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Alva Church of God 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 g...

My son took me a long time ago to see “The Matrix.” He believed that the executive producer of this movie had to be a Christian. The movie reminded me how life can control us each day. We get so caught up in the day-to-day issues that we become lik...

I have known many people that have gone through many trials in this life with nobody there to lean on for help. When something powerfully affects us in a bad way, it literally drains the very life out of us. Our hearts sink so low that we can’t even...

Sherry Jean Doty passed away on Friday, June 30, 2023, at her home in Red Bud, Illinois. She was 74. She was born on November 8, 1948, in Hardtner, Kansas, to the late Charles and Norma Chance. She graduated from Alva High School in 1966. While...

Dad would say a lot that there wasn’t anything this country couldn’t grow, if we just got the moisture to grow it. Apparently, this year we are growing grass and weed seeds. This ole country looks so different than it did three months ago. Then, it w...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — County election security policies in Kansas don't appear to be strong or detailed enough, and the state doesn't appear to be giving counties enough guidance on how best to oversee voting, according to an audit released T...

BLANCHARD, Okla. (AP) — A search is underway in the rural Oklahoma community of Blanchard for a missing pet wallaby. The animal, which is similar to a kangaroo, but smaller, escaped its backyard enclosure on Wednesday and is believed to be in some t...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican attorney general of Kansas sued in state court Friday to block transgender residents from changing their sex on their driver's licenses and to rebuke the Democratic governor for defying his interpretation of a new l...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A white gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack on Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in a Texas border city was sentenced Friday to 90 consecutive life sentences but could still face more punishment, including the death p... Full story

BALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities have arrested and charged a teen who detectives believe was involved in a mass shooting at a Baltimore block party over the holiday weekend that left two people dead and 28 others wounded, officials announced Friday. M...

NEW YORK (AP) — Threads, a text-based app built by Meta to rival Twitter, is live. The app, billed as the text version of Meta's photo-sharing platform Instagram, became available Wednesday night to users in more than 100 countries — including the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has decided to send cluster munitions to Ukraine to help its military push back Russian forces entrenched along the front lines. The Biden administration is expected to announce on Friday that it will send t...

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