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Happy Birthday To Aug. 3: Kyse Eagan Aug. 5: Blythe Benson Aug. 7: Jeanne Winn, Janet Linn, Stonie Stewart, Peggy Bilyeu, Lisa Bradt, Janelle Collins Aug. 8: Randy Reed, Jeanne Hepner, Kim Rader Aug. 9: Belinda Caringer, Elva Sample Aug. 10: Jeff Ste...

Sunday, July 30, was the eighth Sunday after Pentecost. The order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: The Light of Christ was brought in and candles lit by Shay Wilson Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Announcements: Roger and Cindy...

Freedom Schools enrollment will be Aug.7–10 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the main school office. Please bring birth certificate, social security card, CDIB and immunization records....

The annual Oklahoma Sales Tax Holiday weekend has come to serve as the unofficial kickoff to the back-to-school shopping season. The three-day tax-free event returns this week for the 11th year and officially begins at 12:01 a.m. Friday. It will run...

Remember how you learned back in your high school civics class that you have certain rights as an American? As we all know, those individual rights make up the first 10 amendments to our Constitution. But now that you’re older, you may not realize y...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Wednesday it had no broad plans to investigate whether college and university admission programs discriminate against students based on race, seeking to defray worries that a job posting signaled an e...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol has for years forced female recruits to submit to invasive, medically unnecessary pelvic exams performed by a male doctor before they can be hired, according to a new federal lawsuit that has prompted a c...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bombing attack on a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday left two American service members dead, a Pentagon spokesman said, despite repeated refusals by the U.S. military in Afghanistan to say whether t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress sent President Donald Trump legislation to provide the biggest expansion of college aid for military veterans in a decade. The Senate cleared the bill by voice vote on Wednesday, passing the second piece of legislation a...

CHICAGO (AP) — Police are searching for a Northwestern University professor and a University of Oxford employee suspected in the stabbing death of a Chicago man and have alerted law enforcement agencies around the country that the pair should be c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Altering human heredity? In a first, researchers safely repaired a disease-causing gene in human embryos, targeting a heart defect best known for killing young athletes — a big step toward one day preventing a list of inherited dis...

GENEVA (AP) — Police in southwestern Switzerland have found in an Alpine glacier the remains of a German hiker who went missing almost exactly three decades ago. The regional Valais police department said Wednesday the remains of the unidentified m...

BERLIN (AP) — A 96-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard who was convicted as an accessory to murder is fit to go to prison, German prosecutors said Wednesday. His lawyer said he will contest their decision. Oskar Groening was convicted in J...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The parents of a student sexually assaulted by an Omaha math teacher have sued the district and some administrators, saying school officials did nothing to stop the teacher. The Omaha World-Herald reports the federal lawsuit f...

SEI MENCIRIM, Indonesia (AP) — The slim boys in Muslim caps and robes at the Al Hidayah Islamic boarding school are grinning bolts of energy who love football, need a little coaxing to do their math and Quran lessons assiduously and aspire to b...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Officials in a western North Dakota county are asking for more information about a mobile oilfield waste treatment plant that's proposed in the Bakken formation. The North Dakota Department of Health will hold a public h...

VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — A West Texas land baron and oilman is on the verge of pumping 5.4 million gallons of water a day from far under the desert mountains here and piping it 60 miles to the nation's most bountiful oil field, the Permian Basin, w...

ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation along with several state agencies say an analysis by the Mountain Valley Pipeline on the project's impact on intact forests underestimated the effects by more than 300 p...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming is among the coal-friendliest states, but ongoing worries about how the state's first major new coal mine in decades could affect the environment and people living nearby dealt a serious setback to the project T...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Gene editing is getting fresh attention thanks to a successful lab experiment with human embryos. But for all the angst over possibly altering reproduction years from now, this technology already is used by scientists every day i...

LONDON (AP) — Euthanasia has become "common practice" in the Netherlands, accounting for 4.5 percent of deaths, according to researchers who say requests are increasing from people who aren't terminally ill. In 2002, the Netherlands became the f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says the average monthly premium for Medicare prescription drug coverage is expected to go down in 2018, the first time that's happened in five years. Medicare announced Wednesday that next year's average p...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on health care (all times local): 5:15 p.m. Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona says he cast the crucial vote that sunk his party's health bill last week because his state was — in his words — "about to get screw...