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The February meeting of the Alva City Council was held Tuesday, Feb. 19, at the Alva Recreation Center. It’s hoped the March meeting will be back in the city council chambers of City Hall. Currently the south end of the building is closed for...

Northwestern Oklahoma State University followed the trend of most of the state’s colleges and universities with a slightly smaller enrollment for the spring semester. A total of 1,818 students enrolled in spring classes, which is 39 students or...

When I count my blessings this week, one that moves toward the top of the list is the fabulous fact that I am not – have never been – do not aspire to be – a school superintendent. On days when the Oklahoma weather turns nasty, they are stuck...

Most people in the middle of the country would know exactly what I mean if I said the term, “black ice.” Webster’s Dictionary describes it like this: “a transparent coating of ice, found especially on a road or other paved surface....

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Zoo officials say an adult male giraffe died after suffering a spinal cord injury in a zoo barn. The zoo says that on Wednesday the 9-year-old male, named Hamisi, caught his head in an area of the barn that...

HOUSTON (AP) — Officials say a Houston-based seafood company is recalling nearly 101,000 pounds (45,810 kilograms) of fish products, specifically wild caught catfish, because they were produced and distributed without being reviewed by federal...

KECHI, Kan. (AP) — A 24-year-old Wichita woman had died in a crash after she drove the wrong way on a Kansas highway. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the crash early Friday on Kansas 254 in Kechi. KAKE-TV reports Brooke Spainhower lost control on...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Opponents of legislation that would place restrictions on wind farm developments say such a law would hurt an industry that has invested billions of dollars in Kansas and override the rights of property owners who are paid to...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Kansas militia member convicted of taking part in a foiled plot to massacre Muslims in southwest Kansas has now been sentenced to even more time behind bars for possession of child pornography. A judge...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Child welfare officials would be required to notify the legislature, the governor and the media when a foster child goes missing under proposed legislation. The Kansas City Star reports that the bill sponsored by Louisburg...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A conservative Kansas legislator has apologized and said he has asked that he be removed as a sponsor of a bill calling same-sex marriages a "parody" after his LGBTQ daughter posted a letter to him on Facebook that ended with,...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge in Kansas has frozen the assets of a sect that faced a $7.9 million judgment last year for human trafficking. Public radio station KCUR reported Friday that Judge Julie Robinson found that members of what...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Laura Kelly has declared a disaster emergency in anticipation of a winter storm forecast to bring blizzard conditions to parts of the state Saturday. The National Weather Service is forecasting the storm will move into...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas House committee has narrowly voted to keep the state's death penalty law in place. The Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee voted 7-6 on Friday to reject a bill to repeal the state's 1994 capital punishment law....

ALVA, Okla. – Ouachita Lady Tiger's take Northwestern Oklahoma State to the wire, but they would fall in the end 71-60. The Lady Tigers were led by senior Alivia Huell who put in 17 points, six rebounds, three steals and two blocks. Eden Crow...

ALVA, Okla. – Ouachita Tigers use complete team effort and huge second half to defeat Northwestern Oklahoma State, 67-58. Trey Harris and Kendarious Smith led the way for Ouachita each scoring 11 points and added two rebounds. Mahlon Martin...

WEATHERFORD, Okla. — Henderson State got down 13-2 in the first five minutes to Southwestern Oklahoma State on the road, but that was about all that went wrong for the Reddies on Thursday evening, as they out-scored the Bulldogs by 37 points the...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic State fighters facing defeat in Syria are slipping across the border into Iraq, where they are destabilizing the country's fragile security, U.S. and Iraqi officials say. Hundreds — likely more than 1,000 — IS fighters...

NEW YORK (AP) — The defense team for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman said Friday it will seek a new trial for the notorious drug lord in light of "misconduct" on the part of several jurors who allegedly followed media accounts of the case against the...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As President Donald Trump seeks a nuclear deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next week in Vietnam, some in Seoul are wondering if the fate of Washington's decades-long military alliance with South Korea could be...

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