Articles from the February 2, 2024 edition
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Rangers defense leads to win over Tigers
ALVA – The Rangers returned home Saturday afternoon for the first of three straight home games. Northwestern's defense sparked the six-point victory 56-50, which opened a double-digit lead. The R...
Ladybugs lose to Cashion in Enid Festival
The Alva Ladybugs traveled to the Skordle Enid Festival Friday afternoon, Jan. 26, where they were matched up with Class 2A Cashion. The Lady Wildcats edged out to lead 13-8 in the first quarter and... Full story
Goldbugs add wins against Cashion, Tonkawa
In the past week, the Alva Goldbugs tucked two more wins under their belts as they played Cashion and Tonkawa. On Friday, Jan. 26, the Goldbugs traveled to Enid for the Skordle Festival where they... Full story
Northwestern's Spring Showcase offering transfers, high school seniors $500 scholarship
Northwestern Oklahoma State University is offering a $500 scholarship to transfer students and high school seniors who attend their Spring Showcase event Saturday, Feb. 17, at 10 a.m. in the Student Center at the Northwestern-Alva campus. All student...
New surgeon begins Feb. 19 at Share Medical Center
The Alva Hospital Authority (AHA) held a special meeting on Monday, Jan. 29, after canceling their regular meeting the preceding week. Vice Chair Dr. Bo Hannaford presided at the meeting. He welcomed Connor Martin who was appointed to fill Jason Gais... Full story
Gaisford concludes over 20 years of service on Alva Hospital Authority
After more than 20 years as a member of the Alva Hospital Authority (AHA), Jason Gaisford had to resign because he moved outside the city limits. Monday night during a special AHA meeting, Gaisford...
Flume slide added to swimming pool project
In a special meeting last week, the Alva Parks and Recreation Board voted to recommend accepting an alternate bid for a flume slide to be added to the swimming pool project. In a follow-up special... Full story
Indian police clear a suspected Chinese spy pigeon after 8 months in bird lockup
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police cleared a suspected Chinese spy pigeon after eight months' detention and released it into the wild Tuesday, news agency Press Trust of India reported. The pigeon's ordeal began in May when it was captured near a port i...
Biden meets with friendly autoworkers in Michigan, but avoids angry Gaza protesters
WARREN, Michigan (AP) — President Joe Biden chatted with a friendly union crowd inside a United Auto Workers hall in Michigan on Thursday as pro-Palestinian demonstrators held back by police with riot shields voiced their anger nearby at the presiden...
The Senate is headed for a crucial test vote on new border policies and Ukraine aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate will hold a crucial test vote next week on legislation that would pair new policies at the southern border with wartime aid for Ukraine and other American allies, leaders pressing ahead despite heavy skepticism from R...
Lupus and other autoimmune diseases strike far more women than men. Now there's a clue why
WASHINGTON (AP) — Women are far more likely than men to get autoimmune diseases, when an out-of-whack immune system attacks their own bodies — and new research may finally explain why. It's all about how the body handles females' extra X chr...
Republican lawsuits challenge mail ballot deadlines. Could they upend voting across the country?
Republicans are challenging extended mail ballot deadlines in at least two states in a legal maneuver that could have widespread implications for mail voting before the presidential election in November. A lawsuit filed last week in Mississippi follo...
Analysis shows destruction and possible buffer zone along Gaza Strip's border with Israel
JERUSALEM (AP) — Satellite photos show new demolition along a 1-kilometer-deep path on the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, according an analysis by The Associated Press and expert reports. The destruction comes as Israel has said it wants to establi...
Kansas is poised to expand tax credit for helping disabled workers after debate over low pay
Kansas is poised to expand an income tax credit for goods and services purchased from companies and nonprofits employing disabled workers, a year after a debate over how much the state should buck a national trend against paying those workers below...
Punxsutawney Phil predicts an early spring at Groundhog Day festivities
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring on an overcast Friday morning at Gobbler's Knob in Pennsylvania, the scene of the largest and best-known Groundhog Day celebration in the United States. The annual event is a t...
Sauna patrons dressed only in towels pull 2 from a car that plunged into a Norwegian fjord
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Not all heroes wear capes. Some don't wear anything at all. With only towels around their waists, patrons aboard a floating sauna in a Norwegian fjord rescued two people whose car had plunged into the water. The car a...
Federal judge in DC postpones Trump's March trial on charges of plotting to overturn 2020 election
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Washington formally postponed Donald Trump's March trial on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election as a key legal appeal from the former president remains unresolved in the courts. U.S. District Judge T...
US begins strikes on militias in Iraq, Syria, retaliating for fatal drone attack, officials tell AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds force Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that k...
Fani Willis acknowledges a 'personal relationship' with prosecutor she hired in Trump's Georgia case
ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis acknowledged in a court filing on Friday having a "personal relationship" with a special prosecutor she hired for the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald T...
Senators reach a deal on border policy bill. Now it faces an uphill fight to passage
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate negotiators on Friday reached a deal on a proposal to overhaul the asylum system at the U.S. border with Mexico, clearing the way for Democratic and Republican Senate leaders to begin the difficult task of convincing C...
Taylor Swift could make it from Tokyo to the Super Bowl. Parking her private jet could be tricky
LAS VEGAS (AP) — If Taylor Swift is jetting from her upcoming Tokyo concert to Las Vegas to see boyfriend Travis Kelce play in the Super Bowl the next day, she'd better already have a place to park her plane. Even the Japanese Embassy in W...
The US didn't just avoid a recession - it's adding hundreds of thousands of new jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's employers delivered a stunning burst of hiring to begin 2024, adding 353,000 jobs in January in the latest sign of the economy's continuing ability to shrug off the highest interest rates in two decades. Friday's govern...
Oklahoma rattled by shallow 5.1 magnitude earthquake
EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — A 5.1 magnitude earthquake shook an area near Oklahoma City late Friday, followed by smaller quakes during the next several hours, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. No injuries were reported and damage appeared to be m...
Police: Inert Cold War-era missile found in garage of Washington state home
BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — An inert rocket of the type used to carry a nuclear warhead has been found in the garage of a home of a deceased resident in Washington state, police said. Bellevue police responded Thursday to a report of a military-grade r...
US, Britain begin new strikes on Yemen's Houthis, retaliating for attacks by Iran-backed militants
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Britain struck at least 30 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday in a second wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups that have relentlessly attacked American and international interests in t...
