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Tuesday, December 4, 2018 1:42 p.m. Deputy had a traffic stop on U.S. Highway 64 and County Road 580. 3:22 p.m. Report of a horse out on County Road 550 and Custer Road. 4:39 p.m. A young caller on the phone with a child crying in the background. He stated his mother wasn't home and his sister, who was crying, had hit her head. Deputy en route. Advised everything was okay, it was just kids playing with an old phone. 7:23 p.m. Deputy had a traffic stop on U.S. Highway 64 and County Road 530. 8:40 p.m. Deputy had a traffic stop on State Highway...
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 Sarah Alison Elsberry, Pawhuska, 35, has...
Real Estate Transfers Book 837 page 661: Linda K. Pulliam and James W. Pulliam, wife and husband, Linda K. Pulliam being a lineal heir of Berna Mac Merrihew, deceased, herein called grantor, convey unto John Lamle and Lola Lamle, grantee, the north half of the southwest quarter of Section 1, Township 23 north, Range 12, W.I.M., Alfalfa County, Oklahoma; quit claim deed. Book 837 page 662: Dewey Lee Terwort and Tom Terwort, wife and husband, Dewey Lee Terwort being a lineal heir of Berna Mac Merrihew, deceased, herein called grantor, convey...
Perhaps slowing down a bit for the impending holiday, the commissioners in Alfalfa County had yet another short agenda. The group performed their usual routine of going through paperwork, approving last week’s meeting minutes, signing off on the maintenance and operation warrants for payment, monthly officer reports and blanket purchase orders. A purchase order and warrant that wasn’t turned in by a sheriff’s office employee upon completion of a safety course was taken care of as well. A recommendation was met with approval for James Maltb...
December 3, 2018 Deputy Woods performed a warrant arrest. Sheriff Small transported inmate from Barber County jail. Medicine Lodge EMS responded to call on Second Ave. Sheriff Small transported inmate from Barber County jail. December 4, 2018 Medicine Lodge EMS transported patient to Kansas Heart Hospital. December 5, 2018 Medicine Lodge EMS performed transfer at Medicine Lodge Helipad. Kiowa EMS responded to a call on Drumm Street. December 6, 2018 Medicine Lodge EMS responded to a call on Goldenrod. Sheriff Small transported inmate from...
FORT WORTH, Texas – Ouachita Baptist freshman Lilia Clark (Hillsboro, Texas) won the women's 100-yard freestyle event with a time of 53.53 on Saturday afternoon as both the men's and women's swim teams fell to TCU. "The atmosphere and the crowd were great at the meet on Saturday." Ouachita swim coach Steven Bostick said, "We had a large group of alumni and parents at the meet supporting us and when Lilia [Clark] won her race it got really loud, thanks to our supporters." Clark also had a top-five finish in the 100-yard breaststroke and p...
EUREKA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested the grandmother of a 17-year-old Oklahoma boy with special needs who was found alone near a southeast Kansas rest stop. Rogers County, Oklahoma, authorities say 68-year-old Janie Gill was arrested in that county and booked into jail Monday on one count of child neglect. More charges are pending. A custodian found the boy Nov. 29 at a rest stop near Beaumont, Kansas. He had no identification and couldn't speak. The Greenwood County, Kansas, sheriff's office later learned his identity and that he w...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Board of Agriculture wants state lawmakers to develop rules for poultry operations. The board Tuesday declined to approve or reject rules requiring large poultry operations to be at least one-quarter mile from occupied homes and one-half mile from public schools or city limits, in addition to distance requirements from public highways, property lines, certain streams and private and public water wells. Environmentalists and residents of northeastern Oklahoma, home to numerous poultry operations, say the r...
QUINTON, Okla. (AP) — Drilling company officials ignored multiple warnings that safety equipment at an Oklahoma gas well was malfunctioning before an explosion that killed five workers and badly injured another, the family of one of the dead workers contends in a recent court filing. Parker Waldridge's family alleges in a Dec. 4 amendment to their wrongful death lawsuit that a "cascade of errors and multiple departures from safe drilling practices" by drilling company Patterson-UTI Drilling led to the Jan. 22 blowout near Quinton, which is a...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities in Oklahoma City say no charges have been filed following the death an 84-year-old woman who broke a hip at an assisted living center during an altercation with another elderly resident. The Office of the State Medical Examiner has ruled that the Oct. 18 death of Wynema Jean Patterson was a homicide. Authorities say Patterson fell and broke her hip during a minor scuffle Aug. 1 with an 82-year-old man who also resided at the center. Oklahoma City Police Officer Megan Morgan said Tuesday officers investigated t...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The remains of a 19-year-old Kansas man who was killed during the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor have been identified. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Camillus O'Grady was killed on the battleship USS Oklahoma on Dec. 7, 1941. The Defense Department announced Monday that it had accounted for him, although the identification was made two years ago, using DNA and a dental analysis. The Navy seaman was from the Washington County town of Greenleaf. The Department of Defense in 2015 ordered the disinterment of unknown v...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals and speedy outfielder Billy Hamilton have agreed to a $5.25 million contract for next season that includes up to $1 million in incentives. The Royals hope that spacious Kauffman Stadium will allow Hamilton to better use his speed than the bandbox of Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, where he spent his first six seasons with the Reds. His deal, announced Tuesday, includes a mutual option for 2020. The 28-year-old Hamilton made his big league debut in 2013, then proceeded to have four c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran says he will support speeding up a vote on ending U.S. military involvement in a war led by Saudi Arabia in Yemen. The Kansas City Star reports the Kansas Republican said Tuesday that he supports a procedural step to move a resolution ending U.S. involvement toward final passage. The procedural vote is Wednesday. The resolution is rebuke to Saudi Arabia over its role in journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder. It's also a rebuke to President Donald Trump's administration, which has made it clear that it d...
GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 36-year-old Garden City man is facing serious charges after police say he fled in a vehicle with his three young children inside. Officers who were called Monday night to a domestic dispute saw a vehicle driven by Billy Mondragon speeding away from the scene. Police say during the chase, Mondragon drove toward a police vehicle, forcing the officer to swerve to avoid a collision. Mondragon's vehicle eventually rolled and came to a stop on its wheels. The driver was arrested after trying to flee on foot. The children ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov.-elect Laura Kelly is selling premium tables of 10 people each at her inaugural ball in January for $10,000, five times what the law says is the contribution limit. The new Democratic governor's swearing-in is Jan. 14 at the Statehouse, and her inaugural committee said Tuesday that it is also planning other free community celebrations and a day of service for Jan. 12. Tickets for the traditional dinner and ball, set for the evening of Jan. 14, start at $100, with a top price of $1,000 for the best seats. But the i...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A divided Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that police can rely exclusively on their sense of smell to provide probable cause for a preliminary search of a home for marijuana without a warrant. The 4-3 ruling extends to residences already established practice in Kansas that allows police to search vehicles for marijuana based only on smells, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported . The ruling issued Friday came in a case in which Lawrence police entered a man's apartment without a warrant because they said they detected a s...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz has serenaded a Kansas high school senior who is hospitalized in St. Louis while awaiting a second double-lung transplant. The Grammy Award winner stopped by the bedside of 18-year-old Madison Taliaferro, of Holton, on Sunday while he was in Missouri for a concert. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Mraz performed his hit songs "I'm Yours" and "Have It All." Taliaferro's mother, Desiree Taliaferro, shared videos on Facebook. She wrote in a post that nurses schemed to get Mraz to sing to her d...
GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — A new prosecutor has been picked for a western Kansas county where the former prosecutor decided to step down after the sheriff was acquitted of a misdemeanor. The Great Bend Tribune reports that the Barton County Republican Committee unanimously appointed Levi Morris as the new county attorney Monday. Outgoing County Attorney Amy Mellor announced last month that she was resigning at year's end, saying Sheriff Brian Bellendir was acting like "a bully." She cited a letter from Bellendir starting his intention to try to h...
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A woman accused of buying bomb-making supplies and plotting domestic terrorism attacks exchanged letters with the man convicted in the South Carolina church shooting and visited Columbine High School, federal authorities said. Prosecutors described how Elizabeth Lecron had a fascination with perpetrators of mass killings and aspired to follow in their footsteps in court documents filed Monday, when she was charged with transporting explosives and explosive material with the purpose of harming others. Officials with the FBI a...
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A 35-year-old former science teacher at a Colorado school has pleaded not guilty to charges that he repeatedly sexually assaulted one of his female students. The Aurora Sentinel reports that Gabriel Alsina pleaded not guilty on Monday in Arapahoe County District Court to five felony counts of sexual assault on a child. Investigators say Alsina had a relationship with a student at Vista PEAK Preparatory at the school, in Alsina's car and at his home during her sophomore and junior years of high school. Police say they l...
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas judge on Monday accepted a plea bargain allowing a former Baylor University student accused of raping a woman at a fraternity party to avoid serving jail time, marking at least the third time the judge has approved probation for men accused of sexually assaulting Baylor students. Judge Ralph Strother's decision to accept the plea deal sparked outrage from the woman who accused Jacob Walter Anderson of repeatedly raping her. The woman says she was plied with a drink of punch at the party in 2016 and became disoriented. A...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — German freelance journalist Billy Six has circled the globe with a hand-held video camera asking people living through wars and strife to tell their stories. But when he turned his lens to Venezuela, documenting the economic collapse and mass migration from the socialist country, he wounded up in jail on charges that his family says include spying — accusations they reject as false. "He never touched a weapon, never joined in any demonstrations," his father, Edward Six, told The Associated Press. "He just was on the st...
Mary Harvey is used to blazing the trail in sports. Despite growing up without major soccer tournaments to aspire to play in, the goalkeeper helped the U.S. win the inaugural Women's World Cup in 1991 and the first women's Olympic soccer title five years later. "As a women's national team, we didn't set out to have wide scale impact, but we did," Harvey recalled in an interview with The Associated Press. "From that I learned that that's what I wanted my life to be about: the ability to impact others in a positive way." Today, that desire has...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Legislature approved a bill Tuesday that would allow the replacement of a 65-year-old oil pipeline in a key Great Lakes waterway, voting to create a state authority that would oversee the construction of a tunnel to encase a new segment of pipe. Most Republicans in the GOP-controlled chambers and some Democrats supported advancing the legislation to Gov. Rick Snyder, who plans to sign it quickly despite criticism that his administration should not tie the hands of Democrats who will take over the governor a...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The city of Santa Fe is considering lending out a collection of art and multimedia assets that once belonged to the College of Santa Fe. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the city Public Works Committee approved Monday the proposed loan program that would allow the collection to be loaned to public or private nonprofit entities as a means of providing for "responsible stewardship of a significant financial and community asset." The collection valued in the millions of dollars includes rare books, recordings, sculptures, d...
