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Happy Birthday To Jan. 26: Margie Waldrop, Ashley Ferguson, Tammy Honer Jan. 27: Jason Kornele, Ranae Murrow, Ronda Willams Jan. 28: Rita Maddux, Foy Wardrop, Donna Jo Harris, Jeff Darr Jan. 29: Tracy Walker Jan. 30: Staci Bliss, Tenesha Bookstore Jan. 31: Chad Grimes, Bill Bishop, Bret Burnham Feb. 1: Tricia Coday, Dean Welty, Jeffery Melkus Feb. 2: Dylan Moore, Lisa Welty, Jerry Cell, Deric Wagner Feb. 3: Bobby Gerloff, Vanessa Gerloff Feb. 4: Noah Ring Feb. 5: Chad Novak, Bryce Adair, Kay Decker Wardrop Feb. 6: Tamara Green Feb. 7: Norma...
Sunday, Jan. 21, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Christ’s light and lighting of the candles brought in by Shay and Jack Wilson Opening prayer by Pastor Woody Hamon Call to Worship – Psalm 1:1-6 led by Peg Nixon Opening hymn “Amazing Grace” led by Debbie Brown, song leader Affirmation of Faith led by Shirley Wagner Hymn of Justifying Grace “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms” Offertory – Janell Reutlinger Offertory Prayer by Pastor Woody Hamon Children’s Moments Scripture – Joh...
Thursday, Jan. 25: Junior high basketball vs Hillsdale at 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26: (Homecoming) High school basketball vs Hardesty at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27: Freedom Elementary Basketball Festival Tuesday, Jan. 30: High school basketball at Taloga at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2: High school basketball at Billings at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 5: Spring picture day, be prepared for group pictures Monday, Feb. 5: High school basketball at Medford 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 7: 4-H meeting, 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8: Parent Teacher Conferences,...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. His original name was Michael King Jr. He was the son of Alberta and Martin King Sr. He married his wife, Coretta, on June 18, 1953, and had three boys. King experienced racial prejudice early in life. Segregation was both law and custom in the south and other parts of America. He was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death. King was...
Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s new Doctor of Nursing Practice program has successfully completed its first semester with 20 doctoral students and is underway with its first spring semester. The DNP program is now accepting applications for this coming fall that will begin studying in August. The application deadline is March 1. A full list of admission requirements and an application to the program and to the university can be found at www.nwosu.edu/bsn-to-dnp. Costs for the doctoral program can be found at this link as well. N...
January has been designated as School Board Recognition Month by the Oklahoma State School Board Association. This is an opportunity for local schools and communities to honor Oklahoma's more than 2,700 elected school board members for their tireless dedication to students and to schools. "We appreciate the Northwest Technology Center Board Members and their dedicated service to our technology center district. School Board Recognition Month is a way to say thank you to the board members and to s...
This past weekend, both the Freedom Eagles and Lady Eagles basketball teams took part in the annual Buffalo Invitational Basketball Tournament, with the boy's squad bringing home some hardware from the event. On Friday, the Eagles and Lady Eagles will host Hardesty at home. Tipoff for the girls is at 6:30 p.m., with the boys immediately following the girls contest. The teams will travel to Taloga on Tuesday evening, before wrapping up the regular season at Billings on Feb. 2 and hosting Medford...
MAGNOLIA, Ark. — The University of Arkansas at Monticello men's basketball team was taken down on the road by rival Southern Arkansas Tuesday night, 69-68. NOTABLES The Weevils drop to 11-6 (6-5 GAC) on the year. SAU records its sixth straight win to improve to 10-7 (6-5 GAC) this season. Derylton Hill recorded his fourth double-double of the season with 23 points, and 10 rebounds. UAM STATS Derylton Hill — 23 points, 10 rebounds Cobe Goosby — 14 points, 5 assists, 5 rebounds Tyrin Jones — 12 points, 2 rebounds FIRST HALF Despite falling...
MAGNOLIA, Ark. — The University of Arkansas at Monticello women's basketball team took down rival SAU on the road Tuesday evening by a final score of 66-56. NOTABLES The Blossoms improve to 6-10 (2-9 GAC) this season. SAU will drop to 4-13 (3-8 GAC) overall. UAM STATS Mackenzie Johnson — 17 points, 5 rebounds Taylor Collins — 12 points, 4 steals Brittnee Broadway — 11 points, 5 rebounds FIRST HALF The Muleriders controlled the pace of the opening quarter, leading the Blossoms 10-8 by the period's end. SAU continued to hold the momentum in this...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. — Henderson State, behind 25 points from Kaylon Tappin and some big shots late, withstood a furious second-half rally from Ouachita Baptist on Tuesday night to defeat the Tigers 81-79 on their home floor in Bill Vining Arena. The Reddies (9-8, 4-7), who led 41-30 at the break, came out firing on all cylinders to start the second half and used a 17-5 run in the first six minutes to take a 58-35 lead with 14:08 to play. It was at that moment that things shifted for Henderson, as Ouachita Baptist (6-10, 4-7) refused to miss from...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. — Defense was the story for Henderson State on Tuesday night, as the Reddies held Ouachita Baptist to just 22 points and 27.3 percent shooting from the field in the second half to pull away from their rival 67-56 at Bill Vining Arena. After leading by six at halftime, Henderson (12-5, 8-3) ran into some foul trouble early in the third quarter, as starters Hailey Estes and Bree Bossier each picked up their fourth fouls in the opening moments of the second half, leaving the Reddies with three or more starters off the floor f...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Ouachita Baptist was unable to complete the comeback against Henderson State on Tuesday evening, falling 81-79 inside Bill Vining Arena. "I loved the effort we had in the second half tonight." Ouachita Baptist head men's basketball coach Dennis Nutt said, "We battled back from 23 points down and made it a close game that we could have won." With 14:08 left to play in the second half Kaylon Tappin stole the ball away from Jontavis Willis (Strong, Ark.) and dunked the ball looking to silence the Ouachita (6-10, 4-7 GAC) c...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – A poor offensive shooting night for the Ouachita Baptist Lady Tigers proved to be the difference in a 67-56 loss to cross-town rival Henderson State on Tuesday evening inside Vining Arena. "We are very disappointed in the loss to our rival tonight," Ouachita Baptist women's basketball coach Garry Crowder said. "We did not execute well on either side of the ball tonight and you can't win many games scoring 56 points." Henderson State (12-5, 8-3 GAC) scored the first five points of the contest, before Ouachita (9-8, 5-6 GAC) c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House announced Wednesday that it would be unveiling a legislative framework on immigration that it hopes can pass both the House and the Senate and land on the president's desk. The framework to be unveiled Monday "represents a compromise that members of both parties can support," spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, as the White House appeared to try to take control of the process amid criticism that the president has taken too much of a back seat during the negotiations and sent mixed signals that have repeate...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — The California children who authorities say were tortured by their parents and so malnourished that their growth was stunted are slowly providing valuable information to investigators, a prosecutor told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "Victims in these kinds of cases, they tell their story, but they tell it slowly. They tell it at their own pace," Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said. "It will come out when it comes out." David and Louise Turpin are accused of abusing their 13 children — ranging fro...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional investigators said Wednesday that Chinese opioid manufacturers are exploiting weak screening at the U.S. Postal Service to ship large quantities of illegal drugs to American dealers. In a yearlong probe, Senate investigators found that Chinese sellers, who openly market opioids such as fentanyl to U.S. buyers, are pushing delivery through the U.S. postal system. The sellers are taking advantage of a failure by the postal service to fully implement an electronic data system that would help authorities identify sus...
BENTON, Ky. (AP) — A tight-knit rural community reflected Wednesday on the hometown horror of a school shooting that killed two teenagers, injured 18 and sent hundreds of others fleeing for their lives from a place many considered immune from violence. Police have not publicly identified the 15-year-old accused of opening fire Tuesday at Marshall County High School. Officers said he walked into the "commons" area where many students gather before classes begin and immediately began shooting. Witnesses said he fired a single shot, paused, and th...
NEW YORK (AP) — The family real estate company once run by Jared Kushner is no longer seeking $150 million from Chinese investors for a New Jersey building project after months of criticism that the company was playing up its White House ties to raise the money. A person familiar with the fundraising effort said this week that the company has stopped trying to raise money from wealthy Chinese to help pay for One Journal Square, a planned 66-story residential, retail and office complex in Jersey City, New Jersey, just across the Hudson River f...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is ready to play salesman as he heads to an economic summit in the Swiss Alps, making the case that his "America First" agenda can go hand-in-hand with global cooperation. Trump is set to arrive at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday to declare that the United States is open for business. But the protectionist-leaning president's attendance at an annual gathering for free-trade-loving political and business elites has raised eyebrows. And his decision to sign new tariffs boosting...
NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time, researchers have used the cloning technique that produced Dolly the sheep to create healthy monkeys, bringing science an important step closer to being able to do the same with humans. Since Dolly's birth in 1996, scientists have cloned nearly two dozen kinds of mammals, including dogs, cats, pigs, cows and polo ponies, and have also created human embryos with this method. But until now, they have been unable to make babies this way in primates, the category that includes monkeys, apes and people. "The b...
DETROIT (AP) — Two federal agencies have dispatched teams to investigate the California crash of a Tesla Model S electric car that may have been operating under its semi-autonomous "Autopilot" system. It's the second time the National Transportation Safety Board and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have investigated the performance of Autopilot, which keeps a vehicle centered in its lane at a set distance from cars in front of it and also can change lanes and brake automatically. The safety board sent two investigators to C...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The former sports doctor who admitted molesting some of the nation's top gymnasts for years under the guise of medical treatment was sentenced Wednesday to 40 to 175 years in prison by a judge who proudly told him, "I just signed your death warrant." The sentence capped a remarkable seven-day hearing in which more than 150 women and girls offered statements about being abused by Larry Nassar, a physician who was renowned for treating athletes at the sport's highest levels. Many confronted him face to face in the M...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department ramped up pressure Wednesday on so-called sanctuary cities seeking public safety grant money, warning that they could be legally forced to prove they are cooperating with federal immigration authorities. The move prompted immediate backlash, with mayors from across the country boycotting a planned meeting at the White House with President Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon. Trump responded by accusing the boycotting mayors of putting the needs of "criminal illegal immigrants over law-abiding A...
JERUSALEM (AP) — A senior Israeli official on Wednesday said he led a secret investigation into 16-year-old Palestinian protest icon Ahed Tamimi and her family, in part because their appearance — including "blond-haired, freckled" children in "Western clothes" — made them seem less like "real" Palestinians. The stunning comments by Michael Oren, a deputy minister and former ambassador to the United States, promptly drew accusations of racism from the family — the latest twist in a case that has turned into a public relations headache for Isr...
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — European leaders came to the defense of free trade and global cooperation on Wednesday, laying out a vision meant to counterbalance what many perceive as a rise in the more brash, nationalistic policies of U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump's expected arrival to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday overshadowed the event and many government leaders rushed to take a stance in contrast with Trump's policies, particularly his move to revise free trade deals and drop out of a global climate change p...
