on February 17, 2008M at 12:55 am
Sometimes it’s easy to miss an event, so here’s a look back at the past week or so to help bring you up to date.
A 23-year-old woman killed two fellow students with a .357-caliber revolver in a classroom at a vocational college in Baton Rouge, La., then committed suicide, police said.
Aruban investigators in The Netherlands again questioned a Dutch college student in the Natalee Holloway disappearance as they sought a court order to detain him as a suspect based on a hidden-camera interview.
Sen. Barack Obama swept the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska, Washington state and the Virgin Islands, cutting into Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s delegate lead in their race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
A casting call in Tulsa for the television show “Supernanny” drew few families hoping to audition. A producer for the show, which had set up a booth at the Women’s Living Expo at Expo Square, said only parents who say their children are so out of control that they’re willing to try anything audition for the show.
Officials were investigating the stabbing death at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary of inmate Jack McCall Chance, who was serving a life sentence without parole for the July 2000 beating death of 26-year-old mental health counselor Kristie LeGrange.
Carrie Underwood won her third Grammy and Vince Gill won his 19th. Another state-related winner was the late Woody Guthrie, for a performance in 1949.
Tulsa’s Bishop Kelley Principal Alan Weyland said the private school will test every student for drugs next school year; Bishop McGuinness and Mount St. Mary, Catholic schools in Oklahoma City, are considering similar measures.
The George Kaiser Family Foundation of Tulsa gave a $50 million donation to the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa. The gift is for improving the state’s health through “community-based” medicine.
The Pentagon announced that it is seeking the death penalty against six suspects who are accused of planning and organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The charges filed against the six, including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, include a litany of war crimes: conspiracy, murder, attacking civilians and supporting terrorism.
Rebates that state taxpayers receive under a federal plan to stimulate the economy won’t be considered income at the federal level, and won’t be treated as income for state tax purposes either, the Oklahoma Tax Commission said.
Uno became the first beagle to win Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
A three-month walkout that brought the entertainment industry to a standstill ended Tuesday when Hollywood writers voted to lift their strike and return to work.
Barack Obama scored primary victories in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, leaving Hillary Rodham Clinton behind in the delegate count for the first time since the campaign began.
President Bush signed legislation to rush rebates ranging from $300 to $1,200 to millions of Americans in an effort to stimulate the economy. The checks should go out in May.
Wanda L. Bass, a noted McAlester banker, philanthropist and arts patron, died Tuesday at age 81. She was a faithful benefactor to the Oklahoma City University School of Music, which bears her name.
Defense attorneys for murder suspect Kevin Underwood claim prosecutors leaked information to a TV station, but District Judge Candace Blalock suspects the media hacked into a computer. Underwood is accused of killing Jamie Rose Bolin, 10, in a cannibalistic plot.
A shooting at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., left five students and the gunman dead. The gunman, who had a shotgun and two handguns, fatally shot four women and a man in a campus lecture hall before killing himself. Sixteen others were injured. The university’s president said the gunman was a former graduate student. The school is about 65 miles west of Chicago.
There might not be state tax cuts this year after the latest reports that state revenues next year will be less than earlier predicted, legislative leaders said. Co-Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn Coffee said tax cuts will be considered but the budget news means they are “much less likely.”
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it wants Gulf Coast hurricane victims to move out of its 35,000 trailers. FEMA is doing this because tests show high formaldehyde levels in some of the trailers.
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