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A third-generation Burlington Elk is the commencement speaker for the BHS Graduation Thursday night at 7 p.m. She is Dr. Megan (Dippel) Darrow who graduated with the Class of 1997. Her mother Sue (Jenkinson) Diel graduated from BHS in 1969. Sue's fat...

Abortion providers in three states filed a lawsuit Monday aimed at preserving access to the abortion pill mifepristone, even as the drug is threatened by a separate Texas lawsuit winding its way through U.S. court system. The lawsuit, filed in U.S....

NEW YORK (AP) — Doe-eyed dachshunds, push-faced French bulldogs and other nonsporting breeds circle the hallowed rings. A Bracco Italiano receives a jowl massage. Spaniels get blow-dried. Everyone is prepping — lovingly, meticulously — for a ho...

HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A metallic object believed to be a meteorite punched a hole in the roof of a central New Jersey home this week, smashing into a hardwood floor and bouncing around a bedroom. The family who owns the home discovered...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel on Wednesday, in a first response to Israeli airstrikes that have killed 16 Palestinians, including three senior militants and at le...

LONDON (AP) — Britain's fertility regulator said the first babies created using an experimental technique combining DNA from three people have been born, in an effort to prevent the children from inheriting rare genetic diseases. Britain's Human...

No sooner did ChatGPT get unleashed than hackers started "jailbreaking" the artificial intelligence chatbot — trying to override its safeguards so it could blurt out something unhinged or obscene. But now its maker, OpenAI, and other major AI...

Former President Donald Trump will return to CNN's airwaves on Wednesday, joining the network for a two-hour town hall event in early-voting New Hampshire a day after a civil jury found him liable for sexually assaulting an advice columnist nearly...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fresh off a White House meeting with no serious breakthrough on the debt limit standoff, President Joe Biden is launching a new phase of his pressure campaign against House Republicans as he makes his case that lawmakers should...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Billboards across Iran's capital proclaim that women should wear their mandatory headscarves to honor their mothers. But perhaps for the first time since the chaotic days following Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, more women ...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Two days after eight people were killed when an SUV slammed into a crowd waiting at a Brownsville bus stop, information on the victims remains scarce, leaving relatives of missing people scrambling to locate loved ones and...

ALLEN, Texas (AP) — It took four minutes for a neo-Nazi with an arsenal of firearms to kill eight people and wound seven others at a Dallas-area shopping center before a police officer ended the rampage, likely saving untold lives. The massacre Sat...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City Council committee will consider a resolution on Wednesday that would designate the city as a sanctuary for people seeking or providing gender-affirming care, even as the state's attorney general is proposing a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After steadily declining for nearly a year, consumer price data to be released Wednesday will likely show that U.S. inflation remained stubbornly high in April, a sign that it might be entering a newer, stickier phase. Consumer...

Real Estate Transfers Book 890 page 135: Troy Hickman and Julie McDaniel convey unto Tory Hickman and Julie McDaniel. Lots 21 through 24 in Block 19 in the town of Goltry, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Joint tenancy warranty deed. Book 890 page 144:...

Tuesday, May 2, 2023 During this day was one traffic stop. 9:40 a.m. – Medic needed at James Crabtree Correctional Center for a male with chest pains. Medic took the patient to Bass Hospital in Enid. 2:54 p.m. – Medic needed at Great Salt Plains...

Real Estate Transfers Book 148 page 407: Sandra A. Blick conveys unto Rick Pyle, trustee of the Rick Pyle Trust. The west 5 feet of Lot 3 and all of lots 4, 5,and 6, and the west 70 feet of lots 7, 8 and 9, in Block 22 in Henton’s Addition to the...

Services for Beulah Mathes are pending with Marshall Funeral Home of Alva....

Now that we're in the final month of the legislative session, I and other lawmakers are focused almost totally on the state budget. Most of the policy bills have generally found their destination, which helps to clarify the financial needs of the...