Bart Conner and Jane Jayroe
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It’s been awhile since I posted a blog. I spent April and May and I’ll throw June in there as well doing some blogging and pinging and all that stuff. Then something went down on Second Street that changed things.
However, back to the blog. Yesterday we had two notable Oklahomans in the OPUBCO Studios: Bart Conner and Jane Jayroe.
Bart will provide video blogs for NewsOK during the Olympics next month in China. He leaves later this week. He stopped by to shoot some promos and to shoot a video with Jenni Carlson. Bart is one of the nicest, most down to earth people you’ll ever meet. Good about remembering people’s names, quick to shake your hand and offer a smile.
Jane Jayroe, of course, is a former Miss America and came in to appear on an upcoming episode of The Ladies’ Room.
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NewsOK officially goes CleanSkies
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News update
Those words were scrawled in marker on a roadside memorial cross in rural Okfuskee County, one month after 11-year-old Skyla Whitaker and 13-year-old Taylor Paschal-Placker, were gunned down at the same county roadside, just a few hundred yards from Taylor’s house. The Oklahoman’s Johnny Johnson reports nearly six weeks later, there are still no arrests, no suspects and no motive. And a sketch of a suspicious mystery man with a long ponytail who is listed as a “person of interest” has produced hundreds of leads but no notable results.
The ex-husband of Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller has ended up in bankruptcy court in Seattle, months after abruptly shutting down his laser eye surgery business. Nolan Clay reports Dr. Christopher Phillips was the subject of critical news accounts in Seattle earlier this year because some patients complained they had no notice of the closure and did not know what to do next.
Gov Brad Henry visited the Panhandle yesterday. That part of the state is suffering from an ongoing drought that has been compared to the devastating Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s. The Oklahoman’s John Sutter reports Gov. Henry also collected a $50 bounty for his appearance, to be donated to a local charity. Read more at NewsOK or the front page ot today’s Oklahoman.
Today in OKC expect highs in the lower 90s, with winds around 10 mph.
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Bedlam: OU and OSU update
Three things you should know about the upcoming OU football season and the OSU basketball court.
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Sirloin Stockade murders – 30 years later
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