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DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas police chief said Tuesday she has called for a full review and plans to meet with protest leaders after learning about reports that police used pepper-spray projectiles at a demonstration over a black man's death. Chief U. R...

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police swiftly admitted that a white officer who shot a black man in his own apartment last week had made a mistake. They expressed contrition, turned the case over to independent investigators and reached out to the victim's f...

NEW YORK (AP) — Is Les Moonves' departure from CBS a breakthrough for the #MeToo movement? While he is the most powerful CEO brought down yet by sexual misconduct allegations over the past year, CBS is facing criticism for not pushing him out sooner,...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — With snowfall dwindling at the Grand Canyon's North Rim, tourism promoters see an opportunity to stretch out the visiting season at the less popular side of the canyon so more people experience it and spend money in the r...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — With the Catholic Church in crisis once again over clerical sex abuse and cover-up, Pope Francis will meet Thursday with U.S. cardinals and bishops who are demanding to know how one of their own was able to climb the clerical r...

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Standing in the field where the last of the Sept. 11 planes crashed, President Donald Trump praised the "band of brave patriots" who helped bring down the jetliner and saved the lives of countless others in the nation's c...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman convicted of helping a former street preacher kidnap Elizabeth Smart in 2002 will be freed from prison more than five years earlier than expected, a surprise decision that Smart called "incomprehensible" on Tuesday. W...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan rights workers warned Tuesday that a blistering U.S. attack on the International Criminal Court investigating war crimes allegations will strengthen a climate of impunity in Afghanistan, prolong the war and embolden those comm...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona's new senator says he'd vote to repeal the nation's health care law. That's one additional Republican ready to obliterate the statute because his predecessor, the late Sen. John McCain, helped derail the party's drive w...

Officials with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) arrested Barber County Undersheriff Virgil “Dusty” Brewer last Wednesday morning. The arrest was made at the county courthouse in Medicine Lodge, according to spokeswoman Melissa Underwood in...

Game Ranger Terry Swallow will hold an Oklahoma Hunter Education Course on Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Northwest Technology Center in Alva. The course will begin at 8 a.m. and continue until 5 p.m. For registration information, contact Northwest Tech...

In the Sept. 7 football game between Medicine Lodge and Hodgeman County, the Medicine Lodge team racked up the following statistics. Passing Garrett Burden – 25/41 for 353 yards, 3 touchdowns Josh Bowman – 0/1 Receiving Josh Bowman – 8 catches for 6...

Nancy was born December 3, 1947, to Elmer and Ruth (Clark) McCracken in Hardtner, Kansas. She was the family caregiver. She was preceded in death by her father, Elmer, and her sister, Merrily Drake. Survivors include her mother, Ruth; two brothers,...

Kay Nighswonger, 73, of Bandera, Texas (formerly Alva, Oklahoma), passed away on August 29, 2018, in San Antonio, Texas. She was born in San Antonio to Smith C. and Ruby May Wright on August 28, 1945. Carolyn married Clyde V. Nighswonger on November...

Funeral service for Gilbert Meeks will be Thursday, September 13, 2018, at 1:30 p.m. at the First Christian Church in Cherokee, Oklahoma, with burial to follow at Byron-Amorita Cemetery. Visitation will be Wednesday from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. with...

It appeared only about 15 residents attended a public meeting regarding Kiowa's proposed major water line replacement held in late August at the Chief Theater in Kiowa. There were more professionals and city council people who are involved with the...

All commissioners were present at this week's regular Monday morning meeting, along with County Clerk Shelley Reed, Kat Lunn of the Alva Review Courier, and David Manning. The commissioners started their meeting off with the usual business. They...