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BETHANY, Okla. — The Great American Conference has released its 2017 All-Conference football teams and Southern Nazarene has two players who made lists. Will House and Josh Jordan both were named All-GAC Second Team. It is the first time that SNU h...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – A hot start to the 2017-18 campaign has led to Lady Bulldog sophomore guard Tyra Askabeing awarded the inaugural GAC Player of the Week award for the new season. Aska (Meridian, Okla.) tallied back-to-back performances of at l...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference announced the postseason football awards on Tuesday afternoon and a pair of seniors from the SWOSU Football team earned a selection to the list as offensive lineman Garrett Luke and linebacker A...

OKLAHOMA CITY (Nov. 14, 2017) – Oklahoma Christian fell into a hole too deep on Thursday night against Central Oklahoma. An OC dry spell of more than six minutes in the first half allowed UCO to build a double-digit lead, and the Bronchos held off a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (Nov. 14, 2017) – Down 17 points in the second half against a foe that made last season's NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament, Oklahoma Christian's young Lady Eagles responded with a huge rally. OC cut that deficit all the w...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. - Chris Eastburn, Trey Bradley, KJ Reid, Cua' Rose, Braden Stringer, and Cornelius Dortch all garnered all-Great American Conference First Team honors, leading a dozen Arkansas Tech football players to earn all-conference honors,...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas at Monticello men's basketball senior Derylton Hill has been selected as the Great American Conference Player of the Week after UAM recorded a 2-0 record to open the season at the GAC/NSIC Crossover C...

SEARCY – The Harding men's soccer team had four players listed on the 2017 D2CCA Men's Soccer All-Central Region Team Wednesday. First-team honorees included junior midfielder Jason Diaz, sophomore defender Christian Ramos and senior defender A...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference announced the league's Players of the Week for the final week of the football regular season. Ouachita's Drew Harris won the Offensive accolade; Harding's Sam Blankenship earned the Defensive a...

SEARCY – Harding junior Caroline Hogue blocked a potential game-winning 3-pointer and defended against a potential game-tying layup, both in the game's last eight seconds, to help the No. 3 Lady Bisons hold on to a 65-63 victory over Missouri S...

ARKADELPHIA – Just a few days removed from winning the program's third Great American Conference championship, the Ouachita Tigers football team was rewarded with a league-best 17 all-conference selections. In addition to the student-athletes h...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference announced its annual all-conference teams for football on Tuesday and for the second-straight year, the Southern Arkansas football team was well-represented with a total of 13 selections. Among t...

BEIRUT (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday invited Saad Hariri and his family to come to France after the Lebanese prime minister's surprise resignation earlier this month, amid allegations that Saudi Arabia is holding him prisoner....

RANCHO TEHAMA RESERVE, Calif. (AP) — The wife of a gunman who went on a shooting rampage in a Northern California town was found dead inside their home, authorities announced Wednesday, raising the death toll from the attack to five. Investigators d...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Nearly 50 years after he was arrested in the kidnapping and rape of a nurse, a Louisiana man walked out of prison on Wednesday, his life sentence and conviction overturned by a judge who said the case against him was "weak a...

DALLAS (AP) — Hundreds of mourners lined up to enter a funeral service Wednesday for eight members of a family who were among the more than two dozen killed in a shooting at a small Texas church. At least seven hearses could be seen outside an event...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sign-ups for Affordable Care Act health plans are running more than 45 percent ahead of last year's pace, according to government data released Wednesday. The numbers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services come as R...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza are now on the money, literally. The two officials took a tour of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing on Wednesday to see firsthand the production of new $1 b...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — National Republicans, including one of the biggest voices in conservative media, are pressuring Alabama's GOP to stop a defiant Roy Moore from persisting in his campaign for the Senate. Many are voicing hopes that President D...

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that the U.S. is deeply concerned by "credible reports" of atrocities committed by Myanmar's security forces and called for an independent investigation into a humanitarian c...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a close new world about the size of Earth, where a year lasts just under 10 days. At a distance of 11 light-years, Ross 128 b is the second-closest planet to be detected yet outside our solar s...

LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio called off the execution of a condemned killer with multiple health problems on Wednesday, because members of the state's execution team were unable to find a vein to insert an IV that would administer the lethal d...

HOUSTON (AP) — Allegations that former President George H.W. Bush inappropriately touched six women involve potential crimes punishable by fines or jail time, if they had been prosecuted. All but one of the cases is ineligible under state laws t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans began pushing a broad tax cut for businesses and many individuals through the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday, a measure complicated by a late addition — repeal of the Obama health care law's requirement that Ame...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe's military was in control of the capital and the state broadcaster on Wednesday and was holding President Robert Mugabe and his wife under house arrest in what appeared to be a coup against the 93-year-old Mugabe, t...