Articles from the October 4, 2017 edition
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Alfalfa County Sheriff's Office logs
Tuesday, September 26, 2017 7:53 a.m. Reporting party (RP) reported a possible overdose. Paged Helena medic. Medic en route. Medic with patient en route to Bass Hospital in Enid. 9:52 a.m. RP advised of a reckless driver on U.S. Highway 64. Sent...
Marriage license filings
Darold D. Hunter, Jet, vs. Denise Deanna White, Jet: marriage license with certificate ($5)....
Bison Clean Up GAC Weekly Honors
SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist, the lone Great American Conference school to get a win last week, swept the GAC weekly awards as Alejandro Castillo, Kelvin Chandler and Thomas Ackernecht were all honored Tuesday afternoon by the conference office....
Haring-Lovett Earns Defensive Award
SHAWNEE – Lara Haring-Lovett was named the Great American Conference's Defensive Player of the Week after helping Oklahoma Baptist to a pair of shut-out wins in league play last week. The conference office announced the honor on Tuesday afternoon....
James, SE Take Titles at Newman Invite
WICHITA, Kan. – Southeastern picked up its first tournament championship of the year after carding a final round 289 at the Newman Fall Invitational to finish one stroke ahead of Central Oklahoma at Crestview CC in Wichita, Kan. Zach James added...
SE Women Win Title at Home Rodeo
DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern bounced back strong in its home rodeo as the women's team took home the team title, led by Shelby Whiting who won the women's all-around. "It's great to host a home rodeo," said head coach Christi Braudrick, "And to bou...
Turang, Smith Earn GAC Weekly Honors
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. — Southern Nazarene's Bailee Turang and Kylie Smith both earned a Great American Conference weekly honors as they were named Offensive Player and Setter of the Week. Turang averaged 5.5 kills per set with 23 kills at East...
Lady Bulldogs Take Second at UCO Classic
EDMOND, Okla. – SWOSU Women's Golf remained in their second spot following the final round at the UCO Classic, unable to jump tournament host and winner Central Oklahoma despite three SWOSU top-10 finishers. Chloe Thackeray was SWOSU's top golfer f...
Massie and Whitting Place Top 10, Hillcats Finish 3rd in West Texas Invite
AMARILLO, Texas – Alex Massie and Jess Whitting tied for eighth place and the Rogers State women's golf team finished in third in a field of 12 teams after the final round of the West Texas A&M Fall Invitational on Tuesday (Oct. 3) at the La...
Peerada Piddon wins UCO RCB Bank Classic
EDMOND, Okla. – Peerada Piddon shot a tournament-best and career-low score of 67 (-4) on Tuesday to win the UCO RCB Bank Classic, just her fourth tournament as a Golden Sun. Arkansas Tech placed third as a team in the event. Piddon entered the day...
Bethany Sutherland Named GAC Offensive Player of the Week
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference announced the league's Players of the Week for the fifth week of the women's soccer season. Harding's Bethany Sutherland earned the Offensive award; Oklahoma Baptist's Lara Haring-Lovett claimed...
Golfers Finish Second at HSU Fall Invitational
Henderson State turned in a third round team score of 308 and ended with a 54-hole total of 888 to finish as runners-up at the HSU Fall Invitational at the Hot Springs Country Club in Hot Springs, Ark. Delta State won the tournament with a team...
APNewsBreak: White House to seek $29B disaster aid package
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is finalizing a $29 billion disaster aid package that combines $16 billion to shore up the government-backed flood insurance program with almost $13 billion in new relief for hurricane victims, according...
WHAT'S HAPPENING: Vegas gunman had cameras to detect police
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The retired accountant who opened fire on country music concertgoers in Las Vegas placed a camera in a food service cart outside his hotel room and also set up cameras inside his room. Authorities believe Stephen Paddock put them...
Once an obscure device, 'bump stocks' are in the spotlight
ATLANTA (AP) — The Las Vegas gunman possessed a little-known device called a "bump stock" that was not widely sold — until now. Originally created with the idea of making it easier for people with disabilities to shoot a gun, the attachments...
Defense tries to cast doubt on case against Benghazi suspect
WASHINGTON (AP) — Government witnesses in the trial of Ahmed Abu Khattala testified Tuesday in graphic detail about the bloody attacks on U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya, while defense attorneys worked to raise doubt that the defendant...
Einstein proof: Nobel winners find ripples in the universe
WASHINGTON (AP) — For decades astronomers tried to prove Albert Einstein right by doing what Einstein thought was impossible: detecting the faint ripples in the universe called gravitational waves. They failed repeatedly until two years ago when...
GOP leaders say no action on gun legislation
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders made clear Tuesday that Congress will take no action on gun legislation in the wake of the massacre in Las Vegas. They refused to entertain Democratic demands to expand background checks for gun purchases and...
Las Vegas victims: Man died protecting wife on anniversary
Through tearful stories of last moments together and in heart-wrenching tributes, relatives and friends are remembering the dozens of people killed in the shooting massacre on the Las Vegas strip. A woman recalled how her husband shielded her from...
Ties threatened: US orders 15 Cuban diplomats to leave
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States expelled 15 of Cuba's diplomats Tuesday to protest its failure to protect Americans from unexplained attacks in Havana, plunging diplomatic ties between the countries to levels unseen in years. Only days ago,...
Kurdish leader Talabani, onetime hope for Iraqi unity, dies
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — As he stepped into office in 2005 to become Iraq's first Kurdish president, Jalal Talabani told his followers, "I am casting off my Kurdish clothes and wearing Iraqi ones instead. You must accept that." It was a symbolic call for...
Evidence sought amid crushed plastic cups at shooting scene
LAS VEGAS (AP) — FBI teams taking in the scene of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history Tuesday walked among upturned lawn chairs, an abandoned baby stroller and countless crushed plastic cups littering an abandoned field and stage at...
Kennedy is key to Supreme Court outcome on partisan maps
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a case that could reshape American politics, the Supreme Court appeared split Tuesday on whether Wisconsin Republicans gave themselves an unfair advantage when they drew political maps to last a decade. If Justice Anthony...
Acts of heroism emerge in chaos of Las Vegas shooting
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Rob Ledbetter's battlefield instincts kicked in quickly as bullets rained overhead. The 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran who served as a sniper in Iraq immediately began tending to the wounded, one of several heroes to emerge from...
Pentagon says Trump's Afghan troop boost to cost $1 billion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military's top leaders told lawmakers Tuesday that the thousands of additional U.S. troops President Donald Trump has ordered to Afghanistan will cost just over $1 billion a year, bringing the total bill for fighting...