Articles from the December 11, 2016 edition
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Manning leads No. 19 Oklahoma women over Tulsa
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Maddie Manning came off the bench to score a career-high 24 points with eight rebounds and No. 19 Oklahoma continued its dominance of in-state opponent Tulsa 85-68 on Sunday. Peyton Little added 15 points and Nancy Mulkey 10 f...
By 2016 American Star Farmer carries family tradition
GARBER, Okla. (AP) — When the 2016 American Star Farmer isn't taking care of crops and livestock, he is studying the business, science and technology of agriculture at Oklahoma State University. Tyler Schnaithman — an agricultural economics maj...
Route 66 inspires Tulsa sculptor
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Patrick Liam Sullivan has immersed himself in the history and culture of Route 66 through Tulsa. "It is one of America's most cherished accomplishments," said Sullivan. He's slowly driven every inch of Route 66 through Tulsa to Sa...
An artist's idea is brought to life at Crystal Bridges
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — The latest installation at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art doesn't follow many traditional art characteristics. It's not a canvas painting, sculpture or print, which can be found throughout the galleries of the B...
Prairie phone booth company allows free local calls
PRAIRIE GROVE, Ark. (AP) â” Collecting quarters from the phone booth in front of the Colonial Motel got to be more trouble than it was worth. Every six months, the pay phone would yield about $2. So David Parks decided to make local calls free, Ark...
Official: Highway patrol losing ground due to budget cuts
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol is understaffed and struggling to accomplish its statewide public safety mission due to declining revenue that's led to reductions in staff and restricted travel, according to the state's commissioner...
Boston Celtics' flight arrives in Oklahoma after bomb scare
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Boston Celtics got a scare when they were told of a bomb threat on their private flight to Oklahoma City. The Boston Globe (http://bit.ly/2hbx9Jc ) reports the plane landed safely around 5:00 p.m. at Will Rogers World A...
Police say 1 dead at Wichita shooting range
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police are investigating the shooting death of a 20-year-old man at a Wichita shooting range. The Wichita Eagle reports (http://j.mp/2gAUPX0) that officers found the man's body Sunday afternoon when officers were called to the B...
Kansas State says sexual assault reported in dorm
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State University says a student has reported being sexually assaulted in a campus dorm room. The university said in a release Friday that a female student reported being sexually assaulted in a residence hall Dec. 4. T...
Kansas policeman uses own money to aid fire-displaced family
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita police officer who spotted a fire in a mobile home while on his way to work reported the blaze, then went a step further with the help of his family — and their checkbook. Chad Spaulding stopped at the scene of the Dec....
Protesters oppose Diamond Pipeline across north Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — About 50 protesters turned out in Fayetteville to oppose a planned oil pipeline across northern Arkansas. Opponents said Saturday that the planned Diamond Pipeline is a threat to water, protected species and historic s...
Bill to ban junk food purchases with food stamps in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Food stamps could not be used to buy junk food in Arkansas under a bill filed for the coming legislative session. The bill by Republican Rep. Mary Bentley of Perryville calls for the state Department of Human Services to a...
Accreditation group gives 'warning' to Baylor University
WACO, Texas (AP) — A leading university-accrediting body has issued a "warning" to Baylor University that the school's compliance with the body's standards will be closely monitored for the next year. Baylor said in a statement it was notified by t...
USGS records several small earthquakes across Oklahoma
WAUKOMIS, Okla. (AP) — Several small earthquakes have been recorded during the weekend across Oklahoma, the largest being a magnitude 3.7 temblor near Waukomis. No damage or injuries are reported. The quake near Waukomis, about 60 miles northwest o...
Approach to federal health care law divides Texas, Arkansas
TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — Called "Obamacare" by opponents, the Affordable Care Act is highly unpopular in both Texas and Arkansas, but the sharply different approaches the states have taken is evident in the availability and cost of health care — in th...
Data shows value of advanced high school classes in Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An eight-year effort to enroll more high school students in advanced placement classes has paid off as they earned higher salaries after graduating from college — regardless of the marks they received on end-of-course exams,...
The 2016 Nobel Prize winners and their work
STOCKHOLM (AP) — This year's Nobel Prizes will be handed out Saturday for ground-breaking work ranging from the development of the world's smallest machines to song lyrics that have touched generations of fans. Here's a glance at the 2016 Nobel l...
10 prominent early astronauts carrying on US space history
WASHINGTON (AP) — Early U.S. space history is fading with the death of John Glenn, the last of the Mercury 7 astronauts, and the 2012 passing of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. But others survive, veterans of a time when A...
Connecticut case challenges use of cellphone tower evidence
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — An appeal before the Connecticut Supreme Court is adding to the divided legal landscape nationwide surrounding the validity of cellphone tower evidence used in criminal trials. Eugene Edwards Jr. is serving a 20-year prison s...
Non-OPEC oil producers to cut output 558,000 barrels a day
VIENNA (AP) — OPEC has persuaded 11 non-member countries to cut their oil production in an attempt to raise low prices that have put pressure on government finances in resource-dependent countries. Qatari Energy Minister Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada s...
Student spreads sexual assault awareness through exhibit
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) — The images are grim. College-aged women are pressed against glass panes, thrown into the corners of elevators, or laying face down in the grass. Above them, their tormentors look down on them, preparing to engage in an u...
Audubon Christmas Bird Count gears up for 117th year
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Numbers aren't the only focus of the annual Christmas Bird Count. The event was founded in 1900 in New York to urge a change in what was then a socially accepted practice of killing birds - all kinds of birds - as a way of s...
Farm-to-lunch-table program shows kids where food comes from
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Natalie Condon smiled as young consumers of her Lafayette farm's winter squash harvest compared notes about the vegetable's texture and taste. "It's orange; it tastes like orange," said a kindergartner at Columbine Elementary Sc...
Austin man wants the choice to die on his own terms
AUSTIN, Minn. (AP) — Malcolm "Mac" McDonald, 81, was used to getting up in the morning and exercising at his favorite Austin gym. There was time on the treadmill; then, he would do rounds on the recumbent bike. After shower and breakfast, "I was p...
Calhoun Falls has a police department of 1
CALHOUN FALLS, S.C. (AP) — Most police chiefs don't wash patrol cars, take school dismissal duty or go out on patrol. Interim Calhoun Falls Police Chief Shawn Dunlap is an exception. Dunlap started at the department in October 2015 after leaving t...
