Week in Review
Here is your chance to catch up on what’s been in the news the past week:
- President Bush urged lawmakers to “summon the political courage” to support his domestic priority, an immigration overhaul that was hanging by a thread in Congress. It later died in Congress.
- Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox was tossed from a game with the Detroit Tigers in the bottom of the ninth inning — Cox’s 131st career ejection, tying the record set by John McGraw.
- A van swerved into two Oklahoma County deputies riding motorcycles, seriously injuring one of the men, deputy Ronnie Neal.
- The month of June’s high death toll among U.S. troops fighting in Iraq claimed its third and fourth Oklahomans in a week. Spc. Derek Calhoun, 33, of Oklahoma City was killed when the Humvee he was riding in hit an explosive device. Later, Army Pfc. Jerimiah Veitch, 21, was killed. Veitch had only been in Iraq for two months. Pfc. Thomas Ray Leemhuis, 23, of Binger and Sgt. Ryan M. Wood, 22, of Oklahoma City also were killed.
- Former OSU golfer Hunter Mahan won his first PGA event in a sudden death playoff at the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Conn.
- Paul Philip, a professor of petroleum and environmental geochemistry at the University of Oklahoma, analyzed two large bottles of gasoline which recently were unearthed from a time capsule buried for 50 years in Tulsa. The gas and four bottles of motor oil were acquired from the concrete vault that contained a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere automobile.
- The OU regents voted to increase in-state, undergraduate tuition and fees at Rogers State University and Cameron University by 10 percent and 9.4 percent, respectively.
- Kevin Ray Underwood, the 27-year-old man accused of killing a 10-year-old Purcell girl last year, had philosophical discussions of cannibalism, according to newly released court documents.
- The state Department of Human Services closed an Okemah foster home after foster parent Kent L. Faulkner was charged with repeatedly raping a 12-year-old girl he was in the process of adopting.
- Glenda Darlene Johnson, a former bank vice president in Eufaula, pleaded guilty in Muskogee federal court to embezzling $335, 982.
- Jimmy Dale Bland, 49, a death row inmate who was dying of cancer, was executed for the 1996 murder of his employer, Doyle Windle Rains, 62.
- Oklahoma City Fire Department rescuers pulled 16-year-old twins Lauren and Lindsey Penn from their water-logged Mercedes at a low-water crossing on Ski Island lakes, a risky operation that made the national news.
- Checotah’s Carrie Underwood was named the world’s sexiest female vegetarian for the second time after a poll conducted by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. “Tonight Show” bandleader Kevin Eubanks was named sexiest male vegetarian.
- Gov. Brad Henry and first lady Kim Henry returned to Oklahoma after a self-paid 10-day mission trip to Ghana, where they delivered mosquito nets to villagers to help protect them from malaria.
- The National Weather Service reported that Oklahoma City has received 28.03 inches of rain so far in 2007. That number was climbing, but it was more rain than fell in the metro in all of 2006.
- A California wildfire near Lake Tahoe destroyed more than 200 homes and buildings, and forced about 1,000 people to flee their neighborhoods.
- “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” premiered in Japan. The movie will open July 11 in the United States, and in the United Kingdom on July 12.
- The U.S. Supreme Court rejected integration plans in two school districts. The decision affects how students are assigned to schools in Louisville, Ky., and Seattle and could imperil similar plans in hundreds of districts nationwide and further restrict how public school systems may attain racial diversity.
- The Vatican said that Pope Benedict XVI has approved a plan that relaxes restrictions on celebrating the Latin Mass.
- The Senate voted to keep the debate going on a bill that would give citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants, and because of other pending legislation, the measure won’t likely come up again until after the 2008 election.
- A Powerball ticket worth $105.8 million was purchased at a Shell station in Roland on June 12 with the winning numbers 9-11-13-24-42, and 18 as the Powerball number.
- The state Regents for Higher Education voted to raise tuition and fees an average 8.6 percent for in-state undergraduate students.
- Moving with the aid of a walker, former state Sen. Gene Stipe appeared in federal court to face an attempt to revoke his probation.
- The Seattle Supersonics, owned by a group of Oklahoma City businessmen headed by Clayton Bennett, selected Texas freshman sensation Kevin Durant in the NBA draft. OSU’s JamesOn Curry was drafted 51st by the Chicago Bulls.
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