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RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. - No. 24 Arkansas Tech extended its win streak to 15 matches and moved to 2-0 in the Great American Conference on Tuesday, defeating Harding in straight sets (25-22, 25-14, 25-16). UP NEXT Arkansas Tech (15-0, 2-0 GAC) travels to Arkadelphia on Thursday for a 6 p.m. match against Ouachita. HOW IT HAPPENED Tech's most productive set offensively came in the first game, as the Golden Suns recorded 19 kills and hit .326. Allie Anderson and Hunter Eshnaur led all players with five kills each in the set, and Greer Rogers had her...
MONTICELLO - The University of Arkansas at Monticello volleyball team was taken down by the Reddies of Henderson State University Tuesday evening at home by a final score of 3-0. Final set scores from the match were 19-25, 22-25, and 17-25 in favor of the Reddies. The Blossoms fall to 5-7 (0-2 GAC) on the year. Henderson State improves to 7-6 (1-1 GAC) overall this season. Arkansas-Monticello jumped out to a hot start in set number one, leading the Reddies 10-4 early on after three straight kills from Maggie Pyles, Laurene Cushinberry, and...
MUSKOGEE, Okla. – Harding senior Mason Banger and junior Ryan Williamson both shot 1-under 70 Tuesday in the final round of the NSU Golf Classic, hosted by Northeastern State at Muskogee Country Club. Their two sub-par rounds helped give Harding its third consecutive 288 team score and finish tied for third among 17 teams in the event. Harding finished at 864 in the 54-hole event, its fourth-best score in program history and only seven strokes off the school record set last year at the NCAA Regional. Central Oklahoma won the event at 848, and A...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference announced the league's Players of the Week for the third week of the men's soccer season. Harding captured all three awards as Andre Cunha earned the Offensive honor; Aaron Craig claimed the Defender nod and Michael Wasson picked up the Goalkeeper accolade. GAC OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK – Andre Cunha, Harding, MF, Jr., Cristalina, Goias, Brazil On Thursday, Cunha scored in the 82nd minute against Northeastern State. He tied for team lead in shots on goal. Two days later, he netted his tea...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Harding volleyball team fell to No. 24 Arkansas Tech 3-0 (25-22, 25-14, 25-16) Tuesday in Great American Conference action. The Lady Bisons fall to 12-2 overall and 1-1 in the GAC. Arkansas Tech improves to 15-0 overall and 2-0 in the GAC. It was the third time this season Harding has played a ranked team. The Lady Bisons win came against No. 23 Washburn 3-2. Harding also fell to No. 15 Central Missouri 3-0. FIRST SET Arkansas Tech took a 12-9 lead in the first set before Harding battled back to tie the set at 17. W...
MAGNOLIA, Ark. – The Ouachita Baptist volleyball team (9-4, 2-0 GAC) remained undefeated in conference play Tuesday night, defeating Southern Arkansas (6-10, 0-2 GAC) in five sets. The Tigers took the match 25-15, 24-26, 25-15, 23-25, 15-7 while holding the Muleriders to a .108 hitting percentage. Kori Bullard led Ouachita with 15 kills and seven blocks as the Tigers closed out the match with a .238 hitting percentage, 63 kills and 12 blocks. Adrianna Nolly and Tabatha Huckabee followed Bullard with 14 kills each. Nolly also closed the night o...
MAGNOLIA, Ark. – Down two sets to one and trailing 16-9 in the fourth set of the evening, the Southern Arkansas Lady Mulerider Volleyball team engineered a rally to force a fifth set, but was unable to close out the set as Ouachita withstood the SAU surge to improve to 2-0 in Great American Conference play. The Lady Muleriders (6-10, 0-2 GAC) were held to an attack percentage of .056 in the opening frame as the Lady Tigers (9-4, 2-0 GAC) hit .343 (17-5-35) and cruised to a 25-15 set one win. But SAU would even the set at one as they scored f...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has made airlines' longtime goal of privatizing air traffic control a key part of his agenda to boost America's infrastructure. But his prospects for closing the deal with Congress appear slim. A House bill that would put the aviation industry in charge of air traffic control has repeatedly stalled and prospects appear even worse in the Senate, where there has been no effort to take up the issue. While the White House and airline lobbyists have pushed for privatization, there has been fierce o...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will award the Medal of Honor to a retired Army medic from Alabama who risked his life several times to provide medical care to his comrades during the Vietnam War, the White House announced Wednesday. Trump will award retired Army Capt. Gary M. Rose of Huntsville, Alabama, the nation's highest military honor for his actions in combat. Trump will honor Rose for his conspicuous gallantry during a White House ceremony on Oct. 23. The White House said Rose, 69, will be recognized for risking his life w...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City police officers who opened fire on a man in front of his home as he approached them holding a metal pipe didn't hear witnesses yelling that he was deaf, a department official said Wednesday. Magdiel Sanchez, 35, wasn't obeying the officers' commands before one shot him with a gun and the other with a Taser on Tuesday night, police Capt. Bo Mathews said at a news conference. He said witnesses were yelling "he can't hear you" before the officers fired, but they didn't hear them. "In those situations, very v...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Latest on a man holding a stick who was shot and killed by an Oklahoma City police officer (all times local): 4:15 p.m. A man who saw Oklahoma City police officers open fire on his deaf neighbor says the neighbor was developmentally disabled and also didn't speak. Julio Rayos tells The Oklahoman that 35-year-old Magdiel Sanchez mainly communicated through hand movements. He says he believes Sanchez became frustrated trying to tell the officers what was going on, and that he shouldn't have been killed. Two officers i...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Japan urged international unity Wednesday in pressuring North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, even as another key U.S. ally pushed back against President Donald Trump's threat to "totally destroy" the rogue nation if it attacked. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe devoted his entire speech at the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations to North Korea, which has launched two ballistic missiles over its eastern neighbor in the past three weeks. Abe told the U.N. General Assembly the "gravity of this t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sea turtles are lumbering back from the brink of extinction, a new study says. Scientists found more populations of the large turtles improving than declining when they looked at nearly 60 regions across the globe. That's a big change from a decade or two ago, experts said. Long-living sea turtles have been pushed to endangered levels by hunting, accidentally being caught in fishing nets, habitat loss, plastics pollution and climate change, experts say. But massive efforts to save the egg-laying turtles by changing fishing n...
WASHINGTON (AP) — It will come as no surprise if the Federal Reserve has an announcement to make when its latest policy meeting ends Wednesday: That it's ready to begin paring its enormous $4.5 trillion portfolio containing Treasurys and mortgage bonds. The Fed expanded its bond holdings — the major assets on its balance sheet — in the years after the financial crisis erupted in 2008. It bought the bonds to try to hold down mortgage and other loan rates and support a fragile economy. The Fed stopped buying new bonds in 2014 but kept its balan...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Was it a bluff? A warning that Washington would shoot down North Korea's next missile test? A restatement of past policy? Or simply just what it seemed: a straightforward threat of annihilation from the president of the United States? Officials and pundits across Asia struggled Wednesday to parse Donald Trump's vow Tuesday at the U.N. General Assembly to "totally destroy North Korea" if provoked. In a region well used to Pyongyang's pursuit of nuclear weapons generating a seemingly never-ending cycle of threats and c...
HOUSTON (AP) — Immigrants came from across Houston to a Baptist church gymnasium and stacked dollies with boxes of cereal, orange juice and household necessities like cleaning bleach. For many of them, the church was the safest place to seek relief after Harvey devastated Houston and left thousands of immigrants fearful of turning to the government for help amid fears they would get deported. A similar response was seen in immigrant-heavy sections of Florida after Irma swamped the state. "We have to come together as churches to help the u...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — NATO's secretary-general welcomed President Donald Trump's new strategy for the 16-year Afghan war and said the U.S. leader's insistence that NATO members increase their defense spending is achieving positive results. Jens Stoltenberg said in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly's annual meeting of world leaders that Trump has been very clear "that the United States remains committed to NATO, but not only in words but also in deeds." He strongly welcomed the U...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to "totally destroy North Korea" if the U.S. is forced to defend itself or its allies against the renegade nation's nuclear weapons program, making his case in a combative debut speech to the U.N. that laid out a stark, good-vs-evil view of a globe riven by chaos and turmoil. Trump's broadsides against "rogue regimes," North Korea chief among them, drew murmurs from the assembled world leaders and served as a searing salute to his nationalism during diplomatic prime time. He said it w...
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's environmental regulators have more than doubled the proposed fines against a company building a natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Michigan, saying Wednesday the two sides are at an impasse. The fines now stand at $2.3 million and stem from what the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency says are numerous water and air pollution violations during construction of the $4.2 billion Rover Pipeline. The twin pipelines are being built across Ohio to carry natural gas from Appalachian shale fields to Canada and s...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco is suing five of the world's largest oil and gas companies for the costs of sea walls and other infrastructure needed to protect against climate change. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in California court accuses the companies of ignoring warnings that fossil fuels would cause catastrophic global warming and mounting campaigns to discredit climate change science. It says the companies have created a public nuisance. The neighboring city of Oakland filed a separate, but similar suit. The five companies include C...
DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is installing a barrier and valve inside an inactive Colorado mine to prevent another surge of wastewater like a 2015 blowout that contaminated rivers in three states. The 12-inch (30-centimeter) valve will regulate wastewater pouring from the Gold King Mine in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, where the EPA inadvertently triggered a wastewater spill while excavating at the mine entrance in August 2015. That spill released 3 million gallons (11 million liters) of w...
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Scientists at a Nevada earthquake lab on Wednesday tested new bridge designs with connectors they say are innovative and created to better withstand violent temblors and speed reconstruction efforts after major quake damage. University of Nevada, Reno engineers performed the experiments on a giant "shake table" to simulate violent motions of an earthquake to rattle a 100-ton (91-metric ton), 70 foot (21-meter) bridge model to determine how well it would hold up. The tests, conducted a day after a big quake struck Mexico, s...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — A chief gripe with Apple Watch is that it requires you to keep an iPhone with you for most tasks. The inclusion of GPS last year helped on runs and bike rides, but you're still missing calls and messages without the phone nearby. A new model with its own cellular-network connection is Apple's next step toward an untethered world. Now you can make and receive calls and messages on the watch while leaving your phone at home. But the watch still needs regular contact with an iPhone, and for most tasks, the phone needs t...
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is apologizing for letting advertisers use phrases like "Jew-haters" as a targeting criteria and for not noticing it until it was pointed out. The company is also tightening policies and tools that let businesses target advertisements to its 2 billion users, hoping to ensure that this doesn't happen again. The move follows a ProPublica report that found advertisers could use terms such as "how to burn Jews" to target ads to people with those terms in their profile. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, wr...
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Arcimoto, an Oregon-based electric vehicle company, raised nearly $20 million in a recent initial public offering and its founder says the firm is on track to deliver its first vehicles to customers this year. Arcimoto shares will begin trading Thursday on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol FUV. That stands for "Fun Utility Vehicle," which is how the company describes its vehicles with seats for a driver and one passenger, three wheels and motorcycle handlebar-style steering. The price of the company's base model price is $...
