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Alva Church of God Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m. and morning worship is at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Bible study is at 7 p.m. Alva Church of God is located at 517 Ninth St. in Alva and can be found on the web at www.AlvaChurchOfGod.org. Alva Friends Churc...

Many of us who have been Christians a long time recognize this title to a beautiful hymn sung for many years. The first line goes like this, “Take time to be holy, speak oft with thy Lord.” What a powerful string of words these are, as they call us...

On Nov. 11, 2022, Seaman 2nd Class Bruce Savoy would’ve been 109, but his life was stopped at age 23 in 1936 – before his life could really begin. A cemetery stone commemorates Bruce’s young life and military service. Hundreds of thousands of such...

If you are like me, you know, as I finish writing this on Sunday night, the sixth, that the Powerball Lottery has stretched itself to $1.9 billion. If you do a quick Google search you will find out that at least 132 countries that spin with us on...

Team Standings Dilly Dilly—32 ½ wins, 15 ½ losses Knights of Columbus—30 wins, 18 losses Rollin GoodTimes—23 ½ wins, 20 ½ losses Marshall's Oldtimers—25 ½ wins, 22 ½ losses O'Bar—25 wins, 23 losses The Bowl Movements—23 ½ wins, 24 ½ losses Livin' on...

SHAWNEE, Okla. – Northwestern Oklahoma Cross Country men competed in the GAC Championships Saturday morning. Northwestern had one place in the Top 30 with four in the Top 50 of the meet. Overall Northwestern placed sixth in the GAC Championships. "Th...

With the design phase of the swimming pool and bath-house complete, the Alva Parks and Recreation Board is moving forward with plans for the Hatfield Park area. In order to qualify for future grants, a master plan is needed. This master plan will...

Handling City of Alva business is a big job, and elected officials are having a tough time finding someone to take on the challenge. At their Oct. 17 meeting, councilmembers held a lengthy executive session. It included an extensive in-person...

A stolen vehicle pursuit ended in a wreck with the suspect hospitalized. He was being pursued into Woods County by a Major County deputy when both vehicles went through a T-intersection. The suspect is reported in critical condition while the deputy...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court on Thursday denied death row inmate Richard Glossip's request for a new evidentiary hearing that his attorneys suggest would prove his innocence in the 1997 beating death of Glossip's boss at an O...

Oklahoma State still has an outside shot at reaching the Big 12 championship game, and a win against Iowa State would help. A loss would be the third straight for a team that just a month ago had been in the AP Top 10 and had aspirations of winning...

The Kansas State Board of Education on Thursday recommended that the state's public school districts eliminate Native American mascots and branding to reduce their harmful impacts on students. The board approved a motion making a "strong...

BATON ROUGE (AP) — A 23-year-old has defeated a two-term incumbent to become a small Louisiana city's next mayor. Tyrin Truong, a Democrat, bested independent Mayor Wendy O'Quin Perrette, 47, in Bogalusa, a city of about 11,000 in southeastern L...

Elon Musk warned Twitter employees Thursday to brace for "difficult times ahead" that might end with the collapse of the social media platform if they can't find new ways of making money. Workers who survived last week's mass layoffs are facing...

PHOENIX (AP) — A key question hangs over the more than 600,000 ballots left to be tallied in Arizona: Do they look like the state's late-counted 2020 ballots that overwhelmingly went to Republicans or break down more like the 2018 midterms, when D...

WILBUR-BY-THE-SEA, Fla. (AP) — Tropical Storm Nicole sent Florida homes toppling into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday and threatened a row of high-rise condominiums in places where Hurricane Ian washed away the beach and destroyed seawalls only w...

ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker pivoted to a decisive extra round of their Senate race Thursday, while party leaders and donors around the country geared up for a four-week campaign blitz that...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia said it began withdrawing troops from a strategic Ukrainian city Thursday, creating a potential turning point in the grinding war, while a Ukrainian official warned that Russian land mines could render Kherson a "city o...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has taken some hits in the aftermath of the midterm elections, but the unkindest cuts may have come from a source that was once among his biggest backers — the media empire of magnate Rupert Murdoch. The...