Articles from the January 27, 2021 edition
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Covid-19 case changes event calendar
Several events at Freedom Public Schools were canceled or postponed after a student tested positive for Covid-19. According to an announcement by the school, other students and staff were not in close contact with the student for several days before...
Freedom has four open positions in municipal election
Four positions are up for election in the Town of Freedom on April 6. Filing begins Monday, Feb. 1, and continues through Wednesday, Feb. 3. Candidates may file at the Woods County Election Board in Alva from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 1-3. The election...
Oklahoma City Community College removes Land Run monument
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City Community College has recently removed the controversial Land Run monument from its campus, college officials said. The concrete monument quickly became the subject of numerous complaints expressed through social m...
Oklahoma Supreme Court rejects Stitt's gambling compacts
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court has rejected gambling compacts that Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt negotiated with two Oklahoma-based Native American tribes, delivering the first-term governor another setback in his attempt to r...
Kansas eyes allowing concealed carry for people under 21
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas gun rights supporters are pushing to lower the age for concealed carry of firearms from 21 to 18. Wichita Republican Rep. Blake Carpenter and a Kansas State Rifle Association lobbyist on Wednesday told the House Federal a...
Kansas to shut down unemployment system to deal with fraud
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will shut down its system for processing claims for benefits from unemployed workers this weekend to impose new anti-fraud protections, Gov. Laura Kelly announced Wednesday. Kelly said the state system will go down at 2 p...
Ex-Kansas Gov. Brownback to focus on racial reconciliation
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Former Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said he plans to make promoting racial reconciliation a focus of his life as a private citizen after more than a quarter century in politics. Brownback, 64, stepped down as the country's a...
Bill would help low income students attend private schools
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers are considering a proposal to expand a program that uses tax credits to help low-income students attend private schools. Supporters of the bill told House and Senate committees Tuesday the coronavirus pandemic h...
COVID-19 variant looked for as culprit of prison outbreak
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas health officials on Wednesday sought to determine whether a coronavirus variant might be fueling a new outbreak at a minimum-security state prison where inmates regularly work in surrounding communities. The state D...
Suit: Background check failure led to Kansas patient's rape
ANDOVER, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas assisted living facility is accused in a lawsuit of failing to vet staff and turning a blind eye while a woman with dementia was sexually assaulted. The suit alleges that administrators at Mapleton Assisted Living f...
Most Kansas universities won't use new dismissal policy
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas is the only one of six public universities in the state that will consider using a new policy that makes it easier to fire, suspend or dismiss employees, including tenured faculty. The Kansas Board of Re...
Health workers stuck in snow give other drivers vaccine
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon health workers who got stuck in a snowstorm on their way back from a COVID-19 vaccination event went car to car injecting stranded drivers before several of the doses expired. Josephine County Public Health said on F...
Bernie Sanders' mittens, memes help raise $1.8M for charity
About those wooly mittens that U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders wore to the presidential inauguration, sparking endless quirky memes across social media? They've helped to raise $1.8 million in the last five days for charitable organizations in Sanders'...
Man hits 2 deer with new car, then he hits $2M in lottery
LELAND, N.C. (AP) — An unlucky start to a North Carolina man's day turned upside down when he discovered he won a $2 million lottery prize hours after hitting two deer with his new car. Anthony Dowe, of Leland, had an accident on his way to work, t...
Proud Boys leader was government informant, records show
The leader of the Proud Boys, who was arrested in Washington shortly before the Capitol riot, previously worked undercover and cooperated with investigators after he was accused of fraud in 2012, court documents show. Henry "Enrique" Tarrio helped...
Biden: 'We can't wait any longer' to address climate crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the most ambitious U.S. effort to stave off the worst of climate change, President Joe Biden signed executive orders Wednesday to transform the nation's heavily fossil-fuel powered economy into a clean-burning one, pausing oil an...
US terrorism alert warns of politically motivated violence
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism bulletin Wednesday warning of the lingering potential for violence from people motivated by antigovernment sentiment after President Joe Biden's election, suggesting th...
US House data not ready until April, states' data after July
The U.S. Census Bureau is aiming to deliver the long-delayed numbers used for divvying up congressional seats by the end of April, but a holdup on redistricting data could disrupt several states' abilities to redraw their own legislative maps ahead o...
