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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. Felony Filings Heather Jean Sharp, Goltry, 36, has been...
Marriage License Filings Edward Michael Greig and Kaleigh Rekel Sanborn, both of Cherokee, filed for a marriage license with certificate ($5)....
Tuesday, November 21, 2017 8:08 a.m. Controlled burn on County Road 710 and south of Cotton Road. 1:55 p.m. Civil papers served. 5:11 p.m. Civil papers served. 5:25 p.m. Reporting party (RP) advised ex-husband was refusing to leave premises. Officer en route. 9:25 p.m. Deputy had a traffic stop on SH-8. 9:44 p.m. RP advised of a grass fire on SH-132 between Carrier and Keowee blacktop in Garfield County. 11:07 p.m. RP advised she was missing her two dogs. Wednesday, November 22, 2017 8 a.m. RP advised of a calf out on County Road 530 and Greer...
November 20, 2017 Billy J. Bailey, Medicine Lodge, driving a Ford F-150, hit a deer on US-281 by the county dump. Unknown damage, no injuries, investigated by Deputy Woods. Medicine Lodge ambulance transported patient from Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital to Andover Hospital. Medicine lodge Fire Department responded to a gas leak on Adams Street. Justin B. Bailey, Sawyer, hit a fence belonging to Kory Kuhn on SH-160. Unknown damage, some injuries, investigated by Deputy Woods. Medicine Lodge ambulance transported patient from Medicine Lodge Mem...
OKLAHOMA CITY – (AP) Gov. Mary Fallin on Tuesday said she had signed executive orders that could lead to administrative consolidation or annexation in higher and common education. Fallin said lawmakers who refused to support revenue-raising measures during the recently concluded special session indicated they wanted to see cost savings and efficiencies first. One of Fallin’s executive orders requires that by Sept. 1, 2018, and every year after, the Board of Education must compile a list of school districts that spend less than 60 percent of the...
A Cherokee woman was charged Nov. 22 in an incident that occurred in September. Leslie Jovan McDonald, 45, has been charged with burglary in the first degree, attempted child stealing and child abuse by injury, all felonies. A warrant has been issued for her arrest. The first charge is punishable by imprisonment for seven to 20 years; the second by a fine of up to $250 or imprisonment for up to five years or both fine and imprisonment; the third is punishable by imprisonment for not more than life or a fine of not less than $500 nor more than...
An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper was notified of a vehicle traveling at high speeds near Jet driven by someone without permission to do so. According to court documents, Trooper Robert Cottrill was told Nov. 19 that the vehicle was an older Jeep with wood panel siding and was traveling south out of Jet. When Cottrill was just south of Jet, he was told the Jeep was now traveling west on f US-64 out of Jet. The trooper located the Jeep on the side of the highway by County Road 690. He saw a man and a dog walking west about 200 yards from the...
An Alfalfa County woman is facing additional charges involving child abuse. Heather Jean Sharp, 36, of Goltry was charged with felony child neglect on Nov. 15. On Nov. 22 additional charges were filed in Alfalfa County District Court. Sharp was charged with two counts of enabling child sexual abuse and one count of failure to report child sexual abuse. All three charges are felonies. Each of the charges is punishable by imprisonment for not more than life, or by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000, or both such fine and...
Memorial services for Patty Ann Cook will be 2 p.m. Friday, December 1, 2017, at the Capron Methodist Church with Pastor Janet fitz and Cecilia Brooks officiating. She was cremated at her request under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Patty Ann Cook, daughter of Craig (C.H.) Crist and the late June Evelyn (Holwick) Crist, was born September 25, 1952, at Streator, Illinois, and passed away November 17, 2017, at Enid, Oklahoma, at the age of 65 years, 1 month and 22 days. Patty...
Richard Bradford, age 67, of Waynoka, Oklahoma, went to be with our Lord on November 17, 2017. His passing occurred at MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas, when he finally lost his long battle with cancer. Richard was born on February 25, 1950, in Sayre, Oklahoma, to Isaac (Junior) and Irona Cruze Bradford. He was raised in Waynoka and graduated from Waynoka High School in 1968. Following graduation, he briefly attended Northwest Oklahoma State University before moving to Oklahoma City. On December 17, 1976, Richard was united in marriage...
Connie Lou (Leatherman) Randall was born July 29, 1949, in Perryton, Texas, to Kenneth and Norma (Mann) Leatherman. She made her home in heaven on November 26, 2017. Connie graduated from Beaver High School in 1967 and was united in marriage to Cecil Dewayne Randall on June 17, 1967. She is survived by four sons, one daughter, 12 grandchildren, one sister, one brother, two sisters-in-law, one brother-in-law, as well as numerous nieces, nephews, family and friends. Funeral services for Connie were held at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 28,...
Richard and Kim Throgmorton announce the engagement of their daughter, Kasey, to Garrett Butler, son of Butch and Rhonda Butler. Kasey graduated from Yukon high School in 2012 and then received a bachelor's degree in biology from Southern Nazarene in May 2016. She works as an aquarist at the Oklahoma City Zoo. Garrett graduated from Burlington High School in 2012 and then received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Southern Nazarene in May 2016. He is a tax associate with Wedel Rehill and...
The Oklahoma Attorney General has issued information on how to avoid online shopping scams. The easiest way, of course, is to shop with your local merchants so that exposing your private information and credit/debit card information is not a risk. There seems to be a greater amount of frantic shopping online as I visit with people. The frantic element might cause people to act hastily and skip the normal safeguards they usually use. Here's what the AG said: -Never click on popup ads – popup ads could contain malware or spyware that will infect...
Santa will be sliding his sleigh into Kiowa, Kansas, to see Christmas in the Heartland this coming Sunday, Dec. 3. Bring the kids to get their pictures with the Jolly Old Soul and give him their Christmas wish list starting at 1:30 p.m. Kids can look forward to the movie (“Home Alone”) at 3 p.m. Word is that after the movie youngsters might get a bag of free candy ... that is, if they are on the “nice list.”Festivities begin about 1 p.m., when stores open downtown for your shopping convenience. Don't miss all the festivities in Kiowa's Communit...
Describing a wreck that took the life of Attica, Kansas, teen Gracie Burenheide, Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Mark Crump said sadly, “It was no one's fault. There was no violation of the law. It was a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.” The accident happened 11 miles north of Medicine Lodge (and US-160) at 6:06 p.m., last Thursday, Nov. 23, on US-281. Burenheide, age 19, was driving a 2007 Chevy Malibu northbound on US-281. At the same time a 2013 Ford Explorer was southbound on US-281, driven by Calvin Boyd, age 64, of Med...
The Alva Board of Education held a special meeting Monday at noon to hear a proposal from the OSSBA to provide search services for superintendent candidates for the Alva school system. Superintendent Steve Parkhurst has told the board he will retire at the end of the fiscal year. tephanie Hyder, of the Oklahoma Secondary School Board Association, explained that search services are available from them because the Alva district is a member. The cost is not free, with a basic price of $6,000....
LThe Alfalfa County commissioners met the morning of Nov. 27 for its regular meeting. Stan Tucker, Jay Hague, Nancy Lambert, Laneta Unruh, Kyle Spade and Stephanie Lambert were in attendance. Toby Walker was absent. The meeting began with the call to order, then Nancy Lambert gave the invocation and the group saluted the U.S. flag. The commissioners then took care of general business, which included the approval of the previous meeting's minutes, one road crossing permit for District 2 for $500, and the signing of M & O Warrants for payment,...
Burlington School Superintendent Glen Elliott announced that Burlington's Basketball Homecoming is changed to this Thursday night. The JV girls game will start at 4 p.m., followed by the JV boys. Homecoming coronation is at 6 p.m., followed by the Lady Elks basketball game at 6:30 p.m., and then the Elks game afterward. Elliott explained that homecoming was changed from Friday night because Burlington is playing Waynoka. Waynoka's football team are Academic Champions and will be presented their...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on North Korea's missile launch (all times local): 6:25 p.m. South Korean President Moon Jae-in has raised concerns that North Korea's perfection of an intercontinental ballistic missile would let regional security "spiral out of control" and make the United States consider a pre-emptive strike against the North. Seoul's presidential office said Wednesday that Moon said during a National Security Council meeting that it would be important to prevent a situation where North Korea miscalculates and threatens the South...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Libyan militant was convicted Tuesday of terrorism charges stemming from the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. But a federal jury found him not guilty of murder, the most serious charge associated with the rampage he was accused of orchestrating. The attack became instant political fodder in the 2012 presidential campaign, with Republicans accusing the Obama administration of intentionally misleading the public and stonewalling congressional investigators, though officials d...
WASHINGTON (AP) — After Hurricane Maria damaged tens of thousands of homes in Puerto Rico, a newly created Florida company with an unproven record won more than $30 million in contracts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide emergency tarps and plastic sheeting for repairs. Bronze Star LLC never delivered those urgently needed supplies, which even months later remain in demand by hurricane victims on the island. FEMA eventually terminated the contracts, without paying any money, and re-started the process this month to supply m...
NEW YORK (AP) — An aspiring actress who met Harvey Weinstein by chance in 2014 detailed in tears Tuesday how she said the media mogul made her stand in front of a mirror in his hotel room in Cannes, France, while he stood behind her, groping her and forcing her to perform a sex act after pretending to be interested in her career. Kadian Noble, 31, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan a day earlier. Her attorney Jeff Herman said he sued under a criminal sex trafficking statute of engaging in commercial sex act overseas because W...
