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Dr. Dipika Aggarwal sat in a Kansas City, Kansas, diner on a Tuesday afternoon two years ago sipping coffee and enjoying a mushroom omelet and toast. Only a month before, the neurologist had returned to work after going through surgery, radiation and chemotherapy for stage 4 colon cancer. She chose to ease back in and started taking care of people admitted to the hospital after stroke, seizures and other neurological diseases. The new work schedule had alternate weeks off. That day in September came during her first week off, and Dipika – who w...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' hospitals are worried about the upcoming flu season because they're already strained by the surge in COVID-19 cases. Wichita's four hospitals have been operating for weeks at full capacity, with limited beds and staff. At various points, they have had to ask ambulances to take patients to other facilities, The Wichita Eagle reported. "Looking ahead, the prospect of COVID-19 potentially being combined with a more typical influenza and viral respiratory illness season is alarming," said Sam Antonios, the chief c...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — After months of advocacy by activists, the Wichita City council has voted to establish a board to advise the council and city staff on environmental concerns, climate change and economic economic vitality. The council voted unanimously Tuesday to support Wichita's Sustainability Integration Board, which will advise in such areas as reducing emissions and finding economic growth that is environmentally friendly. The council had listened to 27 Wichita citizens during the past six months who spoke about climate change c...
DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — A police dog in southwestern Kansas has died after being sent to chase a suspect, authorities there said. The Ford County Sheriff's Office reported on its Facebook page that a police dog named Kyra was called in Monday to help in chasing down a suspect in the county, television station KAKE reported. Officials said the female Belgian Malinois began showing signs of distress immediately after the chase and was rushed to a veterinary clinic for emergency surgery. "Despite all efforts, she crossed over the rainbow bridge t...
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A man fed up with a private road in poor condition near his southwest Florida business has a novel solution: plant a banana tree in a pothole to warn motorists away. Last week, Bryan Raymond planted the tree in a stubborn pothole along Honda Drive just off U.S. 41 in south Fort Myers. Raymond, who owns Progress and Pride Fitness Group, said the idea of planting a banana tree ripened in his mind after having to fill holes in the street with cement multiple times. Because Honda Drive is a private street, county officials s...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Technology companies that led the charge into remote work as the pandemic unfurled are confronting a new challenge: how, when and even whether they should bring long-isolated employees back to offices that have been designed for teamwork. "I thought this period of remote work would be the most challenging year-and-half of my career, but it's not," said Brent Hyder, the chief people officer for business software maker Salesforce and its roughly 65,000 employees worldwide. "Getting everything started back up the way it n...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A crowd erupted in cheers and song Wednesday as workers hoisted one of the nation's largest Confederate monuments off a pedestal where the figure of Gen. Robert E. Lee towered over Virginia's capital city for more than a century. The statue was lowered to the ground just before 9 a.m., after a construction worker who strapped harnesses around Lee and his horse lifted his arms in the air and counted, "Three, two, one!" to jubilant shouts from hundreds of people. A work crew then began cutting it into pieces. "Any remnant l...
One day not long ago, I watched my soon-to-be 3-year-old son jump up and down to the sound of "ho" and "hey." It's a song by The Lumineers, an American folk-rock band. The lyrics and stomp reverberate throughout the kitchen and into the house. My son jumps on each verse that ends with a shout. "So show me, family. Hey!" He jumps. "All the blood that I will bleed. Ho!" He jumps. "I don't know where I belong. Hey!" He jumps. "I don't know where I went wrong. Ho!" He jumps. And then, so do I. ___ This is a story about a curious boy with no name...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Solar energy has the potential to supply up to 40% of the nation's electricity within 15 years — a 10-fold increase over current solar output, but one that would require massive changes in U.S. policy and billions of dollars in federal investment to modernize the nation's electric grid, a new federal report says. The report by the Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy says the United States would need to quadruple its annual solar capacity — and continue to increase it year by year — as it shifts...
BOSTON (AP) — Ethel Kennedy, the wife of the late Robert F. Kennedy, says assassin Sirhan Sirhan should not be released from prison, further roiling a family divide over whether the man convicted of killing her husband in California in 1968 should be freed on parole. In a brief statement released on Twitter by her daughter, lawyer and activist Kerry Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy said bluntly Tuesday: "He should not be paroled." "Bobby believed we should work to 'tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world,'" Kennedy, 93, wrote. "...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The summer that was supposed to mark America's independence from COVID-19 is instead drawing to a close with the U.S. more firmly under the tyranny of the virus, with deaths per day back up to where they were in March. The delta variant is filling hospitals, sickening alarming numbers of children and driving coronavirus deaths in some places to the highest levels of the entire pandemic. School systems that reopened their classrooms are abruptly switching back to remote learning because of outbreaks. Legal disputes, threats and...
NEW YORK (AP) — For nearly six years, Andrea Haberman's ashen and damaged wallet lay mostly untouched in a drawer at her parents' Wisconsin home, along with a partly melted cell phone, her driver's license, credit cards, checkbook and house keys. Flecks of rust had formed on the rims of her eyeglasses, their lenses shattered and gone. Those everyday items were the remnants of a young life that ended when a hijacked jetliner struck the north tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Haberman was 25 and about to be married when she w...
Next Tuesday, Sept. 14, Freedom school district voters will go to the polls to determine whether to approve a $350,000 school bond to make crucial repairs and upgrades to the school. After the last school bond election failed to pass, the school board and consultants pared down their requests to only the most essential. Among the most important of these is the old gym floor, which is no longer repairable. It has deteriorated to such an extent that it is a safety issue and must be replaced.... Full story
Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 9-11: Woods County Fair, Livestock Show, Alva (FFA) Friday, Sept. 17: Fall Picture Day Friday, Sept. 17: High school football vs. Woodland at Mooreland, 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18: Robotics kickoff Friday, Sept. 24: High school football vs. Thomas at Mooreland, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28: Northwest COLT Officer Training in Enid Sept. 28-Oct. 10: Tulsa State Fair Friday, Oct. 1: High school football at BFDC, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8: High school football vs Texhoma at Mooreland, 7 p.m....
On Sunday, Sept. 5, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Announcement: We are on Facebook, live at 11 a.m. Our Facebook page is Freedom United Methodist Church. Invocation by Pastor Todd Finley Call to Worship – Psalm 32 led by Jennifer Finley Opening Hymn – “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms” led by Debra Brown Affirmation of Faith Gloria Patri Hymn of Justifying Grace – “Sweet Hour of Prayer” Offertory Prayer Presenting our Tithes and Gifts – Ushers Arly and Jan Eden Doxology Children’s Moments Holy Scripture: Danie...
Happy Birthday To Sept. 10: Kirt Province, Tonya Burnham, Josh King, Logan Murray Sept. 11: Jerrod Reed, Tyson Bliss Sept. 12: Ladena Thompson, Renee Thompson, Anetta McIver Sept. 13: Brett Nixon, Crystal Schroeder, Ty Harper, Wyatt Woodson, Mary Stewart Melkus Sept. 14: Lawson King Sept. 16: Amanda Schroeder Sept. 17: Clark Schultz, Shane Justice Sept. 19: Janet Bliss Jason Thompson, Tiffini Darr Sept. 20: Rena Powers, Mary Sample, Charlene Rohrer Sept. 22: Cody Ferguson Sept. 23: Lynn Haney Sept. 24: Neil Erisman, Sue Reed, Sandy Schroeder,...
Happy Anniversary To Sept. 15: Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Wares Sept. 22: Mr. & Mrs. C. R. Nixon Sept. 23: Mr. & Mrs. Matt Tune Sept. 25: Mr. & Mrs. Wade Walker (Note: Send corrections, additions to: [email protected] or call 580-327-2200)...
