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Alva Church of God Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.m. Alva Church of God is located at 517 Ninth St. in Alva, and can be found on the web at www.AlvaChurchOfGod.org. Alva Friends Church Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m.; coffee and donut fellowship at 10:10 a.m.; worship at 10:30 a.m. Alva Friends Church is on the corner of College Avenue and Center Street. Avard Christian Church Sunday services are from 2-4 p.m. Avard Christian Church is 7 miles west of Alva on Highway 64 and 7 miles south on County Road 370, or 6...
We wonder if there is life after Christmas. In fact, we wonder if life is worth the living. We went through Christmas, now we have to go back to work to pay for all the bills. For some of us, we have Christmas all year long because the Christ Child lives in our lives and we have a new lease on life each day. Randy Kilgore tells about a coworker who made a confession to him that he lived a “comfortable narcissistic” life that had no meaning and he was not good “Jesus material.” He wanted to know...
One tick of the clock, one famous ball-drop in Times Square, and another year will officially begin. Of course, in the time it took to write that intro an infinite number of new beginnings have taken place. Any moment, every moment is the right time for change. Yet we, as a rule, tend to wait for some magic moment – some rock-star, light show, fireworks kind of moment – to re-begin. It seems that I’ve been waiting around for the first of January since the middle of November. I went off my low-carb diet about the time I had my colon...
John Hillman was born on May 27, 1956, and passed away on December 22, 2018, at the age of 62 years. Services are pending with Wharton Funeral Chapel. Online condolences may be made at www.whartonfuneralchapel.com....
“You never know when you need to look like you have a little bit of sense and a little bit of money.” Those were the words of Charles Johnson IV as he accompanied his wife to the hospital as she prepared to give birth to their second son. He would leave the hospital without her – another mortality statistic in the staggeringly high number of maternal deaths in this country. According to William Callaghan of the CDC, the definition of a pregnancy-related death is when a woman dies while pregn...
As I noted last week, in July I fell out of the back of a moving van. Thankfully, it wasn’t moving at the time! But, nevertheless, I hurt myself when I hit the pavement. I opened my eyes to see my wife leaning over me. She told me that I had passed out – but I argued that I had not. She then informed me that (1) she had slapped my face several times trying to wake me up and (2) our daughters had called 911 and asked for an ambulance. Since I had no recollection of those occurrences, I began to...
In 1975 the US Congress passed Public Law 94-142 in which all public schools that received federal funding were required to provide access to a free and appropriate education for all children with mental or physical disabilities. Over the four plus decades since the passage of Public Law 94-142, schools have continued to grow in their mission to educate ALL children. Special education programs, speech pathology, physical therapy and occupational therapy are all programs that are commonplace in schools today. While Public Law 94-142 compelled sc...
OKLAHOMA CITY – State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister today announced that 74 Oklahoma high school students have been named to her 2019 Student Advisory Council, the fourth consecutive year the group has been convened to assist Hofmeister and the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) in matters of policy. Alva High School senior Gracie Scarbrough is one of those named to the council. "These are among Oklahoma's best and brightest high school leaders, and we look f...
Brady and Jennifer Marston, both in their mid-30s, ought to be stressed to the max. • They just got married on Nov. 10. • Two weeks ago, they left their families and friends in the major metro areas where they've lived all their lives (Little Rock, Arkansas, and Oklahoma City) and moved to Alva, which is by far the smallest town either has ever lived in. • Brady left his job as youth pastor at a Little Rock church, where he's been for the last eight years. • Jennifer left her very fulfill...
Alva received 2.45 inches of precipitation during the heavy rainfall Tuesday night and Wednesday, according to the Oklahoma Mesonet. Freedom in western Woods County received 1.71 inches while the May Ranch located near the Kansas border to the west of Alva received 1.49. Cherokee in Alfalfa County had 2.32 inches in the same time period while Fairview in Major County had 2.49. Woodward received 1.11 inches and Buffalo only 0.73. The National Weather Service is predicting a 30 percent chance of snow for Saturday for the Woods County...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's newly elected State Treasurer Randy McDaniel is getting an early jump on his new job. Gov. Mary Fallin announced Thursday she's appointing McDaniel to the post, effective Tuesday. McDaniel was appointed to fill the unexpired term of outgoing Treasurer Ken Miller, who is resigning early to take a position with OGE Energy Corp. McDaniel is a former Republican legislator from Edmond and was elected treasurer with 72 percent of the vote. He'll be sworn into office on Wednesday and finish the remaining two weeks of M...
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State University is working with an electric scooter company called Spin after student outcry followed the university's decision to cut ties with other alternative transportation companies like Bird and Lime. University officials reviewed several proposals before deciding to partner with Spin, which first launched in San Francisco, the Stillwater News Press reported . Spin, which was recently acquired by Ford, initially focused on dockless bicycle rentals but got into the scooter business earlier this year. T...
GUYMON, Okla. (AP) — Heavy snow is prompting highway closures and traffic problems in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Texas County Emergency Management Director Harold Tyson says portions of two major highways were shut down Thursday after 6 to 8 inches of snow fell in the area. He says several tractor-trailers jackknifed along Highway 54, causing traffic to back up for miles near Guymon. Gov. Mary Fallin on Thursday authorized non-essential state employees in Cimarron and Texas counties to stay home from work....
HAYS, Kan. (AP) — A blizzard blanketed western Kansas with snow Thursday, causing whiteout conditions that led to numerous wrecks and highway closures, and knocked out power for thousands of homes. The storm, which began late Wednesday, put about three dozen counties under blizzard warnings or winter storm warnings and advisories. The National Weather Service forecast accumulations of up to 12 inches (30 centimeters) of snow in some areas and drift-creating gusts of up to 50 mph (80 kph). By noon Thursday, the snowfall was beginning to slow. T...
VAN BUREN, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas judge has dismissed local charges against four carnival workers suspected in the deaths of a retired couple in Kansas. Investigators said one suspect texted the others posing as a carnival mafia boss and ordered them to kill the couple. The suspects were originally charged in Arkansas with abuse of a corpse and other crimes after the couple's bodies were found in shallow graves in a national forest in Arkansas. Prosecutors asked that the Arkansas charges be dropped because the suspects had been extradited t...
BURLINGTON, Colo. (AP) — Interstate 70 near the Colorado's eastern border has been closed because of the winter storm in Kansas. Eastbound lanes of I-70 were closed from Burlington to the Kansas line around midday Thursday. The roads were clear on the Colorado side but wind gusts of up to 45 mph were expected through the afternoon. The Colorado Department of Transportation says there's no estimated time for reopening the highway. A blizzard which began late Wednesday has blanketed western Kansas with snow, causing whiteout conditions that l...
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A man charged more than a decade ago with child rape in Kansas has been arrested. The Kansas City Star reports that 48-year-old Javier Vera-Santos made his first court appearance Wednesday in Johnson County. He was arrested in California this month and returned to Kansas. He was charged with one count of child rape in July 2006 in Johnson County. A warrant was issued for his arrest, but county authorities say they had information that Vera-Santos, who was born in Mexico City, left the country. Charges allege Vera-Santos r...
WAMEGO, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in the Kansas River as suspicious. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that dispatchers received a report around 10:15 a.m. Monday that the body was in the river west of Wamego. Pottawatomie County Sheriff Greg Riat said in a news release that multiple agencies responded. A boat was launched and the body was recovered near the north bank of the river. The man's name wasn't immediately release, and his cause of death hasn't yet been determined. ___ I...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The families of two Kansas sheriff's deputies who were overpowered by an inmate and killed have hired legal counsel to help prosecutors. The Kansas City Star reports that husband-and-wife law partners, Tom and Tricia Bath, were retained to assist the Wyandotte County District Attorney's Office in the prosecution of 30-year-old Antoine Fielder. He is charged with capital murder in the deaths of Theresa King and Patrick Rohrer last June. In Kansas, the intentional, premeditated killing of a single law enforcement o...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City shopping mall filled with after-Christmas bargain hunters had to shut as police investigated a report of gunfire in the parking lot. The Kansas City Star reports that shoppers poured out of Oak Park Mall on Wednesday night upon hearing the shots, but some were forced to stay inside as police put stores on lockdown. Police in Overland Park, Kansas, found several shell casings outside but no blood. Police say an unoccupied vehicle in the parking lot was struck by gunfire. Police are seeking a s...
Wall Street started 2018 strong, buoyed by a growing economy and corporate profits. It isn't ending that way. U.S. stocks climbed to new highs early, shook off a sudden, steep drop by spring and rode a wave of tax cut-juiced corporate earnings growth to another all-time high by September. Then the jitters set in. Investors grew worried that the testy U.S.-China trade dispute and higher interest rates would slow the economy, hurting corporate profits. A slowing U.S. housing market and forecasts of weaker global growth in 2019 stoked traders'...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The theft of $3 billion in fuel every year from Mexico's state-run fuel depots and pipelines is an inside job, the country's new president said Thursday. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said thieves don't just drill taps into government pipelines. He said company employees steal fuel and distribute it, or help thieves by ensuring fuel continues to run through pipelines. Mexico's top prosecutor said criminal investigations have been opened against three employees of the state-owned oil company Pemex for alleged i...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three days, maybe four. That's how long Ethan James, 21, says he can realistically miss work before he's struggling. So as the partial government shutdown stretched into its sixth day with no end in sight, James, a minimum-wage contractor sidelined from his job as an office worker at the Interior Department, was worried. "I live check to check right now," he said, and risks missing his rent or phone payment. Contractors, unlike most federal employees, may never get back pay for being idled. "I'm getting nervous," he said. F...
It took less than a week for the Trump administration to kill the considerable buzz created Jan. 1 when California's broad marijuana legalization law took effect, creating the largest legal U.S. cannabis marketplace. Then-U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a policy shielding state-licensed medical marijuana operators from federal drug prosecutions. The move sent a chill through the nascent legal industry. But ultimately it had little impact because federal prosecutors around the country showed little interest in going after legal...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Editor’s note: As we come to the end of the year, Conversation editors take a look back at the stories that – for them – exemplified 2018. The end of the year is a classic time for reflection. But, in today’s turbulent news cycle, it can be hard to keep track of what happened last week, let alone what was going on way back on Jan. 1. For a look back at 2018, I’d like to slow down and draw attention to a few stori...
