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Alfalfa County's commissioners, Mike Roach, Jay Hague and Marvin Woodall, spent Monday morning awarding six-month bids at their meeting. Unfortunately, accepting and awarding bids looks a little different now than in years past; supply chain issues and rising materials costs make locking in a price almost impossible. The commissioners awarded what they could but agreed most of the bidding would have to be done over the phone in real-time. After the usual paperwork of M&O payment warrants, blanket purchase orders and the six-month bids, the...
An Oklahoma City man is charged with four felony counts after he allegedly attempted to get contraband into James Crabtree Correctional Center (JCCC) in Helena. Daniel J. Goble, 44, of Oklahoma City, is charged with (1) conspiracy, (2) bringing contraband drugs into penal institution, (3) trafficking in illegal drugs and (4) unauthorized entry into prison, all felonies. The trafficking charge carries the highest penalty of imprisonment for 20 years, or a fine of $50,000 to $500,000, or both...
The Freedom Board of Education met Monday, June 16, with Robert Babcock, Kyle Rhodes and Richard Kirkpatrick present. Also present were Superintendent Freida Burgess, Principal Michelle Shelite, and Minutes Clerk Patricia Dauphin. Shane Morris and Russell Reed were absent. The slightly unusual meeting began with a 50-minute executive session to discuss personnel issues. Upon returning to open session, Kirkpatrick stated that the agenda had been discussed and no votes taken. It is, they reportedly said at another time, the longest agenda of the...
The Kiowa Recreation Commission's Chieftain baseball teams are looking good in new uniforms. That's thanks to Jeff Bryan Chevrolet, which donated $1,000 for the new jerseys. Bryan also donated equipment, including backstops, tees for T-ball, baseball bags, etc. Kiowa's Rec Baseball Commissioner Jason Duncan expressed his appreciation to Bryan for the gift. The jerseys were made by Jenna Mostert of Bar M Cotton Co. in Kiowa. Duncan said, "This helped a lot because we had old jerseys at least...
A woman from Buffalo was injured in a two-vehicle wreck Monday night. Lacy Harmon, 52, of Buffalo, was flown from the scene in stable condition with head, trunk, internal and arm injuries to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol report, the collision occurred at 10:11 p.m. at US0-64 and OK-46, approximately six miles west of Buffalo in Harper County. Harmon was driving a 2018 Nissan Rogue eastbound on US-64 behind a 2003 GMC Denali with a 2015 Trail Runner...
Burlington Public School Superintendent Kevin Brown submitted his resignation to the board at a special June meeting of the Burlington Board of Education. Board President Robert Hill called the meeting to order with all members present, including Lindsey Callison, Terry Graham, April Kisling and T.J. Rockenbach. Also attending were Superintendent Brown, JH/HS Principal Gerrett Spears, Elementary Principal Stan Pedersen and Minutes Clerk Tracy Granados. At 8:04 p.m. the board entered executive session to discuss the resignation of Superintendent...
The Oklahoma Primary Election is less than a week away. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 28. Voters are encouraged to take advantage of early voting starting this Thursday, June 23. Registered voters can vote Thursday and Friday, June 23-24, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, June 25, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Early voting is at the county election board offices. Registered Democrats in Alfalfa County and Woods County will have ballots for only two offices while Republicans...
When it was time to call the Kiowa City Council regular meeting to order June 13, they did not have a quorum to hold an actual meeting. Councilmember Janet Robison had planned to be out-of-town and Councilmember Brian Hill was in the harvest field. All other councilmembers were present, including B.J. Duvall, Jason Thayer, Tom Wells and Mayor Bill Watson. Also seated at council table was City Administrator Sam Demel, City Attorney Brandon Ritcha and City Clerk Sheila Smith. City Utility Clerk Lynette Callison also attended. Although the...
PONCA CITY, Okla. (AP) — Police in Ponca City have fatally shot a man who robbed a liquor store., according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Police were called Monday night after the man left the store located in a strip mall on foot with the alcohol, the OSBI said. Officers later spotted the man carrying a gun and walking in a city street where he then forced a woman from her vehicle and stole the vehicle, driving it back to the strip mall where the liquor store is located, the OSBI said. The man then drove into a field behind t...
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — An Olathe man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for a 2018 hit-and-run crash that killed two people. Bradley Woodworth, 48, was sentenced Tuesday to 19½ year in prison after pleading guilty in February to two counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of 18-year-old Matthew Bloskey, of Overland Park, and 20-year-old Samuel Siebuhr, of Kansas City, Kansas, television station WDAF reported. Investigators said the Oct. 6 crash in Overland Park began as a road rage confrontation between Woodworth and Si...
Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder conducted a "shadow investigation" that sought to discredit former employees making accusations of workplace sexual harassment, hired private investigators to intimidate witnesses, and used an overseas lawsuit as a pretext to obtain phone records and emails, according to a document released by a House committee on Wednesday. The Committee on Oversight and Reform is investigating the Commanders' workplace culture following accusations of pervasive sexual harassment by team executives of women employees. It...
GAYAN, Afghanistan (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes and killing at least 1,000 people. The disaster posed a new test for Afghanistan's Taliban rulers and relief agencies already struggling with the country's multiple humanitarian crises. The quake was Afghanistan's deadliest in two decades, and officials said the toll could rise. An estimated 1,500 others were reported injured, the state-run news agency said. The disaster inflicted by th...
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — More than five decades after Diane Cusick's lifeless body was discovered in the parking lot of a mall on New York's Long Island, authorities have linked her death to the so-called "Torso Killer," a serial killer already convicted in 11 other killings. The suspect, Richard Cottingham — believed to be one of America's most prolific serial killers — was arraigned Wednesday on a second-degree murder charge in connection with Cusick's 1968 killing. From a hospital bed in New Jersey, where he's already serving a life sente...
