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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. Small Claims Filings Austin Perry DeVore, Jet, and Crystal...
Divorce Filings Braden Tyler Waugh, Cherokee, vs. Kelia Lometa Waugh, Cherokee: divorce ($262.14). Kerry Richardson, Helena, vs. Rachel Soap: divorce ($252.14). Cynthia Ann Hudson vs. Robert Wayne Hudson, Lindsay: divorce ($252.14)....
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 1:52 a.m. Caller advised of three calves out in Barber County. Transferred the call. 6:48 a.m. Controlled burn on Kay Road. 8:50 a.m. Controlled burn south of Byron. 12:57 p.m. Report of a loose dog. 4:30 p.m. Report of a reckless driver going through Jet. 4:48 p.m. Medic needed at James Crabtree Correctional Center for a male with chest pains. Medic with patient en route to Bass Hospital in Enid. 5:09 p.m. Controlled burn on County Road 580. 5:33 p.m. Deputy had a traffic stop at Ohio and 10th Street. 5:48 p.m. Caller...
The Alfalfa County Board of Commissioners held a regular meeting this Monday morning. All commissioners were present, as well as Nancy Lambert, Troy Eshleman, Clint Reams, Thomas Wessels and Laneta Unruh. After the call to order, Lambert gave the invocation, then the flag was saluted. The commissioners approved the minutes from the previous meeting, then departed from the agenda to read bids for the new wildfire brush fire apparatus for Cherokee Fire and Rescue. There was only one bid. After consulting the volunteer fire-fighters present, the...
The day before 911, an Edmond family appeared on The Today Show with their beloved tortoise named Gracie. You see, Gracie had gone missing for three years following a 1998 tornado in Edmond and found her way home. That is a story. So much, that her owners Kerry and Janie Billington wrote a book entitled "Gracie's Unexpected Journey, a True Story about Hope." The illustration and layout is by D.J. Labay and Liz Warren. They will bring the "Gracie" book and also Billington's oils, acrylics and...
After northern Woods County received up to 11 inches (David Strawn's place) of rain last Thursday, considerable damage was done to roads, tin-horns and bridges. Commissioner David Hamil, who oversees that part of the county, said if you climbed up on the Capron elevator, it looked like a single lake all the way to the Kansas border. One 24-foot bridge was washed out, and 14 miles of roads were damaged and closed. Sixteen tin-horns (metal tunnels that carry water under a road or train tracks) were lost. Tuesday morning, the Woods County...
South Barber High School had 13 graduates in 2018. At commencement they had three speakers: the valedictorian Trae Rathgeber, Salutatorian Idallis Shaffer and senior class president Slater Blick. Known for his love of cooking, Blick wove recipes into his speech. Mixing his classmates with teachers, family and community throughout the years he brought humorous moments and a few that brought tears. He told his classmates they would enter a new mixing bowl after graduation. Blick said, "Class of...
Ty and Sharon Harper of Freedom, Oklahoma, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Kylee Jeanne Harper to Cody Vincent Forell, son of Guy and Kelly Forell of Alva, Oklahoma. The bride-to-be is a graduate of Alva High School and Ft. Hays State University. She is currently employed at the OU Medical Center as a radiologic technologist. Kylee's fiancé is a graduate of Alva High School who attended Ft. Hays State University before transferring to Oklahoma State University where he...
This January, a Texas man was the victim of a violent attack and his jaw broken in two places. He was taken by ambulance to an emergency room in Austin. After checking to see if the hospital was on his insurance network, he followed a nurse's recommendation that he get surgery that night. The bill was $7,924.13. The victim, Scott Kohan, frequently checked his insurance website and he said, “I saw that everything came up in the network except a bill for the surgery that says it was rejected.” When Kohan called his insurer, he was told the doc...
Terry Graham called the May 21 meeting of the Burlington School Board meeting to order with members present: Robert Hill and Aaron Smith. Allison Armbruster and T.J. Rockenbach were absent. Other school officials present were: Superintendent Dr. Stacey Croft, Principal Lane Pruett and Minutes Clerk Tamre McGinnis. The board read and passed resolutions calling for a special election to be held in the school district to authorize issuance of general obligation bonds. Superintendent Croft said the GO bonds are for $350,000 to purchase four buses....
Funeral services for Duane Waugh will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, June 1, 2018, First United Methodist Church in Cherokee. Arrangements are by Lanman Funeral Home, Inc. of Cherokee. Viewing will be Wednesday, May 30, 2018, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursday, May 31, 2018, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Online condolences may be made at www.lanmanmemorials.com. Duane Leroy Waugh was born May 15, 1943, in Tulsa to Melvin and Margaret Dielman Waugh and passed away May 26, 2018, in Alva. Duane was raised in Ashland, Kansas, and graduated from Ashland High School...
ADA – East Central University men's cross country and track & field junior Larry Filer has been named to the Google Cloud Academic All-District 7 Men's Track/Cross Country team, selected by CoSIDA, for the second straight season. The Wichita Falls, Texas, native currently boasts a 4.00 GPA in biology and has been a standout on the Tigers cross country and track & field teams for the last three seasons. Filer continues his academic honors for 2017-18 after being named ECU's Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year. This year he had a strong performance...
NEW ORLEANS (May 29, 2018) – Oklahoma Christian's McKenzie Stanford became the first NCAA Division II All-America first-team selection in any sport Tuesday when the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association officially announced its honor teams for the outdoor season. Stanford, a senior from Perkins, tied for eighth in the high jump last Friday at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships in Charlotte, N.J., clearing 5 feet, 6 inches (1.68 meters). The top eight finishers in each event earn All-America first-team status. E...
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Students at more than 1,000 schools across the country are registering young voters in lunchrooms, hallways and even at upcoming graduation ceremonies in a week of activism aimed at electing lawmakers who support gun reforms in response to school shootings in Florida and Texas. David Hogg, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, is spearheading the national effort along with the New York-based organization HeadCount. Hogg and organization officials say students at more than 1,000 schools in 46 s...
SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — Like some of her classmates, senior Brooke Williams had mixed emotions about returning Tuesday to classes at Santa Fe High School, where a student fatally shot 10 people in the nation's deadliest school attack since the massacre in Parkland, Florida. "I'm not excited to go back to school. I'm actually pretty scared to, but I feel like that's the reason why I need to go back. I don't want to be scared of this the rest of my life," Williams said. Less than two weeks after the shooting, students at the school near Houston w...
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A suburban Indianapolis middle school is set to reopen for classes on Wednesday, five days after a male student allegedly shot and wounded a 13-year-old classmate and a teacher who was credited with disarming the assailant. Noblesville West Middle School will reopen Wednesday on a two-hour delay and operate on the same shortened schedule Thursday and Friday, which is the district's final day of classes for the school year, said Noblesville Schools spokeswoman Marnie Cooke. The middle school opened its doors Tuesday, b...
MAIZE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas teacher faces several charges accusing him of sexual relations with a student. The Wichita Eagle reports that 44-year-old Johnny Paul Yelverton of Maize was charged last week with six counts of unlawful sexual relations between a teacher and a student 16 or older. Yelverton also is charged with one count of sexual exploitation of a child. Prosecutors say Yelverton had relations with a student in March and April, and possessed a sexually explicit image or recording of a child in May. A preliminary hearing is June 5...
SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — Pop star Justin Timberlake made a surprise visit to a Texas school shooting survivor as she recovers from her wounds in a hospital. Sarah Salazar was among the more than two dozen injured in the May 18 attack at Santa Fe High School. Her mother, Sonia Lopez-Puentes, shared on Facebook a photo that shows Timberlake wearing a medical gown and rubber gloves as he poses next to a smiling Salazar in her hospital room last Friday. According to an online fundraiser for Salazar, the teenager suffered a broken jaw and will need s...
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A suburban Indianapolis teacher who was shot while tackling and disarming a student inside his classroom said Monday that his swift decisions "were the only acceptable actions" to save his seventh-grade students. Jason Seaman, speaking publicly for the first time since the shooting Friday, thanked the Noblesville community for its support and stressed that he wanted the focus to be on the other person shot during the incident: 13-year-old student Ella Whistler, who was seriously wounded. "Her courage and strength at s...
Marilyn Sue Matthiesen, 78, of Grove, Oklahoma, wrote her final chapter on May 24, 2018. Sue was born in Enid, Oklahoma, to Tom and Ruby Jones, and was the second oldest in a family of seven sharp-witted, rambunctious and loving children. She graduated from Enid High School in 1958 and received her B.A. in English and M.A in education from NWOSU in 1980 and 1987, respectively. Sue was the librarian at Cherokee middle and high school for 18 years where she also taught English and computer...
TORONTO (AP) — Canada's federal government said Tuesday it is buying a controversial pipeline from the Alberta oil sands to the Pacific Coast to ensure it gets built. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government plans to spend $4.5 billion Canadian (US$3.4 billion) to purchase Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline. The pipeline expansion would triple the capacity of an existing line to ship oil extracted from the oil sands in Alberta across the snow-capped peaks of the Canadian Rockies. It would end at a terminal outside Vancouver, resulting i...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In language that echoed that of his accusers and critics, President Donald Trump alleged on Twitter that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigative team was "MEDDLING" in the upcoming midterm elections and blamed Democrats for "Collusion." The tweet Tuesday was the latest example of the president co-opting the terminology of his accusers in an effort to tarnish political enemies. It came as Mueller investigates allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and whether any Trump campaign aides c...
CORSICANA, Texas (AP) — It's an old-fashioned way to spend a Saturday: Visit with folks on a porch, stroll around downtown, enjoy a cold drink and a snack. That's the idea behind a new event called the Corsicana Porchfest & Crafternoon, scheduled for June 9 in Corsicana, Texas, about 45 minutes from Dallas. The event encourages locals and visitors alike to spend a "day out in Corsicana" with an open invitation to get to know homeowners in the town's Carriage District. The neighborhood was settled by oil barons, politicians and early business l...
