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Michael W. Mitchel, 69-year-old former Woodward resident, passed from this life on Sunday, July 1, 2018. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, July 5, 2018, in the First United Methodist Church in Woodward. Interment will follow at 4 p.m. in Garrison Cemetery near Dacoma, Oklahoma, with the Billings Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Michael Wayne Mitchel, son of Robert Wayne Mitchel and Leora Marian Laudick, was born October 12, 1948, in Perryton, Texas. Mike attended Perryton High School where he graduated in 1966. He then...
Happy Birthday To July 5: Dale Sample, Keith Melkus, Barclay Holt July 6: Bo Gassett July 7: Sherry Beagley, Rex Beagley, Drake Brady July 8: Allison Ledford, Bretta Woodard, Mariah Luddington July 9: Skylar Smith, Kamas Rooney July 10: Ronda Perry July 11: Destanee Bolar July 12; Priscilla Dees July 13: Donnie Darr, Landry Clay Flock July14: Rocky Hodgson, Chastin Ferguson July 15: Austin Ferguson July 16: Kyla Scates, Vera Ferguson July 17: Daniel Welty, Jenny Nixon, Megan DeWitt, Brian Beckett July 18: Brett Smith, Carol Jo Schultz, Melissa...
On July 1, the Sunday before Independence Day, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger National anthem sung by Jennifer Finley Announcements, birthdays, joys and concerns Invocation by Pastor Todd Finley Call to Worship – Psalm 3 led by Shirley Wagner Opening hymn “America” led by song leader Debbie Brown Affirmation of Faith Gloria Patri Hymn of Justifying Grace “American the Beautiful” Offertory – Janell Reutlinger Usher – Dixie Stansberry Offertory Prayer by Pastor Todd Finley Specia...
Yamila Galindo, a graduate of Freedom High School, has been awarded four scholarships to attend Northwestern Oklahoma State University during the 2018-2019 academic year. Galindo will receive the Freshman Academic Scholarship, the President's Leadership Scholarship, the Valedictorian Scholarship and the Ranger Preview Scholarship. The Freshman Academic Scholarship requires recipients to have an ACT score of 21-25 and a minimum 3.0 cumulative grade point average. All students selected for PLC...
Food, fun, family, friends and fireworks equal a festive celebration sponsored by Freedom Chamber of Commerce. Last Friday the annual 4th of July celebration took place at the Freedom Rodeo grounds. It was a nice evening with a slight breeze and cloudy skies to the west, which kept the temperatures tolerable. Approximately 150 people attended the event. It started with a meal of hamburgers, hot dogs and many side dishes; there were fun competitive games for kids of all ages and a fireworks...
DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern's Zach James closed out the spring award season by earning the Great American Conference Male Athlete of the Year for the 2017-18 season. James, a junior from Whitesboro, Texas, recently earned Division II PING First Team All-American recognition from the Golf Coaches Association of America a week after being named an All-Central Region honoree, and was also tabbed as a finalist for the DII Jack Nicklaus Award presented by Barbasol....
MONTICELLO — Kyle Lem has been named interim softball coach at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Lem was an assistant coach for the late Alvy Early for the past three seasons, assisting Early in all phases of the program. He served as recruiting coordinator, organizing campus visits and recruiting events. He also worked with UAM pitchers and was responsible for in-game pitch calling. "I am pleased that Kyle has accepted our offer to serve as interim coach for the 2018-19 season," said UAM Chancellor Karla Hughes. "Kyle has worked v...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – After arguably the most prolific offensive campaign in the history of NCAA Division II Softball, Southern Arkansas outgoing senior Brooke Goad, a consensus First-Team All-America selection in 2018, received the highest honor in the Great American Conference as the league announced on Tuesday afternoon that the Waxahachie, Texas, native is the GAC's Female Athlete of the Year....
LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — Authorities in Oklahoma were investigating two separate police shootings Tuesday, including one in which a man was killed in Lawton after officers say he attacked them with a knife and cut one of them. The second shooting involved a Tulsa officer who was wounded in the leg when a man opened fire as officers tried to question him about the license plate on the van he was in. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is looking into the shooting in Lawton, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) southwest of Oklahoma City. Lawton p...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — July marks the beginning of several Oklahoma tax hikes to raise more than $400 million for teacher salaries and other budget priorities. Drivers have begun paying an extra 3 cents per gallon on gas and 6 cents on diesel fuel as of Sunday. The motor fuel taxes are expected to bring in $105 million during the budget year that began this month. The money will go into the state's general revenue fund, which allowed lawmakers to make appropriations based on collections expects over the next year. The tax hikes are the result o...
TALIHINA, Okla. (AP) — Court filings show law enforcement had been warned that a man who died after a shootout with Oklahoma troopers had said he wanted to attack a small-town city hall. The McAlester News-Capital reports an informant told the Talihina police chief he went to Bradley Daniel Webster's home days before Webster's May 11 gunfight with troopers. The informant said Webster had an AK-47 assault rifle and Uzi pistol. A search warrant affidavit reveals 52-year-old Webster told the informant he had the weapons "because he was not g...
MIAMI, Okla. (AP) — Workers in the northeast Oklahoma city of Miami are repairing a faulty drainage line that caused compost liquid to spill into a creek and kill thousands of fish. State inspectors responded June 22 to J-M Farms, which is a mushroom farm where they found that the spill had turned Tar Creek dark for about two miles. The spill was a setback for a creek recovering from decades of contamination from zinc and lead mining operations unrelated to J-M. The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality says high levels of ammonia and o...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The leader of a new medical marijuana trade group in Oklahoma is criticizing Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin for not calling lawmakers back into session to pass laws regulating the industry. New Health Solutions Oklahoma Executive Director Bud Scott described Fallin's announcement after last week's vote to approve medical marijuana as a "failure of leadership." Fallin said before the vote she expected to convene a special session if voters approved the state question. But she reversed her position after consulting with l...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a suspect in a deadly weekend shooting in Wichita has been arrested at an Oklahoma bus stop. The Wichita Eagle reports that the 34-year-old was booked Monday into the jail in Noble County, Oklahoma. Authorities are working to extradite him to Kansas, where he is suspected of killing 23-year-old Patrick Ball-Morse early Saturday at an apartment. Wichita police Officer Paul Cruz says investigators received information that the suspect was on his way to Dallas, and police contacted the Oklahoma Highway P...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The father of Republican congressional candidate Steve Watkins set up and funded a political action committee that's running a $64,000 ad campaign for his son. Creating a PAC allows the father to skirt rules that would limit direct contributions to his son's candidacy for the open seat in Kansas' 2nd Congressional District, The Kansas City Star reported. Watkins is one of seven candidates seeking the GOP nomination. Records filed with the Federal Election Commission this week show that the sole donor to the Kansans Can Do An...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — One man was killed and another critically wounded Tuesday after a co-worker opened fire on two contract workers outside a suburban Kansas City elementary school. No children were in the school when the shooting happened just after 9 a.m. at Sunrise Point Elementary School in Overland Park, Kansas, a well-to-do suburb. The suspect was tracked to a home near the shooting scene where he was arrested. He was jailed but charges had not been filed as of Tuesday afternoon. One of the men underwent surgery but died a few h...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a request from a Massachusetts man seeking to put his name on the Republican primary ballot for Kansas attorney general. U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren ruled from the bench Tuesday that political activist Vermin Supreme is not entitled to federal court intervention. A state board had previously ruled Supreme ineligible to run. The Rockport, Massachusetts, man contends in a lawsuit that he should be allowed to run because Kansas has no residency requirement. But Melgren said federal courts h...
CLAY CENTER, Kan. (AP) — A group of Kansas pranksters are finally coming clean right before the 50-year anniversary of a high school finding a mysterious hole through its roof. Richard Klocke and his friends fired a small cannon full of gunpowder near Clay Center Community High School for the Fourth of July in 1968, the Kansas City Star reported . "This thing just exploded like crazy," Klocke said. "The metal was flying. I could hear it flying in all these directions, but I could specifically hear it flying from this direction off toward the s...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say an off-duty Wichita officer was wounded and a suspected home intruder killed in an exchange of gunfire. KWCH-TV reports that Wichita Police Chief Gordon Ramsay says 24-year-old Christian Webb shot the officer in the leg after entering the officer's home through an unlocked door. The officer then returned fire, hitting the Webb several times. Webb died at a hospital. The officer was treated and released. Ramsay says the officer's wife and children were home at the time of the shooting and are shaken up but u...
