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Happy Birthday To March 30: Taelyn Eagan, Bryan Powers, Robert Babcock, Lonn Reutlinger, Kurtis Woodard, Maxine Gassett March 31: Sheldon Darnell April 1: Monte Hepner, Travis Olson April 2: Kareron Wilson, Eileen Gay, Colleen McGinley, Lisa Hepner...

Sunday, March 26, was the fourth Sunday of Lent. The order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Opening Prayer given by Pastor Woody Hamon Call to Worship: Psalm 51:1-17 led by Ronna Wilson Opening...

Saturday, April 1: Junior-Senior Prom Friday, April 7: Snow day, no school Wednesday, April 12: 3:30 p.m. 4-H meeting Wednesday, April 12: 8 a.m. to noon, eighth grade to tour Northwest Technology Center, Alva Thursday, April 13: High school track...

Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s Fine Arts department will host its first guitar festival Saturday, April 1, at 8 a.m. The event is open to friends and family of the participants. Performing solo and ensembles in front of a panel of judges w...

With the forecast of significant rainfall beginning in Woods County on Tuesday, the Woods County commissioners voted to continue the county burn ban until such time as at least a half-inch of rain occurs somewhere in Woods County. They opened bids...

The Freedom Town Board had been paying about $3,400 per month to the previous private trash hauler. When the latest bill came in from Harper Sanitation, the new vendor, the bill was $4,483.80. Part of the difference was about $800 in extra costs...

SEARCY, Ark. – Mark Vaughn doubled down the right field line to give Arkansas Tech a 4-2 lead in the seventh inning, but a three-run eighth inning allowed the Harding Bisons to defeat the Wonder Boys, 5-4, on Wednesday. NEXT UP Arkansas Tech will b...

SEARCY – Some non-conference midweek games feel more important in a college baseball season than others. Wednesday's game was one of those for Harding. Frustrated after a Great American Conference loss in game three of its series against Southern N...

MAGNOLIA, Ark. – A bases loaded walk drawn by Cortland McPherson in the bottom of the 11thinning forced home Blake Hall with the winning run as the No. 11-ranked Southern Arkansas baseball team beat No. 15-ranked Delta State by a score of 3-2 on T...

SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma prosecutors have charged a 35-year-old man with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old police officer during a traffic stop. Court records show Byron James Shepard of Okemah was charged Wednesday i...

SPUR, Texas (AP) — The Latest on severe weather affecting Southern Plains states in the US (all times local): 8:15 p.m. Fire officials in Fort Worth, Texas, say two children were electrocuted by power lines downed during violent weather. Spokesman L...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Part of music icon Bob Dylan's once-secret 6,000-piece archive, including thousands of hours of studio sessions, film reels and caches of unpublished lyrics, has opened in Oklahoma, curators announced this week. More than 1,000 p...

SPUR, Texas (AP) — A storm system blamed for the death of a truck driver in Oklahoma barreled eastward Wednesday, generating a tornado in Houston and threatening additional bad weather in the central United States. The day after three storm c...