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The Patchwork Friends OHCE group met for their regular meeting at the First Baptist Church on Thursday, Nov. 14, with Aleta Nolan as hostess. Anita Jacobson was welcomed as a guest. Nine members answered to “What is your favorite quilt pattern?" E...

The Petunia Garden club met at Barbara Faulkner's home on Nov. 13, 2019, with Marilyn Davison as co-hostess. Following refreshments President Betty McMurphy called the meeting to order and the Gardener Creed was read in unison. Roll call was...

Mary Ann Crow hosted the monthly meeting of the Tulip Garden Club at her lovely home on Nov. 14. Crow’s beautiful table was decorated with a Thanksgiving theme of pumpkins, leaves and a turkey. Each member received a pumpkin decoration. She served t...

Physician recruitment is continuing for Share Medical Center in Alva. CEO Kandice Allen said one doctor who visited has declined the offer because of the lack of opportunity for her husband to grow his practice. The other physician who recently...

Plans are underway for the 2020 Reunion of Alva High School graduates to be held on the July 4 weekend. On behalf of the Alva Goldbug Education Foundation, Lizabeth Richey spoke to the Alva Tourism Committee Wednesday to request some funding to get...

Only 18 inmates at Bill Johnson Correctional Center (BJCC) were qualified for commutation of their sentences for an early release from prison, according to Warden Becky Guffy. During the Tuesday noon meeting of the BJCC Citizen Advisory Board, she...

Fall commencement at Northwestern Oklahoma State University will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 8, in Percefull Fieldhouse. Dr. Chan Hellman of Tulsa, a 1989 graduate and founding director for the Hope Research Center, will deliver the...

Menu for Woods County Senior Citizens Monday – Italian meatballs in tomato sauce with noodles, corn, cauliflower, garlic bread, pears (diabetic: no sugar added pears) Tuesday – Maryland chicken, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, biscuit, cho...

OKLAHOMA CITY (Nov. 21, 2019) – One game after winning a grind-it-out thriller on the road, Oklahoma Christian was on the other end of a similar basketball game on Thursday night in the Eagles' Nest. Daniel Severo hit the front end of a two-shot f...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — The NCAA warned Oklahoma State that it may be guilty of a major infraction tied to the actions of former assistant basketball coach Lamont Evans. The school on Friday released the NCAA's notice that alleges Evans "engaged i...

The NBA may be closer to a shorter season, a new postseason format and the in-season tournament Commissioner Adam Silver has long wanted as well. A person familiar with the negotiations said Saturday the NBA is working with the players' union and...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A memorial was unveiled Saturday honoring the 22 people who were killed in a recent mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. The 30-foot tall golden obelisk, called the "Grand Candela," or "Big Candle," was revealed to the...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police in Wichita say a 28-year-old woman has been stabbed to death. The Wichita Eagle reports that the woman, whose name has not yet been released, died Saturday morning at a Wichita hospital. Police say officers were called j...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A woman accused of fatally shooting her boyfriend has been charged with intentional second-degree murder. Wichita station KSNW reports that 45-year-old Stacey Peters, of Haysville, made an appearance Friday in Sedgwick County C...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a 19-year-old Wichita man has died in a three-vehicle crash on a Dickinson County road. The Wichita Eagle reports that the crash happened around noon Friday when a pickup truck left the roadway, went into a d...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas universities are reducing general education requirements to ensure more students can graduate on time and create more room for classes in their majors. Wichita State University became the latest school to slash the n...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Health Care Authority has hired a consultant to help devise a state Medicaid program as an alternative to Medicaid expansion. The Oklahoman reports the OHCA on Thursday finalized a contract with Michigan-based H...

GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) — A dozen years after a tornado nearly wiped out Greensburg, city leaders acknowledge that the decision to rebuild as "the greenest community in America" has been a mixed success. The E-5 tornado on May 4, 2007, killed 11 p...

BENSON, Ariz. (AP) — Kartchner Caverns, the Arizona's state parks system's underground flagship attraction with formations that have been growing for thousands of years, is no longer a teenager. Former state parks officials who helped develop it w...