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On Father’s Day, June 17, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Invocation by Pastor Todd Finley Bandannas were given to fathers for Father’s Day. Call to Worship: Psalm 139 led by Johnnie Sue...

Happy Birthday To 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: Bobbie Powers, Rhonda Bradt, Loyd...

The regularly scheduled Freedom town meeting lasted less than a half-hour, with the Municipal Trust Authority meeting that followed taking only six minutes. Members Terry Smith and Shad Brackin were present. Rolando Galindo was absent. Clerk Cindy...

The May report for Share Convalescent Home showed gross days of 57.9 compared to 56 for April. Gross patient revenue for the month totaled $342,450, which was a $22,183 decrease from the previous month. The accounts payable balance for May stood at...

Several changes were evident at Tuesday's Alva Hospital Authority meeting. Twelve-year board veteran Darlene Sanderson was absent as her term was up, and her replacement, new board member Jay Randels, was present. With the change in board make-up,...

Hospital Chief Financial Officer Kevin O'Brien told the Alva Hospital Authority members of his projections for the next fiscal year that will move the hospital from the anticipated FY 2017-2018 loss of $1.88 million to a profit of $164,000 next...

The Homestead living facility is expanding their service offerings by adding a new level of care effective July 1. It is a service designed to fill the gap between independent living, which the Homestead now is, and assisted living. They have to be...

PAULS VALLEY, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say an improvised incendiary bomb was found beside a busy interstate highway in southern Oklahoma. In a statement posted on its Facebook page, the Garvin County Sheriff's Office said a state highway mowing c...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The University of Oklahoma is losing $36 million a year as expenses continue to outpace revenue, according to the school's incoming president. Jim Gallogly met with the university's Board of Regents in Oklahoma City on T...

CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) — A marijuana advocate in northeast Oklahoma alleges a sheriff grabbed him by the throat and escorted him out of a community forum on an upcoming state ballot measure on medical cannabis. The Claremore Progress reports that C...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The United States' largest black denomination has convened its annual meeting in Oklahoma City, and its leaders are denouncing the separation of immigrant children from families at the border. The Rev. Jerry Young, who is p...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Candidates supported by billionaire investor Carl Icahn have won control of the board of directors of Oklahoma City-based SandRidge Energy, Inc. The company said in a news release after Tuesday's voting by shareholders that I...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — A Muskogee County jail inmate has died at a hospital after suffering an undisclosed medical issue. The county sheriff's office says 35-year-old Floyd Patterson III of Muskogee died Monday, shortly after arriving at the h...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Ray Emory survived the early morning attack on Pearl Harbor that killed nearly 2,400 servicemen in shower of bombs and explosions nearly 80 years ago. The 97-year-old never forgot those who died that day, spending the p...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach unsuccessfully sought a governor's pardon for a corporate campaign donor's vice president whose crime, police said, involved threatening a cab driver by putting a gun to his head. Kobach, a R...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's office issued written instructions Wednesday to county elections officials telling them to immediately take steps to implement a federal court ruling that struck down the state's p...