Week in review
In case you haven’t been able to keep up with all the news lately, this is your opportunity to catch up. Here’s a quick look at top stories from the past week or so:
- The Lebanese army pounded a Palestinian refugee camp with a barrage of tank and artillery fire, battling militants believed allied to al-Qaida. About 50 combatants were killed in the country’s worst fighting since the end of its 1975-90 civil war.
- A sniper in Moscow, Idaho, sprayed dozens of bullets at a courthouse, killing a sheriff’s deputy before killing a caretaker and himself.
- Israel’s air force fired a missile at a house in the Gaza Strip, killing at least eight people. Neighbors said the house belonged to a Hamas lawmaker.
- A 14-year-old girl was arrested in the fatal stabbing of a woman at a Cushing apartment complex.
- The University of Oklahoma softball team beat the University of Massachusetts to advance to NCAA Super Regionals.
- The widely prescribed diabetes drug Avandia is linked to greater risk of heart attack and death, a new scientific analysis suggested, and the U.S. government issued a safety alert.
- Republican presidential candidate U.S. Sen. John McCain told the Oklahoma Legislature that if elected he’ll hold federal employees accountable.
- Florida Gov. Charlie Crist signed a bill moving his state’s 2008 presidential primary up to Jan. 29, putting it behind only Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada.
- Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. expects consumers will pay less for electricity per kilowatt hour this summer because of a decrease in the price of natural gas.
- The Bureau of Indian Affairs denied approval of a Cherokee Nation constitutional amendment that allowed the tribe’s recent vote to exclude the descendants of freed slaves from tribal rolls. The final decision whether to allow the vote to stand belongs to the U.S. Interior Department secretary.
- An infestation of armyworms has hit the wheat fields in north-central Oklahoma pretty hard, a state Extension Service agronomist said.
- After a seven-year absence from the gaming industry, the Kiowa Tribe opened the Kiowa Red River casino in Devol. It is a 63,000-square-foot building with 1,000 slot machines and 20 poker and blackjack tables.
- A judge ordered a change in venue in the tax evasion trial pending against Carroll Fisher, moving it from Oklahoma City to Tulsa, where the former state insurance commissioner signed the 1999 income tax return in question.
- Java Dave’s Coffee formed a partnership with state Rehabilitation Services Department to open at least five stores in Oklahoma that will be operated by visually impaired vendors.
- Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said he expects to receive information soon from MySpace.com on registered sex offenders it has identified and removed from the social networking Web site.
- Seventeen-year-old Jordin Sparks was crowned the newest and youngest “American Idol.”
- NFL owners voted to bring the 2011 Super Bowl to the Dallas Cowboys’ new stadium in Arlington, Texas.
- In a visit to Tulsa, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticized the media’s airing of a secret U.S. plan in Iran.
- In a surprise move that restored hope in the Pacific Northwest, the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle Supersonics landed the top two picks in the NBA Draft Lottery.
- The Big 12 Conference awarded its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments to Oklahoma City in 2009.
- The state Senate voted to repeal a new law that gave police in former “speed trap” towns authority to issue traffic tickets on portions of highways that run through their city limits.
- Anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr reappeared in Baghdad and banned his army from fighting Iraqis.
- South Korean officials reported that North Korea test-fired several missiles Friday.
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