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TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) — The world's first recognized school of bladesmithing will celebrate its recent move from Historic Washington State Park in Washington, Arkansas, to Texarkana College next month with an open house and ribbon cutting. The event, marking the next chapter of the Bill Moran School of Bladesmithing, will start at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11 at the school's new facility — TC's Career Education Center Annex on Coolidge Avenue. Tickets are also on sale for the school's first Fall Piney Woods Hammer-In to be held at the new loc...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma prison officials say a minimum security prison in eastern Oklahoma has been locked down as a precaution against possible unrest. The Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center in Le Flore County was locked down to restrict inmate movement on Saturday "out of an abundance of caution" after prison officials say they received unspecified intelligence information. Prison spokesman Matt Elliott Sunday declined to describe the information but says prison officials are always concerned about gang activity and the possibility o...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Two men opened fire inside a bar in Kansas City, Kansas, early Sunday, killing four people and wounding five others in a shooting believed to have stemmed from an earlier dispute, police said. Authorities were searching Sunday for the two gunmen, said Officer Thomas Tomasic, a police spokesman. He said the two men had apparently gotten into some sort of disagreement with people inside Tequila KC Bar, left, then returned with handguns. "We think there was something that happened in the bar earlier probably," Tomasic s...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — High schooler Katherine Kimbrel told a deputy chief that she felt frustrated by his presence in her school because police seem to enjoy intimidating and talking down to people. That was Project Trust's first day in March at Phoenix Rising Alternative School in north Tulsa. Six months later, the 19-year-old sat in a conference room at Tulsa police headquarters with that same deputy chief, Jonathan Brooks. She wasn't in trouble, and her message had changed. "I think it's a great thing that they're doing," Kimbrel told the T...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M University officials decided to ban e-cigarettes from all campuses because of the health risks associated with smoking them. Chancellor John Sharp announced Tuesday in a memo that the ban will go in effect "as soon as possible" on all A&M system campuses across the state, including the flagship university in College Station and Tarleton State University and Texas A&M University-Commerce in North Texas. The ban is applicable to students, faculty and staff at 11 universities and across eight state agencies. "This h...
GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) — The federal Drug Enforcement Administration plans to reopen an office that in closed two years ago in Garden City. The Kansas News Service reports the office is reopening at a time when methamphetamine seizures are increasing in Finney County and some drug-related shootings have been reported in the area. Finney County is one of about a dozen Kansas counties that the DEA classifies as a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. It isn't clear when the office will open. William Callahan, Special Agent in Charge of the D...
ENID, Okla. (AP) — By almost any measure, Jack Werner, owner of A to Z Inspections of Oklahoma City, is a successful business owner. But, when Werner speaks in public, whether it's about his business or his charitable efforts with Rotary International, he begins with a simple, and to some, shocking, message: "I am an alcoholic." Werner, who spoke recently at Enid Rotary Club, is among a growing corps of people in the community speaking openly about their struggles with addiction, in hopes of helping others in need of recovery. In a society wher...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Zombie deer may sound like something in a bad B-movie, but wildlife regulators say they're real and officials are working to keep them out of Nevada. The Las Vegas Sun reports the term relates to animals that have contracted chronic wasting disease, a highly contagious and terminal disorder that causes symptoms such as lack of fear of humans, lethargy and emaciation. It can destroy deer and elk populations. Peregrine Wolff, a Nevada Department of Wildlife veterinarian, says officials are testing dead animals and monitoring m...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to consider how far states can go toward eliminating the insanity defense in criminal trials as it reviews the case of a Kansas man sentenced to die for killing four relatives. The high court planned to hear arguments Monday in James Kraig Kahler's case. He went to the home of his estranged wife's grandmother about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Topeka the weekend after Thanksgiving 2009 and fatally shot the two women and his two teenage daughters. Not even Kahler's attorneys have d...
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — A 16-year-old climate activist who garnered international attention when she scolded world leaders at the United Nations is visiting American Indian reservations in the Dakotas to talk about oil pipelines. Greta Thunberg is appearing at panel discussions on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota at 5 p.m. Sunday and on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota on Tuesday. The Lakota People's Law Project says Thunberg is concerned about the proposed path of the Keystone XL pipeline through South Dakota, as well a...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Hundreds of balloons have filled the sky over Albuquerque in the city's annual International Balloon Fiesta. Event officials sent up the green flag just before 6:30 a.m. Sunday, giving the all clear for the mass ascension. Balloons were mostly tethered to the ground Saturday because of fog and that mass ascension was canceled. But the weather was ideal Sunday and balloons of all types took off from Balloon Fiesta Park. The fiesta draws pilots from around the world and from 41 U.S. states. Organizers expect tens of t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the U.S. warned allies around the world that Chinese tech giant Huawei was a security threat, the FBI was making the same point quietly to a Midwestern university. In an email to the associate vice chancellor for research at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, an agent wanted to know if administrators believed Huawei had stolen any intellectual property from the school. Told no, the agent responded: "I assumed those would be your answers, but I had to ask." It was no random query. The FBI has been reaching out t...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts hustled through the first of five spacewalks to replace old batteries at the International Space Station on Sunday. Christina Koch and Andrew Morgan removed three old batteries and installed two new ones delivered just a week ago, getting a jump on future work. These new lithium-ion batteries are so powerful that only one is needed for every two old ones, which are original to the orbiting lab. "Awesome work today. We have made great progress," Mission Control radioed. Koch replied: "It has been a w...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — When a military service member dies, a family weeps. Children grow up without a parent at graduations. Spouses watch their grandchildren grow up never knowing their grandfather or grandmother. The Arkansas Gold Star Families Memorial Monument, dedicated on a recent Saturday at the state Capitol, is intended to honor those families whose loved ones died during military service. More than 400 people filled stadium seats erected behind the Capitol to watch the unveiling of the monument, a tall, black monolith with an e...
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Scholars and die-hard fans of the Grateful Dead will gather in New Hampshire for a weeklong conference that looks at the cultural impact of the band. Saint Anselm College in Manchester will host "A Long Strange Trip: The Culture of the Grateful Dead," from Oct. 22 through Oct. 25. The event will feature panels and discussions that touch on subjects such as how the iconic band with songs like "Friend of the Devil" and "Terrapin Station" influenced pop culture as well as drug culture. The event concludes with something t...
BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE, Fla. (AP) — Officials say Florida trappers have captured a record-setting python as part of a growing effort that encourages hunters to remove the invasive snakes from the Everglades. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says the 18-foot, 4-inch-long (5.58 meters) female python weighed 98 pounds and 10 ounces (45 kilograms). A statement by the Fish and Wildlife Commission says it was the largest snake captured by the new Python Action Team and the largest ever captured at the Big Cypress N...
Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State, LSU and Oklahoma. Call them the Super Six. After six regular-season Associated Press college football polls the top six teams are the same teams that were ranked in the top six in the preseason. The order has changed, but at no point have the teams. Since the preseason poll started in 1950, the top six spots have never gone this long being held by the same group of teams. Some historical background. The season starts earlier now than it did decades ago. In the 1980s, the sixth regular-season poll would...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A year ago, Oklahoma defensive coordinator Mike Stoops brought a shaky defense into the rivalry game with Texas. He was fired the day after a 48-45 loss to the Longhorns. This year, things appear to have changed under new defensive coordinator Alex Grinch. The Sooners are allowing just 19 points per game and have held their past four opponents to 20 or fewer points, and a swagger has developed with the success. Texas coach Tom Herman knows he will see something much different on Saturday when No. 6 Oklahoma and No 11 T...
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- OGE Energy Corp. (NYSE: OGE) will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss third quarter 2019 results at 9 a.m. Eastern time (8 a.m. Central time), Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. This call is being webcast by West and can be accessed at OGE Energy's website at www.ogeenergy.com. OGE Energy Corp. (NYSE: OGE), is headquartered in Oklahoma City and is the parent company of Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company (OG&E), a regulated electric utility serving approximately 852,000 customers in Oklahoma and western...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two companies marketing self-administered rape kits have responded to cease-and-desist letters sent by Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter, arguing that they believe there's a legitimate market for their products among some sexual assault victims. Hunter's office says it's reviewing the correspondence and an investigation is ongoing, The Oklahoman reported. New Jersey-based The Preserve Group LLC and New York City-based MeToo Kits Company marketed the kits with the intention of home use by women who don't want to r...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly says she's launching the state's first formal strategy in 30 years to strengthen economic development. Kelly pledged Monday to work with industries and economic development specialists to write a comprehensive plan to speed economic growth. A report is expected by March 2020. The project will be coordinated by the Kansas Department of Commerce and the McKinsey consulting firm. Secretary of Commerce David Toland says the state has lagged in key economic indicators such as GDP growth, population g...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — One of two suspects in the fatal shooting of four people in a Kansas bar caused a disturbance two hours earlier that brought officers to the scene, but they couldn't find him in the area, the interim police chief said Monday. Michael York said Kansas City, Kansas, police were still searching for one suspect, Hugo Villanueva-Morales, 29, in connection with the shootings at the Tequila KC bar early Sunday that also wounded another five people. Officers arrested the second man, Javier Alatorre, 23, late Sunday afternoon. T...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The sounds of tinkling harps, strumming guitars and chiming vibraphones harmonized with the giggles, squeals and shouts of children on a recent Saturday afternoon in Bicentennial Park. No instruments were in sight, with the notes and melodies instead emanating from the towering swing set dominating the lawn in front of the Civic Center. The Musical Swings: An Exercise in Musical Cooperation, a touring interactive art installation, is swinging through downtown Oklahoma City until Oct. 13. "I liked it because it was making a...
