Alva Church of God Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.m. with Pastor Nathan Braudrick. Alva Church of God is located at 517 Ninth St. in Alva and can be found on the web at www.AlvaChurchOfGod.org. Sunday: Sunday school is at...

The book of Mark is all action. Jesus is teaching; healing the blind, the deaf, the crippled; and raising the dead. He is challenged by the groups with power who don’t want anything to change. Every encounter is a time for teaching. Jesus has an u...

The Avard Regional Rail Park Authority met during the lunch hour last Tuesday for their monthly meeting. Members Stan Bixler, Bob Firth, Allan Poe, Ed Sutter and Todd Holder were joined by Woods County Economic Development Committee's executive direc...

NORTH NEWTON, Kansas – Northwestern Oklahoma State men's cross country ran in their third meet of the season on Saturday morning, apart of Bethel College's meet they were hosting. Northwestern would place in second place this morning with a score o...

ALVA, Okla. – Emmett Edler may have arrived at Northwestern Oklahoma State University as the little brother of an alumnus who is also the reigning ProRodeo world champion steer wrestler, but he’s already making a name for himself. Edler, a fre...

A Woodward woman was injured when her motorcycle collided with a vehicle driven by an Alva woman Wednesday. The wreck occurred at 7:25 p.m. at US-183 and County Road EW 54, 3.1 miles east of Mutual. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol report, Je... Full story

ALVA, Okla. – The Ranger soccer team continued their winning streak with another big win over the Eagles of Oklahoma Christian Saturday evening. The Rangers came into the match fierce, as they looked for their fifth consecutive win of the season. T...

NORTH NEWTON, Kansas – The Rangers Women's Cross Country team traveled to Kansas this week to compete at Bethel College's meet the school hosted Saturday morning. Northwestern Oklahoma State would finish the race in first place this weekend, f...

Oklahomans don’t like the government telling them what to do. No matter what it is. I’ve talked to countless Oklahomans who were as shocked as I was when Joe Biden said in a recent speech that he had “lost patience” with the American people and deman...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The number of new coronavirus cases, the seven-day average of new cases and hospitalizations each declined Friday in Oklahoma, according to the state Department of Health. There were 1,230 new virus cases reported and a s...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma man who took part in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and took a beer from a refrigerator in the building pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. Andrew Craig Ericson, 24, of Muskogee pleaded guilty to p...

A year ago, Robin Bruce never thought she would be living in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and liking it. That was before she took advantage of a program, largely financed by the Walton Family Foundation, that is offering $10,000 incentives to entice new...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities in Sedgwick County are investigating after a woman was found dead in the roadway. The body of the 26-year-old woman was found by a resident just after 7 a.m. Thursday. Emergency crews responded and the woman was p...

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — A Jackson County judge has ordered a suburban Kansas City restaurant to shut down in the wake of its owner's continued defiance of a mask mandate intended to fight the spread of COVID-19. Earlier this month, Judge James K...

BERLIN (AP) — Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel provided a rare splash of color amid Germany's staid election campaign while visiting a bird park where she posed with half a dozen parrots. Not content with the bird feed on offer, one of the r...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed legislation Friday that would guarantee a woman's right to an abortion, an effort by Democrats to circumvent a new Texas law that has placed that access under threat. The bill's 218-211 approval is mostly s...

BOSTON (AP) — Officials from companies with fleets of trucks are urging governors across the country to embrace a rule meant to speed the adoption of zero-emission trucks and reduce a potent source of greenhouse gases spewed from the large c...

DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — The mayor of a Texas border city where thousands of Haitian migrants camped in recent days says it's now empty. Del Rio Mayor Bruno Lozano said at a news conference Friday that the clearing of the camp was "phenomenal news." I...

NEW YORK (AP) — R. Kelly's fate is now in a jury's hands after weeks of lurid testimony in his sexual misconduct trial. A jury of seven men and five women began deliberating racketeering and sex trafficking charges against the R&B superstar F...