Happy Birthday To 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 Boham June 26: Sharon Harper, Francis Koehn,...

The Freedom Chamber of Commerce will host and Cargill Salt will sponsor Freedom’s Fourth of July Celebration. The event is scheduled for July 1 at the Rhodes Arena (the rodeo grounds) beginning at 6 p.m. The meal will be hamburgers and hot dogs a...

Father’s Day was Sunday, June 18. The order of services at Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude – Janell Reutlinger Welcome and sharing life’s happenings Genesis 18 – Hope in God. Expect miracles. For with God, anything is possible! Call to...

The Woods County Excise Board met Wednesday morning just a few days before the end of the fiscal year to approve temporary budgets for all county tax-supported entities. The board is comprised of three members: Bob Seivert, Joe Shirley and Chris...

The Woods County Mineral Owners Association will hold their annual meeting on Thursday, July 6, at the Women’s Building on the Woods County Fairgrounds in Alva. Registration will begin at 6:30 p.m. and the meal will begin at 7 p.m. Terry Stowers w...

OKLAHOMA CITY – The final award for the 2016 East Central University football season has been awarded to sophomore Louden Johnson by the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame and The National Football Foundation. He was named the Tigers NFF Oklahoma C...

PLUMERVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Tyson Foods has installed video cameras in key areas of its poultry operations and will test new ways to slaughter birds — not in response to previous "gotcha" moments but under a corporate philosophy that notes its role as...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin state Assembly is debating a bill that calls for expelling University of Wisconsin students who repeatedly disrupt the free speech rights of others. Republican supporters of the measure slated to pass Wednesday s...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Otto Warmbier knew everyone on campus as a student at the University of Virginia, and he had an "insane" tie collection. Alex Vagonis also said Warmbier was her soul mate who "helped me become a better human being." V...

BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a central Ohio school superintendent has been charged with a sex crime involving a 10-year-old girl. The Springfield News-Sun reports (http://bit.ly/2sVr3mP ) the Indian Lake Local Schools has placed 5...

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...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — He is known as MBS and his rise through Saudi Arabia's corridors of power has been shockingly swift. At age 31, Mohammed bin Salman already controlled the kingdom's defense policy and was overseeing a massive i...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Officials from Oklahoma and more than a dozen other states have sent two letters to California's insurance commissioner, asking that he stop pressing insurance companies to publicly disclose fossil fuel investments and divest f...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's largest recorded earthquake affected geological structures both above and below ground last year, but experts caution there still is much that scientists don't know the 5.8-magnitude temblor that struck near Pawnee. T...

NEW YORK (AP) — Energy stocks dove again on Wednesday as oil dropped to its lowest price since last summer, extending their dismal start to the year. Gains for health care and technology stocks helped hem in losses for broader market indexes. The S...