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Mandatory redistricting efforts have caused some precinct boundaries to change. As a result, some voters will be assigned to new polling places, Holly Blevins, Woods County Election Board secretary, has announced. Precinct boundary lines must be evaluated every ten years following the redistricting of congressional, legislative, and county commissioner districts. Redistricting occurs following the federal census to ensure that the population in the various districts is equal. Blevins said new voter identification cards, along with polling...
Joan McDaniel, beloved wife of Rex McDaniel and mother to Gary, Michaelle and Scott, passed away on May 2, 2022. She was born in El Dorado, Kansas, August 6, 1942, to Arthur and Mary (Betty) Cooley. Joan and Rex made homes in Kansas and Florida before returning to and settling in Cherokee, Oklahoma, and celebrated 60 years of marriage. Joan was an inspiration to her family as she returned later in life to earn multiple college degrees while making a home with Rex and raising their children....
Loretta Ann Lyon was born September 20, 1939, in Alva, Oklahoma, as the youngest of four children to Clarence and Dora Haight. She passed away April 29, 2022, surrounded by family. In August of 1957 she was united in marriage to Kenneth Lyon in Alva, Oklahoma. She graduated from Alva High School in 1958 and went on to attend Northwestern Oklahoma State University, and ultimately achieved her Master's Degree in Education from Wichita State University in 1973. Loretta began her teaching career in...
Robert Bettencourt, 83, passed away on April 28, 2022, in Alva, Oklahoma. There will be no funeral services at this time. Robert was born in Newport, Rhode Island, on February 26, 1939. He was one of five children of the late John S. and Evelyn G. (Silveira) Bettencourt. No services are planned at this time. Robert grew up in the Newport, Rhode Island, area. He attended Rogers High School and was an organizational supply specialist in the Air Force for four years. He started his family with Judith Mae McDuffie on June 6, 1961. Their marriage of...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man suspected of leading police on a chase in two states has been fatally shot by officers, police said. Mekiah Harris, 26, of Kansas City, Kansas, was killed in the shooting Tuesday night near Platte City, Missouri, police said Kansas City, Kansas, police said Wednesday that Harris was a suspect in the Sunday shooting death of 33-year-old Michael Rehard, of Kansas City, Kansas. Two other people were injured in the shooting. Officials said the confrontation on Tuesday began when officers in Kansas City, Kansas, a...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has pleaded guilty to his role in a hoax call that led to a fatal shooting of an innocent bystander by Wichita police in 2017. Shane Gaskell, 23, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to wire fraud in case that drew national attention to "swatting," during which a caller falsely reports a crime that is dangerous enough to send a SWAT team to the location, The Wichita Eagle reported. The "swatting" call on Dec. 28, 2017, led to the death of 28-year-old Andrew Finch, who was shot by Wichita police as he o...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Record-low mortgages below 3%, reached last year, are long gone. Credit card rates will likely rise. So will the cost of an auto loan. Savers may finally receive a yield high enough to top inflation. The substantial half-point hike in its benchmark short-term rate that the Federal Reserve announced Wednesday won't, by itself, have much immediate effect on most Americans' finances. But additional large hikes are expected to be announced at the Fed's next two meetings, in June and July, and economists and investors foresee t...
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Complaining that the West is "stuffing Ukraine with weapons," Russia is bombarding railroad stations and other targets in an attempt to cut off weapons supplies. Ukrainian's foreign minister has accused Russia of using "missile terrorism tactics" to spread fear. Air raid sirens sounded in cities across the country Wednesday night. Attacks were reported near Kyiv, the capital, and in Dnipro, where a rail facility was hit. Heavy fighting continued at a steel mill in Mariupol, the last stronghold of Ukrainian resistance in t...
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Amber Heard said she knew she should leave Johnny Depp the first time he hit her, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. "I knew I couldn't just forgive him, right, because that means it will happen again. Like, I've seen the health class videos," Heard told jurors through tears as she took the stand in Depp's libel lawsuit against her. "I was heartbroken." Ultimately, though, she couldn't bring herself to break up. She walked away after being slapped, but a few days later Depp came back with an apology, a few cases of h...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Record-low mortgages below 3%, reached last year, are long gone. Credit card rates will likely rise. So will the cost of an auto loan. Savers may finally receive a yield high enough to top inflation. The substantial half-point hike in its benchmark short-term rate that the Federal Reserve announced Wednesday won't, by itself, have much immediate effect on most Americans' finances. But additional large hikes are expected to be announced at the Fed's next two meetings, in June and July, and economists and investors foresee t...
The Supreme Court's apparent intention to abolish a nationwide right to abortion, spelled out in a draft opinion leaked this week, will expand the battlefield of the nation's most highly charged culture war, taking it to states where abortion access has long been assured. Democrats in blue states are bracing for a wave of legal attacks and other maneuvers seeking to undermine access, and some are even taking steps to enshrine the right to abortion in their constitutions, making it much more difficult to impose a ban in the future. Republican...
Hollywood is bringing out some of its biggest and most reliable players for the 2022 summer movie season, which unofficially kicks off this weekend with the help of Marvel and Disney's "Doctor Strange and the Multitverse of Madness" and runs through the end of August. Tom Cruise is back in the cockpit behind those iconic aviators for "Top Gun: Maverick." Doctors Grant, Sattler and Ian Malcolm are returning for another round with the dinosaurs in "Jurassic World Dominion." Natalie Portman is picking up Thor's hammer in "Thor: Love and Thunder."...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday highlighted new figures showing the government's red ink will grow less than expected this year and the national debt will shrink this quarter as he tried to counter criticism of his economic leadership amid growing dismay over inflation going into midterm elections that will decide control of Congress. Biden, embracing deficit reduction as a way to fight inflation, stressed that the dip in the national debt would be the first in six years, an achievement that eluded former President Donald Tru...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — His appeals for an Orthodox Easter truce in Ukraine went unheeded. His planned meeting with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church was canceled. A proposed visit to Moscow? Nyet. Even his attempt to showcase Russian-Ukrainian friendship fell flat. Pope Francis hasn't made much of a diplomatic mark in Russia's war in Ukraine, seemingly unable to capitalize on his moral authority, soft power or direct line to Moscow to nudge an end to the bloodshed or at least a cease-fire. Rather, Francis has found himself in the unusual p...
Like religious congregants all over, the people of historic Brown Chapel AME Church turned off the lights and locked the doors at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic because it wasn't safe to gather for worship with a deadly virus circulating. For a time, the landmark church that launched a national voting rights movement in Selma, Alabama, was off limits. What members found when they returned was heartbreaking: Termites had eaten so much wood that parts of the structure weren't stable anymore, said member Juanda Maxwell, and water leaks...
