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On Easter Eve, Alva’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) placed filled Easter eggs in front yards around the community of Alva to help bring excitement to younger kids on Easter morning. The students delivering the eggs did not ring doorbells o...

Each year at the end of the second semester, Mr. Olbert’s junior history classes, along with history classes around the state, take the EOI. The EOI is essentially an accumulative test of all of the things learned throughout the year. Students are s...

These past couple of weeks Alva High’s students participated in state testing. The Oklahoma state laws have recently changed regarding these tests. Previously, the law required that students must take and pass four state exams in order to g...

On Friday, March 31, the Alva High School Mixed Choir headed to Oklahoma Baptist University (OBU), in Shawnee, for the State Vocal Contest. Forty AHS students left Alva at 4 a.m. Friday morning to travel to OBU. Qualifying for State Vocal is not an...

Every month the Alva Rotary Club picks two students, a boy and a girl, from Alva High School as Students of the Month. These students are chosen because they show great leadership skills and citizenship. The students of the month for March are Ally...

The Northwestern Oklahoma State baseball team dropped a heart-breaking loss to Southern Nazarene by a final score of 7-5 after a pair of 9th inning runs. The Northwestern Oklahoma State baseball team hosted their annual "Hot Dogs and Apple Pie"...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Northwestern Oklahoma State University Softball has announced changes for their upcoming Great American Conference series at Henderson State this weekend due to impending severe weather in the south-central Arkansas region. O...

Northwestern Oklahoma State University Softball was in Weatherford to take on the Southwestern Oklahoma State Bulldogs in the second half of the GAC Rivalry series. Coming off a series victory this past weekend over Ouachita Baptist in which they...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Southern Nazarene's 2017 campaign came to a close Thursday afternoon as fourth-seeded Henderson State edged the fifth-seeded Crimson Storm 5-4 in the quarterfinals of the Great American Conference Tennis Championships. H...

ENID, Okla. — Zach Birkle recorded his second straight win after the freshman gave up just one hit in 2.1 innings of relief in a 7-5 win over Northwestern Oklahoma State in a non-conference game. Austin Cooper went 3-for-5 with an RBI while Dillon F...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. – The No. 3 seeded Arkansas Tech women's tennis team started off strong in the Great American Championships as the Golden Suns defeated sixth-seeded Ouachita Baptist 5-0 in the quarterfinal round at the Walton Life Tennis Center i...

CLEVELAND, Miss. — The University of Arkansas at Monticello baseball team was defeated by non-conference opponent Delta State on the road by a final score of 13-10 Wednesday evening. Arkansas-Monticello (25-14, 20-7 GAC) struck first in the top of th...

Henderson State won its first-ever match in the Great American Conference Women's Tennis Tournament as the Reddies beat Southern Nazarene 5-4, Thursday in Bentonville, Ark. With the win, the Reddies advance to the semifinals to face top-seeded...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — There was a point last season when Alex Barnes, already a rarity under Bill Snyder in that he was even on the field as a freshman, began to assert himself as the team's No. 1 running back. Snyder couldn't have been happier. I...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Democratic state Rep. Scott Inman announced Thursday he is running for Oklahoma governor next year after serving as the leader of the House Democratic caucus for the past seven years. Inman said he plans to file paperwork to r...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Cherokee Nation sued distributors and retailers of opioid medications on Thursday, alleging the companies have contributed to "an epidemic of prescription opioid abuse" within the tribe and have not done enough to prevent t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Investigators have found clothing and a knife that could be linked to the 2011 death of a 19-year-old Oklahoma woman whose dismembered remains were found stuffed in a duffel bag. Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agents f...

A man suspected of fatally shooting an Oklahoma deputy was charged Thursday with murder, and the district attorney later vowed she'll seek the death penalty against him because of the "particularly heinous, atrocious and cruel" nature of the crime....

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An economist from the University of Oklahoma says the state isn't keeping up with the nation in producing the college-educated workforce. Economist Robert Dauffenbach says Oklahoma ranks near the bottom for the percentage in a...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A construction company's former job recruiter is accused in a Missouri federal indictment of taking more than $414,000 in kickbacks from recruitment services. The 38-count indictment in Kansas City accuses 44-year-old John L...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The National Weather Services has issued flood watches in portions of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri has strong storms with heavy rain approach the region. The flood watches will be in effect from Thursday night t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A man arrested for allegedly driving a pickup truck into an Oklahoma City hospital waiting room has died in jail. The Oklahoma County sheriff's office says 40-year-old Charlton Cash Chrisman was found dead in his cell W...