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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 Paul Matthew Powell, Cherokee, 40, has been...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The remains of 19 bodies that were exhumed as part of a city search for unmarked burials from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will be reinterred during a private ceremony this week, city officials said. The bodies were exhumed in June and examined at an on-site laboratory by forensic anthropologist Phoebe Stubblefield, whose findings have not been made public, the Tulsa World reported. Efforts to identify the remains through records and possibly DNA are ongoing, according to the city. Stubblefield has said earlier that the r...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Some Democrats in the Oklahoma House of Representatives want Gov. Kevin Stitt to reinstate an emergency declaration as COVID-19 cases rise in the state, something the Republican has said he will not do. "Needs across Oklahoma are different, and one thing is clear - we need local control returned and we need it now," Rep. Melissa Provenzano, a Democrat from Tulsa, said in a statement Monday. Stitt ended the state's emergency declaration in May and, during a news conference Friday, said he has no plans to issue another. "This...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — One of Kansas' largest public school districts plans to require elementary students to wear masks this fall after a health official warned that the faster-spreading delta variant would lead to widespread COVID-19 among unmasked children. The Shawnee Mission district joins the Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, schools in requiring masks for some students. But Shawnee Mission is the only district to plan on mandating masks among the six in Johnson County, the state's most populous county, The Kansas C...
WINONA, Kan. (AP) — An Arizona couple has died after their Jeep collided with a cow that had wandered onto U.S. Highway 40 in western Kansas, authorities there said. The crash happened around 3:30 a.m. Monday about 7 miles west of Winona, television station KAKE reported. Raymond Kennedy, 45, of Glendale, Arizona, and Brenda Carrasco, 54, of Peoria, Arizona, were traveling eastbound in a Jeep Wrangler when it hit the cow and rolled several times, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol. Both Kennedy and Carrasco were pronounced dead at the s...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita businessman faces more than a dozen federal counts after prosecutors accused him of failing to turn over more than $200,000 in employee payroll tax withholdings collected over nearly five years to the IRS. Jesus Perez-Aguayo was indicted earlier this month by a grand jury on 17 counts of failure to pay over payroll taxes, the Wichita Eagle reported. Each count carries a penalty of up to five years in federal prison. Prosecutors said Perez-Aguayo, who also goes by the names Sebastian Chavez and Sebastian C...
TOKYO (AP) — Simone Biles arrived in Tokyo as the star of the U.S. Olympic movement and perhaps the Games themselves. She convinced herself she was prepared for the pressure. That she was ready to carry the burden of outsized expectations. Only, as the women's gymnastics team final approached on Tuesday night, something felt off. And the athlete widely considered the Greatest of All Time in her sport knew it. So rather than push through the doubts that crept into her head as she's done so many times in the past, Biles decided enough was e...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The signs and banners are dotted along suburban commercial strips and hanging in shop windows and restaurants, evidence of a new desperation among America's service-industry employers: "Now Hiring, $15 an hour." It is hardly the official federal minimum wage — at $7.25, that level hasn't been raised since 2009 — but for many lower-skilled workers, $15 an hour has increasingly become a reality. Businesses, particularly in the restaurant, retail and travel industries, have been offering a $15 wage to try to fill enough jobs...
CANTON, Ga. (AP) — A man accused of killing eight people, most of them women of Asian descent, at Atlanta-area massage businesses pleaded guilty Tuesday to four of the murders and was handed four sentences of life without parole. Robert Aaron Long, 22, still faces the death penalty in the four other deaths, which are being prosecuted in a different county. His shooting spree at three different businesses in March ignited outrage and fueled fear among Asian Americans, who were already facing increased hostility at the time linked to the c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — "This is how I'm going to die, defending this entrance." Capitol Police Officer Aquilino Gonell told House investigators Tuesday he could feel himself losing oxygen as he was crushed by rioters – supporters of then-President Donald Trump – as he was defending the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who rushed to the scene, told the new House committee investigating the attack that he was "grabbed, beaten, tased, all while being called a traitor to my country." Doctors later...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators and the White House were locked in intense negotiations Tuesday to salvage a bipartisan infrastructure deal, with pressure mounting on all sides to wrap up talks and show progress on President Joe Biden's top priority. Despite weeks of closed-door discussions, senators from the bipartisan group blew past a Monday deadline set for agreement on the nearly $1 trillion package. They hit serious roadblocks over how much would be spent on public transit and water infrastructure and whether the new spending on roads, b...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Republicans want former President Donald Trump to have at least some influence over their party's direction even as many who side with the GOP say they are uneasy about its future. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research captures widespread unease among Republicans over everything from the direction of the country to the state of American democracy and, in particular, President Joe Biden. Just 15% approve of the way Biden is handling his job, and 66% continue to say the Democrat was i...
PALATKA, Fla. (AP) — Joseph Moore breathed heavily, his face slick with nervous sweat. He held a cellphone with a photo of a man splayed on the floor; the man appeared dead, his shirt torn apart and his pants wet. Puffy dark clouds blocked the sun as Moore greeted another man, who'd pulled up in a metallic blue sedan. They met behind an old fried chicken shack in rural north Florida. "KIGY, my brother," Moore said. It was shorthand for "Klansman, I greet you." Birds chirped in a tree overhead and traffic whooshed by on a nearby road, muddling t...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.S. and NATO have promised to pay $4 billion a year until 2024 to finance Afghanistan's military and security forces, which are struggling to contain an advancing Taliban. Already, the U.S. has spent nearly $89 billion over the past 20 years to build, equip and train Afghan forces. Yet America's own government watchdog says oversight of the money has been poor, hundreds of millions of dollars have been misspent and corruption is rife in the security apparatus. Monitoring where the future funding goes will become v...
Divorce Filings Andrea D. Ondracek, Goltry, vs. Curtis Ondracek, Enid: divorce ($272.14)....
Tuesday, July 20, 2021 12:45 p.m. – Caller advised someone took the electric meter off the back of her house in the 200 block of Massachusetts. 5:42 p.m. – Medic needed for a female who fell and had been on the ground since 10 a.m. that morning. Medic took the patient to Bass Hospital in Enid. 7:32 p.m. – Report of batteries stolen around 6 p.m. approximately 2 ½ miles east of the post office in Cherokee. Wednesday, July 21, 2021 During this day there were three traffic stops. Thursday, July 22, 2021 During this day there was one traffi...
Real Estate Transfers Book 873 page 693: Cynthia R. Springer conveys unto Terry G. Means, as trustee of the Terry and Betty Means Revocable Trust. The southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 6, township 24 north, range 11, WIM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Warranty deed. Book 873 page 695: Cynthia R. Springer conveys unto Terry G. Means, as trustee of the Terry and Betty Means Revocable Trust. The southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 6, township 24 north, range 11, WIM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Quit claim deed....
Benny Ray Perks was born in Alva, Oklahoma, to Theodore Perks and Iva Opal (Harding) on October 13, 1954, in Alva, Oklahoma. Benny lived in Alva all of his childhood and during his teen years he was the paper boy for the Alva Review Courier. Benny attended Alva High School where he graduated in 1972. After graduation he attended the vo-tech here in Alva where he received multiple achievements and certificates. On May 2, 1975, Benny Perks married the love of his life, Deanna (Mayes). To this...
Real Estate Transfers Book 146 page 288: Alfalfa County Land & Cattle Inc. conveys unto Intergreen Farms LLC. The northwest quarter of section 26, township 30 south,15 west of the 6th PM, Barber County, Kansas. Warranty deed. Book 146 page 294: Charyl D. Aker and Mark Zier conveys unto Max E. Nicholas. The east half of the northeast quarter of section 17, township 32 south, Range 13 West of the 6th PM. Warranty deed. Book 146 page 301: David K. Lawson conveys unto Bryan Investments, LLC. Kiowa Original City, block 37, lot 17 & 18 & E2 Vac...
Civil Filings Kansas Department of Wildlife Parks and Tourism vs. High Point 9 MM Handgun: Other. Kansas Department of Wildlife Parks and Tourism vs. Smith & Wesson M & P 15-22: Other. Kansas Department of Wildlife Parks and Tourism vs. M & P AR-15 .223 with 3x9 Scope: Other. Norman F. Clouse vs. John W. Lilly, Jr.: other. Limited Civil Filings County Place LLC vs. Zackary David Holloway: debt collection. Discover Bank vs. Lance L. Spark an: debt collection. Discover Bank vs. Bruce A. McFarland II: debt collection. Midland Credit Management,...
Monday the Woods County commissioners took final action to close out the water tower painting project for Rural Water District 3 (RWD#3). David Hamil, Randy McMurphy and John Smiley were all present for the meeting along with County Clerk Shelley Reed. With the approval of a water tower maintenance invoice for RWD#3, the REAP grant work was completed, and the county will be reimbursed through OEDA. The commissioners also approved and signed the affidavit for the REAP grant completion form. A...
Much discussion ensued about handbook verbiage at the Alfalfa County commissioners meeting Monday. Marvin Woodall, Jay Hague, and Mike Roach listened to County Clerk Laneta Unruh share recommendations on the county employee handbook wording. Unruh said in her opinion, to protect the commissioners and herself, it would be best to make a few modifications. One was for employees sharing leave time. She recommended adding the requirement that the Board of Commissioners must sign the sick leave donation form in a meeting before payroll is...
I enjoy walking, but I’ve never been fond of running. On the other hand, my granddaughter Kat ran with her high school’s cross country team. Injuries eventually took her off the college team, but she continues to enjoy exercising by running and jogging. Friday she chose a route along Young Street south of the university campus and turned onto Davis, which goes past Lincoln School. She was running along enjoying music from her pink and white headphones when … WHAP … she was struck in the head fr...
Dr. Jennifer Rudd is a veterinarian, researcher and a board certified microbiologist at the OSU College of Veterinary Medicine. She teaches veterinary students about infectious diseases and is active in SARS-CoV-2 research. 1. Delta spreads faster The Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 emerged from India in late 2020 and has spread across the globe like wildfire by out-competing other variants worldwide. How did it do this? While the exact mechanism is still being studied, this variant tweaked its outer spike protein to better bind to and infect our...
