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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...

Real Estate Transfers Book 848 page 699: Diel and Co. Inc. conveys unto Diel Company Oklahoma LLC. The west half of the northeast quarter of section 18, township 28 north, range 11, WIM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Warranty deed. Book 848 page 699: Die...

Tuesday, August 13, 2019 During this day there was one traffic stop. 9:47 a.m. – Caller advised that two pit bulls tried to rip off the bumper on his grain truck. He wants to talk to someone about the damage. 4:06 p.m. – Caller advised his son was sc...

As usual, commissioners in Alfalfa County spent their Monday morning poring over large stacks of purchase orders and warrants for payment; nothing else on the agenda demanded more time. After signing off on each, the three men (Jay Hague, Stan...

At the Woods County commissioners' regular Monday morning meeting on Aug. 19 commissioners John Smiley, David Hamil and Chairman Randy McMurphy approved budget needs to continue the Oklahoma State University Extension office. The budget can now be...

Graveside services will be Saturday, September 21, 2019, at 10 a.m. at Alva Municipal Cemetery. Online condolences may be made at www.wigginsfuneralhomes.com. Louis Dean Dressler, 59, of Haven, Kansas, passed away Saturday, August 10, 2019, at his...

Rusty Joe Dunavant was born in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, on June 25, 1955, the son of Billy Lee Dunavant and Elsie Talley Dunavant, and passed from this life in Oklahoma City on August 15, 2019. Rusty was adopted by Billy and Elsie when he was 5 year...

A couple was charged with misdemeanor embezzlement from a Cherokee business but a felony charge was added because they allegedly used a company computer to do it. Joe Allen Weve, 58, and Linda Kay Weve, 53, are listed as residing in Hazelton,... Full story

A rural Helena man has been charged with a felony and three misdemeanors in a domestic incident. Matt Douglas Phillips, 43, has been charged with child abuse, a felony, punishable by imprisonment for not more than life, or by a fine of not less than... Full story

Last week the Newsgram reported on part of the five-hour Aug. 12 meeting of the Kiowa City Council. Trying to reach an agreement for a proposed 2020 tax budget dominated most of the meeting and was covered in that first story. A divided council... Full story

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Bison women's soccer team was picked to repeat as champions of the Great American Conference as voted on by the conference coaches on Tuesday afternoon. Oklahoma Baptist received 34 points and five first-place votes in the c...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – SWOSU Soccer has been picked to finish second in the Great American Conference in 2019 following a polling of the seven head coaches in the league. The preseason poll was announced on Tuesday afternoon by the conference o...

GUTHRIE, Okla. (AP) — A jury has begun deliberating a verdict in the trial of a man accused of shooting an Oklahoma sheriff's deputy to death. Deliberations began Tuesday in the trial of 47-year-old Nathan LeForce, who is charged with first-degree m...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Officials say an investigation has found no misconduct by employees at the Oklahoma County Jail in the death of a teenage inmate who apparently took his own life. The Oklahoman reports that Annette Jacobi, director of the O...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke has paid visits to sites in Tulsa and Oklahoma City that were targeted by violence. The former congressman stopped Monday in Tulsa's Greenwood District where a white mob in 1921 l...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Latest on Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt arguing the First Amendment allows him to withhold some public records in a lawsuit (all times local): 5:45 p.m. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has withdrawn a l...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Federal authorities are conducting an investigation at a research facility on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence. FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton confirmed the FBI and Lawrence police were at the Life Sciences R...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The family of a slain Kansas inmate has filed a federal lawsuit alleging a systemic disregard for the health and safety of prisoners housed at the Meade County jail. A complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Kansas s...