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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 Misdemeanor Filings Brittany Nichole Price, Cherokee, 28, has...
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 be worn in buildings open to the public, was established in July and is set to expire on April 30. Two council members have proposed ending the mandate early, despite recommendations from city health officials that it remain in place. "Masks have worked throughout the pandemic and are still working," D...
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 contact the reporting party and he wouldn’t answer. Sheriff advised the RP was in his truck. Deputy advised everything was okay. No one upstairs and no gun. 9:58 a.m. – Caller advised a car left the road and is mostly submerged in the ditch due to flooding. They advised one person was out of the vehic...
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 Vetter, Jennifer Roach, Riley Cochran, Tony Hellar, Shana Smallwood, Lacey Roquemore, and Cathy Hagen-Sheik. The attendees showed up to hear what commissioners Marvin Woodall, Jay Hague and Mike Roach would decide on a head maintenance/custodian position. The agenda item was listed as possibly publishing...
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 before Election Day. “We provide a number of additional services to voters on Election Day, so it can get very busy. If you have any questions, we strongly suggest you call or come by the week before Election Day if possible. If you find that you do have a question on Election Day, however, don’t hesi...
The April 6 election in Oklahoma is less than a week away. There are races in three Woods County municipalities and two towns in Alfalfa County have city races. In addition, Cherokee voters will be deciding on three propositions. There’s also a school board race on the ballot for Timberlake. For a look at what will be on the ballot in your area, go to the Oklahoma Election Board website and click on the Next Election for April 6. Then look for your county. If you like to avoid crowds and l...
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. Kristina Czerniak, age 47 of Kiowa, Kansas, was driving a 2004 Lincoln Navigator westbound on the highway. She grew up in the Amorita/Byron area and is a graduate of Burlington High School. An eastbound 2013 Ford Focus was driven by Kathleen Kommer. Age 28, Kommer is from Coos Bay, Oregon. Trooper Mor...
Several of my House bills have made it through the committee process and been added to the floor calendar in the Senate. Others are still awaiting a hearing in a Senate committee. In the meantime, I’m working to move the Senate bills I’ve authored through the committee process on the House side. Senate Bill 910 would require the Commissioners of the Land Office (what most people call the School Land Office) to come to counties where they are selling land to hold public auctions instead of hol...
Easter is nearly here, and I started thinking about the changes in celebrations during my lifetime. When I was a little girl in a small town in Missouri, actual eggs were used in Easter egg hunts. Boiled and hand-colored eggs were scattered around the city park. On the signal, kids were released to swarm over the grassy slopes looking for eggs. Very few of us had actual baskets for the eggs. Mostly we used paper sacks. Among the myriad colors were a few eggs painted gold. These shining eggs sign...
Brian and Kathy Gordon of Alva, Oklahoma, and Jeff and Amanda Owen of Woodward, Oklahoma, are excited to announce the upcoming marriage of their children, Kally Marie Gordon to Garrett Denny Owen. The grandparents of the couple are, Joyce Hickman of Alva, Denny and Marian Hopkins of Woodward and Vickie Owen of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. A small wedding will take place at the First United Methodist Church in Alva on May 15, 2021. Kally is a graduate of Alva High School, Oklahoma State University and is...
Graveside services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 30, 2021, at the Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Aline, with Bobby Hall officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Wentworth Mortuary LLC of Carmen. Dero Lee Keltch, son of the late George Franklin and Neva Emma (Wren) Keltch, was born January 8, 1933, at Enid, and passed away March 26, 2021, at his daughter's home at the age of 88. Dero worked for the railroad as a heavy equipment operator and lived in many places. He was a member of the...
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 Christina Gungoll Lepore will help identify federal grant opportunities, communicate the state needs in real time, collaborate with the offices of other governors and "push back on burdensome federal regulations and initiatives which could negatively impact the State." Stitt said in a news release that he w...
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 Navajo Department of Health is working with states and other public health entities to identify any more variant cases. Navajo President Jonathan Nez says the finding reinforces the need for social distancing, wear masks, washing hands and limiting travel. The person who tested positive for the v...
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 coronavirus becomes more widespread in the state. The House gave first-round approval Tuesday a resolution telling legislative leaders to revoke any order from Kelly for a statewide mask policy. Kelly issued such an order in November that is due to expire Wednesday, and she has said she will issue a n...
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 Tuesday with St. Francis Ministries comes on the heels of earlier controversies. In January, Nebraska agreed to pay millions more to St. Francis after it significantly underbid the company that used to provide child welfare services in the Omaha area. And Kansas officials announced in December that St. F...
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 million, reaching 15,000 of the nearly 100,000 people looking for help. More than 57,000 applicants were denied because of criteria set by lawmakers that many said was difficult to meet. New York's experience played out nationwide, with states failing to spend tens of millions of federal dollars aimed at...
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 says she managed to knock the fox unconscious with a baseball bat before it was able to break the skin on her leg. Bashant's neighbors killed the animal after they heard her yelling and came over to help, according to Cmdr. Paul Hansen. Hansen said that no one could have been exposed to rabies since t...
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 struggles on the Winchester Police Department's Facebook page. Other videos of the bears also circulated online. "I never had four but I still can relate! So glad the cars waited for them," wrote one mother from Sedona, Arizona. "The trials and tribulations of all mothers. Poor Momma!" wrote another woman. T...
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 intervene, witnesses testified Tuesday at Chauvin's murder trial. Witness after witness described how Chauvin was unmoved by their pleas, with the teenager who shot the harrowing video of the arrest that set off nationwide protests testifying that the officer gave the crowd a "cold" and "heartless" stare. "...
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 counts of arson and remained at large Tuesday, department spokesman Veronica Mosgrove said in an email. Laura Ashley Lee, 34, also of Leesville, was released on $3,500 bond after being arrested March 18 on one count of arson, a news release said Monday. The two are boyfriend and girlfriend, Mosgrove s...
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 joke. Mark Gillies, a company spokesman, confirmed Tuesday that the statement had been a pre-April Fool's Day joke after having insisted Monday that the release was legitimate and the name change accurate. The company's false statement was distributed again Tuesday, saying the brand-name change r...
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 violence across the U.S. A lone assailant was seen on surveillance video late Monday morning, kicking the 65-year-old woman in the stomach, knocking her to the ground and stomping on her face, all as police say he shouted anti-Asian slurs and told her, "you don't belong here." The attack happened o...
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 Beshear. Taylor, a 26-year-old Louisville emergency medical technician studying to become a nurse, was shot multiple times in March 2020 after being roused from sleep by police at her door during a drug raid. A no-knock warrant was approved as part of a narcotics investigation. No drugs were found at her h...
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 will provide more content for the broadcast partners who soon will be spending a total of about $10 billion a year on rights fees. Team owners at a virtual meeting on Tuesday approved the 17th game as expected, marking the first time in 43 years the regular season has been increased. It went from...
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 test flight, and dense fog in South Texas obscured views of the ruptured rocket. Other video showed debris raining down and explosions could be heard. "At least the crater is in the right place!" SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk tweeted. Musk said "something significant" happened shortly after the e...
