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OMRF receives top rating

OMRF receives top rating

OMRF receives top rating

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has received the highest possible rating from the nation’s largest charity evaluator, the foundation said in a news release.
Crop report: Small grains down

Crop report: Small grains down

Crop report: Small grains down

Rainfall totals in Oklahoma for the week of March 29-April 4 were only trace amounts. Drought conditions in the state were rated 37% abnormally dry to exceptional drought, unchanged from the prior week, according to the March 30 U.S. Drought Monitor Report.
LEDGER PHOTO BY KYLETTA RAY Workers and executives with Goodyear Tire break ground of the site of a 45,000-square-foot building at the site of the company’s Lawton plant Tuesday.

LEDGER PHOTO BY KYLETTA RAY Workers and executives with Goodyear Tire break ground of the site of a 45,000-square-foot building at the site of the company’s Lawton plant Tuesday.

Goodyear breaks ground on expansion

LAWTON – Three top state officials joined Goodyear Tire executives Tuesday to celebrate the groundbreaking of a new $50 million expansion at the Lawton plant. Goodyear will construct a 45,000 square-foot building that will house an advanced mixer.
Chicken Soup for the Soul reports financial results

Chicken Soup for the Soul reports financial results

Chicken Soup for the Soul reports financial results

COS COB, Conn. – Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Inc., which operates streaming advertising-supported video-on-demand networks, recently announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year, which end Dec. 31, 2020.
Medical marijuana sales in Oklahoma.

Medical marijuana sales in Oklahoma.

Rx marijuana sales soar to record high

OKLAHOMA CITY – Medical marijuana sales in Oklahoma soared to a record high in March. The 7% state tax on purchases of medical marijuana products generated $5,946,977 in tax receipts last month, a nearly 74% increase from March 2020. MMJ tax collections, coupled with the $7.
Innovation Expansion Program announced

Innovation Expansion Program announced

Innovation Expansion Program announced

OKLAHOMA CITY – Gov. Kevin Stitt announced the upcoming launch of the Oklahoma Innovation Expansion Program (OIEP), which will make $10 million in funding available to qualifying manufacturers across the state.
LEDGER PHOTO BY KYLETTA RAY - Comanche Station southeast of Lawton is Public Service Co. of Oklahoma’s natural gas-fired 248-megawatt electric generation plant.

LEDGER PHOTO BY KYLETTA RAY - Comanche Station southeast of Lawton is Public Service Co. of Oklahoma’s natural gas-fired 248-megawatt electric generation plant.

Corp Comm holds hearing on Ft. Sill project

OKLAHOMA CITY – The electric “resiliency” project that Public Service Co. of Oklahoma proposes to build at Fort Sill in collaboration with the U.S. Army encountered some resistance at the state Corporation Commission recently.
Crowe & Dunlevy Law Firm based in Oklahoma City.

Crowe & Dunlevy Law Firm based in Oklahoma City.

Publication names Crowe & Dunlevy ‘Firm of the Year’

OKLAHOMA CITY– Benchmark Litigation has named the Oklahoma City-based law firm Crowe & Dunlevy as its Oklahoma Firm of the Year for 2021. This is Crowe & Dunlevy’s seventh Oklahoma Firm of the Year award in the last nine years, the law firm said in a news release.