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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Three sticky bomb attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least five people and wounded two others, a police official said, amid a surge in violence in the war-torn country. Kabul police spokesman F...

You're fully vaccinated against the coronavirus — now what? Don't expect to shed your mask and get back to normal activities right away. That's going to be a disappointment, if not a shock, to many people. In Miami, 81-year-old Noemi Caraballo got he...

Court papers show on Jan. 4, Alva Police Officer Kris Franta was dispatched to 202 College in reference to a burglary. He arrived and spoke to Rodney Mustard who said several power tools were missing and a garage door had been damaged by someone... Full story

An 18-year-old from Alva is facing a felony charge in Woods County after allegedly stealing a vehicle with some underage friends. Keaton Dale Smith, 18, of Alva, is charged with contributing to the delinquency of minors, a felony. This crime is punis... Full story

Memorial services for Ricke Seal will be 2:30 p.m. Sunday, February 28, 2021, at Marshall Funeral Home Chapel with Max Ridgway officiating. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home. Ricke Merlin Seal, son of Jimmy...

ALVA, Okla. – The Rangers held off the Crimson Storm of SNU in four sets (25-22, 17-25, 25-20, 25-21) on Thursday night inside of Percefull Fieldhouse. Northwestern Volleyball (RV) improves to 4-1 overall and 2-1 in the Great American Conference. T...

More than half a year after voters approved a state question that will require Oklahoma to offer health coverage to more than 200,000 low-income adults, state officials are still unsure how they’ll pay it. The passage of State Question 802 last June...

Federal aviation regulators are ordering United Airlines to step up inspections of all Boeing 777s equipped with the type of engine that suffered a catastrophic failure over Denver Saturday. United says it is temporarily removing those aircraft from...

After unusual icy weather left millions of Texans without power, some are facing another crisis: Sky-high electricity bills. The surge in pricing is hitting people who have chosen to pay wholesale prices for their power, which is typically cheaper...

The U.S. stood Sunday at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus. A year into the pandemic, the running total of lives lost was about 498,000 — roughly the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and just shy of t...

HOUSTON (AP) — Hospitals across the South grappled with water shortages Sunday in the wake of a devastating winter storm as the region carried on with recovery efforts and the weather offered a balmy respite — temperatures as high as the mid...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration moved to restore the asylum system to the way it worked for decades Friday by releasing a group of asylum-seekers into the United States, ending their long wait in Mexico and unraveling one of former Presiden...

BALTIMORE (AP) — They called it ‘la perrera,’ meaning the dog pen. It was one of the U.S. Custom and Border Patrol’s processing centers, where migrant women and children slept side by side, in chilly temperatures, in a cage lined by wire, with th...

PHOENIX (AP) — Overwhelmed border officials have started releasing migrants into Arizona’s rural Yuma County as more people arrive with hopes of making their home in America amid a pandemic that won't allow authorities to hold as many in det...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma opened its second phase of coronavirus vaccinations on Monday, providing inoculations to public school teachers and staff and to adults of any age with illnesses that make them susceptible to the virus. "Our goal is t...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) — It is time for Jeep to stop using the Cherokee Nation's name on its Cherokee and Grand Cherokee SUVs, the chief of the Oklahoma-based tribe said. Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. said in a statement first reported by Car & Driver m... Full story

No. 7 Oklahoma (14-5, 9-4) vs. Kansas State (6-18, 2-13) Fred Bramlage Coliseum, Manhattan, Kansas; Tuesday, 9 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: No. 7 Oklahoma looks to give Kansas State its 16th straight loss to ranked opponents. Kansas State's last win vs a...

FORSYTH, Mo. (AP) — An Oklahoma man has died after he and another man fell through the ice on Swan Creek in southwestern Missouri this weekend, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reported. The incident happened late Saturday night when Leo S...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers hope that a legislative audit to be released later this week will provide an estimate of how much the state has paid out in fraudulent claims for unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Republicans in...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Authorities in northeastern Kansas are seeking a man suspected of shooting a woman in what investigators called a road rage incident on Interstate 70 south of Manhattan. Deputies were called to the stretch of I-70 around 1...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A woman is fighting for her life after being found critically injured in a fire that consumed an abandoned commercial building in Topeka, fire officials said. Fire crews were called around 8:30 p.m. Sunday to a fire in a s...

Here's what's happening Monday with the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.: THREE THINGS TO KNOW TODAY: — The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has topped 500,000. The virus has reached into all corners of the country and communities of every size. At t...