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FT. SMITH, ARK. – Southeastern's women's tennis team opened the 2018 spring season with a 6-3 road win over Arkansas-Ft. Smith on Wednesday in Ft. Smith, Ark. The win gets the Savage Storm off to a 1-0 start heading into the team's home opener against Seminole State at 1 p.m. on Feb. 19. SE opened the contest with a 2-1 lead after doubles which started off with an 8-4 win at the number two position by the pair of Maria Martinez and Luisa Auffarth. Diana Budnik and Nina Sergeev followed up with an 8-3 victory at number three to make it 2-1 h...
FT. SMITH, ARK. – The 24th-ranked Southeastern men's tennis team opened its spring schedule on Wednesday with a 7-2 road victory over Arkansas-Ft. Smith in Ft. Smith, Ark. The win gets the Savage Storm off to a 1-0 start heading into the team's home opener against Seminole State at 1 p.m. on Feb. 19. SE opened up a 2-1 lead after doubles play with the duo of Ondrej Nice and Carlos Anez cruising to an 8-3 win at one doubles. Milos Vuckovic and Sandro Lena followed suit with an 8-3 win of their own at the three doubles spot. Anez carried over h...
EDMOND, Okla. — Southern Nazarene didn't waste anytime taking on a ranked opponent as it opened its spring season with a 9-0 loss at No. 13 Central Oklahoma. The Bronchos (1-1) dropped just one set the entire day and that came at No. 2 singles. UCO swept the doubles matches as Noelia Gomez and Judit Mas lost 8-1 at No. 1 doubles while Anna Garcia and Dragana Samardzic lost 8-1 at No. 2 to the No. 6-ranked team in the Central Region of Alli Hodges and Paola Landin. Polina Chala and Zoe Gray also lost 8-4 at No. 3. In singles, Chala, No. 7 in t...
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The first set of NCAA Division II Women's Basketball regional rankings were released on Wednesday afternoon, with the No. 7/5-ranked SWOSU Lady Bulldogs currently sitting first in the Central Region with two weeks remaining in the regular season. SWOSU (22-1, 17-0 GAC) is currently riding a 14-game winning streak after earning two conference road victories last weekend. The Lady Bulldogs are the lone representative from the Great American Conference currently in the Top 10 of the regional rankings. SWOSU is seeking their t...
SEARCY, Ark. – For the second consecutive week, Harding freshman Morgan Salvan was named Great American Conference Men's Tennis Player of the Week. Salvan, from Millau, France, won all three of his singles matches and all three doubles matches last week. After posting easy victories against Hendrix, he and Alejandro Sendra registered a doubles win against Drury's Sebastien Amato and Gregor Kokalj, the No. 6 team in Division II and the highest-ranked NCAA doubles team ever beaten by a Harding team. Salvan also won both singles and doubles a...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Harding women's soccer won its fifth Great American Conference Sportsmanship Award Wednesday. "These awards serve as a reflection the NCAA Division II emphasis on sportsmanship and game environment," GAC Commissioner Will Prewitt said. "These selected programs have competed with dignity and class and have represented the GAC in a manner worthy of public admiration." In 2012, The GAC's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee initiated a sportsmanship award to be presented for all team sports. The winning school will r...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – On Wednesday afternoon, the Great American Conference announced that the Ouachita volleyball program won the 2017 fall sportsmanship award. "We feel honored and grateful to be recognized as a positive representation of the Great American Conference." Ouachita head volleyball coach Allison Frizzell-Kizer said, "It is great and humbling for our team to be recognized for representing Ouachita on and off the court through both wins and losses." It is the second time the volleyball team has been honored with the award, the l...
When a gunman opened fire with an AR-15 at a large high school in south Florida, the 17 dead included students and school workers, young and old. Here is a look at some of some of those who lost their lives in the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School: COACH AND SECURITY MONITOR Assistant football coach Aaron Feis was shot to death while selflessly shielding students from bullets. A tweet from the school football program ended: "He died a hero and he will forever be in our hearts and memories." Feis graduated from the school in 1999...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers on Thursday weighed whether to hold former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress after he declined to answer questions for a second time as part of the House intelligence committee's Russia probe. Bannon visited Capitol Hill to take questions from the panel behind closed doors, but would only answer 25 questions that had been pre-approved by the White House. His answer to each question was "no" and he told the committee he was not authorized to elaborate, according to l...
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — An orphaned 19-year-old who participated in paramilitary drills with a white nationalist group was charged with murder Thursday in the deaths of 17 people who were fatally shot at a huge Florida high school in the nation's deadliest school attack in five years. Nikolas Cruz legally purchased the AR-15 rifle used in the assault at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. As the criminal case against the suspect took shape, the leader of a white nationalist militia called t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump would veto a bipartisan Senate compromise that would help young "Dreamer" immigrants and build his coveted border wall, the White House threatened on Thursday, fueling doubts that any immigration measures would survive showdown votes. In a written statement, the White House labeled the proposal "dangerous policy that will harm the nation." It singled out a provision that directs the government to prioritize enforcement efforts against immigrants who arrive illegally beginning in July. Senate leaders s...
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Months before authorities say Nikolas Cruz walked into his former high school and slaughtered 17 people, the troubled teen began showing what may have been missed warning signs he was bent on violence. "Im going to be a professional school shooter," a YouTube user with the screen name "Nikolas Cruz" posted in September. The 19-year-old had gotten expelled from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. A former Junior ROTC cadet, he bought a military-style AR-15 carbine. And he began to participate in paramilitary drills w...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Cyril Ramaphosa became South Africa's president with a message of clean government and inclusiveness on Thursday, stirring the hopes of many South Africans that he can reverse a corrosive period of decline and division under his predecessor, Jacob Zuma. Ramaphosa, a lead negotiator in the transition from apartheid to democracy in the early 1990s, was elected by jubilant ruling party legislators anxious to shed political limbo and get the leadership of the country back on track. In an indication of the challenges f...
KEDROVOYE, Russia (AP) — For Russian mother Farkhanur Gavrilova, the blow came a week ago when an acquaintance called her to say that her son was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Syria that pitted Russian and U.S. combatants against each other for the first time in the Syrian war. Gavrilova's son, 37-year-old Ruslan Gavrilov, was one of seven men in this central Russian village of 2,300 who are believed to have joined a private military company called Wagner. The company reportedly was involved in a Feb. 7 attack on U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters i...
NEW YORK (AP) — The flu vaccine is doing a poor job protecting older Americans and others against the bug that's causing most illnesses. Preliminary figures released Thursday suggest the vaccine is 36 percent effective overall in preventing flu illness severe enough to send a patient to the doctor's office. There's only been one other time in the last decade when the flu vaccine did a worse job. Most illnesses this winter have been caused by a nasty kind of flu called Type A H3N2. The vaccine was only 25 percent effective against that type. T...
NEW YORK (AP) — After a few missteps, The Recording Academy is reassuring its members that it is not lagging behind the music industry when it comes to female representation. In a letter sent to voting and non-voting members Thursday, which was obtained by The Associated Press, the academy offers statistics to show that women had a larger presence at the Grammy Awards compared to the industry standard. The letter to academy members comes weeks after a University of Southern California- Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism study a...
NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald's is taking cheeseburgers and chocolate milk off its Happy Meal menu in an effort to cut down on the calories, sodium, saturated fat and sugar that kids consume at its restaurants. Diners can still ask specifically for cheeseburgers or chocolate milk with the kid's meal, but the fast-food company said that not listing them will reduce how often they're ordered. Since it removed soda from the Happy Meal menu four years ago, orders for it with Happy Meals have fallen 14 percent, the company said. Hamburgers and Chicken M...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been a best-selling author, civil-rights activist, actor, historian and one of the greatest basketball players who ever lived. One thing Abdul-Jabbar has never been — at least not in public — is chatty. "I'm not known for being a blabbermouth, you know?" the soft-spoken Abdul-Jabbar concedes with a smile, something else he was never particularly known for during his playing days. But, he adds, still smiling, his public can expect to see that change — and soon. This fall Abdul-Jabbar will em...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump struck a solemn tone Thursday after the deadly school shooting in Florida, describing a "scene of terrible violence, hatred and evil" and promising to "tackle the difficult issue of mental health," but avoiding any mention of guns. Taking up the now-familiar ritual of public consolation after terrible violence, Trump spoke from the White House Diplomatic Room. In a slow, deliberate style, he sought to reassure a troubled nation as well as students' families and shooting survivors in Florida. "We are a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An American detained by U.S. forces was carrying thumb drives containing files on how to make bombs plus administrative spreadsheets describing work he did for the Islamic State group at the time he surrendered in Syria last year, according to documents the U.S. government filed in federal court. The government's justification for holding the detainee without charge, contained in more than 150 pages filed late Wednesday, is loaded with details about the still-unidentified man, who is married and has a 3-year-old daughter. Yet...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The remains of a U.S. soldier from Oklahoma City were returned to his home state nearly 70 years after he was taken prisoner during the Korean War. Army Sgt. 1st Class Alfred Bensinger Jr.'s remains arrived Wednesday in a flag-draped coffin at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City. Funeral services with full military honors will be Friday at Fort Sill National Cemetery in Elgin, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) southwest of Oklahoma City, according to Bensinger's son, Gary Clayton of El Reno. Clayton said he was 2 y...
ENID, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma sheriff and three others face manslaughter charges in the 2016 death of an inmate who authorities say spent more than two days in a restraint chair without food or water. Garfield County Sheriff Jerry Niles; his daughter-in-law, then-jail administrator Jennifer Shay Niles; and jailers John Robert Markus and Shawn Caleb Galusha were charged Wednesday with first-degree manslaughter, the Enid News and Eagle reported. They're accused in the death of Anthony Dewayne Huff, who was arrested June 4, 2016, on a public into...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An appeals court has overturned the death sentence given to a 30-year-old man convicted of hiring someone to kill his estranged, pregnant wife. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals handed down the decision Thursday to Fabion Brown, who represented himself during a trial in Oklahoma County where he was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for the 2012 killings of his wife, Jessica Brown, and her fetus. The court upheld the convictions but set aside the death sentence and ordered a new s...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma leaders say they plan to impose across-the-board cuts to all state agencies, including public schools, to close a hole in the budget and ensure funding for three key health care agencies. Sen. Kim David says GOP leaders were left with no other options after a package of tax hikes failed to advance from the House earlier this week. Under the bill approved by a Senate committee Thursday, monthly allocations to all state agencies will be cut by about 2 percent for the final four months of the current fiscal year. T...
EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — The founder of a Kentucky creationism museum will appear at an Oklahoma university, after all, after the student body president initially canceled the event over objections of female and LGBTQ students and their supporters. Creation Museum founder Ken Ham and the University of Central Oklahoma announced Thursday that the event will happen March 5, as planned. Australia-born Ham had criticized the cancellation of his appearance, saying it was a denial of his right to free speech. UCO's student body president said he had f...
