OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal audit report sharply criticizes Oklahoma officials for a lack of transparency, oversight and accountability in the use of coronavirus relief funds that were intended for education.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M receiver Ainias Smith was arrested early Wednesday on charges of driving while intoxicated, unlawful carrying of a weapon and possession of less than 2 ounces of marijuana, according to Brazos County jail records.
As the second phase of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) Kickapoo widening project ramps up, some residents have taken to Facebook to voice opposition – though the deal has already been done.
While gas prices have decreased slightly, the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office remains impacted as it serves the community. According to Sheriff’s Lt.
Please send items for the calendar to Elisabeth Slay, eslay@news-star.com and/or newsroom@news-star.com. July 23 Tecumseh will hold its Farmers Market every Saturday from 8 a.m.
• Check out the Dive In movie at the Shawnee Splash Friday, July 22 at 8:30 p.m. The movie showing is Disney’s Teen Beach Movie. Shawnee Splash is located at 100 E. Highland. Admission is $6 a person and raft rentals are also $6.
The United Way of Pottawatomie County (UWPC) has just issued $238,460 in grants to 21 local area partner agencies. The six-figure allocated amount was raised during the 2022 UWPC annual fundraising campaign through community fundraising events, individual donations, and through dozens of local business employee campaigns, where companies invite employees to donate to UWPC through payroll deductions.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Fewer manatee deaths have been recorded so far this year in Florida compared to the record-setting numbers in 2021, but wildlife officials cautioned Wednesday that chronic starvation remains a dire and ongoing threat to the marine mammals.
“The mouth of a bear”: Ukrainian refugees sent to Russia NARVA, Estonia (AP) — For weeks Natalya Zadoyanova had lost contact with her younger brother Dmitriy, who was trapped in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. Russian forces had bombed the orphanage where he worked, and he was huddling with dozens of others in the freezing basement of a building without doors and windows.
Adding another tool to its safety toolbox, the Oklahoma Department of Transportation is testing a wrong way detection and alert system on six ramps along Interstate 40 in Eastern Oklahoma. Using thermal cameras, the system identifies when a vehicle enters an exit ramp in the wrong direction and displays flashing lights on already posted Wrong Way signs to increase noticeability.