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Alva Church of God Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.m. with Pastor Nathan Braudrick. Alva Church of God is located at 517 Ninth St. in Alva, and can be found on the web at www.AlvaChurchOfGod.org. Sunday: Sunday school is at...

It’s Monday afternoon of Singing School week. According to the flier, this is the 47th annual Alva School of Music and the congregation is playing host to around 35 students from Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The euphemism, “herding cats” might come cl...

For intercollegiate rodeo contestants, the ultimate goal each year is the College National Finals Rodeo, home of the sport’s elite. For five Northwestern Oklahoma State University athletes, the culmination of their year of hard work will come to f...

Three academic departments at Northwestern Oklahoma State University will have new leadership beginning on July 1. The Division of Business will welcome Dr. John Stockmyer as its new chair, replacing Dr. David Hawkins, who will remain on the...

Calling all incoming freshmen at Northwestern Oklahoma State University – Camp Ranger is set for June 20-22 at the Alva campus. The deadline to register is June 18 at www.nwosu.edu/camp-ranger. Calleb Mosburg, dean of student affairs and e...

During the summer months, the Alva Public Library is providing several programs to entertain and educate children and teens. The summer reading program began Monday, June 3, with two age groups. Sixth graders have been acting as volunteers to assist...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Storm-weary Oklahoma and Arkansas are seeing another round of severe weather that has flooded roadways. The National Weather Service reports more than 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) of rain fell in Tulsa on Thursday, days after w...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — About 600 Tulsa County homes and business were inundated during last week's historic flooding along the swollen Arkansas River, city officials said. Joe Kralicek, executive director of the Tulsa Area Emergency Management A...

ADA, Okla. (AP) — Chickasaw Nation Gov. Bill Anoatubby will serve a ninth consecutive four-year term as the tribe's leader, this time with his son as his lieutenant governor. Tribal election officials say Anoatubby and his son, Chris, were o...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Norman police are investigating after former state Sen. Jonathan Nichols was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound inside his home. Police confirmed in a press release Thursday they discovered the body of the 53-year-old i...

MIDDLETOWN, N.J. (AP) — An Oklahoma company says it will reapply to build a hotly contested pipeline that would carry natural gas from Pennsylvania through New Jersey, and under a bay and the ocean to New York. Tulsa-based Williams Companies says i...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Wes Studi has played a cop in the crime thriller "Heat," a superhero trainer in the comedy "Mystery Men" and as the patriarch of an alien tribe, the Na'vi, in the sci-fi epic "Avatar." Still, the Cherokee actor is best known for...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Russian woman has been sentenced to seven years in prison for taking a child she had with a Kansas man to her native country and demanding money before she would allow the father to talk to his daughter. Bogdana Alexandrovna M...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The assistant football coach at a Kansas community college told officials a 300-pound defensive lineman who died of heatstroke after practice was "making a stressful moan" when he arrived to help, but rather than immediately d...

ABILENE, Kan. (AP) — Veterans are traveling to President Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential museum to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day in the place where the Supreme Allied Commander during World War II was raised. Among them was 96-year-old L...

OAK ISLAND, N.C. (AP) — A volunteer water rescue team saved an 8-year-old boy who floated away from the North Carolina coast on a raft shaped like a unicorn. News outlets report that the Ohio boy was at the beach on Oak Island on Monday when a g...

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — Standing on the windswept beaches and bluffs of Normandy, a dwindling number of aging veterans of history's greatest air and sea invasion received the thanks and praise of a world transformed by their sacrifice. The m...