“Obama will hold the highest office in the land, on January 20, 2009!” shouted Brenan Presley. At the tender age of five, Presley is among 200 students at Deborah Brown Community School. On a daily routine, children recite all the names of the United States Presidents. Now he and his schoolmates will have to make some adjustments to add the 44th president to their already long list.
OKLAHOMA CITY State Capitol -Representative Darrell Gilbert faces legislative term limits and will soon retire from the Oklahoma House of Representatives, but he will depart with a solid legacy of advancing mental and medical health care and social services issues in the state.
Representative Gilbert, D-Tulsa, began his legislative career twelve years ago when he was [...]
A study by the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) shows although rates of prenatal care are generally the same for African American and white women in Oklahoma, one in five African American women face significant barriers beginning prenatal care. These include transportation problems, not being able to get [...]
Technology used in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; allows medical staff to better see tiny veins
OKLAHOMA CITY - The Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center has recently added the latest technology in vascular imaging, the VeinViewer by Luminetx. The VeinViewer is a revolutionary technology that projects an image of a patient’s veins directly on the [...]
Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW teams with OMRF in battle against cancer
OKLAHOMA CITY - Over the course of a year, the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars rolls pennies, packages pastries and collects funds to donate to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.
At its annual fall festival conference last month, the group presented OMRF [...]
By David Harper
Sports Writer
The Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs brought their game to score a 9-3 victory over the Tulsa Oilers Halloween night at the BOK Center. Ryan Mior held off the Oilers to allow Travis Clayton, Chris Brassard, Tyrel Lucas and Neil Clark to score two goals a piece, while Kevin Cooper scored a single to bring [...]
The Ultimate Fighter 6 Champion Mac Danzig will be the celebrity guest at 7 p.m., Saturday, November 15, at the Freestyle Cage Fights at Osage Event Center.
In his official UFC debut, Danzig defeated Tommy Speer on December 8, 2007. With a record of 18-5-1, he was former lightweight champion for the King of the Cage [...]
By Leon Wilson
Guest Columnist
Sonny Holmes, bowling in the Monday Night League at Mickey’s Lanes, looks forward to coming to the bowling lanes each week to bowl and hope for the best. He was in for the surprise of his bowling career, as he opened the flood gates with an eight-bagger 259 game.
In the second game, [...]
By Leon Rollerson
Guest Contributor
Has the lesson of the dollar turnaround been truthfully learned today, from lessons of yesterday? If you attend as many meeting as I do you will start hearing the speech that says in order for a community to stay healthy and also to grow then money must be put into the community [...]
Each year on the fourth Saturday in October, volunteers from coast to coast pull out their can-do spirits and vow to improve their communities on Make A Difference Day, a national day of service. On October 25 local Modern Woodmen of America members joined this nationwide effort.
Members of the Tulsa Modern Woodmen camp made a [...]