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CHICAGO (AP) — A 21-year-old sailor was laid to rest Tuesday following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor, more than 80 years after he was killed in the attack that propelled the United States into World War II. Members of Herbert "Bert" Jacobson's family waited all their lives to attend a memorial for the young man they knew about but never met. Jacobson was among the more than 400 sailors and Marines killed on the USS Oklahoma during the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The casket containing his r...
While there is always work that continues at the Capitol during the interim, this year is particularly busy. Oklahoma received nearly $1.9 billion in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) pandemic relief funds. The Joint Committee on Pandemic Relief Funding started working through hundreds of public proposals last year, totaling close to $18 billion, to decide how best to utilize these one-time funds to address critical needs in our state. The committee is split into four working groups to focus on sp...
The Woods County Fair was held last week. I made a couple of quick trips to the fairgrounds to take some photos, but regret I didn’t have time to stay longer. The county fair is the kind of entertainment that invites you to slow down and meander through the exhibits. There’s a lot to see if you take the time. I spent most of my brief visits in the Women’s Building where homemaking skills are displayed. There were a lot of ribbons on entries. It’s encouraging that the arts of cooking, baking, can...
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. Misdemeanor Filings Cody Lee Dalrymple, Jet, 39, has been...
Real Estate Transfers Book 882 page 461: James E. Coy and Judy A. Coy, and Kristina Blaylock and Troy Blaylock convey unto Carrie Winfield. All of lots 5, 6 and 7 in block 28 in the Original Town of Helena, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Quit claim deed. Book 882 page 788: WhiteRose Welding and Fabrication LLC conveys unto Sarah A. Wagner. Lot 4 in block 1 in Myers Addition to Cherokee, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Warranty deed. Book 882 page 797: Faith Center Fellowship Inc. conveys unto Benjamin E. Reed and Megan L. Reed. A tract of land located in...
Monday, September 5, 2022 8:05 a.m. – Welfare check needed on a male. The person called shortly after and advised he was okay. 8:32 a.m. – Medic needed in the 1100 block of Pennsylvania for a female with chest pains. No transport needed. 3:36 p.m. – Caller advised a male was threatening coming to “shoot him with an AR and beat him.” At 5:18 p.m. the caller called back stating he didn’t want to press charges. He just wanted the subject to leave him alone, and he has. 4:14 p.m. – Report of a domestic disturbance in Carmen. A female advised she w...
At this Monday's Alfalfa County commissioner meeting, Jay Hague motioned to enter into an executive session in which the other two commissioners – Mike Roach and Marvin Woodall – said aye. The session was to discuss the employment of the county's emergency manager, Shana Wells, who happened to be in the gallery, along with Jamy Wells. Upon reconvening, Roach said they decided to take action on the matter discussed and motioned to discharge Wells. "As of 11 a.m., we are going to dismiss Shana Wells as Alfalfa County emergency manager," he sai...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama told a federal judge that it could soon be ready to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence. The disclosure came Monday at a court hearing over inmate Alan Miller's request to block his scheduled Sept. 22 execution by lethal injection. Miller maintains that prison staff lost paperwork he returned in 2018 requesting nitrogen hypoxia, an execution method that the state has authorized but never used. U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr. asked whether Alabama w...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Wichita City Council on Tuesday voted to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana and fentanyl test strips in the state's largest city. The move would eliminate between 750 and 850 prosecutions a year from the municipal courts. Marijuana possession is still illegal under state and federal law but local law enforcement agencies generally bring most minor marijuana possession cases to court, The Wichita Eagle reported. Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett did not take a position on the proposal b...
MADDOCK, N.D. (AP) — A woman walked into a North Dakota bar carrying a raccoon, leading health officials to warn those who had contact with the animal about possible rabies exposure. Bartender Cindy Smith said she was serving drinks at the Maddock Bar last week when a local resident brought in the animal during happy hour. There were about 10 people in the saloon at the time, she said. Smith said she immediately asked the woman to leave but instead she took the raccoon around the bar to show another customer. The woman eventually departed w...
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II's coffin will leave Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday as it is taken amid somber pageantry on a horse-drawn gun carriage past crowds of mourners to the Houses of Parliament, where the late monarch will lie in state for four days. Crowds began massing early along the flag-lined road outside the palace for the procession from the monarch's official London residence to the historic Westminster Hall at Parliament. King Charles III and other members of the royal family will walk behind the coffin. T...
TikTok may be the platform of choice for catchy videos, but anyone using it to learn about COVID-19, climate change or Russia's invasion of Ukraine is likely to encounter misleading information, according to a research report published Wednesday. Researchers at NewsGuard searched for content about prominent news topics on TikTok and say they found that nearly 1 in 5 of the videos automatically suggested by the platform contained misinformation. Searches for information about "mRNA vaccine," for instance, yielded five videos (out of the first 10...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. futures rebounded slightly Wednesday after ominous inflation data led to the biggest single-day market rout in more than two years. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials inched up 0.1% while futures for the S&P rose 0.2%. Asian markets finished lower and European markets are in decline at midday. Tuesday's report on U.S. consumer prices came in at a hotter-than-expected rate of 8.3% in August. That dashed hopes of a more rapid retreat for inflation that could have slowed the aggressive interest rate hikes rolling out from t...
HRAKOVE, Ukraine (AP) — There's not much left of Hrakove. Its houses and shops lie in ruins, its school is a bombed-out hull. The church is scarred by rockets and shells, but the golden dome above its blasted belfry still gleams in the fading autumn light. Only about 30 people remain, living in basements and gutted buildings in this small village southeast of Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, according to resident Anatolii Klyzhen. About 1,000 lived here when Russian troops rolled over the border in February, occupying the village shortly...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. inflation is showing signs of entering a more stubborn phase that will likely require drastic action by the Federal Reserve, a shift that has panicked financial markets and heightens the risks of a recession. Some of the longtime drivers of higher inflation — spiking gas prices, supply chain snarls, soaring used-car prices — are fading. Yet underlying measures of inflation are actually worsening. The ongoing evolution of the forces behind an inflation rate that's near a four-decade high has made it harder for the Fed t...
BOSTON (AP) — A package exploded on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston late Tuesday, and the college said a staff member suffered minor injuries. Authorities said another suspicious package was found near a prominent art museum and the FBI was assisting with the investigation. The parcel that blew up was one of two that were reported to police early in the evening. Boston's bomb squad neutralized a second package near the city's Museum of Fine Arts, which is on the outskirts of the Northeastern campus. NBC Boston reported that t...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico's Caribbean coast. Archaeologist Octavio del Rio said he and fellow diver Peter Broger saw the shattered skull and skeleton partly covered by sediment in a cave near where the Mexican government plans to build a high-speed tourist train through the jungle. Given the distance from the cave entrance, the skeleton couldn't have gotten there without modern...
WASHINGTON (AP) — MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell said Tuesday that federal agents seized his cellphone and questioned him about a Colorado clerk who has been charged in what prosecutors say was a "deceptive scheme" to breach voting system technology used across the country. Lindell was approached in the drive-thru of a Hardee's fast-food restaurant in Mankato, Minnesota, by several FBI agents, he said on his podcast, "The Lindell Report." The agents questioned him about Dominion Voting Systems, Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and his c...
Louise Kay Talley Creasey went home to be with her Lord on September 10, 2022, at home surrounded by family and friends who loved her dearly. She was born on February 1, 1941 to Wesley Oliver and Lois Inez Wolfe Talley in Cherokee, Oklahoma. She was the baby sister to her two older brothers, Richard and John Talley. Growing up, her family moved to Byron, Oklahoma, and at the age of two her parents moved to where she lived at the time of her death. Her family owned and operated a Grade A dairy...
Helen June Tidwell Harbaugh was born on June 24, 1927, to William Lawrence Tidwell and Helen Mae Shafer Tidwell at Kiowa, Kansas. She was the only girl in the family and the fifth child. She had five brothers, Lonnie, Dewey, Lloyd, Jack and Bill. She passed away at Kiowa District Hospital on September 6, 2022. She lived west of Kiowa on the Blackstock Farms until her father passed away when she was 15 years old and she became a caregiver to her mother and brothers. She then moved to town and...
The Woods County Board of Commissioners have several projects in mind to use ARPA funds for county infrastructure. They are getting ready to move forward on those projects and approved a motion indicating they will do so. This was mainly to let the community know they are ready to start bidding out the projects. Chairman Randy McMurphy, District 2; David Hamil, District 1, and John Smiley, District 3, were all present for the meeting. The annual contract with AirMedCare was approved for $5,224. This provides emergency medical air transport...
All members were present at the Waynoka Board of Education regular meeting Monday morning. Also present were Superintendent Scott Cline, J.H./H.S. Principal Ronnie Nix, Elementary Principal Pat Burrow and Minutes Clerk Lori Adair. The board quickly approved the consent agenda, consisting of minutes of previous meeting(s); reports on the general, building, activity, and bond funds, along with encumbrances for the general, building and bond funds, and change orders. Elementary Raises $1,400 for Smith Family The elementary has made it through the...
Last week in the Newsgram, the top two men and women winners of Kiowa's Labor Day 5K Race were featured with their pictures. The following list includes those winners and all the runners who placed in the top three or four in their age division and/or special divisions. Overall Male winner was Luis Chavez of Edmond with a time of 16:02. This was Chavez' sixth consecutive win of Kiowa's Labor Day 5K Race. Pushing their 18-month old daughter Blakeley in a stroller, his wife Bailey Chavez still won...
Meeting Tuesday, Sept. 6, the Alva Board of Education hired a new teacher and two non-certified staff members. Board President Jane McDermott presided with board members Karen Koehn, Larry Parker and Shane Hansen present. Tiffany Slater was absent. The board voted to offer a one year teaching contract to Debbie Whittet. Longfellow Principal Alysson Tucker introduced Whittet to the board. She will be a physical education teacher for second grade students at Longfellow Elementary and for fourth an...
The South Barber USD 255 Board of Education held a near three-hour meeting Monday night with a full agenda. As the meeting began, Superintendent Dr. Mylo Miller had invited and gave special recognition to the three longtime teachers at South Barber who retired at the end of the 2021-22 school year. They are Jill Daughhetee and Deb Hitchcock who attended the meeting and Cathy Cox who didn't make it. There was a decorated cake for all at the meeting to enjoy and Dr. Miller presented individual...
