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BENTONVILLE, Ark. – Southeastern women's tennis saw its 2019 season come to an end on Thursday with a 4-2 loss to Arkansas tech in the opening round of the Great American Conference Tournament in Bentonville, Ark. The loss drops the Savage Storm 2-11 on the season. SE dropped the doubles point with losses in the two and three positions. The Golden Suns pushed their lead to 2-0, but Chiara Berg would cut into the deficit by posting a 6-4, 6-3 win over ATU's Katharina Drebka at the number one position. ATU would push its lead to 3-1 with a...
SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — The Shawnee Mission School District says it fired an elementary school teacher after a video showed her kicking a 5-year-old girl in the back. KCTV reports the incident occurred Feb. 21 at Bluejacket-Flint Elementary School in Shawnee. The girl's mother said her daughter had a large red mark on her arm after school that day and said the teacher hit her. A video obtained by the station shows the child refusing to leave the library with the other students and hiding in a bookshelf. The teacher is seen dragging the girl out o...
DURANT, Okla. – Southerastern's Juan Scoppetta picked up the final Great American Conference Men's Tennis Player of the Week Award handed out the season heading into the conference tournament. Scoppetta posted a 1-1 singles week and a 1-1 doubles effort. His singles play came against top-20 ranked competition, including a victory over No. 19 ranked Adham Gaber from regional-leading Southwest Baptist, winning that in straight sets 6-0, 6-0. His loss was in three sets to another top-20 ranked player from Washburn. He paired with Milos Vuckovic t...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan must redraw dozens of congressional and legislative districts for the 2020 election because Republicans configured them to guarantee their political dominance over the last decade by unconstitutionally diluting the power of Democratic voters, federal judges ruled Thursday. In a 3-0 ruling — which will be appealed — the panel gave the GOP-led Legislature and new Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer until Aug. 1 to enact new maps for nine of 14 congressional seats and 25 of 148 legislative districts. The number of ne...
SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. judge in Washington state Thursday blocked new Trump administration rules that would provide additional hurdles for women seeking abortions, including by banning taxpayer-funded clinics from making abortion referrals. Judge Stanley Bastian in Yakima granted the preliminary injunction in cases brought by the state and abortion rights groups, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said. The new rules were due to take effect May 3. "Today's ruling ensures that clinics across the nation can remain open and continue to p...
MCCALL, Idaho (AP) — A pilot who was trying to crash-land this week in an Idaho field instead brought his small plane to rest at the top of a 60-foot (18-meter) tree, officials said. Pilot John Gregory was not hurt in the Monday night crash, which happened when his single-engine Piper Cub PA-18 lost power and a wing strut became entangled in the tree, according to the fire department in the resort town of McCall. Gregory was rescued from his perch atop the giant white fir by volunteer firefighter Randy Acker, who owns a tree removal company. "...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A bill that a broad coalition of Native American groups endorsed to celebrate a day for indigenous people on Columbus Day was signed into law Thursday by Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, the first governor in the U.S. to be enrolled as a member of a Native American tribe. The Republican said the bill was a fair compromise that gives Oklahoma residents an opportunity to celebrate both the 15th century explorer Christopher Columbus and the state's indigenous people. The Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes, which r...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge told a man to pray for salvation before sentencing him to life in prison for killing a transgender woman in 2017 at an Oklahoma City motel. Brandon Michael Tyson, 32, was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty in February to fatally shooting Brooklyn BreYanna Stevenson, 31, The Oklahoman reported. Tyson is not eligible for parole. Authorities did not say Tyson killed Stevenson because of her gender identity, but the slaying alarmed Oklahoma City's LGBTQ community. The Human Rights Campaign listed her a...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's new Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed a bill to change the districts for the state's Supreme Court and indicated he intends to push for more changes to the state's judiciary. Stitt held a signing ceremony on Thursday for the measure that abolishes the current nine judicial districts represented on the court. Instead, the new boundaries will include the state's five congressional districts and four at-large districts. The change will not affect any of the current justices currently on the court. The court h...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A plan to give Oklahoma teachers a $1,200, across-the-board pay raise has been combined with a separate bill to force more school districts to return to five-day school weeks, and the proposal passed in the House. The House late Wednesday voted 68-30 for the measure , which is likely not in its final version. Senate Republicans have said returning more Oklahoma school districts to a traditional five-day week is among their top priorities. But about one-fifth of Oklahoma's more than 500 school districts have switched to f...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The mayor of Tulsa has included $100,000 in his upcoming budget for investigations of three grave sites that could hold the remains of people killed in the 1921 race riots. Tulsa's Black Wall Street was one of the worst race-related massacres in U.S. history. Up to 300 people are estimated to have been killed. Mayor G.T. Bynum said the money would fund the first stage of the project to re-examine the sites at Oaklawn Cemetery, Rolling Oaks Memorial Gardens and property near Newblock Park, the Tulsa World reported. Bynum a...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. – It came down to two singles matches between Arkansas Tech (12-6, 5-2 Great American Conference) and Southeastern Oklahoma State (2-11, 2-5 GAC), and Tech prevailed, beating the Savage Storm 4-2 to advance to the GAC semifinals. NEXT UP The Golden Suns will take on Southern Arkansas tomorrow, April 26, at 2 p.m. HOW IT HAPPENED The Suns used wins in No. 2 (Megan Bell and Katharina Drebka) and No. 3 (Daniela Baez and Teresa Sanchez) doubles to earn the doubles point. Kami Ward nabbed the first singles point for Tech with h...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. –Arkansas Tech (12-7, 5-3 Great American Conference) battled their way to a 3-3 tie with No. 1 seed Southern Arkansas (23-4, 7-0 GAC) but lost a heartbreaker, falling 3-4 to end their GAC tournament bout. HOW IT HAPPENED The Suns earned the doubles point with wins in the No. 1 and No. 3 spot. No. 1 doubles pairing Annabel Rowlands and Kami Ward defeated their opponents 6-3, and No. 3 doubles pairing Teresa Sanchez and Daniela Baez defeated their opponents 6-1. Sanchez earned the Suns' second point with her 6-2, 6-1 win in N...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. – Harding men's tennis, ranked 40th nationally and the No. 4 seed at the Great American Conference Tournament, upset regular season champion, 28th-ranked, and No. 1 seed Southern Arkansas 4-0 Friday in the semifinals. Harding (12-6) advances to meet No. 3 seed Southeastern Oklahoma Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in the final. The Bisons are seeking their first GAC men's tennis championship. Harding earned the doubles point with wins by Will Reeves and Pablo Trevino at No. 2 and Arthur Bellan and Luis Tirado at No. 3. Harding won t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma would establish rules regulating how to safely operate driverless vehicles navigating state highways under a bill passed by Legislature that has been sent to the governor's office. Autonomous vehicles are expected to bring in billions of dollars annually in future decades, according to a report by America's Energy Security Leadership Council. Rep. Ryan Martinez, the bill's sponsor, said the Oklahoma Driving Automation System Uniformity Act could help position the state to become a national leader in testing and e...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gov. Kevin Stitt has announced the appointment of four new members to the Oklahoma State Board of Education. The appointments announced Friday are marketing firm official Jennifer Monies of Oklahoma City; Oklahoma City realtor Estela Hernandez; lubricant company account manager Brian Bobek of Oklahoma City; and oil and gas well manager Kurt Bollenbach of Kingfisher. They replace board members Lee Baxter, Cathy Franks, Bill Price and Bob Ross, whose terms had expired. Stitt also reappointed Claremore Mayor Bill Flanagan t...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper is proposing a $15 federal minimum wage — with a twist. Rather than unilaterally hiking the wage to $15, the former Colorado governor proposes phasing in the increases depending on an area's cost of living. The most expensive quarter of the country would get a $15 minimum wage by 2021, and the least expensive would see that hike in 2024. The plan, disclosed to The Associated Press on Friday, proposes then tying future minimum wage hikes to metro areas' cost of living so tha...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' highest court declared for the first time Friday that the state constitution protects abortion rights, a sweeping ruling that blocks a ban on a common second trimester method for ending pregnancies and endangers other restrictions as well. The state Supreme Court's decision immediately roiled Kansas politics. Abortion opponents called for amending the state constitution but might wait to push for a change until next year, when all state lawmakers face voters. The court's decision was a big victory for abortion r...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge in Kansas is facing charges after being arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. Johnson County Court records show that 70-year-old Kathryn Vratil was arrested Thursday night. She is charged in Johnson County District Court with driving under the influence and improper driving. Vratil is a senior judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. The Kansas City Star reports a complaint filed Friday says Vratil was arrested by a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper. She posted a $...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former worker at the Wichita YMCA was sentenced to 27½ years in prison for sexually assaulting two young children. Twenty-two-year-old Caleb Gaston was sentenced Friday. He pleaded no contest in February to two counts of rape. Authorities say in January 2018, Gaston sexually abused a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old in his care at the YMCA branch's Kid Zone. Police arrested him after the 4-year-old girl reported that he had hit her and then touched her inappropriately. KAKE-TV reports that before sentencing, Gaston ap...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Friday a local prosecutor has reopened a domestic violence investigation involving suspended wide receiver Tyreek Hill after a TV station broadcast audio in which Hill and his fiancee discuss injuries to their 3-year-old son. Reid and general manager Brett Veach both declined comment about Hill's case and potential next steps involving their star player. The prosecutor, Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe, did not return a message. "I'm not going to have too much to a...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Fewer juveniles have been arrested and held in the Kansas juvenile justice system while the state has been investing in alternatives to incarceration, according to a recent study. The Pew Charitable Trusts found that the number of juvenile arrests in Kansas fell by 29% between 2015 and 2017, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported. The state's population of youth placed in detention facilities or group homes declined by 63% from 2015 to 2018, researchers said. The changes align with when Kansas began funneling budget savings i...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — More than 50 years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the question of how to honor him continues to divide Kansas City residents. When the City Council voted in January to name a 10-mile boulevard that runs north and south through mostly minority neighborhoods after the civil rights icon, Kansas City seemed to finally shed its distinction as one of the largest cities in the U.S. without a street named for King. That vote capped a contentious effort led by black pastors and officials of the local c...
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — A Guatemalan man is facing several life terms after he was found guilty of 18 child sex crimes. Crawford County Attorney Michael Gayoso says 38-year-old Francsico Eduardo Noches-Padilla was found guilty Thursday of 13 counts of rape of a child, four counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and one count of aggravated criminal sodomy. The Pittsburg Sun reports that on 15 of the 18 charges, he faces life without the possibility of parole for 25 years. Prosecutors say the crimes involve several acts committed o...
