Articles from the August 4, 2023 edition
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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...
Church of God VBS to feature illusions and ventriloquism
This summer at the Alva Church of God, the “Super Sensation VBS,” Aug. 27–30, will be led by Glenda and Mike Mann of Hutchinson, Kansas. Children from age 4 through fifth grade are invited. Four year-olds should be accompanied by an adult or older...
By Look where you're stepping
How many times have we been walking down the street and been thinking about something or, heaven forbid, looking at our cellphones at social media such as Facebook or Snapchat, etc. And then the worst thing in the world happens! Yes, we stepped in a...
Big man on court, part 3
After toiling in obscurity for several years on professional tennis’s primary minor league circuit, the International Tennis Federation (ITF), Chris Eubanks’s fortunes began turning around in the sum...
Packing a powerful punch
I am in constant awe of how God intertwines his words in our lives and then combines them with others stories to pack a powerful punch. Thursday of this past week I made a political post on my personal Facebook page about Ryan Walters our state...
Water crisis
“Water, water, everywhere and not a drop to drink” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798). Once a minor part of monthly bills, water costs are putting stress on households and a hold on economic growth. If...
Psychology department announces leadership change
Northwestern Oklahoma State University has new leadership in the Psychology Department as Dr. Taylor Randolph has assumed the role as its new chair. "As a respected member of the department and of...
It's tax-free weekend in Oklahoma
Today is the first of three days of Oklahoma’s tax free weekend. The weekend gives families some financial help as they go shopping for back to school clothing. Oklahoma shoppers can buy any a...
Stands celebrate 70th anniversary
Virginia B. Pitts and Harold E. Stands were married on August 2, 1953, in Rosehill, Kansas. Their marriage blessed them with four children, Steve Stands and wife Susan (of Edmond), Treva Custer and...
Alva FFA members attend Big 3 Field Days
On July 18–20, 1,500 FFA and 4-H members gathered in Stillwater for the Big 3 Field Days Livestock Judging contest. Alva was represented by 10 FFA members and 11 4-H members. On Day 1 of the contest students judged sheep and goats. On Day 2 they j...
Bank It donates over $7,600 to Northwest Domestic Crisis Services
Bank It: A Habit of Helping Foundation donated over $7,600 to Northwest Domestic Crisis Services for Bank It's second quarter CommUNITY Vision. NWDCS has a housing facility in Alva called New...
Fatal collision in Beaver County
A man from Beaver died when the ATV he was driving collided with another vehicle Wednesday. Cody L. Frantz, 25, of Beaver, was pronounced dead at the scene from massive head, facial and chest trauma b...
Medical event causes one-vehicle wreck
A man from Wakita suffered a medical event leading to a wreck Tuesday. Alvin F. Kreiman, 86, of Wakita, was transported by Medford EMS to St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Enid and later transported to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City. He w...
Ex-Mississippi officers plead guilty to racist assault on 2 Black men during raid
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Six white former law enforcement officers in Mississippi who called themselves the "Goon Squad" pleaded guilty Thursday to a racist assault on two Black men in a home raid that ended with an officer shooting one man in the m...
Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 election
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday to trying to overturn the results of his 2020 election loss, answering for the first time to federal charges that accuse him of orchestrating a brazen and ultimately unsuccessful attempt t...
Pittsburgh synagogue gunman has been sentenced to die in the nation's deadliest antisemitic attack
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The man who killed 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue was formally sentenced to death Thursday, one day after a jury determined that capital punishment was appropriate for the perpetrator of the deadliest attack on Jews in U...
2 US Navy sailors charged with providing sensitive military information to China
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Two U.S. Navy sailors were charged Thursday with providing sensitive military information to China — including details on wartime exercises, naval operations and critical technical material. The two sailors, both based in Cal...
Texas separates migrant families, detaining fathers on trespassing charges in latest border move
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas state police officers separated migrant families along the border with Mexico by detaining fathers on trespassing charges and turning over mothers and children to federal officials, the state Department of Public Safety s...
Man survives being stabbed through the head with a flagpole, police say
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A man is expected to survive being stabbed through the head with a flagpole at a fast-food restaurant in Oklahoma, police said Thursday. The stabbing occurred Wednesday evening at a Sonic in Tulsa and ended with the arrest of C...
Texas man who threatened poll workers and Arizona officials is sentenced to 3 1/2 years
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who advocated for a mass shooting of poll workers and threatened two Arizona officials and their children has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison, prosecutors said Friday. Frederick Francis Goltz, 52, o...
What to know ahead of Tory Lanez's sentencing in Megan Thee Stallion's shooting
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three years have passed since hip-hop superstar Megan Thee Stallion was shot multiple times by rapper Tory Lanez in Los Angeles following a pool party at the home of Kylie Jenner. On Monday, Lanez is scheduled to be sentenced, f...
How six Mississippi officers tried to cover up their torture of 2 Black men
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Men who had sworn an oath to protect and serve were huddled on the back porch of a Mississippi home as Michael Corey Jenkins lay on the floor, blood gushing from his mutilated tongue where one of the police officers shoved a g...
