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Happy Birthday To Aug. 22: Kristy Armantrout, Gary Walker, Jake Hughes Aug. 23: Don Lenhart, Jessica Elmore, Trent Bliss, Rachael Nickel, Danielle Page, Austin Rankin Aug. 24: Ina Sylvester, Tony Hope, Randus London, Logan Holt Aug. 25; Dana Turner,...

Happy Anniversary To Aug. 22: Mr. & Mrs. Randy Reed Aug. 23: Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Rader Aug. 24: Mr. & Mrs. Sonny Wagner, Mr. & Mrs. Bob Benn Aug. 26: Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Page Aug. 28: Mr. & Mrs. Robert Province Aug. 30: Mr. & Mrs. Kelly Mitchell Sept....

Do you have a favorite chocolate recipe? Do you love to bake and create? If so, consider entering the “Death by Chocolate” competition at the Woods County Fair. Any type of chocolate food item is eligible for entering – pies, cakes, cookies, desse...

Fair books and entry tags may be picked up at the Woods County OSU Extension Center located on the first floor of the Woods County Courthouse. Poultry and rabbit exhibits will be required to complete pre-entry forms and exhibit tags, which are due...

Treat yourself and your family to a cup or bowl of delicious homemade chili at the Woods County Free Fair on Friday, Sept. 6. The chili cook-off contest will take place in the Women’s Building at 6 p.m. Any Woods County resident is eligible to e...

Treat yourself and your family to a cup or bowl of delicious homemade chili at the Woods County Free Fair on Friday, Sept. 6. The chili cook-off contest will take place in the Women’s Building at 6 p.m. Any Woods County resident is eligible to e...

Treat yourself and your family to a variety of delicious homemade pies and cheesecakes made by some of the finest cooks in Woods County at the Woods County Free Fair beginning Thursday, Sept. 5, through Friday, Sept. 6. The homemade pies will be for...

The Freedom Town Board, at a regular meeting last Wednesday, Aug. 14, discussed a possible money-saving opportunity brought to their attention by Town Clerk Cindy Reed: a winter-only contract for gas with price-per-gallon cap of $2.85. This would be...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark- Ouachita Tigers Women's Soccer team tabbed to finish third in the conference in the Preseason Great American Conference Coaches' Poll. The Tigers enter the 2019 season after finished 9-9 (7-5 in conference) during the 2018...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A woman charged with spray-painting racist, anti-gay and anti-Semitic graffiti on the county Democratic Party's offices, an art center and an elementary school in Norman, Oklahoma, was hospitalized for medical and mental h...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Federal prosecutors say 19 people have been indicted for conspiracy to distribute heroin and methamphetamine in Oklahoma City. Officials said Wednesday 17 of the defendants in the indictments have been arrested following an i...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma judge is expected to rule next week on whether consumer products company Johnson & Johnson helped fuel the state's opioid epidemic in the first such case against a drugmaker to go to trial. A court spokesman says C...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The Colorado attorney who represented Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh has been disbarred after he acknowledged a series of misdeeds as part of a settlement. The Colorado Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel d...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Prosecutors are asking jurors to return a death sentence for a man convicted of shooting an Oklahoma sheriff's deputy to death. The sentencing phase of the trial of 47-year-old Nathan LeForce began Wednesday, a day after j...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas regulators are investigating the cause of a cluster of 11 earthquakes that hit Reno County in the last five days. The Kansas Corporation Commission announced Wednesday that it is analyzing injection well activity in the c...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is fighting the compensation claim of a man who spent 23 years in prison for a double homicide before a judge vacated his convictions, which were secured despite a complete lack of physical evidence and motive tying him t...