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Happy Birthday To April 22: Josh Neese April 23: Dawni Rae Rader, Lonnie Bolar April 24: Robert Russell, Leah Armantrout, Abigail Olson, Michele Harmon April 25: Rod Ferguson, Gary Earnest, David West, Wilene Welty April 26: Kelli Packwood, Mikala...

Happy Anniversary To April 27: Shan & Ronna Wilson April 30: Mr. & Mrs. Dale Sample May 3: Mr. & Mrs. Jim London May 5: Mr. & Mrs. Larry Powers May 12: Mr. & Mrs. Loran Morris, Mr. & Mrs. Chad Grimes (Note: Send corrections, additions to:...

On Sunday, April 18, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude – Janell Reutlinger We are on Facebook live at 11 a.m. Our Facebook page is Freedom United Methodist Church. Invocation by Pastor Todd Finley The L...

April 23: 6 p.m. FFA Banquet at American Legion Building April 30: 6:30 p.m. Sports and Academic Awards Banquet at American Legion Building May 4: 2-6 p.m. OBI Blood Drive May 12-13: Semester Tests May 13: 8:30-11 a.m. Freedom School Little Olympics...

The Town of Freedom Board of Trustees welcomed two new members at its regular meeting April 14: Kama Luddington and Matt Bixler. Also present were Shad Brackin, whose seat on the board is still being contested; Trustee Concha Herrera, who finished...

The monthly meeting of the Woods County Excise Board was held Wednesday morning in the county commissioners’ office. Present were Chair Chris Olson and member Joe Shirley. Bob Seivert was absent. It was a very short meeting. The board members a...

ALVA, Okla. – For several years, Pacman was the perfect horse for Kody Woodward. Now, Pacman is doing the same for another member of the family, Brent Woodward, a senior steer wrestler at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. The speedy sorrel g...

A smartphone-based screening tool can accurately detect previously undiagnosed atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm that puts people at high risk for stroke, according to new research that shows it could help uncover the condition in...

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — About three-quarters of Kansas counties have turned down new shipments of the coronavirus vaccine at least once over the past month and several for four straight weeks, state date shows. "It is kind of stalling. Some people j...

A St. Louis husband and wife facing criminal charges for waving guns at racial injustice protesters last summer have told a judge they are concerned about Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's handling of their case and asked that it be sent back to the...

ROELAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors have filed charges against a man in the fatal stabbing 36 years ago of another man in suburban Kansas City, Kansas. Johnson County prosecutors announced the developments in the cold case Tuesday, charging 65-year...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence will no longer allow licensed providers to practice conversion therapy on minors in the city. The city commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to ban the practice, which is designed to change a person's sexual o...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Officials with Kansas' state policing agency have begun an investigation into the death of an inmate at the women's prison in Topeka, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation confirmed. Jessica Chapman, 35, died Monday at the Kansas D...

BOSTON (AP) — A $13,000 flute that went missing nearly a decade ago has been returned to its owner after police recovered it from a Boston music store, police said Wednesday. The flute was reported missing in 2012 after its owner left it in a taxi c...

SOUTHWEST RANCHES, Fla. (AP) — Courtney Wilson and Shenita Jones invited family and friends to their "dream home and estate" for their weekend wedding celebration: the ceremony Saturday, brunch on Sunday. There was just one problem: The couple d...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says that a missile was fired into Israel from neighboring Syria early Thursday, and that it has struck targets in Syria in response. There were no immediate details on whether the missile landed in Israel or w...

Just as the guilty verdict was about to be read in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, police in Ohio shot and killed a Black teenager in broad daylight during a confrontation. The shooting of Ma'Khia Bryant, 16, who was swi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bolstered with new momentum, Congress is ready to try again to change the nation's policing laws, heeding President Joe Biden's admonition that the guilty verdict in George Floyd's death is "not enough" for a nation confronting a l...

One of the largest reports on COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy bolsters evidence that it is safe although the authors say more comprehensive research is needed. The preliminary results are based on reports from over 35,000 U.S. women who received...

NEW YORK (AP) — It looks like something to celebrate: small businesses posting "Help Wanted" signs as the economy edges toward normalcy. Instead, businesses are having trouble filling the jobs, which in turn hurts their ability to keep up with d...