Kingfisher Oklahoma

The Hennessey Eagles refuse to bow out of the 2020 playoffs easily. Bouncing back from a tough home defeat on Thursday, Hennessey won two straight elimination games over the weekend to advance to this week’s Class 3A area tournament.

Class A Girls Thursday at Southern Nazarene University Game 1: Garber vs. Canute, 2 p.m. Game 2: Calumet vs. Strother, 3:30 p.m. Game 3: Hydro-Eakly vs. Kiowa, 7 p.m. Game 4: Vici vs. Okarche, 8:30 p.m. Friday at State Fair Arena Winner 1 vs. Winner 2, 4:30 p.m. Winner 3 vs.

The Okarche High School speech team finished qualifying competition with a win at the Hennessey Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament. OHS’s 10 competitiors amassed enough to bring home the first-place team trophy in Class 3A with Cherokee taking second and Okeene placing third.

Marxists in America, who have been unsuccessful over recent decades in transforming (destroying) America, have used every dirty trick they can think of in attempts to overturn the 2016 election of President Donald Trump. And preventing his re-election this year.

Israeli scientists will have the first vaccine against the novel coronavirus in a matter of weeks, Israeli Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis said. The vaccine being developed by the MIGALbiotech group could be ready in just three weeks, the Jerusalem Post reported on Feb. 27.

Here are a few headlines about an African tragedy: “Africa’s Worst Locust Plague in Decades Threatens Millions” (The Wall Street Journal), “’Unprecedented’ Locust Invasion Approaches FullBlown Crisis” (Scientific American), “Somalia Declares Locust Outbreak a ‘National Emergency’ (The National) and...

[Ed. Note: Lee Edwards is the distinguished fellow in conservative thought at The Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics. A leading historian of American conservatism, Edwards has published 25 books, including “Just Right: A Life in Pursuit of Liberty.

Claude “Gene” Guinn was born March 18,1948, in Lyons, Kan., to Nathan “Junior” and Geneva Guinn. He died Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020, at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City. He was 71. Gene graduated from Hennessey High School in 1966 prior to attending Oklahoma State University.

Keith Edward Schemmer, 66, Kingfisher, died Feb. 18, 2020. Memorial service is planned at 2 p.m. Friday, March 20, at the Federated Church in Kingfisher under the direction of McNeil’s Funeral Service of Mustang.

Osvaldo Esparza Orozco was facing three possible life sentences but walked away a free man late Thursday night after a Kingfisher County jury acquitted the 36-year-old on three counts of child sexual abuse.