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IN BRIEF
Rodgers reportedly agrees to stay with Packers next season GREEN BAY, Wis. – Aaron Rodgers is planning to come back to the Green Bay Packers for an 18th season, a move that keeps the reigning MVP off the trade market and answers the question that had dominated NFL offseason discussions.
Next Gen car delivers for NASCAR
LAS VEGAS – NASCAR’s underdogs will have a fighting chance in the Next Gen car, according to the development plan for the ballyhooed new model, and the racing would be much better. New car configurations would force drivers to muscle the cars like never before.
Lockout can benefit college game
Kush Patel showed up at Minute Maid Park wearing the No. 43 jersey of Houston Astros ace Lance McCullers Jr.
When will Mayfield’s Heisman Park statue be unveiled?
NORMAN — Baker Mayfield‘s statue in Heisman Park was set to be unveiled as part of the 2020 OU spring game before the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out the event. Two years later, the statue is set to finally be dedicated.
Geography often the Capitol’s political divider
Even before the legislative session was a week underway, one of the signature proposals from the leader of the state Senate was shot down by the leader of the House. Senate Pro Tem Greg Treat wants to see a voucher system that Oklahoma families can use to pay for private school tuition.
‘We can do better’
Everything changed when Clayton McCook’s daughter, Lily, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 10 years ago. When she was just 3 years old, the diagnosis meant she suddenly required four shots a day, and extra ones any time she ate something with carbohydrates.
Young Selma man switches roles
For longer than Elliott Smith can recall, annual commemorations of the historic voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, doubled as family reunions. He first attended as a newborn.
US banning Russian oil imports as Biden warns of price spike
WASHINGTON – Striking harder at Russia’s economy, President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered a ban on Russian oil imports in retaliation for Vladimir Putin’s onslaught in Ukraine. The major trade action, responding to the pleas of Ukraine’s embattled leader, thrust the U.S.
US citizens stranded in Ukraine
LOS ANGELES – When her daughter was diagnosed with cancer, Tetiana Shatokhina didn’t hesitate to make the trip back to Ukraine to help her recover from surgery and care for her 14-yearold grandson.