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Weatherford Daily News
Oklahoma coverage
Oklahoma City pending an investigation of Simeroth said classes The corps released a did not know if she has a enrollment numbers in
Police in Oklahoma City the shooting. resumed Wednesday, AP feasibility study Monday lawyer, AP reported. order to receive additional
said a 28-year-old man was reported. that recommends altering state funding between 2013
fatally shot by officers after Yukon The superintendent existing levees and Oklahoma City and 2018, AP reporting
he ran toward them with Two students have been said the threats were first rebuilding pump stations to Oklahoma Department Sharp said it is
a knife, Associated Press arrested for what police said reported to school officials protect lives and property of Corrections officials “troubling” a school
reported this week. were hoax threats on social anonymously through a tip served by the 75-year-old said Wednesday numerous receiving public funding
Police Capt. Larry media to Yukon Public line, AP reported. Tulsa-West Tulsa Levee weapons, cellphones and doesn’t understand it is
Sep Withrow said Monday
Brian Dryer was fatally shot
Schools, Associated Press
reported this week. Oklahoma City
System, AP reported.
The corps is required
drugs have been found by
investigators following
subject to public scrutiny,
AP reported.
shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday Yukon Public Schools New criminal justice to complete a study of a series of apparently
21 on the city’s northwest side, Superintendent Jason guidelines will likely make U.S. levees by September coordinated fights at six Oklahoma City
AP reported. Simeroth and Police Chief hundreds of Oklahoma 2020, but city and state state prisons which left one An Oklahoma County
Police said officers John Corn said at a news inmates eligible for officials wanted the study inmate dead, dozens injured district judge has been
encountered Dryer wielding conference Tuesday the accelerated release from expedited after hundreds of and prisons statewide indicted on four counts of
2019 a knife and pacing back
and forth along a street.
two Yukon students were
arrested earlier in the day
prison, according to the
executive director of the
homes and business were
inundated during historic
locked down, Associated
Press reported this week.
failing to file state income
tax returns, Associated
Withrow said Dryer refused for making a terroristic state Pardon and Parole flooding along the Arkansas “A lot of shanks, broken Press reported.
the officers’ commands hoax threat discovered Board and the Associated River which extended into broom handles, broken Court record indicated the
Page to drop the knife and ran
toward them, AP reported.
Monday, AP reported.
Simeroth and Corn
Press this week.
The board’s staff
neighboring Arkansas, AP
reported.
faucets, faucet heads having
a cord attached to them,”
misdemeanor charges were
filed Tuesday against 43-
Withrow said Sgt. Kevin declined to provide is working with the Engineers said floods according to department year-old Kendra Coleman
B006 Smith and Officer Jeffrey additional information Department of Corrections made Tulsa’s levees less spokesman Matt Elliott. of Oklahoma City,
Owen discharged their about the students, AP to ensure a single-stage effective. State officials said “The types of weapons according to AP.
weapons, striking Dryer. reported. commutation docket while they held back water inmates typically use and Oklahoma’s multi-
Clip Neither of the officers was Simeroth said the threats mandated by a new law for weeks during the spring, fight with.” county grand jury accused
resized injured in the incident, AP “involved gun violence.” will be implemented a breach would have caused Bobby Cleveland, Coleman of not filing
reported. Corn said the two students with “excellence” and catastrophic flooding, AP director of the Oklahoma income tax returns between
26% Dryer was transported to did not have ready access to “urgency,” Executive reported. Corrections Professionals, 2015 and 2018. Each count
a local hospital where he any weapons, AP reported. Director Steven Bickley an association for prison is punishable by up to one
was pronounced dead. Both Classes in the district told the board Monday and McAlester employees, said the fights year in the county jail and a
officers have been placed of nearly 9,000 students AP reported. Authorities have arrested had “to be a coordinated $5,000 fine. Court records
on paid administrative leave were cancelled Tuesday. A statewide referendum an 18-year-old Oklahoma effort,” noting they do not indicate if Coleman
adopted in 2016 made woman accused of included minimum security is represented by an
simple drug possession a threatening to carry out a lock-ups, AP reported. attourney who could speak
misdemeanor and increased mass shooting at her old on her behalf, according to
the threshold for felony high school, Associated Tulsa AP.
property crimes from $500 Press reported this week. Oklahoma largest virtual Cole was elected to her
to $1,000. Legislation Pittsburg County Sheriff charter school is demanding district judge’s seat in
signed into law by Gov. Chris Morris said Alexis a state lawmaker stop November. Oklahoma
Kevin Stitt this year makes Wilson, of McAlester, was making what it calls “false, County District Attourney
its provisions retroactive, arrested Monday after a destructive, defamatory and David Prater has accused
AP reported. co-worker told investigators baseless allegations” about the judge of failing to
State pardon and parole Wilson had said she wanted the school, Associated disclose all of her campaign
officials say the new law to shoot 400 people at Press reported. donors and has asked
could make hundreds of McAlester High School and A letter from Oklahoma her to step down from all
inmates eligible for an investigators viewed video City-based Epic Charter criminal cases his office is
accelerated commutation of Wilson firing an AK-47, Schools’ attorneys to prosecuting, AP reported.
process when it takes AP reported. Republican State Sen.
effect November 1, the Authorities said Wilson Ron Sharp said Sharp has Enid
Oklahoman and AP was expelled from the seven days to “cease and Authorities said the victim
reported. high school after violent desist” comments about the of a violent home invasion
incidents and that she had school and retract precious in Northern Oklahoma
Tulsa been suspended on separate statements or face legal has died, Associated Press
The U.S. Army Corps occasions after being action, according to AP. reported.
of Engineers has proposed caught with a knife and a The Oklahoma State Police said Saturday 41-
a $160-million plan to swastika at school. She was Bureau of Investigation year-old Diana Aide Baez
shore up levees around not allowed to re-enroll, AP is investigating Epic died at an Oklahoma City-
Oklahoma’s second reported. founders David Chaney and area hospital where she was
largest city that have been Jail records indicate Ben Harris for allegedly being treated for injuries
weakened by periodic Wilson is in custody but embezzling more than $10 suffered during the violent
flooding, Associated Press do not show if she has an million state dollars by attack in Enid, AP reported.
reported this week. attorney. Morris said he illegally inflating student Authorities said the home
invasion occurred about
2:45 a.m. Wednesday.
When officers arrived,
2018 FORD they found several children
EXPEDITION MAX
inside the home and their
mother suffering from
life-threatening injuries, AP
3.5L EcoBoost, 4x4, reported.
The children told police
Only 9,600 Miles, Does NOT two masked men forced
their way into their home,
have 3rd Row Seating attacked Baez and fled.
They were described as
Great for Floral Shop, Funeral wearing long-sleeved shirts
Home, Parts Delivery, Etc. and gloves, according to
AP.
Statewide
The Oklahoma
Corporation Commission
has reached an agreement
with the state’s largest
electrical utility which
avoids a rate increase for
its 800,000 customers in
the state, Associated Press
reported.
2019 FORD The three-member
commission said Thursday
EXPEDITION the agreement settles a
$77.6 million rate increase
3.5L EcoBoost, 201A XLT, request filed by Oklahoma
Gas & Electric Co. in
4x4, Leather, Only 6,300 Miles December with no rate
increase, AP reported.
(Courtesy Transportation Vehicle) The utility said it needed
to raise rates to pay for
PRICE $46,742 environmental compliance
investments, depreciation
on aging equipment and
other needs. The request
was opposed by Attorney
General Mike Hunter and
various consumer groups
who said higher rates were
not justified, according to
AP.
Commissioners said
the agreement allows the
utility to recover about
$600 million in capital
improvement costs while
keeping rates low, AP
reported.
OG&E spokesman Brian
FORD • LINCOLN Alford said the utility is
glad to have the “decades-
4000 Carriage Way, Weatherford, OK long process” behind it, AP
reported.
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El Reno Tribune
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