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UAM STATS Austin Hardy - 21 points, 7 rebounds Keelin Jackson -13 points, 7 rebounds Darnell Wright - 8 points, 5 rebounds FIRST HALF UAB had 97% in points per possession in the first half. Austin Hardy and KJ Lesure both led the Weevils in points with 6 each. UAM scored 10 points from the paint to the Blazers 6. UAM went into the locker room at halftime down 32 - 30. SECOND HALF UAB made 6 points off of Weevil turnovers in the second period. UAM scored 10 points off of the bench to the Blazers 6 in the second period. The Weevils stuck with...
SEARCY – Harding pulled to within five points of Christian Brothers seven times in the second half Monday but fell 69-57 in nonconference, New Year's Eve action at Rhodes-Reaves Field House. It was just the third time Harding played on New Year's Eve and the first time ever in Searcy. Christian Brothers (8-4) led by 11 at halftime, but Harding scored the first six points of the second half to cut the CBU lead to 33-28. Harding's last foray to within five came with just over a minute left. JV Long scored on a driving layup, but Christian B...
JONESBORO, Ark. – Harding made 10 3-pointers Saturday in an 87-62 exhibition loss to NCAA Division I opponent Arkansas State at First National Bank Arena. The game counted as a regular-season game for Arkansas State but as an exhibition for Harding. Harding is 5-4 overall and plays its final game of 2018 on Monday in a nonconference home game against Christian Brothers. Harding led Arkansas State 21-14 on a Gabriel Divic 3-pointer with 9:55 left in the first half, but the Bisons did not have a field goal in the last four minutes of the first ha...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. — Henderson State used a balanced offensive attack on Saturday afternoon to get past Midwestern State 76-69 in its final non-conference game of the year at the Duke Wells Center. Four Reddies scored in double figures, as Brittany Branum, Pink Jones and Blu Jones all finished with 15 apiece, while Hailey Estes added 12. The win improves HSU to 9-2 overall on the year which matches the program's best start to a season since 2006-07 when the Reddies opened 11-0. After falling behind 19-15 after the first quarter, Henderson u...
Magnolia, Ark. – The SAU Women's Basketball team closed the book on the 2018 Mulerider Athletics calendar with their first overtime game of the season, a game in which three Muleriders scored in double digits but ultimately came up two points short to the Choctaws. Redshirt sophomore Brette Wacha led the Muleriders in scoring with 17 points on 4-8 shooting from the field, including 3-7 from behind the arc. Wacha went a cool 6-6 at the line, and added five assists, three rebounds and three steals in 36 minutes of gametime. Senior Alyssa Crase c...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's overall health ranking fell among U.S. states in 2018, though the state did see an uptick in infant health. The Oklahoman reported the state ranked 47th in overall health in 2018, down from 43rd in 2017, according to the America's Health Rankings annual report . The findings indicated that Oklahoma residents continued to do worse compared to other states on measures of health behavior and outcomes. Fewer infants were born too small or died before reaching their first birthday in the last year, though the r...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Big-dollar decisions about health care and education will top the agenda in many state capitols as lawmakers convene for their 2019 sessions with a closer balance between Republicans and Democrats. Some states will be considering anew whether to expand government-funded health coverage to more people after Democrats put a sizable dent in Republican statehouse dominance during the November elections. Others will be wrestling with how to boost salaries for teachers and funding for their public schools. State o...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma legislator settled his lawsuit against a Texas political consultant over a tracking device the lawmaker found on his pickup truck. Federal court records show Republican state Rep. Mark McBride settled his lawsuit earlier this month against Austin, Texas-based political consultant George Shipley. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. McBride declined to comment on the settlement Monday, but said he's glad to put the matter behind him. His lawsuit claimed Shipley, a longtime political consultant n...
VINITA, Okla. (AP) — A man charged with murder in the 1999 deaths of a northeast Oklahoma couple and the presumed deaths of the couple's 16-year-old daughter and another 16-year-old will undergo a mental competency evaluation. Craig County District Attorney spokeswoman Michelle Lowry said Monday that the evaluation of 67-year-old Ronnie Dean Busick was agreed to by both prosecutors and defense attorneys. The request was granted Dec. 21. Busick is charged in the Dec. 30, 1999, deaths of Danny Freeman and his wife Kathy Freeman and the d...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A judge ruled Monday that Kansas cannot stop telemedicine abortions, thwarting the latest attempt by state lawmakers to prevent doctors from providing pregnancy-ending pills to women they see by remote video conferences. District Judge Franklin Theis ruled that a law barring telemedicine abortions and set to take effect in January has no legal force. During an earlier hearing, Theis derided the law as an "air ball" because of how lawmakers wrote it. That law was challenged in a lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Ri...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The new year is starting out great for someone who bought a Powerball ticket in Kansas. The Kansas Lottery said Monday someone bought a $1 million Powerball ticket for Saturday's Powerball drawing in south-central Kansas. The winning ticket numbers were 12-42-51-53-62. The winner has 363 days to claim the prize. The jackpot for Wednesday's Powerball drawing is an estimated $53 million, with a $32 million cash option....
GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a man was found dead near his vehicle in western Kansas after it became stuck in a ditch in freezing temperatures. Barton County Sheriff Brian Bellendir says 68-year-old Ronald Reuber, of Nickerson, apparently became lost Friday and drove onto a minimally maintained rural road that was filled with freezing water from a snowstorm that hit three weeks earlier. Reuber then slid into a ditch. His body was found Saturday. Bellendir says it appears hypothermia contributed to his death....
Wall Street closed out a dismal, turbulent year for stocks on a bright note Monday, but still finished 2018 with the worst showing in a decade. After setting a series of records through the late summer and early fall, major U.S. indexes fell sharply after early October, leaving them all in the red for the year. The S&P 500 index, the market's main benchmark, finished the year with a loss of 6.2 percent. The last time the index fell for the year was in 2008 during the financial crisis. The S&P 500 posted tiny losses in 2011 and 2015, but eked...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, William Barr, once questioned the value of a wall along the Mexican border similar to the one the president has advocated, describing the idea as "overkill." Barr was attorney general under President George H.W. Bush when he was asked in a Feb. 24, 1992, interview whether he supported a proposal from Republican presidential challenger Pat Buchanan to erect a barrier of ditches and fences along the border to stop illegal immigration. "I don't think it's necessary. I think t...
LAUREL, Md. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft has gone into orbit around an ancient asteroid, setting a pair of records. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft entered orbit Monday around the asteroid Bennu, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) from Earth. It's the smallest celestial body ever to be orbited by a spacecraft. Bennu is just 1,600 feet (500 meters) across. The spacecraft's laps are barely a mile (1.6 kilometers) above the asteroid's surface, another record. Osiris-Rex arrived at Bennu in early December and flew in formation with it until the l...
LAUREL, Md. (AP) — The NASA spacecraft that yielded the first close-up views of Pluto hurtled toward a New Year's Day rendezvous with a tiny, icy world a billion miles farther out, in what would make it the most distant cosmic body ever explored by humankind. New Horizons was on course to fly past the mysterious, ancient object nicknamed Ultima Thule at 12:33 a.m. Tuesday. The close encounter comes 3½ years after the spacecraft swung past Pluto. This time, the drama was set to unfold more than 4 billion miles (6.5 billion kilometers) from Ea...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday took the first major step toward launching a widely anticipated campaign for the presidency, hoping her reputation as a populist fighter can help her navigate a Democratic field that could include nearly two dozen candidates. "No matter what our differences, most of us want the same thing," the 69-year-old Massachusetts Democrat said in a video that highlights her family's history in Oklahoma. "To be able to work hard, play by the same set of rules and take care of the people we love. That's w...
Fireworks, concerts, spiritual services and political addresses abounded to mark the transition to 2019 as revelers around the globe bid farewell Monday to a year filled with challenges to many of the world's most basic institutions, including political, trade and religious ones. A look at how the world is ushering in 2019: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Fireworks crackled at Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, as hundreds of thousands of spectators gathered downtown to watch the spectacular display. The fireworks replaced last year's...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats unveiled a package of bills Monday that would re-open the federal government without approving funding for President Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico, establishing an early confrontation that will test the new power dynamic in Washington. The House is preparing to vote as soon as the new Congress convenes Thursday, as one of the first acts after Democrats take control, according to an aide who was not authorized to discuss the plan and spoke on condition of anonymity. Democrats under Nancy Pelosi are a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid questions about the pace of his exit from Syria, President Donald Trump complained Monday that he's getting "bad press" for his decision to pull American troops out of the country and insisted he was simply making good on his campaign promise against U.S. involvement in "never ending wars." Trump abruptly announced in mid-December that he was withdrawing 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria. The decision was roundly criticized by his national security advisers and Democratic and Republican lawmakers, several of whom asked him t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jim Mattis ended one of history's more turbulent tenures as defense secretary on Monday by re-emphasizing a key difference with President Donald Trump and encouraging Pentagon employees, civilian and military, to "hold fast" in safeguarding the nation. Mattis, who submitted his resignation on Dec. 20 and was, in effect, fired by Trump three days later, spent the day in his third-floor Pentagon office preparing to hand off his duties at midnight to Deputy Secretary Patrick Shanahan. Shanahan, a former Boeing executive, will b...
TAIZ, Yemen (AP) — Day after day Nabil al-Hakimi, a humanitarian official in Taiz, one of Yemen's largest cities, went to work feeling he had a "mountain" on his shoulders. Billions of dollars in food and other foreign aid was coming into his war-ravaged homeland, but millions of Yemenis were still living a step away from famine. Reports of organizational disarray and out-and-out thievery streamed in to him this spring and summer from around Taiz — 5,000 sacks of rice doled out without record of where they'd gone . . . 705 food baskets loo...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump twisted circumstances behind the deaths of two migrant Guatemalan children to insulate his administration from any blame, contending without justification that they were in dire health before they reached the border. The children cleared initial U.S. health screenings and one of them was in the U.S. for five days before suddenly showing signs of illness. His weekend tweets on the deaths in U.S. custody of a 7-year-old girl and an 8-year old boy were his first public words on the subject and conveyed n...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's domestic security agency said Monday that it has arrested a U.S. citizen on espionage charges. The Federal Security Service, or FSB, the top KGB successor agency, said Paul Whelan was detained in Moscow on Friday. The agency said in Monday's statement that he was caught "during an espionage operation," but didn't give any details. Spying charges carry a prison sentence of up to 20 years in Russia. The U.S. State Department said it was "aware of the detention of a U.S. citizen by Russian authorities" and had received f...
SHAWNEE – A Rogers State shot with 0.2 seconds left on the clock handed Oklahoma Baptist an 82-80 loss in their final nonconference contest of the 2018-19 season. Oklahoma Baptist had brief flirtations with the lead down the stretch but were unable to create distance against the Hillcats. The Bison then tied the game with 17 seconds left thanks to a put-back by Dishon Lowery off an Antonio Wade miss. Unfortunately, RSU's Brewster Peacock hit a six-foot jumper off the glass inside the final second, denying OBU a chance to respond. Brantly T...
