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Ag teacher David Turner was recognized as Freedom Public School “Teacher of the Year” for the school year of 2020-21 during the end-of-the-year assembly. As every school year comes to an end, FPS has an award assembly. During the FPS 2020-21 assembly, Freedom Public School students and staff gathered to reward students who have achieved benchmarks within their academic classes. Elementary school students received attendance, reading, math and science awards while selected middle and high sch...
Happy Birthday To June 3: Nadia Boydstun, Billy Parker June 4: Betty Harris, Betty Whittet, Sarah Beeley June 5: Martina Cell, Christian Ledford June 6: Damon Darr, Lynn Ledford June 7: Samantha Wilson, Russell Nickel, Jeanette Welty June 8: Rob Eden June 9: Melissa Smith, Tiffany Wilson, Stanley Irving, Carlee Pierce, Lake Kamas, Brad Claussen June 10: Brandon Edwards June 11: Ron Culver, Teresa Folks, Walker Jones, Mikala Hodgson, Kaylee Holt June 12: Lorri Louthan June 13: Jan Bliss, Devory Hughes, Misty Cell, Amy Vogt, R. J. Kornele June...
Happy Anniversary To June 3: Mr. & Mrs. Jay Rankin June 4: Mr. & Mrs. Merle Wares June 5: Mr. & Mrs. DeWayne Hodgson June 18: Mr. & Mrs. Darin Harris June 24: Mr. & Mrs. Bill Burkhart June 28: Mr. & Mrs. Andy Newby June 29: Mr. & Mrs. Eldon Murray, Mr. & Mrs. Dale Wares (Note: Send corrections, additions to: [email protected] or call 580-327-2200)...
On Memorial Day Sunday, May 30, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude – Janell Reutlinger We are on Facebook, live at 11 a.m. Our Facebook page is Freedom United Methodist Church. There will be a baby shower for Brianna (Louthan) Carver June 5 at 2 p.m. at the Freedom UMC. Invocation by Pastor Todd Finley The Lord’s Prayer Call to Worship – Psalm 1 led by Ronna Wilson Opening Hymn – “Onward Christian Soldiers” led by song leader Debbie Brown Affirmation of Faith Gloria Patri Hymn of Justifying Grace – “Americ...
The 37th annual Welty reunion was held at the Freedom American Legion Building on Sunday, May 30. After a potluck dinner and a craft auction the afternoon was spent visiting and going to cemeteries. Those attending were: Steve and Mary Welty; Wayne, Robin, Michael and Andrew Welty; Phil and Gayla Welty; James, Alicia, Elizabeth, William and Chase Everett; Stephen and April Welty Jr.; Brooke and Jaycie Andrews; Blake, Janna and Asher Welty; Debbie Perrin; Judy Jones; Jamie McAlister; Rex and Winona Hodges; John Welty; Dean and Jeanette Welty;...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The City of Tulsa resumed its search Wednesday of a cemetery for possible victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Crews worked to define the boundaries of a mass-grave feature that was discovered in October at the Oaklawn Cemetery. State archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said crews were able to locate three of the four corners of the mass-grave feature, giving searchers an overall sense of its dimensions. She said searchers have also determined there are three additional burials in the area, bringing to 15 the number of coffin...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt announced Wednesday that his chief operating officer, John Budd, will step down effective July 2. Budd was the state's first COO and a member of Stitt's cabinet since he took office. With the legislative session having just wrapped up, Budd said it was a "good time for me to move on to my next journey." Before joining the Stitt administration, Budd was chief strategy and business development officer for Oklahoma City-based Sonic Corp....
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A member of Gov. Kevin Stitt's cabinet said Wednesday he plans to sue former Attorney General Mike Hunter over a felony bribery charge that Hunter's office filed against him, then later dropped. Stitt's Secretary of Digital Transformation and Administration David Ostrowe and his attorney, Matt Felty, allege Hunter abused his power by filing frivolous charges against Ostrowe to settle a political score. "America's legal system was not designed to allow powerful elected officials like the former AG to settle politically m...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden used the 100th anniversary of Tulsa's race massacre to make a plea for sweeping legislation in Congress to protect the right to vote as Republican-led governments in Texas and other states pass new restrictions making it tougher to cast ballots. Biden, marking the centennial in Oklahoma on Tuesday, called out lawmakers in Congress — including two senators in his own party — for holding up action on voting bills. Invoking the words of the late Rep. John Lewis, Biden said the right to vote is "prec...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Gov. Kevin Stitt's plan to privatize much of the state's Medicaid program is unconstitutional. In a 6-3 ruling Tuesday, the court determined the Oklahoma Health Care Authority did not have the legislative approval to move forward with the plan, dubbed SoonerSelect. "We find no express grant of legislative authority to create the SoonerSelect program nor do we find the extant statutes implicitly authorize its creation," the ruling states. The court also determined a constitutional a...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Texas jury has awarded $222 million to the widow of a Kansas man who died in an accident at Evergy's Jeffrey Energy Center power plant near St. Marys, Kansas, in 2018. The jury found that Team Industrial Services, a Texas-based subcontractor to Westar Energy, was 90% responsible for the death of Jesse Henson, of Manhattan, the family's attorneys said in a news release Tuesday. Henson and a co-worked, Damien Burchett, of Overbrook, were burned alive when they were investigating a loss of power at the steam plant near St. M...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered Kansas to pay more than $826,000 to the estate of a man who died in February following his release from prison after serving more than 12 years over a wrongful murder conviction. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced the resolution of a lawsuit filed in November by Olin "Pete" Coones only days after a Wyandotte County judge threw out his 2009 conviction for first-degree murder. The order to pay Coones' estate came from Shawnee County District Judge Teresa Watson, but Gov. Laura Kelly a...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two national nonprofit groups that encourage voting by mail sued Kansas election officials Wednesday over new election laws passed this year by the Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature. The lawsuit from VoteAmerica and the Voter Participation Center comes a day after three Kansas voting rights groups — The League of Women Voters of Kansas, Kansas Appleseed and Loud Light — sued in Shawnee County Court. Both lawsuits contend the laws are unconstitutional because they suppress free speech and disenfranchise voters. The f...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri prosecutor on Wednesday said she's disappointed the state Supreme Court won't hear the case of a Kansas City man imprisoned for more than 40 years for a triple murder that prosecutors say he didn't commit. Missouri Supreme Court judges on Tuesday denied 61-year-old Kevin Strickland's case without providing an explanation. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker in response said her office is "pursuing all avenues of exoneration for Mr. Strickland." Strickland's lawyers, including Midwest Innocence Proje...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita man who stabbed a woman about 30 times in a random attack last year was sentenced Wednesday to just over 24 years in prison. Wade Dunn was convicted in April of attempted second-degree murder and aggravated battery for the Sept. 23, 2019. Prosecutors said Dunn approached the 28-year-old woman after she loaded laundry into her car and stabbed her about 30 times without saying anything. The woman's 15-month-old child was alone inside the house. The woman survived and her baby was not injured. After the woman said "...
SALINA, Kan. (AP) — Police in central Kansas are investigating after a woman's body was found in a Salina park. Police were working to identify the woman, whose body was found early Tuesday morning lying face down near the south entrance of Lakewood Park, television station KAKE reported. Police have not said how she died. Officials said the woman appeared to be in her late 20s....
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former postal worker in eastern Kansas has been ordered to pay $1,100 in fines and restitution for destroying mail and presumably stealing cash contained in that mail. Dennis Tapscott, 24, of Emporia, was fined Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Wichita, the Wichita Eagle reported. He was ordered to pay a $500 fine, $575 in restitution and a $25 special assessment fee. Tapscott pleaded guilty last week to one count of delaying mail. Prosecutors said that between August 2019 and January 2020, Tapscott opened and d...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M (AP) — A New Mexico sheriff who is running for mayor of Albuquerque was interrupted while on stage at a campaign event by a flying drone with a sex toy attached to it and a man who punched him. Bernalillo County Sheriff Manuel Gonzales' campaign said the Democrat was unharmed and "will not be intimidated." The Albuquerque Journal reported that a video posted on Facebook shows Gonzales answering questions from the audience while standing on a stage at an events center when the drone bearing the sex toy started buzzing near t...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A judge has rejected the "stand your ground" defense of a Florida man who said he beat an iguana to death only after it attacked him, biting him on the arm. PJ Nilaja Patterson, 43, must stand trial on a felony animal cruelty charge, Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Dana Gillen ruled recently in denying the unusual defense, the South Florida SunSentinel reported. The "stand your ground" law allows a person who is under attack and reasonably fears death or great bodily harm to use deadly force, even if they c...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — George P. Bush on Wednesday launched his next political move: a run for Texas attorney general in 2022 that puts the scion of a Republican dynasty against a GOP incumbent shadowed by securities fraud charges and an FBI investigation. Bush, who has served as Texas' land commissioner since 2015, is the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and the nephew and grandson of two former presidents. He is the last of the Bush family still in public office — and was the first to break with them over supporting former President Don...
BEIJING (AP) — A herd of 15 wild elephants that walked 500 kilometers (300 miles) from a nature reserve in China's mountain southwest were approaching the major city of Kunming on Wednesday as authorities rushed to try to keep them out of populated areas. Chinese wildlife authorities say they don't know why the herd left a nature reserve last year near the city of Pu'er, a region known for tea cultivation. The group was 16 animals, but the government says two returned home and a baby was born during the walk. Authorities have blocked traffic o...
Seven months after Election Day, former President Donald Trump's supporters are still auditing ballots in Arizona's largest county and may revive legislation that would make it easier for judges in Texas to overturn election results. In Georgia, meanwhile, the Republican-controlled state legislature passed a bill allowing it to appoint a board that can replace election officials. Trump loyalists who falsely insist he won the 2020 election are running for top election offices in several swing states. And after a pro-Trump mob staged a violent...
