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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A high-profile Oklahoma attorney is asking the state Supreme Court to stop the special election for Oklahoma's open U.S. Senate seat, arguing the U.S. Constitution does not allow a special election to fill the post until it's vacant. Enid attorney Stephen Jones, who gained national prominence as the attorney for convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, filed the lawsuit late Monday. Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, 87, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced last month that he p...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Dr. Lance Frye, Oklahoma's former state health commissioner, has been appointed surgeon general of the Muscogee Nation, the tribe announced Tuesday. Muscogee Nation Principal Chief David Hill and tribal Secretary of Health Shawn Terry said Frye would be the tribe's first-ever surgeon general. "Just as the United States Surgeon General focuses on pressing public health challenges at a national level, Surgeon General Frye will focus on combating the public health challenges we face here at home," Hill said in a statement. F...
ANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Big 12 Tournament was the place where Kansas validated its regular-season conference championship each year, and usually confirmed its status as one of the top seeds and heavy favorites for the NCAA Tournament. That's changed a bit over the years. Five different schools have played in the last three Big 12 title games, and three different schools have walked away with a trophy: Texas last season, Iowa State three years ago and the Jayhawks the year before that. And no school has won back-to-back titles since the C...
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A fire that raged through about 12,000 acres in south-central Kansas over the weekend killed one man and destroyed 35 homes, fire officials said. The Cottonwood Complex fire also destroyed 92 outbuildings and 110 vehicles after it started Saturday, Reno County officials said. A man's body was found in a wooded area on Sunday. Sheriff Darrian Campbell said authorities believe they know the man's identity but it won't be released until a forensic center in Johnson County makes a positive identification. There was no e...
EAST GREENWICH, R.I. (AP) — Several animal heads found in a plastic bag in East Greenwich last month appear to be related to some sort of religious animal sacrifice ritual, the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty said Tuesday. The bag, originally brought to the attention of police on Feb. 25 near a boat launch, contained a calf's head, several rooster heads, a lamb head, and a kid goat head, the animal welfare group said in a statement. "It is believed that animal remains that were found were from animals that were sacrificed a...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Pentagon said Tuesday that Poland's offer to give its MiG-29 fighter jets to the U.S. so they can be passed to Ukraine raises serious concerns for the NATO alliance and the plan is not "a tenable one." Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said in a statement that the prospect of jets departing from a U.S./NATO base in Germany to fly into airspace contested with Russia in the Ukraine war is concerning. He said it's not clear to the U.S. that there is a substantive rationale for it. The U.S., he said, will continue to t...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A jury was selected Tuesday for the trial of four men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 because they were angry over pandemic restrictions the Democratic governor imposed. Opening statements were scheduled for Wednesday in the federal court in Grand Rapids. Prosecutors have said they will present secret recordings and other evidence against the men, including of a trip to check Whitmer's vacation home and training with weapons and explosives. Defense attorneys say the men deny a...
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge dismissed the sex abuse lawsuit against Britain's Prince Andrew on Tuesday, three weeks after lawyers for the American woman who filed it reached a deal calling for the prince to make a substantial donation to his accuser's charity and declare he never meant to malign her character. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan signed court papers dismissing the August lawsuit after lawyers on both sides asked him to do so earlier in the day. The judge had given them until March 17 to complete the deal or he would set a trial d...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The massive superyacht Dilbar stretches one-and-a-half football fields in length, about as long as a World War I dreadnought. It boasts two helipads, berths for more than 130 people and a 25-meter swimming pool long enough to accommodate another whole superyacht. Dilbar was launched in 2016 at a reported cost of more than $648 million. Five years on, its purported owner, the Kremlin-aligned Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, was already dissatisfied and sent the vessel to a German shipyard last fall for a retrofit reportedly c...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials reversed their previous finding that a widely used and highly toxic pesticide could jeopardize dozens of plants and animals with extinction, after receiving pledges from chemical manufacturers that they will change product labels for malathion so that it's used more carefully by gardeners, farmers and other consumers. Federal rules for malathion are under review in response to longstanding complaints that the pesticide used on mosquitoes, grasshoppers and other insects also kills many rare p...
NEW YORK (AP) — With Russia intensifying its war on Ukraine, killing civilians and triggering a mass refugee crisis, President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a U.S. ban on imported Russian oil. Critics of Russia have said that sanctioning its energy exports would be the best — perhaps only — way to force Moscow to pull back. A full embargo would be most effective if it included European allies, which are also desperate to stop the violence in Ukraine and the danger Moscow poses to the continent. Yet it's far from clear that all of Europe would...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was arrested Tuesday on a conspiracy charge for his suspected role in a coordinated attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden's 2020 electoral victory. Henry "Enrique" Tarrio wasn't there when the riot erupted on Jan. 6, 2021. Police had arrested Tarrio in Washington two days before the riot and charged him with vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church during a protest in December 2020. The day before the C...
According to the affidavits and petitions on file, the following individuals have been charged. An individual is innocent of any charges listed below until proven guilty in a court of law. All information is a matter of public record and may be obtained by anyone during regular hours at the Alfalfa County Courthouse. The Alva Review-Courier will not intentionally alter or delete any of this information. If it appears in the courthouse public records, it will appear in this newspaper. Felony Filings Dermaine L. Arnett, 39, no location, has been...
The full Senate has given approval to Senate Bill 1544, which would prevent public, charter or virtual schools across the state from partnering with an individual or entity that performs, induces, or provides abortions. Authored by Sen. Roland Pederson, R-Burlington, the measure aims to prevent organizations, like Planned Parenthood, from instituting curriculum and normalizing sexual activities, behavior, and abortion in the state’s public-school systems. “It should be our goal to create a culture of life in Oklahoma where every human bei...
The Alfalfa County commissioners had a lot of paperwork to sign at their meeting this week. Mike Roach, Jay Hague, and Marvin Woodall spent most of their time signing approvals on appropriations, alcohol beverage tax allocations, and M&O warrants. Also signed were the blanket purchase orders, monthly highway expenditures, officer's reports, and last meeting's minutes. There were no road-crossing permits and nothing new to discuss regarding American Rescue Plan Act funds. Commissioners signed a resolution to dispose of a 1999 Ford E-Super Duty...
The Alva School Board hired a new assistant coach during Monday’s regular meeting. They accepted three resignations and one retirement. Board President Jane McDermott was absent so Vice President Tiffany Slater presided. Other board members attending were Karen Koehn, Larry Parker and Shane Hansen. Middle School Principal Stephanie Marteney said AMS has been looking for an assistant baseball coach. Dalton Rose, who graduated from Alva High School two years ago, expressed interest in the p...
The Barber County Cattlemen’s Association will hold their annual meeting on Monday, March 21, 2022, 6 p.m., at the Gyp Hills Guest Ranch (3393 SW Woodward Rd.), Medicine Lodge, Kansas. The evening will include the annual meeting, a beef supper and scholarship recognitions. Please RSVP to the Barber County Extension Office by 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 17, by calling 620-886-3971. This event is open to both current and potential members of the Barber County Cattlemen’s Association, as well as any members of the community who are interested in...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 During this day there were three traffic stop and one report of cattle out. 6:48 a.m. – Report of a grass fire on OK-45 and County Road 580. 8:27 a.m. – Medic needed in the 700 block of Nebraska for a child having a seizure. No transport needed. 2:48 p.m. – Report of a grass fire on west of OK-8 on Garvin Road. Wednesday, March 2, 2022 During this day there was one traffic stop and one controlled burn. 10:17 a.m. – Report of a reckless driver on US-64 east bound. Advised a black Pontiac was going from ditch to ditch a...
Felony charges were filed against two inmates at James Crabtree Correctional Center (JCCC) in Helena on March 1. The charges involve contraband brought into the prison. Dermaine L. Arnett, 38, has been charged with conspiracy. This felony charge is punishable by imprisonment for up to ten years, or a fine of up to $5,000, or both. Court records show on Aug. 1, 2021, Jerry Silas and Skylar Aguero were arrested for conspiring to introduce contraband into JCCC. Silas was found in possession of...
A wild grass fire was called into Barber County, Kansas Friday around 4 p.m. That's according to Barber County Fire Chief Roger Robison who said the flames destroyed about 400 acres. The fire broke out just north and west of Chad Forester's home on Gerlaine Road. That road runs east and west about a mile north of Hazelton all the way west to U.S. Highway 281. Robison said the fire was about one-half mile west of Forester's. The chief said he suspects the fire was “electrical related.” He said they found burnt material under an electrical pol...
Board President Terry Graham called the March 3 special meeting to order at 7 p.m., with three other members present: Robert Hill, April Kisling and Aaron Smith. T.J. Rockenbach was absent. Superintendent Kevin Brown, HS/JH Principal Gerrett Spears and Minutes Clerk Tracy Granados were also present. Attending as guests were: Apryl Burleson, Roy Easley, Seth Benson and Lindsey Callison. There's a second public meeting date set for the proposed bond issue. The board set the date for March 31 at 6 p.m., in the BHS gymnasium. The architects will...
The Cherokee Board of Education heard about several positive developments – and a long list of high-achieving students and athletes – at its regular meeting Monday evening. DonorsChoose: New Funding Source for Cherokee Teachers' Projects Elementary Principal Keela Patterson told the board about the school's very successful first time to seek funding through a program called DonorsChoose (www.donorschoose.org). This nonprofit organization provides a place for individuals and organizations to donate to public school classroom projects. “We had a...
We’re now shifting focus at the Capitol after a busy week finishing up in our Senate committees. We’ll be spending the majority of our time on the Senate floor up until the March 24 deadline to pass these bills, further discussing and voting on the measures that were approved out of our Senate committees. We adopted a different workflow this session to promote efficiency and prevent us from having extremely late nights at the Capitol voting on bills, which has helped us tremendously to this poin...
