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Happy Birthday To June 20: Kirk Brown, Jeffery Lewis June 21: Melba Artz, Janea Ferguson, Lisa Hughes June 22: Cari Parks, Dani Winn, Tanner Wagner, Marvin Woodall June 23; Terry Welty, Billy Beer, Darwan Tolle, Earnest Tolle, Trista Wilson June 24: Bobbie Powers, Rhonda Bradt, Loyd Boham June 26: Sharon Harper, Francis Koehn, Jeremy Ingraham June 27: Karen Weaver, Matt Adair June 28: Dudley Winn, Dawn Page Juen 29: Jim Russell, Mckenna Nixon June 30: Ashtyn Pierce, Bradley Irving July 1: Maurice Farr, Cindy Wilson July 2: Shelsea Ferguson,...
Happy Anniversary To June 24: Mr. & Mrs. Bill Burkhart June 28: Mr. & Mrs. Andy Newby June 29: Mr. & Mrs. Eldon Murray, Mr. & Mrs. Dale Wares July 1: Mr. & Mrs. Mark Flock, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Russell July 2: Mr. & Mrs. Gary Earnest (Note: Send corrections, additions to: freedomcallnews@gmail.com or call 800-305-2111)...
On Father’s Day, Sunday, June 16, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger On Friday, June 21, Freedom Museum will have their fundraiser dinner at the Methodist Church at 6:30 p.m. Contact a board member to purchase tickets. Invocation by Pastor Todd Finley Call to Worship – Psalm 28 led by Shirley Wagner Opening Hymn: “It Is Well With My Soul,” led by Jennifer Findley and Barbara Blackledge Affirmation of Faith Gloria Patri Hymn of Justifying Grace – “Grace Greater Than Sin” Offertory – J...
Last Wednesday, June 12, the Woods County Conservation District (WCCD), board met for their monthly meeting to discuss their agenda. At 2 p.m. on June 12 they held a public meeting in order to present their new five year plan and leave the opportunity open for public comment, with three guests present. Board members Katie Blunk, Deb Kimbro, Rod Ferguson and Brodie Bush met to conduct regular business such as approving conservation plans, cost-share programs, and setting priorities for work,... Full story
ALVA, Okla. – Reaching the pinnacle of one's sport is the dream of every athlete. Taylor Munsell and Bridger Anderson have done that for the Northwestern Oklahoma State University rodeo team. They added just the second and third national rodeo championships in the school's history, and they did it in dominating fashion at the College National Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyoming. "Winning the national title is pretty cool," said Anderson, a sophomore steer wrestler from Carrington, North Dakota, w... Full story
Douglas Hollon Walker, 53-year-old Freedom, Oklahoma, resident passed away on Friday afternoon June 7, 2019, in OU Medical Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, after major illness. Doug’s parents were Wesley Walker and Beverly Hollon. Doug was born in Woodward on November 18, 1965. One of Doug’s favorite things as a little boy was to play with his Tonka trucks, tractors and dirt moving equipment. Doug grew up on the Walker Ranch at Freedom, attended Freedom Schools, playing basketball and was involved in agriculture activities. He won awards for...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police say an American Airlines flight from Pittsburgh to Dallas/Fort Worth was diverted to Oklahoma City because of a drunken, unruly passenger. The airline says the flight landed in Oklahoma City at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday and departed less than an hour later for Dallas/Fort Worth. Police body camera footage shows one apparent passenger saying "go get him" as three officers enter the plane to take 32-year-old Brandon Ganus into custody. Passengers applaud as the Weatherford, Texas, man is led away in handcuffs. A p...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Annie's Ruff House is in the business of caring for dogs, but it recently offered something a little different. The Norman Transcript reports the doggie day care and boarding studio began its new Leader of the Pack Dogwalker Summer Camp at its Industrial Boulevard location with a group of seven girls. The camp offers kids ages 10 through 15 the opportunity to learn over several full days about approaching and handling dogs. After completing the course, each participant that passes the skills test becomes dog walking c...
CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) — Jacob Garrison is your guy. The Claremore Daily Progress reports to anyone looking for someone with passion and love for Claremore, or looking place to share their ideas or get answers, Claremore Main Street's new executive director Jacob Garrison says — "I'm your guy." Just one day after being told he got the job — Garrison's enthusiasm was contagious. Garrison, along with his wife Laura and their son, moved to Claremore two years ago and instantly fell in love. "My wife and I have been a part of committees and diffe...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — If you like your car tag, you can keep it. The Tulsa World reports in fact, after July 1, you're not going to have much choice in the matter. That's when a law passed in 2018 goes into effect. It fundamentally changes the car registration and tagging process in Oklahoma so that car tags remain assigned to car owners even after they sell the vehicle to which it's been attached. "Starting July 1, if you sell a vehicle, remove the tag," said tax commission spokeswoman Paula Ross. "The tag will now stay with the person, not t...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma's chief medical examiner shared tragic details about the opioid-related deaths of about three dozen residents during testimony in the state's lawsuit alleging drug manufacturer Johnson & Johnson and some of its subsidiaries contributed to the epidemic. Dr. Eric Pfeifer testified Tuesday that the tragic narratives represent only a small portion of the autopsies his office has performed in recent years as overdose deaths skyrocketed. Attorney General Mike Hunter, who filed the case in 2017, has said curbing and e...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A server at a University of Oklahoma campus restaurant is suing a former top OU administrator, alleging the man groped and kissed him inappropriately on several occasions. Twenty-four-year-old University Club employee Levi Hilliard alleges in the lawsuit that former OU Vice President Jim "Tripp" Hall III groped him on multiple occasions in 2017 and 2018 when Hilliard was working for the restaurant. Hall did not return a telephone message Wednesday seeking comment, but denied wrongdoing when Hilliard's allegations were f...
STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say an Uber driver rescued a woman who had been shot and left to die along a road in Washington County. A 23-year-old St. Paul man, suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, is charged with attempted murder and kidnapping. A criminal complaint says the Uber driver found the woman bleeding from the chest along a road near Stillwater in the early morning hours of June 9. The Star Tribune reports the man says he tried to call 911 but couldn't get a signal, so he put a blanket around her, placed her in his v...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State universities will not increase tuition this fall for undergraduate students from Kansas, but the board overseeing higher education boosted rates for other students Wednesday. Kansas Board of Regents members said they focused on helping undergraduate students from inside the state first as they pushed the universities to keep tuition from rising, believing that would be state lawmakers' top priority. But some Kansas graduate students will still pay more in the fall, along with graduates and undergraduates from o...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge Wednesday to make it easier to protest inside the Kansas Statehouse, as some members of the Republican-controlled Legislature worry that liberal demonstrators have become increasingly disruptive. An ACLU lawsuit challenges rules that require groups to obtain a legislative sponsor and an event permit for Statehouse demonstrations, and that prohibit hand-held signs and banners. The lawsuit also challenges the Capitol Police's authority to ban people from the building f...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A black man who was detained by police while moving into his home said Wednesday that Kansas regulators investigated his racial bias complaint and closed the case with no further action. "I'm mad as hell," Karle Robinson told The Associated Press of the letter that he shared with the news organization. Robinson was held at gunpoint and handcuffed in August 2018 as he was carrying a television out of a rented moving van in the middle of the night into the home he had bought a month earlier in Tonganoxie, about 30 miles (...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Court records say a man charged with helping his girlfriend fatally stab her ex-stepfather told Wichita police that the couple was seeking revenge because of past sexual abuse. The Wichita Eagle reports that an affidavit was unsealed Tuesday in the case against 24-year-old Micaela Spencer and 25-year-old Royce Thomas. They are charged with first-degree-murder and several other felonies in last month's meth-fueled killing of 50-year-old William Callison. Police began investigating after Callison's boss, who owns an a...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita State's new center for student-athletes is one step closer to reality. The school held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for its $13.8 million Student-Athlete Success Center close to where it will be constructed near Koch Arena. The Wichita Eagle reports the 36,000-square-foot, two-level center will include a 2,500-square-foot study hall, tutoring rooms and a large computer center. The university's track and field program will also have a dedicated space in the facility. The team is housed in Cessna Stadium, w...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Topeka police say the death of a man whose body was found inside a home is being investigated as a homicide. The victim, 36-year-old John Waller, of Topeka, was found dead Monday at a central Topeka house. Police Lt. Andrew Beightel said in a news release that evidence at the scene and information from the coroner's office prompted the decision to investigate the death as a homicide. He did not elaborate on the evidence. Police officials said officers who responded to the home noticed "several suspicious circumstances" t...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — It's not America's Top 40, but it's a cutting edge song. Federal marine biologists for the first time have recorded singing by one of the rarest whales on the planet, the North Pacific right whale. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers used moored acoustic recorders to capture repeated patterns of calls made by male North Pacific right whales. It's the first time right whale songs in any population have been documented, said NOAA Fisheries marine biologist Jessica Crance on Wednesday from S...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Winter hit U.S. honeybees hard with the highest loss rate yet, an annual survey of beekeepers showed. The annual nationwide survey by the Bee Informed Partnership found 37.7% of honeybee colonies died this past winter, nearly 9 percentage points higher than the average winter loss. The survey of nearly 4,700 beekeepers managing more than 300,000 colonies goes back 13 years and is conducted by bee experts at the University of Maryland, Auburn University and several other colleges. Beekeepers had been seeing fewer winter c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite scientists' increasingly urgent warnings, the Trump administration ordered a sweeping about-face Wednesday on Obama-era efforts to fight climate change, easing restrictions on coal-fired power plants in a move it predicted would revitalize America's sagging coal industry. As miners in hard hats and coal-country lawmakers applauded, Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler signed a measure that scraps one of President Barack Obama's key initiatives to rein in fossil fuel emissions. The replacement rule gives...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cold War era spy satellite images are showing scientists that glaciers on the Himalayas are now melting about twice as fast as they used to. The Asian mountain range, which includes Mount Everest, has been losing ice at a rate of about 1% a year since 2000, according to a study Wednesday in the journal Science Advances . "The amount of ice (lost) is scary but what is much more scary is the doubling of the melt rate," said Josh Maurer, a glacier researcher at Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory and lead autho...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump boasted with abandon in launching his 2020 re-election campaign, overreached in excoriating his critics and promised progress on his border wall and health care that is improbable at best. In those respects, his latest campaign rally was much like any other by the president. Here's a look at his rhetoric from Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday night: JOBS TRUMP: "Almost 160 million people are working. That's more than ever before." THE FACTS: Yes, but that's not a feather in a president's cap. More people a...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to ratify a new free trade agreement with the United States and Canada, making it the first of the three countries to gain legislative approval. Mexico's upper chamber voted 114 to four with three abstentions in favor of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. It will replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, which U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened to withdraw the United States from if Washington did not get a better deal. Mexican President A...
