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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma City Council voted Tuesday to delay for two weeks a vote on whether to lift a mask mandate imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus in the state's largest city. The mandate, which requires face coverings to b...

Tuesday, March 23, 2021 7:01 a.m. – Caller advised he wanted a deputy. Advised there was guy in his house with a guy. He was upstairs yelling and screaming and heard shots fired. Advised he has heard noises up there for over a week. They tried to c...

There were an additional 14 people in attendance at the Alfalfa County commissioner meeting on Monday morning. In the gallery were Rick Wallace, Hershel Kiser, Amanda Jones, Melissa Leslie, Donna Irvin, Diana Williamson, Tammi Miller, Valerie...

Voters will head to the polls on April 6 to decide a number of issues. The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Alfalfa County Election Board Secretary, Kelly Stein recommends voters with questions about their eligibility or polling place call be...

Going “left of center” is listed as the cause of a head-on collision about three miles east of Burlington, Monday evening at 8:03 p.m. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Brock Morgan responded to the crash on State Highway 8 near County Road 2600. Kri...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt announced Tuesday that he's hiring a $120,000-per-year lobbyist in Washington, D.C., to advocate on the state's behalf and help protect federal funding. The governor's office said C...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — A coronavirus variant first identified in Britain has been found on the Navajo Nation. Tribal health officials said that the United Kingdom strain was confirmed in a sample obtained in the western part of the reservation. The N...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republicans in the GOP-controlled Kansas House are formally registering their opposition to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's plan for encouraging counties to keep mask mandates in place as a potentially more infectious strain of c...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A troubled Kansas foster care management provider has reached an agreement with the state to repay $9.4 million in unspent grant funds. The deal that the Kansas Department for Children and Families announced it had reached T...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last July that New York would spend $100 million in federal coronavirus relief to help cash-strapped tenants pay months of back rent and avert evictions. By the end of October, the state had doled out only about $40...

BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) — A Maine woman escaped injury after a fox attacked her outside her home in Brunswick. Kimberly Bashant was on her deck smoking Friday when the animal came up the stairs and bit her leg, the Times Record reported. Bashant s...

WINCHESTER, Conn. (AP) — A mother bear caught on video trying to coax four rambunctious cubs across a busy Connecticut road has parents across the internet nodding in sympathy. Hundreds of people responded to a 4-minute video of the bear's s...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Onlookers grew increasingly angry as they begged Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin to take his knee off George Floyd's neck, but Chauvin would not let up, and another officer forced back members of the crowd who tried to i...

LEESVILLE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana woman accused of setting fires told investigators she and her boyfriend were trying to get rid of snakes, the state Department of Agriculture and Forestry says. Robert Lee Ramirez, 34, of Leesville, faces two c...

DETROIT (AP) — Volkswagen of America issued false statements this week saying it would change its brand name to "Voltswagen," to stress its commitment to electric vehicles, only to reverse course Tuesday and admit that the supposed name change was a...

NEW YORK (AP) — A vicious attack on an Asian American woman as she walked to church near New York City's Times Square is drawing widespread condemnation and raising alarms about the failure of bystanders to intervene amid a rash of anti-Asian v...

FRANKFORT, Ky (AP) — Kentucky's lawmakers passed a partial ban on no-knock warrants Tuesday, more than a year after the death of Breonna Taylor during a police raid on the Black woman's home. The legislation now heads to Democratic Gov. Andy B...

The NFL is increasing the regular season to 17 games and planning to have full stadiums for those games. While reducing the preseason to three games the league will be able to generate additional revenue, of course. America's most popular sport also...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX chalked up another failed landing Tuesday for its futuristic, bullet-shaped Starship, as the prototype Mars rocket broke apart right before touchdown. A camera on the rocket froze not quite six minutes into the t...