Articles from the November 14, 2018 edition
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Greek authorities say lost ancient city of Tenea is located
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's culture ministry said Tuesday that archaeologists have located the first tangible remains of a lost city that the ancient Greeks believed was first settled by Trojan captives of war after the sack of Troy. A ministry s...
Oregon man tries to trade cannabis for a car, lands in jail
ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — Marijuana is legal in Oregon, but you can't barter it for a car. Police in Albany, Oregon, said Tuesday a car dealer posted a Mazda SUV for sale on an online marketplace on Friday. A man contacted the dealer and offered to t...
Romanian man returns $100,000 found in secondhand cupboard
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian man was surprised to find 95,000 euros ($107,000) stashed inside a secondhand cupboard he'd bought — and promptly returned the money. Adela Stanici told The Associated Press Tuesday that her husband, a con...
Runaway elephant returned to upstate New York sanctuary
WESTTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — An elephant that was burned by napalm during the Vietnam War has been returned to an upstate New York animal sanctuary after taking a late-night stroll. State police say they went to the Sanctuary for Animals in Westtown on S...
Sheriff: California wildfire's death toll rises to 48
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — Ernest Foss was a musician who gave lessons out of his home when he lived in San Francisco, where an amplifier that ran the length of a wall served as the family's living room couch. Carl Wiley refurbished tires for M...
Authorities: Custody dispute played role in family's slaying
WAVERLY, Ohio (AP) — Authorities arrested a family of four Tuesday in the gruesome 2016 slayings of eight people from another family in rural Ohio, a crime that prosecutors suggested stemmed from a custody dispute. The announcement marked the c...
Aline-Cleo October Student of the Month
Zayne Bohnet, senior, was chosen as the October Student of the Month at Aline-Cleo High School. Bohnet feels the "uniqueness" of school is that "we all know each other." His parents, teachers and...
Trump eyeing staffing shakeup in Cabinet and at White House
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is weighing an administration-wide shakeup as he looks to prepare his White House for divided government, but it is unclear who is going and who is staying. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was t...
Red, white and blue salute to veterans, onward and upward despite obstacles
Some of the veterans honored across the nation the last few days at ceremonies large and small faced situations unfathomable to most Americans in their time of service to the United States. But most...
In factory after factory, Kim tries to grow N. Korea economy
WONSAN, North Korea (AP) — For North Korean factory managers, a visit by leader Kim Jong Un is the highest of honors and quite possibly the most stressful event imaginable. The chief engineer at the Songdowon General Foodstuffs Factory had looked f...
US trial of Mexican drug lord "El Chapo" gets underway
NEW YORK (AP) — The infamous Mexican drug lord and escape artist Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was alternately portrayed at his U.S. trial on Tuesday as a calculating leader of a bloodthirsty smuggling operation that funneled tons of cocaine and other d...
Pink diamond sells for more than $50M, setting world record
GENEVA (AP) — Christie's sold the "Pink Legacy" diamond at auction Tuesday for more than $50 million including fees, saying it's a new world record price per carat for a pink diamond. Christie's said renowned jeweler Harry Winston was the buyer. T...
The "worst toys" for the holidays, according to safety group
BOSTON (AP) — A Black Panther "slash claw" and a plastic Power Rangers sword are among the items topping a consumer safety group's annual list of worst toys for the holiday season. Massachusetts-based World Against Toys Causing Harm, or W.A.T.C.H., u...
Waynoka FFA Halloween Party
On Oct. 30, Waynoka FFA held a Halloween party with 22 students present. They enjoyed pizza and dessert and then had a team pumpkin carving contest. The teams were divided by class and each team chose a farm animal to carve. The eighth graders won...
Melania Trump publicly calls for White House aide's firing
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an extraordinary move, Melania Trump called publicly Tuesday for the deputy national security adviser to be dismissed. After reports circulated Tuesday that President Donald Trump had decided to remove Mira Ricardel from her p...
Appointment of acting attorney general challenged in court
WASHINGTON (AP) — Maryland is challenging the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as the new U.S. acting attorney general, arguing that President Donald Trump sidestepped the Constitution and the Justice Department's own succession plan by elevating W...
Bishops weigh anti-abuse strategy after delay set by Vatican
BALTIMORE (AP) — Several Roman Catholic bishops on Tuesday urged colleagues at their national meeting to take some sort of action on the clergy sex abuse crisis despite a Vatican order to delay voting on key proposals. Bishop Thomas Paprocki of S...
CNN sues Trump, demanding return of Acosta to White House
NEW YORK (AP) — CNN took its access battle against the Trump administration to court on Tuesday, demanding the reinstatement of correspondent Jim Acosta's White House credentials because their revocation violates the right of freedom of the press. B...
Remember the caravan? After vote, focus on migrants fades
WASHINGTON (AP) — Did someone say caravan? One week after Election Day, President Donald Trump's daily drumbeat of warnings about a caravan of "bad thugs" and potential terrorists intent on invading the U.S. from Mexico has largely fallen silent. T...
House newcomers get first taste of Washington's power games
WASHINGTON (AP) — The bright-eyed class of incoming members of Congress descended on Washington Tuesday for schooling on the nuts and bolts underpinning a job like none other. But even as they chose curtain colors and sorted party invitations, the f...
Waynoka FFA well represented at Oklahoma State Fair and Tulsa State Fair
The Waynoka FFA was well represented at the Woods County Fair, Oklahoma State Fair and Tulsa State Fair. The Waynoka chapter entered over 45 items not including livestock entries. They won the...
Lynn Says
After about two weeks as a patient at Share Medical Center and a scheduled round of several weeks of chemotherapy, I am somewhat better but am facing a third round of chemo next week for the liver. I...
LOIS JEANATTA MATHIS
Lois Jeanetta Mathis, 93, of Dacoma, Oklahoma, was born on July 15, 1925, and passed away on November 6, 2018. Private services will be held at a late date. Online condolences may be made at www.whartonfuneralchapel.com....
