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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 also want us to remember those in Dewey County. There are so many stories that simultaneously encourage you and break your heart. There are many who can use our help. I hope you will reach out to those in need in the days and weeks to come. Gov. Mary Fallin declared a state of emergency through an...
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. Online condolences may be made at www.whartonfuneralchapel.com. Tory James, son of Kelly and Curtis Rodgers and R.L. Lacy, was born March 16, 1989, in Chickasha, Oklahoma. He passed away suddenly April 15, 2018, at the age of 29 years and 30 days. He attended Chickasha High School where he played fo...
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 Terwort and renovate the buildings. Together the buildings will house the city administrator, staff and council chambers. The police department will now be housed in this area also. This special meeting was to discuss the floor plan. Mayor Ron Rohr called the meeting to order with councilmembers pre...
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. The Marietta, Okla., native helped the Tigers to a 3-1 record over Oklahoma Baptist and to move from eighth to seventh in the league standings. On the mound she earned two wins and threw one complete game where she allowed six hits and two runs, while striking out six. In her second win she finished t...
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 Southeastern Oklahoma State's DII era to hit for the cycle, and finished the 18-5 win by going 5-for-5 with seven RBI. In the series finale, he hit a three-run home run and drove in four runs. Cerda hit .583 for the weekend and finished with 11 RBI over the three games. Southeastern will be back in action A...
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 Reddies beat the Bulldogs 9-4 to clinch a spot in the GAC Tournament. The native of Bullard, Texas tied a career-high with 10 strikeouts in just six innings of work. Eschberger allowed just two hits and gave up just one run while limiting the Bulldog offense to a .095 batting average. For the 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 II's All-Time Career Home Run leader as she blasted her 80th career home run in the second game of SAU's series with Harding. Additionally, she tied the Division II career record for walks after receiving nine base-on-balls this past weekend. A native of Waxahachie, Texas, Goad went 5-for-7 with four...
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 rings and a beloved pendant. As the days turned into weeks and the weeks into months, Mitchel had nearly lost all hope she would ever see her most treasured jewelry again. But on April 3, the 65-year-old Mitchel got what she calls her "tiny miracle." The pouch filled with jewelry was plucked from a 6...
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 words came a day after federal officials said Brown rejected a proposal for the California Guard's specific border duties, a characterization that state officials disputed. "Looks like Jerry Brown and California are not looking for safety and security along their very porous Border," Trump said in an e...
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 bureau that often treats minority communities with suspicion and disrespect. Terry J. Albury, 39, appeared in federal court in St. Paul on one count of unauthorized disclosure of national defense information and one count of unauthorized retention of national defense information. Under his plea a...
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 Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the four liberal justices — concerns a catchall provision of immigration law that defines what makes a crime violent. Conviction for a crime of violence makes deportation "a virtual certainty" for an immigrant, no matter how long he has lived in the United States, Justi...
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 about her sexual tryst with Donald Trump. After teasing the reveal for more than a week, the adult film actress appeared on ABC's "The View" to unveil an image of the man she says menaced her and her young daughter and warned her in 2011 to keep quiet about a 2006 encounter with Trump. Upping the s...
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 club with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Trump also confirmed that North and South Korea are working to negotiate an end to hostilities before next week's meeting between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. The meeting will be the third inter-Korean summit since the Koreas' 1945 division. "...
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 training for nearly 175,000 workers. The announcement Tuesday comes after the arrests sparked protests and calls for a boycott on social media. A video shows police talking with two black men seated at a table. After a few minutes, officers handcuff the men and lead them outside as other customers say t...
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 also carried the remote North Atlantic nation's prime minister. Police said surveillance footage showed a suspect they identified as Sindri Thor Stefansson boarding a flight to Sweden at Iceland's international airport in Keflavik. They said he traveled under a passport in someone else's name. "He h...
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 this week at Lee Correctional Institution, has some legislators calling for more oversight and transparency at the state Department of Corrections. At a news conference, Corrections Director Bryan Stirling said officers stormed in and took the first of three dorms back from rioting prisoners about f...
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 the street. Others climbed to rooftops, hoping they'd be safer rising above the gas. Dozens didn't make it out at all, some stumbling on stairwells, out of breath, where they were later found dead. The bodies were still there the next morning, strewn around the buildings, including toddlers and young c...
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 Mattivi credited another militia member for alerting authorities, calling Dan Day the "one man standing between these three defendants and apartment complex full of innocent people." Curtis Allen, Patrick Stein, Gavin Wright face charges of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and c...
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 sexual encounter with his chief accuser. Cosby, 80, testified a dozen years ago as part of a lawsuit that Andrea Constand filed against him, and prosecutors won the right to introduce it at his sexual assault retrial on charges he drugged and molested her at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. I...
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 would be a "historically critical day." Gusty winds and low humidity in drought-stricken areas will create dangerous fire conditions in parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, according to the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma. National Weather Service meteorologist Doug S...
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 Mnuchin says extensions will be granted to those impacted when the site is up again. The IRS said in a statement that "certain IRS systems are experiencing technical difficulties." It also said that at this point, the problem appears to be a hardware issue. The agency advised taxpayers to "continue...
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 familiar with the conversations. The result is that as investigators intensify their focus on the president's inner circle, including his personal lawyer, Trump has been left with a lean legal team that has struggled to add criminal defense firepower. Though more lawyers may come aboard soon, Trump...
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 how businesses collect sales tax on online purchases at sites from Amazon.com to Zappos. Right now, under a decades-old Supreme Court rule, if a business is shipping a product to a state where it doesn't have an office, warehouse or other physical presence, it doesn't have to collect the state's sales t...
