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Religious services and events

Alva Church of God Alva Church of God is located at 517 9th St., in Alva. Sheryl White is our pastor. Sunday: Normal hours are Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. with morning worship at 10:30 a.m. Sunday evening youth meet at 5 p.m. This is for youth sixth g...

 
 By Rev. John Clapp    Local    July 28, 2023

Bringing children to Christ

Our church is finishing up our Vacation Bible School this week. This year is special because it is my wife and my 30th VBS. We have seen so many children create all kinds of crazy themes and have had a great time each year. VBS is a treasured week...

 
 By Steve Hamm    Local    July 28, 2023

Keep on keeping on

This is the phrase that my uncle says all the time. When we gather as a family and one of us has recently been through a struggle of some kind, he would say, “Keep on keeping on!” Now, my uncle had a bunch of sayings and, being a preacher, he had...

 
 By Marione Martin    Local    July 28, 2023

Woods County Equalization Board frustrated with protest process

The Woods County Equalization Board spent a frustrating one and one-half hours Wednesday morning in the final tax protest hearing on 2023 evaluations. On the agenda were two gas companies, Targa and D... Full story

 
 By Arden Chaffee    Local    July 28, 2023

Time rolls on

“Like sand through the hourglass, so go the days of our lives.” Life expectancy on the planet took a two-year hit because of Covid. The average man is expected to live to 76, women up to 5 years lon...

 
 By Doug Little    Local    July 28, 2023

Having faith

I didn’t know if I was ever going to get this written this week. We were out of phone and internet service for three days this week because of a storm. You never know what you are addicted to until you don’t have it! I’ve been thinking about faith...

 
 By Roger Hardaway    Local    July 28, 2023

Big man on court, part 2

At the 2023 Wimbledon tennis tournament, which was played in early July, one of the most significant things that happened was the emergence of a new star who did not win a championship trophy but who...

 
 By NWOSU Sports    Sports    July 28, 2023

Percefull Fieldhouse Court to be named after Ranger legends Milburn Barton and Bob Battisti

Northwestern Oklahoma State Athletics is naming the basketball court inside Percefull Fieldhouse after two historic coaches in Ranger history. The court will be named Barton/Battisti Court in honor...

 

Trump says his lawyers have met with prosecutors ahead of possible 2020 election indictment

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump met Thursday with members of special counsel Jack Smith's team ahead of a potential indictment over the former president's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to a person f...

 

Niger's president vows democracy will prevail after mutinous soldiers detain him and declare a coup

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger's president defiantly declared Thursday that democracy would prevail, a day after mutinous soldiers detained him and announced they had seized power in a coup because of the West African country's deteriorating security s...

 

Sprains, strains and ACL tears. What to know about some of the NFL's most common injuries

Hamstring pulls, ligament tears and ankle sprains can be as formidable an opponent for NFL teams as a high-scoring offense or stingy defense. "There's a 100% injury rate in the NFL," seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady once said. Navigating...

 

How the coup in Niger could expand the reach of Islamic extremism, and Wagner, in West Africa

More than 1,000 U.S. service personnel are in Niger, which until Wednesday's coup by mutinous soldiers had avoided the military takeovers that destabilized West African neighbors in recent years. The country had been seen as the last major partner...

 

How many transgender and intersex people live in the US? Anti-LGBTQ+ laws will impact millions

New laws targeting LGBTQ+ people are proliferating in GOP-led states, but often absent from policy decisions is a clear understanding of how many people will be directly affected. There has been relatively scant data collected on the number of...

 

Alabama is not the first state to defy a Supreme Court ruling: 3 essential reads on why that matters

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) In its 5-4 Allen v. Milligan decision on June 8, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the state of Alabama to redraw...

 

Arizona mother sentenced to life in prison without parole for murder in starvation of 6-year-old son

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona woman who pleaded guilty to murder in the starvation death of her 6-year-old son was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Thursday after witnesses described the horrors of the tiny closet...

 

His campaign forced Sinead O'Connor to scrap a 1997 Jerusalem concert. Now he is a Cabinet minister

JERUSALEM (AP) — Death threats forced Irish pop singer Sinead O'Connor to call off a peace concert in Jerusalem in the summer of 1997. At the time, a young man named Itamar Ben-Gvir took credit for the campaign against her. Today, he is Israel's nati...

 

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Mobile homes turn deadly when tornadoes hit. This year has been especially bad, AP analysis finds

ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Many were not just killed at home. They were killed by their homes. Angela Eason had visited Brenda Odoms' tidy mobile home before. It was a place where Odoms, who had many tragedies in her life, felt safe. In March, a t...

 

Biden openly acknowledges 7th grandchild, the daughter of son Hunter and an Arkansas woman

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday for the first time publicly acknowledged his seventh grandchild, a four-year-old girl fathered by his son Hunter with an Arkansas woman, Lunden Roberts, in 2018. "Our son Hunter and Navy's mother, L...

 

Alabama authorities charge Carlee Russell for fabricating story about kidnapping, finding toddler

ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities in Alabama said Friday they filed criminal charges against a woman who confessed to fabricating a story that she was kidnapped after stopping to check on a toddler she saw walking on the side of an interstate highway. C...

 

Sen. McConnell plans to serve his full term as Republican leader despite questions about his health

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has repeatedly said he is "fine" since he froze up midsentence during a press conference on Wednesday. And now his office is trying to tamp down speculation that he might not fill out his ter...

 

Donald Trump appeals judge's decision to keep hush-money case in New York state court

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump asked a federal appeals court Friday to reverse a federal judge's decision to keep his hush-money criminal case in a New York state court that the former president claims is "very unfair" to him. Trump's lawyers filed a...

 

Worker warned organizer 'Someone's going to end up dead' before crowd surge at '21 Travis Scott show

HOUSTON (AP) — Just moments before rap superstar Travis Scott took the stage at the deadly 2021 Astroworld festival, a contract worker had been so worried about what might happen after seeing people getting crushed that he texted an event o...

 

Police officer reaches milestone in recovery from critical wounds in Louisville bank shooting

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Flashing a thumbs-up to his well-wishers, a police officer who was critically wounded while responding to a mass shooting at a Louisville bank in April was discharged from the hospital on Friday after enduring multiple surgerie...

 

With Trump newly indicted, here's what to know about the documents case and what's next

Former President Donald Trump has been indicted on three additional charges in a case that accuses him of illegally possessing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, allegations that add fresh detail to the criminal case initially issued...

 

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