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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 copper theft on County Road (CR) 660 and Coal Road. 9:09 a.m. – Welfare check needed at the lake. 1:37 p.m. – Report of a theft east of Coal Road and CR 660. 3:58 p.m. – Report of a missing person. At 5:42 p.m. female was found by the Enid Police Department. 9:26 p.m. – Report of a suspicious...
As I considered topics for this column, we received another call from someone about a telephone scam. With major phone companies instituting a program that labels calls as spam, more of the bad guys are using spoofing software to make a different phone number pop up on caller ID. Someone has been using the newspaper’s number. When we explain that we’re a newspaper in Oklahoma, we sometimes learn more details. Our number has been used for social security scams, arrest warrant scams and oth...
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 662: Terry G. Means, Trustee of the Terry and Betty Means Revocable Trust, unto Melissa Kathleen Smith and Jeffery Lee Reynolds. A tract of land containing 10 acres, more or less, in the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 6, township 24 north, range 11, WIM. Warranty deed. Book 8...
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 number encouraging and urged Congress to help lower health care costs. "That's 2.8 million families who will have more security, more breathing room, and more money in their pocket if an illness or accident hits home," Biden said. "Altogether, 12.2 million Americans are actively enrolled in coverage u...
The House is in the process of holding numerous interim studies on a variety of issues that could result in legislation in our next session. One of the studies I co-hosted recently focused on agriculture concerns arising from the growth of the medical marijuana industry in our state. This industry is growing at such a fast rate, we’ve honestly had trouble keeping pace with regulation and inspection. We were told during our study there are an average of 100 new growers per week springing up in v...
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 male was Luis Chavez with a time of 16 minutes and 11 seconds. Chavez, a former Alvan now from Edmond, won Kiowa's Labor Day 5K race for the fourth consecutive time in 2019. There was no race in 2020 due to Covid-19. This year, 2021, Chavez returned to Kiowa to again win the race, making this his...
The Woods County commissioners are already planning for next year’s schedule. They approved the meeting dates and the county holiday dates for 2022 at Monday’s meeting. Thirteen dates are on the holiday list including Jan. 17 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day; Feb. 21 President’s Day; April 15 Good Friday; May 30 Memorial Day; July 4 Independence Day; Sept. 5 Labor Day; Oct. 10 Columbus Day; Nov. 11 Veterans Day; Nov. 24-25 Thanksgiving; Dec. 26-27 Christmas and Dec. 30 New Year’s Eve. The meeting dat...
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 bumpy first couple of days, said High School Principal Dustin Smith, but those bobbles have smoothed out. Pre-K through sixth-grade enrollment is up; students number 125. Enrollment for 7-12 is 97, up three from last year. The after-school program for first through sixth graders began Aug. 23. Waynoka ele...
As the South Barber School Board met for their August meeting Monday night, Superintendent Dr. Mylo Miller happily announced that enrollment is increased over last year. Enrollment is at 224 compared to last year at 206, Miller said. The district breakdown he provided is: Elementary PreK-6 at 137 students and the 7-12 at 87. Board President Mark Pollock called the meeting to order with all but one member present. That was Ryan Molz. Members attending were Bryan Quick, Deb Helfich, Jenna...
The Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty is much more than a festival: it's a tradition that pays homage to the land and the people who have claimed Medicine Lodge, Kansas, as their own throughout the centuries. It provides an opportunity to see, feel and hear – to really experience – area history. This annual event takes place Sept. 24–26 in the prairie setting of Memorial Peace Park just east of Medicine Lodge. The 2021 festival features the Peace Treaty Pageant, the Medicine Lodge Intertribal Powwo...
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 ceremonies. The contestants competed in three categories, interview, talent and evening gown. Contestants were Brooklyn McDonald and Hayli Watkins. Brooklyn performed a vocal solo to "Stay," by Sugarland, while Hayli performed a tap dance to "Get Rhythm," by Johnny Cash. Other entertainment was pro...
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....
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 flimsy tarps. Forecasters said Nicholas would slow to a stall over central Louisiana through Thursday, with plenty of water still to dump east of its center, drenching the Gulf Coast as far as the western Florida Panhandle. Southeast Louisiana faced the biggest flooding threat, and Gov. John Bel E...
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 program are stalled. South Korea's presidential office said the country conducted its first submarine-launched ballistic missile test. It said the domestically built missile flew from a submarine and hit its designated target while President Moon Jae-in and other top officials looked on. Moon said impr...
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 News review of hundreds of pieces of legislation found that, in all 50 states, legislators have proposed bills to curb such public health powers since the COVID-19 pandemic began. While some governors vetoed bills that passed, at least 26 states pushed through laws that permanently weaken government a...
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 students who do not comply. As a new semester begins amid a resurgence of the coronavirus, administrators and faculty nationwide see high vaccination rates as key to bringing some normalcy back to campus. Where mandates face political opposition, schools are relying on incentives and outreach to get more 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 professionals can detect cardiac activity — usually around six weeks, before some women know they're pregnant. Courts have blocked other states from imposing similar restrictions, but Texas' law differs significantly because it leaves enforcement to private citizens through civil lawsuits instead of cri...
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 official said after the conversations were described in excerpts from a forthcoming book. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People's Liberation Army that the United States would not strike. One call took place on Oct. 30, 2020, four days before the election t...
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, appearing on conservative television outlets and meeting privately with GOP lawmakers — all in an effort to turn the collapse of Afghanistan into another opportunity to push a hard-line immigration agenda. "It is a collaboration based on mutual conviction," said Stephen Miller, the architect of Pre...
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 it must come only from Americans who earn more than $400,000 a year. Republicans, who have vowed lockstep opposition to the plan, turned their anger against proposed tax breaks they portrayed as subsidies for wealthy elites rather than help for the poor and middle class. Electric vehicles became a r...
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 poverty measure rose 1 percentage point in 2020, with 11.4% of Americans living in poverty, or more than 37 million people. It was the first increase in poverty after five consecutive annual declines. But the Census Bureau's supplemental measure of poverty, which takes into account government benefit 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 state Rep. Mike Reynolds lacked standing to seek removal of Republican Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett. "The court didn't rule against the constitutionality, and I think that's a shame," Reynolds said. "I think I'm done with lawsuits on that particular issue." The court wrote that state law a...
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 Denver on Monday ordered professor Rachel Tudor to be reinstated with tenure at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, and ordered a lower court to recalculate how much pay and attorney fees she is entitled to. A federal jury in Oklahoma City previously awarded Tudor more than $1 million after f...
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 and 2 teams in Norman that set the stage for classic 1970s and '80s battles between Nebraska's straight-laced Tom Osborne and Oklahoma's swashbuckling Barry Switzer. "I think the thing that's distinctive about the so-called rivalry was that it was never a nasty rivalry," Osborne, now 84, told The A...
