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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...

About four and a half years ago, when Lynn Martin first offered me the opportunity to write a weekly column for the ARC Friday edition, I felt really honored and raring to go. He warned me that, given time, a weekly deadline (even just one) could...

With a long council meeting expected Monday and a large group of citizens attending, Alva City Business Manager Joe Don Dunham kept his verbal report to a minimum. However, he submitted a ten page written report to the council members. The Alva...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney has announced plans to expand its operations at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City. Pratt & Whitney vice president Kevin Kirkpatrick, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and Oklahoma City Mayor David H...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge says a 19-year-old man accused of fatally shooting his parents and who is described by his attorney as "very mentally ill" isn't competent to be tried for first-degree murder. Michael Elijah Walker was r...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has rejected the appeal of a man convicted of gunning down another man who was on his knees. The court on Thursday upheld the first-degree murder conviction and life without parole s...

STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) — Police have arrested a second man in connection with a shooting that critically injured a woman who was left for dead along a rural road in Washington County. Authorities say the woman was saved by an Uber driver who h...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted two more employees of a company that owns a duck boat that sank on a Missouri lake last summer, killing 17 people. Curtis Lanham, the general manager at Ride the Ducks Branson, and Charles B...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran has broken with most other Republican senators in voting to block President Donald Trump's administration from selling arms to Saudi Arabia. The Kansas City Star reports that Moran supported two r...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The popular Country Stampede music festival will be moving from Manhattan to Topeka — and rebranded the Heartland Stampede. Topeka Mayor Michelle De La Isla made the announcement Thursday hours before the event kicked off in Top...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is giving a key role in a study of Kansas tax laws to a former Republican state Senate leader who was ousted after conflicts with one of her GOP predecessors over tax cuts. Kelly announced Thursday that...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 53-year-old Kansas man has been sentenced to five years of probation for stealing more than $21,000 from his mother while she was in a nursing home. KSNW-TV reports that John Queen also was ordered to pay back the money. He f...

SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — Johnson County authorities say a couple is charged with child abuse and endangerment after they brought a 5-year-old boy to a hospital weighing only 28 pounds. The Kansas City Star reports 28-year-old Elizabeth Francis and 3...

SILVER LAKE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a 31-year-old Topeka man died while trimming trees. The Shawnee County Sheriff's Office says Cory Harr died Thursday near Silver Lake in northwest Shawnee County. WIBW reports Harr worked for Capital City T...

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders have failed to back a plan to make the bloc's economy carbon neutral by 2050 in spite of promises to fight harder against climate change. Ahead of a U.N. meeting in the fall, the proposal was relegated to a n...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Editor’s note: A total solar eclipse will be visible across the U.S. on Monday, August 21. Shannon Schmoll, d...

SEATTLE (AP) — The proof is in the pee. A federally funded study has confirmed, not surprisingly, that marijuana use went up in Washington state after its first legal pot stores opened in 2014. In fact, consumption appeared to double, at least in o...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — With a name that sounds like futuristic fiction, Rapid DNA machines roughly the size of an office printer have helped solve rape cases in Kentucky, identified California wildfire victims and verified family connections of m...