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Starting to get down in the weeds

News Staff

Thursday, March 11, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY – High winds and the Sooner State’s well-known springtime assault of windborne allergies are on the minds of many Oklahomans, including health care providers, analysts, legislators and medical professionals.

Feral swine

Online workshop to focus on feral swine

News Staff

Thursday, March 11, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY – A free webinar focusing on feral hogs will be hosted later this month by the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Oklahoma Tribal Conservation Advisory Council. The webinar, scheduled for 10 a.m.

Rep. Danny Williams

House Passes phone 'Spoofing' Stoppage

News Staff

Thursday, March 11, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY – Legislation to prohibit ‘spoofing,’ which is often used by telemarketers and scammers to disguise a phone call’s origin, has zipped through the Oklahoma House of Representatives with no interruptions. House Bill 1891 by Rep.

Air Force photos by Senior Airman Breanna Klemm, 97th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs U.S. Air Force Col. Matthew Leard, 97th Air Mobility Wing commander, greets Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on March 5, 2021, at Altus Air Force Base. Altus AFB is home to the sole training units for aircrew assigned to the C-17 Globemaster III, KC-46 Pegasus and KC-135 Stratotanker

Stitt repeats comments on mask mandates

Tim Farley

Thursday, March 11, 2021

ALTUS - Gov. Kevin Stitt insisted Friday his refusal to issue a mask mandate would not have saved lives.

Health care firm faces class-action lawsuit

News Staff

Thursday, March 11, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY – A securities class-action lawsuit against the health care company Ontrak Inc. was recently filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, the Oklahoma City-based law firm Federman and Sherwood said in a news release.

20 charged in related meth conspiracy

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer

Thursday, March 11, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY – A lengthy state/federal criminal investigation resulted in the indictment of 20 people in federal court here on charges of conspiracy to possess and distribute methamphetamine via a drug ring directed from Mexico and using contacts in three Oklahoma prisons, including one in Lawton.

Tax filing deadline extended 60 days

News Staff

Thursday, March 11, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahomans now have an extra 60 days, until June 15, to pay their 2020 individual and business income taxes and their first-quarter 2021 estimated income tax payments.

OKLAHOMA SENATE ROUNDUP

News Staff

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Senate bill would allow city workers to carry weapons The Senate approved a measure on Tuesday to give municipalities local control to adopt policies allowing their employees to carry concealed firearms. Senate Bill 644, authored by Sen.

Masks are littering Oklahoma.

Discarded masks litter landscape

Andrew W. Griffin

Thursday, March 11, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY – During a recent visit to Electra, Texas, a small city just over the Red River from Oklahoma, this reporter got a thorough and enlightening tour of the Crooked Creek Golf Course with the manager, Dale Huley.

The wading pool in 35th Division Park will lose its entire volume of 7,500 gallons of treated water in a 24-hour day because of leaks and is not ADA compliant. Repairing the facility would cost an estimated $120,000, Ledger photo by Curtis Awbrey

Council delays action on wading pools

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

LAWTON – A city staff proposal to close Lawton’s three antiquated wading pools and replace them with two splash pads, one on the east side of town and another on the west, was tabled Tuesday until the City Council can have a special meeting devoted exclusively to city parks.

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