Gallery: Action at Ardmore Dragway
The Ardmore Dragway hosted racing over the weekend. Check out some sights from the action.
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New law reduces taxes for businesses, cuts support for jobless Oklahomans
Republican legislators passed a law lowering taxes for businesses, but critics say it comes at the expense of jobless Oklahomans. The law, which passed along party lines in both the House and the Senate, cuts the maximum number of weeks that unemployed Oklahomans can receive financial support from 26 to 16 starting Jan.
Ongoing program connects Oklahoma families to literary education, monarch conservation and recreation with complimentary zoo admission
Now in its sixth season, Read for Adventure, the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden’s popular statewide library program, invites Oklahoma families to experience this engaging activity while enjoying wild benefits including free Zoo admission. Sponsored by OG&E, Read for Adventure encourages family togetherness and introduces participants to the importance of taking conservation action to help monarch butterflies and other pollinators plus native habitat through the program’s original children’s book, Juniper’s Butterfly Garden–A Small Start for a Better World. Oklahoma library card holders who check out Juniper’s Butterfly Garden, from any participating public and tribal library location within the state, and upon doing so receive a voucher redeemable for free genera admission to the OKC Zoo for up to four people (child, adult or senior).
Woman can’t stop thinking about her husband’s friend
DEAR ABBY: I have a huge crush on my husband’s friend, “Shane.” I think about him daily and fantasize about him every night. He used to come into the place where I work once a month. I wanted to tell him back then how I felt, but I chickened out.
Giveon’s ‘Give or Take’ makes heartbreak enjoyable
New York (AP) — Giveon is a hopeless romantic. That could be why his disappointment toward failed relationships has been on full display in his music and is palpable throughout his debut album, “Give or Take.”
Bulgaria’s president asks third party to form a government
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian President Rumen Radev on Monday handed a mandate to the third-largest political party in parliament to form a government after two previous attempts have failed. Although the chances of the Socialist Party’s success are dim, its floor leader, Georgi Svilenski, said his party would invite the three other groups in the former coalition to give it a new try.
Artist honors her mother with special art at Artesian Arts Festival
SULPHUR, Okla. – It is simply titled “Cherie.” While the charcoal, black and white depiction of male and female cardinals may possess simplicity in name, the complexity of the work is seemingly infinite.
From child actor to director, Hannah
Hannah Marks has been on sets for most of her life. Following in her mother’s footsteps, the Southern California native started acting at age 6. By the time she was a teenager, she was already a veteran of the network and cable television show circuit, having done the rounds on all manner of sitcoms, procedurals and prestige-y dramas, including a multi-season arc on “Weeds.”
Russia acquits feminist artist on trial for pornography
MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Russia’s far east on Friday handed a rare acquittal to a feminist artist who was charged with disseminating pornography after she shared artwork online depicting female bodies.
Review: Willi Carlisle sings satirical, populist folk songs
“Peculiar, Missouri,” Willi Carlisle (Free Dirt Records) Coming from a queer, 6-foot-4, 300-pound former high school football captain who went on to sing Midwestern punk rock, pursue poetry in New York and then earn a fellowship to teach literature in the Ozarks, this album is what you’d expect: different. It’s terrific, too.