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The Alva Hospital Authority heard a preliminary report on audit results for the last fiscal year ending June 30. CPA Andrew Hejtmanek, a director of BKD, LLP, gave a summary. Earlier he presented a more detailed report to the finance committee of... Full story

ADA, Okla. – Northwestern Oklahoma State University volleyball won their last match of the regular season in high fashion, taking down the Tigers of East Central University in four sets [25-18, 25-23, 23-25, 25-19]. Northwestern went up early in this...

SHAWNEE, Okla. – The Northwestern Oklahoma State University football team had to battle the win and battle the Oklahoma Baptist Bison offense as the Rangers fell to OBU 38-31 on the road Saturday. Northwestern found itself in a 38-17 hole heading i... Full story

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Republicans seized control of every statewide elected office in the 2010 midterm election, and they've maintained their dominance ever since. But in a state Republicans like to boast is the "reddest of the red," 7...

HARTSHORNE, Okla. (AP) — The attorney for a suspended eastern Oklahoma police chief says he has filed an appeal of the action. Attorney Blake Lynch told the McAlester News-Capital that an appeal hearing for suspended Hartshorne Police Chief Jeremy P...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Nez Perce Indians grew and smoked tobacco long before white traders and settlers arrived in the Pacific Northwest, new research from Washington State University has revealed. By testing stone pipes for nicotine residue, the rese...

MOORE, Okla. (AP) — The city of Moore will not enforce recently passed ordinances intended to regulate medical marijuana in the Oklahoma City suburb. City Attorney Randy Brink told The Oklahoman that the rules never took effect because of a recent c...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — Hilldale Middle School and High School students can go to the library and sit on a plush sectional sofa, red metal bar stools, even the floor. Librarian Laurel Croftcheck said she wanted to create smaller, more comfortable s...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democrats in Kansas who have had to sit on the political sidelines for the better part of a decade are hoping for a blue wave on Election Day that could help them break the Republican grip on power and are optimistic about t...

DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — The Boot Hill Museum in Dodge City unearthed some of its past as officials turn toward the future. A time capsule buried at the museum in 1972 was unearthed Thursday as part of a groundbreaking ceremony for an expansion p...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says state residents safely disposed of more than seven tons of unused and unwanted medicines during last Saturday's National Drug Take-Back Day. Kansas law enforcement officers collected 1...

MILLVILLE, N.J. (AP) — Fresh from basic training, a 7-month-old pup is ready to move forward with his mission to help calm a veteran coping with post-traumatic stress. Gunny, a husky-pit bull mix, needs a home and companion. "The biggest thing for u...

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook and other social platforms have been fighting online misinformation and hate speech for two years. With the U.S. midterm elections just a few days away, there are signs that they're making some headway, although they're still...

ORONO, Maine (AP) — Scientists from universities in Maine and Michigan are getting a boost from the federal government in researching weed management on organic farms. Organic farms use a more limited scope of weed management tools than c...

JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Willie Hughes was one of the Wisconsin farmers growing hemp legally for the first time in about seven decades, and he wanted his crop to thrive. Growing hemp carried uncertainty. What care did it need? How is it harvested? W...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday declined for now to stop a lawsuit filed by young activists who say the government isn't doing enough to prevent climate change. But the high court told the Trump administration that the government can s...

ISLA, Mexico (AP) — Hundreds of Central American migrants from a 4,000-strong caravan winding its way through southern Mexico and toward the U.S. border splintered off on their own Saturday after broken promises of bus transportation. Patience a...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill has approvingly evoked former President Ronald Reagan. She said she would back President Donald Trump if he stopped a migrant caravan at the border. And speaking on Fox News, she has decried "...

DENVER (AP) — Republican treasurer Walker Stapleton has attacked his opponent in the race for Colorado governor, Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, as too radical and extreme for the rapidly growing state as the GOP tries to prevent a complete D...

NEW YORK (AP) — Whatever success Republicans have amassed in taking control of all three branches of U.S. government, and whatever fate awaits them as midterm elections near, some on the right are working to cement change by amending the C...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has been acting like a candidate on the ballot this week, staging daily double-header rallies and blasting out ads for Republicans up for election on Tuesday. Given the stakes for his presidency, he might a...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's Culture Ministry says a Greek farmer's recent discovery of a fragment of an ancient statue while tilling his field has yielded three more statues and several graves in the past month. Archeologists have been busy s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump spread distorted theories and numbers on immigration in the campaign's final days while claiming economic gains for minorities that have not been achieved. A look at 11th hour rhetoric before the elections T...

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — When Paul Davis heard earlier this year that the complete remains of two Civil War soldiers had been uncovered recently at Manassas National Battlefield, mixed among severed limbs in a surgeon's pit, he immediately wondered: C...

MINYA, Egypt (AP) — Hundreds of Egyptian Christians attended a funeral service Saturday after seven people were killed in an ambush by Islamic State militants of buses carrying pilgrims to a remote desert monastery. The service at Prince Tadros c...