Articles from the January 13, 2021 edition
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Kansas abortion opponents see mandate from 2020 elections
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion opponents say elections last year that made the Kansas Legislature more conservative showed voters support putting a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the state constitution on the ballot next year. Anti-abortion l...
Three charged with murder in double homicide in Wichita
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Three people have been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of a man and woman outside Wichita. Michael Wilking, 32, Joshua Halstead, 34, and 28-year-old Jacquellyn Arthur, all from Wichita, were charged M...
Police find large stash of stolen property in Kansas
SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — Law enforcement officials in Kansas and Missouri expect to spend most of this week sorting through hundreds of thousands of dollars in stolen equipment that was recovered during the weekend. A tip led Lenexa and Shawnee police t...
Kansas town embraced polio vaccine, but skeptical this time
PROTECTION, Kan. (AP) — Sixty-four years ago, residents of this tiny town in southwestern Kansas set a public health example. They made their town the first in the nation to be fully inoculated against polio. It's a different story today. People i... Full story
Cheers! French wine, vines headed home after year in space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station bid adieu Tuesday to 12 bottles of French Bordeaux wine and hundreds of snippets of grapevines that spent a year orbiting the world in the name of science. SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule u...
Fury at the shaken Capitol over the attack, security, virus
WASHINGTON (AP) — This time the fury enveloping the Capitol comes not from an insurgent mob but from within. The anger on display is searing — Democrat against Republican; Republican against Republican; legislators of both parties against the cat...
No. 3 House GOP leader backs Trump impeachment as tide grows
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican opposition to impeaching President Donald Trump began crumbling at the party's upper echelons on Tuesday as the No. 3 House GOP leader said she would vote to impeach Trump. "There has never been a greater betrayal by a Pr...
FBI says it warned about prospect of violence ahead of riot
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI warned law enforcement agencies ahead of last week's breach of the U.S. Capitol about the potential for extremist-driven violence, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, contradicting earlier statements that they were caught off gu...
EXPLAINER: Who's been charged in the deadly Capitol siege?
Prosecutors have brought dozens of cases after the deadly attack at the U.S. Capitol, and they promise more charges are to come as investigators work to identify members of the pro-Trump mob. Investigators are combing through thousands of tips,... Full story
Kiowa City Clerk Brewer abruptly resigns
Kiowa City Clerk Trish Brewer unexpectedly submitted her resignation to City Administrator Sam Demel on Dec. 22. Demel said she gave two weeks notice and her last day was Jan. 4. Brewer told the new administrator she took a job elsewhere but would...
South Barber Students of the Month
AWESOME CHIEFTAIN/TORNADOES ELEMENTARY STUDENTS OF THE MONTH – Makenna Brattin (third Grade) and Lane Clover (fourth grade) pose with their South Barber Superintendent and Elementary Principal Dr. M...
ROBERT 'ROB' MELTON
A service for Robert "Rob" Melton, 70, of Alva, Oklahoma, will be scheduled for a later date. Rob was born June 10, 1950 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, to Paul Dean Melton and Ida Marie (Morris) Melton...
THOMAS REILLY JR.
Thomas Reilly Jr., son of the late Thomas E. Reilly Sr. and Elfrieda Rose (Zahlmann), was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, March 10, 1949, and died peacefully in his home in Alva, Oklahoma, on...
WANDA MAE HOBBS COX
Wanda Mae Hobbs Cox was born on August 4, 1934, to James and Maude Hobbs in Mayfield, Kansas. She was the only girl with three older brothers and one younger brother: Junior, Bill, Don, and Richard...
CHARLES WESLEY MALLORY
Private graveside services will be Tuesday, January 19, 2021, at the Alva Municipal Cemetery with Rev. Jim Harvey and Rev. Katie Hill officiating. Public memorial services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday,...
Sage grouse review done, but scant time for Trump's changes
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration has completed a review of plans to ease protections for a struggling bird species in seven states in the U.S. West, but there's little time to put the relaxed rules for industry into action before Presi...
New Mexico agency settles with oil company in well case
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An oil company operating in northwestern New Mexico has agreed to pay a $25,000 civil penalty as part of a settlement. The Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department said Tuesday that a notice of violation had been i...
Cafe, croissant, worms? EU agency says worms safe to eat
ROME (AP) — The vaunted Mediterranean diet and the French "bon gout" are getting some competition: The European Union's food safety agency says worms are safe to eat. The Parma-based agency published a scientific opinion Wednesday on the safety of dr...
The scent of sickness: 5 questions answered about using dogs – and mice and ferrets – to detect disease
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Editor's note: As COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, scientists are analyzing new ways to track it. One...
Biden's Commerce nominee says she has 'blueprint' for US
President-elect Joe Biden's nominee to lead the Commerce Department said Wednesday if confirmed she will take much of what she has learned improving her home state of Rhode Island's economy and apply it at the federal level. "Right before COVID,...
Illinois replaces longest-serving legislative leader in US
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois House on Wednesday elected its first Black speaker to replace the longest-serving legislative leader in modern U.S. history, picking Democratic Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch for the job and pushing aside Michael M...
