. WildHorse is an oil and gas company operating in the Eagle Ford Shale and Austin Chalk formations in Texas. Doug Lawler, the president and CEO of Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake, says the addition of WildHorse plus Chesapeake's substantial growth profile in the Powder River Basin s...
CANADIAN, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma woman has filed a lawsuit alleging a drug rehab center linked to the Church of Scientology breached its contract. Attorneys for Sefika Talic filed the petition Friday at the Pittsburg County Courthouse, The McAlester News-Capital reported . The lawsuit was filed against Narconon International, along with its flagship rehabilitation center, Narconon Arrowhead, and parent company Association for Better Living and Education. The association is owned by the Church of Scientology. Narconon Arrowhead is a 200-bed f...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Republican incumbent in danger of losing his Kansas congressional seat is aggressively portraying his Democratic foe as a radical leftist "rooting against this country" and tried to turn her criticism of President Donald Trump against her. GOP Rep. Kevin Yoder and Democratic challenger Sharice Davids had their first and likely only debate in the Kansas City-area 3rd District only hours after Trump repeated an earlier endorsement of Yoder. Trump narrowly lost the district in 2016, encouraging Democrats to try to oust t...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal monitor will be sent to observe voting in Dodge City in the November election, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said in a court filing. His notification to the court came on the same day that U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree scheduled a hearing for Thursday in Topeka to hear arguments on the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas' request for a temporary restraining order that would force Ford County to open a second polling site in Dodge City. The southwest Kansas town has only one polling site for 13,000 vo...
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — Jackson County authorities say a deputy shot a man who allegedly was involved in several shootings in Independence. The sheriff's office says the man was shot early Tuesday inside a vehicle that ended up in the front yard of a home after a police pursuit that went into the city of Independence. Sheriff's deputies began following the vehicle in an unincorporated part of the county. Independence police spokesman officer John Syme says police identified the vehicle as one involved in several shootings Monday in I...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The campaign treasurer for independent candidate Greg Orman has resigned to endorse Democrat Laura Kelly in the Kansas governor's race. Tim Owens, a former Republican state senator from Overland Park, resigned Tuesday, effective immediately. In a news release issued by Kelly's campaign, Owens said it was time to unite behind Kelly and stop GOP candidate Kris Kobach. Kelly and Kobach are locked in a tight race with Orman a distant third in recent polling. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Owen said he has supported O...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic state Sen. Laura Kelly has raised $900,000 more than Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach since the end of July in the tight governor's race. The Kansas City Star reports that new campaign finance reports filed Monday show that Kelly has raised $2.3 million, Kobach $1.3 million and Independent Greg Orman $805,000 over that period. In the final weeks of the campaign, Kelly has half a million available to spend, compared to $61,000 for Kobach and less than $15,000 for Orman. Kobach, who is nationally known f...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Attorneys for Kansas militia members who conspired to bomb a mosque and apartment complex housing Somali immigrants have asked the court to take into account at a sentencing hearing next month what they called President Donald Trump's rhetoric encouraging violence. One has asked the judge to also consider the fact that all three men read and shared Russian propaganda on their Facebook feed designed to sow discord in the U.S. political system. A federal jury convicted Patrick Stein, Gavin Wright and Curtis Allen of one c...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Crews are tearing down a giant waterslide that a 10-year-old Kansas boy was riding when he was decapitated two years ago. KMBC-TV reports that deconstruction of the 17-story Verruckt, which was billed as the world's tallest waterslide, began Tuesday. Caleb Schwab, the son of a Kansas legislator, was riding the slide at the Schlitterbahn water park in Kansas City, Kansas, in August 2016 when the raft he was in went airborne. Caleb was killed when he struck a metal rod that held a safety net in place. The demolition w...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A recently disbarred lawyer has been sentenced to two years and four months in prison for hitting a nurse while she was crossing a street. Fifty-five-year-old Mark Logan was sentenced for aggravated battery and failure to yield to a pedestrian. The victim, who was pregnant, was hit in October outside the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. The collision broke both of her legs. The Kansas City Star report s her baby is 10 months old and in good health. The Kansas Supreme Court disbarred Logan in June a...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas National Guard says it will be sending soldiers and airmen to the U.S.-Mexico border. The announcement Monday comes after the Defense Department said it was sending 5,200 active duty troops to the southern border to prepare for the arrival of a large group migrants moving through Mexico toward the United States. Kansas Adjutant General spokeswoman Jane Welch said in a news release the Kansas guardsmen will be screened to ensure the deployment doesn't conflict with other deployments and that they have the skills n...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a Wichita shooting that critically injured one man may be related to a killing outside an event venue in a nearby community. The Wichita Eagle reports that emergency crews responded around 5:45 p.m. Monday to the Wichita shooting. Police Sgt. Robert Henning says a man in his 20s had been shot once in his chest. The man was awake and alert when he was taken to a hospital. Henning says it appears that he was on a sidewalk with his friends and was flagged over to a vehicle, where a disturbance happened and h...
