On April 7, the city had its 12th homicide of the year as a 30-year-old female was found dead in a home on SW 60th Street.
Few details were known in the following days. Was this a drug-related homicide? A domestic dispute? Or maybe a murder related to the citys increase in gang activity?
All that was known was it was another body in a city that has seen its murder count steadily rise over the past decade.
In 2006, Oklahoma Citys four-year homicide average was 49.2 a year. After last years 75 murders, the citys current four-year average is 73.5, a 149-percent increase.
Kids Lowered Over Fence Published: 24 April 2021
U.s. Border Patrol agents apprehended two men and a woman with her two children early Thursday morning.
Remote camera operators watched a man being lowered by rope from the border fence about 3 miles west of downtown Calexico. The remote surveillance operators than saw a second man being lowered and noticed that a small child was clinging to his back. A third adult , a woman holding a child , was lowered from the top of the border fence. The camera operators saw three smugglers on the Mexican side of the border with a ladder. They also had the rope used to lower the five. Agents were able to take the three adults and two children into custody. The 32-year old woman and her children , a 2-year old girl and a 6-year old boy , are undocumented immigrants from Venezuela. The men , one 28 years old and the other 31 , are also from Venezuela , and are not related to the mother or kids.
Missouri pastor donates kidney to church member
Jack Coultas gave the ultimate gift to Jeremy Whitham back in January
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â A Osceola, Missouri pastor gave the ultimate gift by giving his kidney to a church member, Well, I think it s because it s one of those few opportunities we have as people to truly be able to show people love, in a way that truly is the laying down of our own lives, Jack Coultas, pastor in Osceola said.
36-year-old Jeremy Whitham was looking for something money can t buy, a kidney.
“I was embarrassed. I was really ashamed. It wasn’t something I was proud of because I very much thought that it was all my fault and I was the only one to blame for this,” said K.C., who was age 18 at the time. “It was definitely not the way I imagined my senior year going.”
With the help of her family, friends, counselors, authorities and even a federal judge, K.C. now knows that none of it was her fault. The U.S. attorney’s office is helping her to help others who have found themselves in the cross hairs of a cyber criminal.
The state’s largest utility is going green this Earth Day. OG&E pledges to replace light-duty vehicles, known as LDVs, entirely with electric vehicles.LDVs include sedans and the half-ton pickups you see everywhere. OG&E intends to focus on electric vehicles and charging stations. The utility is also pledging to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60% by 2030. “Transportation in America is the largest source of CO2 emissions. We want to do our part, not only on Earth Day but every day,” said OG&E’s Gayle Maxwell. As for the increased number of charging stations, she said: The more we give access, the more we see the emissions reduced more and more.”