UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Facing massive public pressure, Uvalde’s top school official has recommended the firing of the school district police chief who was central to the botched law enforcement response to the elementary school shooting nearly two months ago that killed two teachers and 19 students.
BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — A transformer exploded Tuesday at Hoover Dam, one of the nation’s largest hydroelectric facilities, producing a thick cloud of black smoke and flames that were quickly extinguished.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Installing an elevator doesn’t normally involve a 2,000-year plunge into an ancient city’s history. But in Jerusalem, even seemingly simple construction projects can lead to archaeological endeavors.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Shell-shocked family pets started roaming around Ukraine’s capital with nowhere to go in the opening stages of Russia’s war. Volunteers opened a shelter to take them in and try to find them new homes or at least some human companionship.
STILLWATER – Three scientists gained a new home last year at the Oklahoma State University Institute for Agricultural Biosciences where they are helping solve the problem of world hunger by improving nitrogen fixation and drought resistance in plants.
ROME (AP) — Italy’s art squad police said Tuesday they have thwarted the potential illegal sale by a Vienna auction house of a 17th-century painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, a celebrated Baroque artist.
More than 883,000 people from around the world have visited the Chickasaw Cultural Center since it first opened July 24, 2010. The vision for the Chickasaw Cultural Center was put in motion many decades ago as a group of like-minded people worked toward one mission: Plan a cultural home for Chickasaw people and share the rich culture, language, history, traditions and the arts of the tribe with the world.
Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden recently contributed to a new study published in Science, a peer-reviewed academic journal. For this study, researchers used data provided by the OKC Zoo in collaboration with zoos and aquariums around the world to examine 52 species of turtles and tortoises. The data recorded by the OKC Zoo in the Species360 Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS), a digital record management system used by the Zoo, enabled researchers to discover that, unlike humans and other species, turtles and tortoises defy common evolutionary theories and may reduce the rate of aging in response to improvements in environmental conditions. To read the complete Science article visit https://www. science.org/doi/10.1126/science. abl7811.
Noble — These prolonged, extremely hot temperatures are hard on and potentially dangerous for everyone—this includes wildlife. Extreme heat during wildlife baby season can lead young animals to leave their nests or dens prematurely. It’s not uncommon for nestling Mississippi Kites, for example, to jump out of their nests to escape the heat. The heat compounded with the drought in Oklahoma can even cause stress on healthy adult animals. Here are three ways to help wildlife survive this heat now:
DEAR ABBY: I retired to Malaga, Spain, after my marriage of 38 years ended in divorce. I have gone to dinner with a few men since moving here. This is a lovely community with many retired residents from all over Europe and the U.K. My problem is, after a few dates, they assume that because they bought me dinner it entitles them to sex. I am fit and fairly attractive, but I may be out of touch on dating.