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Happy Birthday To Jan. 21: Shelly Lane, Royce Friend Jan. 22: Paula McMurphy, Buddy Dotter, Margene Burnham, Stephanie Moss, Reese Grimes Jan. 23: Evan Reed Ferguson, Lana Darr, Alan Dean Sample, Beau Wilson Jan. 24: Sonny Wagner, Linda Gray, Landon...

This past week, I and several other representatives hosted a public meeting in Woodward to discuss details of the redistricting process. Every 10 years, the Legislature is constitutionally required to redraw legislative and congressional district...

The major water line replacement project for the City of Kiowa, Kansas will begin in February. Sam Johnson, engineer with BG Consultants (which oversees the project) in Manhattan, announced it in his presentation to Kiowa's City Council at their...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump will walk out of the White House and board Marine One for the last time as president Wednesday morning, leaving behind a legacy of chaos and tumult and a nation bitterly divided. Four years after standing on stage at hi...

OKLAHOMA CITY (Jan. 20, 2021) – The Oklahoma Medical Reserve Corps (OKMRC) is seeking medical and non-medical volunteers to support Covid-19 vaccination efforts at more than 50 points of vaccine dispensing (PODs) locations statewide. “This is a hug...

Jan. 22: 4 p.m. Junior high basketball vs. Billings at Freedom Jan. 22: 6:30 p.m. High school basketball vs. Billings at Freedom (Homecoming) Jan. 26: 4:30 p.m. Junior high basketball at Taloga Jan. 26: 6:30 p.m. High school basketball at Taloga...

In an efficient and good-humored meeting last Wednesday, the Freedom Town Board handled several routine items of business. All members were present – Mayor Shad Brackin and trustees Rolando Galindo and Concha Herrera – as were Town Clerk Cindy Ree... Full story

WEWOKA, Okla. (AP) — The chief of the Seminole Nation said Wednesday the Oklahoma-based tribe has no current plans to tax oil and gas production on all land within its traditional reservation boundaries, a move that drew quick praise from the state's...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — One name missing in President Donald Trump's flurry of pardons was "Tiger King" Joe Exotic. His team was so confident in a pardon that they had readied a celebratory limousine and a hair and wardrobe team to whisk away the z...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Leslie Frazier's faith in his Bills defense never wavered even at the lowest point of Buffalo's season. It was mid-November and the Bills were entering their bye week on the heels of a 32-30 defeat at Arizona. Immediately d...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Sporting Kansas City signed homegrown players Grayson Barber, Ozzie Cisneros and Brooks Thompson on Wednesday as the Major League Soccer club continues to get younger by developing players from within its system. The 2...

LIBERAL, Kan. (AP) — A former southwest Kansas county court clerk who kept thousands of dollars in traffic court payments for herself has been sentenced to a year of probation. Sonia Johnson, 57, an ex-clerk for Seward County District Court, was s...

BONNER SPRINGS, Kan. (AP) — One man was killed and a woman was critically injured during a police pursuit in Bonner Springs early Wednesday. The pursuit began when Bonner Springs officers received a report that a driver was speeding through a n...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The top health official in Kansas has told lawmakers that the state will likely see a small uptick in immediate supply of the COVID-19 vaccine with the change in presidential administrations. In a joint hearing Tuesday before S...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The Lawrence City Council has unanimously approved a measure to return a Native American tribe's prayer rock that was transformed more than 90 years ago into a monument honoring Kansas settlers. The council voted 5-0 Tuesday t...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Well-known Kansas landscape artist Stan Herd will have one of his works included in a virtual celebration of new President Joe Biden's inauguration. Herd and a team created the phrase "America United" into a field outside of L...

COFFEYVILLE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas football coach who survived and even resumed coaching following a double-lung transplant three years ago has died of COVID-19 complications. Aaron Flores, 50, of Coffeyville, died last week following a battle with t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three new senators were sworn into office Wednesday after President Joe Biden's inauguration, securing the majority for Democrats in the Senate and across a unified government to tackle the new president's agenda at a time of u...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Normally quiet streets around U.S. state capitol buildings have looked more like battlegrounds recently, putting those who live and work there on edge. More than most people, these Americans will have front-row seats on whether t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is moving swiftly to dismantle Donald Trump's legacy on his first day in office, signing a series of executive actions that reverse course on immigration, climate change, racial equity and the handling of the c...