Articles from the May 22, 2019 edition
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Research on children's health risks in doubt over EPA funds
WASHINGTON (AP) — Long-running research projects credited with pivotal discoveries about the harm that pesticides, air pollution and other hazards pose to children are in jeopardy or shutting down because the Environmental Protection Agency will no...
Arkansas to host national summit on computer science
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas' governor says more than two dozen states are participating in an inaugural summit next month on computer science. Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday announced his office is hosting the first-ever National Computer...
Barber County Dispatch – fire/EMS
Monday, May 6, 2019 Kiowa EMS transported a patient to Wichita. Wednesday, May 8, 2019 Kiowa EMS responded to a call on Tri-City Road. Medicine Lodge EMS transported a patient to Pratt. Kiowa EMS transported a patient to Pratt. Medicine Lodge EMS tra...
Democratic impeachment calls swell as McGahn defies subpoena
WASHINGTON (AP) — More Democrats are calling — and more loudly — for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump after his latest defiance of Congress by blocking his former White House lawyer from testifying on Tuesday. A growing nu...
Trump officials to Congress: Goal is deterring Iran, not war
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tamping down talk of war, top Trump administration officials told Congress on Tuesday that recent actions by the U.S. deterred attacks on American forces. But some lawmakers remained deeply skeptical of the White House approach...
Barber County real estate transactions
Real Estate Transfers Book 144 page 220: Charles R. Swonger and Nancy M. Swonger, husband and wife, convey unto Cindy L. Tyler and Susan K. Oller. The southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 10, township 30 south range 13 west of the...
Handwritten wills shake up Aretha Franklin's estate
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The discovery of handwritten wills in the home of the late Aretha Franklin could ignite a dispute among family members about the estate of the "Queen of Soul." She died last August without a formal document to guide her sons a...
Barber County court filings
Criminal Filings Shane Daniel Cataldo has been charged with harassing by telecom device. Michael S. Giddeon has been charged with criminal threat. Civil Filings Haviland State Bank vs. Ronald L. Lambert: mortgage foreclosure. The Farmers Cooperative...
Barber County real estate transactions
Real Estate Transfers Book 144 page 220: Charles R. Swonger and Nancy M. Swonger, husband and wife, convey unto Cindy L. Tyler and Susan K. Oller. The southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 10, township 30 south range 13 west of the...
Mexicans buy fake cellphones to hand over in muggings
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Armed robberies have gotten so common aboard buses in Mexico City that commuters have come up with a clever if disheartening solution: Many are buying fake cellphones, to hand over to thieves instead of their real smartphones....
Germany hands Israel thousands of Kafka confidant's papers
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities on Tuesday handed over to Israel some 5,000 documents kept by a confidant of Franz Kafka, a trove whose plight could have been plucked from one of the author's surreal stories. The papers returned include a postcard...
Arizona prisons ban book on black men in the justice system
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona has banned prisoners from reading a book that discusses the impact of the criminal justice system on black men, drawing outcry from First Amendment advocates who say the move is censorship. The American Civil Liberties Union...
Alfalfa County marriage filings
Marriage License Filings Jose Alberto Salinas III, Cherokee, and Kori Shea Leech, Kiowa, Kansas: marriage license with certificate ($5). Justin David Hughes, Ringwood, and Samantha Rose Green, Cherokee: marriage license without certificate...
Cholesterol improves in US kids despite high obesity rates
CHICAGO (AP) — Cholesterol levels in children and teens improved in the latest analysis of U.S. health surveys, yet only half of them had readings considered ideal. Overall, 7% of kids had high cholesterol in surveys from 2009 to 2016. That was...
Alfalfa County Sheriff's Office logs
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 During this day there was one traffic stop and two controlled burns. 7:24 p.m. – Caller requested an ambulance for a female with severe chest pain. 8:09 p.m. – Report of a reckless driver on State Highway 8 and Craig Road....
Alfalfa County real estate transactions
Real Estate Transfers Book 846 page 66: Bryan Douglas and Desirae Douglas convey unto Tom Hecht and Ruth Hecht. Lots 18, 19, 20 and 21 in block 49 in the First Addition to the town of Aline, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Joint tenancy quit claim deed....
Alfalfa County court filings
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...
Cherokee woman charged with drug offense
Information from a felony arrest led law enforcement officers to identify and arrest a woman from Cherokee. Rhonda Marie Bennett, 46, of Cherokee, has been charged with distribution of controlled dangerous substance – including possession with...
Six graduate from Burlington High School
The senior class video showed a close-knit group with just six graduates at Burlington High School during commencement last Thursday evening. As the class made their final appearance together on the...
Cherokee man charged with assault
A Cherokee woman reported a possibly deliberate attempt to collide with her vehicle. On May 9, Meagan Phillips told Cherokee Police Chief Ryan McNeil that the previous day about noon she was traveling east on West Fifth Street approaching Oklahoma...
Kiowa Council passes Ordinance 19-019 to keep term limits
Charter Ordinance 19-019 regarding term limits was again on the agenda at the Kiowa City Council May meeting. At the beginning of the meeting under public agenda, Kiowa man B.J. Duvall (who has filed to run for city council) calmly asked the council...
Resignations and bids for bus barn top Burlington School agenda for special meeting
At a special meeting of the Burlington School Board last Thursday, the board accepted the resignation of Principal Lane Pruett and his wife Kirsten Pruett, teacher and longtime coach of the Lady Elks. A call to Principal Pruett found the couple will...
Carl's Capitol Comments
The House, Senate and governor came together last week to announce a budget agreement has been reached. The House passed the budget on Friday and the Senate will vote on the budget on Tuesday. This budget will NOT require any additional taxes. I just...