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General Fund POs Pioneer Telephone (cell, fax, alarm, internet, phone (7/18-12/18) – $2,700 Alfalfa Electric Cooperative (streetlights, af/am, town (7/18-12/18) – $5,400 SPC (office supplies, 7/18-12/18) – $1,000 Dacoma Co-op (fuel and suppl...

Happy Birthday To Aug. 9: Belinda Caringer, Elva Sample Aug. 10: Jeff Stewart, Kelly Ledford, Ranson Pierce Aug. 11: Shirley Wagner, Gerit Smith, Emma Reed, Kevin Coats Aug. 12: Kelly Burnham, Mary Walker Aug. 13: Donnie Elmore, Keith Gregory,...

Sunday, Aug. 5, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Invocation by Pastor Woody Hamon Call to Worship: Psalm 34 led by Dixie Stansberry Opening hymn: “This Is My Father’s World,” led by song...

Entry forms are available for the Freedom Red Bluff Classic Run to be held Saturday, Aug. 18. Age divisions start at 0-10 and extend to 56 and above. Entrants will have a choice of two distances: the fun run and the 5K. A T-shirt comes with payment...

Oklahoma’s adoption of medical marijuana will be green in more ways than one: Retail dispensaries, processors, growing operations and tax agencies will have to work within a cash-only industry. With marijuana still illegal at the federal level, b...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Bronx dad fled to Thailand after carrying his dead 7-month-old baby around New York City in a backpack and tossing his body into a river near the Brooklyn Bridge and other tourist spots, police said Wednesday. Thai authorities s...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group that wants to legalize recreational marijuana in Oklahoma has submitted signatures to qualify the measure for a statewide vote after saying it may not have enough. The pro-marijuana group Green the Vote submitted the s...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma student proficiency rates are down slightly in almost every grade and subject in the second year of higher academic standards, according to state test results. The 2018 Oklahoma School Testing Program results found that s...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Board of Pharmacy has named Dorothy Gourley of Ardmore as the agency's interim executive director. The board appointed Gourley to the post on Wednesday, two weeks after firing previous director Chelsea Church. C...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is reevaluating its contract with the state's driver's license system vendor following multiple outages. Department of Public Safety Commissioner Rusty Rhoades tells The Oklahoman that he's speaking with Idemia I...

RINGLING, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a motorcyclist was killed when he crashed while fleeing a law enforcement officer in southern Oklahoma. An OHP report says 56-year-old Thell Stephen Terry of Elmore City died in the crash T...

MEDFORD, Okla. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey reports a small earthquake was recorded in northern Oklahoma. The U.S.G.S. reports the magnitude 3.6 quake struck at 9:57 p.m. Tuesday near Medford, about 95 miles (153 kilometers) north of Oklahoma C...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' most populous county left the rest of the state waiting nearly 13 hours until Wednesday morning for complete primary election results that proved to be pivotal in a high profile and close Republican race for governor ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democrat Sharice Davids of Kansas added her name Wednesday to her party's increasingly diverse slate of candidates advancing to the November ballot. Davids, who would be the first gay, Native American elected to Congress, n...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Out-of-power Kansas Democrats smelled opportunity Wednesday in the tight, unsettled GOP primary race for governor between Gov. Jeff Colyer and Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a close political ally of President Donald Trump and a...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas woman who already was celebrating the return of one cat that disappeared three weeks ago after an explosion at her home says she's received a second "miracle." The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Ashley Nadeau p...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An inmate who ran a conspiracy to smuggle contraband such as cell phones into the Jackson County Detention Center in Kansas City will serve time in federal prison. Thirty-three-year-old Carlos Laron Hughley, was sentenced W...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Lawrence man who molested a girl beginning when she was 7 was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. The Lawrence Journal-World reports 68-year-old Clinton Laing was sentenced Tuesday for a...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — All Kansas high school juniors will be able to take ACT exams and assessments for free next school year, according to state education officials. Department of Education spokeswoman Denise Kahler told The Wichita Eagle that the f...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former Wichita police officer has admitted that when he was an officer he knew people were conducting an illegal gambling business and didn't report them. Federal prosecutors say 46-year-old Bruce Mackey, of Goddard, pleaded g...

WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Two high-stakes elections that tested President Donald Trump's clout and cost both parties millions of dollars were too close to call on Wednesday. Trump claimed victory in one nevertheless and proclaimed himself '5 for 5' fo...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas state representative who won the Republican primary for secretary of state on the second anniversary of his 10-year-old son's death on a giant water slide says it was a "day full of paradox." The Kansas City Star r...

Democrats didn't walk away with a clear win Tuesday night. But they didn't necessarily have to. They essentially battled Republicans to a draw in a central Ohio congressional district that should have been an easy win for the GOP. It will take...