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Happy Birthday To June 29: Jim Russell, McKenna Nixon June 30: Ashtyn Pierce, Bradley Irving July 1: Maurice Farr, Cindy Wilson July 2: Chelsea Ferguson, Janell Reutlinger July 3: Shawn Walker, B.G. Laughton July 4: Randy Schroeder, Marty Province,...

June 25 was the third Sunday after Pentecost. The order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Bringing in the Light of Christ Announcements Happy Birthday sung to Ronna Wilson Call to Worship led by Shir...

Northwestern Oklahoma State University will be closed Monday, July 3, and Tuesday, July 4, to celebrate the Independence Day holiday. All offices will be closed, and no classes will be in session during this time. Normal summer business hours will...

Starting July 3 until the end of August the Alva Public Library is changing their closing time on Monday. The library will close at 8 p.m. instead of 9 p.m....

The Woods County commissioners, looking at a new fiscal year, approved six-month bids that will provide them supplies until the end of December. They also took advice from the election board and approved the bid for ballots from Royal Printing. Only...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Around the country, state lawmakers have been talking about – and legislating – ways intended to protect free spe...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) For school-aged youth, access to a gun can increase their risk for becoming a victim of or for committing a violent...

KENILWORTH, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey Catholic school won't allow two sisters to return next year after previously being ordered to rescind their expulsion amid the 12-year-old's legal battle to play on a boys basketball team. NJ.com reports (...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Adults think that black girls are less innocent, less in need of protection and nurturing, and seem older than similarly aged white girls, which could lead to stiffer punishments in school, a new report said Tuesday. The report a...

Banks and other financial companies led U.S. stocks higher in late-afternoon trading Wednesday as the market bounced back from losses a day earlier. Technology stocks were among the big gainers. Energy companies also were trading higher as the price...

DENVER (AP) — An energy company accused of air pollution violations in Colorado says it's trying to comply with government regulations and is disappointed that state and federal agencies went to court seeking fines. Denver-based PDC Energy said W...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A House panel on Wednesday approved a bill to revive the mothballed nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, while also moving forward with a separate plan for a temporary storage site in New Mexico or Texas. Supporters s...

PARIS (AP) — The Latest on a widespread cyberattack that is affecting companies and government systems (all times local): 7:25 p.m. Logistics firm FedEx says deliveries by its TNT Express subsidiary have been slowed by the global cyberattack, a...

SANDISFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A 98-year-old activist has been arrested on a trespassing charge during a protest at a natural gas pipeline project in Massachusetts. State police say Frances Crowe and seven other demonstrators were arrested last weekend a...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The owners of the Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant have formally notified regulators and a regional power grid operator of their previously announced intentions to close the plant. LNP newspaper reports (...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The State Land Office has collected more than $654,000 from its most recent monthly oil and gas lease sale, bringing the total for the fiscal year to more than $65 million. Agency officials say that is almost double last y...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's Agriculture Department is increasing the number of Japanese beetle traps around the state by 50 percent to try to stem the spread of the destructive bug. Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring said Wednesday t...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — ABC and a South Dakota meat producer announced a settlement Wednesday in a $1.9 billion lawsuit against the network over its reports on a beef product that critics dubbed "pink slime." The terms of the settlement including i...

Jeanne Nolan grew up in an affluent suburb of Chicago. When it came time to apply for colleges, she shocked her family by opting to skip college and become an organic farmer. Then she brought her farming skills back to the suburbs and city, installin...

WERNERSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — The pastor of a fundamentalist congregation that eschews modern medicine will stand trial on a charge he should have alerted authorities when his 2-year-old granddaughter was dying of pneumonia last year, a judge ruled Wednes...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence says President Donald Trump's administration will repeal former President Barack Obama's health care reforms by the end of the summer. Pence's speech in a Cleveland manufacturing facility Wednesday came a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the President Donald Trump's role in the health care debate. All times local): 7:30 p.m. Some Republicans are worried that President Donald Trump's difficulty staying on message might do more harm than good in s...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama will have to make significant and costly changes in the treatment of mentally ill prisoners now that a federal judge has found their care to be unconstitutionally cruel, a state lawmaker said Wednesday. U.S. D...