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The Alva Post Office will have a come-and-go reception for City Carrier Leslie Nutter Friday, May 26, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the lobby. Nutter has worked for the post office for 30 years. Everyone is invited to come by and help celebrate her retirement....
As South Barber High School Principal Brent Shaffer welcomed the gymnasium full of family and friends to commencement Sunday, May 14, in Kiowa, he said the Class of 2017 is special to him. That's because these students were eighth graders when he joined South Barber as 7-12 Principal. The Class of 2017 is the first he's been principal for all four years of high school. He's watched them grow and mature into the graduates they are today. Thirteen students received their diplomas, turned their tassels and threw their mortar boards up into the...
Funeral services for Howard Roberts, 89, are pending with Marshall Funeral Home....
SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist's national championship vaulted the Lady Bison from 10th in the NCCAA Coaches' Poll to the No. 1 slot in the final poll, which was released Tuesday. Oklahoma Baptist went 4-0 in the NCCAA World Series, including an 8-1 win over Bluefield in the national championship game. Bry Flanagan was named the World Series MVP after batting .692 with seven RBI while pitchers McKenzie Jones and Amanda Peterson were named All-Tournament. The OBU pitching staff carried a 0.50 earned run average for the tournament. The Lady Bison a...
(THE CONVERSATION) Caroline was having a hard time getting her daughter to go to school. The night before, her daughter saw the news about a terrorist bombing that had occurred that day where several children and adults were killed and schools were immediately closed. Her daughter had a difficult time sleeping and was refusing to eat her breakfast. When Caroline asked her daughter what was wrong, she replied in a hushed tone, “I’m scared mommy. If I go to school, will somebody come in and shoot me? I don’t want to die.” Though Caroline was rea...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Education advocates say President Donald Trump's budget contradicts his campaign pledge to make college more affordable with its proposed elimination of subsidized student loans and cuts in other programs that help students pay tuition. The 2018 budget, unveiled Tuesday, slashes discretionary funding for the Education Department by 13.5 percent and overall funding by 46.9 percent. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said in a statement that it "reflects a series of tough choices we have had to make when assessing the best use o...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is proposing "the most ambitious expansion" of school choice in American history, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced Monday while giving few details on how the program would work. "We must offer the widest number of quality options to every family and every child," DeVos said in a speech in Indianapolis. "We stand on the verge of the most significant opportunity we have ever had to drag American education out of the Stone Age and into the future." DeVos gave few specifics other than to say t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An impasse among Oklahoma lawmakers over how to fix the state's worst budget problem in decades has sent the legislature spiraling into chaos and focused blame on the usually sacrosanct oil and natural gas industry for not paying more taxes. The industry has historically been the key driver of the state's economy, providing tens of thousands of jobs and accounting for about 13 percent of Oklahoma's household earnings. But a sharp cut approved two years ago in oil and gas production taxes, which has led to severe budget p...
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Members of the Nevada Assembly are giving bipartisan support to one arm of the Democratic majority's push to make solar energy more accessible. Assembly Bill 405 would require Nevada companies to make rooftop solar contracts easier to understand and give broad rights to consumers. The bill would establish a system for residential users to share daytime rooftop energy production with the power grid in exchange for credits toward nighttime and cloudy-day power. The Assembly on Tuesday voted 38-2 to pass the measure to t...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy is abandoning a test meant to determine whether nuclear waste can be buried far underground because of changes in budget priorities, the agency said Tuesday. A spokeswoman said in a statement that the agency doesn't intend to continue supporting the Deep Borehole Field Test project, which was meant to assess whether nuclear waste could be stored in approximately 3-mile-deep holes. Officials had stressed it wouldn't involve the use of actual nuclear waste. Federal energy officials said in D...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has selected Kristine Svinicki, chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to lead the panel for another five years. Trump had previously named her to lead the five-member panel through June. Svinicki, a Republican and a nuclear engineer, has served on the commission since 2008. Trump also nominated two other Republicans to fill out the commission: Annie Caputo, a Senate aide and former Exelon executive, and former South Carolina Public Service Commission Chairman David Wright. All three a...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Six Democratic state attorneys general including New York's are asking federal regulators to place new restrictions on crude oil trains that pass through their states. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (SHNEYE'-dur-muhn) says these trains can carry crude oil through densely populated areas such as downtown Albany without any limit on explosiveness or flammability. Concerns about the oil trains have grown since a 2013 tanker explosion that killed 47 people in Quebec. Schneiderman and attorneys general from C...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on the case of a 7-year-old Kansas who was murdered and fed to pigs (all times local): 8:45 p.m. Kansas' child welfare agency says it last had contact in February 2012 with a boy who was murdered and fed to pigs in 2015 but had later contact with other family. The Department for Children and Families on Tuesday clarified an earlier statement about 7-year-old Adrian Jones and his family. The boy's father and stepmother are in prison for his death in Kansas City, Kansas. A May 5 statement said the department's l...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas received reports that a boy who ultimately was murdered and fed to pigs was being physically abused several years before his death, according to documents released Tuesday that also show a social worker was in contact with his father and stepmother by phone more than a year after the state said it lost physical contact with the boy. The Kansas Department for Children and Families released more than 2,000 pages of documents on Adrian Jones, whose father and stepmother are serving life prison sentences in his death. A...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump fulfilled a major campaign promise Tuesday, proposing a $4.1 trillion budget plan that would upend Washington in a big way. But he drew rebukes, even from some Republican allies, for the plan's jarring, politically unrealistic cuts to the social safety net for the poor and a broad swath of other domestic programs. The budget, Trump's first as president, combines his spending plan for the upcoming 2018 fiscal year with a promise to balance government books after a decade, relying on aggressive cuts, a s...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers are moving closer to requiring the collection of more-detailed reports about complications from abortions performed statewide The state Senate late Tuesday approved 22-9 a bill mandating that medical clinics report abortion complications, and that the state health department produce an annual report on that data. The measure needs final Senate approval, likely to come Wednesday. It was already approved by the House, but would head back to that chamber because of changes the Senate made. Supporters say the b...
GENEVA (AP) — Africa, where viruses such as HIV, Ebola and Zika emerged, has its first chief of the U.N. health agency. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a former Ethiopian minister of health, was elected Tuesday as the next director-general of the World Health Organization, becoming the first non-medical doctor and the first African tapped to lead an influential agency that helps set health priorities worldwide. Health ministers and other senior envoys to WHO's annual World Health Assembly elected Tedros over Dr. David Nabarro of Britain, a U.N. v...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A New Jersey Republican congressman who helped push the House health care bill to passage quit his post Tuesday as a chairman of the chamber's moderate Tuesday Group, criticizing colleagues for having "different objectives and a different sense of governing than I do." Rep. Tom MacArthur, a second-term congressman, announced his decision at a closed-door meeting of the group, which has roughly 50 members. MacArthur played a central role in reviving the GOP legislation after an initial version collapsed under opposition from G...
WACO, Texas (AP) — "Eat your vegetables," many parents tell their children. Now, doctors are taking a similar approach with their patients. The Waco Tribune-Herald reports that through a partnership between the Family Health Center and World Hunger Relief Inc., doctors are supplying patients with fresh, "prescription vegetables" in an effort to prevent diseases caused by poor diet. "For years we've been instructing patients to eat healthier in order to help prevent disease or to treat existing disease, but haven't had the option to immediately...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google already monitors online shopping — and now it's keeping an eye on physical stores to try to sell more digital advertising. The internet company said Tuesday that a new tool will track how much money people spend in merchants' brick-and-mortar stores after clicking on their digital ads. The analysis will be done by matching the combined ad clicks of people who are logged into Google services with their collective purchases on credit and debit cards. Google says it won't be able to examine the specific items pur...
DENVER (AP) — Two Republican members of Congress from Colorado are asking the Trump administration not to change the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, one of more than two dozen monuments under review for possible modification. Sen. Cory Gardner and Rep. Scott Tipton said Tuesday the southwestern Colorado monument preserves thousands of archaeological sites while allowing traditional uses of the land. Their recommendation is likely to get a close hearing in the GOP administration. President Donald Trump ordered Interior Secretary R...
JUNEUA, Alaska (AP) — A human leg with a fishing boot still on was found in a debris pile that collected in the waters near Alaska's capital city. Juneau Police Lt. David Campbell says the leg — from the knee down — was found by state game workers clearing out a debris pile Monday from Gastineau Channel near Sandy Beach. It had deteriorated to the point they couldn't determine race or gender. It's been sent to the state medical examiner's office in Anchorage for possible identification. Police will search for other remains. He wasn't aware...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators have drafted a new proposal for fixing the state budget that includes both income tax increases and hikes in other taxes. House and Senate negotiators agreed Tuesday night on details of a plan for raising $948 million over two years. The House would vote on the plan first and expected to debate it Wednesday. Most of the new revenue would come from boosting income tax rates and eliminating an exemption for farmers and business owners. But the plan also would raise liquor taxes and impose the state sales t...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators have said "cheers" to allowing cities to designate districts where people can move among bars, restaurants and entertainment venues with libations in hand. The House approved a bill Tuesday on a 97-22 vote. The Senate passed the measure last week, so it goes next to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback for his possible signature. He has not stated a public position. The goal is to allow cities to create areas similar to the Power and Light District in Kansas City, Missouri, where patrons can move around a c...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has pleaded no contest to putting his infant stepdaughter in an apartment complex trash compactor. The Lawrence Journal-World (http://bit.ly/2qe0TqD ) reports that Marquis Young initially was charged with attempted first-degree murder after the baby was found in July 2016 in the trash bin. The then 9-month-old suffered two skull fractures but has recovered and been placed with relatives. Young entered the no contest plea Monday after prosecutors filed amended aggravated battery and child abuse charges. Y...
