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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...

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 i...

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. f...

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....

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 c...

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...

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...

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 f...

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...

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 wee...

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 liv...

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 g...

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 t...

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...

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 s...

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 C...

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 cha...

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 t...

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 d...

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 i...

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 l...

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...