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Oklahoma quarterback Caleb Williams has started only one game, and just like that, he's The Associated Press' pick for the Big 12's top freshman of the first half of this season. The 18-year-old's strong arm and swift legs have injected energy into a once-lagging offense that now is purring like usual under coach Lincoln Riley. Williams replaced preseason first-team All-American Spencer Rattler and rallied the Sooners to a 55-48 win over Texas on Oct. 9, then got his first start last Saturday against TCU and threw four touchdown passes and ran...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The first GOP candidate to challenge Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said Tuesday he's leaving the party and will run against Stitt as an independent, making him the second elected Oklahoma Republican in recent weeks to leave the party in part because of the governor's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Former state Sen. Ervin Yen, an Oklahoma City physician, said in a statement he disagrees with the state party's opposition to mask and vaccine mandates, and the insistence of some party officials that the 2020 election was s...
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — A Tennessee man has been charged with first-degree murder after a Kansas woman was shot to death during the weekend. Bri'yon E. Baker, 23, of Mount Boswell, Tennessee, was charged Monday in the death of Jase E. Delich, 18, of Pittsburg. Officers went to a Pittsburg apartment Sunday night when a caller reported seeing a bleeding woman on the floor inside, The Joplin Globe reported. Delich was pronounced dead when first responders arrived. Witness accounts and surveillance video identified Baker as a suspect, police s...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man from Overland Park, Kansas, was sentenced Tuesday to 19 years in federal prison for a series of armed robberies in Kansas City and Grandview, Missouri, three years ago. U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs sentenced 28-year-old Joshua West, who pleaded guilty in April to robbery and firearms charges. Federal prosecutors say that during July and August in 2018, West robbed a CVS Pharmacy, a Sprint store and the Phone Shack in Kansas City. In Grandview, he tried to rob a T-Mobile store but a manager was able to l...
LARNED, Kan. (AP) — A third woman has been charged with helping a sexual predator escape from Larned State Hospital in June. Sydni Hartman, 29, of Larned was charged Monday with three felonies related to the escape of John Colt. She appeared in court Monday and is being held on $75,000 bond, KSNW-TV reported. Two other employees at the hospital were charged last week with helping Colt escape. Colt disguised himself as a doctor and walked out of the hospital in June. He was arrested in Utah last month. Colt was sentenced to five years in p...
WELLINGTON, Kan. (AP) — Ruby the K-9 officer for Kansas game wardens may be pushing 10 years of old, but her sniffer works just fine. That was evident earlier this month when Ruby played a key role in tracking down a man wanted by police in the south-central Kansas town of Wellington. A Monday Facebook posting by Kansas Wildlife & Parks-Game Wardens said Ruby and her handler, Chris Stout, joined in the search for the suspect on Oct. 8 at Wellington City Lake. The man was wanted for an outstanding felony warrant and had been seen at the lake. T...
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli scuba diver has salvaged an ancient sword off the country's Mediterranean coast that experts say dates back to the Crusaders. Israel's Antiquities Authority said Monday the man was on a weekend dive in northern Israel when he spotted a trove of ancient artifacts that included anchors, pottery and a meter-long (yard-long) sword. The diver was about 150 meters (170 yards) off the coast in five-meter-deep (5.5-yard-deep) water when he made the discovery. Experts say the area provided shelter for ancient ships and is h...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Some 300 male and female volunteers stripped naked and donned white body paint for an artistic installation meant to draw attention to the shrinking Dead Sea. They posed Sunday for the American photographer Spencer Tunick, who has done similar installations in other exotic locales around the world, including French wine country, a Swiss glacier and a beach in South Africa. The shoot was promoted by Israel's Tourism Ministry. "My visit to Israel was an experience for me and I am always happy to return here and photograph in t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents were carrying out "law enforcement activity" on Tuesday at a Washington mansion and New York City townhouse tied to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. FBI officials would not provide any additional information about the circumstances surrounding their presence at either property or any information about potential investigations involving Deripaska. A spokesperson for Deripaska told reporters that the searches were "connected to U.S. sanctions" and that the homes di...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Navy report has concluded there were sweeping failures by commanders, crew members and others that fueled the July 2020 arson fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard, calling the massive five-day blaze in San Diego preventable and unacceptable. While one sailor has been charged with setting the fire, the more than 400-page report, obtained by The Associated Press, lists three dozen officers and sailors whose failings either directly led to the ship's loss or contributed to it. The findings detailed widespread lapses in...
PHENIX CITY, Ala. (AP) — Sometimes when she's feeding her infant daughter, Amanda Harrison is overcome with emotion and has to wipe away tears of gratitude. She is lucky to be here, holding her baby. Harrison was 29 weeks pregnant and unvaccinated when she got sick with COVID-19 in August. Her symptoms were mild at first, but she suddenly felt like she couldn't breathe. Living in Phenix City, Alabama, she was intubated and flown to a hospital in Birmingham, where doctors delivered baby Lake two months early and put Harrison on life support. K...
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Attorneys resumed questioning potential jurors Tuesday in the trial of three white men charged with chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery, with several jury pool members saying they know the defendants or others close to a case that has sparked a national outcry. Father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and a neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, are charged with murder and other crimes in the 25-year-old Black man's death after a cellphone video of the Feb. 23, 2020, killing leaked online two months later. By afternoon, S...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge denied bond Tuesday for a prominent South Carolina attorney who has become embroiled in two multimillion-dollar insurance fraud cases months after he found his wife and son dead in their home. The judge said Alex Murdaugh's considerable financial resources and mental instability appear for now to make it too risky to allow him to await trial outside of jail on charges he stole $3.4 million in insurance money meant for the sons of his housekeeper. The ruling means weeks, if not months in jail for the 53-year-old m...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — When Doris Michel steps outside her home in Haiti, she packs her bulletproof vest and tries to use a bulletproof car. Ever since her father was kidnapped last month in the capital of Port-au-Prince, the 34-year-old Haitian-American woman won't take any chances. She already travels with one bodyguard, and when she feels extra unsafe, she takes two. "The insecurity in Haiti has been something that has been going on for years, but now it's taken a turn that's just unbearable," she said. Her 85-year-old father, a Vietna...
DETROIT (AP) — As an American leader, Colin Powell's credentials were impeccable: He was national security adviser, chairman of the Joint Chiefs and secretary of state. But his legacy as the first Black person in those roles is murkier, with some African Americans saying that his voice on their behalf could have been louder. Powell, who died Monday of COVID-19 complications, spent 35 years in the Army and rose to political prominence under Republican presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. His stature fueled persistent s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators are expected to authorize the mixing and matching of COVID-19 booster doses this week in an effort to provide flexibility as the campaign for extra shots expands. The upcoming announcement by the Food and Drug Administration is likely to come along with authorization for boosters of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson shots and follows the OK for a third dose for the Pfizer vaccine for many Americans last month. The move was previewed Tuesday by a U.S. health official familiar with the matter who was not a...
Power shortages are turning out streetlights and shutting down factories in China. The poor in Brazil are choosing between paying for food or electricity. German corn and wheat farmers can't find fertilizer, made using natural gas. And fears are rising that Europe will have to ration electricity if it's a cold winter. The world is gripped by an energy crunch — a fierce squeeze on some of the key markets for natural gas, oil and other fuels that keep the global economy running and the lights and heat on in homes. Heading into winter, that has m...
Canadians are reputed to be very polite. In the past, we had a Canadian employee, and she certainly lived up to that reputation. I never heard her raise her voice or get angry. We all enjoyed working with her and hated to see her go. But can politeness be carried too far? After a recent experience, I wondered about that. The Newsgram and the Alva Review-Courier are unusual in that they are actually printed in our town. The majority of smaller newspapers in the state “farm out” their pri...
Wanted to give an update on several things happening in the state. First, I'm happy to see our Covid-19 numbers are going down. In the latest weekly report from the state health department, there were 8,643 new cases reported in the state. That's down 7.3% from the week prior. The health department says 57.8% of the eligible population is fully vaccinated. Currently, 11% of Covid-19 hospital patients were fully vaccinated and 86.1% were non-vaccinated. The remaining 2.9% of patients were...
Members of the Timberlake FCCLA chapter participated in the 2021 Oklahoma FCCLA Take AIM Conference Oct. 7 at the Stillwater Community Center in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Take AIM stands for Active and Involved Members and is open to younger FCCLA members, encouraging them to get involved in the organization, chapter, and community. Leadership and team-building activities helped members see that they too can get involved and become an outstanding leader. "This conference is so important to growing...
A Cherokee man is accused of sending threatening and obscene communications by cellphone to two individuals. Court records show on Oct. 7 Ivan “Rick” Cunningham of Cherokee told Alfalfa County Deputy TJ Rockenbach, Sheriff Rick Wallace and District Attorney’s Investigator Steve Tanio that he had received numerous threatening and harassing text messages and verbal messages from Jason Voth on Sept. 18 and 19. Cunningham said he had known Voth for several years and previously they had been in bu...
Two people were injured and one man was pinned in a two vehicle collision in Ringwood Saturday. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Allen Goodwin, 69, was extricated by the Ringwood Fire Department using the Jaws of Life. He was transported by Major County EMS to OU Medical Center with incapacitating leg injuries and trunk internal injuries. Goodwin was a passenger in a 2017 Chevy Equinox driven by Leslie Spadey, 30, of Laverne. Spadey was transported to Integris Bass in Enid by Major...
Superintendent's Honor Roll Kindergarten—Graycee Earl, Ryker Gosvener, Taten Graves, Ronan Henry, Grady Hutson 1st Grade—Lillyanna Anderson, Addison Blevins, Luella Bogatay, Carson Howland, Tacksen Ricke, Brantley Stroh, BrayLynn Williams 2nd Grade—Hayden Hutson, Kobi Keitel, Lexie Lohmann, Jeremy Pless, Raegen Quick 3rd Grade—Channing Humphrey, Morgan Quick, Audrey Simpson 4th Grade—Aleaha Anderson, Makenna Brattin, Callen Corr, Janda Goodno, Jenna Shields, BaiLea Swonger, Cara Whitaker, Chloe Whitaker, Lilly Anne Wilson 5th Grade—Eas...
Meat cookoff, meal served at 5 p.m. Costume, pumpkin decorating/carving contests Games galore, face painting, local businesses open, vendors By Yvonne Miller Listen for hauntingly spooky music at Kiowa’s Fall Fest Sunday, October 31 on Halloween. Downtown will be filled with little ones and some adults in scary, funny, ugly and adorable costumes. You can watch or join in lots of unique games. Costume and carved/decorated pumpkin judging is at 2:30 p.m. by the post office. Check out the street vendors and local businesses that are open. A f...
MEDICINE LODGE, Kan. (AP) — A 35-year-old south-central Kansas man has been sentenced to life in prison for the killing of a woman in Medicine Lodge last year. Clinton Wayne Rogers, of Medicine Lodge, was sentenced Friday in Barber County Court for the death of Joyce Foulkrod, 61. A family member found Foulkrod dead in her home on July 26, 2020. Authorities have not said how she died. Rogers pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on Oct. 1. Rogers fled after the killing and was arrested in Montana on Aug. 11, 2020, on a warrant for theft from K...
