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Following an easy win by the Ladybugs Saturday, the Goldbugs found the Chisholm Longhorns to be a tougher opponent. The final score was down to the wire, but the Goldbugs pulled off a two point district victory 57-55. The Goldbugs put the first four points on the scoreboard, but Chisholm soon caught up, tying the score a couple of times. At the end of the quarter, the teams were tied at 11 each. In the second quarter, Chisholm pulled ahead with a three-point shot. Kash Shipley scored seven...
Oklahoma students in grades 9-12 in fall 2024 are welcome to register to attend a free summer STEM camp at Northwestern Oklahoma State University-Alva May 27-31. Registration for “Renewable Energy – The Future is Here – Exploring and Learning Today: A Summer STEM Camp” will open March 1 and close April 1 and is limited to 25 students. Check-in for all campers will be from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Monday, May 27, in Fryer Hall residence hall on the southwest corner of campus. Campers will be welcomed and complete an orientation into the week’s even...
Enterprising graduating high school seniors planning on attending Northwestern Oklahoma State University this fall are encouraged to apply for the President's Leadership Class (PLC) scholarship before the March 4 deadline. Students selected for this award will receive up to $2,750 in scholarship funds for their freshman year at Northwestern, plus be treated to an all-expense paid trip to a major U.S. city with university president Bo Hannaford and other PLC members. The selected students also...
Both students and the general public will have the opportunity to learn more about Thomas Jefferson and the American West in a special program at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. Set for Tuesday, March 5, the program is a part of the NWOSU Presidential Lecture Series. “Thomas Jefferson: the Sage of Monticello” will consist of a live recording of an episode for the nationally syndicated radio program “Listening to America.” The audience will also be treated to a private conversation between President Jefferson, portrayed by noted humanit...
The Northwestern Oklahoma State University Campus Cabinet Food Pantry is partnering with Northwestern Athletics for a monetary donation/non-perishable food drive at the home basketball games on Saturday, Feb. 24. The women will tip off at 1 p.m. against Arkansas Tech, and the men play at 3 p.m. Those attending this game are asked to bring at least two items from the pantry's "Most Needed" items list. "We want to gather as many items as possible to help support our campus food pantry," said Tim L...
Offering various workshops open to the public is a new venture being established by members of the Nescatunga Arts and Humanities Council. The first workshop planned will be a First Friday Artwalk event on Friday, March 1, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on the second floor of the Runnymede where participants will learn to create sugar roses using fondant. The workshop is $25 and is limited to 10 people. April Ridgway, Nescatunga Arts Festival Sugar Show coordinator, will be leading the workshop....
The Alva Tourism Committee faced a daunting agenda Wednesday with seven events requesting tourism tax funds. Present for the meeting were Chairman Melinda Barton and members Sadie Bier, Angelica Brady and Scott Kline. Terri Parsons was absent. The committee was able to hear presentations on six of the events, but one was tabled. No one was present to speak on behalf of the Nescatunga Golf Tournament. NWOSU Football Golf Tournament Northwestern Head Football Coach Ronnie Jones spoke on behalf of football’s golf tournament. The two-day event b... Full story
“Have any idea what the holdup is with the sale as far as what the legal reason is?” asked Alva City Councilmember Troy Brooks at Tuesday’s city council meeting. He was referring to the sale of Share Convalescent Home to the Beadles Nursing Home owners. City Attorney Drew Cunningham said the hospital board (Alva Hospital Authority) hired an attorney to handle the sale on that property. As Cunningham was reviewing everything (he also serves as AHA attorney) he saw that the land was originally given to the city to lease to the hospital. “That... Full story
Local legislators talked about what's happening in Oklahoma City during the current legislative session at the Alva Chamber Community Coffee Friday, Feb. 16. The breakfast meeting was held in the Ranger Room of the Student Center on the Northwestern Oklahoma State University campus. Field representatives for members of Congress spoke first. Wesley Javorsky, field representative for Rep. Frank Lucas, said the farm bill is reworked about every five years. It should have happened last year but it... Full story
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Freshman Sahara Williams scored 20 points and No. 23 Oklahoma ran away from rival Oklahoma State in the second half to post a 91-56 victory Saturday, the Sooners' 20th win of the season. The victory gives Oklahoma its 14th Big 12 Conference win of the season, the first time since 2001-02 that the Sooners have won 14 conference games in back-to-back seasons. Coach Jennie Baranczyk is now 6-0 against the rival Cowgirls in her three seasons in Norman. Williams scored the Sooners' first 10 points over the first three minutes o...
EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — More than two dozen people gathered at an Oklahoma church for a vigil for Nex Benedict, a nonbinary teenager who died one day after a fight in a high school bathroom. The vigil at All Saints Episcopal Church in McAlester was organized by the McAlester Rainbow Connection. It was one of two Friday night in Oklahoma, the first of more than a dozen vigils scheduled nationwide through Monday. Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old Oklahoma student, died the day after a fight in an Owasso High School bathroom. The 16-year-old Oklahoma stude...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas man has pleaded guilty to smashing into a Kansas City, Missouri, patrol car last year and killing an officer, his K-9 partner and a pedestrian. Jerron Lightfoot of Tonganoxie, Kansas, pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of involuntary manslaughter and admitted speeding through a red light before the crash, according to the Kansas City Star. Officer James Muhlbauer, 42, Jesse Eckes, 52, and Champ the dog were all killed. Lightfoot told the judge that he got lost that night last February while he was driving back...
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — They rose up by the dozens from across Florida, caricatured competitors in tank tops and cutoff shorts, for a showdown that treats evading police and wrestling over beer like Olympic sports. Promoted as "the most insane athletic showdown on Earth," the Florida Man Games poke fun at the state's reputation for bizarre stories that involve brawling, drinking, gunfire, reptile wrangling and other antics carrying a risk of time in jail or intensive care. The games kicked off Saturday with the "Star Spangled Banner" p...
NEWPORT, Vt. (AP) — Plunging into a frozen lake and swimming laps may not be everyone's good time but for winter swimmers who return year after year to a northern Vermont lake near the Canadian border, there's nothing better. The 10th annual Memphremagog Winter Swimming Festival kicked off Friday with the 200-meter (218-yard) freestyle race in a narrow pool cut from the ice. But the festivities started Thursday and on Friday morning some of the 180 participants swam a lap wearing a decorated hat. "It was amazing. It's the highlight of my y...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and Britain struck 18 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday, answering a recent surge in attacks by the Iran-backed militia group on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, including a missile strike this past week that set fire to a cargo vessel. According to U.S. officials, American and British fighter jets hit sites in eight locations, targeting missiles, launchers, rockets, drones and air defense systems. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in order to provide early details of an ongoing military o...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed Western leaders to Kyiv Saturday to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, as Ukrainian forces run low on ammunition and foreign aid hangs in the balance. Allies from the EU and the Group of Seven wealthy democracies rallied around Kyiv to express solidarity, with Zelenskyy joining a virtual G7 meeting Saturday and four world leaders traveling to Ukraine's war-weary capital. "Two years ago, here, we met enemy landing forces with fire; two years later, we meet o...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — At least one member of the Republican National Committee is working to slow Donald Trump's attempted takeover of the organization by pushing to keep the committee neutral until Trump is officially the presidential nominee and avoid picking up his legal bills. Two draft resolutions are being circulated by Henry Barbour, a national committeeman from Mississippi, for consideration at the RNC's upcoming March meeting in Houston. Barbour said support for the resolutions among RNC members is growing but he does not yet have t...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The resignation letter was short and direct. "I can no longer be under an oath to uphold the New Constitution of Ohio," wrote Sabrina Warner in her letter announcing she was stepping down from the state's Republican central committee. It was just days after Ohio voters resoundingly approved an amendment last November to the state constitution ensuring access to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care. For many, the vote was a victory after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to abortion i...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli officials will meet Saturday night on the next steps after the latest talks with the United States, Egypt and Qatar in search of a deal on pausing the fighting in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. But Netanyahu announced that he'll convene the Cabinet early next week to "approve the operational plans for action in Rafah," including the evacuation of civilians, despite widespread warnings from the international community about a military ground operation in the southern city where m...
The body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed over to his mother, a top aide to Navalny said Saturday on his social media account. Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, made the announcement on his Telegram account and thanked "everyone" who had called on Russian authorities to return Navalny's body to his mother. Earlier on Saturday, Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny's widow, accused President Vladimir Putin of mocking Christianity by trying to force his mother to agree to a secret funeral after his...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett credited his longtime partner — the late Charlie Munger — with being the architect of the Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate he's received the credit for leading and warned shareholders in his annual letter Saturday not to listen to Wall Street pundits or financial advisors who urge them to trade often. Buffett said he always writes his letter with smart, long-term investors like his sister Bertie in mind and tries to tell them what he thinks they'd like to know about Berkshire. "She is sensible – very sensibl...
Olfa Hamrouni doesn't know much about her granddaughter; not her favorite toy nor food — is it the pasta the child's mother loves, or something else? The Tunisian grandmother doesn't even let her mind go there. "I don't want to know. What for but more heartache?" she said. For now, she just fights for 8-year-old Fatma. The child has spent virtually all her life with her mother and aunt — Hamrouni's eldest daughters — raised in detention in Libya, where the women wound up after leaving home as teenagers and joining Islamic State group extre...
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — They rose up by the dozens from across Florida, caricatured competitors in tank tops and cutoff shorts, for a showdown that treats evading police and wrestling over beer like Olympic sports. Promoted as "the most insane athletic showdown on Earth," the Florida Man Games poke fun at the state's reputation for bizarre stories that involve brawling, drinking, gunfire, reptile wrangling and other antics carrying a risk of time in jail or intensive care. The games kicked off Saturday with the "Star Spangled Banner" p...
The Palestinian Authority's prime minister announced his government's resignation on Monday, seen as the first step in a reform process urged by the United States as part of its latest ambitious plans to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But it will do little to address the authority's longstanding lack of legitimacy among its own people or its strained relations with Israel. Both pose major obstacles to U.S. plans calling for the PA, which administers parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, to govern postwar Gaza ahead of eventual...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel has failed to comply with an order by the United Nations' top court to provide urgently needed aid to desperate people in the Gaza Strip, Human Rights Watch said Monday, a month after a landmark ruling in The Hague ordered Israel to moderate its war. In a preliminary response to a South African petition accusing Israel of genocide, the U.N.'s top court ordered Israel to do all it can to prevent death, destruction and any acts of genocide in the tiny Palestinian enclave. It stopped short of ordering an end to t...
