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Northwestern Oklahoma State University's Fine Arts Department will present the musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" April 11-12 at 7 p.m. and April 13 at 2 p.m. in Herod Hall Auditorium on the Alva campus. Tickets are available to purchase in advance or at the door for $15 general admission, $12 for Northwestern employees and $10 for students. To purchase tickets contact the director of the musical Kimberly Weast, professor of theatre arts and Department of Fine Arts chair, at...
Happy Birthday To Mar. 21: Pat Thompson, Dale Rader, Sherry Stansberry, Lana Burkhart Mar. 22: Brianna Louthan, Bruce Stansberry, Karen Kurz Mar. 23: Arly Eden, Hilda Craig Mar. 24: Jena Daughhetee, Kale Pierce, Channing Joy Ferguson Mar. 25: Dawn Schwartz, Mabel Schroeder, Jariah Fisher Mar. 26: Roger Wagner, Les Kamas, Travis Bradt Mar. 27: Teresa Wares, Brett Sample, Misty Parker, Sharon Snow, Brent Bowers Mar. 29: Leo Tolle, Kenzlie Bourassa, Dustin Rankin Mar. 30: Taelyn Eagan, Bryan Powers, Robert Babcock, Lonn Reutlinger, Kurtis...
Happy Anniversary To Mar. 21: Mr. & Mrs. Harold Snow Mar. 24: Mr. & Mrs. Bobby Gainer Mar. 25: Mr. & Mrs. George Leist Mar. 26: Mr. & Mrs. Larry Bradt Apr. 7: Mr. & Mrs. Pat McGinley, Mr. & Mrs. Dean Welty, Mr. & Mrs. Mark Nixon (Note: Send corrections, additions to: [email protected] or call 800-305-2111)...
Jake Walker, 65, passed away March 10, 2019, from cancer in Wichita, Kansas, with his beloved wife Pam, daughter Tammy (Joshua) of Elk City, Oklahoma, and son Casey (Stephanie) of Lake Lotawana, Missouri, and other loved ones near. Jake was born December 4, 1953, in Mooreland, Oklahoma, to Patricia Anne (Frye) and Jack D. Walker. He was the second of five brothers. Dan (Lyndee) of Fort Worth, Texas; Mick of Quinlin, Oklahoma; Gus of Alva, Oklahoma; and Bill (Karen) of Woodward, Oklahoma, survive...
Naomi Welty, 83-year-old Shattuck resident, passed away Monday, March 18, 2019, at her home south of Shattuck. Naomi was born on May 13, 1935, in Freedom, Oklahoma. Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, March 22, 2019, at the First United Methodist Church of Shattuck with Reverend Janet Fitz officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of the Billings Funeral Home, Woodward....
The Freedom Town Board met Monday, March 13, for – along with its regular business – a lengthy discussion of the new water metering system that the town is in the process of getting put in place, funded by a REAP grant. Mayor Shad Brackin, board member Terry Smith and clerk Cindy Reed were present, with board member Rolando Galindo arriving late. Stuart Page, head of town maintenance, was also there to see and participate in the presentation of the new water meters. New Drive-By Water Met...
EDMOND, Okla. – Davis Jenks homered twice and Southeastern collected 11 hits en route to a 9-8 win over No. 30 Central Oklahoma on Tuesday evening in Edmond, Okla. The win lifts the Savage Storm to 12-12 overall heading into a weekend conference series against No. 9 Southern Arkansas at the Ballpark in Durant March 22-23. Jenks finished the contest 2-for-4 with two home runs and four total RBI to lead all hitters. Austin Ferguson and Caleb Dubler each added two hits as well, while Drew Bolin, Colton Buckner, Luke Thomas, Harrison Whitworth, and...
WEATHERFORD, Okla. – SWOSU Baseball scored twice in the bottom of the ninth inning against Oklahoma Baptist on Tuesday, but left the bases loaded as the game ended with OBU earning a 14-13 victory at the SWOSU Athletic Complex. Each team's offense had the upper hand early, with OBU scoring three runs in the first before SWOSU scored two in the bottom of the first and tied it up at 3-3 in the second with an RBI double from Alex Pimentel. The bats really took center stage in the third inning, with the Bison using seven hits to put seven runs o...
OKLAHOMA CITY (March 19, 2019) – After a lackluster hitting performance in the opening game of a baseball doubleheader with Emporia State (Kan.) on Tuesday, the Oklahoma Christian Eagles resolved to do better in the second game. They did, and they needed every bit of it. OC blew an early nine-run lead and fell behind by five runs, but rallied for a wild 18-15 win over the Hornets on a windy day at Dobson Field. Emporia State won the opener 6-3. OC (15-6), ranked sixth in the South Central Region, pounded out a season-high 20 hits in the s...
LAREDO, Texas – Rogers State needed extra innings to defeat Texas A&M International in game one on Tuesday, but fell to the hosts as the teams split a Heartland Conference doubleheader at the TAMIU Softball Field. The Hillcats lived by the homerun in game one. After falling behind in the fourth inning, the Hillcats would hit four homeruns, including two in extra innings to pull off a 5-2 victory. The hosts capitalized on an error to plate two runs in the fourth inning, taking a lead over the Hillcats that lasted into the sixth. Rogers State w...
OWASSO, Okla. – The Roger State Men's Golf team pulled off a comeback on Tuesday to win the Hillcat Classic hosted at the Bailey Ranch Golf Club. The Hillcats were down by double digits at multiple points during the final round, but Rogers State closed the third round strong to pick up a two-shot victory over Lubbock Christian. As a team, the four scoring golfers for the Hillcats scored nine birdies and shot seven-under-par over the final seven holes to complete the comeback. Rogers State started the day in sixth place overall but overcame t...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference announced the league's first weekly accolades for the 2019 men's outdoor track & field season. Harding's Keneth Chelelgo claimed the Track Athlete honor and Oklahoma Baptist's Saleem Fadel earned the Field Athlete award. GAC WOMEN'S TRACK ATHLETE OF THE WEEK – Keneth Chelelgo, Harding, Jr., Eldama Ravine, Kenya Chelelgo posted a pair of personal records at the Rhodes College Invitational. He cut 10 seconds off his previous best in the mile when he placed 13th with a time of 4:27.33. In the 3,0...
JACKSON, Tenn. – Harding head coach Dr. Patrick McGaha certainly does not remember all of his 500 collegiate coaching victories, but his 500th he will never forget. It went 12 innings and lasted more than 3½ hours. Harding used every available pitcher, including the winning pitcher, who had not appeared in a game in more than a month. Harding scored the go-ahead run in the 12th by stealing home in a 10-9 nonconference road victory over Union. It was that kind of game. Harding improved to 16-11 by winning its longest game since playing 12 in...
MONTICELLO, Ark. - Junior Austin Baker produced three of Southern Arkansas' eight hits and drew two of the team's five walks, while adding three stolen bases, but Arkansas-Monticello plated four runs in the seventh inning and added six more in the eighth to overcome a 4-1 deficit in Tuesday afternoon's nonconference victory over #12/9 Muleriders. The Muleriders (17-8) led 3-0 after the first half inning as a two-run single from senior Kane Koenigseder and an RBI single from the bat of junior Cooper King set the table early in favor of Southern...
DALLAS (AP) — An Englishman has died after the four-wheeler he was driving collided head-on with another all-terrain vehicle at a North Texas off-roading event known as "Rednecks with Paychecks Spring Break," a sheriff's official said Wednesday. After the crash early Saturday, Steven Fairbairn was airlifted about 70 miles (110 kilometers) from the grounds of the four-day festival in Saint Jo to a Fort Worth hospital, Montague County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Jack Lawson said. Fairbairn died at the hospital around 10:35 a.m. Saturday of blunt force...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Drugmakers are trying to persuade Oklahoma's top court to postpone the trial in the state's lawsuit accusing them of fueling the opioid epidemic. The Oklahoma Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday, a week after rejecting drugmakers' request to immediately postpone the scheduled May 28 start. A ruling was not anticipated Wednesday. The judges are expected to deliberate Monday behind closed doors and issue a ruling later. The 2017 lawsuit filed by Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter accuses 13 opioid manufacturers of r...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Office of Management Enterprise Services says it needs $16 million by the end of the month for its information technology department, including $7 million to pay bills that are more than 60 days overdue. The office provides IT services for more than 110 state agencies, including human services, budgeting and purchasing Agency officials told state lawmakers Tuesday that if money is not provided for the overdue bills, then services provided by state agencies could suffer. Chief Information Officer Bo Reese s...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A court-ordered inspection of every inmate in the Oklahoma County jail found that a 20-year-old woman had been wrongly incarcerated for two weeks on a warrant that had been dismissed months before, a lawyer said. Giselle Perez was jailed Feb. 26 after a traffic stop because of an outstanding arrest warrant on a 2015 juvenile theft charge that had actually been dropped in December. Perez said she never even went to court and that she lost her job while she was being held. Perez was released March 12 after the mistake was d...
RIPLEY, Okla. (AP) — Authorities in north-central Oklahoma say three people, including two children, have been found dead in what the Payne County Sheriff's Office is calling a murder-suicide. The sheriff's office posted on its Facebook page that one person and the children were found about midnight Tuesday near the town of Ripley, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Oklahoma City. The names, ages and suspected causes of deaths of the three were not released and an official at the sheriff's office did not immediately return a phone c...
DUNCAN, Okla. (AP) — Through diligence and lots of paperwork, the Duncan Emergency Management has secured a rebate program through Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Gary Curtis, Deputy Director of Duncan/Stephens County Emergency Management, said the city has qualified but needs a certain amount of residents to take part to help all who apply. "A community wide effort has been launched to help assist area residents with storm shelter rebates — thanks to a federal grant program administered by the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Man...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — On NW 150, in a mostly rural part of Oklahoma City, the aging asphalt pavement of the two-lane road is full of potholes. Farther west of N Morgan Road, NW 150 becomes a gravel road alongside wheat fields and a farm near a one-lane bridge. The road then winds next to the steep banks of Deer Creek. A red traffic reflector is nailed to a barbed wire fence post, warning of a steep drop-off. Illegal dumpers have been here. An industrial-size, disassembled dryer is next to a stack of used carpet padding, eyesores on the narrow s...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Students from eight Norman elementary schools came to the University of Oklahoma recently to do one thing: design the best parade float. That was the challenge handed down by Devon Energy for its second annual Design + Do Competition at the OU Tom Love Innovation Hub. Starting at 9 a.m., groups of fifth-grade students went from brainstorm to prototype and presentation using the various tools and resources the Innovation Hub has to offer, The Norman Transcript reported. "This is the second year for me to do this, and you g...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Ben Morrison and his friend Tenesha Beasley were cold and hungry and homeless recently, so they stopped by In the Spirit Christian Church hoping to find a welcoming space and a warm meal. What they got was a chance meeting with a 68-year-old former cocaine addict. Call it their lucky day. Many years ago, in the throes of addiction, Gerald Keene spent a year homeless in New York City. These days, he drives the A Better Way van three days a week, offering panhandlers a day's work, a day's wage and a chance to turn their l...
VALLIANT, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says a homicide investigation is underway after a woman was found dead in a creek with her hands bound. OSBI special agent Chad Dansby told the Texarkana Gazette that the body found Monday near Valliant has been identified as 56-year-old Roxie Faizy, who was reported missing two months ago. Valliant is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) west of Broken Bow and 170 miles (274 kilometers) southeast of Oklahoma City. Faizy was last seen Jan. 25 and authorities say she was found with z...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Medicaid expansion supporters in Kansas forced a debate Wednesday in the Republican-controlled Legislature on Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's plan and advanced it with bipartisan support over GOP leaders' objections. The House voted 70-54 to give first-round approval to a modified version of Kelly's plan for expanding Medicaid health coverage to as many as 150,000 more residents. House members planned to take another, final vote Thursday to determine whether it will pass and go to the Senate, but the debate on it showed t...
