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Tuesday, March 9, 2021 During this day there were two traffic stops. 6:40 a.m. – Report of a semi-trailer was partially on its side on Cleveland and Oklahoma Highway 58. 10:12 a.m. – Medic needed in Helena for a male that received the Covid vaccine and is now having breathing issues. Medic took the patient to Bass Hospital in Enid. 1:37 p.m. – Medic needed for a female that rolled her pickup on County Road (CR) 540 and Canadian and was trapped. Advised she was bleeding from her head. Medic took the patient to St. Mary’s Hospital in Enid. W...
Book 868 page 11: Lightning Creek Investment Group Inc. conveys unto Wei Chen. All of block 3, Hadwiger Second Addition to the Town, Now City of Cherokee, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Warranty deed. Book 868 page 14: Chad G. Wilson and Lydia A. Wilson, husband and wife, convey unto Richard Jackson and Jilisa Jackson, husband and wife. A tract of land located in the southwest quarter of section 11, township 26 north, range 11, WIM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Joint tenancy warranty deed. Book 868 page 666: Jack Jack, trustee of Jack Jack Real Estate,...
Alfalfa County court filings 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 obtained by anyone during regular hours at the Alfalfa County Courthouse. The Alva Review-Courier will not intentionally alter or delete any of this information. If it appears in the courthouse public records, it will appear in this newspaper. Felony Filings Herbert F....
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Citizens of tribes across the U.S. cried and clapped in celebration Monday as Deb Haaland became the first Native American confirmed as secretary of a Cabinet agency. The U.S. Senate voted 51-40 in favor of the Democrat's nomination to lead the Interior Department, which has broad oversight of tribal affairs and energy development. Many Native Americans rallied behind her confirmation, saying it's a long-awaited answer to their prayers that puts someone they trust in a position to carry forward their hopes and expectatio...
March 1, 2021 Barber County Sheriff’s office (BASO) responded to a harassment call on East Sherlock. Medicine Lodge Police Department (MLPD) responded to 911 call on Currie Lane. BASO investigated a fraud report on S.E. Pleasant Hills. BASO responded to grass fire on Ridge Road. MLPD responded to 911 hang up. MLPD responded to residential alarm on North Walnut. March 2, 2021 BASO responded to 911 call on S.E. Walstead. MLPD responded to 911 call on S. Iliff. BASO performed VIN at Bowe Chevrolet. MLPD responded to a fraud claim on N. Main. B...
Voters in Alfalfa County who want absentee ballots mailed to them for the April 6 Board of Education Election for Timberlake SD I-93, Municipal General Elections for the Town of Goltry and the City of Cherokee and a Special Election for the City of Cherokee should apply now, County Election Board Secretary Kelly Stein said today. Absentee ballots are available to any registered voter, provided they are eligible to vote in the election requested. No excuse is needed to vote by absentee ballot. The deadline for requesting an absentee ballot is 5...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A provision of the latest federal stimulus package could threaten a series of state tax cut bills moving through the Legislature, Attorney General Mike Hunter said Tuesday. Hunter, a Republican, said a provision in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 passed by Congress by party-line votes prohibits states from cutting taxes until 2024 if they get funds from the $1.9 trillion package. "The federal stimulus bill might prohibit Oklahoma from providing this economic relief without losing its share of federal funding to h...
A Cherokee man has been charged with abusing, assaulting and maiming his sister-in-law. Herbert Hughes allegedly abused Sherri Erb, who has diminished mental capacity and is small of frame, by pulling her hair out by the roots, kicking her while she was on the ground and forcing her to go out in the extremely cold weather for long periods of time to check on the dogs and gather wood. Court records show on March 3 at 4:30 p.m. Alfalfa County Deputy Ryan Madden was notified by dispatch they had...
These kids know "the cowboy way" because they live it. From the time they were in diapers many of them watched their parents, grandparents, siblings and family friends in the rodeo arena headin' and heelin' steers, running barrels, ridin' broncs and other favorite events. Googling the meaning of "the cowboy way," it's described as "something that is passed down from generation to generation, it is not written down and the lessons are not forgotten because if you do forget a lesson you will be...
Ellen "Ellie" Marie Howe, 64 of Bloomington, Illinois, passed away at 5:04 a.m. on Wednesday March 3, 2021, at Carle BroMenn Medical Center in Normal, Illinois. Funeral services for Ellie were held at 11 a.m. on Monday March 8, 2021, at Calvert & Metzler Memorial Home in Bloomington, with Reverend Tiffany Black officiating. Interment followed in Park Hill Cemetery in Bloomington. Ellie was born in Alva, Oklahoma, on June 20, 1956, to Alfred Angelo and Mary Emma Bell Cantrell Kriegh. They precede...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Conservative Republicans advanced a proposal Tuesday that would ban transgender students from girl's and women's sports in Kansas schools and colleges, and supporters are increasingly confident of success. The state Senate Education Committee approved the bill on a voice vote after a brief debate, sending it to the full Senate, where GOP leaders have identified the measure as a priority. Freshman Rep. Stephanie Byers, a Wichita Democrat and the first transgender state lawmaker elected in Kansas, said the committee's vote t...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Republican proposal to require all Kansas public schools to offer every student full in-person classes by March 26 failed Tuesday in the state House after some lawmakers complained that it would take too much power away from local school boards. The GOP-controlled House's 69-55 vote against the measure showed that some Republicans had misgivings about the proposal, which would have overridden a few local school districts' decisions to wait longer because of the coronavirus pandemic. Senate President Ty Masterson, an A...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday ordered the release of a Kansas Senate leader from jail in Topeka, finding there was not enough evidence to support his arrest hours earlier on suspicion of driving under the influence and attempting to flee from a law enforcement officer. Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop was booked into the Shawnee County jail just before 4 a.m., following his arrest by the Capitol Police, a division of the Kansas Highway Patrol. Online booking records show that the Wichita Republican also was arrested on suspicion of s...
SEDAN, Kan. (AP) — Greetings from Chautauqua, the only county in Kansas where COVID-19 isn't an emergency. This bucolic and remote county, nestled on the Oklahoma border 100 highway miles southeast of Wichita, is the only place in Kansas that isn't under a COVID disaster emergency declaration, according to the Kansas Association of Counties. "We didn't feel like we needed it," said Rodney Shaw, who serves on the three-member County Commission that doubles as the Board of Public Health. If you wear a mask in Sedan, the Chautauqua County seat, y...
BURLINGAME, Kan. (AP) — Police are investigating the death of an eastern Kansas woman as a homicide. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is working with local police and Osage County Sheriff's deputies in investigating the death of Cristina Pratt, 49, whose body was found Monday morning in her Burlingame home, the KBI said in a news release. Police were called Sunday night to check on Pratt by a friend who hadn't been able to reach her. Officers received no response when they knocked on her apartment door that night. When police still c...
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — An assistant principal at an elementary school is accused of accessing the school district's internal system to cast fraudulent votes for her daughter who was elected homecoming queen at her high school, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said. On Monday, agents arrested Laura Rose Carroll, 50, and her 17-year-old daughter on multiple charges stemming from the October homecoming vote at Tate High School in Pensacola. The investigation began in November when the Escambia County School District reported u...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Cafes across several Gulf Arab states started selling coffee and other cold drinks in baby bottles this month, kicking off a new trend that has elicited excitement, confusion — and backlash. The fad began at Einstein Cafe, a slick dessert chain with branches across the region, from Dubai to Kuwait to Bahrain. Instead of ordinary paper cups, the cafe, inspired by pictures of trendy-looking bottles shared on social media, decided to serve its thick milky drinks in plastic baby bottles. Although the fra...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A surge of migrants on the Southwest border has the Biden administration on the defensive, with the head of Homeland Security acknowledging the depth of the problem Tuesday but insisting it's under control and saying he won't revive a Trump-era practice of immediately expelling teens and children. The number of migrants being stopped at the U.S.-Mexico border has been rising steadily since last April, and the administration is still rapidly expelling most single adults and families under a public health order issued by P...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A lawyer for the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd's neck wants to bring up Floyd's history of drug use and a previous arrest in an effort to show jurors that Floyd was partly to blame for his own death. A prosecutor says it's irrelevant and that Derek Chauvin's lawyer is trying to smear Floyd to excuse his client's actions. Chauvin is charged with murder and manslaughter. Now it's up to Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill to decide the critical question of how much the high-profile t...
Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized influence operations to help Donald Trump in last November's presidential election, according to a declassified intelligence assessment that found broad efforts by the Kremlin and Iran to shape the outcome of the race but ultimately no evidence that any foreign actor changed votes or otherwise disrupted the voting process. The report released Tuesday from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence represents the most detailed assessment of the array of foreign threats to the 2020 election....
The U.S.-based branch of the Jesuits has unveiled ambitious plans for a "truth and reconciliation" initiative in partnership with descendants of people once enslaved by the Roman Catholic order. The Jesuits pledge to raise $100 million within five years with a broader goal of reaching $1 billion from an array of donors in pursuit of racial justice and racial healing. Even the smaller amount represents the largest financial pledge thus far from a U.S. religious institution, as a variety of them nationwide seek to make amends for their past...
Some state attorneys general and opioid addiction activists pushed back Tuesday against a settlement offer from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, saying it didn't include enough money and goes too far in protecting the company and family members who own it from future liability. A group of nearly half the state attorneys general said it was disappointed in the plan Purdue filed late Monday night in federal bankruptcy court and some said they would seek changes. The lukewarm reaction from them and others raised doubts about how soon the company...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The battle against bigness is building. Whether it's beer, banks or book publishing, lawmakers are targeting major industries they say have become so concentrated that they're hurting competition, consumers and the economy. The economic dislocation of the pandemic has laid bare the struggles of small businesses unable to compete with corporate giants that have been able to capitalize on the new order. Experts and lawmakers are throwing out stunning stats: The four biggest airlines control about 65% of U.S. passenger t...
Potential jurors in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer accused in George Floyd's death have been asked many predictable questions. Attorneys from both sides have asked how they feel about the Black Lives Matter movement, and about police. They ask how they felt when they saw the video showing Derek Chauvin with his knee on Floyd's neck. But some questions are less pointed, and their reasoning more subtle: Have you ever had to resolve conflict? Have you ever been certain you were right only to find out you were wrong? The...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Conservative lawmakers in Utah have fired another salvo in their longtime campaign against online porn with a new requirement that all cellphones and tablets sold in the state automatically block pornography in a plan that critics call a significant intrusion on free speech. Supporters and critics alike are now waiting to find out if new Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, will sign or veto a proposa l that the GOP-controlled Legislature passed this month. Cox hasn't indicated publicly which way he's leaning. His s...
