WASHINGTON – Maine Sen. Susan Collins said Wednesday she will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, giving Democrats at least one Republican vote and all but assuring Jackson will become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.
Please send items for the calendar to Elisabeth Slay, eslay@news-star.com and/or newsroom@newsstar.com. March 31 The Shawnee Ministerial Association (SMA) bringing back the Community Ecumenical Lenten Worship Series.
MEDYKA, Poland – The number of people who have fled Ukraine since Russian troops invaded has surpassed 4 million, the United Nations reported Wednesday as shelling continued in places where Moscow had vowed to ease its military operations.
As part of their community service during their prayer retreat, members of OBU’s Theta Sigma Chi helped sort books by categories, pack books and moved them to a storage unit for the Friends of the Shawnee Public Library’s book sale. According to Trisha Houghton, president of the Friends of the Library Board of Directors, the social club members also set up for an afternoon children’s program.
POTTSVILLE, Pa. – A deadly pileup involving 80 vehicles on a Pennsylvania interstate during a snow squall killed six people, state police said Wednesday.
Norman residents got their first opportunity Tuesday to confront the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority over plans to destroy hundreds of homes to make way for new toll roads. About a dozen protesters, led by civil engineer Amy Cerato, showed up at the meeting to argue the expansion plan approved in January.
California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations has decided to limit state compensation to the descendants of free and enslaved Black people who were in the U.S. in the 19th century, narrowly rejecting a proposal to include all Black people regardless of lineage.
Roll to Wreaths Riders 4 Vets hosted the sixth annual Ruben Rivers Medal of Honor Ride Saturday, March 26. According to Rowdy Butler, president and founder of Roll to Wreaths Riders 4 Vets, the event was a success.
NEW DELHI – Hundreds of workers marched with the red flags of the labor unions and chanted anti-government slogans in India’s capital on Tuesday as part of a two-day nationwide strike that began Monday.
WASHINGTON – A “Billionaire Minimum Income Tax” is included in President Joe Biden’s fiscal year 2023 budget proposal – part of the administration’s effort to reduce the federal deficit over the next decade and fund new spending. The proposal “eliminates the inefficient sheltering of income for decades or generations,” the White House says.