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Happy Birthday To Oct. 20: JoAnn Isenbart, Anna Lee Murray Oct. 21: Steve Pierce Oct. 22: LeRoy Burks, Nancy Harger, Charles McIver, Reia Lenhart, Peyton Hughes Oct. 23: Dovie Wilson, Raye Lynn Hughes, Johnette Beagley Oct. 24: Dolores Holbrook Oct....

LEXINGTON – This week at the monthly corrections board meeting, the members of the board unanimously approved a one-time stipend for all employees at the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC). The money will come from the $10.164 million the a...

Plan now to attend the 2016 Freedom School Carnival on Saturday, Oct. 29. There will be food and fun for the whole family. Enjoy dinner from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. Choose from chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, corn, roll and dessert or chili with...

The Freedom school board met Monday night and called for a school election the first week of February 2017. The filing period will be at the Woods County Election board the first week in December 2016. Because of an unusual number of board member...

Wednesday, Oct. 19 – Friday, Oct. 21: Fall break, no school Friday, Oct. 20: 7 p.m. Mooreland Football at Hooker Monday, Oct. 24: 1:30 – 6:30 p.m. Oklahoma Blood Drive in FCCLA Room L Thursday, Oct. 27: 3:45 p.m. Academic Triad I at Cherokee Fri...

The board that governs the town of Freedom was missing several key participants last Wednesday evening, Oct. 12. Member Ty Harper was absent, as was clerk Cindy Reed. Also, Pebbles Luddington was absent as she had to attend a different meeting, so... Full story

Breakfast Menu for Freedom Public School Friday – No school Monday – Ham and cheese croissant or cereal, fruit, juice Tuesday – Breakfast burrito or cereal, yogurt, fruit, juice Wednesday – French toast sticks and bacon or muffin, fruit, juice T...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State pitching coach Rob Walton has been named the 2016 Assistant Coach of the Year. The OSU pitching staff included Big 12 Conference Pitcher of the Year and All-American Thomas Hatch and a total of seven p...

DALLAS (AP) — Infighting and poor oversight, including an instance of "profound neglect," contributed to the mistreatment of animals at a Texas A&M University campus, according to federal and university reports. Texas A&M University in Commerce, n...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Texas Christian University plans to appoint a high-level administrator to promote diversity and inclusiveness after some minority students complained about race issues. A university statement Wednesday says school o...

MULDROW, Okla. (AP) — A teacher in eastern Oklahoma has been charged after authorities say she allowed her son to fight another student on school grounds as she watched. The Oklahoman (http://bit.ly/2eizlN5 ) reports that the teacher, who works f...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A retired Kansas guidance counselor who underwent a quadruple amputation after a cellphone store shooting had to take questions from the man charged with attacking her. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/2etvQ4U ) reports that 2...

DACULA, Ga. (AP) — A year ago, Cindy Martinez was struggling to walk even just a few feet and lift just five pounds. A flesh-eating bacteria had ravaged the 35-year-old Marine veteran's body. She had a grim choice: Amputate both legs, an arm below t...

ACKERMAN, Miss. (AP) — Pulled over for traffic violations, Jessica Jauch was held for 96 days in a Mississippi jail without seeing a judge, getting a lawyer or having a chance to make bail. She was charged with a felony based on a secretly r...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA says a spacecraft circling Jupiter has hit another snag. The space agency said Wednesday that Juno detected a problem, went into safe mode and shut off its camera and instruments. The spacecraft can communicate with Earth, b...

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech police have arrested a Russian hacker suspected of cyberattacks in the United States, officials said on Wednesday. Police said an international warrant for the man, who was not named, was issued by Interpol and that officers c...

DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) — The European Space Agency lost contact with an experimental Mars probe shortly before its planned landing on the red planet Wednesday. Scientists said that wasn't a good sign for the Schiaparelli lander, but it was too s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators are looking to set up new standards for big banks' planning and testing for possible cyberattacks. The aim is to bolster the banking industry's defenses amid concern over periodic security breaches at U.S. b...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Pyongyang's newly opened zoo has a new star: Azalea, the smoking chimpanzee. According to officials at the newly renovated zoo, which has become a favorite leisure spot in the North Korean capital since it re-opened i...

NEW YORK (AP) — Send in the frowns. This year's nationwide creepy clown craze has become a nightmare before Halloween for actual, working clowns, who say their bookings at parties and other events have dropped sharply, even after many of the s...