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Thomas Joseph "Tom" Doherty, 71, of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, died Tuesday, January 17, 2017, at the Kansas Heart Hospital, Wichita, Kansas. He was born on September 7, 1945, in Cherokee, Oklahoma, the son of Edward W. Doherty and Dorothy (Cox) Doherty. On January 17, 1969, he married Kathyrn (Weeks) Doherty in Kiowa, Kansas. He was a farmer, rancher and worked at the co-op elevator. He was a member of the St. Cornelius Catholic Church, Cherokee, and the American Legion. Survivors include his...
A business acquaintance, Aleta Kohlrus, called last week with the suggestion for this column: be nice to your postal carrier. She mentioned offering bottled water. That's a great idea. For many years, Vicky Hewatt at Lynn Martin Photography has pulled out her Tupperware stash of chocolate candy for the variety of postal carriers who visit 618 Barnes. Nearly always they take advantage of it. The idea came to us after one Halloween where we had left our orange bowl of leftover trick or treat...
In the boys' game, Waynoka won 57-38; in the girls', Waynoka won 53-25....
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Andrew Worley is the NCCAA Men's Indoor Track & Field Student-Athlete of the Week, the NCCAA announced Tuesday afternoon. Worley finished second in the heptathlon at the UCM Mule Relays with a point total of 4967, the highest mark in the NCCAA this season. The sophomore from Blackwell, Oklahoma, took first in the heptathlon 60 meters and the high jump, and was second in the long jump and 60 meter hurdles....
SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist pitcher Carson McPherson was tabbed by the NCCAA as its Baseball Pitcher Student-Athlete of the Week. The senior from Ardmore was 1-0 on the week and was the starter and winning pitcher in OBU's staff no-hitter against Baker. McPherson struck out six and walked two in three innings of work....
LAWTON, Okla. – Southeastern surrendered five runs combined in the latter innings against Cameron and fell victim to a road sweep, falling 3-2 in the opener and 8-4 in the nightcap in Lawton, Okla., on Tuesday afternoon. The losses drop the Savage Storm to 4-4 on the year and they will be idle for nine days before returning to action on Feb. 16 against Newman. Five different players each collected one hits in the opener, with Symphoni Shomo turning hers into a double while Destiny Riddle drove in a pair of runs. Emily Cudd was saddled with t...
DURANT, Okla. – On the heels of his record setting performance Southeastern's Anton Cook has been named Co-Great American Conference Player of the Week. Despite the Savage Storm dropping both of its road contests last week, Cook poured in 68 points over two games to average 34.0 ppg while going 13-of-20 from the floor, including an 8-of-18 mark from behind the arc. His 46 point outburst against Henderson State is the GAC's single game record and is tied for the third-best single-game scoring outing in SE history. Cook's impressive p...
EDMOND, Okla. — Jefferson Harris went 2-for-3 with a run scored for Southern Nazarene in a 20-2 loss at Central Oklahoma Tuesday. Tyler Stevens scored the other run for the Crimson Storm (0-5) as he also went 2-for-4. The Bronchos (3-0) scored seven runs in the bottom of the first and never looked back. SNU got on the board in the top of the second on a passed by to make it 7-1, but UCO scored four runs, all unearned, in the bottom half to make it 11-1. The Bronchos added eight more in the fourth before the Storm got another run in the fifth w...
WACO, Texas – Junior outfielder Bradley Degnan was named the Heartland Conference Hitter of the Week after a record-breaking game against Randall, announced on Tuesday (Feb. 7) by the Heartland Conference. Degnan, a junior from Woodside, Calif., had a scorching start to the 2017 season, setting a school record with eight RBI in a dominating win over Randall. The outfielder went 3-for-5 with an RBI triple, a three-run home run and a grand slam home run. Degnan hit a home run in each of the four games during the week, totaling five long balls. He...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference has named Jalissa Gum the GAC Softball Player of the Week after 2017's season-opening weekend. Gum led the Golden Suns to a 3-1 record in the Southeastern Oklahoma Regional Tournament to earn the sixth GAC weekly award of her Tech career. Gum tallied six hits in four games, including one double and two home runs. She led the Golden Suns in homers, runs batted in, total bases and slugging percentage. In Tech's win over Emporia State on Friday, Gum gave the Suns their first and final lead with a...
Henderson State's Chris Hunt was named the Great American Conference Pitcher of the Week for his effort against Arkansas-Fort Smith last Friday. The right-hander pitched six complete innings striking out a career-high nine batters in helping lead the Reddies to a 4-0 win over the Lions. The senior from Greenwood, Ark. surrendered just two hits and did not allow a walk. Only one Lion reached second base with Hunt facing just two batters above the minimum. Hunt, who has recorded seven straight wins dating back to last year, ranks ninth all-time...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. - The Ouachita Tigers' baseball team fell in extra innings to Arkansas-Monticello by a final score of 7-5. The home loss puts the Tigers' record at 0-4. UAM opened the game with two runs in the second inning, but the Tigers responded by crossing the plate on a wild pitch in the bottom of the inning. UAM extended its lead to 4-1 in the third inning, but a solo home run by Preston Speers cut into the Bowl Weevil's lead in the fourth. Kyle Alexander picked up an RBI sacrifice fly in the 5th inning to cut the score down to 4-3,...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A year ago, Buddy Hield was dropping 3-pointers seemingly at will, leading Oklahoma to win after thrilling win. The Sooners were ranked in the top five, and they eventually earned the Final Four banner that hangs high at the Lloyd Noble Center. Hield is now with the NBA's New Orleans Pelicans, and those close wins he once willed Oklahoma to have become deflating losses. The Sooners are 8-14, and the some of the defeats are heartbreakers. There was the double-overtime loss to Iowa State that saw the Sooners blow a s...
LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — It was three days before Christmas of 2006 that Jim Barfield wrapped himself in a blanket and plopped down at his desk. He looked at his research on the Copper Scroll and laid his head down. He said to himself, "'How in the heck am I going to get the Israelis to listen to me?'" That day Barfield believed he had solved the riddle of the Copper Scroll, which has puzzled historians for decades. The retired Lawton assistant fire marshal said he used his investigative experience and basic knowledge of Hebrew to decode the C...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, of violating the state open records law by not providing access to emails and other official documents sought for up to two years. The Wisconsin-based advocacy group the Center for Media and Democracy alleges in its lawsuit that "Pruitt has denied prompt, reasonable access" to records sought in nine records requests since 2015 seeking communications between Pruitt and Koch I...
TALIHINA, Okla. (AP) — The family of the second veteran to die in recent months at an Oklahoma Veterans Center says he almost died at the Talihina facility once before because of a choking hazard that went undetected. Relatives of 70-year-old Leonard Smith told the Tulsa World (http://bit.ly/2lkB9G5 ) that they were notified of his death last week by a nurse practitioner who said his death was accidental. But the Navy veteran's family said it wasn't until Friday that they learned, through the newspaper, that his death was under investigation by...
MORRIS, Okla. (AP) — Authorities are investigating what deputies say is an apparent murder-suicide that left four dead in northeastern Oklahoma. The Okmulgee County Sheriff's Office says in a statement that the agency received a call Tuesday morning "reporting the deaths of several family members" at a home in Morris. Deputies discovered the bodies of a man, a woman and two children inside the home. The sheriff's office says it appears there was some kind of disturbance that resulted in an "apparent triple murder and suicide." Authorities d...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities are investigating after a worker at a waste recycling facility on the city's northwest side discovered body parts in a bale of trash. Oklahoma City Police Master Sgt. Gary Knight says an employee at the Waste Management facility found the human remains and called police late Tuesday morning. Knight says the remains were unknowingly brought to the facility by one of the company's trucks. Trucks use the site to dump waste to be shredded and baled. Homicide detectives are investigating and police didn't release a...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a third person has been charged in the death of an Oklahoma man more than eight years ago. Cleveland County Sheriff Joe Lester said Tuesday that 36-year-old Thomas Ryan Wilmeth was charged in the 2008 killing of Cory Jay Bodily. The sheriff says that investigators believe that Bodily was killed during an attempted robbery. Two others were charged last May in connection with the death. Bodily, who was 31, was last seen alive on July 29, 2008. His remains were found five months later. Wilmeth is being held i...
EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — A former Edmond high school band director who was charged with soliciting sex from a student has been sentenced. The Oklahoman (http://bit.ly/2kJ9GBy ) reports 29-year-old Cameron Kyle Kedy pleaded guilty on Friday to second-degree rape. He was sentenced to 10 years probation and was ordered to complete 20 hours of community service. Defense attorney John W. Coyle III says Kedy will also have to register as a sex offender for life. Kedy admitted to having sex with an 18-year-old student, who told authorities that she and K...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Leaders in Tulsa are proposing an ordinance that would create the city's first African-American Affairs Commission. Mayor G.T. Bynum and City Councilor Vanessa Hall-Harper announced the proposal Monday for the new commission, which would consist of 23 members. They say the Greater Tulsa Area African-American Affairs Commission would serve in an advisory and advocacy role to city and county leaders. Racial issues have loomed large in Tulsa in recent years, with two high-profile police shootings involving white law e...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Top Republican legislators in Kansas on Tuesday cooked up an unappetizing budget-balancing stew of personal income tax increases and education spending cuts, defying GOP Gov. Sam Brownback on taxes and past court rulings on education funding. The state Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee endorsed a bill that would boost income taxes to raise $660 million over two years. It would backtrack on past cuts in rates and end an exemption for farmers and business owners that Brownback has championed. The committee advanced i...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police say a Wichita police officer remains in critical condition following surgery after being hit by a car driven by a fleeing suspect. Police spokeswoman Nikki Woodrow says officers were monitoring a house in south Wichita Tuesday where a stolen vehicle was seen and a known suspect with various felony warrants was located. She says a suspect fleeing the house ran over one of the officers with a vehicle. Another officer fired one round. Deputy Chief Jose Salcido says the shot did not hit either the suspect or vehicle. P...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas law requiring people to show photo ID at the polls and provide proof-of-citizenship documents to register to vote may discriminate against minorities, a civil rights advisory panel contends. The Kansas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission of Civil Rights issued a draft report urging the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division to investigate whether the Kansas law violates federal voting laws. The Kansas City Star http://bit.ly/2kJ8SfN first reported on the report. The Safe and Fair Elections Act, passed i...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The topic of Medicaid expansion continues to be a source of controversy as hearings on the topic begin. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2knCIFS ) reports the House health committee is holding hearings this week in relation to a KanCare expansion bill, which Gov. Sam Brownback and conservative Republicans have opposed. The proposal lacks a Division of Budget statement estimating the potential costs or savings to the state. The Kaiser Family Foundation says that as of last month, Kansas is one of 19 states that h...
