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Alva Ladybugs pull within two but lose to Hooker 57-48

The Alva Ladybugs knew it would be a tough game when they hosted the Hooker Lady Bulldogs for homecoming Saturday afternoon. The Hooker team is ranked seventh in the state in Class 2A with a 15-1... Full story

 

Cunningham helps Oklahoma St beat Texas in double OT

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Cade Cunningham persevered through a rough game before coming up with the big plays at the end. Cunningham, one of the nation's top freshmen, scored five of his 19 points in the second overtime, including a contested 3...

 

Reported coronavirus cases in Oklahoma surpasses 400,000

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The number of reported coronavirus cases in Oklahoma surpassed 400,000 on Saturday with 2,053 new cases reported by the Oklahoma State Department of Health. There have been a total of 401,780 cases, and an additional 51 deaths f...

 

Small earthquakes continue to rattle northern Oklahoma

ENID, Okla. (AP) — A series of small earthquakes believed by seismologists to be caused by the underground injection of wastewater from oil and gas production continued to rattle northern Oklahoma on Saturday. Four quakes occurred Saturday m...

 

17-year-old arrested in killing of 14-year-old in Wichita

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 17-year-old has been arrested and police are looking for two other suspects in the shooting death of a 14-year-old in Wichita during a drug deal gone bad, authorities say. The Wichita Eagle reports that police were called a...

 

Arrest made in Wichita double killing

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A man who was on probation in an assault case has been arrested in the shooting deaths of a teenage couple in Wichita, authorities. Twenty-two-year-old Dontenize Kelly was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail early Saturday on s...

 

Officials plead: Don't let Super Bowl become superspreader

Kansas City Chiefs superfan Ty Rowton hugged strangers in the streets of Miami last year after watching his team win the Super Bowl and then joined hundreds of thousands of fans back home at a victory parade, thinking little of a mysterious virus...

 

Music to my fears: Man swallows earbud while sleeping

BOSTON (AP) — A man is warning people against using headphones while falling asleep after health care workers had to remove a wireless earbud from his esophagus. Worcester resident Brad Gauthier, who detailed his bizarre experience in a Facebook p...

 

Former heavyweight champion Leon Spinks dies at 67

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Leon Spinks, who won Olympic gold and then shocked the boxing world by beating Muhammad Ali to win the heavyweight title in only his eighth pro fight, has died. He was 67. Spinks, who lived his later years in Las Vegas, died F...

 

AFC champion Chiefs arrive in Tampa day before Super Bowl

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs have touched down at the Super Bowl. The AFC champions arrived in Tampa on Saturday, flying into town a day before they defend their title against the hometown Buccaneers. Because of t...

 

Wyoming GOP censures Rep. Liz Cheney over impeachment vote

RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Republican Party voted overwhelmingly Saturday to censure U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney for voting to impeach President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Only eight of the 74-member state GOP's...

 

5 key questions for Trump's Senate impeachment trial

WASHINGTON (AP) — Arguments begin Tuesday in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump on allegations that he incited the violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. A look at five key questions about what to expect when senators hear the c...

 

Calls grow for US to rely on rapid tests to fight pandemic

WASHINGTON (AP) — When a Halloween party sparked a COVID-19 outbreak at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, school officials conducted rapid screening on more than 1,000 students in a week, including many who didn't have sympt...

 

Calendar timing means virus deaths won't be seen in census

The human loss from the coronavirus will not be reflected in the 2020 census because of a matter of timing, which could save a congressional seat for New York but cost Alabama one. Because the start of the pandemic in the U.S. and the April 1 referen...

 

Riot aftermath: Still-shaken lawmakers, troops stand guard

WASHINGTON (AP) — On Jan. 6, the U.S. Capitol was besieged by supporters of Donald Trump angered by the then-president's election loss. While lawmakers inside the building were voting to affirm Democrat Joe Biden's win, Trump loyalists were m...

 

Pilots say they, too, were molested by Univ. of Michigan doc

DETROIT (AP) — A cargo pilot who regularly needed health checkups to keep his license contacted a University of Michigan doctor in 2000. He said he soon learned there was nothing routine about a visit with Robert Anderson. He said Anderson told h...

 

A fluke or the future? Boebert shakes up Colorado district

DENVER (AP) — Colorado's 3rd Congressional District, a stretch of ski resorts, national forest, ranches, coal towns and desert mesas the size of Pennsylvania, has long bred low-key politicians. Its voters have skewed slightly to the right, prized p...

 

Judge denies requests to pause creation of Alaska oil field

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal judge has denied requests made by conservation groups that lobbied for the courts to block ConocoPhillips from starting construction on its new Willow oil field. Sovereign Inupiat for a Living Arctic, the Center for Bi...

 

Northern New Mexico College announces cannabis program

ESPANOLA, N.M. (AP) — Northern New Mexico College has placed cannabis — or rather, the cannabis industry — in its course catalogue. The Española-based college is launching an online class that focuses on preparing professionals to be successful in th...

 

Senate Republicans back Trump as impeachment trial nears

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s defenders in the Senate on Sunday rallied around the former president before his impeachment trial, dismissing it as a waste of time and arguing that the former president’s fiery speech before the U.S. Capitol insur...

 

Capitol breach invader of Pelosi's office pleads not guilty

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas man who was photographed sitting with his feet on a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during last month's riot at the U.S. Capitol pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges stemming from the b...

 

Suspect in 2016 Las Vegas killing arrested at Mexican border

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal authorities in Arizona have arrested a man near the U.S.-Mexico border who is suspected in a 2016 homicide case in Las Vegas, authorities said. The Las Vegas police department said on Friday that Victor Delgado Jr., 27, w...

 

Biden ending deals with Central America restricting asylum

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is withdrawing the U.S. from agreements with three Central American countries that restricted the ability of people to seek asylum at the southwest border, part of a broad effort to undo the the i...

 

Oklahoma reports 2,174 new COVID-19 case, 52 more deaths

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma health officials say there have been more than 2,000 new COVID-19 cases and 52 more deaths linked to the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The Oklahoma State Department of Health reported 2,174 new, confirmed c...

 

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