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Tuesday, February 26, 2019 During this day there were six traffic stops and one controlled burn. 7:56 a.m. – Caller advised her house had been broken into in Kansas. Transferred call. 1:55 p.m. – Report of a reckless driver. 7:15 p.m. – Report of a large dead deer lying in the middle of U.S. Highway 64. 9:19 p.m. – Medic needed for a male with heart problems. Medic took patients to Bass Hospital in Enid. 9:21 p.m. – Caller advised people were breaking into her home. Transferred call to Kansas. Wednesday, February 27, 2019 During this day there...
February 25, 2019 Medicine Lodge EMS transported a patient to KS Heart. Sgt. Paasch responded to a harassment call on Pageant Road. Medicine Lodge EMS responded to call on Oak Street. Kiowa Fire responded to a vehicle fire on K-2. Deputy Woods responded to a suspicious car on Comanche Street Sgt. Paasch responded to a reckless driver call at the lake. Deputy Woods acted as backup for Kiowa Police Department on suspicious person call. Deputy Woods assisted in welfare check at Copa Inn. February 26, 2019 Deputy Woods acted as backup for Kiowa...
Commissioners in Alfalfa County were busy at their Monday morning meeting with a lengthy three-page agenda this week. Two of those pages were filled with items to be declared surplus and then the resolutions for their disposal. The county officials kicked off the meeting by approving last week's meeting minutes, maintenance and operation warrants for payment, blanket purchase orders, appropriations, monthly officer reports and highway expenditures, and the allocation of alcohol beverage tax. District 1 had a single road crossing permit for $1,7...
Kiowa Police Chief Nate Houston released the following weekly report: Feb. 25, 2019 Kiowa Police Department assisted Barber County Sheriff's Office with a vehicle fire at K-2/281 junction. There were no injuries; vehicle was a complete loss. 900 block of Miller – Suspicious person reported; unable to locate. Feb. 26, 2019 400 block Drumm – report of two subjects in a home trespassing; reported barricaded suspects trapped in bathroom by tenant, upon further investigation no subjects were found and no forced entry into the home. 400 block Dru...
In a very informative meeting Monday, Alva Board of Education members hired a new high school band teacher, heard about programs at Longfellow School, and learned about the new school report cards just released by the state. The new band teacher is Adam Stuart, currently teaching at Hennessey. His contract is for the 2019-2020 school year. Accompanying him to the meeting were Cara and Nick Bradt. Superintendent Tim Argo told Cara, "I want to thank you for stepping in and stepping up." She took...
EDMOND – Oklahoma Baptist had in-state rival Central Oklahoma wobbling but could not topple the Bronchos losing 7-2 Tuesday in baseball game at Edmond. OBU and UCO played seven innings knotted at two before the Bronchos broke open the game with five runs in the eighth. OBU scored first when Brock Carter sent a pitch sailing over the right-field wall scoring Kaimana Bartolome in front of him to put the Bison ahead 2-0. The Bronchos tied the game after scoring a run in the second and fourth innings A.J. Merkel who pitched well before exiting i...
ADA, Okla. – Southeastern took advantage of 14 free passes and scored four runs in the ninth inning to pull away with a 9-1 victory over East Central in a non-conference road matchup in Ada, Oka., on Tuesday afternoon. The win moves the Savage Storm back to 9-9 overall on the season heading back into Great American Conference play March 8-9 in a three-game series versus Harding at The Ballpark in Durant. Austin Ferguson and Luke Thomas had two hits each, while Joseph Cerda picked up the teams fifth hit. Slayde Ortiz, Drew Bolin, and Thomas e...
BETHANY, Okla. — In a non-conference battle with their archrival Oklahoma Christian, Southern Nazarene dropped a thriller at Feland Field 6-5 on Tuesday afternoon. The Crimson Storm (4-12) had an opportunity in the bottom of the ninth to walk-off their home field with a victory, but the Eagles closed the door on an exciting game in Bethany. Both SNU and OC tallied double-digit hits in the game as the Eagles finished with 13, while the Storm recorded 10. The pitching staff for SNU recorded 13 strikeouts in the game, while the Storm hitters o...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – SWOSU senior starting pitcher Cooper Cantwell has been named the Great American Conference Pitcher of the Year for the second time this season after garnering the award on Tuesday for his performance on Saturday against Arkansas-Monticello. After SWOSU dropped two games to the Weevils on Friday, Cantwell took the mound for the series finale and pitched dominantly against them. He threw all nine innings against UAM for his second complete-game of the season while allowing just two hits and one unearned run while striking o...
CHICKASHA, Okla. – SWOSU Baseball defeated University Science & Arts 9-6 after going into an extra-inning on Thursday afternoon. The Bulldogs were able to put up 10 hits on the offensive end while only committing one error on defense. SWOSU first got on the board with a ground out to short by Rafael Villela, which allowed Alex Bedard to bring a run in. In the top of the third, Kannon McCune hit a double to left center which positioned him to score a run off a sacrifice fly hit by Bedard. During the fourth inning, Sawyer Toole, Brady Burtner, a...
BETHANY, Okla. (March 5, 2019) – Hunter Markwardt hit what proved to be a decisive two-run double in the eighth inning and Oklahoma Christian hung on in the ninth to edge archrival Southern Nazarene 6-5 on a chilly Tuesday afternoon at Feland Field. OC (11-2), ranked sixth in the South Central Region, extended its winning streak to five games, the second time this baseball season the Eagles have won five in a row. But Southern Nazarene (4-12) made the Eagles work hard for the win. The Eagles scored once in each of the first two innings to t...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Tristan Thomas went 3-for-5 with a double and four RBIs, Riley Hickerson went a perfect 4-for-4 and Drake Norton pitched six shutout innings, helping lead the Arkansas Tech Wonder Boy baseball team (13-8, 7-2 GAC) to a 10-0 shutout win over Ouachita (8-10, 4-5 GAC) Tuesday afternoon at Carl Baswell Field. NEXT UP Arkansas Tech will return to the field on Friday Mar. 8 as the Wonder Boys travel to Ada, Okla. to play East Central. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m. ARKANSAS TECH LINEUP Britt Stroth (LF) Korey Thompson (SS) H...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas Tech sweeps the weekly conference awards as Britt Stroth has been named the Great American Conference Baseball Player of the Week, while Layton Robinson has been named the GAC Co-Pitcher of the Week the league office announced Tuesday. Stroth, a senior from Conway, Ark. led Arkansas Tech (12-8, 7-2 GAC) to a 3-2 week, including the Wonder Boys' upset of No. 1 Delta State. Stroth finished the week with team-highs in hits (9), runs scored (7) and stolen bases (5). In a non-conference battle against No. 1 Delta S...
SEARCY – Harding women's tennis ran its winning streak to six straight matches Tuesday with a 7-0 nonconference victory over Henderson State at the Harding Tennis Courts. Harding (9-1) quickly took the doubles point with wins at all three doubles spots. Rylie Cox and Arisa Takanashi former Harding's No. 1 team for the first time since early in February. The change paid off with a 6-0 victory. Hana Folse and Lindy Carpenter won 6-2 at No. 2, and Allison and Emily Carpenter won their third straight 6-4 at No. 3. It was the team-leading 12th d...
SEARCY, Ark. — Harding got the best of Henderson State in the teams' first meeting of the year on Tuesday, defeating the Reddies 7-0 to win its sixth-straight match. The Lady Bisons (9-1), who were ranked No. 4 in the Central Region in the latest ITA DII poll, swept through the three doubles matches to take a 1-0 lead into singles. Things continued in Harding's favor in individual play, as the Reddies could not scratch a win and fell to 2-5 on the season. Henderson will return to the court on Monday, April 1, when it hosts Arkansas Tech at 2 p...
MAGNOLIA, Ark. – (RV) Southern Arkansas knocked off the defending Great American Conference Champions and preseason favorite Savage Storm of Southeastern Oklahoma on Tuesday afternoon at the Live Oaks Tennis Courts as the Muleriders emerged victorious in a 4-2 decision which was reached after a 6-4, 6-1 win by SAU's Raymond Marin Garcia over SOSU's Jason Roberts. The Muleriders (9-2, 1-0 GAC) handed the Savage Storm its first conference loss since 2017 and just its fifth league defeat since the 2012-13 season. SAU won the doubles point after A...
MAGNOLIA, Ark. – The Southern Arkansas Women's Tennis team picked up their seventh-consecutive win on Tuesday afternoon from the Live Oaks Tennis Courts as the Lady Muleriders dismissed Southeastern Oklahoma 4-0 in the Great American Conference opener for both squads. The SAU Women (11-2, 1-0 GAC) won the doubles point behind a pair of 6-2 victories from the duos of Aurora Novati/Simone Simas and Lena Milosevic/Serena Gill. Singles action saw Angela Vargas win 6-2, 6-4 over Sara Dinovic and Simas claim a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Diana Budnik. J...
The Barber County Cattlemen's Association will hold their annual meeting on Monday, March 18, at 6 p.m. at the Gyp Hills Guest Ranch (3393 SW Woodward Road), Medicine Lodge, Kansas. The evening will include the annual meeting, a steak supper and a presentation from Brandi Buzzard Frobose. Frobose began her career with the Beef Cattle Institute/K-State Research & Extension (KSRE) in 2013, after completing her master's degree at K-State. She was then hired by the National Cattlemen's Beef...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republican legislative leaders reached an agreement Tuesday to expand the governor's power over agency directors, handing the state's new CEO-turned-Gov. Kevin Stitt a major policy victory early in the legislative session. Flanked by House and Senate leaders, Stitt announced a deal that would give him the ability to hire and fire the directors of five of the state's largest agencies: the Department of Transportation, Department of Corrections, Office of Juvenile Affairs, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, and t...
BETHANY, Okla. (AP) — Police are investigating after a body was found at a central Oklahoma lake, making it the third body found near or in the lake in just over a week. Authorities responded Tuesday to Lake Overholser, on the border of Oklahoma City and Bethany. Oklahoma City police Capt. Bo Matthews says a horseback rider discovered the body under a bridge. Matthews says the body was found in the Bethany Police Department's jurisdiction, so that agency will lead this investigation. A voice message left with Bethany police was not i...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A bill to regulate Oklahoma's booming new medical marijuana industry has cleared another legislative hurdle on its way to the governor. The Senate Rules Committee voted unanimously Wednesday for the measure known as the "unity bill " because it's supported by various factions of the cannabis industry. It now heads to the full Senate and, if the Senate approves, to the governor. It establishes guidelines for inventory testing and tracking, advertising, packaging and labeling, among other things. Although the bill sets up r...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Pharmaceutical companies have asked for a 100-day postponement of an Oklahoma trial accusing them of fraudulently marketing drugs that have fueled the nation's opioid crisis. Several states have filed lawsuits against drugmakers, but Oklahoma's was the first set to go to trial, on May 28. Attorneys for the 13 companies asked the judge to delay the start of the trial to Sept. 16, The Oklahoman reported. Attorneys for the state oppose the delay, calling the request "frivolous, desperate and disingenuous." Cleveland County Dis...
EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — A suburban Oklahoma City teen told investigators that his older brother told him that he shot and killed their parents because they had been communicating with him telepathically and were Satan worshippers, according to an affidavit released Tuesday. The 17-year-old called police at around 2:30 a.m. Monday after waking to the sound of his mother screaming and hearing gunshots, police wrote in the affidavit. He then saw his mother in the hallway and she told him to call 911. "He looked into the hallway again and saw his b...
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) — Firefighters say two children and an adult have died following a house fire in Broken Arrow. Deputy Fire Chief Phil Reid said the three were found inside the home and one was dead at the scene of the Monday morning fire. The other victims died at a hospital. The names and ages of the three have not been released. A relative says the mother of the children and wife of the man was not at home at the time of the fire, which was reported by passers-by who saw smoke coming from the home. Reid said the cause of the fire h...
ABILENE, Texas (AP) — Military officials have identified a 37-year-old Navy seaman from Texas as one of the men killed aboard the USS Oklahoma in the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Authorities announced Tuesday that DNA and other analysis were used to identify remains disinterred in 2015 in Honolulu as those of Seaman 1st Class Hale McKissack. He was one of 429 crewmen who died on Dec. 7, 1941, when torpedoes struck the Oklahoma, causing it to quickly capsize. Navy personnel spent the following three years recovering the remains of the c...
