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Arkadelphia, Ark. - The SAU Volleyball team's regular season has come to a close after a loss at Henderson State that saw the Reddies win 3 sets to 0. The Muleriders (8-21, 2-14 GAC) could not play spoiler to the Reddies (26-5, 13-3 GAC) as they...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the conviction and sentence of life without parole of a Yukon man. The court on Thursday rejected appeals by 40-year-old Nicholas Moody. The court rejected claims by Moody of i...

OKMULGEE, Okla. (AP) — An 18-year-old man was killed and two teenage girls were injured in a shooting Thursday in rural eastern Oklahoma, and a woman believed to be the mother of at least one of the victims is in custody, a sheriff said. The s...

MCALESTER, Okla. (AP) — A southeast Oklahoma man convicted of drowning his 21-month-old daughter in July 2016 has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Devin Sizemore, 23, was sentenced Wednesday in Pittsburg County District Court in t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republican nominee for Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt has been criticized by his Democrat opponent for his record as the head of a mortgage company. Stitt, running as a businessman and outsider, is locked in a tight race a...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Opening a new polling site in the historic Wild West town of Dodge City just days before the election is not in the public's interest because it would likely create more voter confusion, a federal judge ruled Thursday. U.S. D...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Johnson County prosecutors say child pornography was found on the phone of a man accused of dismembering his wife's body last year. The Kansas City Star reports prosecutors filed a motion Thursday seeking court permission to a...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Two employees were killed when an elevator filled with superheated, "flesh-boiling" steam at a Westar Energy plant in Kansas this summer, according to a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday on behalf of the childr...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has revoked the probation for a former agent with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who sent a Wichita television news anchor sensitive law enforcement material. A court document filed Wednesday s...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — The longtime owner of a barbecue restaurant pleaded guilty to using customers' credit cards to fund spending sprees. Matthew Sander, owner of Smokin' Joe's Bar-B-Q in Olathe, pleaded guilty Thursday to seven counts of identity t...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Three Hutchinson police department employees have been fired after a traffic stop involving an off-duty officer. Chief Jeffrey Hooper said Wednesday another employee was suspended, one was exonerated and action is pending a...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 39-year-old Wichita woman who was drunk when one of her infant twin sons died will to stay in jail but could be released in January. Christy Rollings was sentenced Wednesday in the death of her son, Patrick Kempton. Police s...

DENVER (AP) — Problems with Colorado's $25.3 million overhaul of its child protection computer system are putting children at risk and the state is not acting urgently enough to fix it, county workers said. Members of the Colorado Human Services D...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The United States has charged a government-controlled company in China with stealing trade secrets from an American semiconductor company, the Justice Department said Thursday as it outlined an initiative focused on what o...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Carrying signs that included a mocking use of the company's original "Don't be evil" motto, thousands of Google employees around the world briefly walked off the job Thursday to protest what they said was the tech giant's m...

CODY, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming game managers have rescued a young bull moose that became trapped in a canyon where food was becoming scarce. Wyoming Game and Fish Department spokeswoman Tara Hodges says after several weeks of monitoring by a wildlife b...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The USDA's internal watchdog will examine the agency's plan to restructure its top independent research office and move it out of the District of Columbia, actions some lawmakers and staff fear could leave research on contentious i...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has lost a second spacecraft this week, ending a fruitful mission in the asteroid belt. Running low on fuel for some time, the Dawn spacecraft this week stopped communicating with flight controllers. Its prolonged sil...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — As the sons of a legendary astronaut, Matt Carpenter says he and his little brother "were blessed to grow up around some pretty interesting stuff." That included the extraordinary headgear the boys would wear during youthful a...

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon wants to get more kids thinking about becoming computer engineers. The company launched a program Thursday that aims to teach more than 10 million students a year how to code. Amazon said it will pay for summer camps, t...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee say a half-naked woman fell twice through a restaurant's ceiling and landed in its kitchen. News outlets report 26-year-old Harley C. Morton was arrested Tuesday on charges including trespassing and d...

CHICAGO (AP) — Police say a baggage handler told them he was drunk when he fell asleep in a cargo hold and flew from Kansas City to Chicago. American Airlines says the Piedmont Airlines employee was working American Flight 363 on Saturday when the B...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — President Donald Trump implored voters on Thursday to reject Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill and to instead install a Republican in her seat who would fully back his agenda. Trump appeared at a rollicking campaign rally in C...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced charges Thursday against a fugitive Malaysian financier and two former Goldman Sachs bankers accused in a money laundering and bribery scheme that pilfered billions of dollars from a Malaysian invest...

WASHINGTON (AP) — From President Donald Trump to Oprah Winfrey, top political surrogates are fanning out in key battleground states to appeal to voters during the final days of the 2018 midterm campaigns. Trump rallied his most loyal supporters in Co...