Articles from the December 16, 2022 edition
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Runway lighting project won't start until early summer
A project to replace runway lighting at the Alva Regional Airport won’t start until early summer, according to engineers. Currently the airport has no lights for night landings. This poses a safety issue for pilots wanting to land after dark. It d... Full story
Alva Ladybugs take second in Shootout
As the Alva-NWOSU Shootout tournament reached the final day Saturday, Dec. 10, the Alva Ladybugs faced the Seiling Lady Cats for the championship honors. The Alva girls defeated South Barber 69-10 and... Full story
Alva Goldbugs lose to Catoosa to take second place
After winning 75-41 over the Enid JV and 73-35 over South Central, the Alva Goldbugs faced the Catoosa Indians in the championship game of the Alva-NWOSU Shootout Saturday. Catoosa beat South Barber... Full story
Company reopens most of pipeline following Kansas oil spill
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The operator of a pipeline with the largest onshore crude oil spill in nine years has reopened all of it except for the stretch in Kansas and northern Oklahoma that includes the site of the rupture. Canada-based T.C. Energy s...
US stocks sink as Fed signals it will remain aggressive
Stocks tumbled on Wall Street and across European markets Thursday as investors grew increasingly concerned that the Federal Reserve and other central banks are willing to risk a recession to bring inflation under control. The S&P 500 fell 2.5%,...
Texas officer convicted in killing of Atatiana Jefferson
A former Texas police officer was convicted of manslaughter Thursday for fatally shooting Atatiana Jefferson through a rear window of her home in 2019, a rare conviction of an officer for killing someone who was also armed with a gun. Jurors also...
Lengthy prison terms for 3 who aided Whitmer kidnap plotter
JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — A judge on Thursday handed down the longest prison terms so far in the plot to kidnap Michigan's governor, sentencing three men who forged an early alliance with a leader of the scheme before the FBI broke it up in 2020. Joe M...
Biden pumps up Africa relations, will visit next year
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday he will visit sub-Saharan Africa next year, the first U.S. president to travel there in a decade. He announced the trip — still unscheduled — as he wrapped up a U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit by stres...
Russia: US air defense systems could be targets in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia's Foreign Ministry warned Thursday that if the U.S. delivers sophisticated air defense systems to Ukraine, those systems and any crews that accompany them would be a "legitimate target" for the Russian military, a blunt t...
No fuel, no mast, no water: Rescued sailors describe ordeal
NEW YORK (AP) — Two sailors who drifted hundreds of miles in the Atlantic Ocean for 10 days after a storm hit their sailboat off North Carolina thanked the crew of the tanker that rescued them and said they were lucky to have survived. Kevin Hyde a...
House approves referendum to 'decolonize' Puerto Rico
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House passed a bill Thursday that would allow Puerto Rico to hold the first-ever binding referendum on whether to become a state or gain some sort of independence, in a last-ditch effort that stands little chance of p...
