The yearslong effort by state and local governments in the U.S. to force the pharmaceutical industry to help pay to fix a nationwide opioid addiction and overdose crisis took a major step forward Tuesday when lawyers for local governments announced t...

July 12, 2021 Kiowa Police Department (KWPD) responded to a suspicious activity call on 7th Street. KWPD/Barber County Sheriff’s office (BASO) responded to a reckless driving complaint near the Methodist Church. Medicine Lodge Police Department (...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The bipartisan infrastructure deal senators brokered with President Joe Biden is hanging precariously ahead of a crucial Wednesday test vote as senators struggle over how to pay for nearly $1 trillion in public works spending. T...

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AP) — This is the place where widows wailed, where mothers buckled to the tarmac in grief and where children lifted their teddy bears to see daddy carried off in a flag-covered box. This is where presidents stood and g...

VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — Jeff Bezos blasted into space Tuesday on his rocket company's first flight with people on board, becoming the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own spacecraft. The Amazon founder was accompanied by a h...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Prompted by Britney Spears' conservatorship fight, a bipartisan legislative effort has emerged to reform the process created to protect the rights of more than 1 million people across the United States under the protective a...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The threat of thunderstorms and lightning has prompted officials in fire-ravaged Oregon to ask for help from outside the Pacific Northwest to prepare for additional blazes as many resources are already devoted to a massive f...

BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday rejected an accusation by Washington and its Western allies that Beijing is to blame for a hack of the Microsoft Exchange email system and complained Chinese entities are victims of damaging U.S. cyberattacks. A f...

Real Estate Transfers Book 872 page 478: Ryan Clark and Brianna Hop convey unto Ryan Clark and Brianna Hop: lots 6 through 12, block 9, in the Original Town of Burlington, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Joint tenancy warranty deed. Book 872 page 654:...

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...

Most of what the Alfalfa County commissioners did in their meeting Monday was conventional. Marvin Woodall, Jay Hague, and Mike Roach signed maintenance and operation payment warrants, blanket purchase orders, and previous meeting minutes before...

As the Burlington Public School Board of Education met for their July meeting a new superintendent and new high school principal were in place. They are Superintendent Kevin Brown and High School Principal Gerrett Spears. All five board members were...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A coalition of Oklahoma health officials on Tuesday pleaded with Oklahomans to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as the number of cases and hospitalizations rise in the state. Aaron Wendelboe, an epidemiologist at the University o...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Families and advocates for the elderly in Kansas argue that with most nursing home residents vaccinated against COVID-19, some facilities' visiting rules need to be relaxed, though the delta variant's spread is making operators ne...

Students in Wichita, Kansas, public schools can ditch the masks when classes begin. Detroit public schools will probably require them unless everyone in a room is vaccinated. In Pittsburgh, masks will likely be required regardless of vaccination...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Officials have arrested a Wichita man they accuse of kidnapping his girlfriend and her two young children, then shooting the woman's 2-year-old daughter as the woman fled when he threatened her with a knife. It happened Monday mo...

Moderating a Facebook gardening group in western New York is not without challenges. There are complaints of wooly bugs, inclement weather and the novice members who insist on using dish detergent on their plants. And then there's the word "hoe." Fac...

Memorial services for Donald Lee Maxwell will be 1 p.m. Saturday, July 24, 2021, at the Marshall Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Katie Hill officiating. Private family services will be held at a later date. He was cremated at his request under the...

At the July 12 meeting of the Kiowa City Council they had a full agenda. Mayor Bill Watson opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and also gave the prayer. Saying the prayer was usually something that Councilmember R.L. Simpson did, but he had resigned...