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Happy Birthday To May 24: Cody Watson, Talhia Darr, Zearl Harris, Lance Gasset May 25: Kyle Wares, Linda Eden Banzel, Dever Elle Newby May 27: Bonita Stewart May 28: Jamin Shreeve, April Rankin May 29: Rowena Nickelson, Lane Nixon May 30: Kristin Harper May 31: Tamela Wise June 1: Vickie Johnson, Brittany Doyle June 2: Kendra Wardrop, Carlene Culver June 3: Nadia Boydstun, Billy Parker June 4: Betty Harris, Betty Whittet, Sarah Beeley June 5: Martina Cell, Christian Ledford June 6: Damon Darr, Lynn Ledford June 7: Samantha Wilson, Russell...
The order of services Sunday, May 20, at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Candles lighted by Shay and Jack Wilson Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Invocation by Pastor Woody Hamon Call to Worship: Psalms 32:1-11 led by Johnnie Sue Olson Opening hymn “Morning Has Broken” led by Debbie Brown, song leader Affirmation of Faith led by Debbie Brown Gloria Patri Hymn of Justifying Grace “Standing on the Promises” Offertory: Janell Reutlinger Ushers: Bob Forbes and Arly Eden Offertory Prayer by Pastor Woody Hamon Children's Moments by Woody H...
Earlier this school year, the Northwest Technology Center's Board of Education accepted the retirement resignation of Dr. Gerald Harris, superintendent, effective June 30. With 47 years of experience in education, Dr. Harris has worked at Northwest Technology Center for 25 years. He served as the assistant superintendent at the Alva campus from 1985 until 2000, the assistant superintendent at the Fairview campus from 2008 until 2012, and as the district's superintendent from 2012 to present....
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday he could support stronger regulations for gun storage and quicker reporting to law enforcement when a court has determined someone is mentally ill in order to keep them from having weapons. Abbott said those were top considerations to emerge after meeting representatives of a gun control group and gun owners as well as mental health and education experts in discussions on school safety after the shooting at a high school killed 10 people near Houston. "We have one goal ... making sure w...
In the aftermath of recent school shootings, a familiar pattern has played out in the debate over guns. Gun-control advocates push for tougher laws, including universal background checks to prohibiting the sale and possession of AR-style long guns. The National Rifle Association and many Republican leaders insist the root of the problem is not guns but a range of issues such as mental health, school security, video games and excessive prescriptions of attention-deficit disorder drugs such as Ritalin. Gun-control advocates call the strategy a cl...
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Department of Education is considering changes to school science standards, including instances when it may remove or alter references to evolution. The state's superintendent of public instruction said the proposed changes reflect that parts of evolution are only theory. The department has replaced some references to evolution with words like "biological diversity" or added qualifiers to the word, according to a draft of the proposed changes. The standards focus on core science and engineering ideas that teachers t...
DIXON, Ill. (AP) — The lawyer for a 19-year-old charged with firing shots at an Illinois high school during graduation rehearsal says that his mother legally owned the gun he's accused of using. Sauk Valley Media reports that Matthew Milby Jr. appeared in court Wednesday via video from the Lee County Jail. He's being held on $2 million bail in connection with last week's shooting at Dixon High School. Milby was injured in an exchange of gunfire with a school resource officer. No one else was injured. Defense attorney Thomas D. Murray said f...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A school bus monitor for the Lawrence school district was suspended and ticketed for battery after allegedly using pepper spray on a student. Lawrence police officer Drew Fennelly says the incident happened Friday afternoon on a bus that serves the Juvenile Detention Center. The attendant, a 46-year-old woman, told police she used pepper spray to subdue a 17-year-old female who lunged at her in a threatening manner. However, Fennelly says security footage from the bus didn't show the student threatening the monitor. The L...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Corporation Commission's Oil and Gas Division is directing some injection wells in north-central Oklahoma reduce injection volumes and others to stop operations. The directive issued Wednesday comes after the U.S. Geological Survey recently recorded several earthquakes in the Crescent area, including at least two of magnitude 4.0 or stronger. The directive applies to 25 total wells, including three that must cease operations and one other well that will not be allowed to resume operations. Thousands of e...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The incoming leader of the Oklahoma Senate has selected his top lieutenants for the upcoming legislative session. Senate President Pro Tempore-designate Greg Treat announced Wednesday he picked Sen. Kim David of Porter as the majority floor leader. Floor leader IS the No. 2 post in the Senate and manages and schedules the daily business of the Senate. David previously served as chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee. Treat also announced that Roger Thompson of Okemah will take over David's previous role as c...
DALLAS (AP) — Before December 2016, when he was staggered by the first of what would be multiple strokes, T. Boone Pickens was among the busier and more vibrant 88-year-olds on the planet. The Tulsa World reports five days a week, there were 6:30 a.m. treadmill-and-weights workouts. During a typical Friday, he might have breakfast in Dallas, lunch in New York and dinner at his 68,000-acre Mesa Vista ranch in the Texas Panhandle. Now, his routine includes frequent sessions of speech and physical therapy. A Holdenville, Oklahoma, native, P...
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Teachers across the country have left their classrooms this spring to protest at state capitols, closing schools to win pay raises and better funding in mostly Republican-controlled states. But their most disruptive act yet may well have come Tuesday night in Kentucky, where a high school math teacher who had never run for public office before defeated the state House majority leader in a GOP primary. The upset could portend a tumultuous November general election in Kentucky and beyond. In Kentucky alone, at least 34 c...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City officials have agreed to spend $1.7 million to help Amazon open a customer order fulfillment center in hopes of creating more jobs. The Oklahoma City Council voted Tuesday to authorize job-creation incentives for the deal with the online retail giant. The proposal includes $1 million in public payments to Amazon for more than 50 managerial jobs associated with a new warehouse and shipping terminal at Will Rogers World Airport. The city would provide another $700,000 in road improvements. The city will pay b...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Two Tulsa school board members say they regret their earlier vote for an elementary school to keep the Lee surname of its previous Confederate namesake. Board Vice President Cindy Decker and President Suzanne Schreiber voted two weeks ago in favor of changing Robert E. Lee Elementary's name to just Lee School. The 4-3 vote left many in the community saying the change does little to fix the hurt caused by having a school named after a Confederate general and slave-owner. Schreiber tells the Tulsa World she regrets not c...
LONGTOWN, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a woman's body has been found in a wooded area in eastern Oklahoma. Pittsburg County Sheriff Chris Morris says the body was found Tuesday by a team of seismographers who were drilling near Longtown. A suspected cause of death has not been released and the body has not been identified, but Morris says it does have identifying marks. The sheriff says the body appears to have been there for seven to 10 days. The body has been sent to the state medical examiner....
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — More than $8 million was awarded Wednesday to a woman who alleged that the spiritual leader of a cult forced her to work without pay for a decade. U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree of Kansas wrote in the order that Royall Jenkins and his organization, The Value Creators, exploited Kendra Ross' vulnerability, "knowing that she was unfamiliar with the world outside the cult, had received no standard education, was constantly moved from place to place, and had no money." Ross alleged in the lawsuit that from the age of 1...
