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According to the affidavits and petitions on file, the following individuals have been charged. An individual is innocent of any charges listed below until proven guilty in a court of law. All information is a matter of public record and may be obtai...

Joe Lee Briggs Jr., Helena, vs. Bonnie Sue Patton Briggs, Midwest City: divorce....

Tuesday, December 17, 2019 During this day there were three traffic stops. 10:33 a.m. – Medic was needed for an unresponsive male. Medic took patient to Bass Hospital in Enid. 6:30 p.m. – Report of a grass fire on Oklahoma Highway 38 north of Jet...

December 16, 2019 Barber County Sheriff’s Office (BASO) responded to an animal call in the City Park. BASO investigated an accident on K-2. Medicine Lodge Police Department (MLPD) had a dog call on North Oak. BASO responded to a suspicious person o...

Voters who want to vote by absentee ballot for the 2020 election year should submit their absentee ballot applications to their county election board as soon as possible. Voters can request ballots for individual elections or for all elections they a...

Funeral services for Marvin Guthrie, 89, are pending with Marshall Funeral Home of Waynoka....

This time of year is always special. I love the cheerfulness of people even as they dash out to get last-minute presents or food for the family festivities they will enjoy. I love the lights, Christmas parties and parades. Most of all, however, I lov...

On Tuesday, Dec. 17, the Medicine Lodge basketball team defeated Kingman (Kansas) High School 59-48. Medicine Lodge Theron Wedel 30 Cason Liebst 7 Tyce Lonker 2 Dasik Clouse 12 Kirk Fisher 2 Chance Winter 2 Kyson Cunningham 4 Total 59 Kingman Price...

A Lamont man died Saturday from injuries sustained when the vehicle he was riding in hit cattle in the roadway. Britton Lane Stacy, 22, of Lamont, died at 4:18 p.m. Saturday at OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City. The collision occurred at 6 a.m.... Full story

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton spent the morning of her husband's impeachment visiting Capitol Hill to rally Democrats to his side. Pat Nixon kept assuring reporters her husband wouldn't quit — right up until he did. Eliza Johnson, frail from tube...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Congress has recessed for the holidays, and it has gone another year without passing legislation that would boost funding for Route 66. The lack of movement on reauthorizing the Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program means t...

HUGO, Okla. (AP) — A man who was shot with a stun gun and pepper spray after an altercation with law enforcement outside an Oklahoma convenience store early Monday has died, authorities said. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said it's l...

CHICKASHA, Okla. (AP) — A former Oklahoma zookeeper who was found guilty on murder-for-hire charges will be sentenced next month. Joe Exotic, whose legal name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, is being held at the Grady County Jail. He was found guilty in...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt's top adviser on tribal issues announced her resignation on Monday and accused the governor of creating an 'unnecessary conflict' with the tribes over casino gambling. Lisa Billy, a former Republican l...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Voters in seven Oklahoma counties will decide next year whether to allow liquor stores to open on Sundays, in a continued push to expand the state's market for booze. The measure will appear on ballots March 3, or "Super Tuesday"...

LEAWOOD, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are looking for a car seen leaving a suburban Kansas City apartment complex where one man was killed and another was wounded. Police in Leawood, Kansas, said Monday they are looking for a dark-colored Dodge C...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' new chief justice plans to push for changes aimed at helping veterans and the mentally ill, and expects to press for a big budget increase from a Republican-controlled Legislature that's likely to remain sharply c...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A judge has invalidated two state permits allowing construction of large hog production operations in northwest Kansas that environmentalists deemed too close to surface water. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Shawnee C...

LINCOLNVILLE, Kan. (AP) — More than three decades after a woman's body was found in a rural area of Kansas, authorities have identified the victim. Michelle Carnall-Burton, 22, of Wichita, Kansas, went missing in 1987. On Monday, the Kansas Bureau o...