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Alva, Oklahoma - Northwestern Oklahoma State Women's Golf has finalized their 2023 fall schedule. This will include a total of five tournaments over the course of the Fall semester starting in September and running through the end of October. The first invitational for the women's team will be at Silo Ridge Golf & Country Club for the Drury Invitational hosted by Drury University. This opening tournament for the Rangers is scheduled for September 18th through the 19th. “We are extremely excited to build off the success we had last year f...
PORTER, Maine (AP) — A Maine woman was bitten by a bear in her backyard while defending her pet dog, necessitating a trip to the hospital for stitches, officials said Friday. Lynn Kelly, 64, was tending her garden in Porter when her dog took off into the woods barking at something on Friday. In short order, the dog was racing back to the yard with a black bear in hot pursuit, said Mark Latti, spokesperson for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Kelly stood and made herself appear large, which is recommended in a black bear e...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of air travelers are facing potential flight cancellations and delays this weekend, the peak of summer travel, as thunderstorms threaten the East Coast, West Coast and points in between. Nearly 270 U.S. flights were canceled early Friday, according to flight tracking service FlightAware, and more than 1,100 U.S. flights were delayed. It's been a terrible week for United Airlines and it is leading all major domestic carriers again Friday both canceled and delayed flights. Staying calm — and knowing you...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Scorching heat across the U.S. already has caused more than a dozen deaths in Texas alone and led to mounting misery for millions of people from the Pacific Northwest to the South. And the official end of summer is still months away. Here's a guide on how to keep cool and stay safe in the punishing temperatures as the latest heat wave ravaging the country spreads east. WHY IS EXTREME HEAT DANGEROUS? Heat kills more Americans than any other weather event, including tornadoes and flooding, even though most heat-related deaths are...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state's abortion ban doesn't violate the state constitution, removing a major hurdle to enforcing the ban Republicans approved last summer ahead of a wave of restrictions by conservative states in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The court's decision, which does not put the ban immediately into effect, invalidates a county judge's ruling that the ban likely violated the state constitution's privacy protections, which she said are stronger than those found in the U...
Alva, Oklahoma - Northwestern Oklahoma State Men's Golf has finalized their 2023 Fall schedule. This will include a total of five invitational over the course of the Fall semester starting in September and running through the end of October. The first invitational for the men's team will be at Muskogee Country Club hosted by Northeastern State on September 18th-19th. After the opening tournament the team will travel to the Missouri Southern State University for the Fall Invitational at Shangri-La Country Club. “We are extremely excited to b...
For decades, major league baseball (MLB) used numerous minor leagues to develop athletes into major league players. To some extent, it still does. But college baseball has become much more popular today than it was when I was a boy collecting baseball cards. I think cable and satellite television have had lots to do with this phenomenon. With numerous sports channels available to the average American, college baseball has been one of the sports to benefit from the expanded air time modern-era...
I have tried to write this article all month long. I’d have it almost finished and Jesus would tell me to hit the delete key. Then I’d pray on it and start writing again. I’d rewrite my article and it just wouldn’t sound like I wanted it to, so I’d delete it again. I’d pray on it some more and then start back after it. Then, you guessed it, I would have to delete it because it just didn’t sound like I thought it should. Finally I think I have it worded like I want it. These words are nothing personal and I hope you read it all the way throu...
“You are so beautiful to me” – Joe Cocker, 1974. There are many phrases describing beauty, most referring to its benefits. In an article by Emily Bobrow in the Wall Street Journal, she says, “If people win the genetic lottery, they get many societal advantages.” In other words, “Good looks pay off.” Studies have shown that, “The Bold and the Beautiful,” get more attention from parents, better grades in school, more money at work, and more satisfaction from life. Margaret Wolfe Hungerford coined...
ALLEN, Texas (AP) — Police released video footage on Wednesday of an officer killing a neo-Nazi gunman, quickly ending a mass shooting that left eight people dead and seven others wounded at a Dallas-area shopping mall. The edited five-and-a-half-minute video details the final moments of Mauricio Garcia, 33, after he unleashed a rain of bullets from an AR-15-style rifle at the Allen Premium Outlets on May 6. Those killed included three members of a Korean American family including a 3-year-old child, two young sisters, a security guard and a...
Sen. Roland Pederson, R-Burlington, welcomed a group of Taiwanese business executives as they arrived at the state Capitol Tuesday. Pederson was joined by other state officials and guests at a reception to greet the group and welcome them to Oklahoma. “Taiwan has been a long-standing partner of our state and I always enjoy getting to interact with their businesspeople, government officials and other visitors,” Pederson said. “I was greeted by incredibly kind people when I visited Taiwan a few years ago, so I was happy to return the favor upon...
I hope you’re not like me in that I lack energy throughout the year. In wintertime, I don’t want to work outside where it’s freezing cold, and in the summertime, I don’t want to work outside because it is way too hot, lol! That leaves the two weeks of fall and two weeks of spring that I feel good about getting outside to work. By not working most of the time, I get to feeling like I have no energy to do anything. This for sure, is not a healthy lifestyle, and I definitely needed to do something about it. First, I realized that outside wasn’t...
It is hard to believe that we are on the precipice of celebrating another year of America’s birthday, a day in which Americans everywhere ignite the bane of dog’s existence to celebrate their freedoms. However, for many, they are living their lives in freedom by the world’s standard, but ensnared in sin compared against God’s standard. With this thought in mind, it brings to question: what exactly is freedom? Merriam Webster has a definition of freedom that is worth consideration – the liberation from slavery or the power of another. In John 8...
Alva Church of God is located at 517 9th St., in Alva. Sheryl White is our pastor. Sunday: Normal hours are Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. with morning worship at 10:30 a.m. Sunday evening youth meet at 5 p.m. This is for youth sixth grade through 12th grade. Young adults meet at 6 p.m. Sunday evening they will be showing "The Chosen" at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited and there will be refreshments. Alva Friends Church Please meet us for coffee and donut fellowship at 10:15 a.m. every Sunday morning. Worship is at 10:30 a.m. If you cannot make it...
When members of the Oklahoma Senate convened this week to vote on overriding Gov. Kevin Stitt’s veto of a state-tribal compact drafted by the Legislature on tobacco taxes, lawmakers were effectively told they had only two choices. They could vote to override Stitt’s veto and pay tens of millions of tax dollars to a relatively small group of tribal government officials, even though there is little justification to pay most of that money and little meaningful service rendered by the tribe in exchange. Or they could sustain Stitt’s veto, let c...
Graveside services for Pauline Beckwith-Stands will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 1, 2023 at Memorial Hill Cemetery north of Waynoka with Scott Kysar officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Waynoka. Pauline Adelle Fischer Beckwith-Stands was born on September 5, 1927 in Alva, Oklahoma. She passed away at Share Convalescent Home in Alva, Oklahoma, on Tuesday, June 28, 2023, at the remarkable age of 95 years. Pauline was a 1945 graduate of Waynoka High School....
NFL chief compliance officer Sabrina Perel has been busy this spring. As the leader of the NFL's efforts to educate the approximately 17,000 players, coaches, team personnel and others about the league's gambling policies, she's in the middle of an annual pilgrimage of sorts. With training camps opening in less than a month, she's already visited with more than a dozen NFL teams, and leaves them with the same parting message: "You need to follow the policy at all times. … because this truly does impact the entire team." The reason the NFL h...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A sheriff in southeast Oklahoma who was among several county officials caught on tape discussing killing journalists and lynching Black people won't face criminal charges or be removed from office, the state's top prosecutor said Friday. In a letter to Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, Attorney General Gentner Drummond said his office and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation had completed their investigation and found no legal grounds to dismiss McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy. "There are countless examples of i...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tulsa lacks the jurisdiction to prosecute a Native American man cited by police for speeding because the city is located within the boundaries of an Indian reservation, a federal appeals court ruled. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision on Wednesday, rejecting the city's argument that the Curtis Act, an 1898 federal law passed before Oklahoma became a state, gave the city jurisdiction over municipal violations committed by Native Americans. The court's ruling was based on the U.S. Supreme Court's l...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita man charged in the death of his 8-year-old daughter has a history of domestic violence-related cases and one child abuse conviction in Oklahoma, according to court records. He also was investigated — but not charged — in a child's death in Minneapolis. Thomas Ross Gatewood, 51, has been charged with 11 counts, including first-degree murder, in the May 8 death of his daughter, Jeanetta Y. Gatewood. Court records show some of the counts involve a 9-year-old victim, The Wichita Eagle reported. Gatewood and his wife...
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — High up in the mountains, amid pinyon pine and quaking aspen trees, the remaining remnants of the winter's snow is dotted with hues of pinks, purples and oranges. Hikers, campers and church youth groups journeying by grasp it in their palms and liken it to flavored snow cones, Flamin' Hot Cheetos, pink lemonade, dissolved blood or if passersby conducted an art project using red food coloring. "It's almost like it's been sprinkled with Himalayan salt or even Kool-Aid powder," Jana Brough, a mother hiking with friends and f...
CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — A man accused of killing five neighbors in Texas after some of them complained that gunfire was keeping a baby awake was indicted Friday on a capital murder charge that could carry the death penalty. Prosecutors said they do not yet know whether they will seek the death penalty against Francisco Oropeza, 38, who is a Mexican national and had been deported multiple times in the years prior to the April attack outside Houston. "I think it's a little too early for us to make that call," San Jacinto County District A...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police searched Sunday for a person of interest in a mass shooting during a block party in San Francisco Friday night in what investigators said appeared to be a "targeted and isolated" incident. The person of interest is a man believed to be a member of a street gang who detectives have tied to a Mercedes sedan recorded on surveillance video speeding from the scene of the shooting, police said. The man has outstanding firearm warrants from San Mateo and Alameda counties, as well as an outstanding arrest w...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled the Biden administration overstepped its authority in trying to cancel or reduce student loan debt, effectively killing the $400 billion plan, which would have canceled up to $20,000 in federal student loans for 43 million people. Of those, 20 million would have had their remaining student debt erased completely. The court's decision means, barring an act of Congress, those Americans are on the hook for payments starting in October. Still, borrowers who are worried about their budgets do have o...
Colleges across the country will be forced to stop considering race in admissions under Thursday's Supreme Court ruling, ending affirmative action policies that date back decades. Schools that have relied on race-conscious admissions policies to build diversity will have to rethink how they admit students. It's expected to result in campuses that have more white and Asian American students and fewer Black and Hispanic students. The impact of the decision will be felt most strongly at the nation's most selective colleges, which have been more...
