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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Fourteen children and one teacher were killed in a shooting at a Texas elementary school Tuesday, and the 18-year-old gunman was dead, Gov. Greg Abbott said. Abbott said a local man opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, about 85 miles west of San Antonio. It was the deadliest school shooting in Texas history and occurred four years after a gunman fatally shot 10 people at Santa Fe High School in the Houston area. "He shot and killed, horrifically, incomprehensibly, 14 students and killed a teacher," said the g...
GUYMON, Okla. (AP) — Police in Guymon fatally shot a gun-wielding man, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday. Randal Haynes, 53, of Guymon was dead at the scene of the Monday afternoon shooting in the Panhandle city about 235 miles (378 kilometers) northwest of Oklahoma City, Arbeitman said. Two Guymon officers conducting a welfare check found Haynes holding a gun in the driveway of a home, according to Arbeitman. Haynes put down the gun and went inside his home, then came back outside with another gun that he pointed at o...
CRESCENT, Okla. (AP) — Two toddlers and a baby have died in a fire in central Oklahoma. The fire began shortly before noon Sunday in a shed outside a home in Crescent and eventually spread to the home about 35 miles (56 kilometers) north of Oklahoma City, authorities said. The bodies of the children, whose names have not been released, were found in the rubble of the shed, Crescent Fire Chief Grady Birchfield said Tuesday. The fire has been ruled accidental and the cause is believed to be electrical but is still under investigation, a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fort Bragg would become Fort Liberty. Fort Gordon would be Fort Eisenhower. And, for the first time, Army bases would be named after Black soldiers and women. An independent commission on Tuesday recommended new names for nine Army posts that now commemorate Confederate officers. The recommendations are the latest step in a broader effort by the military to confront racial injustice, most recently in the aftermath of the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, is the only base t...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa Supreme Court decision is holding back the state's solidly Republican Legislature and governor from banning abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. Iowa is among GOP-controlled states that would be expected to ban abortion, except for state high court decisions recognizing the right under the state constitutions. The issue is most immediate in Iowa, where a court now dominated by Republican appointees is expected to decide in the coming weeks whether to uphold the ruling, decided just four years...
Top administrative leaders for the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in America, said Tuesday that they will release a secret list of hundreds of pastors and other church-affiliated personnel accused of sexual abuse. An attorney for the SBC's Executive Committee announced the decision during a virtual meeting called in response to a scathing investigative report detailing how the committee mishandled allegations of sex abuse and stonewalled numerous survivors. The committee anticipates releasing the list...
NEW YORK (AP) — They are mothers, they are daughters, they are comrades. Generations of women came together for a Manhattan protest against the U.S. Supreme Court's anticipated ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. There were women who have been fighting for nearly a half century to hold on to abortion rights; there were daughters who now face the prospect of a long battle to regain those rights. The abortion war would seem to be a forever war, one that spans generations. There was the fight before Roe v. Wade, the fight ever since and the fight t...
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 obtained by anyone during regular hours at the Alfalfa County Courthouse. The Alva Review-Courier will not intentionally alter or delete any of this information. If it appears in the courthouse public records, it will appear in this newspaper. Civil Filings LVNV Funding LLC vs. Michael Lee West,...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022 1:11 p.m. – Medic needed for in the 300 block of Cherokee a female who is very weak and has heart condition. 6:11 p.m. – Caller advised of a pick-up truck flipped on its side on Greer and County Road 470. Medic took the patient to Share Medical Center in Alva. Wednesday, May 18, 2022 During this day there were four traffic stops. 9:34 p.m. – Medic needed for a male with injuries due to a fight. Medic took the patient to Bass Hospital in Enid. Thursday, May 19, 2022 During this day there were three traffic stops. 3:13...
On Monday, the Alfalfa County commissioners heard a presentation from Western Oklahoma Workforce Development Board (WOWDB) Executive Director Christi Porter and Business Services Rep Laura Hammontree. The pair were there to have commissioners Mike Roach, Jay Hague and Marvin Woodall review the agreement and program for the Local Elected Official Consortium Agreement Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Western Oklahoma Workforce Development Area (WOWDA). Next, commissioners voted to convene in an executive session to discuss the...
"It does not seem possible that I sat in those very chairs nine years ago. At that time I never thought I'd become a surgeon," BHS alumnae Tiffany Rieger Kippenberger told the graduating Class of 2022. This was at the Burlington High School Commencement the evening of May 13. Nine seniors graduated in their purple robes and mortar boards as they walked down the aisle to the traditional Pomp and Circumstance. This was Superintendent Kevin Brown's first year to hand diplomas to BHS grads. The...
The Stateline Post 175 and Sons of the American Legion in Hardtner, Kansas, invite to join in the first Annual Stateline Ruck. It's this Saturday morning, May 28. Gather at Kiowa's Community Building at 7:30 a.m.,to begin the march to the Hardtner American Legion at 7:45. The group will take Stateline Road and head to Hardtner with estimated arrival time at noon. It's an 11 mile walk. Have your backpack filled with canned goods. Suggested weight is 20 pounds (35 pounds for current military). The “Sons” encourage people to come to Hardtner and...
The Freedom School Board held its regular meeting last Wednesday evening. The meeting, in the first half hour, started and stopped like a tractor with a clutch problem. Board members Richard Babcock and Phil Kirkpatrick (along with Superintendent Freida Burgess, minutes clerk Patricia Dauphin, Principal Michelle Shelite and soon-to-be-seated new board member Kyle Rhodes waited about 10 minutes for Board President Shane Morris to put on a fresh shirt and rush to the meeting. Once Morris arrived,...
“We were one rain away from a really, really good crop,” Dacoma Co-op Manager Jake Kelln said of the needed raindrops in April that never fell in that area south of Alva. On Tuesday morning Kelln told the Newsgram, “Since last night it's rained three inches and still coming down.” Too late for the 2022 wheat harvest, but welcome for summer planing of alternative crops. “We've had three good harvests in a row. Unfortunately, a bad one has to come along,” said Miles Peterson, operations and elevator manager at the Farmer's Cooperative...
The Woods County Commissioners signed payroll checks during their meeting Monday morning. They had to sign their names many times with warrants, claims and blanket purchase orders on the agenda. David Hamil, Randy McMurphy and John Smiley were all present. A renewal of the ETR contract agreement for District 2 was approved. McMurphy said this is the state no-interest loan for road work that he has been paying off at $10,000 per month from state money coming in for infrastructure work. In a...
With about a week to spare, we successfully passed the Fiscal Year 2023 budget. As required by our state’s constitution, we approved a $9.7 billion balanced budget that utilized our state revenues in a variety of ways – bolstering our savings account, investing in a variety of public safety needs and providing inflation relief for all Oklahomans. Headlining the 2023 budget is the highest balance of our state’s savings account in Oklahoma history. With our deposits from this year’s revenue...
At the May 16 Alva City Council meeting, the councilmembers were considering a proposal to put a hold on the scheduled utility rate increase beginning July 1. The rate increase is part of an ordinance passed in 2017. The increase is based on the CPI (consumer price index) in May. Since we’re in a period of inflation, the May CPI is 8.3 percent. There was a social media push to get people to attend the council meeting to ask councilmembers to stop the increase, but only one person actually a...
We sent a $9.7 billion general appropriations bill to the governor last week. He has until Thursday at midnight to take action on the measure. This budget contains a lot of stuff for the people back home in rural Oklahoma. As chair of the House Appropriations & Budget Subcommittee on Natural Resources and Regulatory Services, my portion of the budget includes a $5,000 increase for each rural fire department and an increase of funds for the departments' 80/20 grants for purchases of equipment...
Kevin Cy Irwin, 54, was born March 11, 1968, in Enid, Oklahoma, to parents Larry and Patricia Haley Irwin, and passed away unexpectedly on May 18, 2022. He resided in Cleo Springs, Oklahoma, until his parents moved to the farm west of Aline in 1973, then moved to Aline, Oklahoma, in 1985. Kevin was a member of the Aline Christian Church. He attended Aline-Cleo Elementary School in Cleo Springs and high school in Aline and graduated in 1986. He was a Boy's State Delegate and received Citizen of...
Carol Delight Melton was born on, December 16, 1931, to (William) Nay and Harriet Melton in Sturgis, Oklahoma. The family moved to Alva when Carol was four years old. After graduating from Alva High School as the class valedictorian she earned a bachelor's degree from Northwestern Oklahoma State University where she became a longtime alumni association member. She married Donald Talley and celebrated 59 years of marriage. To this union were born two children, Michael and Barbara. Carol taught...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law the nation's strictest abortion ban, making the state the first in the nation to effectively end availability of the procedure. State lawmakers approved the ban enforced by civil lawsuits rather than criminal prosecution, similar to a Texas law that was passed last year. The law takes effect immediately upon Stitt's signature and prohibits all abortions with few exceptions. Abortion providers have said they will stop performing the procedure as soon as the bill is s...
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — One student was an avid runner, so fast she swept the races at field day. Another was learning football plays from his grandfather. One girl sensed something was wrong and wanted to skip school. On Wednesday, stories began to emerge about the lives of the 19 children — "precious individuals" according to the school district superintendent — and their two teachers who were gunned down behind a barricaded door at Robb Elementary School in the southwestern Texas town of Uvalde. Vincent Salazar said his 10-year-old daugh...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Firefighters have rescued an abandoned newborn elk calf found amid the ashes of the nation's largest wildfire as calving season approaches its peak in New Mexico and fires rage across the American West. Missoula, Montana-based firefighter Nate Sink said Tuesday that he happened upon the motionless elk calf on the ground of a fire-blackened New Mexico forest as he patrolled and extinguished lingering hot spots. "The whole area is just surrounded in a thick layer of ash and burned trees. I didn't think it was alive," said S...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday announced more steps to make the antiviral treatment Paxlovid more accessible across the U.S. as it projects COVID-19 infections will continue to spread over the summer travel season. The nation's first federally backed test-to-treat site is opening Thursday in Rhode Island, providing patients with immediate access to the drug once they test positive. More federally supported sites are set to open in the coming weeks in Massachusetts and New York City, both hit by a marked rise in infections. N...
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman's rampage killed 19 children and two teachers, witnesses said Wednesday, as investigators worked to track the massacre that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team. "Go in there! Go in there!" nearby women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began, said Juan Carranza, 24, who saw the scene from outside his house, across the street from Robb E...
