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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Grammy-winning rockers Kings of Leon will help Oklahoma City debut its new downtown park with a free concert. Mayor David Holt announced Wednesday that the band whose members once lived in Oklahoma City will perform Sept. 27 as headliners in a three-day opening event at Scissortail Park. Kings of Leon tweeted that fans in their home state should expect "a show to remember." Scissortail Park will eventually cover 70 acres and include a lake and sports facilities. It's also home to a clone of the "Survivor Tree" that lived t...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma is close to wrapping up its case at trial against Johnson & Johnson, alleging the consumer products giant and its subsidiaries helped fuel the deadly opioid crisis. Attorneys for the state on Wednesday continued questioning Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Director Terri White. Oklahoma alleges opioid drug makers caused a public nuisance in the state by promoting widespread use of the highly addictive drugs and that abatement will cost billions. The trial began May 28 and is e...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Police say a man accused of fatally shooting the former mayor of a small Louisiana city has been arrested in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Tulsa World reports that 39-year-old Oshay Booker was taken into custody Tuesday following a brief standoff. Tulsa County Jail records indicate he was being held without bond Wednesday as a fugitive from Louisiana. The records do not list a lawyer to speak for him. Booker is accused of shooting former Winnfield Mayor Ronald Goff to death on June 11 in the north-central Louisiana city. A...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma prosecutors have dismissed felony charges against a former Canadian Football League player after a key witness failed to appear for a preliminary hearing. The Oklahoman reports prosecutors dismissed the case Tuesday against 27-year-old Roy Finch, who was charged in January with kidnapping and domestic abuse. A woman accused Finch of punching her and refusing to let her leave his Oklahoma City motel room. Finch is charged in a separate felony case with assault and battery upon a police officer, resisting arrest a...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police in Oklahoma City say a man accused of abuse and neglect of his 85-year-old mother earlier this month now faces a murder charge since she has died. Oklahoma County Jail records indicate that 54-year-old Carlton Leroy Nault was being held on second-degree murder and other complaints Wednesday following the death of his mother, Mari Miller. The records don't indicate whether Nault is represented by an attorney. Sgt. Megan Morgan says officers responded to a possible case of elder abuse June 13 when managers at an a...
ENID, Okla. (AP) — In Enid's not-too-distant past, a trip to the hospital could be as much a spiritual journey as a physical one, with nurses equally ready to tend to matters of medicine and faith. St. Mary's Regional Medical Center, originally founded in 1915 as Enid Spring Sanatorium and Baths, was purchased in 1937 by the Adorers of the Blood of Christ of Wichita, Kan., an order of Catholic nuns. The nuns, who also were trained and registered as nurses, remained at St. Mary's through several changes of ownership, beginning in 1984, until 2...
Happy Birthday To June 27: Karen Weaver, Matt Adair June 28: Dudley Winn, Dawn Page Juen 29: Jim Russell, Mckenna Nixon June 30: Ashtyn Pierce, Bradley Irving July 1: Maurice Farr, Cindy Wilson July 2: Shelsea Ferguson, Janell Reutlinger July 3: Shawn Walker, B.G. Laughton July 4: Randy Schroeder, Marty Province, Debra James July 5: Dale Sample, Keith Melkus, Barclay Holt July 6: Bo Gassett July 7: Sherry Beagley, Rex Beagley, Drake Brady July 8: Allison Ledford, Bretta Woodard, Mariah Luddington July 9: Skylar Smith, Kamas Rooney July 10:...
Happy Anniversary To June 28: Mr. & Mrs. Andy Newby June 29: Mr. & Mrs. Eldon Murray, Mr. & Mrs. Dale Wares July 1: Mr. & Mrs. Mark Flock, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Russell July 2: Mr. & Mrs. Gary Earnest July 8: Mr. & Mrs. Chuch Armantrout July 12: Mr. & Mrs. Jim Beagley (Note: Send corrections, additions to: [email protected] or call 800-305-2111)...
On Sunday, June 23, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Invocation by Janell Reutlinger Call to Worship: Psalm 115:1-11 led by Shirley Wagner Opening Hymn: “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms” led by Jennifer Findley Affirmation of Faith Gloria Patri Hymn of Justifying Grace: “Majesty, Worship His Majesty” Offertory: Janell Reutlinger Ushers: Arly and Cooper Eden Doxology Offertory Prayer by Janell Reutlinger Special Music: Jennifer Findley Morning Message: “Peace” – Lori Louthan Pasto...
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Executive Director Lisa Higgins in Woods County reminds farmers and landowners that FSA is hosting an informational meeting regarding the 2019 County Committee Election process on July 8 at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. at the Farm Service Agency located at 927 Oklahoma Blvd. in Alva. Producers, including minority, women and new farmers, are encouraged to attend the meeting and participate in the 2019 election. The county committee nomination period began on June 14. Nomination forms must...
Though Freedom is small, its history is long. That's why the Freedom Museum holds its annual fundraising supper every summer. On Friday, June 21, the Freedom Museum held the annual fundraising supper at the Methodist church. Approximately 75 people attended from around the community and numerous donations were accepted from in-town and out-of-town businesses. The theme of this year's supper was months of the year, and tables were sponsored by surrounding businesses, and then decorated by those... Full story
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita police officer has been charged with helping a woman with an outstanding warrant avoid being located. Officer Charley Davidson, a police spokesman, said in a news release that Officer Matthew Powell was placed on unpaid administrative leave Wednesday after he was charged in Sedgwick County District Court. Powell faces one misdemeanor count of obstructing apprehension or prosecution and two misdemeanor counts of official misconduct. The release says Powell helped the woman in May, but it offered no details about w...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The parents of a slain Kansas City man are suing the manufacturer of the weapon used in the shooting and the dealer accused of selling it to a former fire captain who is charged in federal court with knowingly supplying firearms to felons. Alvino and Beverly Crawford filed the wrongful death lawsuit this week in Jackson County Circuit Court on behalf of their son, Alvino Dwight Crawford Jr., The Kansas City Star reports . Phone messages that The Associated Press left with manufacturer Jimenez Arms, dealer Green Tip Arms...
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — An organization that sponsors an all-male Kansas student mock government apologized after this year's teenage governor proposed eliminating the constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote. The teenager from Leavenworth made the proposal in the final moments of his term during the annual Boys State gathering at Kansas State University on June 2-7, The Kansas City Star reported . The American Legion sponsors Boys State programs in most states, and the American Legion Auxiliary sponsors a separate Girls S...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The way Westar Energy runs its coal plants in Kansas unnecessarily costs consumers millions of dollars a year through an obscure, if common, practice known as self-committing generation. The company essentially runs its coal plants year-round, even during the winter months when it's not cost-effective. An analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists, which advocates for reduced reliance on coal, said that's been costing Westar customers $20 million a year in added fuel costs. But market operators including the S...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A recent Kansas Supreme Court ruling declaring that the state constitution protects access to abortion opened the door to a new legal attack on the death penalty. Attorneys for five of the 10 men on death row in Kansas argue that the abortion decision means the state's courts can enforce the broad guarantees of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" in the Bill of Rights in the Kansas Constitution. The lawyers contend the convicted killers cannot be executed because capital punishment violates their "inalienable" r...
FORT SCOTT, Kan. (AP) — Sisters of Mercy, a Catholic women's organization founded in Ireland in the 19th century, began providing health care in southeast Kansas with its establishment of the original 10-bed hospital in Fort Scott in 1886. One century and three decades later, by then officially managed by Mercy Health Foundation, Mercy Hospital Fort Scott had expanded to a 46-bed acute care facility serving not only Fort Scott but surrounding areas as well. Then, late last year, Mercy announced the hospital would be closing at the beginning o...
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Missouri City high school student Grant Hanson is passionate about history and inspired both by World War I and those too young to fight who sacrificed their time and safety for the war effort. So when it came time for the 17-year-old to choose an Eagle Scout project, creating a museum exhibit featuring artifacts used by Boy Scouts during World War I seemed like a natural fit. The Eagle reports the youth's exhibit opened this month at the Museum of the American GI in College Station. Hanson participates in historic...
DEARFIELD, Colo. (AP) — A stop in the town of Dearfield 100 years ago would have looked drastically different. People of multiple races and ethnicities likely would have pulled up in their cars or on their horses to a cafe called the Lunch Room, where they'd have bought soda and some barbeque chicken from a brick-covered grill, says archaeologist Bob Brunswig. A blacksmith and fiddler by the name of Squire Brockman might have been fixing tractors next door in his workshop. A little ways down the road, people might have stopped into the g...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A legal advocacy organization has filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging an Arkansas state law that farm organizations have used to shield themselves from undercover investigations by animal rights groups. Lawyers for the Animal Legal Defense Fund and other animal rights organizations filed the suit Tuesday against state Rep. DeAnn Vaught and her husband, who own a pig farm, and Peco Foods, an Alabama-based poultry farm with Arkansas facilities. The suit argues that the 2017 law, which was sponsored by Vaught a...
HOUSTON (AP) — A series of failures, including flawed equipment and inadequate safeguards, helped cause a 2014 poisonous gas leak that killed four workers at a Houston-area chemical plant, according to a federal agency's final report on the deadly accident. Four employees at the now-closed DuPont chemical plant in LaPorte, Texas, died in the release of methyl mercaptan — a chemical used in the manufacture of insecticide and fungicide. The chemical began leaking from a valve around 4 a.m. on Nov. 15, 2014, in a unit at the plant in La Porte, abo...
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — The Trump administration's $50 billion economic support plan for the Palestinians cannot succeed without addressing the political elements of a Middle East deal, international financial chiefs and global investors said Wednesday in comments that pushed back on the U.S. insistence that the two must be separated. Panelists at the two-day conference in Bahrain welcomed the proposal's ambitious investment and development goals, but warned it would fall short without good governance, rule of law and realistic prospects for l...
CLINT, Texas (AP) — Migrant children being housed at a Border Patrol facility near El Paso appeared mostly clean and were being watched by hallway monitors on Wednesday, less than a week since they reported living there in squalid conditions with inadequate food, water and sanitation. U.S. officials opened the building to journalists, offering an inside glimpse of the station in Clint for the first time since lawyers who met with young migrants there told The Associated Press they saw 250 infants, children and teens locked up for up to 27 d...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former longtime gynecologist at the University of Southern California was charged Wednesday with sexually assaulting 16 women at the student health center, the first criminal counts in a case that already has seen USC offer to pay $215 million to settle potentially thousands of claims. Dr. George Tyndall, 72, worked at USC for nearly three decades, and news of his arrest on 29 felony charges that could send him to prison for 53 years was welcomed by women who accuse him of misconduct and lawyers representing them. S...
