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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma House gave final legislative approval on Tuesday to a bill that would make performing an abortion a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. With little discussion and no debate, the Republican-controlled House voted 70-14 to send the bill to Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who has previously said he'd sign any anti-abortion bill that comes to his desk. The bill is one of several anti-abortion measures still alive in Oklahoma's Legislature this year, part of a trend of GOP-led states passing aggressive a...
GALENA, Mo. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday dismissed criminal charges against three men prosecuted after a tourist boat sank and killed 17 people during a 2018 Missouri storm. The boat was swamped by waves caused by strong winds shortly after it entered Table Rock Lake near Branson on July 19, 2018. Riders from Missouri, Indiana, Illinois and Arkansas were killed. Fourteen people survived. Prosecutors last year charged Kenneth Scott McKee, 54, the captain of the vessel known as a duck boat; Curtis P. Lanham, 39, the general manager at Ride the D...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped charges against a man who had been arrested in a double shooting last year in Wichita that killed one man and injured another. Charges of first-degree murder and aggravated battery were dropped March 14 against Jermall Campbell, 40, the Wichita Eagle reported. Campbell was arrested 10 days after the June 20 shooting inside a home that killed 47-year-old Deandre Freeman and injured a 53-year-old man. Police have said the shooting happened during an illegal dice game. The Sedgwick County Attorney's O...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Great Kansas Comeback, as it will forever be known in the history books, is about more than just one stifling, scintillating 20-minute stretch of Jayhawks basketball. The championship KU captured Monday night traced its roots back to 2020, when the Jayhawks were a team that looked very much on track for the program's fourth national title. Instead, it was KU's come-from-behind 72-69 victory over North Carolina on Monday that brought that fourth championship banner back to Allen Fieldhouse. The Jayhawks insisted they'd s...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Thousands of people poured into the streets of Lawrence, home of the University of Kansas, to celebrate the Jayhawks' come-from-behind win over North Carolina to take the men's NCAA basketball championship. Lawrence's main downtown strip, Massachusetts Street, was crammed sidewalk to sidewalk Monday night as fans watched the game on an enormous flat-screen TV suspended high over the street from a construction lift. The Jays' 72-69 win — after trailing by 15 at halftime — brought even more fans to the bar-lined stree...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Armando Bacot kept battling, locking his jaw and gritting his way through a hobbling ankle injury for the chance to help North Carolina win a national championship. He played through bumps and box-outs, ballscreens and blocked shots. At one point, he could only hop on one leg in a desperate attempt to get back downcourt on defense. And by the end of Monday night's 72-69 loss to Kansas in the NCAA title game, he couldn't navigate even a few stairs without help. "We came this far and this was a huge goal for us was to just h...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Kansas spent the first 20 minutes forcing shots and passes, missing layups and pressing the issue instead of pressing forward. The next 20 turned into a master class in coaching by Bill Self — with a spicy dash of Remy Martin. No more big-game letdowns. Self had his elusive second national title. Grounded by North Carolina in an ugly first half, Kansas tightened up on defense to rev up its transition game and completed the largest comeback in NCAA championship history with a 72-69 win over North Carolina on Monday night. "I...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Zoos across North America are moving their birds indoors and away from people and wildlife as they try to protect them from the highly contagious and potentially deadly avian influenza. Penguins may be the only birds visitors to many zoos can see right now, because they already are kept inside and usually protected behind glass in their exhibits, making it harder for the bird flu to reach them. Nearly 23 million chickens and turkeys have already been killed across the United States to limit the spread of the virus, and z...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans blocked a Democratic attempt Tuesday to begin Senate debate on a $10 billion COVID-19 compromise, pressing to entangle the bipartisan package with an election-year showdown over immigration restrictions that poses a politically uncomfortable fight for Democrats. A day after Democratic and GOP bargainers reached agreement on providing the money for treatments, vaccines and testing, a Democratic move to push the measure past a procedural hurdle failed 52-47. All 50 Republicans opposed the move, leaving Democrats 1...
WASHINGTON (AP) — By announcing they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court, three Republican senators are marking the historical moment by building legacies of their own. Every senator has a voice, and some choose to use theirs. The three Republican senators — Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney — have broken with their party at critical junctures, despite the political risks of standing alone. The three said separately that they don't expect to agree with all of Jackson's rulin...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Proud Boys leader Henry "Enrique" Tarrio pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges that he remotely led a plot to stop Congress' certification of Joe Biden's 2020 victory. Though he wasn't at the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, prosecutors say Tarrio organized encrypted chats with Proud Boys members in the weeks before the attack, had a 42-second phone call with another member of the group in the building during the insurrection and took credit for the chaos at the Capitol. Police had arrested Tarrio in Washington two d...
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — One blackened body had arms raised in supplication, the face contorted in a horrible scream. The skull of another had a bullet hole in the left temple. The small blackened foot of a child could be seen in the tangle of charred bodies piled together in Bucha, the town outside of Kyiv where graphic evidence of killings and torture has emerged following the withdrawal of Russian forces. The six burned and blackened corpses were just the latest gruesome scene to emerge from Bucha as world leaders push for Russia to be held a...
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the Russians of gruesome atrocities in Ukraine and told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that those responsible should immediately be brought up on war crimes charges in front of a tribunal like the one established at Nuremberg after World War II. Over the past few days, grisly images of what appeared to be intentional killings of civilians carried out by Russian forces in Bucha and other towns before they withdrew from the outskirts of Kyiv have caused a global outcry a...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A second suspect arrested Tuesday in connection with the mass shooting that killed six people in Sacramento had posted a live Facebook video of himself brandishing a handgun hours before gunfire erupted, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Smiley Martin, 27, who is the brother of the first suspect taken into custody, was arrested while hospitalized with serious injuries from the gunfire in California's capital. Martin was released from prison on probation in February — less than a year after pro...
Proponents of clean energy and thinks tanks have long said it's possible to reduce emissions and keep an economy growing. Now the latest report from the world's top climate scientists says 18 countries have done just that, sustaining emissions reductions "for at least a decade" as their economies continued to grow. The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) did not name the countries, citing inconsistency in the data. But using figures from Global Carbon Project, which are not part of the report, The Associated Press...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ivanka Trump, former President Donald Trump's daughter and one of those closest to him during the insurrection at the Capitol, is testifying before the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee's chairman, said Tuesday afternoon that she had been answering investigators' questions on a video teleconference since the morning and was not "chatty" but had been helpful to the probe. "She came in on her own" and did not have to be subpoenaed, Thompson said. Ivanka Trump, w...
NEW YORK (AP) — When a scrappy group of former and current warehouse workers on Staten Island, New York went head-to-head with Amazon in a union election, many compared it to a David and Goliath battle. David won. And the stunning upset on Friday brought sudden exposure to the organizers and worker advocates who realized victory for the nascent Amazon Labor Union when so many other more established labor groups had failed before them, including most recently in Bessemer, Alabama. Initial results in that election show the Retail, Wholesale a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration plans to freeze federal student loan payments through Aug. 31, extending a moratorium that has allowed millions of Americans to postpone payments during the coronavirus pandemic, according to an administration official familiar with the White House's decision-making. Student loan payments were scheduled to resume May 1 after being halted since early in the pandemic. But following calls from Democrats in Congress, the White House plans to give borrowers additional time to prepare for payments. The a...
The Alfalfa County commissioners sorted through and signed their monthly appropriations and the alcohol beverage tax allocation Monday. Cathy Hagen-Sheik, filling in for county clerk Laneta Schwerdtfeger, joined Mike Roach, Jay Hague and Marvin Woodall as they spent the better portion of the meeting signing paperwork – maintenance and operation warrants for payment, last meeting's minutes, and blanket purchase orders. Next, they signed a claim form from Pinnacle for JP 30436(04) for District 3 and then a transfer of appropriations from 0...
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 Matthew David Olsen, Alva, 47, has been...
Real Estate Transfers Book 879 page 152: James Richard Knopf unto Curtis Newlin and Jennifer Newlin. All that part of the northwest quarter of section 9, township 27 north, range 11, WIM. Joint tenancy deed. Book 879 page 154: Georgia Wilson and Carl Wilson unto Cory Wilson. The north bone acre of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of the southwest of section 6, township 26 north, range 11, WIM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Quit claim deed. Book 879 page 210: Daniel A. Bathurst, unto...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 During this day there was one traffic stop. 8:53 a.m. – Officer needed at United for a report of a theft. After report was made, the officer went to 900 block of Massachusetts and recovered the property and took back to United. 3:32 p.m. – Medic needed for a male after a fight in the jail. Patient refused transport. 3:57 p.m. – Welfare check needed in Nescutunga. 6:22 p.m. – Medic needed for a female with numbing and tingling in her left, cannot lift her head and having memory problems. Caller wanted to meet the medic at...
One of my favorite things during session each year is seeing all of the groups and industries that set up booths for their advocacy groups at the Capitol. The last two legislative sessions have been much quieter than usual due to Covid-19 precautions that limited visitors to the building to keep exposure and transmission of the virus at a minimum. With the pandemic in a much better place and low cases across the state, we’ve rolled back these restrictions this year and are back in full force w...
We're at the midway point of the legislative session. The House has passed 381 bills and joint resolutions to the state Senate for consideration, and we've received 327 legislative measures from that chamber. This week will be filled with committee meetings to begin hearing those measures. Last week, the Oversight Committee for the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency (LOFT) met to review the office's latest report – an examination of revenues, expenditures and asset valuation for the O...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 During this day there was one traffic stop. 8:53 a.m. – Officer needed at United for a report of a theft. After report was made, the officer went to 900 block of Massachusetts and recovered the property and took back to United. 3:32 p.m. – Medic needed for a male after a fight in the jail. Patient refused transport. 3:57 p.m. – Welfare check needed in Nescutunga. 6:22 p.m. – Medic needed for a female with numbing and tingling in her left, cannot lift her head and having memory problems. Caller wanted to meet the medic at...
