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General Fund POs Pioneer Telephone (cell, fax, alarm, internet, phone (7/18-12/18) – $2,700 Alfalfa Electric Cooperative (streetlights, af/am, town (7/18-12/18) – $5,400 SPC (office supplies, 7/18-12/18) – $1,000 Dacoma Co-op (fuel and supplies for 18-19) – $3,000 City of Woodward (June fees) – $22 Western Equipment (trailer lights) – $2.50 Integrity Equipment (equipment maintenance) – $54 Martin Broadcasting (publications and notices) – $128.60 The Fire Place (annual fire extinguisher servicing) – $240 Fire Department POs The Fire Place (e...
Happy Birthday To Aug. 9: Belinda Caringer, Elva Sample Aug. 10: Jeff Stewart, Kelly Ledford, Ranson Pierce Aug. 11: Shirley Wagner, Gerit Smith, Emma Reed, Kevin Coats Aug. 12: Kelly Burnham, Mary Walker Aug. 13: Donnie Elmore, Keith Gregory, Dillon Smith, Wanda Bishop Aug. 14: DeWayne Hodgson, Mike Daughhetee, DeLisa Wade, Taylor DeVine, Kate Murray Aug. 15: Leslie Ledford, Nikki Woodson Aug. 16: Wanda Reed, Mika Scates Aug. 17: Mason Collins Aug. 18: Jane Adair, Miranda Hodgson, Cole Howland Aug. 19: Rod Bradt Aug. 20: Tabitha Bradt, Judy...
Sunday, Aug. 5, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Invocation by Pastor Woody Hamon Call to Worship: Psalm 34 led by Dixie Stansberry Opening hymn: “This Is My Father’s World,” led by song leader Debbie Brown Affirmation of Faith led by Debbie Brown Gloria Patri Hymn of Justifying Grace: “Blessed Assurance” Offertory – Janell Reutlinger Ushers – Arly and Jan Eden Offertory Prayer by Pastor Woody Hamon Morning Message: “How God Speaks to Us Through the Storms of Our Lives,” Pastor...
Entry forms are available for the Freedom Red Bluff Classic Run to be held Saturday, Aug. 18. Age divisions start at 0-10 and extend to 56 and above. Entrants will have a choice of two distances: the fun run and the 5K. A T-shirt comes with payment of the entry fee. Registration on the day of the event must be completed by 7:15 a.m. The race will begin at 8 a.m. Those with questions may contact Coach Schnatz at 580-216-8344 or email mschnatz@freedom.k12.ok.us....
Oklahoma’s adoption of medical marijuana will be green in more ways than one: Retail dispensaries, processors, growing operations and tax agencies will have to work within a cash-only industry. With marijuana still illegal at the federal level, businesses involved in medical marijuana won’t have easy access to the federal banking system to move money around. Customers will have to pay in cash at dispensaries and can’t write checks. Employees won’t be able to use direct deposit, instead getting paid in cash. Monthly excise tax remitta...
Share Medical Center received some long awaited and exciting news Friday afternoon. They have been working diligently for over a year to have CMS change their designation to a Critical Access Hospital (CAH). It was confirmed Friday afternoon that they are now deemed a CAH facility. So what does this mean for Alva and the surrounding communities Share Medical Center services? The Critical Access Hospital designation was established as a federal reimbursement program under the Balanced Budget Act...
NEW YORK (AP) — A Bronx dad fled to Thailand after carrying his dead 7-month-old baby around New York City in a backpack and tossing his body into a river near the Brooklyn Bridge and other tourist spots, police said Wednesday. Thai authorities stopped James Currie, 37, when he landed in Bangkok and blocked him from entering the country, NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said. He will be returned to New York within days to face a felony charge of concealment of a human corpse, Shea said. A tourist from Oklahoma spotted the diaper-clad b...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group that wants to legalize recreational marijuana in Oklahoma has submitted signatures to qualify the measure for a statewide vote after saying it may not have enough. The pro-marijuana group Green the Vote submitted the signatures to the secretary of state Wednesday, a day after saying it didn't have enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot. The group said last month it had more than enough signatures , but on Tuesday announced that those numbers were inflated. The group needs at least 124,000 signatures t...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma student proficiency rates are down slightly in almost every grade and subject in the second year of higher academic standards, according to state test results. The 2018 Oklahoma School Testing Program results found that student proficiency on the seventh-grade math test was the only unchanged rate, The Tulsa World reported . Third-grade proficiency in English and language arts dropped from 39 percent last year to 33 percent this year, while seventh-grade proficiency in those subjects also dropped from 34 percent to...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Board of Pharmacy has named Dorothy Gourley of Ardmore as the agency's interim executive director. The board appointed Gourley to the post on Wednesday, two weeks after firing previous director Chelsea Church. Church was fired July 25 after investigators confirmed she is the target of a bribery probe involving text messages she exchanged with a top lawyer involved in writing the state's new medical marijuana rules. Church has not been charged with a crime, but investigators say they are looking into a series o...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is reevaluating its contract with the state's driver's license system vendor following multiple outages. Department of Public Safety Commissioner Rusty Rhoades tells The Oklahoman that he's speaking with Idemia Identity and Security USA officials about the problems and is also consulting department attorneys about possible actions. Rhoades says the first issues occurred about a week ago when storms caused a power outage while the company was performing daily server maintenance. He says the service failed again t...
RINGLING, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a motorcyclist was killed when he crashed while fleeing a law enforcement officer in southern Oklahoma. An OHP report says 56-year-old Thell Stephen Terry of Elmore City died in the crash Tuesday southwest of Ringling, about 95 miles (153 kilometers) south of Oklahoma City. The report says Terry was southbound on a Jefferson County road when the motorcycle he was driving went off the road in a curve and crashed into a bridge railing and trees. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The r...
MEDFORD, Okla. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey reports a small earthquake was recorded in northern Oklahoma. The U.S.G.S. reports the magnitude 3.6 quake struck at 9:57 p.m. Tuesday near Medford, about 95 miles (153 kilometers) north of Oklahoma City. No injuries or damage is reported. Geologists say damage is not likely in quakes below magnitude 4.0. Thousands of earthquakes have been recorded in Oklahoma in recent years, with many linked to the underground injection of wastewater from oil and natural gas production. State regulators have d...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' most populous county left the rest of the state waiting nearly 13 hours until Wednesday morning for complete primary election results that proved to be pivotal in a high profile and close Republican race for governor — the second consecutive major election fumble by the affluent Kansas City-area county. "I'm embarrassed for our county," Johnson County election commissioner Ronnie Metsker told The Kansas City Star . "It's embarrassing for our office, it's embarrassing for me, for our team and for the vendor." In an...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democrat Sharice Davids of Kansas added her name Wednesday to her party's increasingly diverse slate of candidates advancing to the November ballot. Davids, who would be the first gay, Native American elected to Congress, narrowly won a six-way primary in her eastern Kansas district, shattering the mold for a congressional primary winner in conservative Kansas and embodying the range of ethnicities and sexual orientations of Democratic candidates running throughout the country this fall. Notably, the 38-year-old lawyer a...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Out-of-power Kansas Democrats smelled opportunity Wednesday in the tight, unsettled GOP primary race for governor between Gov. Jeff Colyer and Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a close political ally of President Donald Trump and a conservative lightning rod who alienates even some Republicans. Kobach led Colyer by fewer than 200 votes out of the more than 300,000 cast in the seven-candidate Republican primary contest. The state won't have final results until at least early next week because thousands of mail-in and other b...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas woman who already was celebrating the return of one cat that disappeared three weeks ago after an explosion at her home says she's received a second "miracle." The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Ashley Nadeau posted to her Facebook page Tuesday that her cat, Kunimitsu, was found in a pipe at the site of her destroyed home in Topeka. On Wednesday, she posted that she and a friend dug a second cat, Mr. Tibbs, out of a pile of rubble near the home. The cats disappeared after a July 19 explosion that destroyed N...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An inmate who ran a conspiracy to smuggle contraband such as cell phones into the Jackson County Detention Center in Kansas City will serve time in federal prison. Thirty-three-year-old Carlos Laron Hughley, was sentenced Wednesday to six years and six months in prison for conspiracy and using a telephone to further unlawful activity. Prosecutors say Hughley used a jail guard, Jalee Caprice Fuller, and others outside the jail to run the scheme. Fuller, of Independence, had a child with Hughley. She pleaded guilty in t...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Lawrence man who molested a girl beginning when she was 7 was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. The Lawrence Journal-World reports 68-year-old Clinton Laing was sentenced Tuesday for aggravated indecent liberties with a child for crimes that occurred in 2015 and 2016. Before a plea deal, he faced four charges, including rape. Prosecutor Alice Walker read letters from the victim and her mother, who both said they wanted Laing to serve a long sentence to pay for the pain he caused. L...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — All Kansas high school juniors will be able to take ACT exams and assessments for free next school year, according to state education officials. Department of Education spokeswoman Denise Kahler told The Wichita Eagle that the free tests are being financed through additional funding from the state Legislature as part of its new school finance plan. "We're excited about it," Kahler said. "We think it's a great opportunity for our kids, and we're very appreciative of the Legislature for allotting funding for us and p...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former Wichita police officer has admitted that when he was an officer he knew people were conducting an illegal gambling business and didn't report them. Federal prosecutors say 46-year-old Bruce Mackey, of Goddard, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of misprision of a felony. During an illegal poker game in February 2014, Mackey told the game's organizers that one of the gamblers was a Wichita police officer working undercover. Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 26. Mackey faces up to three years in federal prison a...
WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Two high-stakes elections that tested President Donald Trump's clout and cost both parties millions of dollars were too close to call on Wednesday. Trump claimed victory in one nevertheless and proclaimed himself '5 for 5' for Tuesday's Election Day. In battleground Ohio, the president took credit for Republican Troy Balderson's performance, calling it "a great victory," though the congressional contest could be headed to a recount. Democrats could also celebrate their strong showing in the district that has gone Republ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas state representative who won the Republican primary for secretary of state on the second anniversary of his 10-year-old son's death on a giant water slide says it was a "day full of paradox." The Kansas City Star reports that Rep. Scott Schwab, of Olathe, says he and his family didn't spend Tuesday "caring a whole lot about politics." Schwab's son, Caleb Schwab, was decapitated on Aug. 7, 2016, when he was riding the 17-story Verruckt water slide at the Schlitterbahn park in Kansas City, Kansas. Schwab said d...
Democrats didn't walk away with a clear win Tuesday night. But they didn't necessarily have to. They essentially battled Republicans to a draw in a central Ohio congressional district that should have been an easy win for the GOP. It will take actual victories for Democrats to reclaim the majority, but even a too-close-to-call result was a sign of Democratic momentum and offered clues for how to run in November. Some takeaways from another round of voting ahead of the fall midterm elections: URBAN-RURAL-SUBURBAN SPLITS PREVIEW NOVEMBER BATTLES...
