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Menu for Woods County Senior Citizens Monday – Hamburger with relish plate, tater tots, mixed fruit (diabetic: no-sugar-added mixed fruit) Tuesday – Veal with mushroom gravy, mashed potatoes, broccoli, hot roll, banana pudding, (sugar-free pud...

The Alva City Council has a packed agenda for Monday night, June 21. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. in the council chambers at City Hall, 415 4th St. After voting to approve the consent agenda which includes meeting minutes and claims, the council...

When Oklahoma prosecutors back a criminal justice bill, chances are it will become law. Oklahoma district attorneys lobbied for or against 47 bills from 2015 to 2018, according to a study published June 3 by the University of North Carolina School...

Temporary budget appropriations for schools, county and towns were on the agenda Wednesday for the Woods County Excise Board meeting. Chris Olson presided over the meeting with Joe Shirley also attending. Bob Seivert was absent. With two of three mem...

Senate Democrats are once again trying to push through their massive federal election takeover bill, S. 1/H.R. 1, the “For the People Act.” S. 1/H.R. 1 takes authority away from Oklahoma and gives Washington, D.C., the power to manage and con...

The first Alva Chamber Community Coffee in a year was held Friday on the Northwestern Oklahoma State University campus. Three legislators talked about what they’re doing at the capitol, but the hot topic in the question and answer period was c... Full story

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A convicted drug dealer and sentenced to 25 years in prison is free after being mistakenly released from the Oklahoma County jail, pending transfer to the state Department of Corrections. Court records show an arrest warrant w...

CAMERON, Okla. (AP) — Five northwest Arkansas residents, including two teenagers, were killed in a head-on collision in eastern Oklahoma near the Oklahoma-Arkansas state line, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports. The five died Friday i...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Discrimination would be prohibited against jurors in federal courts on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity under a bill reintroduced by U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Susan Collins of Maine. "...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita police area searching for a suspect who shot and killed one man and critically injured another. Officers called to a home in northeast Wichita on Sunday found Deandre Freeman, 47, shot several times. He died at the s...

CHICAGO (AP) — A tornado swept through communities in heavily populated suburban Chicago, damaging more than 100 homes, toppling trees, knocking out power and causing multiple injuries, officials said. At least five people, including a woman who w...

BROKEN BOW, Okla. (AP) — A Texas man drowned while trying to help his son, who was struggling while swimming in a southeast Oklahoma lake on Father's Day, authorities said. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the drowning happened Sunday afternoon on B...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Human remains found in April in northeast Kansas have been identified as the body of an El Dorado man, authorities said Monday. DNA evidence matched with probable family members identified the body as Waylon Fort, 40, of El D...

HONOLULU (AP) — Dozens of baby squid from Hawaii are in space for study. The baby Hawaiian bobtail squid were raised at the University of Hawaii's Kewalo Marine Laboratory and were blasted into space earlier this month on a SpaceX resupply mission t...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban fighters took control of a key district in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province Monday and encircled the provincial capital, police said, as the insurgent group added to its string of recent victories on the b...