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MADISON, W.Va. (AP) — If you want to understand why U.S. life expectancy is declining, West Virginia is a good place to start. The state is a bellwether of bad health, portending major problems years before they became severe nationally. "It seems that the worst outcomes happen here first," said Dr. Michael Brumage, a West Virginia University public health expert who formerly ran the health department in Charleston. "We're the canary in the coal mine." The drug overdose death rate for all Americans today is where West Virginia's rate was 10 y...
Real Estate Transfers Book 144 page 1: Mott Properties LLC, grantor, conveys unto Robyn L. Davis, grantee. The south 70 feet of lots 1 and 2 in block 47 in the City of Kiowa. Warranty deed. Book 144 page 2: Ernest L. Smith conveys unto Ernest L. Smith Trust. The east half of the northeast quarter of section 9, township 30 south, range 13, 6th PM, Barber County, Kansas. Quit claim deed. Book 144 page 3: Ronald E. Landwehr and Rhonda D. Landwehr, husband and wife, convey unto Hern Industries LLC. A tract of land commencing at the northwest...
NEW YORK (AP) — Even your lifespan can be local. Researchers have long said that health disparities are heavily influenced by where you live. New data from the National Center for Health Statistics show just how much your neighborhood can impact the length of your life. In recent years, the U.S. has seen overall life expectancy decrease, from 78.7 years in 2015 to 78.6 years in 2017. Experts have pointed to opioid addiction and an increase in suicides as the main reasons. Behind that national average are American neighborhoods where recently b...
ADA – The East Central University men's basketball team picked up its fifth-straight home victory, with a 75-72 overtime victory over Northwestern Oklahoma State at the Kerr Activities Center. Scoring First Half: 38-39 ECU opened the game on a 9-0 run in the first two minutes The Tigers led by as many as 14 points (24-10), after the first seven minutes The Rangers then pushed back and tied the game at 28 and 30 (3:26) NWOSU then used a 9-8 run to take the lead at the half Second Half: 26-25 (64-64) The Rangers pushed their lead out to eight (...
ADA – The East Central University women's basketball team picked up its first victory in the Kerr Activities Center, with a 77-56 Great American Conference victory against Northwestern Oklahoma State. Scoring First Quarter: 22-15 Second Quarter: 16-18 (38-33) Third Quarter: 20-11 (58-44) Fourth Quarter: 19-12 There were technical difficulties during the women's game that will be corrected Dec. 18 Tiger Quick Shots The Tigers head into the holiday break with a 6-3 overall record and a 2-2 mark in the GAC ECU is 1-1 when playing league opponents...
SHAWNEE – After leading OBU to a convincing win over Southwestern Oklahoma State in Weatherford this past week, Davion Turner has been named the Great American Conference Player of the Week. Turner, a senior from Dallas, Texas, averaged nearly a point per minute against the Bulldogs, scoring a career-high 27 points in 30 minutes of action. He shot 5-of-7 from long range, matching his career-high for 3-pointers made in a game. Turner completed his first career double-double by also pulling down a game-high 13 rebounds. Turner is the first B...
DURANT, Okla. – A rough shooting second half spelled trouble for Southeastern as the Savage Storm dropped its Great American Conference fall finale to Henderson State 80-65 on Tuesday afternoon in Bloomer Sullivan Arena. The loss drops the Savage Storm to 7-2 overall on the season and 3-2 in GAC play with its next action coming on Dec. 29 in an exhibition against Division I Texas-San Antonio at 3 p.m. in San Antonio, Texas. Southeastern shot 46.2 percent in the first half, including a 7-of-14 effort form behind the arc, but saw its second h...
DURANT, Okla. – Katie Webb and Kamryn Cantwell each turned in 24-point performances and Southeastern put together a late rally but was unable to get the final shot to fall in a 94-92 loss on Tuesday afternoon in Bloomer Sullivan Arena. The loss drops the Savage Storm to 5-4 overall on the season and 3-2 in Great American Conference play heading into the Christmas Break. Webb turned in a double-double with 24 points and 15 rebounds, while Cantwell shot 7-of-11 from the floor and 10-of-11 at the free throw line to finish with her 24 points. K...
BETHANY, Okla. — After starting the season off 2-0 at home, Southern Nazarene suffered its first loss of the season inside the Sawyer Center on Tuesday afternoon as the No. 23 ranked Central Oklahoma Bronchos edged SNU 74-65. The Bronchos (10-1) shot a season-high 52.6 percent from three-point range on Tuesday, as they converted 10-of-19 attempts. They also shot 48 percent from the floor and knocked down 16-of-22 (72.7%) of their free throws. The Crimson Storm (2-8) fought hard all game long on their home floor as they shot 41.1 percent from t...
DURANT, Okla. — Henderson State turned in one of its best all-around performances of the year on Tuesday afternoon and used a dominant second half to roll past Great American Conference leader Southeastern Oklahoma State 80-65 at Bloomer Sullivan Arena. The Reddies (8-3, 3-2) got off to a strong start on the road and used two 3-pointers from Rel Johnson to jump out to an early 11-3 lead, but the Savage Storm (7-2, 3-2) slowly crept back and out-scored Henderson by nine over the final 16 minutes of the opening frame to take a 35-34 advantage int...
DURANT, Okla. — Henderson State hit a season-high 14 3-pointers on Tuesday and put five players in double figures as the Reddies held on for a big road win over Southeastern Oklahoma State, 94-92. Henderson (8-2, 4-1) shot the ball exceptionally well in the first half and used four-consecutive 3-pointers at the end of the second quarter— one from Maci Mains, two from Lani Snowden, and one from Brittany Branum before the buzzer — to seize a 50-39 lead at the break behind 53 percent shooting from the field and 7-of-13 shooting from beyond the arc...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. - Ouachita Baptist (4-5) allowed Talladega College (12-3) to overcome a six point half time lead to win 65-61 in the winter exhibition. This was the first ever meeting between the two schools did not disappoint as both teams went back and forth from the tip. Wesley Franklin led the way for the Tigers with 13 points and 5 rebounds. Eric Brown also put up a good showing as the guard scored 10 points on 3-4 shooting from three. Ouachita forced 17 turnovers from the Tornados allowing the Tigers to score 16 points off of the...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Federal prosecutors are accusing an ex-Oklahoma zookeeper and former gubernatorial candidate of trying to pay an FBI agent posing as a hit man with money from selling tigers. Court documents filed Friday reveal details of what prosecutors say is a December 2017 recording of Joseph Maldonado-Passage, who goes by "Joe Exotic," negotiating with the undercover agent. The 55-year-old Maldonado-Passage is charged with trying to hire someone to kill the operator of a Florida-based animal sanctuary. He pleaded not guilty. His a...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Watch any NFL telecast that involves a struggling team, and Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley likely will be mentioned as a potential candidate for that coaching job. It makes sense. In just 18 months since replacing Bob Stoops, Riley's high-powered offenses have produced Heisman Trophy-winning quarterbacks Kyler Murray and Baker Mayfield and led the way to two College Football Playoff berths. Riley's Sooners face Alabama on Dec. 29 in a national semifinal at the Cotton Bowl. If he somehow wins the national title at age 35, an a...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities say they are investigating a weekend inmate death at the Oklahoma County jail. The Oklahoma County sheriff's office says 24-year-old Sindi Lucille Spray died Sunday. Inmates had alerted guards that Spray was unresponsive in her cell and medical personnel responded, but Spray was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later. Spray's cause of death will be determined by the state medical examiner. She had been arrested in Pottawatomie County on an Oklahoma County felony warrant. She was transferred from the P...
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Faculty and staff at Oklahoma State University will have to wait for their promised merit-based pay raises after low enrollment numbers resulted in a budget shortfall. University officials announced Monday that the school will need to postpone the 2.5 percent performance-based pay raise, which was scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, the Oklahoman reported. A nearly 2 percent drop in enrollment has cost the university roughly $5 million in tuition and fees, said Joe Weaver, the university's senior vice president of a...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoman has a new publisher. The newspaper's owner, GateHouse Media, announced Tuesday that Kelly Dyer Fry is now publisher. She was The Oklahoman's editor and vice president of news and will continue in those roles. Fry has worked in various jobs at The Oklahoman since 1994 after leaving her family's business, which owns the El Reno Tribune. She also has served on the board of the Associated Press Media Editors and was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 2014. GateHouse executive Jim Hopson had b...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Early projections from state finance officials show Oklahoma's newly elected governor and Republican-led Legislature will have a budget surplus of close to $612 million for the upcoming fiscal year. Preliminary figures from the Office of Management and Enterprise Services show the state is expected to certify $8.2 billion in funds available for the Legislature to spend in the budget year that begins July 1. That's an 8 percent increase over the current state budget. The increase is due in part to an improving state e...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The former president and CEO of a shuttered Oklahoma bank has been sentenced to four years in a federal prison and ordered to pay more than $137 million in restitution for making false statements. Federal prosecutors say 68-year-old John Arnold Shelley of Oklahoma City was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to making a false statement to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Shelley was named in a 23-count federal indictment following the failure of the Bank of Union of El Reno, which state banking regulators c...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 24-year-old Missouri man was sentenced to 25 years in prison without parole for participating in a conspiracy involving at least 27 armed robberies, which ended when police fatally shot one suspect. Deonte Collins-Abbott, of Grandview, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court. He admitted to committing eight armed robberies in February and March 2016. Collins-Abbott said he and co-conspirators robbed businesses in Blue Springs, Independence, North Kansas City, Raytown, Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas. I...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 38-year-old man who was part of a drug ring that operated out of a barbershop has been sentenced to four years and four months in federal prison. Jason Bell, who pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, was sentenced Tuesday for his role in the $4 million drug ring in Kansas City, Kansas. He admitted he was part of a ring that operated out of Cocoliso's Barbershop, which is five blocks from the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department headquarters. The U.S. Attorney's office said in a news release t...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas regulators have slashed a fine against a northwest Kansas swine operation for ignoring orders to halt the construction of unauthorized facilities capable of holdings tens of thousands of hogs. The Topeka Capital Journal reports that the Kansas Department of Health and Environment slashed to $34,000 the fine levied for building confined feeding facilities in Norton and Phillips counties without permits and for ignoring the state's cease-and-desist orders to halt the work. A pair of consent agreements covering R...
It was over a month ago that commissioners in Alfalfa County met with a representative from Dobson Technologies to gather information on internet and telephone service in search of higher levels of functionality and performance for the courthouse. After having some time to review the quote the telecom solution company wrote up, officials decided to dial up Dobson Technologies at their regular Monday meeting this week for a conference call to ask a few more questions. The inquiry into a new telecom company comes after many years of frustration...
A special board of education meeting was held last week in Cherokee and, aside from the executive session, only lasted about 13 minutes. Board members quickly approved routine reports and items like the fund encumbrances, purchase orders and warrants for payment that make up the consent agenda. Next, the 2019-2020 school calendar was looked at, and besides some minor changes (school will be starting and ending a week later this upcoming school year), it was accepted. The board voted to convene in executive session to discuss the evaluation and...
Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, is the last day to apply for voter registration in order to be eligible to vote in the Feb. 12, 2019, special election for the Timberlake I-93 School District, Alfalfa County Election Board Secretary Kelly Stein said today. The secretary of the Alfalfa County Election Board, Kelly Stein, said that it submits to the registered, qualified voters of the Timberlake I-93 School District a question of the issuance of two bonds. Proposition One is for $1,635,000 for constructing, equipping, repairing and remodeling school...
