News 2008-08-02 Andanh.com

I44 traffic detoured while hitandrun crash investigated Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:11:44 CDT
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol has closed Interstate 44s eastbound lanes at 41st Street in Tulsa while troopers work an injury hitandrun crash.

EMSA Heat Alert called for Saturday Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:04:46 CDT
An EMSA Heat Alert was issued for Saturday after extreme heat sent several Tulsans to the hospital Friday.

Motorcyclist killed in fiery crash on Indian Nation Turnpike Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:59:28 CDT
A motorcyclist from Sulphur Springs Texas died Friday after his fuel tank ruptured and caught fire in a threevehicle accident on the Indian Nation Turnpike in Pushmataha County.

Tulsa teens discrimination complaint not AFs first Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:18:52 CDT
Abercrombie Fitch the megaclothier accused of not hiring a Tulsa teenage Muslim because she wears a religiouslymandated head scarf has a history of discrimination complaints. brbrimg srchttpwww.tulsaworld.comimagesicnpointer.gif bRelated Storyb a hrefhttpwww.tulsaworld.comnewsarticle.aspxarticleID2008080118A11spancl172517 targetblankMuslim teen in Tulsa denied job because of head scarf complaint saysa

Former Clinton aides join Rice staff Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:01:25 CDT
Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Andrew Rice has named Geri Prado a key lieutenant in Hillary Clintons presidential bid to be his campaign manager.

2 children left in SUV outside Tulsa WalMart Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:42:03 CDT
The children were discovered about 840 a.m. in a Chevy Tahoe in the WalMart parking lot at 6625 S. Memorial Drive.

Man shot during attempted robbery at Tulsa home Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:01:30 CDT
The shooting occurred about 1030 p.m. Thursday in the 13500 block of East 38th Place.

Lawton prison slaying leads to life sentence Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:32:25 CDT
Charles W. Snail was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to one count of firstdegree murder.

2 men sought in OKC homicide Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:51:10 CDT
Oklahoma City police are continuing to search for two men seen running from the scene of a fatal shooting in northeast Oklahoma City.

70 million in bonds to fund OKC cancer center Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:18:36 CDT
The state Council of Bond Oversight has approved the sale of 70 million in bonds to fund the construction of a cancer center on the University of Oklahomas Health Sciences Center campus.

Study China trade deficit costs state jobs Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:59:18 CDT
Oklahoma lost more than 15000 jobs between 2001 and 2007 because of the U.S. trade deficit with China a new study shows.

OSBI investigates Seminole Co. sheriff Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:31:34 CDT
Seminole County Sheriff Joe Craig is under investigation after a teenage girl claimed he bought her alcohol and had sex with her.

Oklahoma Bar Association general counsel charged with sexual battery Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:32:19 CDT
Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater on Friday charged Oklahoma Bar Association General Counsel Dan Murdock with two counts of sexual battery.

School calendar for Tulsaarea public schools 20082009 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:41:54 CDT
The school calendar for Berryhill Bixby Broken Arrow Collinsville Glenpool Jenks Owasso Sand Springs Sapulpa Skiatook Sperry Tulsa Tulsa yearround and Union.

Jarboe dismissed from OU football team Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:35:22 CDT
This week the OU player was the subject of a video in which hes seen rapping. His obscenitylaced rap included references to guns and shooting people. brbrimg srchttpwww.tulsaworld.comimagesicnvid.gif a hrefhttpwww.tulsaworld.comjarboerap targetblankWatch the video showing Jarboes controversial rap. Editors Note It contains graphic content.abrbrimg srchttpwww.tulsaworld.comimagesicnpointer.gif bFrom The Pickers Blogb a hrefhttpwww.tulsaworld.comwebextrablogsweblog.aspxcolumnid142822 targetblankHow Did Warden Stoops Do on This Onea

WEB EXCLUSIVE Watch a slide show and listen to athletes talk about winning state Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:56:42 CDT

ESPN lists finalists in Oklahoma City NBA uniform design contest Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:26:59 CDT
ESPNs Uni Watch invited readers to come up with new designs for the Oklahoma City NBA franchise. More than 350 submissions came in.

OU ranked No. 4 in Top 25 football coaches poll Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:46:32 CDT
Georgia is No. 1 in the preseason poll released today followed by Southern Cal and Ohio State.

UPDATED Oil prices rise 1 a barrel Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:51:19 CDT
Oil prices settled slightly higher Friday clawing back above 125 a barrel after Israel raised new concerns about Irans nuclear program. But more concerns that high prices are eating into demand limited the gains.

Oklahomas economic index improves Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:31:42 CDT
Contrary to the rest of the MidAmerica region Oklahomas Business Conditions Index soared to 59.3 in July its highest level since August 2006 according to a report released Friday by Creighton University in Omaha Neb.

Jarboe kicked off team Do you think it was the right decision Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:48:10 CDT
What do you think of OUs decision to dismiss freshman Josh Jarboe from the football teamppHere are my thoughtsppI think its an unfortunate situation but a wise move by Bob Stoops.p...

How Did Warden Stoops Do on This One Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:29:57 CDT
Given the increasing frequency with which punks are showing up on college campuses to play bigtime sports maybe they should be rated according to their risk of perpetrating a crime spree.ppPla...

TV deal good for Tulsa area fans Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:32:03 CDT
OKLAHOMA CITY The Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Associations new threeyear deal to have Fox Sports Southwest televise football and basketball postseason action will be an improvement for f...

The voice of AllState Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:36:43 CDT
My first trip to an AllState event came with my father in the early 1960s. I instantly noticed the announcer with the booming voice saying Ladies and gentlemen those are the men from the North....

See ya there Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:00:03 CDT
... Im gonna be a part of a hrefhttpwww.myspace.commscenteruniversebTHIS.b a href ppWhos gonna be there to show some great Tulsa women some love ppIts bound to be a g...

Raising school revenue Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:39:50 CDT
My Sunday column is a complicated tale that helps illustrate how the state aid formula works to distribute some 2 billion in state tax money to public schools.ppIt describes how if Tulsa Public...

Happy belated birthday H.A. Chapman Centennial Park Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:47:17 CDT
Another promise made and not kept concerning H.A. Chapman Centennial Park at Sixth and Main streets.ppAfter I last wrote about the seemingly endless construction project to build at oneblock pa...

Cranes in the air Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:30:16 CDT
One of the promises of the Vision 2025 program was Cranes in the Air. ppPromise kept.ppWalking to work through downtown today I saw three cranes and that doesnt count the one that was ...

Food, people and art
Chinese artist Wang Jing finds the relationship between humans and animals interesting.

Puppy mills in Stillwater

Police ask for help in robbery
Stillwater police are asking for help from the public in an armed robbery case.

Everyone wins with no tax?
A weekend without sales tax is seen as a win-win for consumers and retailers.

Cattle drive winds way to Pawnee
The high cost of fuel is still a thing of the future as the 19th century is recreated in this year’s Pawnee Bill Memorial Rodeo Cattle Drive.

Traffic signal turned off at 12th, Western

Homer Carl Evans Jr.

Local player makes some noise on the national level
Once school ends in May, many students revel in the thought of a three-month break.

Corley and Standage wrap up high school career at All-State meet
Stillwater High wrestlers Ky Corley and Austin Standage each had one last match before stepping up to the college level.

Kremlin corporate crackdown sends markets tumbling Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:44:55 CDT
JP Morgan Chase & Co. downgrades Russian stocks as government looks set to nationalize private steel, oil companies

SBA Loans for Aug. 4, 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:33:48 CDT
This is a list of U.S. Small Business Administration-backed loans approved in Oklahoma by the SBA during the week ending July 29. The list includes the name of the company or individual, address, amount of the loan and the lender.

Drilling Reports: Aug. 1, 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:47:16 CDT
These listings of new locations and wells spudded appear in the Aug. 1, 2008 edition of The Journal Record.

Comment on Concealed guns increase campus safety by Wendy Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:58:34 +0000
Of all of the gun crimes referenced here, what percentage of those were committed by holders of a legal concealed carry permit? To Bill who is worried about Crazy Scott in the corner blasting people, chances are whether or not law-abiding concealed carry permit holders are allowed to have guns on campus probably won't factor into Crazy Scott's decision to bring one. The only effect those rules will have is to determine whether or not there will be someone around to stop him.

Comment on Concealed guns increase campus safety by Paul Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:13:21 +0000
To Bill (Comment on 20-Mar-08 at 1:34 am): Your writing makes it clear to me that your are intelligent and educated. However .... The domino theory: if one falls, they all must fall. I expect most people can understand the fatal problems with your arguments. The most obvious is just what happens in real life. Should we have a repeat wherein Mr. Lewis is present but unarmed ... well, that would obviously seem to be fatal as he would have few choices beyond pray a prayer and attempt at taking cover all the while hoping the ammunition runs out. (The police will most certainly not arrive in time). The shoot/Don't shoot issue is a problem for anyone including the police. They arrive in time to help mop up the body fluids in most cases - no fault of theirs. Though I agree the we shouldn't have to worry about such individuals and situations, I am concerned that you have not learned enough in you studies. Important FACT: The world is full of such individuals (history is too). If we could snap our fingers and instantly vaporize every weapon not in the hands of Police/Military, the world would be flooded with weapons in no time. People would make them, people would sell them illegally (police/military), and they would divert for personal use leading to guns in the hands of criminals. Same if you vaporize every weapon - police & military included. You simply cannot legislate nor impose morality nor integrity. And then we have poison, knives, bombs ... Accidents will happen too, sad to say. I have been exposed to firearms since age 5. I was stunned at the accidental shooting of a SWAT commander by one of his subordinate officers (a sniper) during a SWAT exercise (no live ammunition was the plan ....). An attorney familiar with the intimates of the case pointed out that unlike said attorney and myself, most officers today have never handled a firearm before the police academy. Said officer violated several core and basic safety procedures that are so ingrained in my mind & habits that it is inconceivable that I could have done more than one of them were I in a total stupor or sleep walking, much less multiple sequential violations. I work at a job that requires intense attention to detail and understanding of these issues. I make a mistake, someone dies. We study the errors in detail. Redundancy is critical. Training equally so. Not 50:50. Takes 100:100 (for all the core issues, not just training and procedures). Even then problems will occur. Information. Logic. Knowledge. Wisdom. Information is not enough yet it is critical. Miss one fact and the result can be deadly. Yet most individuals, scientists (the theoretical ultimate in bias free) fail all the time because of bias in seeing, gathering and interpreting facts. Logic, the theoretical tool equal to the suposed unbiased scientist. The scientists great basic tool. Yet logic leads to many a false equassion - more often false then most realize. The idea is to take the facts and devise a logic about them. Then test the result. Try to break it. See if it holds. Even if you think it does or not, someone decades later may prove otherwise. Revealuate the facts and/or rework the logic. Knowledge - combine the above and mix in experience - broad, unbiased, detailed and digested through years and years. Why do so many cultures revere the elderly. We really have some troubles developing in this regard today. Saul Griffith wrote "to own something you(...) need the skills to operate and maintain it. That was true throughout human history until post (WWII), then all of a sudden you could own a lot of things and have no concept of how they work." (Popular Mechanics, August 2008 pg 16). Saul was talking about 'carbon footprint(s)" but the conept applies here in so many ways. Significantly, regarding the mechanics and details of the conepts above. We "own" freedom individually and collectively. The mechanics are critical and go beyound just a vote and acting on and voicing our conerns. Wisdom goes a step beyound yet incorporates all of the above. Problem is, some never attain wisdom and some seem to have it at an impossibly early age. I have pondered that quite a bit over the years. I have seen it come and go in the same individual too. Obviously, wisdom is usually not total as in all knowing on all issues. Yet some seem to cut right to to quick of a topic they have never studied. Wisdom is almost an enigma. I know that I gained a lot of wisdom from relatives and friends older than I. I am always ready to reevaluate, learn and change my perspective. Yet, principles are like a lighthouse. They are mostly cast mostly in stone and are not moveable (for the most part - consider the ocasional lighthouse moved inland from the eroding shoreline - nature at work and an example that we should never say never - even a principle need be moved on ocasion, bu only ever so slowly, rarely and with extreme caution! Well ... Mutual defense is a common goal for all but the criminal who is not part of the collective group but rather prays on said (sheep) and occasionally comes face to face with a sheep dog (be it police, or just a citizen doing his/her 'job' as a citizen - calling 911 and recording details or using a gun ... whatever). Then said criminal pleads for the protection of the group and if successful, typically learns the lesson and goes off and does it again. Oh so much to discuss, explore, ask and explain. Sufice it to say: My experience is that guns rarely make the individual. Bad is bad for the most part. There are exceptions, just like accidents. I come from a culture rich in the heartland - farming, hunting, fishing, recycling, service (community & military), hads on with mechanical, electrical, humanity ... people often called the 'salt of the earth' or disparaged as "clinging to guns .... religion ... xenophobia" or what ever it was 'he' said. These are some of my personal experiences: Thousands of individuals I would trust with my life (and often have) who are the heart and soul of this country and have given far more than most own firearms and I know of not one who has used them illegally or commited suicide. There are far more good people who own guns than who use them for criminal use. I have used firearms for self defense multiple times and ever fired a shot while doing so. I know many others who can say the same and read of such cases all the time - usually not typically in prime time media! I was on the college rifle team and was a competitive shooter in high school. Decades ago, kids got on the school bus with guns for use after school (competition or hunting), yet it seems guns are the problem. Well, best stop for now. Kind of late to post anyway: IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THEY ARE NOTHING MORE THAN ANOTHER TOOL HUMANS USE FOR GOOD OR BAD? nah .... couldn't be ...

Comment on Smoking ban about oppression, not health by Nick Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:26:14 +0000
Heather, do you think that a stigma should be associated with obese people? People die everyday due to the fact that they are not eating right. Should they be banned from being able to go to any of the less than healthy dining options on campus, or even be asked to no longer eat three burritos from Taco Mayo?

Slain dancer loved by friends 2008-08-02 01:01:12
Vanessa Swaissi, an Oklahoma City exotic dancer who hoped to become a guidance counselor, was gunned down Thursday after meeting two people who wanted to buy her car video monitor, according to friends.

Swaissi, 25, was supposed to take a test Thursday, the first step on a long journey toward turning her career dreams into reality, said friend and ex-girlfriend Shannon Ford.

Instead, a gunman took Swaissi's life in broad daylight in northeast Oklahoma City.

About 4:20 p.m., she was found beside her Cadillac coupe in the 300 block of NE 63 near the Broadway Extension. A female passenger escaped unharmed.

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Lawyer says he won't resign 2008-08-02 01:00:38
The lawyer responsible for investigating misconduct allegations against Oklahoma attorneys has asked for a leave of absence after being charged with sexual battery. He maintains he has done nothing wrong.

Dan Murdock was charged Friday with two felony counts of groping and biting a woman at a June 28 wedding shower.

His attorney insists any sexual contact between the two was consensual.

"Our position is real simple. We contend no crime was committed and no one was forced to do anything,” attorney Tom Reisen said.
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Stern claims he didn't threaten ex-Sonics owner 2008-08-02 00:49:44
OKLAHOMA CITY - NBA commissioner David Stern fired back Friday against accusations from former SuperSonics owner Howard Schultz, asserting in a court filing that he did not make threatening remarks to the Starbucks chief executive.

Stern signed a three-paragraph declaration confirming he had spoken with Schultz on June 25 about the former owner's decision to continue with his lawsuit attempting to prevent Clay Bennett's ownership group from moving the team to Oklahoma City when the city of Seattle was working on a settlement.
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Street reopening sends OSU racing toward future 2008-08-02 00:22:12
STILLWATER — The ceremony was short and after a few minutes of "thank yous,” a pistol shot was heard and two homemade dune buggies roared through a ribbon and re-opened a street that had been closed for nearly 3 1/2 years.

Within 30 minutes, the barriers were swung to the side, and dozens of cars came rolling through, kicking up what was left of the construction site dust. It was as if it had never been closed in the first place.

For some reason, Stillwater resident and OSU grad Lynndell Newby thought there would be more. A marching band. A gang of motorcycles. Maybe even a ticker tape parade with guest of honor T. Boone Pickens.

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Football: Player's rap sheet ends Sooner dreams 2008-08-02 00:21:46
NORMAN — Josh Jarboe won't be getting a third chance at the University of Oklahoma.

Sooner coach Bob Stoops dismissed the freshman wide receiver from the team Friday after a video of Jarboe's obscenity-laced rap about shooting people made its way around the Internet.

"We are disappointed in this outcome, but our complete review and this final decision is in the best interest of our program,” Stoops said in a statement.

Jarboe had also been arrested in the spring for bringing a stolen gun to his Georgia high school campus.

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Diabetic campers learn life lessons 2008-08-02 00:20:15
DAVIS — As the temperature rises, Oklahoma kids pack their bags and head to summer camp, where activities include archery, swimming, horseback riding and counting carbs.

At Camp Endres, insulin pumps are as common as bug bites and swimsuits.

Endres is a camp for youth ages 8 to 17 who have Type I diabetes

In late July, they converge on the YMCA's Camp Classen in Davis to learn how to manage and care for their disease. And to cut loose for awhile.

"Attitude is everything when it comes to diabetes management,” said camp director Kim Boaz Wilson. "Children often feel defeated or their self-worth isn't what is should be.
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New plates have native art theme 2008-08-02 00:17:47
The state will pay $6 million over the next two years to replace its standard license plates with a new one featuring an American Indian aiming an arrow into the sky.

The design, revealed for the first time Friday, is from Oklahoma artist Allan Houser's "Sacred Rain Arrow” sculpture at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa. Houser, who died in 1994, was a member of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma.

"The family is very pleased and grateful to have the design chosen,” said David Rettig, curator for the Houser estate in Santa Fe, N.M. "It's a great honor to have his art on the plates.
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