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Voters in the Town of Freedom and Freedom School District who want absentee ballots mailed to them for the Sept. 14 Special Municipal Election and Special School Election should apply now, County Election Board Secretary Sandra Koehn said today. Absentee ballots are available to any registered voter, provided they are eligible to vote in the election requested. No excuse is needed to vote by absentee ballot. The deadline for requesting an absentee ballot is 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7. Voters can submit a request using the OK Voter Portal at... Full story
In the weekly update from the Oklahoma State Department of Health, Covid-19 active cases in Alva increased from one to nine. That's also the total for Woods County, as none of the other communities in the county show any active cases. The additional cases are the reason why Woods County is one of 32 orange level counties in this week's risk map. There are 38 counties in the lower risk yellow designation. Nine counties are green, the lowest risk level. Woods County is surrounded by three green co... Full story
Happy Birthday To July 22: Lynette Bartley, Jesse Schroeder, Justin Rankin July 23: Lezlee Reed, Donita Luddington, Daylin Furrow July 24: Travis Darr, McKenzie Graff July 25: Daline Dauphin, Sue Schroeder, Jennifer West, Aly Jea Gerloff July 26: Darrin Rder, Allen Bradt, Kaden Hensley July 27: Bailey Rankin, Lee Christopher, Leah Adams July 28: Shad Brackin, Doneta Hohensee July 29: Courtney Wares, Kylee Harper, Kelsey Harper July 31: Monty Reed, Dallet Maddux, Rob Burnham Aug. 1: Whitney Davey Aug. 2: Ronald Kurz, Kanden Cook Aug. 3: Kyse...
Happy Anniversary To July 22: Mr. & Mrs. Jerrod Reed July 25: Mr. & Mrs. Kent Bilyeu, Mr. & Mrs. Dustin Rankni, Mr. & Mrs. Corby Bradt July 26: Mr. & Mrs. Merle Nickelson July 27: Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Hughes Aug. 3: Mr. & Mrs. Buddy Doter Aug. 7: Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Stansberry, Mr. & Mrs. Trent Bliss Aug. 10: Mr. & Mrs. Donnie Elmore Aug. 11: Mr. & Mrs. Rick Brown (Note: Send corrections, additions to: [email protected] or call 580-327-2200)...
On Sunday, July 18, the order of services at Freedom United Methodist Church was: Announcements: We are on Facebook, live at 11 a.m. Our Facebook page is Freedom United Methodist Church. VBS is scheduled for August 3, 4 and 5, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. – age 4 through sixth grade. Invocation by Pastor Todd Finley The Lord’s Prayer Call to Worship – Psalm 93 led by Shirley Wagner Opening Hymn – “Leaning On the Everlasting Arms” led by Debra Brown Affirmation of Faith Gloria Patri Hymn of Justifying Grace – “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” O...
The regular monthly Freedom Town Board meeting began in a new way: those in attendance rose, faced the flag, put their hands over their hearts, and recited the Pledge of Allegiance. After that, Trustee Kama Luddington led the group in the Lord's Prayer. Present were trustees Luddington and Matt Bixler. Also present were Town Clerk Cindy Reed, local resident Valerie Brown (who own a massage therapy business and is acting president of the Chamber of Commerce), and two other town residents: Pebbles Luddington and Shelly Oliphant. Brown updated...
Freedom's 84th Annual Rodeo Queen's Kick-off was a success. Lily Thomas, a Medford High School student, and Jaci Weber, a Freedom High School student, are competing for queen. Kenadie Meyer, an Alva middle school student, and Havana Pritchard, who is new to Freedom, are running for princess. These ladies will be knocking on doors for the next four weeks selling tickets and promoting the Freedom Rodeo that is slated for Aug. 19, 20 and 21. Gary Earnest is the 2021 Honored Old Cowhand and will be... Full story
HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Big 12 powers Texas and Oklahoma have reached out the Southeastern Conference about potentially joining the league, the Houston Chronicle reported Wednesday, citing a source it did not identify. SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey declined to comment on the report from the newspaper, which cited a "high-ranking official with knowledge of the situation" and said an announcement could come in the next couple of weeks. Adding two members would give the powerhouse SEC 16 teams, the largest in major college football. Asked at his l...
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — A judge is considering whether Kansas' Republican secretary of state ran afoul of the state's open records law by ordering the removal of an election database function that generates a statewide report showing which provisional ballots were not counted — a decision civil rights advocates say will have far-reaching implications for government transparency. Shawnee County District Judge Teresa Watson heard arguments last week in a lawsuit filed by voting rights activist Davis Hammet, who is the president of Loud Lig...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Washington County man has been convicted of first-degree murder in the beating and stabbing deaths of a Topeka woman and her cousin. Richard D. Showalter, 34, of Greenleaf, was found guilty Tuesday for his role in the killings of Lisa Sportsman, 28, and her 17-year-old cousin, Jesse Polinskey, at a Topeka home on July 23, 2018. Showalter's sentencing was set for Oct. 8, WIBW reported. Showalter was one of three men charged in the deaths. Lisa Sportsman was the estranged wife of Bradley D. Sportsman, 43, of Hollenberg, w...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas county health department on Wednesday announced it found a rabid bat. A Shawnee County Health Department official said a dog pulled the bat out of a tree July 12. Test results showing the bat had rabies came back Tuesday, Community Health Outreach and Planning Division Manager Craig Barnes said in an email. Barnes said there's no sign that the rabid bat had contact with humans, but the dog will be monitored for 50 days as a precaution. "Situations like this are an excellent educational opportunity to remind i...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A major Kansas health system is declining to admit patients from other hospitals because it has too few open beds with the faster-spreading delta variant wiping out recent months of progress for the state in containing COVID-19. Dr. Steve Stites, the chief medical officer for the University of Kansas Health System, said Wednesday that the bed space problem at its main hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, is now worse than it was last fall, when the average number of new cases per day was climbing toward pandemic highs. He s...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 28-year-old man died Wednesday in a collision while he was fleeing from police, Wichita police said. Police spokesman Charley Davidson said officers were looking for the man regarding a report of prior drug trafficking while armed. Police pulled him over for a traffic violation but the man took off in his vehicle, KAKE-TV reported. He collided with a pickup truck near Park City. The suspect died at the scene. The 43-year-old truck driver was hospitalized with injuries that were not considered life threatening. Officers f...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Spirit AeroSystems expects to hire more than 4,600 workers in Wichita by 2024, after losing more than 5,000 jobs during the coronavirus pandemic and since the 737 Max was grounded. Adam Pogue, vice president of manufacturing services for Spirit, said in a presentation given to the City Council Tuesday the aviation company also plans to expand its manufacturing facility in south Wichita, The Wichita Eagle reported. With layoffs and voluntary separations, Spirit lost about 5,222 workers in Wichita during the pandemic and b...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 19-year-old man is dead following a shooting at an apartment complex in central Wichita's Riverside neighborhood, and police believe the shooting was accidental. The shooting happened around 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Villa Del Mar Apartments, where officers found 19-year-old Jyrez Ricks, of Wichita, in the apartment parking lot with a gunshot wound, police said in a news release. Ricks was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. An investigation revealed that an acquaintance of Ricks', 21-year-old Jordan Williams of W...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas state Rep. Ron Howard, a conservative Wichita Republican who cast a crucial vote this spring to enact state income tax cuts, has died, the House speaker's office said. He was 67. The speaker's office and fellow legislators said Howard died Tuesday from a lengthy illness. Howard missed most of the GOP-controlled Legislature's annual session this year. But he returned in early May to the Statehouse despite ill health to help Republicans override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of income tax cuts, giving s...
A New York man and a Maine woman are facing charges over cocaine disguised as a cake that was seized from their vehicle, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency said Wednesday. Acting on a tip, police stopped the car on Interstate 295 in Gardiner on Tuesday, and a drug-sniffing dog found 4 pounds (2 kilograms) of cocaine worth $200,000 on the street, the MDEA said. Also seized was $1,900 in cash. About 2 pounds of the cocaine was disguised as a marble cake with coffee grounds used to cover up the scent, officials said. The two were released on bail...
SALINE, Mich. (AP) — Bird lovers with cameras and binoculars are traveling to a stream in southeastern Michigan to see a rare creature with pink feathers and a long bill. The roseate spoonbill was found in Saline in the Koch Warner Drain, the first to be seen in Michigan, said Molly Keenan of Michigan Audubon. The bird, which typically lives in the Gulf Coast region, escaped from a zoo or is "very confused," said Saline police, which placed traffic cones on a road to manage the flow of people. "Sometimes they wander a bit too far," said B...
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — COVID-19 cases nearly tripled in the U.S. over two weeks amid an onslaught of vaccine misinformation that is straining hospitals, exhausting doctors and pushing clergy into the fray. "Our staff, they are frustrated," said Chad Neilsen, director of infection prevention at UF Health Jacksonville, a Florida hospital that is canceling elective surgeries and procedures after the number of mostly unvaccinated COVID-19 inpatients at its two campuses jumped to 134, up from a low of 16 in mid-May. "They are tired. They are t...
Reports of athletes, lawmakers and others getting the coronavirus despite vaccination may sound alarming but top health experts point to overwhelming evidence that the shots are doing exactly what they are supposed to: dramatically reducing severe illness and death. The best indicator: U.S. hospitalizations and deaths are nearly all among the unvaccinated, and real-world data from Britain and Israel support that protection against the worst cases remains strong. What scientists call "breakthrough" infections in people who are fully vaccinated...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans rejected an effort Wednesday to begin debate on the big infrastructure deal that a bipartisan group of senators brokered with President Joe Biden, but pressure was mounting as supporters insisted they just needed more time before another vote possibly next week. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had scheduled the procedural vote to nudge along negotiations that have dragged for weeks. But Republicans mounted a filibuster, saying the bipartisan group still had a few unresolved issues and needed t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday rejected two Republicans tapped by House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy to sit on a committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, a decision the Republican denounced as "an egregious abuse of power." McCarthy said the GOP won't participate in the investigation if Democrats won't accept the members he appointed. Pelosi cited the "integrity" of the probe in refusing to accept the appointments of Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, picked by McCarthy to be the top Republican on the panel, or O...
