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The SSC Aggie Club hosted its fourth annual SSC FFA Interscholastic Contest on Thursday, April 14. Nearly 700 students from across the state of Oklahoma participated in the event. Students competed in eight different contests – Animal Science Quiz Bowl, Milk Quality and Products, Electricity, 8th Grade Greenhand Quiz, Entomology, Environmental and Natural Resources, Floriculture, Homesite Evaluation, Land Judging, and Soil and Water Management.

Cinema Centre 8 and Movies 6 at Shawnee Mall are open for late afternoon matinees on Friday and matinees on Saturday and Sunday. Both theatres are open for one evening show Monday through Thursday. Private theatre rentals are now available at Movies 6 at Shawnee Mall. To schedule a private showing, go to amctheatres.com.

BERLIN (AP) — Hermann Nitsch, an Austrian avant-garde artist known among other things for works in which he used blood and animal entrails, has died. He was 83.

Hey there, Shawnee! How are you now that spring has sprung? I hope you are taking opportunities to get out and enjoy the sunshine and spring weather. This is a great time to increase movement to enhance your health.

Oklahoma City, OK – The Oklahoma City Festival of the Arts wants to ensure visitors are aware of the festival’s “no pets” policy. This long-standing policy prioritizes the safety and well-being of the animals, attendees, vendors and artists.

Oklahoma City, OK – Children visiting Oklahoma City’s Festival of the Arts will have a special place to visit this year. Kid’s activities – including the interactive Children’s Art Field, Pottery Place, face painting, the Young at Art Mart, and more – will take over the area surrounding City Hall.

Time always flew in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World but it has lately seemed to catch up to the Potter pop cultural sensation. Those long lines outside bookstores are a long time ago now. The books stopped but the movies never did. The “Fantastic Beasts” prequels, now up to three with “The Secrets of Dumbledore,” have soldiered on, even if the fever surrounding Pottermania — at least among less diehard Muggles — has dissipated.

Cinema Centre 8 and Movies 6 at Shawnee Mall are open for late afternoon matinees on Friday and matinees on Saturday and Sunday. Both theatres are open for one evening show Monday through Thursday.

Jury to hear opening statements in Johnny Depp libel case FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A jury in Virginia is scheduled to hear opening statements Tuesday in a defamation lawsuit filed by Johnny Depp against his ex-wife, Amber Heard.