Articles from the April 18, 2018 edition
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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....
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...
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...
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...