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ROBERT 'ROB' MELTON

A service for Robert "Rob" Melton, 70, of Alva, Oklahoma, will be scheduled for a later date. Rob was born on June 10, 1950, in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, to Paul Dean Melton and Ida Marie (Morris)...

 

THOMAS REILLY JR.

Memorial services for Thomas Reilly Jr., 71, are pending at Marshall Funeral Home of Alva....

 

WESLEY MALLORY

Funeral services for Wesley Mallory are pending with Marshall Funeral Home of Alva....

 

Carson Palmer, Bob Stoops lead college Hall of Fame class

Heisman Trophy winner Carson Palmer and former Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops are among the 13 former players and coaches who make up the latest College Football Hall of Fame class. The National Football Foundation announced the newly elected hall of fame...

 

Goldbugs lose to fast-paced Woodward 79-48

After a 51-43 loss to the Chisholm Longhorns in the first round of the Wheat Capital Tournament at Chisholm, the Goldbugs took on the Class 4A Woodward Boomers Friday afternoon. The Boomers were comin...

 

Alva Goldbugs win seventh place at Wheat Capital

The Alva Ladybugs were set to play Woodward for fifth place honors in the Wheat Capital Tournament at Chisholm Saturday, but that game was canceled. Contract tracing was going on to determine...

 

Ladybugs defeat OKC Knights, advance to play Woodward

Following a close 45-42 loss to a tough Garber team Thursday, the Alva Ladybugs faced the OKC Knights, a homeschool team, Friday afternoon in the Wheat Capital Tournament at Chisholm. Alva was 5-1...

 

Rangers drop conference opener to Southern Nazarene

ALVA, Okla. – Rangers dropped the conference opener as the Crimson Storm pulled away from Northwestern with a final score of 67-46 Thursday evening. Southern Nazarene improves to 1-0 on the season while the Red-and-Black fall to 2-1 on the season a...

 

Five Northwestern men's basketball games postponed

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark.– Due to a combination of a positive test, contact tracing and subsequent quarantining of individuals within the Northwestern Oklahoma State men's basketball program, the Rangers will shut down for the next two weeks and will not b...

 

GAC announces 2021 spring volleyball preseason poll

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference has announced the results of its 2021 spring volleyball preseason poll. Harding placed first in the Eastern Division while Oklahoma Baptist claimed the top spot in the Western Division. In November,...

 

Woods County real estate transactions

Book 1312 page 4: Steven V. Redgate and Connie S. Redgate convey unto Steven and Connie Redgate Revocable Trust. Section 1, township 24N, range 15W, SE4NW4. Quit claim deed. Book 1312 page 5: Steven V. Redgate and Connie S. Redgate convey unto...

 

Woods County Divorce Filings

Jamie S. Mayse vs. Joshawa James Mayse, Blackwell: dissolution of marriage ($262.14). Katherine Jeanne Lunn vs. Vernon Leroy Lunn III, Alva: dissolution of marriage ($262.14). Justin Jacob Winchell vs. Destiny Jewel Winchell: dissolution of marriage...

 

Woods County court filings

Felony Filings Hector De La Cruz Jr., Brownsville, Texas, 30, has been charged with carrying weapon where alcohol is served ($476.50). Misdemeanor Filings John Clay Pierce, Waynoka, 18, has been charged with threatening to perform an act of violence...

 
 By Jim Scribner    Local    January 10, 2021

Holy bat cave Robin, our country has gone nuts

Concerned citizens, looters, rioters, and white supremacists descended on the capitol building Wednesday. To add insult to injury, our president either planned the attack, egged it on, or at the...

 
 By Paul Monies    Local    January 10, 2021

Virus spread continues as vaccine roll out gains pace in Oklahoma

On Friday, the state recorded its largest daily case increase, adding more than 5,200 cases to bring the total to more than 320,000 cases since the virus was first recorded in March. The death toll...

 

What Biden's Cabinet picks say about how he plans to govern

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden promised that his presidency would mean a return to normalcy. His Cabinet picks help demonstrate how he plans to deliver. The president-elect announced his final nominees this past week, completing a diverse team of two d...

 

Trump legacy on race shadowed by divisive rhetoric, actions

CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump repeatedly claimed in the final months of his presidency — and without a trace of irony — to have done more for Black Americans than anyone with the “possible exception” of Abraham Lincoln. He boasted that the Af...

 

In wake of Capitol riot, Americans struggle for answers

This past week, Americans watched as the hallowed chambers of the Capitol were overrun and defiled, not by some foreign enemy of democracy but a mob of their fellow citizens. And then they tried to make sense of it. In letters to the editor and...

 

Oil companies lock in drilling, challenging Biden on climate

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — In the closing months of the Trump administration, energy companies stockpiled enough drilling permits for western public lands to keep pumping oil for years and undercut President-elect Joe Biden's plans to curb new d...

 

Protesters detained for criticizing Kazakhstan's vote

MOSCOW (AP) — Dozens of people protesting Kazakhstan’s opposition-free election were detained in the country’s capital and in its principal city, but were released after several hours. Five parties are competing Sunday for seats in the lower house...

 

New law cracks down on shell companies to combat corruption

MIAMI (AP) — For years as a federal prosecutor in New York, Daniel R. Alonso led teams that had to search through a maze of anonymously owned corporate entities to expose criminal activity. “It required all kinds of shoe-leather investigating to ide...

 

GOP senators urge Trump to resign; impeachment gains support

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Republican senators now say Donald Trump should resign and a third says the president should be “very careful” in his remaining days in office as the House prepares to impeach Trump in the wake of deadly riots at the Capit...

 

US diplomats in extraordinary protest against Trump for riot

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a highly unusual move, American diplomats have drafted two cables condemning President Donald Trump’s incitement of the deadly assault on the Capitol and calling for administration officials to possibly support invoking the 25t...

 

VIRUS TODAY: Lag in vaccinations underscores lack of support

Here’s what’s happening Sunday with the pandemic in the U.S.: — Public health officials have complained for months that they do not have enough support or money to get COVID-19 vaccines quickly into arms. Now the slower-than-expected start to the l...

 

Kansas lawmakers open session clouded by COVID, DC violence

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators opened their annual session Monday with new leaders in the Senate, new lawmakers in a quarter of the seats and a top Republican acknowledging that he's asked for extra security. The 90-day session began amid t...

 

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