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Home Care Act Moves to House Floor Calendar - April 08, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY – A bill designed to give home health care companies the ability to hire shift workers instead of live-in aids passed the House Health and Long Term Care Committee recently and is no...
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Oklahoma COVID-19 Report for 8 April 2021 - April 08, 2021
As of this advisory, there are 442,389 (483 new today) cases of COVID-19 in Oklahoma. Kay County is reporting a total of 5,259 confirmed cases, with 125 deaths. Osage County has had a tota...
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Enid man arrested after confessing to sexually abusing child - April 08, 2021
by: K. Querry-Thompson ENID, Okla. (KFOR) – Authorities in Enid say they have arrested a 41-year-old man on complaints of lewd or indecent acts to a child. On Tuesday afternoon, investigators...
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Dems blast Oklahoma lawmaker who compared slavery, abortion - April 08, 2021
by Sean Murphy OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A white Republican lawmaker from southeast Oklahoma is facing criticism for comparing lawmakers’ efforts to end abortion to the fight against slavery. Rep. Ji...
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Another Deadline Week - April 08, 2021
By Sen. Bill Coleman This past week, we completed committee work on House bills. We successfully got through more than half of the remaining House bills, and the next two weeks will be fa...
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12-Year-Old Loses Leg After Crashing Bicycle Into Ponca City School Bus - April 08, 2021
By: Clayton Cummins PONCA CITY (News9) - A 12-year-old Oklahoma boy is recovering at a Missouri hospital after crashing into a school bus while riding a bicycle in Ponca City. The crash hap...
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Kay County wheat farmer is a master builder of tiny implements - April 08, 2021
by Galen Culver PONCA CITY, Okla. (KFOR) – If he doesn’t have anything else to do, nothing else to work on, Ray Schieber shrinks into a miniature farm, a much smaller world, with miniature mach...
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Oklahoma House Rep makes comparison of abortion to slavery - April 07, 2021
by Cassandra Sweetman OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – An Oklahoma House member came under fire Wednesday for making a comment some are calling racially insensitive, comparing abortion and slavery. Rep....
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Oklahoma opens COVID-19 vaccinations to all states - April 07, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma will begin providing COVID-19 vaccinations to residents of any state as Oklahoma’s vaccine supplies and vaccinations administered increased, deputy state Health Commi...
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Complaint may spur review of meat industry’s virus response - April 07, 2021
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A union complaint about whether an Oklahoma meatpacking plant is doing enough to protect workers from the coronavirus could test the industry’s response to the pandemic because ...
