Articles from the May 11, 2022 edition
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Hold onto your hat: school's almost out for summer!
The Waynoka board of education met Monday morning to handle routine business, get a fairly positive update on the school's finances, and hear about the barrage of activities students have been...
PEGGY LOUISE JACKSON WELLS
Peggy Louise Jackson Wells, 87, of Amarillo, Texas, passed away on May 6, 2022. A Celebration of Life will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 12, 2022 at Washington Avenue Christian Church with...
LESTER GENE ROSE
Lester Gene Rose was born in Alva, Oklahoma, to Albert "Bud" and Faye Rose on March 6, 1955, and left this world on April 28, 2022, in Enid, Oklahoma. A Celebration of Life service for Lester Gene Rose will be 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 11, 2022, at the...
JIMMY DEAN BECKER
Jimmy Dean Becker, age 58, resident of Alva, Oklahoma, passed away Saturday, May 7, 2022, surrounded by family. Jimmy was born October 30, 1963, to Rosalyn and Everett Becker. He graduated from Oswego High School in 1982. During his high school...
GRACE ELAINE MATHES
On Saturday, May 7, 2022, Grace Elaine Mathes went to be with the Lord at the age of 73 years, 3 months and 9 days. Grace was born January 29, 1949, in Liberal, Kansas, to Fred and Zola Mae...
GARY MAX JOHNSON
Gary Max Johnson was born in Cherokee, Oklahoma, on March 22, 1944, and passed away peacefully surrounded by his wife and children at his home in Cypress, Texas, on April 30,2022. He is preceded in...
DANIEL 'DAN' JOSEPH FRIEDEN
Daniel (Dan) Joseph Frieden was born the youngest son of Joseph and Mildred Frieden on February 15, 1953, in Hardtner, Kansas. He passed away at his family home in Kiowa, Kansas, on April 18, 2022. Da...
Woods County Commissioners approve fund transfers
As the fiscal year winds down, the Woods County Commissioners found on their agenda a number of transfers among budget accounts to finish out the year. David Hamil, Randy McMurphy and John Smiley...
Oklahoman whose case led to McGirt ruling gets life sentence
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — A former Oklahoma death row inmate and tribal citizen whose case led to a landmark ruling on tribal sovereignty was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison by a federal judge. Patrick Murphy, 53, a citizen of the Muscogee N...
Kansas governor signs bill phasing out grocery sales tax
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Wednesday signed into law a plan from Republican lawmakers to phase out the state's sales tax on groceries over three years. Kelly had a ceremony at a grocery store in Olathe, fulfilling a promise t...
Wenders making a film about fancy public restrooms in Japan
TOKYO (AP) — Wim Wenders is making a film about high-end public toilets in Japan that will have what the renowned German director calls "social meaning" about people in modern cities. "My first reaction was, I must admit: What? Toilets? Chotto m...
Ukraine to hold first war crimes trial of captured Russian
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's top prosecutor disclosed plans Wednesday for the first war crimes trial of a captured Russian soldier, as fighting raged in the east and south and the Kremlin left open the possibility of annexing a corner of t...
US finds 500 Native American boarding school deaths so far
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools that for over a century sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has identified more than 500 student deaths at the institutions, but o... Full story
Clarence Dixon dies in Arizona's 1st execution since 2014
FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona man convicted of killing a college student in 1978 was put to death Wednesday after a nearly eight-year hiatus in the state's use of the death penalty brought on by a nearly two-hour execution that critics say was b...
