Articles from the May 23, 2018 edition
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BRIAN R.J. SMITHEY
Memorial services for Brian R.J. Smithey will be 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 29, 2018, at the Alva School Auditorium with Rev. William S. Kalfas officiating. He was cremated at his request under the...
ELOISE JUNE FLEMING
Graveside services for Eloise June Fleming will be 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 23, 2018, at the Alva Municipal Cemetery with Jay Tyree officiating. Interment will be in the Alva Municipal Cemetery under...
JIMMY LEROY WILSON
GOLTRY – Funeral services for Jimmy Wilson were held Saturday, May 19, 2018, at 2 p.m. at Helena First Christian Church, arrangements by Lanman Funeral Home Inc. of Helena. There was no public viewing. Online condolences may be made ar w...
South Barber 7-12 fourth quarter honor roll
Superintendent's Honor Roll 8th Grade – Claire Pollock 9th Grade – Nora Gugelmeyer 11th Grade – Savannah Hughbanks, Taylor Pollock Principal's Honor Roll 8th Grade – Avery Grieve 9th Grade – Chloe Blunk 10th Grade – Adrienne Allison, Takira Blic...
'You raise 'em right in Burlington' Koehn tells graduation crowd
Since 1992, Karen Koehn has been the guidance counselor at the Northwest Technology Center in Alva. In that time she's interacted with many Burlington High School students. Speaking at the BHS...
Brown named to All-South Central Region golf honor list
NORMAN, Okla. (May 22, 2018) – Oklahoma Christian's Cameron Brown was named Tuesday to the PING All-South Central Region honor team produced by the Golf Coaches Association of America. Brown, a junior from Jacksonville, Texas, was one of 12 p...
Former OC standout Page receives NW Oklahoma coaching honor
ENID, Okla. (May 22, 2018) – The Enid News and Eagle has named former Oklahoma Christian standout Brady Page as its Northwest Oklahoma Boys Coach of the Year for high school basketball. This past season, Page guided the Hennessey Eagles to their t...
Luke Cornett and Austin Gean earn all-region golf honors
STILLWATER, Okla. - Luke Cornett and Austin Gean have been named to the 2018 Division II PING All-Region Team, the Golf Coaches Association of America announced Tuesday. Cornett and Gean were two of 12 honorees from the Central Region, and Arkansas T...
Harding Golf's Banger Named to PING All-Region Team
SEARCY – Harding's Mason Banger was one of 12 golfers listed Tuesday on the Division II PING All-Central Region Team. He is the second Harding golfer ever listed on the PING all-region team. Alex Williamson made the list in 2017. Banger, a senior f...
No. 14 Muleriders resilient in forcing "if-necessary" game; fall to No. 11 Augustana 6-3 in Central Region Championship
MAGNOLIA, Ark. – It was nothing but fight for No. 14 Southern Arkansas on Monday afternoon from Walker Stadium at Goodheart Field as the Muleriders rallied to take the first game of the day over No. 11 Augustana, 5-3, to force the "if necessary," w...
Texas governor convenes new discussions on school safety
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott convened the first in a series of discussions on school safety Tuesday, declaring in response to last week's shooting near Houston, "We all want guns out of the hands of people who would try to murder our c...
Mother: 15-year-old son killed himself after being bullied
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota mother says her 15-year-old son killed himself after months of being bullied and assaulted, and that school staff didn't do enough to support the boy, who had mental health issues and learning disabilities. Faith E...
School shooting not likely to decide Texas runoff races
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A key Texas runoff for a U.S. House seat will test whether the national Democratic Party's establishment can overcome an insurgent wing more openly hostile to President Donald Trump. Others will set up November contests where D...
20 years later, a vigil for victims of Kip Kinkel
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) — More than 100 people gathered across from Thurston High School to honor victims of the mass shooting that happened there on May 21, 1998. The Register-Guard reports that those who attended Monday night's vigil expressed t...
Arizona gun control activists call for action at vigil
PHOENIX (AP) — Yamile Martinez choked back tears as she talked about the life of Shana Fisher, a 16-year-old killed in the mass shooting at Santa Fe High School last week. She never knew the teenager who died more than 1,200 miles away, but M...
Texas school shooting suspect's father thinks he was bullied
SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — A 17-year-old student accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Texas high school should be seen as a "victim" because he may have recently been bullied, causing him to lash out, his father said. In a phone interview over t...
Mass school shootings mostly happening in small-town America
ATLANTA (AP) — If you want to know where mass school shootings are most likely to occur, look no farther than small-town and suburban America. The massacre that killed 10 people at a high school in Texas last week was just the latest to happen in a...
It's time to ask deeper questions about school shootings
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) To what extent does school – through things like athletics, homecoming royalties or dances – encourage what some pol...
Zinke stresses need for projects catch-up at national parks
MEDORA, N.D. (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke reiterated his support for addressing a maintenance backlog at national parks during a visit Tuesday to the one named for a U.S. president known for championing conservation. Zinke toured the P...
Tribes, senators seek buffer around world heritage site
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A swath of northwestern New Mexico's oil and gas country would be off limits to drilling under proposed federal legislation that seeks to make permanent a buffer zone that has kept development away from Chaco Culture N...
EPA blocks some media from summit, then reverses course
NEW YORK (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency reversed course Tuesday and allowed a reporter for The Associated Press to cover a meeting on water contaminants after she was earlier grabbed by the shoulders and shoved out of the building by a s...
Hawaii volcano producing toxic lava haze plume called 'laze'
PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — The eruption of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii sparked new safety warnings about toxic gas on the Big Island's southern coastline after lava began flowing into the ocean and setting off a chemical reaction. The molten rock started p...
Oil company: Employees failed to report North Dakota spills
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Former employees of a Denver-based oil company operating in the Bakken oil patch failed to report five spills in northwest North Dakota dating back to October, according to the company. Zavanna Vice President Cody Duran said thr...
Oklahoma earthquake lawsuit gets class-action status
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma lawsuit accusing an oil company of being responsible for damage caused by earthquakes in 2011 has gained class-action status and will go to trial. The Oklahoman reports that a judge ruled Friday the class includes c...