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ADA – After four-straight winning games at the Kerr Activities Center, the East Central University men's basketball team will take its fight to the road, playing two games in Arkansas this weekend. The Tigers (7-4, 4-2 GAC) will start their trip in Magnolia, Ark., to face Southern Arkansas, Thursday, Jan. 10 at 7:30 p.m. ECU will then face Arkansas-Monticello, Saturday, Jan. 12 at 3 p.m. Tigers Quick Shots • Jr. Camron Talley recorded his 1,000th career point vs. Arkansas Tech, Jan. 5, 2019 • 19th member of the club and finished the game ranke...
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Honors continue for Oklahoma Baptist women's basketball star Autumn Avina who was named the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Women's Division II National Player of the Week for the week ending Jan. 6. The senior guard from Austin, Texas was earlier named the Great American Conference (GAC) Player of the Week after averaging 19.0 points, 7.5 assists, 6.5 rebounds and 4.5 steals per game, which included a triple-double. Avina began the week with her fifth 20-point game of the season, recording 20 points to go with seven s...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Oklahoma Baptist's Autumn Avina won for the second time this year the Great American Conference women's basketball player-of-the-week for her impressive efforts against Ouachita Baptist and Henderson State. Avina, a 5-6 senior guard from Austin, Texas, recorded her second career triple-double in OBU's 76-64 win over Ouachita Baptist on Saturday finishing with 18 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists. She had previously recorded a triple-double last year against Southwestern Oklahoma State. In the two games this week, Avina a...
WEATHERFORD, Okla. – The first Bulldogs of the Week for 2019 have been named with awards going to basketball standouts Daniel Eibel and Bethany Franks. The award is bought to you by Wright Wradio, home of the Bulldogs over the airwaves on both 95.5 'The Coyote' and 100.3 'Coyote Classic'. Eibel (Grapevine, Texas) was the Bulldogs third-leading scorer as SWOSU hosted a pair of teams tied atop the Great American Conference standings. On Thursday, he scored a season-best 12 points on 4-of-5 three-point attempts, including back-to-back triples i...
CLAREMORE, Okla. – Saint Hilaire scored Rogers State's first ever triple-double as the Hillcats powered their way to a 104-62 victory over Ecclesia College Monday afternoon at the Claremore Expo Center. Hilaire, a senior guard, finished with 11 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists in 26 minutes with just one turnover on the afternoon. His 10 assists were also a career high, as he doubled up his previous career mark of five at St. Edwards last January. Rogers State (12-3) wrapped up the non-conference schedule with the victory, setting a new seaso...
NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Megan Tarantal never met her great-grandfather. But she's continuing the legacy that he created when he cared for the people of Pierce County. Which is why she recently traveled from her home in Capetown, South Africa, to Northeast Nebraska. "I wanted to connect with my roots and get to know my great-grandfather," Tarantal said to the Norfolk Daily News . "I had heard a lot of stories about him. He left a legacy." Tarantal's great-grandfather was Dr. John Calvert, a noted physician who worked out of his office on Main S...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Late on a recent Sunday afternoon, the Rev. Joseph Alsay stood before his congregation and assorted guests in bright vestments over a pinstriped suit and cufflinks, his backdrop the strewn hay of a Bethlehem manger. "In our country, we are divided, we are surrounded by a vitriolic spirit," he said. "There is so much divisiveness around us. Indeed, we step on each other's feet. We've stubbed our own toes in the darkness. But tonight, we dare to light a candle to disperse — to dispel — that darkness." As he looked out over...
HOUSTON (AP) — Anthony Snoddy was first to climb the 18-foot ladder. The Houston Chronicle reports as the kid who found the tallest trees and front-flipped off buildings, Snoddy, 36, wasn't worried about the height. He knew it would be part of his job maintaining and repairing wind turbines. Instead, he was focused on the safety clamps and procedures for climbing the ladder. These weren't part of his riskier youthful forays, but they were essential in graduating from MIAT College of Technology and entering a workforce expected to grow 96 p...
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — A new employee at Mayo Clinic Health System has made quite the impression. Patients stop her in the hallway to greet her and roll down their windows when she walks by in the parking lot to offer a quick hello. Her photo ID says Luna Morgan, but the golden haired canine is known simply as Luna to staff and patients, joining the Mayo team in November as a facility dog. The sweet-natured yellow Labrador has quickly won over staff and patients in numerous departments with her gentle bedside manner, sleepy-eyed visage and arse...
ENID, Okla. (AP) — There's one phrase in Enid that everyone's heard at least once during the last eight years, and it comes from a man with deep Oklahoma and Enid roots. "It's a great day in Enid, Oklahoma." Mayor Bill Shewey has been named one of three 2018 Pillar of the Plains honorees. The others are Cheri Ezzell and Michael Wright. The Enid News & Eagle, along with community partners, created the Pillar of the Plains in 2003 to honor local people who have been active in the community, improved the quality of life and made Enid a better p...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Susan Kleps is an art teacher at Tulsa's Webster High School whose first career was as a medic in the United States Army. Emilee Iverson teaches remedial geometry at Broken Arrow High School after recently graduating from college with a degree in psychology. Both took nontraditional paths to become classroom teachers, but a Tulsa World analysis of state teacher certification data found that nontraditional paths are becoming increasingly common amid Oklahoma's teacher shortage. "The alternative certification has kind of m...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's outgoing lieutenant governor has landed a job with an Oklahoma City cybersecurity technology firm. Two-term Republican Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb announced Tuesday that he's joining TriCorps, a privately held company that operates in 12 states and the District of Columbia. He will be the company's chief development officer. The former U.S. Secret Service agent was elected twice to the state Senate before running for lieutenant governor in 2010 and 2014. He couldn't seek another term because of term limits and launched a...
CHECOTAH, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma woman looking for love got more than she bargained for when she unwittingly shared her exhilaration about illegally shooting a "bigo buck" on a dating app with a state game warden. Oklahoma Game Warden Cannon Harrison says he uncovered the poaching in a conversation on Bumble with a McIntosh County woman. She talked about using a spotlight to shoot the deer at night, outside the rifle season. The woman only harvested the head and back-strap meat — and she sent Harrison pictures as proof. The woman has ple...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Legislature has convened for an organizational day and formally elected House and Senate leaders for the 2019 session that starts next month. The House on Tuesday elected Atoka banker Charles McCall to a second term as House speaker, while Sen. Greg Treat of Oklahoma City was elected president pro tem of the Senate. Republicans hold a 77-24 advantage in the House and a 39-9 edge in the Senate. For the first time in state history, both the House and Senate minority leaders are women. Rep. Emily Virgin of N...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The attempted murder-for-hire trial of an ex-Oklahoma zookeeper and one-time Libertarian candidate for governor has been postponed. Court documents filed Dec. 21 show a federal judge agreed to a defense request for more time to prepare and rescheduled the trial of Joseph Maldonado-Passage, who goes by "Joe Exotic," until March 12. Maldonado-Passage is charged with trying to hire someone to kill the operator of a Florida-based animal sanctuary. He pleaded not guilty and has a pending motion to dismiss the charge. M...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City police say a home where three people were found slain is the same home where a woman was found dead less than a year ago in a still unsolved homicide. Sgt. Gary Knight says police conducting a welfare check about 12:30 a.m. Monday found the bodies of 15-year-old Roshawna Stevens, 35-year-old Carnesha Patrice Powell and 44-year-old Elijah Malachi Mothershed. A suspected cause of the deaths has not been released and no arrests have been made. Knight says the northeast Oklahoma City home is in a "rough n...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov.-elect Laura Kelly plans to put a former corrections secretary back in charge of the Kansas prison system and have a military doctor run the state health department. The incoming Democratic governor also plans to temporarily retain the state's top emergency management official under her Republican predecessors. Kelly announced Tuesday that Roger Werholtz will be interim secretary of corrections. Werholtz was secretary from 2002 to 2010. She also said Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli will remain as adjutant general to ensure a s...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Two men have been charged with capital murder for the alleged contract killing of a pregnant Kansas mother who was found dead on Christmas Day, according to investigators. Prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint filed Monday that Mashaun Jay Baker hired his co-defendant, Dion Jamel Green, to kill 31-year-old Jenna Schafer. The woman was found dead around 9:30 a.m. in an apartment in Junction City, which is near the Fort Riley military base in central Kansas. Green was arrested later that day, while Baker was a...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State Treasurer Jake LaTurner is running for the U.S. Senate in 2020. LaTurner declared his candidacy Tuesday for the Republican nomination, less than a week after four-term GOP Sen. Pat Roberts announced that he will not run for re-election. The 30-year-old LaTurner said Kansas needs both a conservative and generational change in the Senate. He issued a "Contract with Kansas" that includes support for congressional term limits and work requirements for welfare recipients. He is the first candidate to announce, but s...
COLUMBUS, Kan. (AP) — A 26-year-old woman has been sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for swerving into two men as they walked across a southeast Kansas street. The Joplin Globe reports that Shelby Colon received the sentence after pleading guilty previously to two counts of involuntary manslaughter in the July 2017 crash that killed 66-year-old Charles Burkybile Jr. and 86-year-old Glen Roosa. Police say Colon stopped at the scene in Galena, Kansas, and showed no signs of impairment. The sentence also includes time for a s...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A coroner says a driver who drowned seven months ago after a Topeka crash was drunk. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that an autopsy report released Monday shows that 63-year-old Ricky Lynn Leece's blood-alcohol level measured more than twice the legal limit. No other drugs were found in his system. The Shawnee County Sheriff's Office says he died June 1 after his vehicle struck a concrete culvert in the southern part of the county. The impact caused the vehicle to overturn and land upside down in a nearby creek with i...
DENVER (AP) — Democrat Jared Polis' inauguration Tuesday as the first openly gay U.S. governor firmly moved Colorado to a darker shade of blue — and other celebratory colors of the LGBTQ community — as he vowed to expand health care, pursue publicly funded preschool and protect the environment. Polis, 43, emphasized his inaugural theme, "Colorado for All," to mark the historic occasion. He took the oath of office accompanied by his longtime partner and "first gentleman," Marlon Reis. Their children, Caspian and Cora, also attended. "I must...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of seven House committees are calling on Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to explain why the United States is easing sanctions on companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. It's one of the first moves of the new Democratic House to scrutinize President Donald Trump's actions related to Russia. The Democrats wrote to Mnuchin on Tuesday to ask about a December announcement that the U.S. would lift sanctions on the aluminum manufacturing giant Rusal and two other companies connected to Deripaska. Mnuchin s...
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. government shutdown may prevent Justice Department attorneys from going before a Montana judge next week to ask him to lift his hold on Keystone XL oil pipeline construction. But the federal attorneys and the Canadian company that wants to build the pipeline say their absence shouldn't delay Monday's hearing on the matter in U.S. District Court in Great Falls. Justice Department attorney Bridget McNeil said in a court filing Monday that government lawyers are prohibited from working except in emergencies during t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, will be funded through February should the government shutdown continue. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is asking states to issue the February benefits on or before Jan. 20 so that they can be paid to the nearly 40 million Americans in the program. SNAP is already fully funded for January. The USDA said it can fund SNAP through February thanks to the short-term funding bill that ran out on Dec. 22. That bi...
