Week in review
Another week has passed, and here is your chance to catch up with what you may have missed.
- In an analysis of 2006 federal bridge data, The Oklahoman found it would cost about $3.2 billion to replace the 5,000 Oklahoma bridges whose ratings are as bad as or worse than the bridge that collapsed in Minnesota. State officials say it would cost more because of the increasing price of materials.
- A special inspection was launched on 11 Oklahoma bridges similar in design to the one that collapsed Aug. 1 in Minneapolis. In all, special inspections will be made on 77 state bridges, at a cost of $8 million to $9 million, a state Department of Transportation official said.
- New York Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez, 32, became the youngest player in major league history to hit 500 home runs.
- San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds surpassed the home run record of Henry Aaron, slugging his 756th. Bonds has been plagued by allegations that he used steroids.
- Defense Secretary Robert Gates said political stability in Iraq won’t likely occur before the Bush administration makes its critical September assessment of whether its war strategy is working.
- China banned crude and insensitive slogans promoting its one-child policy. Slogans such as “Raise fewer babies but more piggies” stoked anger in rural areas.
- Most gunmen with ties to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement have given up their weapons as part of an amnesty deal, a senior Palestinian security official said.
- Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights attorney who was part of the team that argued the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education case, died at 100.
- Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with President Bush at Camp David to discuss the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan as the Taliban regains strength.
- At least six Oklahomans were among the thousands of singing hopefuls who gathered at Texas Stadium for a 30-second shot at fame as an “American Idol.”
- A Noble family mourned the death of Austin Haley, 5, who died after being struck in the head by a stray bullet fired by a police officer who was trying to kill a snake.
- Thomas Glenn’s family fired attorney Mike Gassaway after they say he duped them and filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit without permission. The 14-year-old was killed last week when a dump truck ran over him as he jogged on an Oklahoma City trail. Gassaway immediately filed suit against the company that owns the truck. Gassaway said he had a contract with the family and they asked him to file the suit.
- The decision of a French bank caused the Dow Jones industrials to fall more than 380 points. The bank stated it was freezing three funds that invested in American subprime mortgages. This raised the specter of a widening impact of U.S. credit market problems.
- A day after space shuttle Endeavour’s mission began, NASA said nine pieces of foam insulation broke off from the craft’s fuel tank during liftoff. A NASA official said three pieces appeared to have hit the shuttle.
- Foot-and-mouth disease is so highly contagious — and such a threat to farm economies — that the U.S. won’t let researchers work with the virus on the mainland. But in
Britain, a lab making foot-and-mouth vaccines was located near herds of cattle and may have been the cause of a new outbreak. - Temperatures soared into the triple digits across the state and Kingfisher was hit hard by a thunderstorm with wind gusts of more than 70 mph that uprooted trees and knocked down utility poles.
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