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Happy Birthday To Jan. 31: Chad Grimes, Bill Bishop, Bret Burnham Feb. 1: Tricia Coday, Dean Welty, Jeffery Melkus Feb. 2: Dylan Moore, Lisa Welty, Jerry Cell, Deric Wagner Feb. 3: Bobby Gerloff, Vanessa Gerloff Feb. 4: Noah Ring Feb. 5: Chad Novak, Bryce Adair, Kay Decker Wardrop Feb. 6: Tamara Green Feb. 7: Norma Jean Smith Feb. 8: Jason Noble, Arin Powers, Tanner Kay Feb. 9: Rodney Bishop, Alicia Welty Feb. 10: Kaylyn Province Feb. 11: Ronni Poe, Mark Wardrop, Becky Beer, Chasity Stewart, Betty Selman Feb. 12: Dawn Wares, Tom Russell Feb....
The Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Action Committee invites communities to take action for children by participating in the 11th annual “Build a Blue Ribbon Tree for Kids” campaign. The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH), along with various community organizations, are working together to build a “Blue Ribbon Tree” state. Blue ribbon trees will be blossoming throughout Oklahoma communities in April, which is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. The blue ribbon is the international sign for child abuse prevention and serves as a constan...
Sunday, Jan. 27, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Announcements: Freedom UMC is having their annual Pancake Supper on Feb. 2 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the UMC Fellowship Hall. Shirley Wagner has donated an afghan to be raffled. Please join us and enjoy good food and fellowship. Invocation by Pastor Todd Finley Call to Worship: Psalm 93 Opening hymn “How Great Thou Art” led by Jennifer Finley Affirmation of Faith Gloria Patri Hymn of Justifying Grace: “Trust and Obey” Offertory – Janell Re...
Fifth graders in Oklahoma City Public Schools will be joining older peers in middle schools across the district under a proposal unveiled this week. The fifth-through-eighth-grade middle school model isn’t very common, especially in large districts. There were just 23 in Oklahoma in 2017, and all but two were in small, rural communities. Much more common is the sixth-through-eighth-grade model, used by 185 middle schools across the state, according to data from the Office of Educational Quality and Accountability. The plan, announced by Superin...
The Leadership Class at Freedom High School held a showmanship clinic for students who are enrolled in FFA and 4-H. The leadership students and teacher, Grace Tepe, retained the speakers and prepared the facility. Those who taught the clinic included Cole Contreraz, Tasha Lively, Ihelli James, and Iridian Herrera....
SHAWNEE – Women's tennis coaches in the Great American Conference have picked Oklahoma Baptist to successfully defend its league championship, according to votes cast in the annual pre-season poll. The Lady Bison finished first, narrowly in front of second-place Harding OBU will begin its spring season Saturday, Feb. 2 in Colorado Springs against Metropolitan State – Denver. Metropolitan State is the defending Rocky Mountain Athletic Champions and return four players from last year. OBU will be led by first-year coach Jason Proctor, who was...
DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern men's tennis will head into the 2019 spring season as the favorite to repeat as the Great American Conference champions in the GAC Preseason Poll released on Wednesday. The Savage Storm earned 16 points in the poll and earning four of the five first place votes, finishing ahead of second-place Harding who received the remaining first-place nod. Ouachita Baptist was third in the poll, followed by Southern Arkansas and Oklahoma Baptist. The Savage Storm won the GAC regular-season title for the third time in the l...
Oklahoma football coach Lincoln Riley's salary jumped to $6 million and he had his contract extended a year, through the 2023 season. Riley and Oklahoma's Board of Regents agreed in principle to the extension and salary increase earlier in the month, and the board approved the numbers at their meeting on Wednesday. The 35-year-old Riley has led the Sooners to Big 12 championships and College Football Playoff appearances in both of his seasons as head coach. Under his watch, Oklahoma is 24-4 overall, and quarterbacks Baker Mayfield and Kyler...
ENID, Okla. (AP) — Crews are working to contain thousands of gallons of crude oil that leaked into a creek in northern Oklahoma. Oklahoma Corporation Commission spokesman Matt Skinner said Wednesday oil extends for about 5 miles (8 kilometers) in Black Bear Creek in rural Garfield County. Skinner says the spill was reported Tuesday by Great Salt Plains Midstream of Oklahoma City, a pipeline operator. The oil apparently leaked from an open valve on a tank. Skinner says the cause is under investigation. He says about 750 barrels, or 31,500 g...
NEW YORK (AP) — A former Oklahoma State assistant basketball coach pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking bribes from business advisers to steer them to star college athletes expected to turn pro. Lamont Evans, 41, entered the plea in New York federal court to conspiring to commit bribery. He admitted receiving $22,000 to steer the players at the University of South Carolina and Oklahoma State University to certain financial advisers and business managers, attorney Johnny McCray said. Evans also agreed to forfeit the bribe money he received from t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City businessman Clay Bennett is resigning from the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, effective immediately, citing health concerns. University officials confirmed Bennett's resignation on Wednesday, shortly after it was announced at the start of a regents meeting. Bennett is president of the private investment firm Dorchester Capital and chairman of the ownership group of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder. A university spokesperson did not elaborate on Bennett's health concerns. Bennett was first appointed t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has named Chickasaw Nation lawmaker and former state Rep. Lisa Billy as secretary of Native American Affairs. Billy has served in the Chickasaw Nation Legislature since 2016 and served previously in the tribal Legislature between 1996 and 2002. She served in the Oklahoma House between 2004 and 2016 and held various leadership roles in the chamber, including majority Floor Leader from 2014 to 2016 and vice chair of the House's Republican Caucus from 2006 to 2008. Billy formed the Oklahoma L...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A historic but dilapidated Tulsa bridge that has been closed for nearly four decades should be restored for pedestrian use, according to preservationists. The Route 66 Commission has proposed reopening the 11th Street Arkansas River Bridge for the first time since 1980, Tulsa World reported. "It's important to save this bridge because this bridge is the reason Route 66 came through Tulsa," said Amanda DeCort, chairwoman of the Route 66 Commission's Preservation and Design committee. "And it's a big part of our history." D...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's new Republican governor and GOP leaders in the House and Senate expressed willingness on Wednesday to consider some version of a Medicaid expansion that would extend health insurance to tens of thousands of Oklahoma's uninsured. Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt opposed the idea on the campaign trail but told reporters Wednesday during The Associated Press' annual legislative forum that he was open to the concept if the state was given enough flexibility. "I'm going to be very careful where I don't put Oklahoma in a t...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge says Oklahoma Gas and Electric has agreed to reduce a rate increase request for its Arkansas customers from $6.4 million to $3.3 million. Oklahoma City-based OG&E is Oklahoma's largest utility and has about 66,000 customers in western Arkansas. Rutledge said Wednesday that she, the Arkansas Public Service Commission and the Arkansas River Valley Energy Consumers group had objected to the original rate request filed Dec. 28. The Public Service Commission is to rule on the p...
SALINA, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a man has been found dead in a burned home in northeastern Oklahoma. Mayes County Sheriff's Capt. Rod Howell says the body was found after firefighters put out the blaze early Wednesday near Salina, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Tulsa. The man's name has not been released. Howell said the body is being sent to the state medical examiner's officer for positive identification and to determine the cause and manner of death. Howell said there appears to have been no one else in the home. Howell said t...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A prosecutor says there are no plans to offer a plea deal to a 17-year-old charged with fatally shooting a man and raping an 81-year-old woman. The Tulsa World reports that at a preliminary hearing Tuesday for Deonte James Green, Judge Kelly Greenough said she isn't inclined to accept a plea deal. Assistant District Attorney Kevin Gray replied he doesn't intend to offer a deal. Griffin said the only plea would be a bind plea, which is made without an agreed upon sentencing recommendation from prosecutors. Green was 16 w...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A proposal to strip the Kansas secretary of state's office of its power to prosecute voter fraud cases has cleared its first major hurdle in the Legislature. The bill endorsed Wednesday by a House committee would dismantle a key piece of former Secretary of State Kris Kobach's political legacy. The Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee's unanimous voice vote sends the bill to the House for debate. Kobach received prosecution power in 2015 after arguing that his office needed the power to pursue cases on its own b...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The new head of Kansas' prison system is telling legislators that more frequent inmate transfers and housing offenders two to a cell helped contribute to several riots during the past two years. Interim Corrections Secretary Roger Werholtz's assessment of the factors behind inmate disturbances led lawmakers to say Wednesday that they previously did not have the full picture of what happened. Werholtz has painted a picture of a prison system in crisis in briefings for lawmakers this week. He has suggested that u...
ROSE HILL, Kan. (AP) — Federal health inspectors are investigating after a 38-year-old Sedgwick County man died when a trailer backed over him. The Butler County Sheriff's Office said 38-year-old Stephen Farmer, of Sedgwick County, died early Wednesday in Rose Hill. Emergency crews found Farmer on the ground behind a truck, which had a flatbed trailer carrying a piece of loading equipment. The sheriff's office says a man driving the truck was turning around in a parking lot when the trailer hit Farmer. He fell and the right tires of the t...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The owner of a defunct laboratory in Lenexa has been ordered to pay $544,287 for storing hazardous waste without a license. U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister announced Tuesday that 63-year-old Ahmed El-Sherif was found guilty of storing the waste at Beta Chem Laboratory. Kansas health officials took control of the laboratory in 2013. Environmental Protection Agency agents found numerous containers of hazardous wastes and radiation contamination during a search in January 2014. During a bench trial, U.S. District Court J...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas attorney general says the state has dropped former Secretary of State Kris Kobach's appeal of a contempt order arising from a lawsuit over a proof-of-citizenship law. Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced Tuesday that the state dropped the appeal after the American Civil Liberties Union accepted $20,000 for attorney fees and expenses. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the state's obligation was $26,200 before the deal was reached. U.S. District Court Judge Julie Robinson found Kobach in contempt of court l...
