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Happy Birthday To July 18: Brett Smith, Carol Jo Schultz, Melissa Nailon 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: Dalene Dauphin, Sue Schroeder, Jenifer West, Aly Jea Gerloff July 26: Darrin Rader, Allen Bradt,...
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 14, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Shay Wilson is running for Princess of the Freedom Rodeo. She is selling tickets to the rodeo. A thank you note from Darlien Kamas was read. Invocation by Pastor Todd Call to Worship: Psalm 113 led by Johnnie Sue Olson Opening Hymn: “Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus” led by Debra Brown Affirmation of Faith Gloria Patri Hymn of Justifying Grace – “Here I Am, Lord” Offertory – Janell Reutlinger Ushers – Arly and Cooper Eden Doxology...
One of the state’s most contentious education initiatives, the Reading Sufficiency Act, is fully funded for the first time, with $12 million dedicated to fund supports for struggling readers in the 2019-20 school year. The reading law has for six years contained a high-stakes component for third graders: They face being held back if they can’t demonstrate reading proficiency. Oklahoma Watch in December revealed that it’s not just third graders being retained, but students as young as kindergarten are repeating a grade more frequently in Oklahom...
As temperatures climb, so does the risk for heat-related illness due to hyperthermia (overheating). The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) reminds parents that children’s bodies overheat easily, and infants and children under age 4 are among those at greatest risk for heat-related illnesses. Heat stroke is one of the leading causes of non-crash, vehicle–related death for children. In the United States, a child dies from heat stroke in a vehicle every nine days. Parents and caregivers of young children should especially keep in mind tha...
The 82nd annual Freedom rodeo and Old Cowhand reunion is just around the corner, which is one of this community's deepest and most treasured traditions. Rodeo events begin a month before, with the Queen Kickoff held at the local park under the pavilion. Last Saturday, July 13, at 6 p.m. the community gathered at the local park to support the beginning of rodeo festivities in fellowship. To start the night the committee recognized the early passing of Cheyenne Benefield, the reigning 2018...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The founders of Oklahoma's largest virtual charter school embezzled millions of dollars in state funds through an illegal scheme that involved the use of "ghost students" to artificially inflate enrollment numbers, investigators allege. Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agent Tommy Johnson outlined the allegations in an affidavit for a search warrant of an Epic teacher's home filed late Monday in Oklahoma County. Investigators seized a laptop and mobile phone during their search. In the affidavit, Oklahoma State B...
LEXINGTON, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Corrections says a man serving life in prison for stabbing his parents and three siblings to death tried to attack prison staff with an 8-inch long "sharpened instrument." A DOC report first obtained by the Tulsa World says 22-year-old Robert Bever approached two staff members from behind in a dayroom at the Joseph Harp Correctional Center on July 15. One grabbed him and he complied with orders to drop the weapon and drop to the ground. DOC spokesman Matt Elliott said Wednesday that no one w...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gov. Kevin Stitt says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved disaster assistance for 41 Oklahoma counties as a result of spring flooding and severe weather in the state. The storms produced historic flooding throughout the northern half of the state and spawned a tornado that struck near Tulsa International Airport on May 21. Stitt announced the approval Tuesday, saying it makes federal funding available for cities, counties, rural electric cooperatives and the state to repair infrastructure and other costs a...
EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — A black couple who filed separate discrimination lawsuits against Emporia State University won one lawsuit while the other was dismissed. The Kansas City Star reports a federal judge ruled Tuesday the university retaliated against Angelica Hale by not renewing her contract after she complained about racial discrimination during the 2014-2015 school year. A jury on Monday dismissed her husband Melvin's $10 million lawsuit against five university administrators. The couple worked at Emporia State's School of Library and I...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police say a 25-year-old mother of four young children was shot to death at a southwest Wichita home and her boyfriend has been arrested. Spokesman Officer Charley Davidson said Elsey Puente was found suffering from a gunshot would Tuesday evening. She died later at a hospital. The Wichita Eagle reports her boyfriend, 29-year-old Victor Manuel Castro, was arrested at the home and booked into the Sedgwick County Jail. Davidson said Puente was shot after a "domestic violence disturbance" between Castro and Puente inside t...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas announced Wednesday that it will begin selling beer and wine at home football games this season, joining a growing number of Big 12 schools to offer alcohol sales at sporting events. Cue the jokes about the Jayhawks' long-suffering football team. Kansas athletic director Jeff Long said the sales will begin with the season opener Aug. 31 against Indiana State. It is an expansion of a trial program in various venues, including Memorial Stadium, where alcohol has been served in suites and premium seating areas. "Our r...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence city leaders have voted to require some bar and restaurant workers to get sexual violence intervention training. The Lawrence Journal World reports that the city commission adopted an ordinance Tuesday requiring the training as a requirement for the establishments to keep their local liquor licenses. The ordinance requires training for on-site managers. Both the city-issued license and a state liquor license are required to serve alcoholic beverages. Businesses where alcohol is not consumed, such as liquor and g...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a Wichita lab technician "fudged" the test results of sewage treatment plant wastewater that is dumped into the Arkansas River. The Wichita Eagle reports that Director of Public Works Alan King said Tuesday that the city caught the error during a spot check and immediately reported it to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The employee has since resigned. The problematic test results falsely reported how much organic and inorganic substance is floating in the water. It's generally used as an i...
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Confusion about whether pigs or kids had tumbled out of a vehicle in Kansas led to a humorous exchange between a dispatcher and an officer. Police in Riley County posted audio of the exchange on Facebook under the hearing, "Just a typical day in Kansas." It starts with a dispatcher telling an officer, "We evidently have a truck that is losing pigs out the back. The officer then attempts to clarify, saying "Kids, as in children?" The dispatcher then clarified, "No, pigs. As in little pink animals with curly tails." B...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The U.S. Air Force has warned people against participating in an internet joke suggesting a large crowd of people "storm Area 51," the top-secret Cold War test site in the Nevada desert. A prank event on Facebook that's attracted more than 1 million interested people suggests that a mass of people attempt to run into the mysterious site at 3 a.m. on Sept. 20. The site is part of the vast Nevada Test and Training Range and has become the center of UFO conspiracy theories. The Facebook event jokes "they can't stop all of us" and...
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) — A curious visitor to a Maine train museum that resembled a white throw pillow or perhaps a lost toupee turned out to be a rare albino porcupine. The young rodent turned up Tuesday at Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, perplexing the staff, who sought help identifying it via social media. The consensus was it's an albino porcupine. The Portland Press Herald reports the animal appeared to be a baby because its quills had not yet hardened. A spokeswoman for the museum said midday Wednesday that it hadn't yet b...
BELL, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida man held his wife's lover at gunpoint, cut off the man's penis and fled with it. News outlets report 49-year-old Alex Bonilla was arrested hours later on charges including aggravated assault. The Gilchrist County Sheriff's Office released a statement Tuesday that said Bonilla broke into his neighbor's home Sunday, tied the neighbor up and mutilated his genitals with scissors. Deputies say the victim told authorities that Bonilla then took the severed penis and fled across the street to his own h...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada's governor and congressional delegation are pointing to earthquakes this month in the California desert and calling for the U.S. Energy Department look again at seismic risks of burying the nation's most radioactive nuclear waste at a site in the Mojave Desert. In a opinions by the state's top earthquake experts: James Faults at the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and Graham Kent at the seismological laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno. They said scientific tools developed since Yucca Mountain was studied i...
WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to fairness and privilege, a new study finds it really is not about how you play the game. It's about whether you win or lose. A new experiment, played out as a card game, shows that even when the deck is literally stacked in people's favor — and they know it — most winners still think it's fair anyway. Losers don't, according to a study in Wednesday's journal Science Advances . The study "tells us something about privilege and about society," said Bates College sociologist Emily Kane, who wasn't part of the r...
NEW YORK (AP) — When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their first steps on the moon in 1969, the world was watching. Live TV coverage made hundreds of millions witnesses to history. They huddled in front of televisions at home and gathered in auditoriums and schoolrooms as the Apollo 11 astronauts ventured onto another world for the first time. Even now, 50 years later, that day is still deeply etched in memories of many. The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum , NASA and others have gathered their stories for this week's golden a...
(EDITOR'S NOTE: "Apollo 11: An AP Special Anniversary Edition," available in paperback and e-book exclusively on Amazon.com , chronicles America's journey to the moon. The following is an excerpt from Chapter 12.) Footprints on the Moon There was always the moon, and with it, unwritten history. Perhaps the story of Creation itself. Always the moon, staring out of everyone's sky. Nothing has so captured the eye and mind of man. She stands, as always, large on the horizon, shrinks in her zenith. On hot muggy nights, she flames as orange as the...
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists say they nearly eliminated disease-carrying mosquitoes on two islands in China using a new technique. The downside: It may not be practical for larger areas and may cost a lot of money. In the experiment, researchers targeted Asian tiger mosquitoes, invasive white-striped bugs that can spread dengue fever, Zika and other diseases. They used a novel approach for pest control: First, they infected the bugs with a virus-fighting bacterium, and then zapped them with a small dose of radiation. Zapping is meant to s...
