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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group seeking a statewide vote on whether to fully legalize adult use of marijuana in Oklahoma submitted boxes of signatures on Tuesday with hopes of getting the question on the November ballot. Oklahomans for Sensible Marijuana Laws submitted more than 164,000 signatures to the Office of the Secretary of State, far more than the roughly 95,000 they need to qualify State Question 820 for the ballot. They also beat the Aug. 1 deadline they had by nearly a month. Campaign advisor Ryan Kiesel, an attorney and former D...
EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — Brexten Green, a wide receiver on the Emporia State football team, died over the weekend in a cliff-diving accident at Grand Lake in Oklahoma, the university announced Tuesday. The Grand River Dam Authority received an emergency around 6:30 p.m. Saturday about a man who jumped into Grand Lake around Dripping Springs and didn't resurface, KFOR-TV reported. Rescue crews found his body in 31 feet of water. Green came to Emporia State from Cashion High School in Cashion, Oklahoma. He was set to start his second year after r...
CHICAGO (AP) — In a state with some of the country's toughest gun regulations and a city that bans semi-automatic weapons, Dana Gordon still feared a mass shooting could happen here. Gordon, a Highland Park resident and an anti-gun violence activist, knew the familiar questions from victims of mass shootings across the country — how could such violence could come to their school, their supermarket or movie theater, their city. The latest act of mass violence to hit the U.S. came Monday in the northern Chicago suburb, when police said a gun...
GENEVA (AP) — The physics lab that's home to the world's largest atom smasher announced on Tuesday the observation of three new "exotic particles" that could provide clues about the force that binds subatomic particles together. The observation of a new type of pentaquark and the first duo of tetraquarks at CERN, the Geneva-area home to the Large Hadron Collider, offers a new angle to assess the "strong force" that holds together the nuclei of atoms. Most exotic hadrons, which are subatomic particles, are made up of two or three elemental p...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department settled a decades-old lawsuit on Tuesday filed by a group of men who were rounded up by the government in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and held in a federal jail in New York in conditions the department's own watchdog called abusive and harsh. The settlement announced Tuesday calls for a $98,000 payout to be paid out among the six men who filed the suit and were held without terrorism charges at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. The men — Ahmer Iqbal Abbasi, Anser Mehmood, Ben...
NEW YORK (AP) — The fossilized skeleton of a T. rex relative that roamed the earth about 76 million years ago will be auctioned in New York this month, Sotheby's announced Tuesday. The Gorgosaurus skeleton will highlight Sotheby's natural history auction on July 28, the auction house said. The Gorgosaurus was an apex carnivore that lived in what is now the western United States and Canada during the late Cretaceous Period. It predated its relative the Tyrannosaurus rex by 10 million years. The specimen being sold was discovered in 2018 in t...
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 Alva Review-Courier 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 Darren Alan Westfahl Burkes, Enid, 51,...
Real Estate Transfers Book 881 page 480: Charles T. Clark, unto John Christopher Thorpe and Traci Anne Thorpe. All of lots 1, thru 4 and the north half of lot 5, block 18, in the town of Byron, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Joint tenancy warranty deed Book 881 page 509: Mike Cook and Rhonda Cook, unto Mitchell Penner. The north 70 feet of lots 6, 7, 8 in block 17, in the Town of Burlington, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Individual quit claim deed Book 881 page 557: Jack L. Admins and Louise Adkins, unto Gerald Lee Adkins and Sarah Adkins. A tract of...
Monday, June 27, 2022 8:34 a.m. Caller advised of a Chevy pickup on Johnston and County Road 730 that pulled an electrical box down and was dragging it down. Advised Grant County and Cherokee Police Department to on the look out for the pickup. 12:58 p.m. – Welfare check needed on Jefferson and County Road 600. Deputy advised everything was okay. Tuesday, June 28, 2022 During this day there was one traffic stop. 7:04 a.m. – Medic was needed in the 300 block of Broadway for a male that had seizures. Medic took the patient to Bass Hospital in...
Criminal Filings Tiffany Nicole Henson, has been charged with possession of marijuana and use/possess with intent to use drug paraphernalia into human body. Patrick Everett Lambert, has been charged with possession of marijuana and failure to wear seatbelt. Nathan Joseph Lambert, has been charged with driving under the influence; 4th or subsequent conviction and ignition interlock device; operate a car without a require device. Robin Leonard, has been charged with forgery and theft of property or services; value less than $1,500. Robin...
Real Estate Transfers Book 147 page 361: Elm Mills Recreation Company, Inc., unto Heath M. Landwehr and Alyssa M. Landwehr. All that part of the southeast quarter of section 13, township 30 south range 13 west of the 6th PM, Barber County, Kansas. Warranty deed Book 147 page 363: Heath M. Landwehr and Alyssa M. Landwehr, unto The Elm Mills Recreation Company, Inc. Commencing at the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of section 12, township 30 south, range 13 West of the 6th PM, in Barber County, Kansas. Warranty deed Book 147 page 367:...
The Alfalfa County commissioners met Tuesday this week due to the July 4 holiday. Because it's a new month, monthly reports, appropriations and alcohol beverage tax allocation paperwork were ready to be signed. Also signed were the last meeting's minutes, M&O payment warrants, and blanket purchase orders. Lapsed appropriations from fiscal years 20-21 to 22-23 and fiscal years 21-22 to 22-23 received signatures, and also a request for temporary appropriations for new account numbers for Chart of Account benefits, effective July 1 of this year....
This Saturday July 9 you have an opportunity to support the Freedom Gates Boys Ranch (FGBR) at Hazelton, Kansas, where troubled young men are taught to have a relationship with God, to develop a work ethic, get an education, be part of a family and a chance to change the direction of their lives. Head to the Heritage Center in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, where the annual FGBR hamburger feed and auction happens – hamburgers at 5p.m., with the auction starting at 6. Michael Simpson is president of t...
January 22, 2022, Alva woman Peggy O'Neil, a resident of the Homestead, got her mail and sat down with a cup of coffee to open it. "I saw a letter hand addressed to me and I didn't recognize the return address." She started reading the letter, "Dearest Peggy, Not sure how I should begin this narrative, but I think you should sit down, grab a cup of coffee and take a deep breath." Lucky for her she was already sitting down with a cup of coffee. As it turned out, the letter was written by her...
This is a culmination of Kiowa City Council action taken from the numerous June meetings that has not already been reported in the Newsgram. The councilpersons are: Janet Robison, B.J. Duvall, Brian Hill, Jason Thayer, Tom Wells and Mayor Bill Watson. Also attending the meetings were City Administrator Sam Demel, City Clerk Sheila Smith and City Utility Clerk Lynette Callison. At a brief special meeting last Wednesday evening the board approved Resolution No. 22-002. This acknowledges that the council approved changing their worker's comp...
Tayen Redgate and Makinze Smith of the Waynoka FFA attended the second session of alumni camp June 29 – July 2, where they learned how to become better leaders by learning the importance of building each other up, becoming a family, and many other team bonding skills. Redgate and Smith did several activities learning how to become closer and grow like a family to be the best group of leaders they possibly could be. Both met so many new friends that will last a lifetime and got to see some of t...
Last week, I wrote about the most popular scams in 2021. But what’s happening this year? Avast, who sells security software, has compiled a list of “phishing” scams trending in 2022. Some of the descriptive names are entertaining. The tips for avoiding scams are probably the best part of the article. Phishing Phishing scams are often focused on a large group because at least one member will be tricked into placing themselves on the “hook.” However, rather than focusing on a particular target, b...
The Tuesday morning meeting of the Woods County Commissioners was all about beginning the new fiscal year. Although the meeting was fairly short, the commissioners had plenty of paperwork to sign after they adjourned. Present for the meeting were all three commissioners: Randy McMurphy, David Hamil and John Smiley. There were 43 items on the list of yearly renewals approved including leases, maintenance agreements and contracts. The Health Department annual contracts were also approved. These in...
Jane Marie (Goertz) Gates, 71, of Anthony, Kansas, passed away on June 27, 2022, after a short battle with colon cancer. Jane, (Janie) was born on July 14, 1950, to Arthur and Pearl (Kilian) Goertz in Enid, Oklahoma, at St. Mary's Hospital. Janie lived in Medford, Oklahoma, with her two brothers Roger and Rodney Goertz. After losing her father at a young age, her mother, Pearl, remarried Sonny Dunning, and Jane was joined by her younger brother Philip. In 1965 the family moved to Anthony. In...
Roy Samuel Schurter was born on December 14, 1939, to Vernon and Marie Schurter. He met his Lord and Savior on June 29, 2022, in Kiowa, Kansas, and will spend eternity worshiping Him. He grew up in Burlington, Oklahoma, and graduated from Burlington High School, class of 1958. Sam attended OSU for one year and Okmulgee Tech studying diesel mechanics. Sam was a hard-working, energetic young man who loved working on building the "rabbit car" with his cousins, Bruce and Robert. Sam married his...
Stearns Walter Rogers, 87, passed away peacefully on the morning of Tuesday, April 5, 2022, at his home in Chino Valley, Arizona, where he had relocated to be with family. He was born on July 28, 1934, and raised in Alva, Oklahoma. He graduated from AHS, ‘54, NWOSU ‘58, finished his Ph.D. at Oklahoma State in 1962, and then returned to teach biochemistry at Northwestern until 1976. He served as Chairman of the Faculty Senate, Pre-Med advisor, and Chair of the Department of Chemistry. Billie and...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Overall receipts to Oklahoma's treasury were up 15% during the fiscal year that ended June 30, fueled by record-high tax collections on oil and natural gas production, State Treasurer Randy McDaniel said Tuesday. Overall collections for the 2022 fiscal year totaled $16.46 billion, a 15% increase from the previous fiscal year, McDaniel reported. The figures show Oklahoma's economy is continuing to expand despite inflationary pressure. "Inflationary forces are a significant concern for consumers, but Oklahoma's macro e...
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed legislation Wednesday that will provide $1.2 billion over three years to boost long-term water supplies for the desert state and implement conservation efforts that will see more immediate effects. The legislation that was hammered out over months during the just-completed legislative session is viewed as the most significant since the state implemented a groundwater protection plan in 1980. Climate change and a nearly 30-year drought forced the move, which comes as Arizona faces cutbacks in its C...
