ISTANBUL (AP) — A Ukrainian singer and former Eurovision song contest winner appealed to Turkey’s president on Monday to save Ukrainian fighters from the besieged city of Mariupol amid Russia’s war.
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Seniors from the North Rock Creek High School Class of 2022 will walk across the stage of the secondary gym at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 18, and will officially become the first-ever graduating class of North Rock Creek Public Schools.
The Oklahoma Home and Community Education (OHCE) recently hosted a community-wide, non-profit ‘Donation Drive’ benefiting local non profits including Hope House, House of Hope, Legacy Parenting, Project Safe and Project Gabriel. The event took place Tuesday, May 3 at the Shawnee Expo Center Otto Krause building.
Oklahoma Baptist University presented its highest three employee awards during the Service and Honors Awards ceremony Friday, May 13. Employees were also recognized for milestone years of service to the institution. The event took place in the Geiger Center on the OBU campus in Shawnee.
Will Rogers and Sequoyah students have been soaring to new heights and learning new skills in their fourth year of the Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Center Federal Grant. This grant created the SPS Kids After-school Program.
OKLAHOMA CITY – For the past six years, the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) has sponsored or co-sponsored Oklahoma’s Kid Governor program. Beginning with the 2022-23 school year, the program will expand to be a full Kid Governor® civics program for fifth graders across Oklahoma.
While The Shawnee News-Star prepares to move into a new office space, some of its historic items are being passed along to the Pottawatomie County Historical Society Museum. To get a particular donation to the museum several blocks away last Thursday afternoon, museum employee Terry Chancellor had to drive it perched on a forklift from the News-Star office on Bell Street. Chancellor hauled a large paper cutter that has supplemented the newspaper’s business operation for decades.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Its military bogged down in a grinding conflict in eastern Ukraine, Russia lost diplomatic ground over the weekend as two more European nations moved closer to joining NATO. Finland announced Sunday that it was seeking to join the alliance, saying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nearly three months ago had changed Europe’s security landscape.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white gunman accused of committing a racist massacre at a Buffalo supermarket made threating comments that brought police to his high school last spring, but he was never charged with a crime and had no further contact with law enforcement after his release from a hospital, officials said.