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ST. LOUIS (Jan. 22, 2019) – In what must be a proverbial cherry-on-top moment, Oklahoma Christian guard Addy Clift was named Tuesday as the women's NCAA Division II national player of the week by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. The 5-foot-7 senior from Kiowa emerged from a group of nominees from Division II's 24 conferences to receive the award. It's the first time this season a player from the Heartland Conference has received the national award. Clift is the only the fifth OC women's basketball player to win a national p...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference announced the league's Players of the Week awards for the 11th week of the 2018-19 basketball regular season. Henderson State's Mike Fofana won the Men's honor and Harding's Kellie Lampo claiming the Women's accolade. GAC MEN'S BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE WEEK – Mike Fofana, Henderson State, F, Jr., Memphis, Tennessee Fofana continued his stretch of terrific play as Henderson picked up wins against Ouachita and Arkansas Tech. Fofana poured in 19 points on 8-for-11 shooting on the road against the...
TEXAS CITY, Texas (AP) — When Lynn Ray Ellison lived in "The Rectangle" — the area of Texas City where the city's African-American community lived and thrived in the 1940s, '50s and '60s — life was different, he said. The Galveston County Daily News reports more than 500 black families lived in a 10-block radius between the borders of Texas Avenue to the north, Bay Street to the east, 10th Street to the west and Fourth Avenue to the south. They owned and operated businesses, attended Booker T. Washington School, which closed in 1967, and worsh...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — University of Oklahoma students demanded more from their campus administrators Tuesday, hours after the school released public apologies from two former students who were involved in a video in which one of the women wore blackface and used a racial slur. About 1,000 students and faculty members gathered at a campus rally Tuesday during which administrators condemned the video in which a white woman is seen with black paint on her face as another white woman laughs. But as students and university officials took their t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — While most people can recognize her instrument by sight, harpist Yolanda Kondonassis knows their familiarity with its wide range of sounds is probably limited to the stereotypical tinkling glissandos. "It's like the intro to the dream sequence, the wafting to heaven, the acid trip," she said with a laugh to The Oklahoman . "I consider myself sort of an unofficial ambassador for the instrument itself. When I go around, I feel like in a lot of cases I'm introducing the harp to audiences long before I introduce myself or w...
TALIHINA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma's House Veterans and Military Affairs Committee probably won't hear a bill that aims to end a $100 million state construction project and keep a veteran's center in a small southeastern town. Committee chair Rep. Tommy Hardin and others advocated for relocation of the Talihina Veterans Center, saying the aging facility needs costly repairs and can't employ sufficient personnel because of its rural location, The Oklahoman reported. "We worked pretty hard the past four years to try to get that changed," Hardin s...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says it's are trying to identity a burned body found by a hunter in southeastern Oklahoma. The OSBI says the body was found on Monday near the unincorporated community of Cloudy in Pushmataha County, about 150 miles (241 kilometers) southeast of Oklahoma City. The OSBI says the unidentified body is that of a man and has been sent to the state medical examiner's office to determine the cause and manner of death. The agency says Pushmataha County Sheriff B.J. Hedgecock asked the O...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A 26-year-old Missouri woman who intentionally drove her car into the Kansas River with her two children inside has been sentenced to life in prison. KMBC-TV reports Scharron Dingledine, of Columbia, Missouri, was sentenced Tuesday for first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder. Prosecutors said she drove her car into the river near Lawrence in August . She and her 1-year-old son were rescued. The body of her 5-year-old daughter, Amiyah Bradley, was recovered the next day. Dingledine told police she drove i...
GOODLAND, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Highway Patrol says a 19-year-old woman has died in a crash on an ice-covered section of Interstate 70. The patrol says Ashlen Leigh Lemon, of Hays, died Tuesday afternoon in the one-vehicle crash in Geary County. The patrol says she lost control because of icy road conditions, hit the median and struck a guardrail. A storm carrying ice, snow and high winds moved east across Kansas on Tuesday, prompting school closings and cancellations of several events. Gov. Laura Kelly sent all non-essential state e...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Snow and freezing rain has prompted officials to close the largest school districts in Nebraska and Iowa ahead of a winter storm that's threatening the Midwest with several inches of snow. The storm comes on the heels of the snow, frigid air and strong winds that hit the Northeast, where thousands of Rhode Island residents were without heat on Tuesday, one of the coldest days so far this year. The National Weather Service issued weather advisories and warnings Tuesday across a large swath of the Midwest, from Kansas to M...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 34-year-old man who authorities say suffocated his 2-month-old twin son by rolling over on him while they slept has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison. The Wichita Eagle reports Kyle Kempton was sentenced Tuesday to 32 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter and four misdemeanor counts of endangering a child. Police say Kempton and his wife, Christy Rollings, had been drinking for a week before their son, Patrick Kempton, died in a Wichita motel in August. The other twin was not injured. Rollings was c...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has delayed sentencing for a California man who admitted making a hoax call that led police to fatally shoot a Kansas man following a dispute between two online gamers over a $1.50 bet in a Call of Duty WWII video game. U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren on Tuesday delayed until March 1 sentencing for Tyler R. Barriss . The government and defense had jointly requested more time to review objections to a presentence investigation report. The hearing had been scheduled for Jan. 30. Barriss has pleaded guilty t...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Anti-abortion leaders are promising to pursue a change in the Kansas Constitution if the state's highest court rules that the document protects abortion rights. Several hundred abortion opponents rallied Tuesday inside the Statehouse. They marked the 46th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 that legalized abortion across the nation. But anti-abortion leaders also had another pending court case on their minds. The Kansas Supreme Court heard arguments nearly two years ago from a...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Female lawmakers are now able to breastfeed in the Kansas House. The Kansas City Star reports lawmakers approved the breastfeeding provision Tuesday as part of a package or rules for the chamber. Rep. Ponka-We Victors, a Wichita Democrat who offered the rule change, says the House rules should be updated to reflect the makeup of the chamber's members. Rep. Susan Humphries, a Wichita Republican, said the breastfeeding on the House floor hadn't been an issue in the past even though House rules didn't take a stance on the i...
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A 27-year-old Olathe woman has been found guilty of injuring an infant boy so badly at her home day care that he was left blind and brain damaged. Paige Hatfield was found guilty Friday of aggravated battery in Johnson County District Court. The jury also granted a motion to allow the judge to impose a sentence above what is called for in state sentencing guidelines. Hatfield is scheduled to be sentenced March 28. The Kansas City Star reported the boy, Kingston Gilbert, was four months old when he was injured at the u...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Committees in the Kansas House are considering two bills that would repeal the secretary of state's authority to prosecute election crimes, which was established after a long political fight by former Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Kobach had argued that his office should be able to prosecute election crimes to stop what he contended was widespread fraudulent voting by immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. He was given authority over election fraud in 2015 . In 3½ years, Kobach prosecuted 10 to 15 cases of voter fr...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Leighton Mark, a photojournalist who taught himself to make pictures with one arm after he was wounded in 1984 while covering the civil war in Lebanon, has died. He was 67. Mark died Saturday at Lexington Park Assisted Living Health Center in Topeka, Kansas, said a cousin, Monette Mark. Mark worked for United Press International and The Associated Press during a long career that was nearly cut short when he was 32. He had been in Beirut for UPI just three months when, in March 1984, gunfire from street fighting awoke him in h...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence police say an officer was impaled on his baton while struggling with a suspect. Police Sgt. Amy Rhoads says the officer is hospitalized after the confrontation but didn't appear to have life-threatening injuries. Rhoads says officers responded to a car crash early Tuesday. She says the car's driver, a 22-year-old Topeka man, fled on foot when officers tried to arrest him. One officer caught him and used his expandable baton during a struggle. The officer fell to the ground and landed on his baton, which p...
DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — A New Mexico man died earlier this month following an explosion at a natural gas well site on the Southern Ute Reservation in southwest Colorado. The Durango Herald reports the preliminary investigation indicates 47-year-old Randy Yellowman was working alone at the time of the Jan. 2 explosion. Yellowman was working as a driver for Overright Trucking Inc. based in Farmington, New Mexico. The company was contracted by Denver-based Catamount Energy Partners LLC. Overright Trucking did not return the newspaper's calls. R...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas lawmaker filed legislation Tuesday that would trigger an abortion ban in the state if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns its landmark 1973 decision that legalized the procedure across the nation. The proposal from Republican Sen. Jason Rapert was filed on the 46th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision from the high court, and is among several anti-abortion measures the predominantly GOP Legislature is expected to take up in the coming weeks. Rapert's proposal would ban all abortions, except for medical e...
HARRISONVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Missouri inspectors have found that staff at hospital south of Kansas City failed to properly respond to an 83-year-old woman who showed distress after a routine colonoscopy and died the next day from internal bleeding. The Kansas City Star reports that inspectors went to Cass Regional Medical Center in late November after receiving a complaint about the Aug. 3 death of Martha Wright, of Pleasant Hill. The inspectors passed their findings to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, which classified the s...
KIRBY, Vt. (AP) — He heard her voice. Jerry Toomey was alone inside the 1800s farmhouse he shares with his wife, Flower, on a freezing cold night in mid-December. In his head he heard her voice from the night before. She had been telling him how worried she was for their chickens in the single-digit cold. Jerry was recovering from a total knee replacement a few weeks earlier and had not yet ventured outdoors since the surgery. But Flower's voice got him moving. He grabbed his crutches and headed out to make sure the chicken coop was closed and...
SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) — The Republican Party believes it finally has its answer to the Democratic fundraising behemoth ActBlue. GOP groups are lending their support to a new donor platform called Patriot Pass, which they say will help the party match and even surpass the organization that sent more than $700 million to Democratic campaigns in 2018. After the Republican Party's midterm losses, party officials said they needed to find a way to match the small-dollar fundraising power of ActBlue. The Republican platform is a joint effort o...
WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to their views on climate change, Americans are looking at natural disasters and their local weather, according to a new poll. Lately, that means record deadly wildfires in California, rainfall by the foot in Houston when Hurricane Harvey hit and the dome of smog over Salt Lake City that engineer Caleb Gregg steps into when he walks out his door in winter. "I look at it every day," Gregg said from Salt Lake City, where winter days with some of the country's worst air starting a few years ago dinged the city's rep...
BOSTON (AP) — Wilson Menashi palmed a squid in his left hand and extended his arm into an aquarium tank, watching as a giant Pacific octopus stretched out arms to greet him like a friend. Freya latched some of her 2,240 suction cups onto Menashi's arm, using their powers of taste and smell to gather information around the 84-year-old man known as the octopus whisperer — and the seafood treats he was bearing. "She's just contacting me and she's saying, 'You come to me,'" Menashi said of Freya, a 3-year-old predator weighing 35 to 40 pounds (18...
