On Sunday, Jan. 28, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Opening prayer by Pastor Woody Hamon Call to Worship – Psalm 16:5-11 led by Dixie Stansberry Opening hymn “How Great Thou Art” led b...

FREEDOM, Okla. – Kristopher Fargo continues to put up big numbers in the scoring column as he helped his Freedom (9-13) boys basketball team to back-to-back wins against Hardesty and Taloga. On Friday, the boys were victorious over Hardesty at h...

FREEDOM, Okla. – The Freedom girls basketball team went to Taloga on Tuesday and came away with a huge 63-23 blowout victory. The Lady Eagles improved their record to 9-13 on the season before heading to Billings on Friday and hosting Medford on Mond...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said Israel will retain security control over the Palestinians as part of any future peace deal, deepening Palestinian fears that Israel and the Trump administration are colluding on a...

NEW YORK (AP) — Just a week after scientists reported evidence that our species left Africa earlier than we thought, another discovery is suggesting the date might be pushed back further. Homo sapiens arose in Africa at least 300,000 years ago and l...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scenes from the Capitol on a night of pomp, pageantry and politics for the State of the Union address: ___ It wasn't the longest State of the Union address. That designation still goes to former President Bill Clinton. But an h...

When Megan Olson lands in South Korea for the Winter Olympics next week, she'll feel something that is both surreal and vivid. An intoxicating sense of belonging. A deep sense of loss. Pride, for the motherland she barely knows after being secretly...

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office said Wednesday that 206 companies — mostly Israeli and American — are facing a review of their business practices involving Israeli settlements, which are considered illegal under international law. In a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Addressing a deeply divided nation, President Donald Trump summoned the country to a "new American moment" of unity in his first State of the Union, challenging Congress to make good on long-standing promises to fix a fractured i...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The moon put on a rare cosmic show Wednesday: a red blue moon, super big and super bright. It's the first time in 35 years a blue moon has synced up with a supermoon and a total lunar eclipse, or blood moon because of i...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Clinton says she should not have let a senior campaign adviser keep his job after a female staffer accused him of sexual harassment in 2007. "The most important work of my life has been to support and empower women," C...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to keep open the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, marking a formal reversal of his predecessor's eight-year effort to shut it down. Trump made it clear during his c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — No, that wasn't drool on the lips of Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy III. He says it was ChapStick. Twitter lit up with jibes about the 37-year-old Democrat's response to President Donald Trump's State of the Union. In his t...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Donald Trump's fiery comments on North Korea reflected confidence that his campaign of pressure and sanctions on the country is working, South Korean analysts said Wednesday. The experts said it also means Washingt...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean skiers flew to North Korea on Wednesday to train with its athletes in a conciliatory gesture the countries planned to mark the Winter Olympics in the South. The chartered flight carrying a delegation of 45 ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An iron collar that kept slaves in bondage. A branding iron that marked human beings as someone's property. A photograph of black babies captioned as "alligator bait." A fine china plate with gold lettering that says, "KKK 'God Giv...

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli legal rights group said Wednesday it is suing two New Zealanders for allegedly convincing the pop singer Lorde to cancel her performance in Israel in what appears to be the first lawsuit filed under a contentious I...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was overheard Tuesday telling a Republican lawmaker he is "100 percent" in favor of releasing a classified memo on the Russia investigation that has sparked a political fight pitting Republicans against the F...

NEW YORK (AP) — The dirty word for describing President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address was "presidential." That was what some Trump critics tried to put in the mind of pundits assigned to analyze Tuesday's address, urging them a...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump reached an audience of 45.6 million people for his first State of the Union address, not enough to give him bragging rights over his predecessor. The Nielsen company says former President Barack Obama drew 48 m...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The ACLU of Oklahoma wants a judge to review the case of a woman sentenced to 30 years in prison for failing to stop her boyfriend from abusing their children. The organization filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Oklahoma County a...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A police officer has testified that an Oklahoma man charged with a hate crime in the killing of his Lebanese neighbor said the slain man didn't like him because he is gay. Testimony resumed Wednesday in the first-degree murder t...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — The family of an Oklahoma man who died in 2016 while in custody at the Muskogee County jail has filed a civil lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed Monday against individuals working in the facility, supervisors of the workers and t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A man who worked as a security officer for a church in south Oklahoma City is now facing an attempted grand larceny charge after the ministry's leaders set up a sting that prosecutors allege caught him stealing from the church c...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Shiny new marble floors and stone columns will greet Oklahoma Capitol visitors who enter the west side of the 100-year-old building in the first large renovated space open to the public. Gov. Mary Fallin joined state employees a...