Articles from the June 20, 2019 edition
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Freedom birthdays
Happy Birthday To June 20: Kirk Brown, Jeffery Lewis June 21: Melba Artz, Janea Ferguson, Lisa Hughes June 22: Cari Parks, Dani Winn, Tanner Wagner, Marvin Woodall June 23; Terry Welty, Billy Beer, Darwan Tolle, Earnest Tolle, Trista Wilson June 24:...
Freedom birthdays
Happy Anniversary To June 24: Mr. & Mrs. Bill Burkhart June 28: Mr. & Mrs. Andy Newby June 29: Mr. & Mrs. Eldon Murray, Mr. & Mrs. Dale Wares July 1: Mr. & Mrs. Mark Flock, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Russell July 2: Mr. & Mrs. Gary Earnest (Note: Send...
Freedom United Methodist Church news
On Father’s Day, Sunday, June 16, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger On Friday, June 21, Freedom Museum will have their fundraiser dinner at the Methodist Church at 6:30 p.m. Contact a b...
Woods County Conservation District presents new five year plan
Last Wednesday, June 12, the Woods County Conservation District (WCCD), board met for their monthly meeting to discuss their agenda. At 2 p.m. on June 12 they held a public meeting in order to...
Two Rangers earn national titles
ALVA, Okla. – Reaching the pinnacle of one's sport is the dream of every athlete. Taylor Munsell and Bridger Anderson have done that for the Northwestern Oklahoma State University rodeo team. They a...
DOUGLAS HOLLON WALKER
Douglas Hollon Walker, 53-year-old Freedom, Oklahoma, resident passed away on Friday afternoon June 7, 2019, in OU Medical Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, after major illness. Doug’s parents were Wesley Walker and Beverly Hollon. Doug was born in W...
Flight diverted to Oklahoma City due to unruly passenger
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police say an American Airlines flight from Pittsburgh to Dallas/Fort Worth was diverted to Oklahoma City because of a drunken, unruly passenger. The airline says the flight landed in Oklahoma City at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday a...
Dogwalker camp in Norman offers fun, advice to children
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Annie's Ruff House is in the business of caring for dogs, but it recently offered something a little different. The Norman Transcript reports the doggie day care and boarding studio began its new Leader of the Pack Dogwalker S...
New leader of Claremore Main Street shares Route 66 passion
CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) — Jacob Garrison is your guy. The Claremore Daily Progress reports to anyone looking for someone with passion and love for Claremore, or looking place to share their ideas or get answers, Claremore Main Street's new executive d...
New Oklahoma law means vehicle tags must remain with owners
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — If you like your car tag, you can keep it. The Tulsa World reports in fact, after July 1, you're not going to have much choice in the matter. That's when a law passed in 2018 goes into effect. It fundamentally changes the car r...
Oklahoma medical examiner testifies in state opioid lawsuit
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma's chief medical examiner shared tragic details about the opioid-related deaths of about three dozen residents during testimony in the state's lawsuit alleging drug manufacturer Johnson & Johnson and some of its s...
Server at OU restaurant sues former university administrator
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A server at a University of Oklahoma campus restaurant is suing a former top OU administrator, alleging the man groped and kissed him inappropriately on several occasions. Twenty-four-year-old University Club employee Levi H...
Shooting victim rescued by Uber driver near Stillwater
STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say an Uber driver rescued a woman who had been shot and left to die along a road in Washington County. A 23-year-old St. Paul man, suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, is charged with attempted murder and k...
State universities won't hike tuition for Kansas undergrads
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State universities will not increase tuition this fall for undergraduate students from Kansas, but the board overseeing higher education boosted rates for other students Wednesday. Kansas Board of Regents members said they f...
ACLU attacks restrictions on protests in Kansas Statehouse
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge Wednesday to make it easier to protest inside the Kansas Statehouse, as some members of the Republican-controlled Legislature worry that liberal demonstrators have become i...
APNewsBreak: Man 'mad as hell' Kansas shuts racial bias case
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A black man who was detained by police while moving into his home said Wednesday that Kansas regulators investigated his racial bias complaint and closed the case with no further action. "I'm mad as hell," Karle Robinson told T...
Affidavit: Meth-filled revenge plot led to deadly stabbing
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Court records say a man charged with helping his girlfriend fatally stab her ex-stepfather told Wichita police that the couple was seeking revenge because of past sexual abuse. The Wichita Eagle reports that an affidavit was u...
Wichita State has groundbreaking for student-athlete center
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita State's new center for student-athletes is one step closer to reality. The school held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for its $13.8 million Student-Athlete Success Center close to where it will be constructed near K...
Police say man's death in Topeka considered a homicide
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Topeka police say the death of a man whose body was found inside a home is being investigated as a homicide. The victim, 36-year-old John Waller, of Topeka, was found dead Monday at a central Topeka house. Police Lt. Andrew B...
Scientists record singing by rare right whale for first time
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — It's not America's Top 40, but it's a cutting edge song. Federal marine biologists for the first time have recorded singing by one of the rarest whales on the planet, the North Pacific right whale. National Oceanic and A...
Survey sees biggest US honeybee winter die-off yet
WASHINGTON (AP) — Winter hit U.S. honeybees hard with the highest loss rate yet, an annual survey of beekeepers showed. The annual nationwide survey by the Bee Informed Partnership found 37.7% of honeybee colonies died this past winter, nearly 9 p...
EPA defies climate warnings, gives coal plants a reprieve
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite scientists' increasingly urgent warnings, the Trump administration ordered a sweeping about-face Wednesday on Obama-era efforts to fight climate change, easing restrictions on coal-fired power plants in a move it predicted w...
Old spy images reveal Himalayan glaciers are melting fast
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cold War era spy satellite images are showing scientists that glaciers on the Himalayas are now melting about twice as fast as they used to. The Asian mountain range, which includes Mount Everest, has been losing ice at a rate of ab...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's boasts, blasts and promises at rally
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump boasted with abandon in launching his 2020 re-election campaign, overreached in excoriating his critics and promised progress on his border wall and health care that is improbable at best. In those r...
Mexico's Senate approves trade deal with US, Canada
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to ratify a new free trade agreement with the United States and Canada, making it the first of the three countries to gain legislative approval. Mexico's upper chamber voted 114 to f...