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Happy Birthday To June 29: Jim Russell, McKenna Nixon June 30: Ashtyn Pierce, Bradley Irving July 1: Maurice Farr, Cindy Wilson July 2: Chelsea Ferguson, Janell Reutlinger July 3: Shawn Walker, B.G. Laughton July 4: Randy Schroeder, Marty Province, Debra James July 5: Dale Sample, Keith Melkus, Barclay Holt July 6: Bo Gassett July 7: Sherry Beagley, Rex Beagley, Drake Brady July 8: Allison Ledford, Bretta Woodard, Mariah Luddington July 9: Skylar Smith, Kamas Rooney July 10: Ronda Perry July 11: Destanee Bolar July 12: Priscilla Dees July 13:...
June 25 was the third Sunday after Pentecost. The order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Bringing in the Light of Christ Announcements Happy Birthday sung to Ronna Wilson Call to Worship led by Shirley Wagner Opening Hymn “There is a Balm in Gilead” with song leader Debra Brown Opening Prayer led by Johnnie Sue Olson Special Presentation – Debra Brown singing “The Old Rugged Cross” Scripture Matthew 10-24-39 Sermon “No Peace?” by Pastor Paul McDowell Pastor Paul anointed individual members of...
Northwestern Oklahoma State University will be closed Monday, July 3, and Tuesday, July 4, to celebrate the Independence Day holiday. All offices will be closed, and no classes will be in session during this time. Normal summer business hours will resume on Wednesday, July 5. Summer hours of 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. will officially end on Thursday, July 27. Normal Monday–Friday business hours will start Monday, Aug 1, at all campus locations. Freshman Funday, a fun event for incoming freshmen to take care of paperwork prior to the start of s...
Starting July 3 until the end of August the Alva Public Library is changing their closing time on Monday. The library will close at 8 p.m. instead of 9 p.m....
The Woods County commissioners, looking at a new fiscal year, approved six-month bids that will provide them supplies until the end of December. They also took advice from the election board and approved the bid for ballots from Royal Printing. Only two bids were received and the price was within three-quarters of a cent per ballot. The election board secretary leaned toward Royal because of good experience previously. Two right-of-way motions were passed for work on the Lake Creek project. One was for a temporary right-of-way at $500, and the...
Freedom School Superintendent James Miller's 3-year-old son Joseph is in OU Children's Hospital with a staph (MSSA) infection. This version is treatable with antibiotics (vs MRSA). Three surgeries have been performed to open his hip to clean, irrigate and debride it to take the infection out. He seems to be on top of it now and could possibly come home today....
The Freedom Chamber of Commerce has set the July 4th Independece Day celebration for Saturday, July 1. Hosted by the Chamber and sponsored by Cargill Salt, the event begins at 6 p.m. in the Rhodes Arena (the rodeo grounds). The meal will be hamburgers and hot dogs and community members are asked to bring a side dish or dessert. Beginning at 7 p.m., there will be kid's games like turtle races, egg toss and much more. A fireworks display will begin at dark....
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Around the country, state lawmakers have been talking about – and legislating – ways intended to protect free speech on college campuses. The Wisconsin State Assembly, for example, recently passed a campus speech bill that would require public colleges and universities to punish students who disrupt campus speakers. The legislation is now heading to the State Senate for consideration. As a higher education law...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) For school-aged youth, access to a gun can increase their risk for becoming a victim of or for committing a violent crime, including suicide and homicide. It also increases a child’s risk of experiencing an unintentional injury or death. Youth may gain access to guns in school, friends’ homes or other settings. No matter the source, gun access can increase the chances of an adolescent being involved in an inj...
KENILWORTH, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey Catholic school won't allow two sisters to return next year after previously being ordered to rescind their expulsion amid the 12-year-old's legal battle to play on a boys basketball team. NJ.com reports (http://bit.ly/2shATjf ) that St. Theresa's School in Kenilworth rejected applications for next school year from Sydney Phillips, now 13, and her younger sister, Kaitlyn. The girls were expelled earlier this year after the family sued. An appellate judge ordered that they be allowed to return until a c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Adults think that black girls are less innocent, less in need of protection and nurturing, and seem older than similarly aged white girls, which could lead to stiffer punishments in school, a new report said Tuesday. The report also said American adults think black girls know more about adult topics and about sex than white girls of the same age. And those perceptions are greater when it comes to younger black girls ages 5-9 and 10-14. The discrepancy continues to a lesser degree with girls ages 15-19. "This new evidence of w...
Banks and other financial companies led U.S. stocks higher in late-afternoon trading Wednesday as the market bounced back from losses a day earlier. Technology stocks were among the big gainers. Energy companies also were trading higher as the price of crude oil rose. Utilities and real estate companies lagged the broader market rally. KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 22 points, or 0.9 percent, to 2,441 as of 3:24 p.m. Eastern time. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 149 points, or 0.7 percent, to 21,459. The Nasdaq comp...
DENVER (AP) — An energy company accused of air pollution violations in Colorado says it's trying to comply with government regulations and is disappointed that state and federal agencies went to court seeking fines. Denver-based PDC Energy said Wednesday it believes the allegations can be settled without a long court battle. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment filed a complaint in federal court Monday seeking fines of up to $110,000 a day from PDC. The complaint didn't specify t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House panel on Wednesday approved a bill to revive the mothballed nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, while also moving forward with a separate plan for a temporary storage site in New Mexico or Texas. Supporters said the bill represents a comprehensive package to solve a nuclear-waste management problem that has festered for more than three decades. The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved the bill, 49-4, sending it to the full House. Republican Reps. Greg Walden of Oregon, Fred Upton of Michigan and J...
PARIS (AP) — The Latest on a widespread cyberattack that is affecting companies and government systems (all times local): 7:25 p.m. Logistics firm FedEx says deliveries by its TNT Express subsidiary have been slowed by the global cyberattack, another sign of how major companies are struggling to deal with the fallout from an especially virulent outbreak of data-scrambling software. In an announcement Wednesday, the company based in Memphis, Tennessee, said it had been "significantly affected" by the malicious program, which emerged in U...
SANDISFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A 98-year-old activist has been arrested on a trespassing charge during a protest at a natural gas pipeline project in Massachusetts. State police say Frances Crowe and seven other demonstrators were arrested last weekend at Otis State Forest in Sandisfield. They were protesting an easement that allows the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. to widen its right of way through the forest. A nonprofit involved in the pipeline protests says Crowe put herself and her wheelchair in a contested area of the forest on Saturday. P...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The owners of the Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant have formally notified regulators and a regional power grid operator of their previously announced intentions to close the plant. LNP newspaper reports (http://bit.ly/2slLkgM ) Exelon Corp. sent a letter June 20 to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission saying the plant would be shut down around Sept. 30, 2019 due to "severe economic challenges." Exelon criticized electrical grid operator PJM Interconnection in a May 30 letter to the company saying PJM has not a...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The State Land Office has collected more than $654,000 from its most recent monthly oil and gas lease sale, bringing the total for the fiscal year to more than $65 million. Agency officials say that is almost double last year's total of $36 million. This month, 20 tracts covering almost 9 square miles (23 square kilometers) were initially offered but most ended up being withdrawn. Roswell-based Manzano LLC and Artesia-based Abo Empire LLC were the winning bidders of the two remaining tracts in Lea County. Land C...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's Agriculture Department is increasing the number of Japanese beetle traps around the state by 50 percent to try to stem the spread of the destructive bug. Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring said Wednesday that 1,000 traps were already in place, and the agency is adding about 500 more in areas at high risk of infestation, including nurseries, parks and golf courses. The move comes after Japanese beetle larvae and pupae were found in containers of plants shipped from a Minnesota nursery to nurseries a...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — ABC and a South Dakota meat producer announced a settlement Wednesday in a $1.9 billion lawsuit against the network over its reports on a beef product that critics dubbed "pink slime." The terms of the settlement including its amount are confidential. Dakota Dunes-based Beef Products Inc. sued ABC in 2012, saying ABC's coverage misled consumers into believing the product is unsafe, is not beef and isn't nutritious. ABC spokeswoman Julie Townsend said in a statement Wednesday that throughout the case the network has m...
Jeanne Nolan grew up in an affluent suburb of Chicago. When it came time to apply for colleges, she shocked her family by opting to skip college and become an organic farmer. Then she brought her farming skills back to the suburbs and city, installing and tending vegetable gardens at clients' homes. The Organic Gardener Ltd., the farmer-for-hire service she and her husband, Verd, started in the Chicago area in 2005, is one of many such services that have cropped up across the country. Some of these farmers have farming backgrounds, while others...
WERNERSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — The pastor of a fundamentalist congregation that eschews modern medicine will stand trial on a charge he should have alerted authorities when his 2-year-old granddaughter was dying of pneumonia last year, a judge ruled Wednesday. District Judge Ann Young said prosecutors put on enough evidence to send the case against Rowland Foster to the Berks County Courthouse for trial, reversing another judge's decision in April to throw out the charge of failure to properly report suspected child abuse. Young called the death of E...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence says President Donald Trump's administration will repeal former President Barack Obama's health care reforms by the end of the summer. Pence's speech in a Cleveland manufacturing facility Wednesday came as a Republican health care Senate bill faced GOP criticism and uncertainty over whether it has enough votes to pass. Republican Ohio U.S. Sen. Rob Portman declared his opposition to the bill on Tuesday. Pence pointedly declined to criticize Portman for his stance. He says they're talking with R...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the President Donald Trump's role in the health care debate. All times local): 7:30 p.m. Some Republicans are worried that President Donald Trump's difficulty staying on message might do more harm than good in selling their health care bill. The GOP is weighing how to deploy Trump in the high-stakes debate. Trump has a unique ability to command and control attention. But some Republicans privately bemoan his thin grasp of the bill's principles. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed a vote this week a...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama will have to make significant and costly changes in the treatment of mentally ill prisoners now that a federal judge has found their care to be unconstitutionally cruel, a state lawmaker said Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson in the Tuesday ruling ordered the state to improve conditions, something that lawyers and lawmakers said will cost the state. "We are going to have to increase capacity and we are going to have to provide more mental health services to comply with his order," said state Sen. C...
