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WACO, Texas – Rogers State women's soccer goalkeeper Taylor Sargent was named the Heartland Conference Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week as announced by the Heartland Conference on Monday. Sargent garnered the award for the third straight week. The product of The Colony, Texas, Sargent posted two shutouts during the week to bring her total to four-straight shutouts on the season. The junior has a current streak of 389 minutes without allowing a goal. Sargent started the week with five saves in 110 minutes at Lubbock Christian in a 0...
SEARCY – Coming off its best performance in program history, the Harding women's basketball team is ranked No. 3 in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association Preseason Poll Tuesday. Harding finished the 2016-17 season ranked fourth in NCAA Division II after reaching the national semifinals. It is the second time in program history Harding has been preseason ranked. The Lady Bisons were ranked 15th in the 2014-15 preseason poll. The Lady Bisons went 31-4 last season and won the Great American Conference regular season championship with a 2...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says a man in a rented pickup who mowed down pedestrians and bicyclists along a bike path near the World Trade Center memorial Tuesday was a "lone wolf." The attack killed at least eight and injured 11 others. Police shot the 29-year-old driver and took him into custody after he jumped out of the truck with what turned out to be a fake gun in each hand. It's the latest in a string of incidents where drivers have used their vehicles as weapons. Some were orchestrated by extremist groups, others by unst...
NEW YORK (AP) — A man in a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and bicyclists along a busy bike path near the World Trade Center memorial Tuesday, killing at least eight and injuring 11 others in what the mayor called "a particularly cowardly act of terror." The 29-year-old driver was shot in the abdomen by police and taken into custody after jumping out of the truck with what turned out to be a fake gun in each hand and shouting "Allahu Akbar!" officials said. His condition was not immediately released. The driver barreled along the b...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Property damage claims from a series of deadly October wildfires now exceed $3.3 billion, California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said Tuesday. The figure represents claims for homes and businesses insured by 15 companies and is more than triple the previous estimate of $1 billion. Jones said the number will continue to rise as more claims are reported. The amount of claims now reported means that the fires caused more damage than California's 1991 Oakland Hills fire, which was previously the state's costliest, wi...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump dismissed George Papadopoulos on Tuesday as a "liar" and a mere campaign volunteer, but newly unsealed court papers outline the former adviser's frequent contacts with senior officials and with foreign nationals who promised access to the highest levels of the Russian government. They also hint at more headaches for the White House and former campaign officials. Papadopoulos is now cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller as he investigates possible coordination between Russia and Trump's 2016 W...
As revelations emerged that Russian-linked accounts reached many more American voters than previously thought, tech giants Facebook, Twitter and Google on Tuesday defended their security measures and promised a Senate subcommittee they would do more to stop the misuse of their platforms by foreign nations. Lawyers for the three companies acknowledged to U.S. lawmakers that Russian-linked accounts began exploiting their services in 2015 to sway last year's presidential election. They also said the abuses continued after President Donald Trump...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will defend America's decades-old economic embargo on Cuba in a United Nations vote this week, the State Department said Tuesday, in a reversal from the Obama administration that reflects deteriorating U.S.-Cuban relations. Every year the U.N. votes to condemn the embargo, and for years the U.S. predictably voted "no." But last year, under President Barack Obama, the U.S. abstained for the first time, as Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro moved forward with the historic warming of relations. A "...
HONOLULU (AP) — Two women from Hawaii who were rescued after being lost at sea defended their account of the ordeal Tuesday, insisting that a storm was whipping up 30-foot waves and near hurricane-force winds on the night they set sail in a 50-foot boat, despite government records that show no severe weather in the area. The Coast Guard is reviewing records from the days after Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava put to sea, but NASA satellite images for the days around their departure show no organized storms in the area where they planned to t...
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was a "gold mine" of intelligence, helping the military better understand insurgents and how they imprison hostages, two agents testified Tuesday as defense attorneys sought to show the soldier's contributions since he was returned in a prisoner swap. The testimony at Bergdahl's sentencing was meant to counter prosecution evidence favoring stiff punishment, including several service members who testified about wounds they suffered on search missions after Bergdahl's 2009 disappearance. Bergdahl f...
BERLIN (AP) — German leaders on Tuesday marked the 500th anniversary since the day Martin Luther is said to have nailed his theses challenging the Catholic Church to a church door, a starting point of the Reformation. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier took part in a service in the famous Castle Church in Wittenberg, where Luther supposedly posted his 95 Theses on Oct. 31, 1517. In remembrance of the 500th anniversary, Reformation day was a public holiday in Germany this year. Thousands of people were p...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's supreme leader has restricted the range of ballistic missiles manufactured in the country to 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles), the head of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said Tuesday, which limits their reach to only regional Mideast targets. The comments on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's orders appear to be an effort by Iranian authorities to contrast their missile program, which they often describe as being for defensive purposes, against those of countries like North Korea, which poses a threat to t...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea and China announced Tuesday that they will work to improve their relationship, which has been badly strained by the deployment of an American missile defense system, with Seoul saying their leaders are set to hold talks next week. The thaw in relations comes amid increased regional tensions over North Korea's nuclear ambitions and ahead of President Donald Trump's scheduled visit to both countries next week as part of his first Asian tour. Relations between Beijing and Seoul have been testy since South K...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. special operations forces captured a militant in Libya accused of playing an instrumental role in the Benghazi attacks, officials say, in a high-stakes operation designed to bring the perpetrators to justice five years after the deadly violence. President Donald Trump on Monday identified the militant as Mustafa al-Imam and said his capture signified that the four Americans who died "will never be forgotten." Justice Department officials were escorting al-Imam by military plane to the United States, where he's expected to...
ATWATER, Calif. (AP) — Google's self-driving car spin-off is accelerating efforts to convince the public that its technology is almost ready to safely transport people without any human assistance at all. Waymo, hatched from a Google project started eight years ago, showed off its progress Monday during a rare peek at a closely guarded testing facility located 120 miles (193 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco. That's where its robots complete their equivalent of driver's education. The tour included giving more than three dozen reporters r...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. national security officials have warned congressional Republicans and Democrats demanding a new war authorization that existing laws governing combat operations against terrorist groups are legally sufficient and that repealing them prematurely could signal the United States is backing away from the fight. During testimony Monday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis urged Congress to tread carefully. If lawmakers are compelled to replace t...
HOUSTON (AP) — Dozens of low-income families in Houston whose homes were damaged by flooding after Hurricane Harvey are getting help thanks to a partnership with a housing agency in Oklahoma City. The torrential rainfall in late August damaged thousands of homes in the Houston area, including seven properties owned by the Houston Housing Authority, which uses federal funds to provide affordable homes to more than 58,000 low-income residents. Most of the 950 families living in the seven properties have been helped, but 84 families whose townhome...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says she has appointed an interim director to oversee the state's finance and operations agency. Fallin said Tuesday that Denise Northrup will serve as interim director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services after Preston Doerflinger was named interim commissioner of the Oklahoma State Department of Health. Doerflinger was named interim health commissioner Monday, following the resignation of Dr. Terry Cline. Cline resigned amid financial concerns that prompted a call for a state a...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Financial concerns that prompted Oklahoma's health commissioner to ask for a state audit of his agency also led to the commissioner's resignation, Oklahoma's top auditor said Tuesday. A team of state auditors has been reviewing the Health Department's financial records since the agency requested the audit last month, Auditor & Inspector Gary Jones said. A Sept. 28 letter from the department's health commissioner, Dr. Terry Cline, a its senior deputy commissioner, Julie Cox-Kain cited dwindling resources and "a budget and op...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A judge has temporarily blocked an insurance company from ending its current contracts with several hospitals in rural Oklahoma. Four hospitals asked for the temporary restraining order after suing Blue Cross Blue Shield. The hospitals allege the insurance company breached their contracts and planned to cut provider reimbursement rates. The Oklahoman reports the lawsuit was filed on behalf of hospitals in Prague, Fairfax, Haskell and Drumright. The insurance company has declined to comment. The lawsuit says the hospitals m...
HENNESSEY, Okla. (AP) — Five earthquakes have been recorded in central Oklahoma, including one with a preliminary magnitude rated at 4.1. The U.S. Geological Survey reports the 4.1 magnitude quake struck at 4:50 a.m. Tuesday near the town of Hennessey in Kingfisher County, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) northwest of Oklahoma City. Four smaller quakes with preliminary magnitudes ranging from 2.4 to 2.9 struck the same area between 2:06 a.m. and 10:13 a.m. Tuesday. Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman Keli Cain says no i...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Crews are working to restore full website access at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission after the agency's networks and computer systems were knocked offline last week by hackers. The Oklahoman reports that internal website access was restored Tuesday and officials say the commission's external site is expected to be up and running later in the day. Last week, hackers used malware called "Zero-day," which shut down the commission's computer network, email and website. The commission regulates public utilities, and its w...
LENEXA, Kan. (AP) — An investigation into a man found sleeping with his two children in a Kansas storage unit has led to the discovery of a body in a cooler, police and court records say. Justin Rey, 35, is jailed on $1 million bond in Johnson County, Kansas, on two counts each of aggravated child endangerment and contributing to a child's misconduct. No attorney is listed for him in online court records. The remains haven't been officially identified, and no charges related to the death have been filed. Police say the remains were discovered O...
PECK, Kan. (AP) — The Sedgwick County Sheriff's office is searching for a 40-year-old Wichita man in the death of a woman whose body was found near train tracks in south-central Kansas. A passerby found the woman's body early Monday near train tracks near Peck. She was pronounced dead at the scene, and emergency responders noticed trauma on the body. The woman was identified Tuesday as 40-year-old Tamsen Kayzer of Wichita. The suspect is described as a black male, 6-foot-1 tall and weighing 190 pounds. He has black hair and brown e...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Corporation Commission has rejected a request from three gas companies, sticking to its original ruling that they need to speed up the replacement of obsolete pipeline deemed a safety risk. The commission ruled in September that Atmos Energy, Black Hills Energy and Kansas Gas Service needed to create a 10-year plan to replace unprotected and bare steel pipes. The companies also have to recoup funds at up to 40 cents per month per customer, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported . The ruling ended a years-long look at...
