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EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — Family members and advocates said Thursday they want answers about the death of an unarmed black teenager who was naked when police in an Oklahoma City suburb fatally shot him weeks ahead of his high school graduation. Isaiah Mark Lewis, 17, died Monday from an unknown number of gunshot wounds. Edmond police shot him inside a house they say he broke into following a 911 call about a domestic disturbance. Several witnesses told police they saw him stripping his clothing while running through the neighborhood where o...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Tulsa might introduce a minimum age requirement for electric scooters following the death last month of a 5-year-old scooter passenger. Nick Doctor, the city's chief of community development and policy, presented a proposal from the mayor's office on Wednesday to city councilors that would require the minimum age of scooter users to be either 16 or 18, the Tulsa World reported. Doctor noted the proposal is one of several that aim to increase electric scooter awareness and ensure they're being safely used ahead of the s...
DUNCAN, Okla. (AP) — Authorities in Oklahoma say they've recovered the body of a third person whose death is blamed on this week's severe storms. Stephens County Sheriff Wayne McKinney says Faron Morgan was found dead in a pasture Thursday near Comanche, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) southwest of Oklahoma City. McKinney says floodwaters swept away the 57-year-old man Wednesday while he was surveying his property riding an all-terrain vehicle. Authorities say the pasture where Morgan's body was found had been flooded by heavy rainfall from s...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — With the crowd bobbing in front of her, the booze flowing around her and the jazz group bouncing behind her, singer Chanda Graham grabbed the microphone and belted out a lyric that ignited the Ice Event Center and Grill. "He's got too many women, somebody's got to go," Graham thundered. "But before I bow out gracefully, I'll tell everything I know." Gathered recently in the corner pocket of an Oklahoma City shopping center, the crowd erupted in applause and been there, done that cheer at Graham's rendition of "Your H...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An American Indian tribe submitted its first application for a casino license in Arkansas. Voters approved a constitutional amendment in November that legalized casinos in four Arkansas counties. The Quapaw Nation in Oklahoma gave the state Racing Commission a $250,000 check on Wednesday as the casino license application period began, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. The application period will be in effect through May 30. Nate Steel, attorney for the Quapaw Nation, said it was crucial that the tribe submit i...
Lucia Lucas has taken one of the most difficult paths to her American professional opera debut. She moved to Europe a decade ago as Lucas Harbour, established a career as a baritone in regional houses, then decided in 2013 to transition to female. Now a transgender baritone, she will make her U.S. debut as the title character in Mozart's "Don Giovanni" at the Tulsa Opera in performances Friday and Sunday. "I'm sure other houses will be watching to see what happens," she said. Now 38, Lucas grew up in Sacramento, California, studied horn and...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Cyclone Fani made landfall on India's eastern coast on Friday as a grade 5 storm, lashing beaches with rain and wind gusting up to 205 kilometers (127 miles) per hour. The India Meteorological Department said the "extremely severe" cyclone in the Bay of Bengal hit the coastal state of Odisha around 8 a.m., and was forecast to weaken to a "very severe" storm as it moved north-northeast toward the Indian state of West Bengal. In Bhubaneswar, a city in Odisha famous for an 11th-century Hindu temple, palm trees whipped back and f...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After years of pressure to crack down on hate and bigotry, Facebook has banned Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and other extremists, saying they violated its ban on "dangerous individuals." The company also removed right-wing personalities Paul Nehlen, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson and Laura Loomer, along with Jones' site, Infowars, which often posts conspiracy theories. The latest bans apply to both Facebook's main service and to Instagram and extend to fan pages and other related accounts. Decried as censorship by s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — While candidates were focused on campaigning in 2016, Russians were carrying out a devastating cyber-operation that changed the landscape of American politics, with aftershocks continuing well into Donald Trump's presidency And it all started with the click of a tempting email and a typed-in password. Whether presidential campaigns have learned from the cyberattacks is a critical question ahead as the 2020 election approaches. Preventing the attacks won't be easy or cheap. "If you are the Pentagon or the NSA, you have the m...
BANGKOK (AP) — Three days of elaborate centuries-old ceremonies begin Saturday for the formal coronation of Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn, who has been on the throne for more than two years. What Vajiralongkorn — also known as King Rama X, the 10th king of the Chakri dynasty — will do with the power and influence the venerated status confers is still not clear. The 66-year-old monarch has sent mixed signals. Bursts of assertiveness alternate with a seemingly hands off approach in other matters — a perception girded by the amount of time...
KAJANG, Malaysia (AP) — The Vietnamese woman who was tried for the killing of the estranged half brother of North Korea's leader was released from a Malaysian prison and was planning to return home later Friday, her lawyer and an embassy translator said. Doan Thi Huong's release likely closes the case, since four North Koreans named as co-conspirators in the 2017 slaying are not in custody. Malaysian officials never officially accused North Korea and made it clear they didn't want the trial politicized. Vietnamese embassy translator Maridam Yac...
NEW YORK (AP) — "The Situation" and the Fyre Festival fraudster are already there. President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, is up next. It's not reality TV. It's a federal prison 70 miles (113 kilometers) from New York City where white-collar and D-list scoundrels can do time while playing bocce ball and noshing on rugelach. Michael Cohen, 53, is due to report Monday to the Federal Correctional Institution, Otisville to start a three-year sentence for tax evasion, lying to Congress and campaign finance crimes. Tucked i...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia's support for Venezuela's embattled President Nicolas Maduro has become the latest flashpoint in deteriorating relations between the United States and Russia, moving to the top of a list of long-simmering spats between the Cold War foes. As the dispute intensifies with both sides trading accusations and entrenched in diametrically opposed positions from which they are unwilling to retreat, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans to meet Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov next week in Finland to discuss the matter. A s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Advancing his anti-abortion agenda, President Donald Trump moved Thursday to protect health care workers who object to procedures like abortion on moral or religious grounds. Trump chose the National Day of Prayer to announce the new regulation. "Just today we finalized new protections of conscience rights for physicians, pharmacists, nurses, teachers, students and faith-based charities," Trump told an interfaith audience in the White House Rose Garden. "They've been wanting to do that for a long time." The conscience rule w...
APEX, N.C. (AP) — All the counseling, therapy and medication did little to ease 9-year-old Sobie Cummings' crippling anxiety and feelings of isolation. And so a psychiatrist suggested that a service dog might help the autistic child connect with other kids. To Glenn and Rachel Cummings, Mark Mathis seemed like a dream come true. His kennel, Ry-Con Service Dogs, was just a couple of hours away, and he, too, had a child with autism. But what clinched the decision were Mathis' credentials. "Is Ry-Con a certified program? Yes," stated an online b...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law acknowledged Thursday that it might not be a "smart money bet" to gamble on the success of the White House's long-awaited blueprint for Mideast peace. But he insisted that it is a very detailed, fresh approach that hopefully will stimulate discussion and lead to breakthroughs in resolving the decades-old conflict. Jared Kushner remained tight-lipped about the guts of the plan. He described it as an "in-depth operational document" not anchored to previous, failed n...
BOSTON (AP) — A pharmaceutical company founder accused of paying doctors millions in bribes to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted Thursday in a case that exposed such marketing tactics as using a stripper-turned-sales-rep to give a physician a lap dance. John Kapoor, the 76-year-old former chairman of Insys Therapeutics, was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy after 15 days of jury deliberations. Four ex-employees of the Chandler, Arizona-based company, including the former exotic dancer, were also convicted. Some o...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Stephen Moore, a conservative commentator whom President Donald Trump had tapped for the Federal Reserve board, withdrew from consideration Thursday after losing Republican support in the Senate, largely over his past inflammatory writings about women. Trump tweeted the news of Moore's withdrawal, only hours after Moore had told two news organizations that he was still seeking the board seat and still had the White House's support. The president announced otherwise Thursday afternoon on Twitter. "Steve won the battle of i...
NEW YORK (AP) — Is white bread about to make a comeback on school lunch menus? After complaints about taste and costs, the Trump administration rolled back a rule that required foods like pasta and bread be made with whole grains. The cafeteria directors who lobbied for the change say they just want greater flexibility to serve foods like white bread — which are more processed and have less fiber — when whole grains don't work. In Vermont, the relaxed rule means white rice will be served with beans again. In Oregon, macaroni and cheese may r...
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who plotted to bomb New York City's subways, then switched sides after his arrest and spent nearly a decade helping the U.S. identify and prosecute terrorists, was rewarded for his help Thursday with a sentence of 10 years in prison, effectively time he has already served. Najibullah Zazi, a 33-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who became radicalized and received explosives training from al-Qaida after traveling to Pakistan in 2008, faced up to life in prison after pleading guilty to terrorism-related charges. The s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health authorities will allow a type of breast implant linked to a rare form of cancer to stay on the market, saying its risks do not warrant a national ban. But the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it is considering bold warnings for the implants and requiring stricter reporting of problems by manufacturers. The announcement is the latest in the government's decades-long effort to manage implant risks and complications that can include scarring, pain, swelling and rupture. In recent years, the FDA and other r...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. - The Southern Nazarene softball team saw their 2019 season come to a close on Friday morning as they fell to the Harding Bisons in the quarterfinals of the GAC Tournament, 8-0 (5). Unfortunately for SNU, it was a game to forget as they were eliminated in five innings while also being no hit. Three errors did not help the Crimson Storm's cause. Harding got one run across the board on an error in the first and proceeded to add two in the fourth before exploding for five runs in the fifth inning to finish the game off. Mahina...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. – The Harding softball team run-ruled Southern Nazarene 8-0 in five innings behind Jenna Hipp's no-hitter in the first round of the Great American Conference Tournament. Harding, the No. 3 seed, will play the winner of No 2 seed Arkansas Tech and No. 7 seed Southwestern Oklahoma, Saturday at 1 p.m., at Bentonville High School. Hipp's no-hitter was the third no-hitter in program history. Autumn Humes had two no-hitters in the 2017 season. Harding improves to 35-22 overall. Southern Nazarene ends its season with a 25-30 r...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A teenager held at an Oklahoma jail on a rape charge and found unresponsive last week after an apparent suicide attempt has died. The Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office says John Leroy Daniel Applegate died Wednesday at a hospital after he was found unconscious April 23. A news release says the 16-year-old had been jailed since Feb. 2 after being arrested by police in Choctaw, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) east of Oklahoma City. He faced charges including rape and assault. The release says Applegate was being held alone. C...
