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SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist closed out 2018 in style, dominating Central Christian College on the way to a 79-53 victory in their final nonconference tuneup of the season. Outside of a brief one-point lead at the start of the second quarter, the Lady Bison led by as many as 28 points in the rout. Oklahoma Baptist was strong in the paint, scoring 38 points, and also generated 27 points off Central Christian's 28 turnovers. Victoria Blankenship paced OBU with a game-high 20 points and added 10 boards to complete her double-double. Mikayla S...
SHAWNEE, Okla. – Sophomore forward Brewster Peacock banked in a put-back basket with 0.2 seconds left to lift the Rogers State men's basketball team to a 82-80 win at Oklahoma Baptist on Monday (Dec. 31) at the Noble Complex for the fifth straight victory for the navy and red. The Hillcats moved to 11-3 on the season and earned their first road win of the season. RSU has won five straight and nine of its last 10 games. Peacock gave the Cats the 82-80 victory as he collected a rebound off a missed 3-pointer from Tate Turner from the top of the k...
FORT SMITH, Ark. – Harding sophomore Kellie Lampo scored 23 of her game-high 27 points in the first half, and the Lady Bisons fought off Arkansas-Fort Smith for a 70-59 nonconference victory at the Stubblefield Center on New Year's Eve. Harding's win was its seventh in its last eight games, and the Lady Bisons improved to 8-2 overall. UAFS, a member of the NCAA II Heartland Conference, dropped its fourth straight and fell to 3-10. It was the third of five straight road games for Harding, who returns to Great American Conference play Thursday a...
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...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Country music star and Oklahoma native Toby Keith will be among the performers at a series of events marking the inauguration of incoming Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt. The three inaugural events will take place between Jan. 10 and Jan. 14 in Lawton, Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Stitt announced Tuesday that Keith would be performing at the Oklahoma City inaugural ball on Jan. 14. Other performers at the Oklahoma City event include the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Cherokee Youth Choir and country singer Jimmie Allen. Tickets a...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The number of Oklahoma earthquakes registering a magnitude 3.0 or greater has declined for the third consecutive year after state regulators began directing oil and natural gas producers to close some wells and reduce injection volumes in others. The number of such quakes began declining in mid-2015 when the state Corporation Commission took action after the quakes were linked to the underground injection of wastewater, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey. State seismologist Jake Walter told the Tulsa World he's o...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gov. Mary Fallin's secretary of agriculture is stepping down two weeks before the inauguration of Oklahoma Gov.-elect Kevin Stitt. Oklahoma Agriculture Secretary Jim Reese submitted a letter to Fallin on Monday in which he announced his resignation effective immediately. Stitt is scheduled to be inaugurated to a four-year term as governor on Jan. 14. He has chosen Oklahoma 4-H Foundation Executive Director Blayne Arthur to be his new secretary of agriculture. If approved by the Senate, Arthur will be the first woman to h...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita amassed more homicides in 2018 than in any year since 1995, in part because of an increase in self-defense killings. At least 43 people died by homicide in Wichita over the past year, up five from 2017, The Wichita Eagle reported . Police said the five-person increase can in part be attributed to self-defense killings, which increased by five, from three to eight. Kansas is among numerous states where citizens have no legal obligation to retreat from an attacker if they are lawfully present in a place. Before the st...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The top job in New Mexico passed from one Latina governor to another Tuesday as Michelle Lujan Grisham took the oath of office, announcing it was time to spend more money on education and address climate change through the regulation of a booming oil industry and promotion of renewable energy. Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, took over from Susana Martinez, a term-limited Republican, following a wave of Democratic victories for statewide office, top judiciary seats and Congress in the November election. Lujan Grisham c...
NEW YORK (AP) — Bacon and black coffee for breakfast, or oatmeal and bananas? If you're planning to try to lose weight in 2019, you're sure to find a fierce debate online and among friends and family about how best to do it. It seems like everyone has an opinion, and new fads emerge every year. Two major studies last year provided more fuel for a particularly polarizing topic — the role carbs play in making us fat. The studies gave scientists some clues, but, like other nutrition studies, they can't say which diet — if any — is best for eve...
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A northwest Arkansas company plans to work with the University of Arkansas to grow, research and process hemp flowers for the budding cannabis oil industry. Fayetteville-based Arkansas Hemp Genetics LLC says it has secured a partnership with the university's horticulture department to research industrial hemp for the first time since its prohibition after World War II. Bill Morgan, chief operations officer of Hemp Genetics, tells the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that hemp could be a viable crop again, specifically for A...
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has ordered an investigation into "recent events" after two weeks of violent protests against his 29-year autocratic rule, as he seeks to placate popular anger over worsening economic conditions. The state news agency reported late Monday that al-Bashir has tasked Justice Minister Mohammed Ahmed Salem with leading the investigation, without providing further details on the subject of the probe. Twenty-two political parties and groups meanwhile said they will call on Bashir to step down and t...
BAGHDAD (AP) — The latest plunge in oil prices has dealt a heavy blow to Iraq's stagnating economy, threatening the new government's ability to rebuild after the war with the Islamic State group and provide basic services to areas roiled by recent protests. Brent crude oil, used to price international purchases, briefly rose above $85 a barrel in October but has since plummeted to less than $55 — a nightmare for a country like Iraq that derives 95 percent of its revenue from oil exports. A $111.9 billion draft budget sent to parliament in Oct...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump invited congressional leaders from each chamber to a White House briefing on border security Wednesday as the partial government shutdown wore on over funding for a border wall, with Trump tweeting: "Let's make a deal?" The briefing would happen the day before the Democrats take control of the House, but the exact agenda wasn't immediately clear, according to a person with knowledge of the briefing who was not authorized to speak publicly about the issue and spoke to The Associated Press on condition o...
The mandate directing individuals to obtain health insurance or face tax penalties ends on Tuesday for most, but not all Americans. In Massachusetts, an individual mandate that has been on the books since 2006 will continue in the absence of the federal fines that had been in effect since 2014 under the Affordable Care Act but were eliminated as part of the Republican-backed tax reform law passed in 2017. Most residents of New Jersey and the District of Columbia must also be covered or incur fines in 2019 after lawmakers, fearing widespread...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gone are John Fuller's days of paying his neighbors for rides to Kroger. The 84-year-old Fuller now gets rides to the grocery store from At Home by High, a membership network for older adults in the Short North and surrounding neighborhoods aimed at helping them remain in their homes and neighborhoods as they age. At Home by High is part of a national network of "villages" and one of three in Columbus. But not for long. A village on the Hilltop will launch early next year, and the concept might continue spreading in Columb...
A December 2017 report by the Missouri Department of Public Safety said 28 of Missouri's 114 counties lacked the ability to identify the location of callers seeking 911 emergency help. Sixteen Missouri counties had only basic 911 service, with call centers that lacked 911 answering equipment and were unable to identify a caller's location or name. Those counties included: Bollinger, Carter, Cedar, Clark, Dent, Douglas, Hickory, Mercer, Oregon, Ozark, Ripley, St. Clair, Schuyler, Scotland, Shannon and Wayne. An additional 11 counties had...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The cost of prepaid cellphone service in Missouri slightly increased on Tuesday as the state joined most of the rest of the country in charging a tax to fund 911 emergency call centers. But not all customers will pay the extra charge, because 18 counties and one city have exercised an opt-out provision in the new law. The cellphone tax is one of several state laws taking effect with the new year that carry financial implications. Missouri also is cutting the individual income tax rate by one-half of a percentage p...
LAUREL, Md. (AP) — NASA's New Horizons spacecraft pulled off the most distant exploration of another world Tuesday, skimming past a tiny, icy object 4 billion miles from Earth that looks to be shaped like a bowling pin. Flight controllers in Maryland declared success 10 hours after the high-risk, middle-of-the-night encounter at the mysterious body known as Ultima Thule on the frozen fringes of our solar system, an astounding 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto. "I don't know about all of you, but I'm really liking this 2...
PRESTON, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho biology teacher accused of feeding a live puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students will go on trial beginning Thursday. Preston Junior High School teacher Robert Crosland was charged with one count of misdemeanor animal cruelty in June after the allegations surfaced in March, the Idaho State Journal reported . He has pleaded not guilty and will face a two-day jury trial at the Franklin County Courthouse in Preston, a rural community of about 5,300 people where the 2004 movie "Napoleon Dynamite" was set. I...
PARIS (AP) — The United States and Israel officially quit the U.N.'s educational, scientific and cultural agency at the stroke of midnight, the culmination of a process triggered more than a year ago amid concerns that the organization fosters anti-Israel bias. The withdrawal is mainly procedural yet serves a new blow to UNESCO, co-founded by the U.S. after World War II to foster peace. The Trump administration filed its notice to withdraw in October 2017 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu followed suit. The Paris-based o...
LAUREL, Md. (AP) — The Latest on NASA's New Horizons' New Year rendezvous (all times local): 10: 40 a.m. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has survived humanity's most distant exploration of another world. Ten hours after the middle-of-the-night encounter 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away, flight controllers in Laurel, Maryland, received word from the spacecraft late Tuesday morning. Cheers erupted at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, home to Mission Control. An anxious spill-over crowd in a nearby auditorium j...
MOSCOW (AP) — Laboring through sub-freezing temperatures, Russian rescue workers were digging into a sprawling heap of jagged rubble from a collapsed apartment building when one heard the faintest sound. It was the sound of life. On Tuesday, to everyone's delight and surprise, they pulled a baby boy out of the rubble alive, nearly 36 hours after the disaster that blew apart his home. His father called it "a New Year's miracle." The building collapse in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk before dawn Monday has killed at least nine people so far, a...
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — U.S. authorities fired tear gas into Mexico during the first hours of the new year to repel about 150 migrants who were trying to breach the border fence in Tijuana. An Associated Press photographer witnessed at least three volleys of gas launched onto the Mexican side of the border near Tijuana's beach early Tuesday. It affected the migrants, including women and children, as well as members of the press. Migrants who spoke with AP said they arrived last month with the caravan from Honduras. U.S. Customs and Border P...
BERLIN (AP) — Edgar Hilsenrath, a German-Jewish writer whose fictional account of the Holocaust from the perspective of a Nazi perpetrator became a best-seller, has died at 92. The German news agency dpa quoted Hilsenrath's second wife, Marlene, as confirming Tuesday that the author died Dec. 30 in western Germany after battling pneumonia. Born in Leipzig in 1926, Hilsenrath moved to Romania at 12 to escape Nazi persecution, and was later deported to Ukraine. His first novel, "Night," recounting the horrors of trying to survive in a Jewish g...
