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Alva Church of God Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m. and morning worship is at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Bible study is at 7 p.m. Alva Church of God is located at 517 Ninth St. in Alva and can be found on the web at www.AlvaChurchOfGod.org. Alva Friends...

Most of us have had that neighbor, co-worker, or relative that we just can’t seem to get along with, no matter how hard we try. Maybe they have done something that you are unwilling to forgive them for. Whatever they try to do, to reconcile the s...

I think God doesn’t give you answers to your prayers sometimes to show you that his answers that he reveals later are so much better. Last week I had decided that I had to write about the farm this week. What direction I was going to take was s...

Team Standings Dilly Dilly – 48 wins, 32 losses Knights of Columbus – 48 wins, 32 losses O'Bar – 44½ wins, 35½ losses Rollin GoodTimes – 41½ wins, 38½ losses The Bowl Movements – 39½ wins, 40½ losses Marshall's Oldtimers – 36½ wins, 43½ losses H...

ALVA, Okla. – Northwestern Oklahoma State Track & Field will travel to six indoor track meets this spring, before getting set for NCAA qualifiers. Following the conclusion of the indoor season the Rangers will then travel to seven outdoor meets b...

ALVA, Okla. – Northwestern Oklahoma State split its week with a last-second loss to Southern Arkansas before turning around and beating Arkansas-Monticello Saturday afternoon 82-74. Parsons started both games for the Rangers finishing with game h...

As people arrived for the Alva Airport Commission meeting Monday night, we saw Dale Logsdon, chairman of the commission, assisting a pilot in starting his small plane. Logsdon had a handy battery-powered jumpstart kit to get the pilot on his way.... Full story

From top to bottom, the Big 12 hasn't started conference play like this in a decade. No. 11 Kansas State has already surpassed last season's overall win total and made an impressive Top 25 poll debut this week after being picked to finish last in...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday who was convicted of killing an elderly couple and committing other crimes 20 years ago before authorities caught up to him in Texas after a manhunt. Scott James Eizember, 62, received a lethal...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and the Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature are headed toward big fights over spending on special education programs, pay raises for government workers and how much the cash-flush state should s...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South spurred a tornado on Thursday that shredded the walls of homes, toppled roofs and uprooted trees in Selma, Alabama, a city etched in the history of the civil rights movement...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lisa Marie Presley — the only child of Elvis Presley and a singer herself — was hospitalized Thursday, her mother said in a statement. "My beloved daughter Lisa Marie was rushed to the hospital. She is now receiving the best care,...

U.S. air travel returned mostly to normal Thursday, a day after a computer system that sends safety information to pilots broke down and grounded traffic from coast to coast. By midafternoon on the East Coast, about 150 flights had been canceled and...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed a special counsel to investigate the presence of classified documents found at President Joe Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware, and at an unsecured office in Washington d...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lindsy Doan didn't think the water flowing over the creek crossing on San Marcos Road was deeper than normal when she tried navigating it in her SUV while driving her 5-year-old son to school. But the creek, swollen with rain f...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department accused Los Angeles-based City National Bank on Thursday of discrimination by refusing to underwrite mortgages in predominately Black and Latino communities, requiring the bank to pay more than $31 million in t...

NEW YORK (AP) — Vaccination rates for U.S. kindergarteners dropped again last year, and federal officials are starting a new campaign to try to bring them up. Usually, 94% to 95% of kindergarteners are vaccinated against measles, tetanus and c...

DENVER (AP) — Earth's fever persisted last year, not quite spiking to a record high but still in the top five or six warmest on record, government agencies reported Thursday. But expect record-shattering hot years soon, likely in the next couple y...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As alarms began to go off globally about a novel coronavirus spreading in China, officials in Washington turned to the intelligence agencies for insights about the threat the virus posed to America. But the most useful early w...