Lawton firefighters volunteer to help Health Dept. administer COVID-19 vaccines By Nazarene Harris | February 26, 2021 at 7:43 PM CST - Updated February 26 at 7:43 PM
LAWTON, Okla. (TNN) - Never one to shy away from answering a call for help, Lawton Fire Department Assistant Chief, Brent Baggett, signed up to volunteer to give out COVID 19 vaccines to the public as soon as he knew health officials needed him. Other firefighters from the department followed suit.
“With COVID we realized that there’s going to be a large need for people to help with giving vaccines. We’re working with Comanche County Health Department and they stated that they needed extra volunteers so we signed up through the state,” said Baggett.
Cameron University honors alumni and faculty during homecoming week
Cameron University honor alumni and faculty during homecoming week By Tiffany Bechtel | February 26, 2021 at 10:18 PM CST - Updated February 26 at 10:30 PM
LAWTON, Okla. (TNN) - Cameron University has had to get creative with 2021â²s homecoming week celebrations due to the pandemic.
Theyâve had to cancel their usual annual traditions such as a bonfire, pep rally and the big gathering at the basketball games. President John McArthur says this yearâs celebration has been more of a âstay-at-homecoming.â
One tradition they havenât had to compromise on is the recognition of former students and faculty.
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Duane Arden Johnson
SEARLES, Minn. A man who held a “death party” for his wife now is charged with murder after an autopsy showed his wife died of a methamphetamine overdose.
Duane Arden Johnson, 58, was charged with criminal neglect in the January death of his wife, Debra Lynn Johnson, 69. The Brown County Attorney s Office added a third-degree murder charge on Monday, March 11.
A Brown County Sheriff s Office investigator received Debra Johnson s autopsy results last month. The cause of death is listed as methamphetamine toxicity, according to the new charging document.
Duane Johnson called authorities to his home Jan. 24 and they found Debra Johnson dead and wrapped in a sheet. Duane Johnson told authorities his wife had been in a nursing home and she begged him to take her home to die.
Honoring longtime TDOC employee killed in the line of duty
Debra Johnson s name will be placed on the I-440 as a portion of the interstate is now named the Debra K. Johnson Memorial Parkway.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â A longtime Tennessee Department of Corrections employee was honored Sunday in a special way after she was brutally murdered in the line of duty.
Debra Johnson s name will be placed on Interstate 440 as a portion of the interstate is now named the Debra K. Johnson Memorial Parkway.
Senator Brenda Gilmore led the ceremony honoring the dedicated TDOC administrator.
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Residential and commercial development in and around Boulder Junction. If or when a commuter train ever comes to Boulder and Longmont, this would be the Boulder stop. Gov. Jared Polis says RTD must follow through on its promise to build a rail line from Denver to Boulder and Longmont in spite of its budget issues. “The train has to come. It was part of the 2004 ballot initiative,” Polis says.
Nearly 90 minutes into the Regional Transportation District board’s Tuesday night meeting on the unfinished commuter rail line to Boulder and Longmont, RTD board chair Angie Rivera-Malpiede interrupted.