Month: May 2023

The Oklahoma House recently passed legislation co-authored by a Cleveland County legislator that would award Oklahoma’s Promise scholarships to students with intellectual disabilities. Senate Bill 322 creates the Oklahoma Higher Education Tuition Assistance Act – Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Trust Fund, which will provide students with intellectual disabilities access to tuition and scholarships for the transition to post-secondary programs. “I personally love this bill because it puts students with intellectual disabilities on an equal footing with their peers who can now qualify for Oklahoma’s Promise tuition scholarships to attend college or careers” , said Mark McBride, R-Moore. McBride said many…

The 2022 midterm elections saw an unprecedented number of Republican candidates deny or question the results of the last presidential election, spread false conspiracy theories about the nation’s voting systems and, in many cases, question the legitimacy of American democracy itself. While most of them won, almost all of the leading candidates lost in what was seen as a national rebuke of the movement. But the loss didn’t seem to deter many of them. Six months later, many are considering returning to the campaign trail or continuing to gain popularity and power in conservative circles. “They may have lost an…

Plant City police officers shot and killed a suicidal gunman on Sunday, according to the Plant City Police Department. Officers responded about 5:15 p.m. to a call about a suicidal person in a parking lot at the U.S. Post Office, 2501 Walden Woods Dr., according to a new department release. Officers arrived at the scene and found a man with a gun, police said. Officers tried to de-escalate the situation, but the man pointed a gun at them “in an aggressive manner,” according to the press release. Officers then shot and killed the man. Plant City police have not released…

WASHINGTON (AP) – When President Joe Biden nominated Gigi Sohn to the Federal Communications Commission, the longtime consumer advocate expected to face criticism for her desire to expand free access on the Internet and improve competition between broadband providers. Instead, Sohn found himself the target of an aggressive campaign funded by a conservative group that must not disclose its donors. The American Accountability Foundation called Sohn too partisan, anti-police and soft on sex trafficking. The attacks came, to the point that even some Democrats abandoned it. Sohn withdrew her nomination, abandoning her bid for a five-year term as FCC commissioner….

Slovakia’s prime minister has resigned and been replaced by an interim, deepening the country’s political crisis months before an election that looks likely to be won by a Moscow-friendly party that opposes more military aid in Ukraine Central bank deputy governor Ľudovít Ódor was due to become the leader of a technocrat government this week after Prime Minister Eduard Heger, himself acting as an interpreter since losing his majority last September, leave the post on Sunday. Under Heger’s center-right government, elected in 2021, Slovakia, a member of the EU and NATO, has proven a strong supporter of Kiev since Russia’s…

Monday, May 8, 2023 at 04:53 For: News 9 OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City firefighters responded to a 4-alarm commercial fire Monday morning near Reno Avenue and North Martin Luther King Avenue. Authorities at the scene said the fire started around 1 am “We ended up going to a 4-alarm fire, which is about eight engine companies and four ladder companies,” said OKCFD Battalion Chief David Shearer. “We also have our hazmat and rescue units.” OKCFD said the hazardous materials team was called due to burning plastics in the area. For now, authorities at the scene said there were no…

UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) — A handful of protesters over Jordan Neely’s death are being sought by police for jumping onto subway tracks and disrupting service over the weekend. The sailor at the center of this controversy has not been arrested. Officials say protesters took to the tracks at the Q train station near Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street. The NYPD has already arrested 13 other people after this protest in the wake of Neely’s death. A grand jury is expected to decide whether Marine Daniel Penny, 24, will face criminal charges for choking Neely to death aboard a…

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) – Under a set of white tents on the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas, dozens of Venezuelan men waited. Some sat on the sidewalks and others leaned on metal barricades. When the gates finally opened, the long line of men slowly made their way up the pedestrian walkway to the bridge and across the Rio Grande River into Mexico. In recent weeks, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have facilitated those removals three times a day as about 30,000 migrants, mostly from Venezuela, have entered the United States in that region since mid-April. That compares with the…