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Police: Medical condition likely caused crash that killed couple
Investigators suspect a medical condition triggered a 56-year-old Wichita man to lose control of his vehicle on Sunday afternoon, with the resulting crash killing him and his wife, along with a service dog.
Randall Storms was driving east in the 5800 block of East Central shortly before 3 p.m. when his 2010 Town and Country veered left of center, struck a curb, went into a drainage ditch and hit a retaining wall, Lt. Joe Schroeder said.
Storms’ 59-year-old wife, Suzy, was ejected from the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene. Storms was also pronounced dead at the scene.
Vote on new logo for Oklahoma City Public Schools is delayed
BY JACLYN COSGROVE jcosgrove@opubco.com
The current logo of Oklahoma City Public Schools is outdated and doesn't represent the district's history and tradition, prompting the development of a new logo, a district spokeswoman said at Monday night's school board meeting.
District spokeswoman Kathleen Kennedy said during a presentation at the Board of Education meeting that, after several months of discussion, staff members had developed a new logo for the school district.
For at least 12 years, the Starman, a blue figure with a star above him, has been the logo of Oklahoma City Public Schools.
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Sedgwick County Health Department to offer flu, whooping cough shots on Thursday
The Sedgwick County Health Department will offer flu and tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis vaccines for adults Thursday.
A news release Monday from the department said that flu and pertussis, more commonly known as whooping cough, appear to have peaked in the area but are still a concern.
“We’re not out of the woods yet with the flu or pertussis, and we don’t want instances of these diseases to climb again,” health department director Claudia Blackburn said in the release.
Oklahoma County District Attorney makes new allegation about Oklahoma parole board
BY NOLAN CLAY nclay@opubco.com
Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater is making a new allegation about the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board — that members have illegally changed their votes.
“Additionally, any time they changed a previously cast vote, outside of public scrutiny, I view that as a violation as well,” Prater wrote the board's defense attorney last week.
“We found several instances of that,” Prater wrote.
Prater last year launched a criminal investigation of the parole board after concluding it blatantly violated the state Open Meeting Act.
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Keystone XL pipeline protester arrested in Oklahoma
BY JAY F. MARKS jmarks@opubco.com
Norman resident Elisabeth Leja went to jail Monday to show her opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline.
Leja, 74, was arrested Monday morning at a construction site between Paden and Boley in Okfuskee County, where TransCanada crews are working on the pipeline.
The retired teacher locked herself to a piece of equipment being used to build the 485-mile pipeline between the oil storage hub at Cushing and refineries on the Gulf Coast.
Okfuskee County Sheriff Jack Choate said Leja was arrested without incident after authorities cut the cable lock she used to attach herself to a track hoe.
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Yukon Public Schools superintendent sets retirement date
FROM STAFF REPORTS
YUKON — The Yukon Public Schools superintendent announced he is retiring in summer 2014.
Bill Denton announced his retirement on Monday.
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Edmond 8-year-old's mission dear to her heart
BY DIANA BALDWIN dbaldwin@opubco.com
EDMOND — Ella Turner was a kindergartner three years ago when she started her mission to help children with bad hearts.
Her cause is dear to her heart because she does it in honor of her little sister, Colby, who died when she was 2.
Colby died of complications from a rare disease, geleophysic dysplasia, which affected her heart.
Ella, 8, is an ambassador for the American Heart Association.
When she was 5, she learned at her Texas school about Jump Rope for Heart, an American Heart Association program that raises money for heart disease.
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Deputy is accidentally shot at Oklahoma County gun range, authorities say
FROM STAFF REPORTS
A deputy was shot in the leg while training at the Oklahoma County sheriff office's gun range Monday, a spokesman said.
Deputies were training at the gun range, 4001 N Air Depot Blvd., when a gun accidentally discharged, spokesman Mark Myers said.
The deputy was taken to a hospital with an injury that is not life-threatening, Myers said.
It was the second incident of the kind in a month.
A federal SWAT team member was accidentally shot in the leg Jan.
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Experts find remains of England's King Richard III
LEICESTER, England (AP) — He was king of England, but for centuries he lay without shroud or coffin in an unknown grave, and his name became a byword for villainy.
On Monday, scientists announced they had rescued the remains of Richard III from anonymity — and the monarch's fans hope a revival of his reputation will soon follow.
In a dramatically orchestrated news conference, a team of archaeologists, geneticists, genealogists and other scientists from the University of Leicester announced that tests had proven what they scarcely dared to hope — a scarred and broken skeleton unearthed under a drab municipal parking lot was that of the 15th-century king, the last English monarch to die in battle.
Lead archaeologist Richard Buckley said that a battery of tests proved "beyond reasonable doubt" that the remains were the king's.
Lin Foxhall, head of the university's school of archaeology, said the discovery "could end up rewriting a little bit of history in a big way.
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Ties strengthen between Oklahoma River, downtown
BY STEVE LACKMEYER slackmeyer@opubco.com
The Oklahoma River hasn't moved, nor has downtown. But the distance between the two is without a doubt getting smaller.
With prominent airing on the hit national television show “American Idol,” the era of the river being seen as a drainage ditch that needed to be mowed three times a year is becoming a faded memory.
An entire generation of Oklahoma City young professionals knows the river only as a vibrant waterway lined with “gee-whiz” rowing venues designed by modernist architect Rand Elliott.
That same generation, and plenty of relative newcomers, also has no memory of a downtown that was declared “dead” by city leaders in 1988.
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Canton Lake water flowing into Lake Hefner
BY WILLIAM CRUM wcrum@opubco.com
Completing a 100-mile trip, water from Canton Lake splashed Monday into Lake Hefner, boosting drinking water supplies after months of drought.
A side benefit is that some people may be able to refloat boats that have been stuck in the mud because of historically low water levels.
Officials emphasize the withdrawal of 30,000 acre-feet of water from Canton Lake is driven by the need for drinking water, not to improve boating conditions.
Utilities officials hope 20,000 acre-feet will make its way down the North Canadian River to Lake Hefner over the next two to three weeks.
The riverbed will soak up much of the rest.
That much water would raise Lake Hefner about 10 feet, said Debbie Ragan, Oklahoma City utilities spokeswoman.
Lake Hefner still would be about seven feet below its normal level.
Canton Lake water began flowing into Lake Hefner about 11 a.m.
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3 die from injuries suffered in traffic accidents
FROM STAFF REPORTS
An Oklahoma County man and two children have died as the result of traffic accidents on state roads, authorities report.
James Bittle, 66, Choctaw
About 2:15 p.m.
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GoldFire Studios is Oklahoma City's sole video game startup
BY BRIANNA BAILEY bbailey@opubco.com
Oklahoma City-based GoldFire Studios hopes to be able to afford a bigger office by next year.
The city's only video game startup is currently housed in a dimly lit but orderly one-room office equipped with a refrigerator, a sink and long table cluttered with several computers in the back of a downtown building.
It's there that 24-year-old GoldFire founder and CEO James Simpson and 28-year-old partner Luke Simpkins, GoldFire's chief technology officer, spend most of their days writing code.
“We hope to be able to afford an office with a window by next year,” Simpson said.
It's about to get a little more crowded at GoldFire headquarters.
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Assault weapons ban likely to die for broader gun legislation to live
WASHINGTON -- Barring an unexpected turn of legislative affairs, a ban on military-style semi-automatic assault weapons will not make it into law, top Hill aides and gun policy advocates say.
The ban will get a vote.
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The ban will get a vote.
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'Smart' capital supports Oklahoma startups from milestone to milestone
By Scott Meacham
When an entrepreneur goes out to raise investment capital, it's a daunting task.
The business plan must be compelling.
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Former Oklahoma State University student pleads not guilty to fourth sexual battery charge
BY SILAS ALLEN sallen@opubco.com
STILLWATER — Former Oklahoma State University student Nathan Cochran on Monday pleaded not guilty to a fourth sexual battery charge.
Cochran appeared in Payne County District Court on Monday morning.
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Jury convicts Edmond man of boy's murder
BY TIM WILLERT twillert@opubco.com
A Oklahoma County jury deliberated about 21/2 hours Monday before convicting an Edmond man in the beating death of his girlfriend's 2-year-old son.
Jurors convicted Rico Antwoine Berry, 28, of first-degree murder and child neglect in the Oct.
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Postal Service honors Rosa Parks with new stamp
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Hundreds of people, including some of Michigan's political elite, gathered Monday to celebrate the late Rosa Parks on what would have been her 100th birthday by unveiling a postage stamp in her honor steps from the Alabama bus on which she stared down segregation nearly 60 years ago.
Parks, who died in 2005, became one of the enduring figures of the Civil Rights movement when she refused to cede her seat in the colored section of the Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white man after the whites-only section filled up.
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Wichita Jiffy Lube outlet closes over incident between probationer, customer
A Jiffy Lube store in east Wichita has temporarily closed over an investigation into an incident last week in which a customer alleges that an employee — a convicted felon on probation — threatened him and hurled racial slurs.
Word of the incident has spread through social media forums.
The customer declined comment when reached Monday, but in social media venues, he has said the employee threatened to kill him and cursed at him, using racially derogatory names.
Ariz. woman charged in lover's slaying testifies
PHOENIX (AP) — A woman charged in the savage stabbing and shooting death of her lover told jurors Monday how she endured an abusive childhood at the hands of her parents and planned to commit suicide after she killed her on-again, off-again boyfriend.
Jodi Arias' testimony was a surprise move by defense attorneys in a sensational murder trial in Phoenix that has become a daily fixture on cable news with its lurid stories of sex, lies, religion, betrayal and violence.
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