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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Of all the subjects taught in America's public schools, few have become as contentious as U.S. history. At least 37 states have adopted new measures that limit how America's undeniable history of racism – from chattel slavery to Jim Crow – can be discussed in public school classrooms. Educators in certain states face laws that restrict classroom discussions about racism. Florida's Stop Woke Act for example, lim...
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) — Bernhard Langer won the U.S. Senior Open on Sunday at SentryWorld to break the PGA Tour Champions' career victory record. Pushing his record as the oldest winner on the 50-and-over tour to 65 years, 10 months, 5 days, the German star broke a tie with Hale Irwin for the victory mark with No. 46. Seven strokes ahead on the back nine, Langer bogeyed the final three holes for 1-under 70 and a two-stroke victory over home-state favorite Steve Stricker on the tree-lined course with thick rough. Langer finished at 7-under 2...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Two additional gunshot victims have emerged from a weekend shooting at a Kansas nightclub, bringing the total number of injured people to 11, Wichita police said Monday. Meanwhile, a St. Louis-area man was arrested in connection with the shooting, and police are working to "identify all individuals involved in the shooting and hold them accountable," according to a news release. Several shooters opened fire just before 1 a.m. Sunday inside the City Nightz club in downtown Wichita, according to police. Seven people were i...
JENIN, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian man drove his car into a crowded bus stop in Tel Aviv on Tuesday and then began stabbing people, wounding eight in an attack praised by the Islamist militant group Hamas as a response to Israel's ongoing military operation in the occupied West Bank. Police chief Kobi Shabtai told reporters at the scene that an armed civilian shot and killed the assailant. The attack came as Israeli troops pressed ahead with their hunt for Palestinian militants and weapons in a refugee camp, after military bulldozers tore t...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A heavily armed gunman in a bulletproof vest opened fire on the streets of Philadelphia on Monday night, seemingly at a random, killing five people and wounding two boys before surrendering, police said. The shootings took place over several city blocks in the southwestern neighborhood of Kingsessing. Responding officers chased the suspect as he continued to fire, and he was arrested in an alley after giving himself up, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said at a news conference. "Thank God our officers were on the scene a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The reprieve is over. Just as the American economy is struggling with high inflation and interest rates, the coming resumption of student loan payments poses yet another potential challenge. The suspension of federal student loan payments, which took effect at the height of the pandemic in 2020, expires late this summer. Interest will start accruing again in September. Payments will resume in October. Though many hoped their loans might at least be lightened, the Supreme Court last week struck down a Biden administration p...
LONDON (AP) — Meta is poised to unveil a new app that appears to mimic Twitter — a direct challenge to the social media platform owned by Elon Musk. A listing for the app, called Threads, appeared on Apple's App Store, indicating it would debut as early as Thursday. It is billed as a "text-based conversation app" that is linked to Instagram, with the listing teasing a Twitter-like microblogging experience. "Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what'll be trending tom...
Monday, June 26, 2023 During this day were three traffic stops. 8:37 a.m. – Report of possible animal cruelty on County Road 610. Advised the animal has no food or water. Advised she had made this call before. Deputy made contact with the owner's father. 7:26 p.m. – Report of a two-vehicle accident on Grand and Oklahoma with possible injuries. Wrecker was called and en route. Medic took the patient to Bass Hospital in Enid. 8:07 p.m. – Medic needed at the jail for a male who hurt his knee and is now having trouble walking. Medic took the patie...
Real Estate Transfers Book 890 page 663: John C. Riggenbach conveys unto Ralph L. Herren and Mary E. Herren. The north half of the southeast quarter and the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section18, Township 26N, Range 11, WIM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Joint tenancy warranty deed. Book 890 page 680: Robert L. Hixson Jr. and Amanda Hixson convey unto Scott Thompson and Stacie Thompson. The northeast quarter of Section 29, Township 29 north, Range 9, WIM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Warranty deed. Book 890 page 714: Janice...
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...
According to the affidavits and petitions on file, the following individuals have been charged. An individual is innocent of any charges listed below until proven guilty in a court of law. All information is a matter of public record and may be obtained by anyone during regular hours at the Alfalfa County Courthouse. The Newsgram will not intentionally alter or delete ny of this information. If it appears in the courthouse public records, it will appear in this newspaper. Felony Filings Cody Grant Williams, Holdenville, 36, has been charged...
Someone in the office told a story about a relative who accidentally let a driver’s license lapse. Now they have to go through the whole process – written test, vision test and driving test – again. However, finding all the documentation needed might be the most difficult part. That conversation reminded me that it was my birth month (June), and I should check my own driver’s license expiration date. Sure enough, it expired in a couple of weeks. For several years, Oklahoma has managed to dela...
An inmate has been charged with stabbing another inmate nine or ten times in September 2022 at James Crabtree Correctional Center (JCCC) in Helena. Cody Grant Williams, 36, is charged in Alfalfa County with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, a felony. This crime is punishable by imprisonment for up to 10 years in the penitentiary or one year in the county jail. According to the arrest warrant which was filed on June 30, Darin Durant told investigators he ended his work shift at 11 a.m....
On June 26, the Senate convened to consider overriding the governor’s veto of a bill related to extending tribal compacts for another year. This override failed by one vote. However, a concurrent resolution was passed on Monday to extend the special session until July 31, which will allow us to have more time to reconsider overriding the vetoes. The House already overrode one veto, which the Senate has not yet taken up. I anticipate we’ll return at some point in July to consider these mea...
The Woods County Commissioners met Monday morning, July 3, with Commissioners John Smiley and Randy McMurphy present. Commissioner David Hamil was absent. After approving the minutes from June 26, the commissioners voted to approve the following monthly reports: Election Board Balance $6,198.36, Health Department Balance $0.00, Assessor Collections $393.00 and County Clerk Collections $7,584.75. A list of yearly contract renewals for the fiscal year beginning July 1 was approved in a...
Graveside services for Pauline Beckwith-Stands were held at 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 S...
Some Burlington alums have fond memories of Bonnie Somerhalder as their beloved kindergarten teacher. Others think of her as their helpful librarian. Everyone knew she had a passion for reading. "It was a great 30 years," Somerhalder said of her time at Burlington Public School. She began teaching when she and Jake's oldest child, Georgia, was five. Then the school wanted to start half-day kindergarten and she taught those little ones when their son Greg was about eight months old – so around 1...
Charges have been filed in a sexual battery case from March involving inmates at James Crabtree Correctional Center (JCCC) in Helena. Raymond Alexander Ray, 42, has been charged with sexual battery against another inmate who was also 42 years old at the time. The felony charge is punishable by imprisonment for up to ten years. According to court documents filed in the case, the victim states Ray gave him illegal drugs and contraband items and told him he didn’t have to pay for them. Later he d...
Burlington's Board of Education had a marathon three hour meeting where they took action on a multitude of items. All board members attended including President Robert Hill, Lindsey Callison, Terry Graham, April Kisling and T.J. Rockenbach. Also attending the May meeting were Superintendent Brent Rousey, JH/HS Principal Gerrett Spears, Elementary Principal Stan Pedersen, and acting Minutes Clerk Brook Keast were also present. Guests were: Mrs. Donita Waggoner and Brook Keast, acting Minutes Clerk. The resignation of Dallas Hunt, the head boys...
This week at the Alfalfa County commissioners meeting, Nate Ross, Mike Roach, and Garret Johnson took care of the beginning-of-the-month paperwork, including lapsed appropriations for FY 21-22 to FY 23-24 and also FY 22-23 to FY 23-24, as well as those current. They also signed monthly officer reports, highway expenditures, and the allocation of the alcohol beverage tax. After that, they signed the ACCO-SIG (FY 23-24) option and resolution to execute the agreement establishing the ACCO-SIG, foll...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 4-year-old Kansas girl has been hospitalized after she was shot in the arm while watching fireworks, and police suspect the bullet may have been fired into the air in celebration of the Fourth of July. Wichita police said the shooting happened Tuesday night. The child was in serious condition, but her injuries are not life-threatening, police said Wednesday. The girl was watching fireworks and playing with neighbors when she was struck. Police said the injury "appears to be from a stray bullet strike," and urged people n...
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — New York had its hot dog eating contest to celebrate Independence Day. But the Florida Keys had a sweeter alternative on Tuesday. The Key Lime Pie Eating Championship in Key West, where Key lime pie originated, was won by Joshua Mogle, a 38-year-old Altoona, Iowa, tire manufacturing manager. Mogle plunged face-first into a 9-inch pie smothered with whipped cream during the challenge, whose rules forbid contestants to use their hands. The gooey competition has become a subtropical substitute to Nathan's Famous Fourth of J...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nine people outside enjoying the Independence Day festivities in the nation's capital were shot and wounded early Wednesday, police said, as a spate of violence marred the holiday. Officers responding around 1 a.m. to the mass shooting in a neighborhood about a 20-minute drive east of the White House found a 10-year-old and a 17-year-old among the victims, police said. The victims, who were not publicly identified, were hospitalized with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening, The gunshots were fired from a dark S...
