Week in Review
Another week has passed, and here is your chance to catch up on what you might have missed.
- A motorcade of hundreds of bikers paid tribute at the Capitol to the state’s veterans on the eve of Veterans Day.
- Oklahoma County Sheriff Sgt. Kevin Johnson and the entire department mourned the loss of K-9 deputy Brisco, a 6-year-old Dutch shepherd who died in the line of duty while chasing a suspect on Interstate 35.
- Retired federal judge Michael Mukasey was sworn in as the 81st U.S. attorney general after narrowly winning Senate confirmation.
- Fundraising efforts by the state Veterans Affairs Department for “Operation Holiday Homecoming” is striving to give 2,600 troops in training enough money to come home for the holidays.
- About 400 Oklahomans gathered outside the 45th Infantry Division Museum on Veterans Day to pay tribute to the men and women who have served as members of the armed forces. Maj. Gen. Harry M. Wyatt III, the state’s adjutant general, spoke at the event and noted the crowd was larger than in recent years.
- While the state’s veterans were honored with parades or memorials, a group of protesters — the Veterans for Peace — demonstrated at the state Capitol. Among the protesters was Warren Henthorn, whose son Army Spc. Jeffrey Henthorn was killed in Iraq in 2005.
- A vaccine that could curb or prevent Alzheimer’s disease — a fatal, memory-robbing illness that afflicts as many as 70,000 Oklahomans — has been developed by Oklahoma City scientists. Officials at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation said the experimental vaccine is designed to stimulate the body’s own immune system to fight dementia in the brain, and could reach human clinical trials in three to four years.
- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf stuck to a January date for parliamentary elections but gave no indication whether he planned to rescind his state of emergency order anytime soon.
- Iranian police and paramilitary officers traded gunfire with followers of a mystical branch of Islam called Sufi who had clashed with Shiites in southwestern Iran.
- A loss for Ohio State, college football’s top-ranked team, helped OU move up to No. 4 in the latest BCS rankings.
- Pulitzer prize-winning author Norman Mailer died at the age of 84. He penned such books as “The Naked and the Dead” and “Executioner’s Song.”
- Broadway stagehands went on strike, setting up picket lines around Times Square in New York and shutting dozens of plays and musicals.
- Pfc. Cody Carver, 19, of Coweta, who died in Iraq on Oct. 30, was mourned in memorial services by hundreds of friends and family. He was killed along with two other soldiers when enemy insurgents attacked his unit.
- Tenured professors at Oral Roberts University gave embattled President Richard Roberts a vote of “no confidence” in his ability to run the university.
- Oklahoma eighth-graders are on par with Sweden and New Zealand in math and on par with Lithuania in science, the American Institutes for Research found.
- The OncoVue genetic breast cancer risk test, developed by Oklahoma-based InterGenetics, has been released.
- Oklahoma County Commissioner Brent Rinehart will be tried on felony campaign finance charges, a judge ruled this week.
- The U.S. Post Office returned 1,407 tax refund checks to the Internal Revenue Service with Oklahoma addresses that were undeliverable. The checks, mostly from 2006 returns, total $1.1 million.
- A crowd of about 500 in Guthrie greeted the Centennial Express on Thursday as it arrived carrying state officials and other dignitaries to the centennial celebration in the city that had been Oklahoma’s first capital. The 10-car train was provided by the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway.
- Home run king Barry Bonds, 43, was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice Thursday. He could face a prison sentence if convicted of telling a grand jury he didn’t knowingly use drugs to increase his baseball-playing skills.
- An American general in Iraq said Thursday Iran seems to be honoring its pledge to stem the supply of weapons getting across the border. Maj. Gen. James Simmons said the move by Iran has contributed to a more than 50 percent drop in the number of roadside bomb attacks against U.S. troops. Why Iran decided to choke the flow of arms remained unclear.
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