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The large and small school Northwest Baseball All-Star game is scheduled for this week on Wednesday, May 24, to be hosted at Northwestern Oklahoma State University Rangers’ baseball field at Myer Stadium. All four of the Alva High School seniors f...

Friday, May 12, 2017 6:13 a.m. 911 call, a cow out west of Medford. 8:25 p.m. Controlled burn on Johnson Road. 11:18 p.m. Cattle on highway. Saturday, May 13, 2017 12:40 a.m. White Escalade was driving drunk in Medford. 7:19 a.m. Someone selling meth...

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...

Gregory Scott Bowman, Alva, and Sara Dawn Brown, Tonkawa: marriage license (counseling) ($5)....

Brandon Ray Yadon vs. Keyanna Latrice Yadon: dissolution of marriage ($262.14)....

Real Estate Transfers Book 1261 page 663: Marsha Mason as Trustee of the Donald Flint 1996 Trust dated May 29, 1996, unto James Flint, a married person. Northwest quarter of section 34, township 25 north, range 13 west of the Indian Meridian, Woods C...

Thursday, May 11, 2017 None Friday, May 12, 2017 9:08 a.m. Payne County called for directions. 9:38 a.m. Man called for paper work. 10 a.m. DHS called for information. 10:58 a.m. Man called for Chase. 12:03 p.m. Man called for Keith. 12:05 p.m....

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — Like the ghost towns left behind after the California gold rush fizzled, many of the frack sand mines dotting western Wisconsin sat dormant a year ago. Piles of golden sand sat untouched next to stationary rail cars, with s...

Budget negotiations between Oklahoma lawmakers meeting for a rare weekend session appeared to collapse again Saturday, derailing efforts to close a nearly $880 million budget shortfall. Legislators are bound by the state's constitution to pass any...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California oil and gas regulators proposed stiff new regulations Friday for underground gas natural storage facilities after a blowout drove 8,000 families from their Los Angeles homes. The rules proposed by the Department of C...

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) — Felicia Nevins called police after worrying the thermos she was using to store sperm and dry ice in for her artificial insemination could have exploded. Nevins hadn't even told her family about her fertility journey, b...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Remember the Republican health care bill? Washington is fixated on President Donald Trump's firing of FBI chief James Comey and burgeoning investigations into possible connections between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia. B...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand has never had a space program but could soon be launching commercial rockets more often than the United States. That's if the plans of California-based company Rocket Lab work out. Founded by New Z...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas House has approved safety standards for self-driving cars, hoping to better regulate technology that's already been tested on the streets of the state capital. The bill by Sen. Kelly Hancock, a North Richland Hills R...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Six months after launching a painstaking probe aimed at English America's second oldest church, Jamestown archaeologists have unearthed a jumbled historical puzzle that reaches back 400 years. First, there are the f...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City police are investigating whether four similar homicides along a popular hiking and biking trail are related, although no physical evidence has been found to link them. Four men, all white and between the ages of 5...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court upheld the capital murder conviction of a Topeka man who killed an 8-year-old girl and stuffed her body in a clothes dryer. The court on Friday rejected an appeal from Billy Davis Jr., who was sentenced i...

EMPORIA, Kansas — The University of Arkansas at Monticello baseball team was taken down by number two seed Minnesota State Saturday night by a final score of 6-5. UAM (33-21) found its way onto the scoreboard first against the Mavericks of MSU (...

SEARCY – Down by three runs late, No. 6 Minnesota State scored two in the sixth and two in the seventh to defeat No. 2 Harding 7-6, win the NCAA Division II Central Super Regional and advance to the NCAA Division II Softball Championships b...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma state budget has been cut so deeply that two elementary schools in state Rep. Jason Dunnington's district can no longer afford to pay for art teachers. A hospital is struggling after lawmakers axed a fund for u...

Schools facing reports of student-on-student sexual assault long have been warned by the courts about potential monetary liabilities. The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights has offered schools guidance on how to prevent and respond...

FOREST GROVE, Ore. (AP) — A pair of Oregon school districts were intent on identifying warning signs that students might be contemplating a campus shooting when they stumbled on a threat far more pervasive yet much less discussed — sexual agg...

When children sexually assault other children at school, sometimes the only measure of justice comes through the courts. The barriers are formidable, and can lead to long, grueling fights: Public schools in many states enjoy powerful shields,...

The Associated Press reviewed verdicts and settlements across the country in lawsuits brought against schools over student-on-student sexual abuse . Here are some notable recent cases: ___ Honolulu, $5.75 million settlement: This settlement with the...

WACO, Texas (AP) — Short in stature but never short of what her co-workers call "sports chutzpah," Sister Natalie Marengo is Reicher Catholic High School's biggest fan, they said. The Waco Tribune-Herald reports for the Italian nun from Chicago, h...