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Happy Birthday To July 16: Kyla Scates, Vera Ferguson July 17: Daniel Welty, Jenny Nixon, Megan DeWitt, Brian Beckett July 18: Brett Smith, Carol Jo Schultz, Melissa Nixon July 19: Cindy Pierce, Sue Mitchell, Chance Gerloff July 20: Lola Smith, Garrett Wares, Alicia Welty, Glenna Melkus, Robert Province, Deborah Page July 21: Debbie Costello, Chad Thompson, Kyler Hensley July 22: Lynette Bartley, Jesse Schroeder, Justin Rankin July 23: Lezlee Reed, Donita Luddington, Daylin Furrow, Travis Whitaker July 24: Travis Darr, McKenzie Graff July 25;...
Happy Anniversary To July 22: Mr. & Mrs. Jerrod Reed July 25: Mr. & Mrs. Kent Bilyeu, Mr. & Mrs. Dustin Rankin, Mr. & Mrs. Corby Bradt July 26: Mr. & Mrs. Merle Nickelson July 27: Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Hughes July 28: Mr. & Mrs. Zearl Harris (Note: Send corrections, additions to: freedomcallnews@gmail.com or call 800-305-2111)...
On Sunday, July 12, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude – Janell Reutlinger There will be a meeting concerning Vacation Bible School, Sunday, July 19, at the Christian Church following church services. Everyone is invited to this meeting to discuss VBS. Vacation Bible School is scheduled for the evenings of Aug. 4, 5, and 6. Congratulations to Dixie Stansberry, the 2020 Honored Cowhand. Invocation by Pastor Todd Finley Services are on Facebook live at 11 a.m. Our Facebook page is Freedom United Methodist C...
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said Wednesday that he has tested positive for coronavirus, a day after the state reported a record number of new COVID-19 cases. Stitt made the announcement in a Zoom call with reporters along with his interim Health Commissioner, Lance Frye. Stitt led a meeting of the Commissioners of the Land Office on Tuesday morning. He wore a mask around his neck but otherwise led the meeting without a mask and answered reporters’ questions after the meeting. A member of Stitt’s cabinet, David Ostrowe, tested positive for the...
Freedom's board of trustees met last Wednesday evening, July 8, to wrap up some details involving the gas line replacement project. Grant consultant Jennifer Firgard presented the information to board members Rolando Galindo and Randy Rhodes, along with Mayor Shad Brackin and Town Clerk Cindy Reed. The meeting was held via Zoom, as the town has been doing consistently for the past few months. After some discussion, the board approved the anti-displacement plan for the gas line replacement project. This is a standard part of the process, said...
The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) reports two additional confirmed case of COVID-19 in Woods County. The two new cases are located in the zip code associated with Freedom. This raises the Woods County count to 11 with eight now recovered. The other nine cases are in the Alva zip code. Among other counties in the area, Alfalfa County remains at one case, Harper County lists two cases, Major County 16, Woodward County 15 and Garfield County 138. As of Wednesday, July 15, there are 22,813 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 in...
Despite COVID-19 and a particularly hot evening that turned into a predominately windy event, the Freedom Rodeo's 83rd Queen Kickoff took place Saturday evening. The temperature soared over 100 degrees and the heat index was around 110 and before the evening event was done the temps dropped and the wind gusted throughout the pavilion at the town park. About 40 people of Freedom gathered to support the tradition of the "Queen Kickoff." This event marks the countdown to the annual Freedom Rodeo... Full story
MIAMI (AP) — Arizona, Texas and Florida together reported about 25,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday as restrictions aimed at combating the spread of the pandemic took hold in the United States and around the world in an unsettling sign reminiscent of the dark days of April. The face-covering mandates, lockdowns, health checks and quarantine orders underscored the reality that the number of infections is continuing to tick upward in parts of the world and that a return to normalcy may be farther off than many leaders had envisioned just w...
VINITA, Okla. (AP) — A Kansas man charged in the 1999 deaths of an Oklahoma couple and the disappearance and presumed deaths of their teenage daughter and her friend has pleaded guilty to an accessory to murder charge. Ronnie Busick, 68, entered a guilty plea on Wednesday in an agreement with prosecutors. He was sentenced to 15 years, serving 10 years in Oklahoma Department of Corrections custody and five years under supervised release. Busick may get a lesser sentence is he provides information that leads to the recovery of the two Craig C...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Crews searching for the remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre have yet to uncover any human remains and on Wednesday expanded the scope of the excavation at a city cemetery, the Oklahoma state archaeologist said. The search at Oaklawn Cemetery thus far has revealed common household trash, animal bones and a shell casing that is not believed to be connected to the massacre, State Archaeologist of Oklahoma Kary Stackelbeck said. "We are not at all disheartened by that because we have all these other lines of e...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' governor on Wednesday said she would delay the reopening of the state's K-12 schools for nearly a month until after Labor Day because of a resurgence in reported coronavirus cases. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's announcement came as the state reported its worst weeklong spike in confirmed coronavirus cases since the pandemic began. Kelly's schools announcement is all but certain to generate criticism from the Republican-controlled Legislature, which previously complained that she was reopening the state's economy too...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas priest was sentenced to more than three years in prison for possessing child pornography, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Christopher Rossman, 47, was also ordered to pay $5,000 under the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, the U.S. attorney's office said in a news release. Rossman formerly served at the Annunciation Catholic Church in Baldwin City, Kansas. He admitted in his plea that investigators found child pornography on his Samsung Galaxy tablet. The archdiocese contacted law enforcement after m...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A freshman Kansas congressman is accused of providing false information to a sheriff's deputy to hamper an investigation into whether he broke state election laws by listing a UPS Inc. store postal box as his residence on a state voter registration form. Republican Rep. Steve Watkins has been charged in state district court with two election fraud felonies, felony interference with law enforcement and a misdemeanor count of failing to inform the state's Division of Vehicles of an address change. The charges were announced T...
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday halted the execution of a man, said to be suffering from dementia, who was set to die by lethal injection in the federal government's second execution this week after a 17-year hiatus. Wesley Ira Purkey, convicted of a gruesome 1998 kidnapping and killing, was scheduled for execution Wednesday night at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, where Daniel Lewis Lee was put to death Tuesday after his eleventh-hour legal bids failed. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., i...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The developer of a seven-story hotel adjacent to the University of Kansas was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for a scheme to collect fraudulent tax refunds from the city of Lawrence. Thomas S. Fritzel, 54, of Lawrence was also fined $25,000, the U.S. attorney's office said in a news release. Fritzel pleaded guilty in January to one count of criminal conspiracy. Fritzel, part owner and manager of Oread Inn, had an agreement with the city of Lawrence to finance the more than $40 million hotel project. He was to be rep...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- (AP) A federal judge awarded on Wednesday nearly $176,300 in attorney fees and expenses to animal rights advocates who successfully challenged provisions in a Kansas law that banned the secret filming at slaughterhouses and other livestock facilities. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil issued the award after finding earlier this year that the state's "Ag-Gag" law unconstitutionally criminalized free speech. Vratil issued a permanent injunction against it in April. The law, which was enacted in 1990, had made it a crime or...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas said Wednesday it will test for COVID-19 all students, faculty and staff who return to campus for the fall semester. Chancellor Douglas Girod said in a video message that some logistics still have to be worked out, but the university has made arrangements with the Clinical Reference Laboratory in nearby Lenexa to conduct the saliva testing, the Lawrence Journal-World reported. "This is the safest way to get our campus open," Girod said. "We want to make sure we start the year out with as healthy o...
NEW YORK (AP) — Hospital data related to the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. will now be collected by a private technology firm, rather than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — a move the Trump administration says will speed up reporting but one that concerns some public health leaders. The CDC director said Wednesday that he's fine with the change — even though some experts fear it will further sideline the agency. The CDC has agreed to step out of the government's traditional data collection process "in order to strea...
Unidentified hackers broke into the Twitter accounts of technology moguls, politicians, celebrities and major companies Wednesday in an apparent Bitcoin scam. The ruse included bogus tweets from former President Barack Obama, Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg and a number of tech billionaires including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Celebrities Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian West, were also hacked. The fake tweets tweets offered to send $2,000 for every...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Wednesday it will impose travel bans on employees of the Chinese technology giant Huawei and other Chinese companies the U.S. determines are assisting authoritarian governments in cracking down on human rights, including in China's western Xinjiang province. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also said the administration is finalizing plans to minimize data theft from the popular Chinese video streaming app TikTok, although he stopped short of saying it would be banned outright. Pompeo made the a...
SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft cut dozens of full-time staffers from its MSN news service, continuing an initiative to move away from human editors in favor of artificial intelligence. The change comes six weeks after the technology giant told about 50 news production contractors their tenures at MSN would not last beyond June 30. A Microsoft spokesperson told The Seattle Times the company eliminated "a small number" of roles Monday across various departments, including MSN, but would not provide specific numbers. Since 2014, MSN has whittled down i...
Nearly impossible without man-made global warming, this year's freak Siberian heat wave is producing climate change's most flagrant footprint of extreme weather, a new flash study says. International scientists released a study Wednesday that found the greenhouse effect multiplied the chance of the region's prolonged heat by at least 600 times, and maybe tens of thousands of times. In the study, which has not yet gone through peer review, the team looked at Siberia from January to June, including a day that hit 100 degrees (38 degrees Celsius)...
NEW YORK (AP) — What is this enemy? Seven months after the first patients were hospitalized in China battling an infection doctors had never seen before, the world has reached an unsettling crossroads. Countless hours of treatment and research, trial and error now make it possible to take much closer measure of the new coronavirus. But to take advantage of that intelligence, we must confront our persistent vulnerability. "It's like we're in a battle with something that we can't see, that we don't know, and we don't know where it's coming f...
Nearly 71,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, a new record that predates the COVID-19 crisis, which the White House and many experts believe will drive such deaths even higher. Preliminary numbers released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show the trend is driven by fentanyl and similar synthetic opioids, which accounted for 36,500 overdose deaths. Deaths involving cocaine and methamphetamine also are rising. With billions of dollars devoted to ending the opioid epidemic, policymakers had hoped overdose de...
