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.
Jurors took only 20 minutes to decide that Kevin Ray Underwood was guilty of first-degree murder in the death of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin.
The U.S. Air Force passed over Boeing and awarded a $40 billion contract to Northrop Grumman Corp. and its partner, European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., to build the military’s next refueling airplane.
At least 500 animals died when Quality Pets, 1501 S Agnew, caught fire, but thousands more were rescued.
Oklahoma Heart Hospital cardiologists have another tool to help predict whether someone will likely have a heart attack or stroke. The PLAC Test measures the accumulation of an enzyme whose presence indicates inflammation in the arteries.
The Indian government may spend more than $13 million establishing a special ranger force to protect the country’s endangered tigers, following pressure from international conservationists to save the wild cats.
Investigators were trying to determine whether three people found dead at an Oklahoma City Housing Authority building were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning. All other residents were evacuated.
Tinker Air Force Base and area governments started to study how land on and around the base should be used in the future. Some concerns the land-use study addresses are traffic flow and safety near approach paths to the runways.
Monday was proclaimed by Gov. Brad Henry as “March Against Meth Day” throughout Oklahoma. It recognized two law enforcement officers who died as a result of methamphetamine.
A study by the Center for Injury Research and Prevention found that car crashes are the leading cause of death for tweens and teens.
Leading factors contributing to the fatalities were riding unbuckled with new teen drivers on high-speed roads.
New guidelines on sentencing of crack cocaine offenders immediately made 1,600 inmates eligible nationwide for release, but there is no way to know how many will be freed.
The guidelines were the result of a ruling by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to ease the way the legal system came down harder on crack-related crimes than those with powdered cocaine — a disparity decried as racially discriminatory since four out of five crack defendants in the U.S. are black.
A soldier in the Korean War, Master Sgt. Woodrow Wilson Keeble, was posthumously awarded the nation’s highest military award, the Medal of Honor. President Bush apologized for the roles bureaucracy and racism are suspected of having in ignoring the valor of Keeble, a full-blooded Sioux Indian who died 25 years ago. In 1951, Keeble — despite himself being wounded — saved the lives of fellow soldiers trying to take a hill by destroying two machine gun nests and killing 16 enemy troops.
Oklahoma City leaders scored a big league victory when voters overwhelmingly (444,849 to 27,564) approved a proposal to upgrade the Ford Center in hopes of landing an NBA franchise.
Arizona Sen. John McCain clinched the Republican nomination for president, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee withdrew from the race. The Democratic nomination remains a tight race between New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.
Hundreds of Venezuelan troops moved toward the border with Colombia, where trade was slowing amid heightening tension over Colombia’s cross-border strike on a rebel base in Ecuador.
The Comanche Nation’s former police chief, Ray Anderson, pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $12,000 from the tribe.
The state House of Representatives passed House Bill 2504, and if passed by the Senate, the bill would allow certified driver’s education instructors to administer driving tests and could alleviate long lines and waits at most driver’s exam sites across the state.
Sen. Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, is back in the hospital for tests after a reaction to antibiotics.
Former Oklahoma City school Superintendent John Porter was cleared of criminal wrongdoing after a six-week investigation. Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater said his office and the city police department could not substantiate any criminal activity. Porter says he is moving on with his life.
On a vote of 82-11, the state House of Representatives passed a bill that would require a blood or saliva sample for DNA testing be taken when a person is arrested on a felony complaint. Opponents said the bill goes too far. They said people should only be made to give the samples if arrested for certain violent crimes or after they are charged.