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:
University of Oklahoma President David Boren met with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as part of Obama’s Senior Working Group on National Security.
Iowans were allowed back into their flooded homes in Cedar Rapids as the water crested and began to recede. Small towns up and down the Mississippi were still waiting for the worst of the flooding. President Bush visited Iowans and promised aid.
Hundreds of same-sex couples were married in California after a ruling made it the second state to allow such unions.
Thousands of people, including President Bush, paid their respects to Tim Russert, the NBC political journalist who died of a heart attack last week at age 58.
In Mexico, a constitutional amendment mandates that the nation develop a U.S.-style judicial system in which prosecutors and defense lawyers argue their cases in open court. Previously, Mexican justice relied on written evidence in order to decide guilt or innocence behind closed doors.
Weleetka investigators were searching for a “person of interest” described as an American Indian man about 6 feet tall with black hair in a pony tail driving a white Ford or Chevrolet single-cab pickup. They believe he may have seen the two girls, Taylor Paschal-Placker and Skyla Whitaker, before they were shot to death on a rural road. More than a week after the slayings, the police did not have a suspect or a motive.
Four years ago, Daniel Harley Dillingham of Porter pleaded no contest to reaching over a school bus seat and fatally stabbing Carl “Andy” Robinson. Dillingham, who was 15 at the time of the slaying, has now been released, although Robinson’s family members say they’ve seen no remorse from him.
“August: Osage County,” a play by Oklahoma native Tracy Letts, was named best play at the 2008 Tony Awards. The play, about a dysfunctional Oklahoma family, also won awards for acting, directing and scenery.
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art welcomed a traveling exhibit of Roman art from the Louvre. The exhibit, which also made stops in Indianapolis and Seattle, includes 184 sculptures, jewelry, furnishings and other items dating from the early first century B.C. to the sixth century A.D.
Scientists believe NASA’s Phoenix Mars Landers may have exposed bits of ice while digging a trench in the soil of the Martian arctic. An initial soil sample heated failed to yield evidence of water.
Former state Auditor and Inspector Jeff McMahan resigned as he awaits sentencing on charges he and his wife accepted illegal campaign money through a bribery scheme. A decision on whether he has forfeited his state pension could take a while.
The state Supreme Court unanimously ruled attorney Mike Gassaway had repeatedly disregarded the rules of his profession and took away his law license.
High fuel prices and soaring health care costs compelled Oklahoma City to trim 1 percent from the fiscal year 2009 budgets proposed to keep services at current levels.
Sen. Edward Kennedy spent Father’s Day surrounded by family and preparing to “do battle” with his cancer, his son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy said.
An epic U.S. Open ended on the 19th hole of a playoff when Tiger Woods outlasted a gritty Rocco Mediate. Woods is still recovering from knee surgery, and Mediate had survived a sudden-death playoff simply to qualify for the tournament. Woods was playing with a torn ligament in his left knee and a stress fracture of his left tibia.
Seattle’s mayor said he hopes the Sonics’ Oklahoma owners will sell the team if they’re forced to honor the last two years of their lease and stay in Seattle. During the week in federal court, economists, a pollster and a rabid fan of the SuperSonics gave sometimes conflicting views of the team’s potential relocation.