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Happy Birthday To 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: Donny Elmore, Keith Gregory, Dillon Smith, Wanda Bishop Aug. 14: DeWayne...

Sunday, Aug. 6, was the ninth Sunday after Pentecost. The order of services as the Freedom United Methodist Church was: The Light of Christ was brought in and candles lit by Shay and Jack Wilson. Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Announcements: Roger and...

10 Mooreland High School Football Aug. 18 Crescent Scrimmage Home 6:00 Aug. 24 Hinton Scrimmage Away 6:00 Sept. 1 Sayre Away 7:00 Sept. 8 Cashion Home 7:00 Sept. 15 Merritt Away 7:00 Sept. 22 *Thomas Home 7:00 Sept. 29 *Beaver Away 7:00 Oct. 6...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Trump administration's decision on Wednesday to slap sanctions on eight members of Venezuela's all-powerful constitutional assembly brings to 30 the number of government loyalists targeted for human rights abuses and v...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Wednesday distanced herself from her comment earlier this year about the nation's historically black colleges and universities being pioneers of school choice, saying that in the past "there w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea on Wednesday officially dismissed President Donald Trump's threats of "fire and fury," declaring the American leader "bereft of reason" and warning ominously, "Only absolute force can work on him." In a statement release...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man charged in the shooting death of a western Missouri police officer was arrested after an alert driver provided a tip that the fugitive was wandering within miles of where the killing took place, a law enforcement o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The two-year-old U.S. diplomatic relationship with Cuba was roiled Wednesday by what U.S. officials believe was a string of bizarre attacks on a group of American diplomats in Havana with a covert sonic weapon that left the v...

DENVER (AP) — Taylor Swift's mother and confidante took the witness stand Wednesday, saying she and her daughter's managers had told the bosses of a disc jockey accused of groping the singer-songwriter that they hoped he would be fired but didn't a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump scolded his own party's Senate leader on Wednesday for the crash of the Republican drive to repeal and rewrite the Obama health care law, using Twitter to demand of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, "Why not d...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Up to 50 migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia were "deliberately drowned" when a smuggler forced them into the sea off Yemen's coast, the U.N. migration agency said Wednesday, calling the drownings "shocking and inhumane." I...

HOUSTON (AP) — A man on death row for the notorious slaying nearly 20 years ago of a black man chained to the back of a pickup truck and dragged along a bumpy rural East Texas road will get his claim of innocence and poor legal representation r...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A British company hired to train Afghan intelligence officers billed the U.S. government for high-end cars, including Porsches and an Aston Martin, and paid the "significant others" of the firm's top executives six-figure s...

HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Residents of the tiny Pacific island of Guam say they're afraid of being caught in the middle of escalating tensions between the U.S. and North Korea after Pyongyang announced it was examining plans for attacking the strategicall...

CANTON, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota teenager accused of shooting and injuring his high school principal nearly two years ago has pleaded guilty to attempted murder. A judge on Wednesday sentenced Mason Buhl to 25 years. The sentence was suspended, w...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Testimony is set to begin in the murder trial of two men charged in the fatal shooting of a Syracuse University student from China. Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick and defense lawyers for 24-year-old C...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota judge on Wednesday accepted a plea agreement that spares former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein any jail time for protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline nearly a year ago. Judge Gail Hagerty a...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — New data from the U.S. Department of Energy show that Minnesota's wind energy capacity increased nearly 10 percent last year. Wind power accounts for nearly 18 percent of the electricity generated in the state, the Minnesota P...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — OPEC says a technical committee secured commitments from four oil producing countries to work to bring their production in line with previously agreed output targets. The organization said in a statement late T...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Within the wild energy market of the world's second-most populous nation, predictions are proving tricky. India had been projected to become a carbon-belching behemoth, fueled by thermal power plants demanding ever more coal for d...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A legal settlement between ABC and a South Dakota meat producer in a defamation lawsuit over the network's reports on a beef product that critics dubbed "pink slime" exceeded $177 million, an attorney for the producer said W...