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Carl's Capitol Comments

While writing this it is hard to keep my thoughts on the Capitol when my own area has been devastated by wildfires. Three of the counties I represent have been touched by the fires this past week. I...

 

TORY JAMES LACY

Funeral services for Tory James Lacy will be Saturday, April 21, 2018, at 11 a.m. at Alva First Baptist Church with Reverend Lester Orwig, pastor, First Baptist Church, Talala, Oklahoma, officiating....

 
 By Yvonne Miller    Local    April 18, 2018

Kiowa City Council holds special meeting to discuss city hall renovation/floor plan

The morning of April 10, the Kiowa City Council held a special meeting to discuss the project of renovating the existing hall that has serious mold and roof issues. The council already approved a plan to purchase the building next door owned by John...

 

Henry Named GAC Freshman of the Week

ADA – East Central University softball freshman Jacey Henry has been named the Great American Conference Freshman of the Week for April 17. This mark the second weekly GAC award for Henry this season, as she was named Pitcher of the Week March 6. T...

 

Cerda Earns GAC Weekly Honor

DURANT, Okla. – Following his performance in leading Southeastern to a 2-1 weekend against Southern Nazarene, Joseph Cerda has been named the Great American Conference Player of the Week. In game one of the series, he became first player in S...

 
 By Troy Mitchell    Sports    April 18, 2018

Eschberger Earns GAC Pitcher of the Week Honor

For the second time this season, Henderson State's Zach Eschberger was named Great American Conference Pitcher of the Week for his performance last weekend against Southwestern Oklahoma. The junior left-hander improved to 6-3 on the season as the...

 

SAU Softball's Goad earns second GAC Player of the Week honor this season

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. - For the second time this season, and following a historic weekend at the plate, SAU Softball's Brooke Goad has been named the Great American Conference's Player of the Week for the second time this season. Goad became Division...

 

Mudslide survivors find hope in recovered belongings

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When a torrent of mud crashed through Mari Mitchel's bedroom in Southern California three months ago, it carried away everything from massive pieces of antique family furniture to a tiny pouch that held her wedding and engagement r...

 

Trump bashes California on border mission, Brown sees a deal

SAN DIEGO (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday slammed California Gov. Jerry Brown's posture on sending National Guard troops to the Mexican border even as Brown said he was nearing agreement on joining the president's mission. The volley of w...

 

Former Minnesota FBI agent cites racism in explaining leak

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A black former Minnesota FBI counterterrorism agent pleaded guilty Tuesday to leaking classified documents to a reporter, saying in a statement that he knew it was illegal but felt he had to act against a culture in the b...

 

Supreme Court strikes down as vague part of immigration law

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Tuesday that part of a federal law that makes it easier to deport immigrants who have been convicted of crimes is too vague to be enforced. The court's 5-4 decision — in an unusual alignment in which new Jus...

 

Stormy Daniels' big reveal: sketch of man who threatened her

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stormy Daniels injected fresh mystery into the sensational story of the president, the fixer and the porn star on Tuesday, releasing an artist's sketch of the man she says threatened her in a Las Vegas parking lot to stay quiet a...

 

Trump says US and NKorea talking at 'extremely high levels'

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. and North Korea are holding direct talks at "extremely high levels" in preparation for a potential summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. At his private Mar-a-Lago c...

 

Starbucks to close stores for an afternoon for bias training

NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks, moving swiftly to confront a racially charged uproar over the arrest of two black men at one of its stores in Philadelphia, plans to close more than 8,000 U.S. stores for several hours next month to conduct racial-bias trai...

 

Suspect in Iceland's 'Big Bitcoin Heist' escapes prison

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — A prisoner in Iceland suspected of masterminding the theft of about 600 computers that were being used to mine bitcoin and other virtual currencies escaped custody and fled Tuesday on a passenger plane that a witness said a...

 

South Carolina's prisons among the deadliest in the US

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Twenty South Carolina prisoners have been killed at the hands of fellow inmates in the past 16 months. The staggering amount of violence, which includes the gang-fueled bloodshed that left seven prisoners dead and 17 injured t...

 

First the chlorine, then chaos and death in Syria attack

BEIRUT (AP) — Residents of the Syrian town of Douma were packed into underground shelters amid bombardment when the gas began to spread. Suddenly, panic ensued. As shouts of "chlorine, chlorine!" rang out, some ran into the night and fainted in t...

 

Jury has case of 3 men accused of plotting to bomb Somalis

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Jurors began deliberating Tuesday afternoon in the case against three Kansas militia members accused of scheming to bomb a mosque and apartment complex housing Somalis. During closing arguments, Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony M...

 

Jury hears Bill Cosby's graphic testimony about accuser

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Jurors on Tuesday got a sense of Bill Cosby's view of consent from graphic deposition testimony in which the comedian described reaching an area "somewhere between permission and rejection" during what he claims was a prior s...

 
 By KEN MILLER    Regional    April 18, 2018

Forecasters warn of rare, life-threatening wildfire weather

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Forecasters warned of dangerous, life-threatening wildfire conditions in parts of the Southwest and Southern Plains on Tuesday, as a forestry official warned firefighters battling a terrifying deadly blaze in Oklahoma that it w...

 

IRS payment site fails on tax day, extensions to be granted

Americans who waited until the last day to pay their taxes online got an unwelcome surprise: The IRS website to make payments and access other key services is down. The IRS still expects Americans to pay their taxes but U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve...

 

Defending Trump in Russia probe? It's hardly a dream job

WASHINGTON (AP) — Several prominent lawyers asked to help represent President Donald Trump in the last year have spurned the assignment at least partly out of concerns he wouldn't pay his bills and doesn't listen to legal advice, according to people...

 

High court worries about abandoning online sales tax rule

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sounded concerned Tuesday about doing away with a rule that has meant shoppers don't always get charged sales tax when they hit "checkout" online. The justices were hearing arguments in a case that deals with h...

 

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