Happy Anniversary To March 2: Mr. & Mrs. Russell Nickel March 5: Mr. & Mrs. Ty Harper March 10: Mr. & Mrs. Duane Gillenwaters (Note: Send corrections, additions to: [email protected] or call 800-305-2111)...

Happy Birthday To Feb. 20: Brenda Sparks, Austin Reed Feb. 22: Christina Brady, Morgan Ledford Feb. 23: Lillian Hodgson Feb. 24: Callie Kay, Tyresa Daughhetee, Lori Parks, Elaine Walker, J. T. Johnson Feb. 25; Debbie Ferguson, Brianna Lumpkin, Rayah...

On Sunday, Feb. 16, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Acolyte – Jack Wilson. The flag of the United States and the Christian flag were brought in by two of the FFA members. We were privileg...

Feb. 20: 1:30 p.m. – High school girls basketball vs Goodwell in regionals at Arnett Feb. 22–March 3: District Livestock Show in Woodward March 9: 7 p.m. – Freedom school board meeting March 10: Heart health exams March 16–20: Spring vreak March 2...

Voters in Woods County who want to have absentee ballots mailed to them for the March 3, 2020, Presidential Preferential Primary Election should apply now, County Election Board Secretary Sandra Koehn said today. Although the county election board...

EADS, Colo. (AP) — The site sits hundreds of miles from any major city. There are no statues to admire, no gift shops to buy postcards, and no cheery activities for the kids. To get there, one must drive through hours of farm and dirt roads amid p...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two people were found dead Wednesday inside a burned recreational vehicle in southwestern Oklahoma City, according to an official with the Oklahoma City Fire Department. The bodies of a man and a woman were found inside the RV a...

McALESTER, Oka. (AP) — Skeletal remains found two years ago near McAlester are those of a McAlester woman who disappeared more than three years ago, according to Pittsburg County Sheriff Chris Morris. The remains found in February 2018 have been i...

GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — A Florida woman pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the deaths of a Kansas couple who were killed after a carnival worker ordered their deaths as part of a fictitious "carnival mafia" initiation. Kimberly Younger, of McIntosh, F...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two years after a crash left two sisters dead and three family members injured, the state of Kansas is suing the children's parents and other parties for the cost of repairing a highway barrier damaged in the wreck. The state f...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Joel Berger, Colorado State University and Jon Beckmann, University of Nevada, Reno (THE CONVERSATION) In the grip of winter, the North...

CROYDON, N.H. (AP) — The police chief in a New Hampshire town took it literally when he was stripped of his duties at a local board meeting, disrobing to his underwear and walking out into a snowstorm. Richard Lee has been chief in the small town of...

DALLAS (AP) — A social media sensation dubbed the "Leaning Tower of Dallas" was born when a portion of a building survived an implosion in Dallas. After the implosion Sunday failed to bring down the core of the 11-story former Affiliated Computer S...

NEW YORK (AP) — Victoria's Secret, which once defined sexy with its leggy supermodels prancing around in their bras and oversized angel wings, is being sold as women increasingly look for styles that more realistically fit their body type. The compan...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Roger Stone, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, faces sentencing Thursday on his convictions for witness tampering and lying to Congress. The action in federal court comes amid Trump's unrelenting defense of his longtime c...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors continued deliberating for a third day Thursday in Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault trial after so far focusing a lot of attention on actress Annabella Sciorra's allegation that the once-heralded Hollywood mogul raped her i...

SYDNEY (AP) — Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Thursday that Australians were "shocked, saddened and devastated" by the deaths of five people including three children after a car fire in apparent domestic violence. Hannah Baxter, 31, and her c...

CAIRO (AP) — Karim Hegazi spends his days in a Cairo clinic taking care of animals long considered a menace in Egypt. Stray dogs roam in almost every Cairo neighborhood — lurking in construction sites, scavenging through trash and howling nig...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Six Democratic presidential hopefuls met on the debate stage in Las Vegas, but it was the newcomer, former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who received the most attention, and none of it positive. Here are some key takeaways from t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest Democratic presidential debate was a raucous one, ripe for exaggerations and distortions as Mike Bloomberg made his debut on the debate stage and rivals went after him and each other. President Donald Trump weighed in o...

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — About 500 passengers left the Diamond Princess cruise ship Wednesday at the end of a much-criticized two-week quarantine that failed to stop the spread of the new virus among passengers and crew. The quarantine's flop was under...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration completed the fewest cleanups of toxic Superfund sites last year than any administration since the program's first years in the 1980s, figures released by the Environmental Protection Agency indicated W...

WASHINGTON (AP) — There's a common thread among the 11 felons who found favor with President Donald Trump this week — all who were pardoned or set free had advocates among the president's wealthy friends and political allies. In at least some cas...