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The Waynoka Board of Education held its regular meeting Monday. Principal Dustin Smith told the board that the Veterans Day program will be this Thursday, Nov. 11. At 8:30 a.m. the school will hold a breakfast for veterans and their spouses. Student...

At the late October meeting of the Kiowa District Hospital, CEO/CFO Janell Goodno reported a decline in Covid cases. KDH saw 10 positive cases in October. Goodno said although the OSHA mask mandate expires in December, it will likely be extended....

The Woods County commissioners renewed the agreement for cooperative extension services during Monday’s meeting. Woods County Extension Director Greg Highfill attended the meeting. Highfill said the agreement is with the OSU vice president for e... Full story

Monday afternoon during their second meeting, the Woods County EMS Board determined how long each of the five board members will serve and their meeting dates for next year. Many of the agenda items were tabled for more study. Linda Hutchison was... Full story

South Barber schools plan to celebrate Veteran's Day on Thursday, Nov. 11, at 11 a.m., in the high school gymnasium to honor all veterans, as well as those currently serving in the military. If any veteran would like to share memorabilia a...

Several area football teams are in state playoffs this week. The Alva High School Goldbugs will head to Oklahoma City to play at Crossings Christian School. It’s their first trip to playoffs since 2017. Kickoff time is 7:30 p.m. The South Barber C...

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The murder case against Kyle Rittenhouse was thrown into jeopardy Wednesday when his lawyers asked for a mistrial over what appeared to be out-of-bounds questions asked of Rittenhouse by the chief prosecutor. The judge did not i...

MIAMI (AP) — A businessman accused of siphoning off millions in state contracts from Venezuela met secretly with U.S. law enforcement to provide intelligence against Nicolás Maduro's government prior to being charged in 2019 with money la...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The campaign to vaccinate elementary school age children in the U.S. is off to a strong start, health officials said Wednesday, but experts say there are signs that it will be difficult to sustain the initial momentum. About 900,000...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX counted down Wednesday toward a nighttime launch of four astronauts who have been grounded for nearly two weeks by weather and medical delays. The Falcon rocket was poised to blast off from NASA's Kennedy Space C...

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The world's top carbon polluters, China and the United States, agreed Wednesday to increase their cooperation and speed up action to rein in climate-damaging emissions, signaling a mutual effort on global warming at a time o...

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — One of the three white men standing trial for the death of Ahmaud Arbery said they had the 25-year-old Black man "trapped like a rat" before he was fatally shot, a police investigator testified Wednesday. Father and son Greg a...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Over an 11-hour interview with investigators last July, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo defiantly denied allegations he sexually harassed women and took a confrontational tone with the lawyers questioning him, accusing one of t...

North Carolina Republicans are well positioned to pick up at least two House seats in next year's election — but it's not because the state is getting redder. The state remains a perennial battleground, closely split between Democrats and R...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A worsening surge of inflation for such bedrock necessities as food, rent, autos and heating oil is setting Americans up for a financially difficult Thanksgiving and holiday shopping season. Prices for U.S. consumers jumped 6.2% i...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse took the stand in his murder trial Wednesday, testifying about how he shot three men during a protest against police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year. Rittenhouse killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony H...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — U.S. food banks already dealing with increased demand from families sidelined by the pandemic now face a new challenge — surging food prices and supply chain issues walloping the nation. The higher costs and limited ava...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday directed the State Department of Health to stop issuing nonbinary birth certificates, despite a settlement agreement in a civil case in which the agency agreed to do so. The first-term R...

The season is about to get serious for No. 4 Oklahoma and the Big 12. The Sooners come off a open date to play the first of what could be their four toughest games of the season. They visit No. 18 Baylor, which is coming off an upset loss but is...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new Kansas fiscal forecast issued Wednesday predicts that state government will be awash in more than enough cash to allow for the big tax cuts that Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and Republican legislators already planned to pursu...

GODDARD, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas school district has removed more than two dozen books from its library shelves to review them after other school systems challenged the material. KMUW-FM reports that Julie Cannizzo, assistant superintendent for a...