on June 28, 2008M at 11:14 pm
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:
U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman will announce Wednesday whether the SuperSonics can move to Oklahoma City this year or must fulfill the last two years of a lease the NBA team has with a Seattle arena.
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. and Public Service Co. of Oklahoma will pass along fuel costs to customers. That means your electric bill may rise by about $15 a month.
Oklahoma motorists paid an average of $3.26 for a gallon of gasoline in the first half of 2008, up from $2.70 in 2007 and $2.41 in 2006. The average is likely to rise, as gasoline prices near $4 a gallon.
Saudi Arabia has pledged to produce more crude oil if the market needs it — but blamed high fuel prices on speculators and said supply is not the problem.
A federal lawsuit asks that 44 companies and governments be held liable for a $31.7 million cleanup at a site near downtown Oklahoma City where contaminated oil was dumped.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down executions for child rapists in a Louisiana case. A 2006 Oklahoma law allows execution or life without parole of a person convicted of a sex crime involving a child younger than 14. The court also struck down the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns. The court took note that other gun laws — such as the federal ban on machine guns and the ban on guns in specific places such as schools — are unaffected by the ruling.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain proposed a $300 million reward for a better automobile battery. The battery would have to be 30 percent cheaper and be able to power the current hybrids and electric cars.
McCain distanced himself from an adviser, Charlie Black, who said a terrorist attack on U.S. soil would benefit the Republican candidate.
Democratic candidate Barack Obama and his opponent Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared together in Unity, N.H. In the nation’s first primary, the town gave exactly 107 votes to each candidate.
Comedian George Carlin, who pushed the bounds of comedy and language use, has died of heart failure at age 71.
Steve Farley, a Guthrie man employed by the State Department, was killed in a bombing of a municipal building in Sadr City. At least 10 people were killed in the blast, officials said. Farley was in Iraq to help in rebuilding the infrastructure.
A female suicide bomber killed at east 15 people north of Baghdad. It was the 21st suicide mission carried out by a woman this year as al-Qaida turns increasingly to females who use long, billowing robes to conceal their explosives.
Divers found no survivors inside a capsized ferry boat carrying 800 people in the water off the Philippines.
Myanmar said 84,500 people died in last month’s cyclone, not including people who have died since the storm from disease or starvation.
Only the first round may be over for residents along the Mississippi River as floodwaters began to recede. A series of levee breaches spread water over a wide swath of land in Missouri and Illinois. More rain this week raised fears the floods could be recharged. President Bush has already declared 22 Missouri counties to be disaster areas.
Inspired by oilman Boone Pickens, fellow alumnus and oilman Malone Mitchell III and his wife, Amy, gave more than $50 million to Oklahoma State University for athletics and academics.
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I think we should talk more about the story of this photographer, taking pictures of a police chase that turned into a four car crash! Yes he was partially in his rights to take pictures but if the police wants the pictures you have to hand them over because you are taking pictures of an ongoing ijvestigation that they have going! I am in a family of police officers and I know how things go and it apalled me when he mentioned that police officers think they rule the world, well think about it this way if there weren’t officers who actually took a stand you would be out of luck on alot of things, they may be tough yes but they have to be, and because of people like this photographer/ teacher who think they can do whatever they please and think he thinks he can do whatever he wants, is a big problem with society these day, people need to stop and think before they take some of the actions they do, have commom sense use your brain every once in awhile! I am going to go into the highway patrol and I respect everything that they do and I see no problem in what they did at all!