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The Duncan Banner I Friday, September 20, 2013 13 and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol also participated in the program, sharing their stories about firsthand experiences dealing with accidents caused by texting and driving. Trooper Will Hayden said accidents involving texting and driving are becoming more common. He said it's often easy to determine when an accident is caused by texting, and he usually looks at the driver's cell phone first in an investigation. Hayden said accidents involving texting drivers are among the most frustrating because they can usually be avoided. "It really sucks for me, and your family, for me to have to tell them you died," Hayden said. A documentary about the results of texting and driving accidents, "From One Second to the Next", showed several families who had been impacted by texting and driving. The program wrapped with Aubrey Mouser, DHS senior, introducing the pledge campaign. Mouser said people could take the pledge by texting OKPLEDGE to 464329. "Absolutely no text is worth the risk," Mouser said. "It can wait"

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a quality speaker, focused on her peers not becoming statistics as a result of texting and driving. "A texting driver is 23 percent more likely to be in a car accident," Barrick said. "Do you want to go through high school as the one who caused that terrible wreck? A couple of seconds of joy and it causes you a lifetime ' THE DUNCAN BANNER DERRICK MILLER/ of pain. Make the decision: Taylor Barrick talks to her Duncan High School peers about the dan- Don't text and drive." gers of texting and driving. The Air Evac Life Team

Cowboy style' gun twirling lands man in hospital

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JAY An Oklahoma man is believed to have shot another man in the back while twirling a handgun on his finger like a cowboy as he was riding in the backseat of a car. The shooting happened Tuesday in Delaware County, Okla., near the Arkansas state line. It was initially reported to sheriff's deputies as a robbery, said Delaware Count Sheriff's Department Capt Gayle Wells. Wells said Rusti James, 21, was brought to an Arkansas hospital with a small-caliber gunshot wound to the lower left side of his back. James and his girlfriend, Marion Snell, 23, initially said that they had picked up a hitchhiker who tried to rob them and shot James, according to Wells. They told authorities that the hitchhiker got out of their car and fled after the shooting. Deputies searched the area but didn't find a suspect. But when detectives interviewed the couple a second time, they confessed that that they had made up the hitchhiker story because they were afraid of the actual shooter, who they identified as

20-year-old Johnathan W. Gardner of Colcord, Okla. According to Wells, the couple said Gardner and his girlfriend, Katie Jo Jenks, had been riding in the back seat of their car, with Snell driving and James in the front passenger seat Gardner and James were playing with a small handgun, passing it back and forth and twirling it "cowboy style," Wells said. Gardner was playing with the gun when it discharged, and the bullet passed through the front seat into the back of James, he said. The couple told investigators that after the shooting, Gardner threw the gun into a ravine along the side of the road. Gardner and Jenks got out of their car and walked away, and Snell drove James to the hospital. Police found Gardner about 30 miles away near Jay, Okla., and arrested him Tuesday night. Authorities planned to charge Gardner who has prior convictions for drug and robbery charges with possession of a firearm as a felon. Details for this story were reported by the Joplin (Mo) Globe.

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WASHINGTON (AP) Congressional Republicans struggled to tamp down a feud Thursday as they approached a politically charged showdown with the White House that combines the threat of a government shutdown, a possible first-ever federal default and the GOP's bid to repeal the nation's three-yearold health care law. One day after conceding that the Democratic-controlled Senate probably would prevail on the last part, Sen. Ted Cruz vowed to do "everything and anything possible to defund Obamacare." That includes a possible filibuster of legislation to prevent a shutdown, added the Texas Republican.

House votes to cut food stamp NASA rover finds no hint funding by nearly $4 billion/yr. of methane in Mars air
WASHINGTON (AP) The House has voted to cut nearly $4 billion a year from food stamps, a 5 percent reduction to the nation's main feeding iirogrem used' bb more than 1 in 7 Americans. The bill's savings would be achieved by allowing states to put broad new work requirements in place for many food stamp recipients and to test applicants for drugs. The bill also would end government waivers that have allowed able-bodied adults without dependents to receive food stamps indefinitely. More than 47 million Americans are now on food stamps, and the program's cost more than doubled in the last five years. LOS ANGELES (AP) NASA's Curiosity rover hasn't discovered signs of methane in the atmosphere of Mars, a finding that does rikit %Ode well for the possibility that microbes capable of producing the gas could be living below the planet's surface, scientists said Thursday. Since landing last year, the rover has gulped Mars air and scanned it in search of methane. On Earth, most of the gas is a byproduct of life, spewed when animals digest or plants decay. Scientists had high hopes that the rover would inhale methane after orbiting spacecraft and Earthbased telescopes detected plumes of the gas several years ago.

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