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DALLAS (AP) — Kyu Cho had a generous spirit and joyous belly laugh that delighted his friends. His wife, Cindy Cho, was quieter, described by those who knew her as sweet and kind. Together, the parents of two young sons complemented each other perfectly, strong in their faith and devoted to family and friends. "That's what I keep hearing in my head when I think of them: Just Kyu laughing so deeply and Cindy just kind of shaking her head and laughing along," said their friend, Phyllis Myung. "Every interaction I ever had with them, we were a...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma could become the first college softball program since UCLA more than 30 years ago to win three consecutive national championships. UCLA won titles in 1988, 1989 and 1990. Since then, teams have won back-to-back seven times. Oklahoma went for three after winning it all in 2016 and 2017 but lost in the semifinals in 2018. The top-seeded Sooners (56-1) are expected to end the drought. They enter the World Series on an NCAA Division I-record 48-game win streak while leading the nation in scoring, batting average, e...
The NCAA baseball tournament opens Friday with play in 16 double-elimination regionals. Regional winners advance to best-of-three super regionals next week, and the final eight go to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, beginning June 16. Some of the top storylines: WHO'S HOT Oral Roberts (46-11) has won 18 straight, the longest active win streak in the country, and 36 of 39. The Golden Eagles won't be an easy out as the No. 4 regional seed in Stillwater. They won both regular-season meetings with host Oklahoma State, including 8-5 in...
YATES, N.Y. (AP) — A New York fertility doctor who was accused of using his own sperm to impregnate several patients died over the weekend when the hand-built airplane he was in fell apart mid-flight and crashed, authorities said. Dr. Morris Wortman, 72, of Rochester, was a passenger in the experimental aircraft that went down Sunday in a pasture in Orleans County. The pilot, Earl Luce Jr., of Brockport, also was killed, according to the county sheriff. The crash of the aircraft, identified by the National Transportation Safety Board as a W...
LONDON (AP) — The big cheese of extreme U.K. sports events is back. Hundreds of spectators gathered Monday to watch dozens of reckless racers chase a 7-pound (3 kilogram) wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down the near-vertical Cooper's Hill, near Gloucester in southwest England. The first racer to finish behind the fast-rolling cheese gets to keep it. The cheese-rolling race has been held at Cooper's Hill, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of London, since at least 1826, and the sport of cheese-rolling is believed to be much older. The r...
BRYAN, Texas (AP) — Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes entered a Texas prison Tuesday where she could spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley. Holmes, 39, could be seen from outside the prison's gates walking into the federal women's prison camp located in Bryan, Texas, wearing jeans, a brown sweater and smiling as she spoke with two prison employees accompanying her. The minimum-security facility — where the federal judge who sentenced Holmes in November rec...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Officers found Tony Peralta sitting on a curb not far from a convenience store where he borrowed a cell phone to call 911 and confess to the 2008 killing of his former landlord. Sweating and taking puffs from his cigarette, he told them he's tired of covering it up, tired of living with the lie and tired of being overwhelmed by guilt. He agreed to take the officers to where he buried the body before standing up and volunteering to be cuffed. Police in the southeastern New Mexico community of Roswell released the 911 r...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Five residents of a six-story apartment building that partially collapsed in eastern Iowa remained unaccounted for Tuesday, and authorities feared at least two of them might be stuck inside rubble that was too dangerous to search. The three other missing residents are not believed to have been in the building when it started collapsing Sunday afternoon, said state Rep. Monica Kurth. Mayor Mike Matson confirmed at a news conference that not all the residents were accounted for. A group of protesters held signs and c...
Hundreds of people flocked to a small town in Missouri this week and last to see a nun whose body has barely decomposed since 2019. Some say it's a sign of holiness in Catholicism, while others say the lack of decomposition may not be as rare as people think. Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster was exhumed in April, according to a statement from the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, in Gower, Missouri. The nuns had been preparing for the addition of a St. Joseph shrine, and that involved "the reinterment of the remains of our beloved foundress,...
A drone attack that targeted Moscow on Tuesday exposed glaring breaches in its air defenses and underlined the capital's vulnerability as more Russian soil comes under fire amid expectations of a Ukrainian counteroffensive. The attack, which lightly damaged three apartment buildings, angered Russia's hawks, who scathingly criticized President Vladimir Putin and the military brass for failing to protect the heart of Kremlin power more than 500 kilometers (310 miles) from the front line. Five of the eight drones that took part in the raid were...
Food workers who showed up while sick or contagious were linked to about 40% of restaurant food poisoning outbreaks with a known cause between 2017 and 2019, federal health officials said Tuesday. Norovirus and salmonella, germs that can cause severe illness, were the most common cause of 800 outbreaks, which encompassed 875 restaurants and were reported by 25 state and local health departments. Investigators with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called for better enforcement of "comprehensive food safety policies," which...
Scientists and tech industry leaders, including high-level executives at Microsoft and Google, issued a new warning Tuesday about the perils that artificial intelligence poses to humankind. "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war," the statement said. Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, and Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist known as the godfather of artificial intelligence, were among the hundreds of leading figures who signed the...
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 Newsgram will not intentionally alter or delete any of this information. If it appears in the courthouse public records, it will appear in this newspaper. Misdemeanor Filings Ashley Ann Perryman, Cherokee, 34, has been charged...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023 1:19 a.m. – Caller advised of a male sitting near her house in his car and had been doing burnouts in the 200 block of 5th Street. Deputy was advised and all was okay. 8:56 a.m. – Medic needed for a female having seizures. No transport needed. 12:45 p.m. – Medic needed for a male in the 800 block of Grand that was weak and leg was going numb. No transport needed. 2:50 p.m. – Medic needed in the 400 block of Central for a female having trouble breathing. No transport was needed. 3:43 p.m. – Caller advised her neighbor...
Monday I attended the Memorial Day program at the Alva Municipal Cemetery. I was there to cover it for a news story in the Alva Review-Courier. When I was growing up, the holiday was called Decoration Day, a day for families to make an annual pilgrimage to cemeteries where loved ones were buried to decorate the graves. As a kid, I found it a little boring. The car ride was about one and a half hours each way. When we arrived at the cemetery, we sought out the graves where grandparents were...
Graveside services will be held on Thursday, June 1, 2023, at 1 p.m. at the Freedom Cemetery, Freedom, Oklahoma, with Reverend Mark Kinkel, Freedom Christian Church, officiating. Online condolences may be made at www.whartonfuneralchapel.com. Shirley Rae, was born on August 2, 1940 in Alva, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Margaret Jane (Oliver) and James Ernest Woodard. Shirley passed away peacefully on May 28, 2023 in hospice care at the Attica Long Term Care Center at the age of 82 years, 9...
The final week of the 2023 regular session was extremely busy. Once the education agreement was reached, that cleared the way for negotiators to complete work on the rest of the budget. I will talk a bit more about budget highlights in the coming weeks, but one of the items I want to mention that we approved was additional drought relief funding. Despite being blessed with some recent rainfall, it isn’t nearly enough to offset the devastating impact of the prolonged drought. Northwestern Oklahoma counties continue to be listed as being in s...
The Woods County Commissioners had a lot of paperwork to sign, but the agenda was short for the regular meeting Tuesday morning. The paperwork included county payroll, warrants, claims, and blanket purchase orders which were all approved. Chairman John Smiley opened the meeting with Randy McMurphy and Jason Perks present. County Clerk Shelley Reed also attended (and brought the boxes of paperwork). The commissioners approved the transfer of appropriations from Highway District 1 CIRB to Personal Services of $16,433.18 and Highway District 2...
"We had a solid turnout" Pake McNally said of the second annual Memorial Stateline Ruck March. He said 20 participants met at Kiowa's Community Building early Saturday morning, put on their hiking shoes, filled their backpacks with canned goods and headed west on Stateline Road toward Hardtner, Kansas. It was a cool morning as beautiful as the intent of the American Legion 175 and Sons of the American Legion at Hardtner. They continue the tradition to honor fallen veterans and help fill the...
Waynoka 4-H and FFA members traveled to Alva on May 23 and 24 for the Best of the Best Livestock Judging Camp. During camp, they worked on evaluating livestock, writing and presenting reasons on the classes they attended and also learned how to read EPDs on bulls....
Never had Kiowa's Riverview Cemetery looked more beautiful on a Memorial Day morning than it did Monday. Tall American flags lined the driveway and smaller versions waved from the ground. Volunteers had placed between 400 and 500 flags on the graves of veterans laid to rest there – a few even dating back to pre-Civil War days. The crowd of patriotic folks gathered was much greater than usual. Besides the always meaningful Memorial Day service, immediately following was a memorial service for M...
At the May 23 regular meeting of the Freedom Board of Education, B.J. Baker was appointed to Seat 3. He read his oath of office, as required by new board members. His term will last until the February 2028 election. Members present were Kyle Rhodes, Phillip Kirkpatrick, and Robert Babcock. Others present were Minutes Clerk/District Supervisor Bryant Weber. New Ag Teacher Hired The board approved hiring Britni Stewart as the FY2024 agricultural education teacher. According to a Northwestern Oklahoma State University (NWOSU) release, Stewart is...
Mike Roach of the Alfalfa County commissioners could not attend Monday's meeting, but Nate Ross and Garret Johnson were there to handle an agenda full of resolutions. They were joined by County Clerk Laneta Schwerdtfeger (mistakenly referred to as court clerk in last week's story) and Administrative Assistant Nancy Lambert. After approving payroll warrants, maintenance and operation payment warrants, blanket purchase orders, and last week's meeting minutes, the group heard from the courthouse's maintenance technician Tony Hellar. He was there...
Top scholars at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, and at Southwestern College Professional Studies have been announced with the release of the Dean's Honor Roll for the spring 2023 semester. Full-time students who earned grade point averages of at least 3.70 (4.0 equals an A) were eligible for the honor. Students on the list include: Cameryn Decker—Alva, Oklahoma Olivia Worsham—Medicine Lodge, Kansas Southwestern College is a private liberal arts college, founded in 1885 by Methodists in south central Kansas. Today its Winfield cam...
Jason Paris teaches fine arts at Cherokee High School, a rural northern Oklahoma school serving just over 100 students. A successful playwright with a graduate degree from New York University's Directing Educational Theater program, the Oklahoma native has found his true calling as an arts teacher and mentor to students in Cherokee. "I discovered an incredible sense of purpose in building a speech, debate and theater program where one no longer existed," he said, noting that the program grew...
