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Tuesday, September 7, 2021 During this day there were three traffic stops and one report of cattle out. 8:01 a.m. – Report that a grader clipped a train on the water tower road. Caller wanted an officer to make a report . 8:09 a.m. – Report of a cop...

Real Estate Transfers Book 874 page 650: Tony Nolan Tucker, and Tonja Alexandra Caywood unto Roger & Lea Ann Allen Trust. Lots 15 and 16, in block 3, Garber’s Addition to the City of Cherokee, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Warranty deed. Book 874 page 6...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that 2.8 million consumers took advantage of a special six-month period to sign up for private health insurance coverage made more affordable by his COVID-19 relief law. He called the n...

Temperatures in the 60s greeted the runners and walkers in Kiowa's 36th Annual Labor Day 5K Race. Race co-chairman Melissa Rector said 255 registered for the race and 196 finished. As reported in the Newsgram last week through pictures, the winning...

Elementary principal Patricia Burrow told the board that the first month of school has gone smoothly. She praised the teachers' “excellent job of setting procedures and routines” and said the students have acclimated well. High school had a bum...

The Miss Timberlake Pageant was held on Sept. 1 at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium. Jack McCoy, president of the Timberlake Student Council, welcomed guests as the master of ceremonies. Kinlee Judd, student council vice president was mistress of...

Karen Nickell was born on May 9, 1941, and passed away on September 11, 2021, in Alva, Oklahoma. Funeral services are pending with Wharton Funeral Chapel....

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POINTE-AUX-CHENES, La. (AP) — Nicholas weakened to a tropical depression as it crawled from Texas into southern Louisiana on Wednesday, unleashing heavy rain across a landscape where Hurricane Ida destroyed thousands of rooftops now covered with f...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea tested ballistic missiles hours apart Wednesday in a display of military might that is sure to exacerbate tensions between the rivals at a time when talks aimed at stripping the North of its nuclear pro...

Republican legislators in more than half of U.S. states, spurred on by voters angry about lockdowns and mask mandates, are taking away the powers that state and local officials use to protect the public against infectious diseases. A Kaiser Health Ne...

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — At most of the largest U.S. public universities, students are under no obligation to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Some schools do require vaccines, but with leniency for those who opt out. Still others have expelled s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has asked a federal court in Texas to stop the enforcement of a new state law that bans most abortions in the state while it decides the case. The Texas law, known as SB8, prohibits abortions once medical prof...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fearful of Donald Trump's actions in his final weeks as president, the United States' top military officer twice called his Chinese counterpart to assure him that the two nations would not suddenly go to war, a senior defense o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As tens of thousands of Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban arrive in the U.S., a handful of former Trump administration officials are working to turn Republicans against them. The former officials are writing position papers, a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats on Tuesday began the serious work of trying to implement President Joe Biden's expansive spending plan, but getting there will require remarkable legislative nimbleness, since Biden has said the revenue to pay for i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Massive government relief passed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic moved millions of Americans out of poverty last year, even as the official poverty rate increased slightly, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. The official p...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit Tuesday that sought the removal of a commissioner from a state board that regulates a range of industries, including oil and gas production. The court ruled that Republican former s...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A university in southeast Oklahoma that was found to have discriminated against a transgender English professor must reinstate the professor with tenure, a federal appeals court ruled. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in D...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska's visit to third-ranked Oklahoma on Saturday is a trip down memory lane for the over-40 set of college football fans. It's the 50th anniversary of the "Game of the Century," the showdown between the nation's Nos. 1 a...