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BETHANY, Okla. — The Great American Conference has released its 2017 All-Conference football teams and Southern Nazarene has two players who made lists. Will House and Josh Jordan both were named All-GAC Second Team. It is the first time that SNU has had a player on the second team as all previous eight were honorable mentions. House, who received an honorable mention in 2014 and 2016, closed his career by helping set a school record for rushing yards in a single-season with 2,111. Jordan was fifth in the GAC and led the team in tackles with 9...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – A hot start to the 2017-18 campaign has led to Lady Bulldog sophomore guard Tyra Askabeing awarded the inaugural GAC Player of the Week award for the new season. Aska (Meridian, Okla.) tallied back-to-back performances of at least 20 points at the GAC/MIAA Crossover over the weekend, posting exactly 20 points in an upset win over No. 11-ranked Emporia State on Friday followed by 21 points against Missouri Southern a day later. She shot an efficient 58.6% (17-for-29) from the field in two games, helping lead SWOSU to a 2...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference announced the postseason football awards on Tuesday afternoon and a pair of seniors from the SWOSU Football team earned a selection to the list as offensive lineman Garrett Luke and linebacker Austin Loomis were named Honorable Mention All-GAC. Luke (Willis, Texas) caps his career with a third consecutive All-GAC selection after earning Second Team honors in 2016 along with an honorable mention in 2015. Luke started all 11 games for the Bulldogs at left tackle for the third straight season a...
OKLAHOMA CITY (Nov. 14, 2017) – Oklahoma Christian fell into a hole too deep on Thursday night against Central Oklahoma. An OC dry spell of more than six minutes in the first half allowed UCO to build a double-digit lead, and the Bronchos held off a late run to beat the Eagles 85-74 on an emotional night that included the return to the Eagles' Nest of legendary OC head coach Dan Hays, now on the UCO bench as a volunteer assistant coach. OC (0-3) started strong, jumping to a 7-2 lead, and was up 19-16 after a 3-pointer by Elijah Strickland w...
OKLAHOMA CITY (Nov. 14, 2017) – Down 17 points in the second half against a foe that made last season's NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament, Oklahoma Christian's young Lady Eagles responded with a huge rally. OC cut that deficit all the way to two points in the final minutes, but Central Oklahoma went 11 of 14 from the free-throw line in the final 2:41 to hold off the Lady Eagles and escape the Eagles' Nest with a 67-61 win on Thursday. In a game when the shots weren't falling much – at a 36.5-percent clip – the fact that OC (0-3)...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. - Chris Eastburn, Trey Bradley, KJ Reid, Cua' Rose, Braden Stringer, and Cornelius Dortch all garnered all-Great American Conference First Team honors, leading a dozen Arkansas Tech football players to earn all-conference honors, the conference office announced Tuesday. Joining Tech's first-team picks on the second team were Ty Reasnor, Clayton Watson, and Eric Perez, while Stringer picked up a second all-conference nod for his play on special teams; while Jakcob Dean and Tevin McKenzie were named honorable mention...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas at Monticello men's basketball senior Derylton Hill has been selected as the Great American Conference Player of the Week after UAM recorded a 2-0 record to open the season at the GAC/NSIC Crossover Challenge. Hill, a senior, averaged 23.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and shot 68 percent from the floor to begin the 2017-18 season in Russellville, Arkansas against Northern Sun opponents Concordia St. Paul, and Minnesota Crookston. The Palm Bay, Florida native started off the week with a 23 point performance o...
SEARCY – The Harding men's soccer team had four players listed on the 2017 D2CCA Men's Soccer All-Central Region Team Wednesday. First-team honorees included junior midfielder Jason Diaz, sophomore defender Christian Ramos and senior defender Aaron Craig. Junior forward Andre Cunha made the second team. Diaz, of Waco, Texas, started all 18 games with three goals and three assists. He earned all-region honors for the third consecutive season. Ramos, of Denton, Texas, was Harding's leading scorer with seven goals. He also had three assists and l...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference announced the league's Players of the Week for the final week of the football regular season. Ouachita's Drew Harris won the Offensive accolade; Harding's Sam Blankenship earned the Defensive award and Southeastern Oklahoma State's Joel Carlos claimed the Special Teams honor. GAC OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK – Drew Harris, Ouachita, WR/RB, Jr., Benton, Arkansas Harris rewrote the GAC record book in the Tigers' 49-42 win against Henderson State in the 91st playing of the Battle of the Rav...
SEARCY – Harding junior Caroline Hogue blocked a potential game-winning 3-pointer and defended against a potential game-tying layup, both in the game's last eight seconds, to help the No. 3 Lady Bisons hold on to a 65-63 victory over Missouri Southern Tuesday in Harding's home opener at the Rhodes-Reaves Field House. With the victory, Harding improved to 1-2 and won its 14th straight home opener. Missouri Southern fell to 0-3 and lost its fourth straight to Harding. Harding held its two-point lead with just under eight seconds left, when H...
ARKADELPHIA – Just a few days removed from winning the program's third Great American Conference championship, the Ouachita Tigers football team was rewarded with a league-best 17 all-conference selections. In addition to the student-athletes honored, Ouachita head coach Todd Knight was selected as the 2017 GAC Coach of the Year, his third such GAC honor and fourth overall conference-awarded honor, including his Gulf South Conference Coach of the Year award in 1998 as head coach of Delta State. Knight picked up his 100th win as Ouachita's h...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference announced its annual all-conference teams for football on Tuesday and for the second-straight year, the Southern Arkansas football team was well-represented with a total of 13 selections. Among that representation, the Muleriders had seven first-team honorees. Headlining that contingent was Davondrick Lison as he was tabbed as the league's Defensive Player of the Year. Joining Lison on the first-team were Karonce Higgins (WR), Tanner Hudson (TE), Elgin Moore (S), Michael Nunnery (RB), B...
BEIRUT (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday invited Saad Hariri and his family to come to France after the Lebanese prime minister's surprise resignation earlier this month, amid allegations that Saudi Arabia is holding him prisoner. Hariri's older brother meanwhile broke his silence over the premier's shock resignation announced from Riyadh earlier this month, after speculation that the elder Hariri was being groomed by Saudi Arabia to fill the post. Bahaa Hariri, in a statement to the Associated Press, said he supported his br...
RANCHO TEHAMA RESERVE, Calif. (AP) — The wife of a gunman who went on a shooting rampage in a Northern California town was found dead inside their home, authorities announced Wednesday, raising the death toll from the attack to five. Investigators discovered the body of Kevin Janson Neal's wife hidden under the floor. They believe her slaying was the start of the rampage, said Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston. Neal shot and killed four other people and wounded 10 at different locations around the rural community of Rancho Tehama R...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Nearly 50 years after he was arrested in the kidnapping and rape of a nurse, a Louisiana man walked out of prison on Wednesday, his life sentence and conviction overturned by a judge who said the case against him was "weak at best." Authorities withheld evidence decades ago that could have exonerated Wilbert Jones, now 65, State District Judge Richard Anderson said. Jones thanked God for the freedom, and his loyal family for never giving up hope. He also hugged his legal team at the Innocence Project New Orleans as t...
DALLAS (AP) — Hundreds of mourners lined up to enter a funeral service Wednesday for eight members of a family who were among the more than two dozen killed in a shooting at a small Texas church. At least seven hearses could be seen outside an event center in Floresville, Texas, about 12 miles (19 kilometers) from the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, where the Nov. 5 shooting occurred. Church member John Holcombe, among the massacre's few survivors, was holding the funeral for his pregnant wife and three of her children, his parents,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sign-ups for Affordable Care Act health plans are running more than 45 percent ahead of last year's pace, according to government data released Wednesday. The numbers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services come as Republican senators are pushing to pay for tax cuts by repealing the "Obamacare" requirement to carry coverage. The new figures show that nearly 1.5 million consumers picked a plan through Nov. 11, compared to just over 1 million from Nov. 1-12 last year, a period that had included one additional day f...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza are now on the money, literally. The two officials took a tour of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing on Wednesday to see firsthand the production of new $1 bills, the first currency that will bear their signatures. Mnuchin's signature is decidedly more legible than that of his predecessor Jacob Lew. Lew had handwriting that was so sloppy that former President Barack Obama once joked that unless he made his signature more legible, it might debase the c...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — National Republicans, including one of the biggest voices in conservative media, are pressuring Alabama's GOP to stop a defiant Roy Moore from persisting in his campaign for the Senate. Many are voicing hopes that President Donald Trump can use his clout to resolve a problem that Republicans say leaves them with no easy options. On the ground in Alabama, however, the fierce intraparty battle grew nastier Wednesday as the Dec. 12 special election grows nearer. As Washington Republicans threatened to expel Moore from t...
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that the U.S. is deeply concerned by "credible reports" of atrocities committed by Myanmar's security forces and called for an independent investigation into a humanitarian crisis in which hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh. Speaking at a joint news conference with leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar's capital, Tillerson said the U.S. would consider individual sanctions against people found responsible for the violence, but he would not a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a close new world about the size of Earth, where a year lasts just under 10 days. At a distance of 11 light-years, Ross 128 b is the second-closest planet to be detected yet outside our solar system with surface temperatures potentially similar to ours. Ross 128 b is very near its star, thus the short orbit. But it doesn't get broiled because the red dwarf star is cool. The star is also quiet, meaning no radiation flare-ups. That's encouraging news for seekers of extraterrestrial life. T...
LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio called off the execution of a condemned killer with multiple health problems on Wednesday, because members of the state's execution team were unable to find a vein to insert an IV that would administer the lethal drugs. It was only the third time in U.S. history that an execution has been called off after the process had begun. The execution team first worked on both of Alva Campbell's arms for about 30 minutes Wednesday while he was on a gurney in the state's death chamber and then tried to find a vein in his r...
HOUSTON (AP) — Allegations that former President George H.W. Bush inappropriately touched six women involve potential crimes punishable by fines or jail time, if they had been prosecuted. All but one of the cases is ineligible under state laws that limit when a prosecution can begin after an alleged crime, and several lawyers interviewed said that it would be difficult to win a conviction against Bush, who has vascular parkinsonism, a rare syndrome that mimics Parkinson's disease. "You're still going to be facing prosecuting a 93-year-old m...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans began pushing a broad tax cut for businesses and many individuals through the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday, a measure complicated by a late addition — repeal of the Obama health care law's requirement that Americans get insurance coverage. Erasing the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate provided Republicans with more money that they used to make some tax breaks for people modestly more generous. But it raised questions about whether it might prompt some moderate GOP senators to back away from the mea...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe's military was in control of the capital and the state broadcaster on Wednesday and was holding President Robert Mugabe and his wife under house arrest in what appeared to be a coup against the 93-year-old Mugabe, the world's oldest head of state. The military was at pains, however, to emphasize it had not staged a military takeover, but was instead starting a process to restore Zimbabwe's democracy. Still, the military appeared to have brought an end to Mugabe's long, 37-year reign in what the army's s...
