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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 Sandra Louise Cain, Cherokee, 58, has been...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma State Board of Education voted unanimously to demand Epic Charter Schools to pay $11.2 million in state funds that auditors say was illegally used and falsely classified in financial reports. The state school board's vote on Monday demands Epic to repay the millions of dollars spent on administrators that were supposed to support students and teachers, within 60 days of receiving notice. The state board total of $11.2 million they aim to recoup comes from $8.3 million in misreported salaries and $2.7 million w...
Charles Leslie Smith, Jet, and Lorrie Roxann Smith, Jet: marriage license ($50)....
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 During this day there were two traffic stops. 6:43 p.m. – Report of a steer out on LeFlore and County Road (CR) 630. 9:49 p.m. – Medic need at the Helena Jiffy Trip for a female possibly having a stroke. Medic took the patient to Bass Hospital in Enid. Wednesday, October 7, 2020 10:23 a.m. – Gateway Bank advised of possible bank fraud by someone who got a business loan and used it for personal use. 11:01 a.m. – Report of a ditch fire on U.S. Highway 64. 11:24 a.m. – Report of harassment and wanting a restraini...
The Alfalfa County commissioners held their regular meeting Tuesday morning because of Monday's holiday. Jay Hague, Stan Tucker and Marvin Woodall started on a short list by approving a large stack of maintenance and operation payment warrants and blanket purchase orders. With no road-crossing permits for the week, the men moved on to support a 60-hour sick leave donation from one county employee to another. Last on the agenda were two ODOT selections of consulting engineers for District 2 – one for Project JP#31772 and the other for Project J...
At least four staff members at Burlington Public School tested positive with COVID-19 and the school closed temporarily last Tuesday, Oct. 6, and remains closed. Then this Tuesday the C-Store in Burlington closed their doors due to COVID concerns. Burlington Co-op Manager Robbie Newman said they had started serving carry-out food only last Tuesday, as there was so much COVID in Burlington. He said their decision to close was because they became so short-handed. “We had some illness” and some needed to quarantine, Newman said. The co-op ser...
Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, has seen a jump in COVID-19 cases according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) website on Tuesday morning. Alfalfa County is listed as having had 95 positive with 76 recovered for a total of 19 active cases. The city listing shows six active cases in Burlington after none last week. Cherokee has four, Goltry one and Helena six. Carmen had three positives but all are recovered. Jet had four positive cases but all are recovered. Woods County, Oklahoma, is shown with 16 active cases. Nine of those are in...
Walk. Donate. Help hungry people around the globe and in your hometown. The unique thing about CROP Hunger Walks is the money raised doesn't just purchase food for the hungry. The global mission of Church World Service (CWS), CROP Walks help people in third-world countries learn how to feed themselves by raising animals, planting crops and garden, etc. On a windy, warm October Sunday, 27 Kiowans and Brenda Myers beloved dog Roxie, made the 2.3 miles walk, passing by all seven churches in town....
As a fitful October wind brushed dry leaves down the street in front of the Freedom Public School on Monday evening, the school's board of education met inside to discuss upcoming fall activities and the November election. Two favorite activities – the fall carnival and Red Ribbon Week – will take place in the next weeks. The Freedom Schools Fall Carnival will be Saturday, Oct. 24, at the American Legion. Dinner will be from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The carnival itself will be 7-9 p.m. Games and activities will include hoop shoot, putt putt golf, a petti...
Seven area teens were injured in a one-vehicle wreck Sunday night. Four were hospitalized and three were treated and released. The wreck occurred at 10:12 p.m. on Oct. 11 on Grant Road, three-quarters of a mile west of State Highway 8 and three-tenths of a mile west of Cherokee in Alfalfa County. Tierna Mustard, 19, of Cherokee, was driving a 2007 Pontiac Grand Prix eastbound on Grant Road when the vehicle went out of control, went into a broad slide and departed the roadway to the right. The vehicle rolled and struck a telephone pole. The...
Superintendent Scott Cline went over the school's finances with the Waynoka Board of Education this Monday as he does each month, but this month – like this whole year – had some unexpected elements. In the general fund, expenditures were slightly down over last month, but are up on the year. Revenue was down $105,000 over last year; $75,000 of that is due to a drop in gross production, but vehicle tax and interest are also down. “We knew gross production would be down this year,” Cline said. “One of the big things this month is Woods County Ex...
Memorial services for Harold Allen Hada will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 17, 2020, at the Marshall Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Gail Edmison officiating. Harold was cremated at his request under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Harold Allen Hada, son of the late Bert and Jessie Mae (Lewis) Hada, was born July 22, 1941, in Alva, Oklahoma, and passed away September 24, 2020, in Enid, Oklahoma, at the age of 79 years, 2 months and 2 days. Harold attended Alva schools. He proudly...
In life you get lucky enough to meet life-altering people. You get lucky enough to live beside and ride the life train with people that you know are part of a greater good. Kyle Frank Mauk, better known as Bubby, Kiddo, Frank, Frankie, Mauktrot, Brother, and a warrior. He had a smile that lit up every room he walked into. Kyle Frank made everyone he spoke to feel loved. Kyle is survived by his parents, Glandy and Jenifer Gani, and his sister, Cambrie, all of Edmond; his grandfather, Richard...
Services for Shirley Veley are pending with Wharton Funeral Chapel. Online condolences may be made at www.whartonfuneralchapel.com. Shirley Veley, daughter of Clara Gertrude (Moore) and Fred Veley, was born on November 19, 1949, in Enid, Oklahoma. She passed away on October 9, 2020, at the age of 70 years, 10 months and 20 days. Shirley attended the Lawton Public School system in Lawton, Oklahoma, from which she graduated. She was an LPN from 1976 until she retired in 2008. Shirley enjoyed...
State Question 814 will be on the Nov. 3 statewide ballot. If approved, it would result in an increase in money the Legislature receives annually from the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, or TSET. The additional money could then be spent to help cover the state’s share of Medicaid expansion, which was approved by state voters through a separate state question in June. That expansion is set to take effect July 1, 2021. The projected cost to the state for Medicaid expansion is between $162 and $211 million. Thus, there will be a large d...
The general election is three weeks away, and the TV ads are increasing. Unfortunately, those ads aren’t a good basis for voting decisions. Some give you an indication of what the candidate supports, but they’re drowned out by the attack ads. Newscasts on one TV station will give a conservative slant to political news while another station takes a liberal viewpoint. This year has been tough for politicians with the pandemic closing many of their usual avenues for campaigning. And the few deb...
Kiowa's City Council held their October meeting Monday night with all members present, including Mayor Bill Watson, council president R.L. Simpson, B.J. Duvall, Brian Hill, Jason Thayer and Tom Wells. Also seated with the council was City Clerk Trish Brewer and council attorney Brandon Ritcha. The council opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and a prayer by Simpson. BG Consultants engineer Sam Johnson joined the meeting by speaker phone to update the council on the city's $8 million waterline replacement project. The first part of the project...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A requirement to wear masks in Oklahoma City in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus was extended to Dec. 7 on Tuesday by the City Council. "I think it's important that we know again that masking reduces the transmission of infection in the community by 70-85%," Oklahoma City/County Health Department Director Patrick McGough said before councilors approved the extension from the original Oct. 20 expiration date. The Oklahoma State Department of Health on Tuesday reported 1,309 new virus cases and 15 more d...
IDABEL, Okla. (AP) — A woman suspected of killing a pregnant woman and removing the baby from the victim's womb appeared in an Oklahoma courtroom Tuesday and waived extradition to Texas. Taylor Parker, 27, of Simms, Texas, appeared in McCurtain County District Court and agreed to be sent to Bowie County, Texas, said Brooke Arbeitman, spokeswoman for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Parker is wanted in Texas for the death of 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock, who was found dead Friday with her baby removed from her body. The baby als...
DENVER — Colorado is experiencing another surge of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, prompting Gov. Jared Polis to plead Tuesday with residents to wear masks, stay home as much as possible, and maintain social distancing practices. As of Tuesday, Colorado's three-day average positivity rate — the percentage of total tests coming in positive — was 5.4%, and the state recorded 1,000 new cases both on Saturday and on Monday, the highest daily numbers recorded during the pandemic, Polis said. About 290 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 on...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man who federal prosecutors say they suspect in a Missouri decapitation killing was sentenced Tuesday to 35 years in prison for stalking Kansas massage parlor workers in an unrelated case. Senior U.S. District Judge Gary Fenner told 69-year-old Robert Gross that his history of violence was "extremely disturbing" in sentencing him for the stalking and firearms charges, The Kansas City Star reported. Although he has not been charged with homicide, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jess Michaelsen said Gross had long been s...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said Tuesday that she doesn't plan to have the state health department use its power to manage disease outbreaks by shutting down businesses or imposing other restrictions in local coronavirus hot spots. The Democratic governor's statement went further than a public promise she made last month to top Republicans in the GOP-controlled Legislature not to issue orders to close businesses statewide, as she did in the spring. She said that although the state will work with local officials in areas with b...
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas growers have planted about 74% of next year's winter wheat crop, according to a government report Tuesday. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported in its weekly progress report that wheat planting is well ahead of the 56% that is average for this time of year. About half of the wheat crop has emerged. Kansas farmers have also been busy bringing in fall-harvested crops. The state's corn harvest is 63% complete. About 40% of the soybeans and 30% of the sorghum crops have been cut. The agency also r...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Missouri man pleaded guilty Tuesday to an armed carjacking in Kansas, a crime investigators solved by testing DNA on a hat and wig he left behind, authorities said. Antonio Duane Simpson, 43, of Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty to one count of carjacking and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm in furtherance of carjacking. The crime occurred on Dec. 3, 2018 in Topeka, Kansas. The U.S. attorney's office said in a news release that Simpson admitted in his plea that he stopped a man and demanded his wallet. T...
FOREST, Miss. (AP) — Law enforcement officers who pulled a driver over for a traffic violation in Mississippi allegedly discovered about 37 pounds of methamphetamine hidden inside a spare tire stashed in the vehicle. The Scott County Sheriff's Office and the Flowood Police Department stopped a pickup truck along an interstate near Flowood early this month after spotting it driving in a "careless manner," according to the agencies. An officer conducting the stop discovered a tire in the bed of the truck, and inside it, an assisting deputy f...
