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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 definitely means no jet traffic and no landings by air ambulance aircraft after sundown. Alva Airport Commission members discussed options for getting the runway lights operational temporarily until the spring project. Airport Manager Derrick Courson said having Williams Electric, the company f... Full story
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 South Central 57-25 to teach that point, but Seiling was a different matter. Seiling beat the Alva JV 68-12 in the first round and Pawhuska 85-38. Seiling led the Ladybugs 14-8 at the end of the first quarter and extended their lead to 23-15 at halftime. In the third quarter, the Lady Cats added 19... Full story
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 83-53 and Pawhuska 77-33 to advance. The teams were neck-and-neck in the first quarter with Catoosa holding a one-point edge at 15-14. However, Catoosa scored 23 in the second period while holding Alva to 17. The Indians led 38-31 at halftime. Catoosa continued to out-score Alva 32 to 24 in the... Full story
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 said in a statement Wednesday night that its Keystone system has restarted operations from Canada to southern Nebraska and from there to south-central Illinois. It also is operating the pipeline from northern Oklahoma to the Gulf Coast. The Dec. 7 spill forced the company to shut down the Keystone s...
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%, with more than 90% of stocks in the benchmark index closing in the red. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2.2% and the Nasdaq composite lost 3.2%. The broad slide erased all the weekly gains for the major indexes. European stocks fell sharply, with Germany's DAX dropping 3.3%. The wave of selling...
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 considered a murder charge against Aaron Dean but instead convicted him of manslaughter. The conviction comes more than three years after the white Fort Worth officer shot the 28-year-old Black woman while responding to a call about an open front door. Dean, 38, faces up to 20 years in prison, with...
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 Morrison, Pete Musico and Paul Bellar were not charged with having a direct role in the conspiracy. But they were members of a paramilitary group that trained with Adam Fox, who separately faces a possible life sentence on Dec. 27 for his federal conviction. The trio was convicted in October of p...
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 stressing he's serious about increasing U.S. attention to the growing continent. His promise of a personal visit came as Biden declared to the 49 leaders gathered for the summit that "Africa belongs at the table" in every conversation of global consequence. "I'm looking forward to seeing you in your home...
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 threat that was quickly rejected by Washington. The exchange of statements reflected soaring Russia-U.S. tensions amid the fighting in Ukraine, which is now in its 10th month. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the U.S. had "effectively become a party" to the war by providing U...
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 and Joe DiTomasso, freshly ashore in New York City Tuesday night after their ordeal, described rolling in mountainous waves after the wind dismasted their boat, then running out of water as currents pulled them further and further into the frigid North Atlantic. "Youse don't know what 40-foot waves l...
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 passing the Senate. The bill, which passed 233-191 with some Republican support, would offer voters in the U.S. territory three options: statehood, independence or independence with free association. "It is crucial to me that any proposal in Congress to decolonize Puerto Rico be informed and led by P...
