Kansas Health Foundation has awarded more than $4.7 million in funding to 18 communities in the state through its Healthy Communities Initiative: Improving Health Equity in Kansas. The Friends of Kiowa District Hospital and Manor Foundation – Barber...

Real Estate Transfers Book 142 page 330: William A. Forsyth and Janice Forsyth, husband and wife, unto Charles Bradley Forsyth and Elizabeth Forsyth, as joint tenants. Lot 15 in block B in Forsyth Addition to the City of Medicine Lodge. Joint...

June 12, 2017 Deputy Woods investigated a traffic hazard on Curry Lane. Undersheriff Brewer investigated suspicious activity in Hardtner. Deputy Paasch investigated child in need of care in Kiowa. Medicine Lodge ambulance transported patient from...

Criminal Filings Joshua Wade Sena has been charged with possession of paraphernalia with intent to manufacture/plant/cultivate and use/possess with intent to use drug paraphernalia into human body. Chance Shae Gantt has been charged with distribution...

Lisa Maria Hernandez vs. Chaneay Breann Hernandez: marriage dissolution/divorce....

Tuesday, June 13, 2017 12:55 a.m. Reporting party (RP) advised of a suspicious person at the co-op in Jet and they talked a bit and he then went over by the calf and was outside of his pickup wit a flashlight. Advised deputy. Deputy en route. Deputy...

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 obtai...

Rhonda C. Montalvo vs. Juan A. Montalvo, Cherokee: divorce ($252.14)....

Two teachers and one support staff person have resigned from the Freedom Public Schools, according to information presented Monday night. The Freedom Board of Education met at 7 p.m. on June 19. The board accepted resignations of teachers Brandon...

Last Friday, June 16, about 7 p.m., a vicious storm ripped through the Hardtner, Kansas, area – and further southwest – that hammered some homes, crops and more. There were many pics of that damage in the Sunday Alva Review-Courier. One casualty of...

The South Barber Board of Education covered a full agenda at their June meeting last Monday that lasted nearly three hours. Discussion and action led to the hiring of a new vocal music teacher, hiring P1 Group for sewer and gas piping repair...

Only one thing is certain when it comes to farming – it's a huge gamble. For the most part, area wheat producers came out winners in this year's game of chance, known as harvest, that is mainly dictated by Mother Nature. When contacted by the N...

The public schools, the university and the city of Alva all have automated notification systems where the citizens can be notified of emergencies or announcements of pending service interruptions. The Woods County commissioners signed a contract...

Funeral services for Elvia "Candy" Long will be 10 a.m. Saturday, June 24, 2017, at the First Baptist Church in Waynoka with Rev. David Shaw officiating. Interment with be in the Waynoka Municipal Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral...

Rye Wylie Loiselle, 17, of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, died Friday, June 16, 2017, at his residence. He was born on September 16, 1999, in Midwest City, Oklahoma, the son of Raymond C. Loiselle Jr. and Kelly (Ash) Loiselle. Rye was a junior at the Sun...

I just now finished reading Sunday's (Alva Review-Courier) story about the Alva tourism committee agenda. When I got to the last paragraph, I instantly was struck by a lot of questions and history memories. At my age sometimes 'instantly' means...

DENVER (AP) — A federal court has revived a Colorado parent's lawsuit that alleges a school district violated the constitutional separation of church and state. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled Tuesday that a woman identified as J...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A third man has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Tennessee high school football player who shielded two girls from the gunfire. The Knoxville Police Department said in a news release Tuesday t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Free speech on college campuses attracted congressional attention on Tuesday as a Senate panel questioned students, academics and lawyers after the abrupt cancellation of several high-profile speeches from California to Texas. S...

PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — Two men have been sentenced for the shooting death of a Pittsburg State University student. The Pittsburg Morning Sun (http://bit.ly/2rzeMAm ) reports that Darius Rainey was sentenced Monday to life in prison and Corbin S...