Articles from the May 16, 2018 edition
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By As Gaza death toll rises, Israeli tactics face scrutiny
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's high-tech military is coming under scathing international criticism for its use of live fire that killed scores of Palestinian protesters across a border — even if the protesting Gazans were burning tires, launching fiery ki...
Maryland bans 'gay conversion therapy' for minors
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan signed a bill into law on Tuesday to prohibit health professionals from practicing "gay conversion therapy" on minors, as a growing number of states and municipalities are banning it. Maryland is the 1...
20 AGs back lawsuits by family planning groups against Trump
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Twenty attorneys general voiced their support Tuesday for lawsuits challenging Trump administration rule changes they said will reduce access to family planning services. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said the p...
Sidwell receives CASNR Early Career Achievement Award
Oklahoma State University's College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Alumni Board recently honored Bambi Sidwell of Goltry as a 2018 Early Career Achievement Award winner at the 2018...
6 US states accuse opioid maker Purdue of fueling overdoses
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Six U.S. states on Tuesday sued the maker of the opioid OxyContin of using deceptive marketing to boost drug sales that fueled opioid overdose deaths. Drugmaker Purdue Pharma minimized risks and overstated benefits of long-term u...
Business, medical leaders join medical pot opposition group
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A coalition that includes law enforcement, prosecutors and members of the business and medical community is opposing a medical marijuana question on Oklahoma's June 26 primary election ballot. The group, known as SQ 788 is Not M...
New Mexico hospital launches pancreas transplant program
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Albuquerque hospital has begun offering pancreas transplants, a procedure that previously was not available in New Mexico. The Albuquerque Journal reports a medical team with Presbyterian Healthcare Services s...
Studying poop samples, scientists find clues on health and disease
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Have you ever wondered what’s going on in your poop? Perhaps not. But this is precisely what we think about every d...
More US adults try vaping but current use is down, data show
CHICAGO (AP) — New research shows 1 in 7 U.S. adults have tried electronic cigarettes. That's an increase but it's offset by a small decline in the number currently using the devices. About 3 percent of adults were current users in 2016, down from a...
Light at night can disrupt circadian rhythms in children – are there long-term risks?
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) A new scientific study shows that bright electric light exposure of preschool children in the evening suppresses mela...
Smith employed as Waynoka High School principal
Board members of Waynoka Public Schools met Monday night, May 7, for their regularly scheduled meeting with all five members present. Discussion (and ultimately approval) of the consent agenda ensued with Superintendent Scott Cline explaining the...
AP-NORC Poll: Young adults feel stress of long-term care
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most young adults haven't given much thought to their own needs as they get older, but a significant number are already providing long-term care for older loved ones, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center f...
How understanding pain could curb opioid addiction
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee unanimously approved a bill in April 2018 designed to...
The Waynoka FFA chapter attended State Convention
Twenty members of the Waynoka FFA Chapter left April 30 after school and traveled to Oklahoma City. After a nice meal they headed to Topgolf for a little fun before two big days of learning and...
Thoreau's 'Walden' gets new life as a video game
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth — err, game. Henry David Thoreau wrote those words — most of them — in his seminal book, "Walden." They make up th...
EPA inspector general investigating Pruitt email accounts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general is opening an investigation into Administrator Scott Pruitt's use of multiple email accounts. Inspector General Arthur Elkins said in a letter released Tuesday that his o...
Facebook: We're better at policing nudity than hate speech
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Getting rid of racist, sexist and other hateful remarks on Facebook is more challenging than weeding out other types of unacceptable posts because computer programs still stumble over the nuances of human language, the company re...
JANE KATHRYN SMITH
Jane Kathryn Smith (Barham), daughter of the late Douglas A. and Edna Josephine Barham (Gibson), was born in Norman, Oklahoma, on September 30, 1934. She passed away in Alva, Oklahoma, on April 20,...
Trump to sign order to reform US infrastructure technology
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is signing an executive order to try to reform the federal government's confounding information technology structure. The White House says Trump will order agencies to strengthen the roles of their chief i...
Dutch researchers uncover dirty jokes in Anne Frank's diary
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Researchers using digital technology deciphered the writing on two pages of Anne Frank's diary that she had pasted over with brown masking paper, discovering four naughty jokes and a candid explanation of sex, contraception and prost...
Vatican reminds cloistered nuns not to tweet too much
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has issued new guidelines for cloistered nuns, reminding them that they're supposed to live separated from the world and in silence — and therefore shouldn't be tweeting too much or downloading too much news. The ins...
Singing the blues - Study of pop music finds rise in sadness
NEW YORK (AP) — A study of hundreds of thousands of popular songs over the past three decades has found a downward sonic trend in happiness and an increase in sadness. For the report in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers at the U...
Maria Agnesi, the greatest female mathematician you've never heard of
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) The outmoded gender stereotype that women lack mathematical ability suffered a major blow in 2014, when Maryam...
