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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a $465 million opioid ruling against drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, finding that a lower court wrongly interpreted the state's public nuisance law in the first case of its kind in t...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The bizarre nature of the college football season in the Big 12 can be summed up by the fact that TCU and Texas Tech, both having already fired their coaches, could be headed to bowl games in a few short weeks. In fact, h...

Security camera footage, shell casings and a small but distinctive tattoo played pivotal roles in the arrest of a man suspected in at least six killings over the past two months in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas. The St. Louis Circuit...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Support is growing among Republicans to call the GOP-controlled Kansas Legislature into a special session before Thanksgiving to enact new laws for protecting workers who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Senate P...

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of Britain's iconic red phone boxes will be protected from removal under new rules, the U.K.'s telecommunications regulator said Tuesday. The public payphone boxes may look like obsolete relics in an age of ubiquitous s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House investigators issued subpoenas Tuesday to 10 former officials who worked for Donald Trump at the end of his presidency, an effort to find out more about what the president was doing and saying as his supporters violently s...

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The first man killed by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha was shot at a range of just a few feet and had soot injuries that could indicate he had his hand over the barrel of Rittenhouse's rifle, a pathologist testified T...

Lawsuits are piling up less than a week after the deadly crowd crush at the Astroworld concert, and legal experts say it's not looking good for rapper Travis Scott and the companies behind the tragic event in Houston. Several legal experts told The...

NEW YORK (AP) — At least 13 former Trump administration officials violated the law by intermingling campaigning with their official government duties, according to a new federal investigation released Tuesday. The report from the Office of Special C...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An American who faces criminal charges from the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol is seeking asylum in Belarus, the country's state TV reported, in a move that could further heighten tensions between the turbulent former Soviet n...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Rev. Jean-Nicaisse Milien felt the cool barrel of a gun against his right ear. The Haitian priest and nine other people had just been kidnapped while driving through the outskirts of the Haitian capital, P...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen warned Tuesday that the "metaverse," the all-encompassing virtual reality world at the heart of the social media giant's growth strategy, will be addictive and rob people of yet more personal i...

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...

Real Estate Transfers Book 876 page 8: Dana Forcum and Robert Forcum, unto Dana Forcum and Robert Forcum; Debora Storme nd Ronald Storm; and Gayla Forcum; and Cynthia Pekrul. The northwest quarter of section 12, township north; range 11 WIM. Joint...

Monday, November 1, 2021 During this day there were two traffic stops. 7:22 a.m. – Medic needed for a female found on the floor in the 200 block of 6th Street. 7:48 a.m. – Report of a reckless driver headed south into Cherokee. 1:10 p.m. – Repor...

Donald Allen Lenhart of Freedom, Oklahoma, was born on August 23, 1948, in Alva, Oklahoma, and passed away on November 9, 2021, in Vici, Oklahoma, at the age of 73. Memorial services will be held on Friday, November 12, 2021, at 11 a.m. at Sunnyside...

At the Alfalfa County commissioners' regular monthly meeting, county clerk Laneta Schwerdtfeger started off the meeting with an enormous pile of paperwork for the commissioners to sign, primarily M&O warrants for payments, purchase orders and other...

At a very brief meeting Monday, the Freedom Board of Education approved the consent agenda, which consisted of past meeting minutes; encumbrances for the general, building and child nutrition funds; the treasurer's report and activity fund reports....

The regular monthly meeting of the Cherokee school board started off with the sound of buttons bursting with pride. Students on the girls cross country team and those on the one-act team had achieved exceptional recognition at the state level, and...