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ALVA, Okla.– Northwestern Oklahoma State University continues to battle and build camaraderie through the beginning of their 2019 season – and senior middle-blocker Jennifer Eubanks continues to play a large role in the team’s success. Eubanks earned herself Great American Conference Offensive Player of the Week after posting some big numbers that helped her team win four out of the five matches played. The Copperas Cove, Texas, native tallied 61 total kills. Eubanks earned 16 kills in the Rangers match against Western Colorado, two less than...
ALVA, Okla.– Northwestern Oklahoma State University faced their first Great American Conference opponent of the season Tuesday evening as they played East Central University. The Rangers continue to improve their record, which is now 6-4. The Black and Red fought through adversity with 33 ties and 17 lead changes. The Rangers' aggressive serving and offense in the last three sets allowed them to take the match 3-1 [26-28, 25-15, 25-18, 25-16]. Northwestern had a total of 54 team kills, seven s... Full story
EDMOND, Okla. – Southeastern clawed back from a slow start on the second of back-to-back match nights but was unable to overcome the deficit, falling 3-0 to Central Oklahoma on Wednesday night in Edmond, Okla. The loss dropped the Savage Storm to 1-9 overall heading into a six-day rest before traveling to Bethany for a Great American Conference matchup with Southern Nazarene on Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. SE dropped the opening set 25-8 but played neck-and-neck with the Bronchos in set two, trailing 13-14 before UCO reeled off eight-straight points t...
BETHANY, Okla. (Sept. 19, 2019) – Erin Greenslade scored late in the first half for Southern Nazarene and the Crimson Storm rode that goal to a 1-0 win over visiting Oklahoma Christian on Thursday at Wes Harmon Field. OC (0-5) and SNU (2-3) both took 14 shots in a game that started with the temperature hovering around 90 degrees. SNU caught the break it needed in the 43rd minute with Greenslade's unassisted goal. The Eagles had a late offensive flourish, taking four shots in the final six minutes and forcing SNU goalkeeper Maci Attalla to make...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – A career high 10 kills from Bree Sanders as well as double-doubles from Courtney Bolf, Taylor Scalzi, MaKenzie Thoman and Abby Blackburn led the Reddies to a win 3-1 win (25-22, 25-27, 25-15, 25-21) in the conference opener against Arkansas-Monticello Wednesday afternoon. Unfortunately, HSU was unable to complete the mid-week sweep, falling to Texas A&M-Kingsville 3-2 in the final match of the night. The Reddies will head to Mississippi for three matches over the weekend. On Saturday, HSU will face Spring Hill College at 2...
DALLAS (AP) — T. Boone Pickens was remembered at a Dallas funeral on Thursday for his humor, tenacity and larger-than-life personality. "Boone was bigger than life. In fact, Boone was bigger than Texas itself," Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said at the service at Highland Park United Methodist Church. Abbott recalled that when Pickens was once asked if he was from Texas or Oklahoma, he replied: "Both." Abbott said, "Boone was too big to be confined to just one state." The brash and quotable oil tycoon who grew even wealthier through corporate t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has reached an agreement with the state's largest electrical utility that avoids a rate increase for its 800,000 customers in the state. The three-member commission said Thursday the agreement settles a $77.6 million rate increase request filed by Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. in December with no rate increase. The utility said it needed to raise rates to pay for environmental compliance investments, depreciation on aging equipment and other needs. The request was opposed by Attorney G...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the first-degree murder conviction and life without parole prison sentence of a woman convicted in the fatal shooting of her estranged husband. The court on Thursday rejected appeals by 30-year-old Jasmine Michelle Irvin, who was convicted in the July 2016 shooting death of Robert Godwin in rural Lincoln County. The court's ruling says Godwin was found with four gunshot wounds to the back. Among other things, the court denied allegations that improper testimony, i...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma's largest virtual charter school is demanding a state lawmaker stop making what it calls "false, destructive, defamatory and baseless allegations" about the school. A letter from Oklahoma City-based Epic Charter Schools' attorneys to Republican state Sen. Ron Sharp and obtained by the Tulsa World says Sharp has seven days to "cease and desist" comments about the school and retract previous statements, or face legal action. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is investigating Epic founders David Chaney and B...
AUGUSTA, Kan. (AP) — The Butler County Sheriff's says at least 60 cats — some of them dead— were removed from a home in Augusta. Sheriff Kelly Herzet says crews cleared the animals from the home Thursday. He said a dead and decaying dog was found inside the house and it's possible more animals would be found. KAKE -TV reports Stephanie Heinz, who lives next to the home, said the woman who rented the home would show up periodically to feed the animals and then would leave again. Herzet said because the renter paid her utilities, crews could...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — More students will qualify for Kansas public universities under new admission standards approved by the state Board of Regents. The board voted unanimously Wednesday to eliminate a rule that required high school students to take specific courses in English, math and science before attending the universities. Class rank also will no longer be considered for admissions, and most students with a C or C+ GPA will be accepted at a majority of the universities, The Wichita Eagle reported. Regents said under the new standards, 87%...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 26-year-old Kansas man who was shot with his own gun was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison after admitting he was not legally allowed to have the weapon. U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said in a news release that Keeno DeVonte Collins, of Ozawkie, was sentenced Wednesday after previously pleading guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Collins was shot in the arm in June 2018 on the Topeka West High School campus. DNA from blood on the pistol matched Collins' DNA. He told emergency responders h...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Four Wichita middle school students suffered minor injuries when a semi-trailer truck ran into the back of a school bus. Wichita schools spokeswoman Susan Arensman said the accident happened Thursday morning in southwest Wichita. She said the bus, which was headed to Allison Traditional Magnet Middle School, was stopped at railroad tracks when the truck, which did not have an attached trailer, hit it. Arensman said of the 21 students on board, four complained of injuries and two were taken to the hospital with minor i...
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A man has been convicted of holding a woman against her will in her suburban Kansas City apartment for several weeks and sexually assaulting her. The Kansas City Star reports that jurors found 38-year-old Anthony Darryl Allen guilty Wednesday of one count aggravated kidnapping and two counts of rape. Police arrested Allen in August 2015 after officers were dispatched to the woman's apartment in Lenexa, Kansas, for a welfare check. Allen initially refused to come out of the apartment but eventually surrendered to police. C...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Four Missouri families who don't want to vaccinate their children allege in a lawsuit that the children's schools and state health officials have made it increasingly difficult to file religious exemptions. The Kansas City Star reports that a federal judge has already ruled that one of the unvaccinated students may continue going to a charter school in Kansas City while the case continues. The child's grandfather, Linus Baker, of Stilwell, Kansas, is representing his grandson's family as well as families from Bates, C...
HIKO, Nev. (AP) — The Latest on "Storm Area 51" events in two tiny Nevada towns near the once-secret military research site (all times local): 6:15 p.m. Military jets roared overhead in the blue Nevada sky as Rusty Satterwhite, from Twin Falls, Idaho, chatted with his new camping neighbor, Chuck Bench of White City, Oregon. Bench, a 72-year-old Vietnam War-era U.S. Air Force veteran, said he came to the "Alienstock" event in Rachel to find meaning in life. Maybe it's over those hills, laughed Satterwhite, a 45-year-old automation engineer. The...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Officials have a warning after a Colorado Springs woman put an injured bobcat in her car, inches away from where her child was in a safety seat: Don't pick up wildlife. Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Bill Vogrin says the woman spotted the injured adult male cat while driving, wrapped it in a blanket and put it in the back of her SUV on Wednesday. A boy, about 3 years old, was in the back seat. Agency officials told her to get her boy and herself out of the vehicle when she called to ask what to do. V...
CHINA, Texas (AP) — The slow-churning remnants of Tropical Storm Imelda flooded parts of Texas on Thursday, leaving at least two people dead and rescue crews with boats scrambling to reach stranded drivers and families trapped in their homes during a relentless downpour that drew comparisons to Hurricane Harvey two years ago. Officials in Harris County, which includes Houston, said there had been a combination of at least 1,000 high-water rescues and evacuations to get people to shelter. The storm also flooded parts of southwestern L...
For a family with its name on a wing of one of the world's most famous museums and a school at a prestigious university, members of the Sackler clan have done a remarkable job of vanishing from public life. The family owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, which filed for bankruptcy this week as part of an effort to settle some 2,600 lawsuits accusing it of helping spark the national opioid crisis that has killed more than 400,000 people in the U.S. in the last two decades. Any settlement deal is likely to take a cut of their future income, and...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration plunged into an extraordinary showdown with Congress Thursday over access to a whistleblower's complaint about reported incidents including a private conversation between President Donald Trump and a foreign leader. The blocked complaint is both "serious" and "urgent," the government's intelligence watchdog said. The administration is keeping Congress from even learning what exactly the whistleblower is alleging, but the intelligence community's inspector general said the matter involves the "most s...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Thousands of protesters gathered Friday at rallies around Australia as a day of worldwide demonstrations calling for action to guard against climate change began ahead a U.N. summit in New York. Some of the first rallies in what is being billed as a "global climate strike" kicked off in Australia's largest city, Sydney, and the national capital, Canberra. Australian demonstrators called for their nation, which is the world's largest exporter of coal and liquid natural gas, to take more drastic action to reduce g...
SHAWNEE, Okla. – The East Central University volleyball team finished the first day of the OBU Invitational, falling to Southwest Baptist and William Jewell, 3-0. ECU vs. SBU Scoring Set One: L, 21-25 The Bearcats (2-7) took an early 5-1 led The Tigers (0-13) followed with a 4-0 run to tie the set at five SBU again went ahead by five (10-5) ECU went on a 11-2 run to take a 16-12 advantage The set was then tied again at 16 and 17 The Bearcats then used a 4-0 run to take control for good Set Two: L, 23-25 The set was tight from start to finish 16...
SHAWNEE - The Oklahoma Baptist men's soccer team went toe-to-toe in a wild match-up with the Harding Bisons on Thursday evening, but a pair of late goals from teh visitors sunk OBU as they fell 4-2 in their conference opener. OBU held a 26-14 advantage in shots including a 10-7 mark in shots on target. The Bison also dominated corner kicks in the match, holding an 11-1 advantage on te night. The Bison got on the board first in the eighth minute as Herbert Lima found a 2 on 1 situation and found a cross into the box to a streaking Dominic...
BETHANY, OKLA - The Southern Nazarene University Women's soccer team fought their way back into the win column on Thursday afternoon against the Eagles of Oklahoma Christian University. In cool afternoon conditions, the Storm made a point to shoot often and defend even more often. There was a noticeable commitment to defense in the match by SNU, as the Crimson Storm worked hard to keep OC out of dangerous areas. Ashlynn Pritchett and Maci Attalla shared the goalkeeper job on the evening and had two saves apiece to add to SNU's...
BETHANY, Okla. - The Southern Nazarene University Men's Soccer team couldn't quite put the pieces together to overcome Ouachita Baptist Universityon Thursday night. The Tigers (1-3-1, 1-0) defeated the Crimson Storm (1-4, 0-1) 1-0 on this night of Great American Conference soccer - the conference opener for both teams. What started out as an intense defensive battle, ended in much the same way. SNU and OBU fought hard against one another through the first half which left a zero in both of their scoring columns. OBU broke the seal with a Nery Fl...
