Congressman Markwayne Mullin visited Ardmore
Congressman Markwayne Mullin visited Ardmore on Tuesday to tour the Depot District. Here he is with Kristin Blount, co-owner of Main Street Coffee.
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Husband makes a connection as 17-year marriage teeters
DEAR ABBY: I have been married for 17 years with three great kids. My wife and I have struggled on and off during those 17 years. I often feel like maybe I don’t love her. We are complete opposites. I’m adventurous, daring and extroverted. She denies me sex a lot. This last time was for four months.
Kelsea Ballerini to co-host CMT Music Awards from home
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Country star Kelsea Ballerini is making a last-minute pivot to co-hosting the CMT Music Awards remotely after testing positive for COVID-19 days before the show. Ballerini and actor Anthony Mackie were set to host the Monday night awards show airing on CBS from Nashville.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has book out this fall
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has a book coming out this fall that covers his years in the Trump administration and, according to his publisher, offers “unvarnished appraisals of the deals made and characters encountered along the way.”
Mark Wahlberg stars in the spiritless ‘Father Stu’
This Easter, Mark Wahlberg is offering us a gift as sweet as a box of Peeps or a chocolate rabbit — and just as nutritious. “Father Stu” is a loving biopic of a one-time real-life hell-raising, blue-collar hustler who somehow becomes a white-collared Roman Catholic priest.
The Keystone Plants
When “The Score” hosted by Edmund Stone played Friday afternoon, the lead-off song was Judy Garland singing “In your Easter bonnet” from the 1948 movie “Easter Parade.” My father loved that movie. In the spring he would occasionally burst out singing “Easter Parade”, the give a big grin. “Oklahoma” ran a close second. Of all the traditions, the parades at Easter go back to the earliest Holy Week in the Christian religion. The first procession was Jesus entering Jerusalem before Passover to commemorate the time the Hebrews were liberated from Egyptian slavery. The second walk was when Jesus carried the cross through Jerusalem to outside the gates beyond the city.
US inflation jumped 8.5% in past year, highest since 1981
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation soared over the past year at its fastest pace in more than 40 years, with costs for food, gasoline, housing and other necessities squeezing American consumers and wiping out the pay raises that many people have received.
Biden waiving ethanol rule in bid to lower gasoline prices
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is visiting corn-rich Iowa on Tuesday to announce he’ll suspend a federal rule preventing the sale of higher ethanol blend gasoline this summer, as his administration tries to tamp down prices at the pump that have spiked during Russia’s war with Ukraine.
Global operation takes down hackers’ leaked data market
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — European Union police agency Europol said Tuesday it has coordinated an international operation to take down a major hackers’ marketplace that sold access to database leaks from U.S. companies including credit card details, user names and passwords for online accounts.
Kristi Ann Hulett
The daughter of Rev. C.R. Smith and Anna Mae (Kirby) Smith, Kristi was born on February 8, 1973 in Ardmore, Oklahoma and passed away on April 8, 2022 in a Oklahoma City hospital at the age of 49 years, 2 months and 0 days. She and Ernest J.