(OKLAHOMA CITY) – The Oklahoma Veterans Commission made history on Monday, April 11th by appointing Sarah Lane as the Acting Executive Director of the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs. Lane is the first female veteran to serve as the head of the agency.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukraine says it is investigating a claim that a poisonous substance was dropped on the besieged city of Mariupol. Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said Tuesday it was possible that phosphorus munitions — which cause horrendous burns but are not classed as chemical weapons — had been used. Now the question is how to establish the truth amid the fog of war that has descended over a city still under attack from Russian forces. The global chemical weapons watchdog said Tuesday it is “concerned by the recent unconfirmed report of chemical weapons use in Mariupol” and is closely monitoring the situation in Ukraine. But experts says it’s much too dangerous now to send an investigation team into Mariupol.
NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman in a construction vest donned a gas mask, set off a smoke canister on a rush-hour subway train and shot at least 10 people Tuesday morning, authorities said. The shooter was at large after leaving wounded commuters bleeding on a Brooklyn platform while others ran screaming.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.