Week in review
Another week has passed, and here is your chance to catch up with what you may have missed.
- A carjacking led to some panicked moments for a woman in Oklahoma City. Her 6-month-old daughter was in the back when her sport-utility vehicle was taken. The SUV was found with the unharmed baby inside.
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas consolidated his control of the West Bank, installing an interim government of moderates to lead indefinitely.
- Volunteers gathered at Fairlawn Cemetery north of Chickasha for a community cleanup day after record rainfall and staff shortages by the mowing contractor led to grass in some parts of the cemetery growing as tall as 3 feet.
- Chris Benoit’s murdered wife and son were mourned during a memorial service in Daytona Beach, Fla. The wrestler was to be laid to rest later in a private service in Canada.
- Thousands of National Guard soldiers made their way to Camp Gruber for a month of training before going to Iraq.
- The $50 million Eugene B. Adkins art collection will be loaned to the University of Oklahoma’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and Tulsa’s Philbrook Museum of Art. It is considered one of the most important private collections of works by Taos and American Indian artists.
- Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson was buried next to her late husband at the LBJ ranch in the Texas hill country.
- U.N. inspectors verified North Korea shut down its sole functioning nuclear reactor. South Korea sent some oil northward as a reward.
- A 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook Japan’s northwest coast, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 1,000. It set off a fire at the world’s most powerful nuclear power plant, causing a reactor to spill radioactive water into the sea.
- With record-breaking rainfall since March, cities across the state are seeing a reduction in water revenues as people use less water.
- A master plan approved by the Oklahoma City Council limits commercial development at Lake Hefner to a five-acre site along Northwest Expressway just south of Meridian Avenue.
- Hominy’s 2004 citizen of the year, Roy Westbrook, 65, received life in prison for the shooting death of Rebecca Clements, 26, a waitress who was serving lunch at a diner July 19, 2005.
- A passenger jet burst into flames in Sao Paolo, Brazil, after skidding off the runway in a rain storm and hitting a gas station. All 186 people onboard and five on the ground died.
- Andrew Speaker, the tuberculosis patient who caused an international public health scare in May, underwent successful surgery to remove part of his diseased right lung.
- State Rep. Paul Wesselhoft, R-Moore, introduced legislation to be considered in February that would allow for dog owners to be imprisoned for a year if their pet attacks a person and does serious harm.
- Nonuniformed and nonsupervisory Edmond city employees voted to join Oklahoma City Local 2406 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union.
- Water stopped flowing across the spillway at Lake Texoma’s dam as the lake level dropped to 640 feet above sea level after the runoff from recent rainfalls ceased.
- Recent Power outages in Bricktown have restaurant owners questioning whether they need to invest in generators to ensure they have a backup source of electricity.
- Stock market trading pushed the Dow Jones industrial average above the 14,000 mark for the first time in history.
- State native Michael Dunn, all 3 feet, 10 inches of him, was reburied in Norman more than 33 years after the renowned actor and piano prodigy with a genius-level IQ died in England.
- An autopsy report completed Monday confirmed Joshua Minton, 2, died of suffocation and excess fluid in the brain and lungs as a result of his mouth being taped shut to keep him quiet at an east Tulsa day care center.
- Ferry service will set sail along the Oklahoma River. Devon Energy announced it is providing $2 million toward the purchase of ferries as part of a 15-year naming rights deal. The 65-foot ferries will operate between Meridian Avenue and downtown.
- Despite the widely recognized dangers, school bus drivers in all but 13 U.S. states are free to chat on their cell phones — or even punch in text messages — while transporting children to class and back.
- One of Los Angeles’ 10 most wanted gang members, Johnathon Christopher Blackwell, 26, was arrested on a first-degree murder complaint in Oklahoma City, and is being held without bail in the Oklahoma County jail.
- Pauletta Samis, 36, was charged in Pontotoc County with animal cruelty. She stands accused of letting a pit bill terrier starve at her home.
- Enid police took a man into custody in connection with the slaying of two Enid women found dead outside their duplex earlier last week.
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