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On Sunday, Jan. 17, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude – Janell Reutlinger Announcement: We are on Facebook live at 11 a.m. Our Facebook page is Freedom United Methodist Church. Invocation by Pastor Todd F...

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...

Divorce Filings Melissa Colvin vs. Christopher Colvin: divorce ($262.14). Stephen Thomas Carson and Stephanie Lynn Carson: divorce ($262.14)....

Tuesday, January 12, 2021 During this day were five traffic stops. 7:50 a.m. – Caller advised of a horse and donkey running down the middle of U.S. Highway 64. 9:20 a.m. – Two people came into the sheriff’s office and advised of a female at the J...

January 11, 2021 Barber County Sheriff’s office (BASO) returned lost property to an individual on Hackberry Road. Kiowa Police Department (KWPD) and BASO responded to a non-injury accident at the Corner Stop. BASO performed multiple VIN i...

Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday caused the Alfalfa County commissioners to meet on Tuesday instead of their usual Monday. Marvin Woodall, Jay Hague and Mike Roach began by addressing the routine business items – last meeting's minutes, ma...

Candidates for municipal office in seven Alfalfa County municipalities may file Declarations of Candidacy beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, Feb. 1. Kelly Stein, Secretary of the County Election Board, said the filing period ends at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb....

Candidates for municipal office in Woods County municipalities may file Declarations of Candidacy beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, Feb. 1. Sandra Koehn, secretary of the county election board, said the filing period ends at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3....

A healthy, talented 18 year-old, Porsha Binning is an example of how quickly your life can be threatened and forever changed. About a month ago she noticed tingling in her hands and feet – enough to see a chiropractor to determine if she had a pinche...

Basketball is the primary activity at Waynoka High School this time of year, Principal Dustin Smith told the Waynoka school board at its Monday, Jan. 11, meeting, according to tentative meeting minutes provided by the board's minute clerk, Lori...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The attack on the U.S. Capitol by an angry mob of President Donald Trump's supporters shocked many Americans who thought such a violent assault by their fellow countrymen wasn't possible. But for Oklahoma City bombing survivor D...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma surpassed 3,000 deaths due to COVID-19 Tuesday as the national death toll topped 400,000, and the rollout of coronavirus vaccines continued at a steady pace. The health department reported an increase of 43 deaths in the...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma schools are advising people to throw away milk products received from districts last week after a dairy company recalled its chocolate milk because some of it may have been contaminated. Hiland Dairy is recalling 4...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — A federal judge in Oklahoma has ordered the new owners of an Oklahoma zoo featured in Netflix's "Tiger King" documentary to turn over all the lion and tiger cubs in their possession, along with the animals' mothers, to the f...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Investigators believe a man whose body was found in Arcadia, Kansas, last week was killed in Kansas City, Missouri. The man's body was found Jan. 13 when Crawford County deputies went to property in Arcadia after receiving a...

Just in case it matters, Chad Henne isn't nearly as likely as Patrick Mahomes to chuck the ball deep down the field for the Kansas City Chiefs. The sample size is closer than people might think as well. If Mahomes can't start the AFC championship...

PECOS, Texas. (AP) — Police in western Texas have identified a girl who drowned in a hotel pool in 1966 as a 17-year-old native of Kansas. Jolaine Hemmy, of Salina, Kansas, drowned on July 5, 1966 at the Ropers Motel in Pecos, police said Tuesday. S...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An anonymous couple from Kansas has pledged an estate gift of $3.5 million to the Wichita State Foundation. The money will be used to endow a general scholarship fund for students who have financial need, the university said T...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Four nurses at a rural health department in Kansas are refusing to administer any COVID-19 vaccines, citing the fast development and production of the shots. Coffey County Public Health Administrator Lindsay Payer said the n...

Services for Herbert Louis Niles are pending with Lanman Funeral Home, Cherokee, Oklahoma. Viewing will be held on Friday, January 22, 2021, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Lanman Funeral Home, 1305 S. Grand Avenue. Services will be held on Sunday,...