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Native American nations say the Supreme Court's rejection of a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act has reaffirmed their power to withstand threats from state governments. They say the case conservative groups raised on behalf of four Native American children was a stalking horse for legal arguments that could have broadly weakened tribal and federal authority. "It's a big win for all of us, a big win for Indian Country. And it definitely strengthens our sovereignty, strengthens our self-determination, it strengthens that we as a nation...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas' power grid operator asked residents Tuesday to voluntarily cut back on electricity due to anticipated record demand on the system as a heat wave kept large swaths of the state and southern U.S. in triple-digit temperatures. On the last day of spring, the sweltering heat felt more like the middle of summer across the South, where patience was growing thin over outages that have persisted since weekend storms and tornadoes caused widespread damage. In the Mississippi capital, some residents said Tuesday that they h...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials have agreed not to enforce a new restriction on medication abortions for at least five weeks before a state court judge decides whether to put it on hold until he decides a lawsuit challenging it and other existing rules. Providers and their attorneys announced the agreement Tuesday. For now, providers won't have to tell patients that they can stop a medication abortion using a regimen that providers and major medical groups consider unproven and potentially dangerous. The new rule was set to take effect J...
ATLANTA (AP) — The owner of an auto repair shop who paid a former employee with 91,500 oily pennies has been ordered by a judge to pay nearly 4 million more cents. A federal judge ruled that Miles Walker, who owns A OK Walker Autoworks in Peachtree City, Georgia, owes $39,934 to nine workers for unpaid overtime and damages. Attorneys for Walker agreed to the payments to settle a civil lawsuit brought by the U.S. Labor Department that accused Walker of retaliating against former employee Andreas Flaten in 2021. After Flaten filed a complaint w...
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff's deputy and a motorist are lucky to be alive after they were sucked into a flooded storm drain during a torrential downpour, then dragged underwater for around 30 seconds before emerging — soaked but unharmed — on the other side of a highway. Deputy William Hollingsworth was helping stranded drivers amid the rapidly rising water early Friday when he saw the motorist disappear beneath the surface. Hollingsworth "rushed to his aid without regard to his own safety," Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmo...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge struck down Arkansas' first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for children as unconstitutional Tuesday, the first ruling to overturn such a prohibition as a growing number of Republican-led states adopt similar restrictions. U.S. District Judge Jay Moody issued a permanent injunction against the Arkansas law, which would have prohibited doctors from providing gender-affirming hormone treatment, puberty blockers or surgery to anyone under 18. Arkansas' law, which Moody temporarily blocked in 2021...
In a race against the clock on the high seas, an expanding international armada of ships and airplanes searched Tuesday for a submersible that vanished in the North Atlantic while taking five people down to the wreck of the Titanic. U.S. Coast Guard officials said the search covered 10,000 square miles (26,000 square kilometers) but turned up no sign of the lost sub known as the Titan. Although they planned to continue looking, time was running out because the vessel had less than two days of oxygen left. "This is a very complex search, and 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. Felony Filings Allie Thomas Chester, Altus, 34, has been charged with...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 During this day were three traffic stops. 11:18 a.m. – Caller needs a snake removed in the 100 block of Grand. 8:50 p.m. – Caller asked if an officer could check in the 300 block of Kansas for a suspicious person. Caller advised they didn’t know if the person belonged there or not. Last they knew the homeowner was in the nursing home. All was okay. Wednesday, June 14, 2023 During this day were four traffic stops. 1:48 p.m. – Medic needed at the courthouse for a male with hernia pains. 3:19 p.m. – Caller advised someone s...
Real Estate Transfers Book 148 page 527: Connie S. Boggs and John L. Boggs; Michael Boggs and Amanda Boggs; and Brittany Jones convey unto Michael Boggs and Brittany Jones. Lots 5 through 8 in Block 21 in the City of Sharon. Joint tenancy quit claim deed. Book 148 page 530: Miguel Hernandez Rodriguez and Breeann Alaina Hernandez convey unto Country Place LLC. Lots 42, 44 and 46 on north Main Street in Hartzell’s Addition to the City of Medicine Lodge, Barber County, Kansas. Warranty deed. Book 148 page 531: Brandon T. Farney and Marianna L. F...
Monday's holiday meant the Alfalfa County commissioners met Tuesday. Nate Ross, Mike Roach and Garret Johnson were joined at the table by County Clerk Laneta Schwerdtfeger. The three men started the meeting with regular business items like approving the previous meeting minutes and maintenance and operation payment warrants. After that, the group heard from Cherokee City Manager (and former Alfalfa County Commissioner) Chad Roach, who was there to discuss the library in Cherokee and appeal to...
The following people filed for school board and municipal positions in Barber County Kansas by the June 1 deadline. A spokesperson at the Barber County Clerks Office said there is no need for a primary. The voters will determine the winners in the Nov. 7 election. HARDTNER 3 City Council – John N. Adams, Chuck Black, Leona A. Gosvener HAZELTON Mayor – Tom Traylor 2 City Council – Todd Catlin, Gary Johnson ISABEL 3 City Council – Steve Cummins, Jeremy Mosley KIOWA CITY 3 City Council – B.J. Duvall, Brian Hill, Randy Robbins, Jason Thayer ME...
A report from a passing motorist sent Helena Police Chief Jim Dykes looking for a man walking on a dirt road. Now that man is facing four felony counts in Alfalfa County District Court. On June 8 at 5:48 a.m. Chief Dykes received the call about a man dressed in a black tee shirt and blue jeans who was walking south on County Road 640 talking on a cellphone. He intercepted the man just west of CR 640 on Highway 45. His jeans were wet from the knees down, he had mud on both knees of the jeans,...
“What little wheat that's been brought in is decent, but there's not a lot of it,” Kevin Pingelton, assistant manager of the Alva Farmer's Cooperative said. “Sadly enough, that is it for now.” For the first time in many area farmers' lives (in the Newsgram reading area) they have no wheat to cut. The severe drought conditions since the summer of 2022 caused the usually resilient hard red winter wheat to barely survive in the majority of area fields. Crop insurance adjusters' findings of these poor crops, in many cases, prompted them to release...
U.S. Consumers reported losing almost $8.8 billion to scams last year, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The number of fraud reports was actually down from 2021 (2.4 million from 2.9 million), but individual victims lost far more money. The median loss from fraud was $650, up from $500 in 2021. Local banks and other agencies are providing three free seminars in Alva to help prevent fraud. Check the ad on page 11 of this Newsgram issue for more information. The seminars will be hel...
At the regular monthly June meeting of Kiowa's City Council, they discussed selling three city-owned properties. Those properties are: the old hospital that was demolished and the lot totally cleaned-up at 810 Drumm; two vacant properties by Progress Park at 419 and 421 N. 9th St.; and the old school museum at 118 S. 5th St. The council approved the bid process for the acquisition of city property. City Administrator Sam Demel explained the process and said the bidders must provide a written plan of what they want to do to the property – t...
Marlie Pitts is currently serving as Waynoka FFA vice-president. She is a junior at Waynoka Public Schools and the daughter of Ronnie and Alicia Pitts. She also has two siblings, Nathan and Mattie Pitts. This will be her fourth year in FFA. Her siblings were the reason she joined FFA. Once she saw their joy, it wasn't hard to pick her classes in eighth grade. Seaman's SAE projects are showing and breeding pigs. Her hobbies outside of FFA are playing softball and basketball and coaching...
Richard Earl Davis Jr. was born on June 5, 1936, in Fairbury, Nebraska. He passed away on May 12, 2023, in hospice care at St Francis Hospital, Wichita, Kansas. A memorial graveside service will be held at 2 p.m., Thursday, June 29, 2023, at Riverview Cemetery east of Kiowa, Kansas. Richard was raised in Moore, Montana, and attended school through the 10th grade in Moore and then graduated from San Benito High School in Texas in 1954. He attended the University of Houston for 3 years. Richard's work included farming and ranching north of...
South Barber's Lady Chieftains could be a whole new basketball team next fall. Their new K-12 Principal Steve Neal invited his friend, a basketball standout from Colorado, to travel to Kiowa and be a guest coach for an afternoon at an exclusive camp just for them. His name is Keenan Williams, a varsity basketball coach from Burlington, Colorado, school district RE-6J. Besides coaching, Williams is a middle school physical education teacher. He happens to coach Principal Neal's daughter, who...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former southern Kansas sheriff's deputy who shot and killed a man with a defective beanbag has been stripped of his peace officer certification. Virgil Brewer, a former Barber County deputy, was found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the Oct. 6, 2017, death of 42-year-old Steven Myers, who died after Brewer shot him with the beanbag during a confrontation at Myers' home in Sun City. The Kansas Commission on Peace Officers' Standards and Training reviewed the shooting last month and revoked Brewer's license, K...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Kansas man is facing federal charges of making threats on social media to build bombs and carry out a mass shooting at a Nashville Pride festival. According to U.S. Attorney Henry C. Leventis' office, the indictment unsealed Tuesday against a 25-year-old from Hoisington, Kansas charges him with two counts of transmitting an interstate threat about the Nashville Pride Festival and Parade. The event is scheduled for June 24 to 25. An indictment says the man on April 26 commented on a sponsored Nashville Pride post on F...
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon was sued Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission for allegedly engaging in a yearslong effort to enroll consumers without consent into Amazon Prime and making it difficult for them to cancel their subscriptions. In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, the agency accused Amazon of using deceptive designs, known as "dark patterns," to deceive consumers into enrolling in Prime, which provides subscribers with perks such as faster shipping for an fee of $139 annually, or $...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff was defiant Wednesday as the Republican-led House prepared to censure him over his comments made several years ago during investigations into President Donald Trump's ties to Russia. He said he will wear the formal disapproval as a "badge of honor" and charged his GOP colleagues of doing the former president's bidding. "I will not yield," said Schiff, who is running for Senate in his home state of California, during debate over the measure. "Not one inch." More than 20 Republicans voted with D...
