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According to the affidavits and petitions on file, the following individuals have been charged. An individual is innocent of any charges listed below until proven guilty in a court of law. All information is a matter of public record and may be...

Marriage License Filings Austin Lane Schmidt and Kilee Jane Shepard, both of Helena, filed for a marriage license ($50)....

Tuesday, November 28, 2017 5:30 a.m. Reporting party (RP) called to report a vehicle speeding up and down Ohio. Notified officer. No contact was made. 6:38 a.m. RP advised of cattle loose on SH-8. 7:24 a.m. RP advised of cattle loose on Dewey and...

Limited Civil Filings Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital & Physicians Clinic vs. Barbara Well: debt collection. Galt Ventures, LLC vs. Katelyn Mackenzie Parmelee: debt collection. Domestic Relations State of Kansas vs. Jeremy Robertson: non...

Real Estate Transfers Book 143 page 88: Rusty Spur Lodging, LLC, grantor, unto the First State Bank, Kiowa, Kansas, grantee. A tract of land lying in outlot 25 to the City of Kiowa, Barber County, Kansas. Warranty deed. Book 143 page 90: Jared A....

November 27, 2017 Medicine Lodge ambulance responded to Abbey Circle. No transport. Kiowa ambulance transported patient from Rumsey Street to Kiowa Hospital. William Robert Feely, Medicine Lodge, rolled his vehicle on old SH-160 east of Sharon. Over...

The Alfalfa County Board of Commissioners met Monday morning for its regular meeting, in which they approved a county-wide burn ban, among other topics. All commissioners were present, as well as Laneta Unruh, Nancy Lambert, Stephanie Lambert, Kyle...

The “elephant in the room” on the Alva School Board agenda was a proposal to hire the OSSBA to assist in the search for a new superintendent to fill the position being left by Superintendent Steve Parkhurst's retirement. That agenda item was nea...

The Cherokee School Board held two meetings last month. One was the regular meeting on Nov. 6, where the board addressed an agenda item to replace Jeff White, who had resigned. After an executive session, Kurtis Goodwin was approved to fill White's...

The Kiowa District Hospital Board of Directors met for their November meeting the last evening of the month. President Pat Myers called the meeting to order with members present including: Jeff Miller, Chantae Simpson and Jim Parker. Miranda Allen...

The traditional Northwestern Oklahoma State University Holiday Gala Concert presented by the Fine Arts Department is set for Saturday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m. in Herod Hall Auditorium followed by the annual tree lighting ceremony. The event is free and...

There was standing room only in the Barber County Courtroom in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, Dec. 1 as local folks and others wanted to learn more about an officer-involved shooting Oct. 6 that resulted in the death of Steven Myers, 42, of Sun City....

Filing for school board seats opened Monday at the Woods County Election Board and will continue until 5 p.m. today, Dec. 6. As of Tuesday afternoon, the only race developing was in Waynoka. Duane Shanks and John Hanson both filed for Seat 3. In...

The Waynoka Public School Board of Education met Monday night at its regular time of 7:30 p.m. All board members were present for the meeting. The main topic on the agenda was the decision to approve or not to approve four new members to the...

By Lynn L. MartinThe Woods County commissioners approved a couple of agenda items that would cause a portion of Woods County to be included in a TIF (Tax Increment Finance) district to help fund the proposed arena project. The county would be a...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Russian athletes will be allowed to stand on the medal podium at the Winter Olympics — just not with their anthem playing or their nation's flag rising above them. The International Olympic Committee barred Russia and...

DETROIT (AP) — Democratic Rep. John Conyers resigned from Congress on Tuesday after a nearly 53-year career, becoming the first Capitol Hill politician to lose his job in the torrent of sexual misconduct allegations sweeping through the nation's w...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Heavy airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition rocked Yemen's capital Tuesday, striking Sanaa's densely populated neighborhoods in apparent retaliation for the killing of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh by the Shiite rebels w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump forged ahead Tuesday with plans to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital despite intense Arab, Muslim and European opposition to a move that would upend decades of U.S. policy and risk potentially violent pr...

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — For second time in two months, wind-driven fires tore through California communities in the middle of the night, leaving rows of homes and a psychiatric hospital in ruins Tuesday and sending tens of thousands of people fleeing...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has produced a spike in detentions by deportation officers across the country during his first months in office. At the same time, arrests along the Mexican border have fallen s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Freedom Caucus has been on its best behavior these past few months. The group of about three dozen hard-right Republicans has a penchant for fighting with GOP leaders over tactics and strategy, and helped topple Speaker J...

GENEVA (AP) — Myanmar's Rohingya minority has "very likely" faced crimes against humanity and possibly genocide at the hands of Myanmar security forces and their helpers, the U.N.'s top human rights body and a top U.N. official said Tuesday. The c...