The Oklahoma Aging Advocacy Leadership Academy (OAALA) is accepting applications for 2022. For 24 years, OAALA has provided free training for individuals to be informed volunteer community leaders and advocates for Oklahoma's aging population. Applications will be accepted until March 18, 2022.
LVIV, Ukraine – Russia widened its offensive in Ukraine on Friday, striking airfields in the west and a major industrial city in the east, while the huge armored column that had been stalled for over a week outside Kyiv was on the move again, spreading out near the capital.
The Shawnee Veterans of Foreign Affairs presented three Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office deputies with awards Monday night. According to Shawnee VFW member Don Plumley, Deputy Garey Knoles was given a Certificate of Appreciation for his efforts during a domestic disturbance on October 29, 2021, where he suffered multiple gunshot wounds.
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MARIUPOL, Ukraine – Civilians trapped inside Mariupol desperately scrounged for food and fuel as Russian forces kept up their bombardment of the port city Thursday amid international condemnation over an airstrike a day earlier that killed three people at a maternity hospital.
AUSTIN, Texas – More than 27,000 mail ballots in Texas were flagged for rejection in the first test of new voting restrictions enacted across the U.S., jeopardizing votes cast by Democrats and Republicans in counties big and small, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.
When fighting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulted in power cuts to the critical cooling system at the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, some feared that spent nuclear fuel would overheat. But nuclear experts say there’s no imminent danger because time and physics are on safety’s side.
The number of white nationalist, neo-Nazi and anti-government extremist groups across the U.S. fell for a third straight year in 2021, even as some groups were reinvigorated by the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol last year and by the ongoing culture wars over the pandemic and school curriculums.
RALEIGH, N.C. – Mark Meadows, who as chief of staff to President Donald Trump promoted claims of mass voter fraud, is facing increasing scrutiny about his own voter registration status.
South Rock Creek Schools held its third nine weeks of “Shark Tank” presentations in the school cafeteria March 3. The program is a school project that seventh and eighth grade students participate in as part of their computers plus course.