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A man was charged Monday in Woodward County District Court with rape - second degree. According to court records, Antonio Ignaco Garcia-Solis, 18, is accused of having sex with an underage female over period of several months.

Editor's Note: Elise Solloway is a correspondent for the Woodward News. She recently received a kidney transplant after fighting a genetic kidney disease. She underwent successful transplant surgery in October and is telling her story this week in the Woodward News.

Back in October, Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister announced school mental health grants to be awarded to three school districts: Elk City, Weatherford, and Woodward.

LONDON (AP) — The rot runs deep at Manchester United. Firing Jose Mourinho just removes the immediate stench of gloom. With every rebuke aimed — very publicly — at his players or paymasters, Mourinho looked more fixated on picking public fights rather than addressing his own shortcomings.

The Boomers wrap up the first semester of basketball action with a pair of games this week. Woodward travels to Cache on Tuesday, then will be home on Thursday to face Clinton. Both are Western Conference games.

Virtually everyone, young or old, has an opinion on the national debt, which grows by leaps and bounds every day. The debt at the federal level is well over $21 trillion and moving upwards rapidly, but it is rarely, if at all, talked about in national political circles these days. The nation hasn't

WOODWARD — The Woodward Home for the Holidays ice skating rink will open Dec. 16 in Crystal Beach Park. Woodward Convention and Visitors Bureau and AllianceHealth Woodward have teamed up to present the rink, which will continue through Dec. 22.

WEST POINT, N.Y. — Nearly four years later, Kenneth Brinson is still awed with the memory of his first moments at the United States Military Academy. He was herded into Eisenhower Hall along with the rest of the soon-to-be-plebes. He was welcomed briefly by a member West Point’s military command and

An investigation is underway into another inmate death at the Oklahoma County jail, a sheriff's spokesman reported. Sindi Lucille Spray, 24, was found unresponsive at the jail about 5 p.m. Sunday. Medical staff members at the jail tried to revive her, but she was pronounced dead at 5:30 p.m., the sh

PITTSBURG CO., Okla. (KFOR) — Cleanup efforts are underway after several rail cars on a train derailed. According to Union Pacific, 16 rail cars and the rear-facing locomotive on a northbound train derailed about two miles north of Kiowa, Oklahoma just after 6:30 a.m. Sunday.

GOLDSBY, Okla. – The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a fiery crash shut down Interstate 35 just south of Norman. The OHP says both northbound and southbound lanes of the interstate were shut down Monday morning at mile marker 104 at Goldsby, about 22 miles south of Oklahoma City.

TULSA - The number of homeless people decreased in 2018, according to the latest national estimate by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The report shows that 3,871 people experienced homelessness on a single night in 2018 statewide.

TOGO – A small quake rattled NW Oklahoma late Friday on the Woods-Major County line. A magnitude 3.1 quake was recorded at 9:29 p.m. Friday two miles north of Togo, 35.1 miles east of Woodward and 49.1 miles west of Enid at a depth of about 3.1 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

TULSA — For 19 years, the Robert M. Greer Center in Enid has cultivated a low recidivism rate reintegrating adults into society who suffer from both intellectual disabilities and severe behavioral challenges.

Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley had a message for Baker Mayfield following the Cleveland Browns’ big win on Saturday night. The Browns, who remain in NFL Playoffs contention, took down the Denver Broncos on the road to improve to 6-7-1 on the season.

STILLWATER — For the second consecutive December, the Gundycopter is traveling around Oklahoma and Texas. Mike Gundy visited a number of Oklahoma State verbal commits this month. He took the helicopter to see Arygle, Texas, offensive lineman Preston Wilson and Cedar Hill,

Voting is underway in the Christmas Home Decorating contest sponsored by Smith & Co. Real Estate and the Woodward Chamber of Commerce. There are three categories - Best overall decorations (grand prize), most community votes (most online votes, Facebook most likes wins) and most outlandish (Griswold

Christmas is in the air. The children are getting excited. They have been practicing and are ready (or almost ready) to perform for friends and families in the annual holiday programs.

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey reports a small earthquake has been recorded in northwestern Oklahoma. The U.S.G.S. recorded the magnitude 3.1 quake at 12:09 a.m. Saturday about 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Woodward and about 97 miles (156 kilometers) northwest of Oklahoma City

Editor's Note: Elise Solloway is a correspondent for the Woodward News. She recently received a kidney transplant after fighting a genetic kidney disease. She underwent successful transplant surgery in October and is telling her story this week in the Woodward News.