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On July 9, the 5th Sunday after Pentecost, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Announcements Call to Worship led by Johnnie Sue Olson Opening Hymn “Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus” Song leader Debra Brown Scripture Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 Sermon “Hide and Seek” by Pastor Paul McDowell The Apostle’s Creed led by Debra Brown Hymn “Open My Eyes That I May See” Joys and Concerns. Please remember those on our prayer list. Presenting our Tithes and Gifts Offertory by Janell Reutlinger Of...
Happy Birthday To July 13: Donnie Darr, Landry Clay Flock July 14: 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 July 19: Cindy Pierce, Sue Mitchell, Chance Gerlogg July 20: Lola Smith, Garrett Wares, Alicia Welty, Glenna Melkus, Robert Province, Deborah Page July 21: Debbie Costello, Chad Thompson, Kyler Hensley July 22: Jeffrey Darr, Lynette Bartley, Jesse Schroeder, Justin Rankin July 23:...
Our nation faces its deadliest drug epidemic ever. For years, Americans overestimated the benefits of opioids and underestimated the risks. Many people became regular users of these narcotic pain killers, often quite innocently, with a prescription from a doctor after surgery or an injury or as treatment for a chronic condition. Few thought their growing dependence on the pain killers would lead to addiction. The numbers describe the magnitude of the crisis now confronting us: • Since 1999, the amount of prescription opioids sold in this c...
In early May, the Oklahoma Medical Board suspended a Midwest City doctor’s license for six months after an investigation connected two prescription overdose deaths to his prescribing practices. But it took four weeks before Dr. Dwayne Roush’s suspension became official. In mid-January, the medical board barred Dr. H. Peter Koenen-Myers Jr. from reapplying for his lapsed medical license after determining he had overprescribed opioids to a patient who later died of an overdose. It took 10 weeks before the suspension went into effect, board rec...
The Woods County Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS) and Conservation District is hosting a Native Plant Identification/Cover Crop workshop given by the Oklahoma Conservation Commission. The workshop is on Aug. 24, RSVP is required by August 18, and registration is between 8:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. on Aug. 24 at the Woods County Fairgrounds Women's Building. This workshop will primarily benefit the area landowners and producers. However there have been high school students wishing to attend. Future Farmers of America (FFA) members may...
Members of the Avard Regional Rail Park Authority met Tuesday evening at Northwest Technology Center to learn that June was a really good month financially. Income for the month was $82,000 with $80,000 of it from rail car charges when the Avard site was used to unload 60 miles of pipe. Things will slow down in July. Todd Holder said only one train is scheduled to come in for Martin-Marietta. The board made an offer to Venture Corporation to locate a more permanent hot asphalt facility in the rail park rather than the temporary facilities they...
DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan funeral home has been shut down after inspections found maggots on the floor of a garage where unrefrigerated bodies were being stored, according to the state. The mortuary science licenses of the Swanson Funeral Home in Flint and manager O'Neil Swanson II are suspended, Michigan's Licensing and Regulatory Affairs department said Wednesday. Numerous complaints led to investigations that determined the funeral home smelled of decomposing bodies and the garage where bodies were stored was not air-conditioned. Some of t...
STERLING, Ill. (AP) — A 15-year-old Illinois girl posted "I love you so much mom" on Facebook after allegedly shooting her mother in the head and trying to conceal the body by setting the house on fire. Police say the body of Peggy S. Schroeder, 53, of Morrison was found in a burning home Saturday in Morrison, about 130 miles (209 kilometers) west of Chicago. Schroeder's daughter was charged as a juvenile with two counts of first-degree murder, concealing a homicide and arson. Another 15-year-old girl could face charges of concealing a h...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will be "very angry" if the Senate fails to pass a revamped Republican health care bill and said Majority Leader Mitch McConnell must "pull it off," intensifying pressure on party leaders laboring to win over unhappy GOP senators and preserve the teetering measure. Trump's remarks came a day before McConnell, R-Ky., planned to release his revised legislation to a closed-door meeting of GOP senators. The new legislation would keep most of the initial Medicaid cuts and makes other changes...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen raised the possibility Wednesday that the Fed would consider slowing the pace of its interest rate increases if inflation remained persistently below its target level. For the moment, Yellen signaled no change in policy, indicating that the three rate hikes since December will likely be followed by one more hike this year. She also said the Fed wants to begin gradually trimming its massive $4.5 trillion in bond holdings later this year, a move that will also put upward pressure on interest r...
SALEM, N.H. (AP) — Authorities say a New Hampshire woman arrested for drug possession returned to the police station to demand the drugs be returned to her, and she was rearrested. An officer told 26-year-old Emily Morin, of Concord, he wouldn't return the Suboxone, a highly addictive substance that can be used to treat heroin addiction. It was seized as evidence during her arrest stemming from a shoplifting incident Tuesday. The officer said he saw Morin get into a car and start to drive away. Earlier, police determined that Morin's license a...
BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of German special police raided several buildings in Berlin early Wednesday, arresting four suspects in connection with the brazen heist of a 100-kilogram (221-pound) Canadian gold coin stolen from one of the city's museums earlier this year. Heavily-armed masked police arrested the suspects, one wearing a hood over his head, in Berlin's Neukoelln neighborhood. Another nine people are being questioned in the case. All suspects are related to one another and aged between 18 and 20, police said. The raids of 13 different b...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department's civil rights chief apologized Wednesday for saying 90 percent of campus sexual assault claims stem from both participants being drunk and that the rights of the accused are too often ignored. "What I said was flippant, and I am sorry," Candice Jackson, the acting assistant secretary for civil rights, said in a statement. "All sexual harassment and sexual assault must be taken seriously — which has always been my position and will always be the position of this department." She was quoted in The New Y...
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Two key players in the Republican and Democratic parties in Nevada are teaming up to host a clean-energy talk as the White House abandons a worldwide agreement to curb climate change and states are moving to the forefront of the fight. Former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he's bringing back a summit last headlined by President Barack Obama in 2015. This time, the co-host is a Republican — Gov. Brian Sandoval — a bipartisan move as Congress remains gridlocked on health care and other...
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has 40 years of history behind it, but walking through its sprawling Front Range campus one can't help but think 40 years into the future. Solar cells that can be spray-painted onto windows or printed at a Home Depot; power grids that can take in a wide portfolio of traditional and renewable energy and adapt to changing environments; homes with appliances that communicate with each other to share power between electric cars, water heaters, appliances and even neighbors; hydrogen c...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Science can draw inspiration from science fiction, with exoskeletons long succeeding in cinema to make villains more threatening and superheroes better at saving worlds. Returning to reality, exoskeleton technology — devices outside the body that may improve physical activity and energy efficiency — is not yet able to turn humans into Iron Man but continues progressing step by exoskeleton-assisted step. Now, Carnegie Mellon University's latest study shows that a computer-controlled system it developed — essentially an ankle b...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A consortium of Mexican and foreign private companies says a well drilled in shallow water has found between 1.4 and 2 billion barrels of crude oil equivalent in the Gulf of Mexico. Houston, Texas-based Talos Energy LLC says it has a 35 percent interest, along Sierra Oil and Gas and Premier Oil Plc. Talos said in a statement Wednesday the well started at a depth of 545 feet (166 meters) below the Gulf surface and reached a depth of 11,100 feet (3,383 meters) underground. It's one of the largest discoveries made in shallow w...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq says it will offer new oil and gas exploration rights as it looks to boost energy revenues to fund its war against the Islamic State group and shore up its finances amid low oil prices. Oil Minister Jabar Ali Al-Luaibi said late Tuesday that his ministry plans to put nine border exploration blocks up for bidding by international energy companies. Five are shared with Iran, three with Kuwait and one is in the Persian Gulf. He did not provide a timetable. Iraq has the world's fourth largest oil reserves. This year, it added 1...
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Crop production in drought-stricken North Dakota is forecast to be down dramatically this year. The Agriculture Department estimates the state's staple spring wheat crop will total 196 million bushels, down 27 percent from last year. Oat production is expected to be down 30 percent, barley production down 47 percent, durum wheat down 50 percent and winter wheat down 74 percent. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map shows nearly all of western North Dakota in either severe or extreme drought. Most of the rest of North Dakota i...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Crop production in drought-stricken South Dakota is forecast to be down dramatically this year. The Agriculture Department estimates the state's winter wheat crop will total 28 million bushels, down 56 percent from last year, and the spring wheat crop at 32 million bushels, down 32 percent. Oat production is expected to be down 30 percent, to 6.3 million bushels. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map shows nearly all of South Dakota in some stage of drought or abnormally dry, with the worst areas in the north central a...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — With harvest now under way across the nation's breadbasket, the government forecast on Wednesday that U.S. growers are expected to bring in 1.28 billion bushels of winter wheat. The National Agricultural Statistics Service's latest projection is up 2 percent from last month's forecast, but is still down 23 percent from last year. The forecast, based on July 1 conditions, is based on a projected average of 49.7 bushels per acre with nearly 26 million acres anticipated to be harvested across the country. Production n...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House panel has voted to lift a ban on slaughtering horses at meat processing plants. The move by the House Appropriations Committee would reverse a horse slaughter ban that was contained in a huge catchall spending bill signed into law by President Trump in early May. A move to renew the slaughter ban, pushed by California Democrat Lucille Roybal-Allard, was defeated by a 27-25 vote. The Horse slaughter ban has mostly been in force for more than a decade. The ban is enforced by blocking the Agriculture Department from p...
ROCHESTER, Ind. (AP) — For more than 50 years, the Smith family has called Fulton County home. What started as a 420-acre farm west of Rochester has grown not only in acreage and crop production, but manpower. The Smith's farm, one of the largest in the county, first began in 1965 when Dale and Millie Smith moved to the area from LaPorte County. Now, the farm has extended to three generations, with Dale and Millie's two sons, four grandsons and two nephews employed. "I'm very fortunate that they were interested in wanting to continue the operat...
