Alva, OK

WASHINGTON (AP) — Election Day was barely underway before unverified rumors of voting irregularities surfaced online. One actual ballot-scanning malfunction, in Westchester County, New York, in particular gave rise to baseless theories about activities by Democrats or their allies to suppress Republican votes. While there was no indication that episode was engineered to disadvantage either party —...

Iran's chief negotiator says it's up to the United States to prevent renewed war after what he described as a "firm and rational response" to Washington. Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf did not elaborate. His comments came after the U.S. conducted defensive strikes on some Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump says his administration will stop...

Sister June Carpenter, one of the last members of the only remaining community of the Shaker religious movement, died Tuesday. Carpenter had been struggling with health problems and limited mobility, according to an announcement from the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in Maine. She was 88. Carpenter was one of two longtime members of the Sabbathday Lake community of Shakers in New Gloucester,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration joined the Archdiocese of Denver on Tuesday in urging the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling allowing a state-funded preschool program in Colorado to exclude Roman Catholic schools that don't comply with equal-opportunity requirements — the latest religious-rights case before the conservative-majority court. A win for the Catholic preschools could fu...

MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in New York temporarily blocked the Trump administration's plans to deport Afghans detained in the United States to Afghanistan or Pakistan on Tuesday, after advocates and dozens of members of Congress warned that their lives would be at risk. The government told the court Tuesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had no chartered or commercial flights for...

PAGOSA SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Skies began to clear Tuesday, but while floodwaters from almost two weeks of on-and-off heavy rain still inundated parts of the U.S. Southwest, other areas left mud-caked by receding torrents presented homeowners and businessowners with the filthy work of cleanup. Jack Ellis, a retired schoolteacher, surveyed damage along the San Juan River in Pagosa Springs, Colorado,...

Investigators are just beginning the lengthy process of determining why a business jet plummeted from the sky in Florida after encountering a thunderstorm and slammed into the ground with such force that it created a crater and shattered the plane. The National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation into the crash that killed all nine people aboard the Bahamas-bound Learjet, and...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic candidates made up significant ground among key demographic groups in the 2026 midterms, according to The AP Voter Poll, reversing many of the gains President Donald Trump made with the traditional Democratic coalition in the 2024 presidential election. The AP Voter Poll, a sweeping survey of more than 100,000 voters in all 50 states, showed that young voters swung sha...

Yes, the 2026 midterms will be remembered for the astonishing number of losses that Democrats handed to President Donald Trump. But in the background, something perhaps equally seismic unfolded: a wave of firsts that elevated into high office members of groups that had, until now, been kept largely at the margins. There were cheers and happy tears at election parties from New Mexico to Georgia...

Congratulations to our local winners in the Oklahoma Class 4A One Act competition! Cherokee High School took first place and Alva High School was runner up. These two teams have tied up the top two placings for several years. Although Cherokee performed their play for the public last weekend, you can still catch a performance of the Alva play Thursday evening at 7 p.m. at the high school...