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Alva Church of God Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.m. Alva Church of God is located at 517 Ninth St. in Alva, and can be found on the web at www.AlvaChurchOfGod.org. Alva Friends Church Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m.;...

Soon it will be time to start another semester. Professors are putting together syllabi and making sure their policies and procedures are securely in place. Students are putting the finishing touches on their summer vacations and making arrangements...

Memorial services for Robert Dean McConnell will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, August 4, 2018, at the Alva Church of the Nazarene with Rev. William S. Kalfas officiating. He was cremated at his request under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva....

For decades, the University of Oklahoma has been recruiting and heavily investing in National Merit Scholars – academically advanced students who score in the top 1 percent on a standardized test. Former President David Boren was the biggest c...

Enjoy a respite from back-to-school preparations with a stroll through the Graceful Arts Gallery. At the First Friday Art Walk this evening from 4 to 6 p.m., you can enjoy the “Artists Then and Now” displays at the gallery and enjoy light ref...

SHAWNEE – Kyle Webb will join the Oklahoma Baptist softball program as an assistant coach, it was announced Thursday afternoon. Webb, a native of McLoud, was a volunteer assistant coach at Rose State for the past three seasons and was the softball h...

SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist volleyball has been picked to finish third in the Great American Conference preseason coaches' poll, the conference office announced Thursday afternoon. The poll was voted on by the 12 head coaches in the GAC, with each c...

DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern volleyball will head into the 2018 season in the role of underdog after being picked ninth in the Great American Conference Preseason Poll released on Thursday by the league office. The Savage Storm earned 48 points in t...

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Rogers State baseball team was honored with the 2018 American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award after a record-breaking year in academics for the Hillcats. The award was announced by the ABCA on...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. - Following a 2017 season in which the Golden Suns completed the first undefeated regular season in program history and won their fourth regular-season conference title since 2011, Arkansas Tech has been chosen as the favorite in t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gov. Mary Fallin says a measure designed to give Oklahoma school districts the flexibility to use property tax revenue for classroom needs will appear on the general election ballot this fall. Fallin issued a proclamation T...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A state audit has found that Oklahoma's Department of Veterans Affairs has poor leadership. The department's three-year audit was released Wednesday, The Oklahoman reported . Auditors spoke with more than 250 past and current e...

WARNER, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the 72-year-old driver of a horse-drawn carriage has died in a collision with an SUV in Muskogee County. Troopers say carriage driver Billy Rogers was pronounced dead at the scene of W...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued citations to three companies involved in a natural gas rig explosion in Oklahoma that killed five workers. OSHA announced Monday that it's fined Patterson-UTI D...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court has affirmed a 20-year-old man's life prison sentence in another man's shooting death. The Court of Criminal Appeals handed down the decision Thursday in the case of William Campbell, who was found g...

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — He has never lived in Mississippi. But the state is home in a way much deeper than his own birth. "This is my homeland," said Thomas Olive, standing at the Natchez Trace Visitor Center on a recent day in Tupelo. "I always get g...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Some local Republican activists in a Kansas congressional district Democrats hope to flip in November are staging a revolt over the possibility that GOP voters will nominate a former Army ranger and political newcomer whose father...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer says Secretary of State Kris Kobach should pay out of his own pocket the more than $26,000 in sanctions imposed by a federal judge for his "contemptuous behavior" in a voting rights case. Kobach said T...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has set a fall trial date for a Wichita lawyer and a computer software engineer accused of plotting cyberattacks on websites critizing the attorney's work. A court filing on Thursday shows an Oct. 2 jury trial h...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's work against illegal immigration for small cities across the nation cost them millions for lengthy legal battles while powering his own political rise, according to a news report. The Kansas...