Tuesday, December 3, 2019
OKLAHOMA CITY – Pecan Creek Volunteer Fire Department expected to be “fired up” Monday morning, Fire Chief Tom Myers said. “We’ve met all the criteria the county demanded.”
The Comanche County Board of Commissioners voted Oct. 21 to “grant the start-up” of the Pecan Creek VFD on Dec. 1 if the…
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) - This year’s Black Friday was the biggest ever for online sales, and Adobe Analytics says carts filled on phones, computers, and tablets rang up $7.4 billion in transactions.
That ranks just behind the $7.9 billion haul of last year’s Cyber Monday, which holds the one-day record for…
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is accepting applications for its 2020 Sir Alexander Fleming Scholar Program.
The application deadline is Feb. 1.
The eight-week summer program allows the state’s top science students to enhance their research skills by gaining hands-on experience in a lab…
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) – The U.S. economy grew at a moderate 2.1% annual rate over the summer, slightly faster than first estimated, the government said recently. But many economists say they think growth is slowing sharply in the current quarter.
The July-September growth rate in the gross…
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety has requested a budget of $220 million that includes additional funds for Real ID, communications infrastructure, information technology fees, more employees at driver’s license bureaus, a pay hike for dispatchers, and an Oklahoma Highway…
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
FARGO, N.D. (AP) - A bill originally meant to help law enforcement investigate cold cases of murdered and missing indigenous women that has floundered in Congress for two years may have the missing ingredients to become law, money, and muscle.
The money comes from an appropriations subcommittee…
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
1. `”A Warning” by Anonymous (Twelve)
2. “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat” by Samin Nosrat (Simon & Schuster)
3. Guinness Book of World Records 2020” (Guinness World Records)
4. “Triggered” by Donald Trump, Jr. (Center Street)
5. “The Pioneer Woman Cooks” by Ree Drummond (William Morrow)
6. “…
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
BALTIMORE (AP)- A routing number error has caused 3,500 state employees in Maryland to not get their paychecks directly deposited into their Capital One accounts.
The Baltimore Sun reports only 1,000 of 4,500 employees with Capital One accounts were paid Wednesday after the bank told the state…
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The federal government is suing a Little Rock based insurance company over the firing of a worker who just had a baby.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Little Rock against USAble Life on behalf of former employee Christian…
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Be careful about getting downwind of this fire: The Mexican army says it found and burned almost nine tons of marijuana in the northern state of Durango.
The army said recently that a ground patrol found the marijuana hung out to dry in Tepehuanes, which is a township in a drug-…
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
NEW YORK — Changes announced in corporate dividends Nov. 25-Nov. 29.
INCREASED DIVIDENDS
American Equity Investment .30 from .28
Becton Dickinson .79 from .77 Gold Resource .0033 from .0017
Hormel Foods .2325 from .21 RGC Resources .175 from .165 Raymond James .37 from .34 South Jersey Indus…
News Staff
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) – The U.S. economy grew at a moderate 2.1% annual rate over the summer,…
News Staff
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
• Bethel Road VFD
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• Chattanooga VFD
• Cox’s Store VFD
• Cove Acres VFD
• Edgewater…
Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
OKLAHOMA CITY – Unemployment statewide ticked up slightly in October, even though the number of…
Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
OKLAHOMA CITY – Pecan Creek Volunteer Fire Department expected to be “fired up” Monday morning, Fire Chief Tom Myers said. “We’ve met all the criteria the county demanded.”
News
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) - This year’s Black Friday was the biggest ever for online sales, and Adobe Analytics says carts filled on phones, computers, and tablets rang up $7.4 billion in transactions.
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is accepting applications for its 2020 Sir Alexander Fleming Scholar Program.
The application deadline is Feb. 1.
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety has requested a budget of $220 million that includes additional funds for Real ID, communications infrastructure, information technology fees, more employees at driver’s license bureaus, a pay hike for dispatchers, and an O
Profiles
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
CHICKASHA – Technology probably wasn’t a buzzword in 1907, as Oklahoma was shedding its status as a territory and officially becoming the 46th state of the United States.
Monday, September 23, 2019
CHICKASHA - It’s what didn’t happen that actually launched Steve LaForge’s real estate career.
Monday, September 16, 2019
LAWTON - Once crowned “Third Grade Multiplication King,” Oklahoma’s youngest current state representative, Daniel Pae (District 62), chuckled at the memory of his coronation.
Columns
Monday, November 18, 2019
OKLAHOMA CITY – Looking for DNA on abandoned vehicles may be the key to solving most of the state’s cold cases.
Monday, November 18, 2019
OKLAHOMA CITY – A cost of living adjustment for those in Oklahoma’s seven pension plans was the focus of a bipartisan interim study.
Monday, November 4, 2019
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A former four-term Democratic congressman from Oklahoma is quitting his position as a member of the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) board, citing the organization’s "mounting troubles.’’