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appeared to build Tuesday for Western military action against Syria, with the U.S. and France saying they are in position for a strike, while the government in Damascus vowed to use all possible measures to repel it. The prospect of a dramatic

U.S.-led intervention into Syria’s civil war stemmed from the West’s assertion — still not endorsed by U.N. inspectors — that President Bashar Assad’s government was responsible for an alleged chemical attack on civilians outside Damascus on Aug. 21 that the group Doctors Without Borders says killed 355 people. Assad denies the claim.

The Arab League also threw its weight behind calls for punitive action, blaming the Syrian government for the attack and calling for those responsible to be brought to justice. British Prime Minister David Cameron recalled Parliament to hold an emergency vote Thursday on his country’s response. It is unlikely that any international

military action would begin before then. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said U.S. military forces stand ready to strike Syria at once if President Barack Obama gives the order, and French President Francois Hollande said France was “ready to punish those who

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‘It is getting out of hand over here’

Police were just yards away investigating a stabbing call when Lucky’s Liquor Store at SW 44 and May Avenue was being robbed. Officers heard shots and ran to the business with guns drawn and more shots were fired.

South OKC residents react to robbery, police shooting BY JULIANA KEEPING Staff Writer jkeeping@opubco.com

An Oklahoma City police detective speaks with a man Tuesday in front of a business in the shopping center where Brett “Lucky” Alan Cude, the proprietor of Lucky’s Liquor Store at SW 44 and May Avenue, was robbed the night before, then shot by police. PHOTOS BY JIM BECKEL, THE OKLAHOMAN

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Moments after a shopkeeper opened fire on robbery suspects fleeing his store, Oklahoma City police gunned him down outside his shop. That violence unfolded Monday night about two hours after an unrelated stabbing around the corner at the same shopping center complex. A fight at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting led to the stabbing about 6:20 p.m., according to police and workers at the Mayridge Shopping Center at SW 44 and S May Avenue. Police came to investigate the stabbing, and while there, heard shots ring out around the corner. Store proprietor Brett “Lucky” Alan Cude, 50, had fired his weapon at two people trying to rob his store about 8:15 p.m. at Lucky’s Liquor, 2908 SW 44, Oklahoma City police Capt. Dexter Nelson said. Nelson described Cude as stable and able to talk the day after the shooting. It’s not clear where the store owner was taken for treatment; attempts were not successful on Tuesday to locate him at area hospitals.

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Chris and Randa Reiger came home from Ecuador without their son, August. More than two months after the 18-year-old valedictorian went missing while on vacation, his parents made the agonizing decision to return to Oklahoma City without knowing their son’s fate, WEATHER

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There have been a few credible sightings, but no ransom demand and no indication of when the Reigers might see him again. August Reiger graduated from Classen School of Advanced Studies last May, and his parents took him and his younger brother on a trip to Ecuador in June. The

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said Christi Reiger, August’s aunt. “I’m sure it’s the hardest thing they’ve ever had to do in their lives,” Christi Reiger said. “It’s hard to imagine leaving your child somewhere not knowing if they are safe.” Authorities in Ecuador believe August Reiger was kidnapped.

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Flanked by violence Workers at Cricket Wireless said they heard the shots. Employee Clara Porras said she looked out the store’s large windows and saw a police officer firing his gun. “We had windows all over. I saw a cop pointing a gun at something and pretty much shooting back,” Porras said. She didn’t know how many shots she heard. “There were plenty,” she said. “I can’t say an exact number — it was back and forth, back and forth.” The young women working in the cellphone store at a corner of the shopping center were flanked by violent crime Monday evening. It was a worker in the store who had called 911 after the stabbing at Alcoholics Anonymous. Faced with a second emergency, the workers and a customer hid in the back of the business as police shot the shopkeeper. Dalia Perez, one of the workers at the wireless store, looked outside and saw the store owner bloodied on the ground. A gun was on the ground next to him. Perez said she saw the business owner putting pressure on his bleeding body.

Suspects arrested In the meantime, robbery suspect Tucson Delayne Redd Jr., 32, had been shot multiple times. He and Broderick Ransom, 17, fled in a car and crashed head-on into a pickup and trailer. The teenage suspect was injured in the crash, but the pair ran southwest. Police arrested the suspects about two blocks from the liquor store, in the 4700 block of S Drexel Avenue, Nelson said. Redd was in critical condition Tuesday while Ransom was treated and released into police custody. He was taken to the Oklahoma County jail. Both suspects face com-

Lucky’s Liquor Store at SW 44 and May Avenue was closed Tuesday after the store’s owner was shot by police after they saw him firing at a fleeing vehicle. PHOTO BY JIM BECKEL, THE OKLAHOMAN

plaints of robbery. Nelson said he did not know whether the suspects were armed. Sgt. Cody Koelsch and officer Bradley May had heard gunshots, turned a corner and saw shopkeeper Cude shooting at a car. Officers did not know Cude was the store owner, and they opened fire after he failed to do what they asked him to do, Nelson said. Koelsch is a sevenyear veteran of the police department. May has seven months of service, Nelson said. Both are on administrative leave.

Crime is common The acts shone a spotlight on a part of south Oklahoma City residents say is fraught with crime and overrun with gang activity. Cude, the store owner, watched over the shopping

complex, keeping his eye on goings-on at the busy commercial intersection, workers at the wireless store said. Lucky’s Liquor was closed and locked the day after the shooting, and the store owner’s blood stained the pavement outside. Amid the bustling commercial activity, residents say there is a seedy element in this part of the metro area. “He would look after the store, after us,” Porras said. “Because we’re surrounded by hobos, drug addicts and alcoholics. It’s pretty dangerous to work here. He was always lookin’ out.” Gangbangers sit in the parking lot late into the night through the morning across the street at 7Eleven, said Gary Warden, who lives nearby and commutes at 3 a.m. to the north side of the metro area to

deliver doughnuts for Krispy Kreme. The youngsters regularly accost customers outside the store, said Warden, who carries a knife for protection. He pulled that knife at the 7-Eleven last week on young men who approached him and demanded to know where he was going, scaring them off, he said. “Midnight until daylight — they ram that place, and the law won’t touch ’em.” Warden felt police could be much more aggressive to stop loitering and prevent crime in the area, but workers at Cricket said they often see squad cars, which provides a sense of security. Perez, the wireless store employee, said she’s got to get to work either way. Less than 24 hours after the violence that went

down outside her workplace windows, she helped a customer hash out a technical issue with a cellphone. “I have to come in. Even though this happened, I gotta forget it and just do what I have to do here.”

‘Lucky’ Zachery Morton was looking forward to talking with his friend Lucky at Lucky’s Liquor on Tuesday afternoon. He was surprised to find the door locked and shocked to hear what had happened. “He’s a good person,” Morton said of Cude, who he and others call ‘Lucky.’ “And this is a tragedy. It’s hard to believe.” Cude is a husband and a father, and he cherishes his new granddaughter, Morton said. Morton likes to buy wine for his sisters, who live in the neighbor-

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more than a few minutes, his father said. When they got to the meeting point, he wasn’t there. He also wasn’t at the hotel when they got back. The mountain was searched thoroughly with no sign of Reiger. Family members said he would have been found if he had fallen or gotten lost. Kidnappings are common in much of Latin America, but no one had been kidnapped in that region recently. Authorities settled on a kidnapping as the logical cause of August Reiger’s disappearance, in part because there were no other reasonable possibilities. He had no money or passport and went missing only with the clothes on his back. “Not knowing is torture on the family, and I’m sure on his friends, as well,” Christi Reiger said. “We don’t know what to think or where he is or what his circumstances are. You

feel totally helpless.” Reiger’s parents stayed in the area for more than a month as the case became a national story in Ecuador and both local and national law enforcement officials made it a priority. Family members repeatedly have praised the Ecuadorean government for their handling of the case and the resources they have put into the search. “They have done everything possible,” Christi Reiger said.

son returned to school for his freshman year. The Reigers have friends in Ecuador who are working with the government, and officials have kept the family in the loop as the search for August Reiger continues. In the meantime, August Reiger’s family will do their best to carry on without him, Christi Reiger said.

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Three credible sightings have been reported, she said — two by the same person on the same day and a third nearby along the coast. Witnesses gave similar stories about the people who were with him, although authorities have not said whether they think any specific group is responsible for his kidnapping. Chris and Randa Reiger recently returned to Oklahoma City. Their younger

SOCIAL MEDIA SPEAK-OUT Posts from the Find August Reiger page on Facebook: I Annette Seymour Bogard — Praying daily for August’s family, for him, and for his safe return. I Shana Burdick Erickson — My prayers are with you all. Keep the faith that he will be found and home soon. I Trisha Barton Worthington — May this young Man return home safe and sound. It is time for him to go to school and he and his family need the power of prayer now more than ever. Please Let this young man be returned to his family Dear Lord, this we ask in Jesus name, Amen. I Dana Shepard — Continuing to keep August in my prayers ... I wish that I could be in Ecuador searching for him as well as information on his whereabouts. This has gone on for way too long!!!! I Margaret Hanson — Heavy on my heart today — I continue to pray for you all!!

hood. He and his wife were friendly with the Cudes, and often talked about restaurants, retirement and travel at the shop. The robbery at his friend’s store upset him. “It’s senseless. It is senseless, and it is getting out of hand over here,” Morton said. He questioned if the police action was too rushed but said he didn’t want to judge the officers’ actions. “I’m ex-military, and I don’t want to say anything bad about anybody. It seems kind of a rush. The guy had a right to try and defend his store.” Morton left the liquor store to try and find Cude at a hospital. “I don’t understand this stuff,” he said. “This is a crazy world.” CONTRIBUTING:

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Not knowing is torture on the family, and I’m sure on his friends, as well. We don’t know what to think or where he is or what his circumstances are. You feel totally helpless.” CHRISTI REIGER

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took the heinous decision to gas innocents.” Obama is weighing a response focused narrowly on punishing Assad for violating international agreements that ban the use of chemical weapons. Officials said the goal was not to drive Assad from power or impact the broader trajectory of Syria’s bloody civil war, now in its third year. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday the West should be under no illusion that bombing Syrian military targets would help end the violence in Syria, an ally of Moscow, and he pointed to the volatile situations in Iraq and Libya that he said resulted from foreign military intervention. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said his country would use “all means available” to defend itself. “We have the means to defend ourselves, and we will surprise everyone,” he said. At a news conference in Damascus, al-Moallem challenged Washington to present proof to back up its accusations, and he also likened the allegations to false American charges in 2003 that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction before the U.S.-led invasion of that country. “They have a history of lies — Iraq,” he said.

U.S. cites evidence Vice President Joe Biden said there was no question that Assad was responsible for the attack — the highest-ranking U.S. official to say so — and the White House dismissed as “fanciful” the notion that anyone other than Assad could be to blame. “Suggestions that there’s any doubt about who’s responsible for this are as preposterous as a suggestion that the attack did not occur,” spokesman Jay Carney said. A U.S. official said some of the evidence includes signals intelligence — information gathered from intercepted communications. The U.S. assessment also is based on the number of reported victims, the symptoms of those injured or killed, and witness accounts. The officials insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the internal deliberations. The United Nations said its team of chemical weapons experts in Syria had delayed a second trip to investigate the alleged attack by one day for security reasons. On Monday, the team came under sniper fire. If Obama decides to order an attack against Syria, it most likely would involve sea-launched cruise missile attacks on Syrian military and communications targets. Hagel said the U.S. Navy had four destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean Sea positioned within range of targets inside Syria. U.S. warplanes were also in the region, he told BBC television during a visit to the southeast Asian nation of Brunei. In Cyprus, Defense Minister Fotis Fotiou said naval traffic in the eastern Mediterranean was very heavy with vessels from “all the major powers.” He also said Cypriot authorities were planning to deal with a possible exodus of foreign nationals from Syria. U.S. military intervention in Syria was running into fierce opposition from some members of Congress. A growing chorus of Republican and Democratic lawmakers demanded that Obama seek congressional authorization for any strikes against the Assad regime. Charles Heyman, a former British officer who edits The Armed Forces of the U.K., said the lack of a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force against the Syrian government greatly complicates matters for

the West. He said that may make it difficult for Cameron to win parliamentary backing. “It’s clear the governments want some form of military operation, but if the Security Council doesn’t recommend it, then the consensus is that it’s plainly illegal under international law,” Heyman said. “The only legal way to go to war is in selfdefense, and that claim is difficult to make.” Russia, a permanent member of the Security Council, has steadfastly opposed any international action against Syria. Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino said her country would not back any military action against Syria unless it was authorized by the Security Council — even though it considers a chemical attack to be a war crime. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Monday that if the Syrian government were proven to have been behind the gas attack, then Germany would support “consequences.” But with less than four weeks until national elections, it is unlikely Germany would commit any forces. Support for some sort of international military response is likely to grow if it is confirmed that Assad’s regime was responsible. The U.N confirmed its chemical weapons team’s mission faced a one-day delay Tuesday to improve

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Lane died of single gunshot wound to back BY NOLAN CLAY Staff Writer nclay@opubco.com

DUNCAN — Australian shooting victim Christopher Lane didn’t have a chance. Lane, 22, was shot in the back Aug. 16, while jogging on a city street. A report on his autopsy reveals in detail the devastation that single shot caused. Lane was hit in the left side of his back and the small-caliber bullet passed forward, upward and to the right.

The bullet first broke a rib. It then punched holes in his left lung, his aorta, his esophagus, the pulmonary artery and his right lung. Finally, it broke another rib. Both lungs collapsed and he bled extensively. The Oklahoma medical examiner’s office released the report Tuesday. The official cause of death is “penetrating gunshot wound to back.” The official manner of death is homicide. Two teens are charged with first-degree murder

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in the drive-by shooting. A third teen is charged with accessory to first-degree murder after the fact and use of a vehicle in discharge of a weapon. Prosecutors allege the gun used in the random attack was a .22-caliber revolver.

Also Tuesday, prosecutors, law enforcement agents and defense attorneys were banned from making further comments to the press about the case. Stephens County Special Judge Jerry Herberger issued the gag order in an effort to assure fair trials. A

defense attorney first suggested it. The judge also scheduled the preliminary hearing for Oct. 17. Gag orders are unusual, but the shooting has been the focus of widespread attention across the United States and in Australia. District Attorney Jason Hicks and Duncan Police Chief Danny Ford already have commented repeatedly about the case to the media. Hicks has called the defendants thugs and described the shooting as a

thrill killing. The police chief has told reporters one of the three teens claimed Lane was killed because they were bored. Lane first came to Oklahoma from Melbourne to play baseball on scholarship at Redlands Community College in El Reno. The catcher then went to East Central University in Ada and hoped to work in real estate when he graduated. He was wearing a gray “Redlands Baseball” Tshirt when he was shot, the autopsy report shows.

Group seeks to expand beer sales in river district William Crum

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A cold beer soon could be part of the daily scene in the Boathouse District. The Oklahoma City Boathouse Foundation is seeking permission to sell 3.2 beer at the Chesapeake Boathouse, Devon Boathouse and Chesapeake Finish Line Tower. A request for a land-use change to allow beer sales went before the Oklahoma City Riverfront Redevelopment Authority on Tuesday, but the panel voted to put off a decision. The Boathouse Foundation is the city’s partner in developing and operating the boathouses and related facilities, and maintaining the grounds in Regatta Park along the Oklahoma River. The Boathouse Foundation hosts rowing and canoe/kayak events that bring thousands of athletes and spectators to the river. The upcoming Oklahoma Regatta Festival will include the Oklahoma City University Head of the Oklahoma rowing competition and OG&E NightSprints, under newly in-

The Oklahoma City Boathouse Foundation is seeking permission to sell 3.2 beer at the Chesapeake Boathouse, Devon Boathouse and Chesapeake Finish Line Tower. Above is a view of the Boathouse District from the south on June 27. PHOTO BY NATE BILLINGS, THE OKLAHOMAN ARCHIVES

stalled racecourse lights. In a letter this month to the city’s parks director, Boathouse Foundation Executive Director Mike Knopp said adding 3.2 beer sales was part of efforts to expand food and beverage offerings. The proposal is for beer sales at the boathouses and finish line tower and surrounding grounds.

Plans are for concession carts placed in areas with restricted access, Knopp said. The Boathouse Foundation has gotten a beer license from the Oklahoma Tax Commission and the necessary Oklahoma County permit, he said. A zoning variance — a change in the land-use designation — is required

for the Boathouse Foundation to sell 3.2 beer on a daily basis in the park. In a memo, City Manager Jim Couch said the Oklahoma City Board of Adjustment would consider the request once it is approved by the Riverfront Redevelopment Authority and the city council. Alcohol sales now are limited to events managed

by licensed caterers, said Elizabeth Laurent, Boathouse Foundation senior director for marketing, events and program development. The delay means the Boathouse Foundation likely will get a caterer to run the beer garden during the Oklahoma Regatta Festival the first week of October, she said.

Survey supports election of state appellate judges, justices Oklahomans overwhelmingly prefer electing state appellate judges and justices, compared with the existing system of using an independent commission, according to findings of a survey released Tuesday. But the head of the Oklahoma Bar Association questions whether those taking part in the survey recall a scandal nearly 50 years ago involving the state’s Supreme Court justices, which led to the current selection process. “Our system has shown to work very well,” said John Williams, executive director of the Oklahoma Bar Association. “The current system replaced one of those political systems that did not work well. It had corruption and problems that the current system has not allowed.” The survey of 500 registered Oklahoma voters, conducted by North Star Opinion Research, shows that respondents by a 3to-1 margin preferred having the appellate judges and justices elected. The poll, with an error rate of 4.4 percent, showed that 74 percent of those taking part in the poll preferred having the judges elected and 22 percent favored the commission. The poll showed 69 percent of those surveyed would support an amendment to the state constitution that would abandon the existing commission and instead allow voters to elect all appellate judges and justices. It showed 25 percent opposed it. It also showed that 76 percent of those responding favored term limits

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for appellate judges and justices while 22 percent opposed them. The survey was conducted June 17-19, or about two weeks after the Oklahoma Supreme Court tossed out a law favored by Republicans that dealt with how lawsuits are filed, or tort reform. The 2009 law, pushed by many in the business community and medical profession, was intended to reduce frivolous lawsuits and make the state more business-friendly, but it violated the state constitution’s single-subject rule, the court ruled. The survey was paid for by the Federalist Society, which describes itself as an organization of conservatives and libertarians seeking changes in the American legal system.

Why Oklahoma? Oklahoma was selected for the study because of recent efforts in the GOPcontrolled Legislature to change how appellate judges and justices are selected, said the study’s author, Chris Bonneau, a political science associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh. House Speaker T.W. Shannon, R-Lawton, is holding an interim study on the selection process for appellate judges and

justices and the possibility of term limits for justices. The state Senate earlier this year passed a measure, Senate Joint Resolution 24, which would have limited the terms of justices to 20 years. The measure didn’t get heard in the House of Representatives, but can be considered next year. If it passes, it would be submitted to voters. Appellate judicial terms are set in the state constitution and any constitutional change requires voter approval. When vacancies occur on the Supreme Court or civil and criminal appellate courts, a nonpartisan nominating commission seeks applications and forwards three names to the governor, who makes a selection from those names. Appellate judges and justices serve six-year terms; their names appear on retention ballots on a staggered, rotating basis. Bonneau said no appellate judge or justice in Oklahoma has lost retention. That’s typical, he said. More than 70 percent of judges were retained from 1964 through 2012 across the country. “Defeat is incredibly rare,” he said. “Incumbents win overwhelmingly and by overwhelming margins.” While district and associate district judges run for election against other candidates, appellate judges do not have opponents on the ballot. The retention system is intended to remove politics and fundraising from appellate court positions. In 1964, retired Supreme Court Justice Nel-

son Smith Corn confessed to a 20-year agreement with one lawyer to exchange favorable court rulings for money. The scandal led to changes in how judges were selected, with Oklahoma voters revamping the state’s court system in 1967. Williams said it is interesting that complaints with the judicial nomination commission seem to deal with political philosophies and not about justice. “I haven’t seen anybody complain that the court was biased or that the results were corrupted or that the court was not fair

and impartial in result,” he said. “People haven’t liked results, but they haven’t brought forth any evidence that the results were tainted or corrupted or that they were influenced by outside factors.”

Redevelopment Authority members properly chose to do their due diligence before making a decision on the request, she said. “We do want everyone to feel comfortable.” The Redevelopment Authority generally meets the fourth Tuesday of the month, so the proposal to expand beer sales likely will wait until Sept. 24.

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land Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who is resigning next week, expressed disappointment Tuesday during her farewell remarks that Congress failed to pass a law providing a path to citizenship for many young immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. Her legacy includes managing the Obama administration’s responses to foiled and successful terrorism attacks against the U.S., the Gulf oil spill disaster, other important changes to immigration policies, the Secret Service prostitution scandal and rampant cyber break-ins of U.S. government computers blamed on China and others. She offered this advice to whoever succeeds her: “You will need a large bottle of Advil.” Napolitano, the third Homeland Security secretary, will leave Sept. 6 to take over as president of the University of California system.

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break of more than 600 severe stomach illnesses around the country remains a mystery as the FDA says it found no food safety violations at a Mexican farm linked to some of the illnesses. The FDA said Tuesday that Taylor Farms de Mexico could resume operations after investigators found conditions there “in accordance with known food safety protocols.” The firm shut down voluntarily earlier this month after its salad mix served at Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants was linked to 242 cyclospora infections in Nebraska and Iowa. Similar illnesses in 20 other states were never definitively linked to the farm, and officials say they do not know why the number of illnesses is still growing in some other states, including Texas,

The family of a 12-yearold southwest Florida boy who was infected by a rare and deadly brain eating amoeba says his organs are being donated. In a Facebook posting late Monday, the family announced that Zachary Reyna’s organs were going to others who were “waiting on a miracle.” “Zac is our miracle,” the family’s Facebook posting said. “His spirit will always be among us. He changed all of our lives, brought us closer to God, strengthened our family and his story has touched people around the world.” Reyna became infected Aug. 3 while knee boarding with friends in a ditch near his family’s LaBelle home

ranks to one of the top jobs in the service. Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson said in an interview Tuesday she isn’t surprised that 32 years passed between her graduation from the academy in 1981 — in the second class to include women — and her appointment as its first female superintendent. “It takes 32 years to make a lieutenant general,” she said referring to the experience and training it takes to reach the three-star rank required for the superintendent’s job.

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of at-risk students could fall through the cracks as the Education Department gives states permission to ignore parts of No Child Left Behind, according to a study education advocates released Tuesday. The Education Department has been giving some states waivers from the education law’s requirements. The resulting patchwork of rules has given states more freedom to carry out plans to boost education but has allowed almost 2,300 schools to shed their label of seriously troubled, according to numbers compiled at the Campaign for High School Equity.

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from far away, but water that must have been locked beneath the lunar crust since its birth. The discovery by the ill-fated Chandrayaan-1 lunar probe represents the first time researchers have found signs of native water remotely. The results, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, offer further evidence that the moon has its own indigenous source of water. Previously, researchers have relied on rock samples brought back by Apollo astronauts to find out about the moon’s internal moisture.

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kane — Bail has been set at $3 million for a 16year-old boy arrested in the beating death of an 88-year-old World War II veteran. Spokane County District Judge Debra Hayes on Tuesday also ordered Kenan AdamsKinard moved from a juvenile jail to the Spokane County jail. He will be tried as an adult and faces up to life in prison if convicted.

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Boston — More photos showing the Boston Marathon bombing suspect’s surrender have been released. The images made public Tuesday were among those given to Boston Magazine last month by a state police officer. Sgt. Sean Murphy took photos the April night police cornered Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in a dry-docked boat in Watertown, just outside Boston. The photos include more shots of Tsarnaev coming out of the boat, his head bloody and a red light trained on his head. They also show him on the ground being attended to by medical personnel.

COLORADO | Air Force Academy — The first

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woman to lead the Air Force Academy says she faced resistance and sexual harassment in her career, but competence and confidence helped her push through the

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Angeles — Scientists using a NASA instrument aboard an Indian spacecraft have discovered signs of water native to the moon — not brought

Federal officials identified a virus Tuesday as the likely reason hundreds of bottlenose dolphins died along the East Coast, but they say there’s little they can do to stop the deaths. More than 330 dolphins have been stranded between New York and North Carolina since July 1, with nearly all of them dead by the time they wash up on shore, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.

POLITICS ARIZONA | Flagstaff — An Arizona mayor who angered families of 19 firefighters by saying not all are entitled to full survivors’ benefits was to learn Tuesday whether that position will cost him his job. Prescott Mayor Marlin Kuykendall’s re-election to a third consecutive term had appeared to be a safe bet. That is until the city said it cannot legally extend full benefits to the families of 13 seasonal Granite Mountain Hotshots who died June 30. One of the firefighters’ widows made emotional public pleas to give the men’s families the same benefits as those of the six full-time workers, including health insurance. Kuykendall faces former Prescott City Councilwoman Lindsay Bell in the primary election. FROM WIRE SERVICES

After undergoing 2 lung transplants, Pennsylvania girl, 11, goes home PENNSYLVANIA |

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COURT CASE Sarah’s first set of adult lungs failed after a June 12 transplant. A second set was transplanted three days later. She received the transplants after her

Lung transplant recipient Sarah Murnaghan receives a kiss Tuesday from her mother, Janet, after arriving home from the hospital in Newtown Square, Pa. Sarah Murnaghan, who has end-stage cystic fibrosis, received two lung transplants this summer at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia after a federal judge intervened in her parents’ lawsuit challenging national transplant rules that put her at the end of the waiting list for adult lungs. AP PHOTO parents went to federal court to challenge national transplant rules that put her at the end of the waiting list for adult lungs. The case raised questions among some health specialists and

medical ethicists about how organ donation rules are developed and under what circumstances they might be disregarded. UNOS spokeswoman Anne Paschke said Tuesday that the temporary

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that the sale of tobacco to minors in the U.S. were held near all-time lows last year under a federalstate inspection program intended to curb underage usage. The violation rate at retailers nationwide has fallen from about 40 percent in 1997 to 9.1 percent in the last fiscal year, according to a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration report released Tuesday. The rate is based on the results of random inspections conducted at stores to see whether they’d sell tobacco products to a customer under the age of 18.

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sylvania girl whose need for new lungs sparked a national debate on how transplant recipients are prioritized was released from the hospital Tuesday. Sarah Murnaghan, who turned 11 on Aug. 7, was discharged from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and later carried into her family’s Newtown Square home, where the entrance was festooned with balloons and a big sign saying “Welcome Home, Sarah!” Sarah received two sets of lungs this summer as she struggles with the effects of endstage cystic fibrosis. Her mother, Janet Murnaghan, said in a Facebook post late Monday that she and her daughter had “cried tears of joy.”

The numbers represent the percentage of youth in the nation and state of Oklahoma in grades 9-12.

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option for other children to apply for adult lungs will be in effect until the end of June 2014. She said a committee is studying whether to make that change permanent. ASSOCIATED PRESS

I According to the report, Oklahoma had the second lowest number of violations in the six-state region with 6.8 percent of stores targeted selling to underage customers. I Texas had the highest rate of violations, 11.3 percent. I Missouri had 10.2 percent violations. I Colorado had 8.3 percent violations. I Kansas had 7.6 percent violations I Arkansas had 5.4 percent violations.

ABOUT THE LAW The inspection program, named for late U.S. Rep. Mike Synar, of Oklahoma, is a federal mandate requiring states to document that the rate of tobacco sales to minors is no more than 20 percent. ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The Mazaher ensemble plays traditional music Monday at a jam session during curfew hours in Cairo, Egypt. The curfew, which has been in place since a coup on July 3 has been a shock to Cairo, a city where cafes often stay packed into the night. AP PHOTO

Nighttime curfew sparks defiance in Cairo EGYPT | Cairo — In every corner of the Egyptian capital, a bustling city of 18 million that rarely sleeps, people are locked up in their homes at night under a military-imposed curfew that has driven people up the walls, sometimes literally. The curfew has been a shock to Cairo, a city where cafes stay packed into the night and parents routinely take their children out for dinners nearing midnight. The two-week-old military-backed government’s curfew, after violent unrest following the July 3 coup that ousted President Mohammed Morsi, slashed the typical Cairo 24-hour life to just 13 hours. Forced to close early, businesses

AMERICAS COLOMBIA | Bogota — Colombia’s No. 2 rebel group on Tuesday freed a Canadian mining executive who had spent seven months in captivity and whose company canceled a gold mining project. The International Committee of the Red Cross issued a communique announcing that Gernot Wober was freed in the same northern state where he was seized on Jan. 18. The National Liberation Army had demanded that Wober’s employer drop plans to explore for gold at the Snow Mine property in Sur de Bolivar state and Braeval Mining Corp. announced in July that it was pulling out.

BRAZIL | Sao Paulo — A commercial building under construction in Brazil’s biggest city collapsed Tuesday, killing at least six people and sending large chunks of rubble and a blanket of dust onto nearby vehicles. Another 24 people escaped or were pulled alive from the rubble and at least seven of those were in critical condition at hospitals, authorities said. It was possible another eight people remained trapped.

STRIKE MEXICO | Mexico City — For a week now, striking teachers have brought much of Mexico’s capital to a crawl with trafficsnarling protests, and the unrest looks likely to expand in coming days to capture discontent far beyond mandatory teacher evaluations. The unrest is offering a major challenge to President Enrique Pena Nieto’s drive not only to improve schools but also to boost Mexico’s economic growth rate by restructuring the state energy sector and the way Mexicans are taxed. Strikers Tuesday swarmed outside the installations of

and restaurants are hurting in a city where nightlife is a key source of income. The city’s metro system reportedly loses $71,500 a day. A few have defiantly attempted to break the curfew, dodging the abundant police and military checkpoints on major highways and overpasses. “The first few days we were conforming to the curfew, but then people demanded we stay open later and so we did,” said cafe manager Mohammed, who asked his last name and the name of the cafe not be published to avoid reprisals. “People are just not used to sitting at home or adhering (to rules).”

Televisa, the media conglomerate, a day after they shut down the capital’s main boulevard. Last week, teachers — some of them smashing windows or tearing down fencing — blocked sessions of the two chambers of Congress.

CARIBBEAN CUBA | Havana — Cuba has reported a cholera outbreak to international health monitors, with 163 new cases this year associated with three provinces. According to a bulletin by the Pan American Health Organization, island authorities reported on Aug. 23 that the cases were linked to Havana, Santiago and Camaguey provinces.

EUROPE PORTUGAL | Lisbon — Around 1,000 firefighters are trying to put out 11 major wildfires in Portugal amid continuing hot weather and strong

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night-time winds. The National Civil Protection Authority said Tuesday the biggest blaze was near Viseu, about 120 miles north of the capital Lisbon. It said four water-dropping aircraft were helping more than 360 firefighters working in thick woodland and ravines there. Also, officials said a 23-year-old firefighter died Monday from severe burns he sustained in a wildfire last week. That blaze killed another firefighter at the scene.

MIDDLE EAST IRAQ | Baghdad — Iraq’s top court said it had rejected a law that would have prevented embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki from seeking a third term in office after 2014 national elections, as an ongoing spate of violence claimed another eight lives Tuesday. The Supreme federal court said in a brief statement on its website that it had ruled unconstitutional a controversial law that limits the premier, president and the parliament speaker to two terms of office. AlMaliki first became prime minister in 2006. He secured a second term in office after nearly nine months of political wrangling after the 2010 national elections. FROM WIRE SERVICES

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OPINION

“You know who’s going to be the new Batman? Ben Affleck. The Republicans are vowing to block the nomination.”

OUR VIEWS | BLACK COMMUNITY MIGHT BE HIS FOCUS

DAVID LETTERMAN

King might well have different dreams today HAT would Martin Luther King percent of the state’s overall populadream of today? tion but nearly 30 percent of its prison It was 50 years ago Wednesday, population. during the March on Washington for Jobs Some argue this is mostly the result and Freedom, that King delivered what of a criminal justice system skewed came to be called his “I have a dream” heavily against people of color. King speech. He spoke, eloquently and powermight make that point himself. But if fully, about the injustices that people of he were alive today, he might also say color faced in 1963 America. A hundred he dreams of a day when more black years after the Emancipation Proclamaboys and girls have a father in the home tion, he said, “the life of the colored because that gives them at least a American is still sadly crippled by the fighting chance to succeed. manacle of segregation and the chains of According to the Census Bureau, in discrimination.” 2011, 68 percent of black children in the King said this country needed to pay The Rev. Martin Luther United States were born to unmarried off its “promissory note” of life, liberty King Jr. acknowledges mothers. The consequences of this and the pursuit of happiness for all — the crowd at the Lincoln epidemic are clear. Not having a father blacks included. He said he dreamed of an Memorial for his "I have a increases the likelihood of children dream" speech on Aug. end to segregation and a day when his dropping out of school, abusing drugs 28, 1963. AP FILE PHOTO children would be judged by their characor alcohol and going to prison. Girls ter, not their skin color. without dads are more likely to become “This is our hope,” he said. “This is the faith that I pregnant without being married. will go back to the South with. With this faith we will be King might dream of a day when more blacks had a able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of better chance to succeed in school. Last week the comhope.” pany that produces the ACT entrance exam reported Half a century later, our guess is that King would find that only 5 percent of black high school graduates were much to applaud but also much that is troubling. deemed fully ready for college coursework. Five perWe have an African-American president who was cent! swept into office five years ago by blacks and whites Ten years ago, on the 40th anniversary of King’s alike. The nation’s top lawyer, the attorney general, is speech, Oklahoma City civil rights leader Clara Luper black. Men and women of color occupy powerful posi- reflected on how much had changed since the 1963 tions in Congress, business, medicine, entertainment March on Washington. Luper, who died in 2011, attendand professional sports. The likelihood of the American ed the march along with two busloads of local young dream becoming a reality for a black person is greater people, and spent her life trying to make this city a bettoday than it was 50 years ago. ter place. And yet, there are great causes for concern — within “Today we have blacks on the school board, we have the black community. blacks in the Legislature, we have blacks in City Hall, King might dream of a time when fewer black men blacks in jobs they have never held before,” she said. were behind bars. The U.S. prison population is about “We can eat anywhere we want. We’ve come a long 40 percent black; our nation’s overall population is 12-13 way, but we have a long way to go.” percent black. In Oklahoma, blacks comprise just 7.6 No doubt King would agree.

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Reality check: Unions find Obama is not so friendly

Abortion contortion: Should guidelines be taken seriously?

During a recent meeting with The Oklahoman’s editorial board, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe quipped, “I look back wistfully at the days when the financial backbone of the Democrats in Washington was the labor unions and the trial lawyers. Those are the good ol’ days.” Inhofe, R-Tulsa, made the comment to stress that environmental extremists and the fringe interests of “the Hollywood crowd” now drive much activity in the Democratic Party. We note Inhofe’s comment for this reason: It appears labor union officials agree with him. This month the Nevada State AFL-CIO passed a resolution savaging Obamacare as an attack on union benefits. The resolution noted that unions “originally offered strong political and moral support” for the socalled Affordable Care Act, but that support was thanks to the fact that President Barack Obama “said in no uncertain terms that we would be able to keep our current health care plans as currently managed.” The union membership now appears shocked that Obama has no intention of keeping his transparently phony promise. The Nevada resolution declares the “unintended consequences of the ACA will lead to the destruction of the 40-hour workweek, higher taxes and force union members onto more costly plans.” In other words, union members may be treated just as shabbily as other Americans who aren’t politically connected. On the other hand, the union resolution notes Obama has handed out special exemptions (ones we suggest are legally dubious) to “big business and well-paid Congressional staff members.” The union demanded similar special treatment. Other unions have raised similar concerns, including the heads of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, and UNITE-HERE. Inhofe is hardly a union enthusiast, but he clearly understood the Democratic Party pecking order — and what that meant for union members’ political clout — far better than union leaders did.

The legal battle over an Oklahoma law regulating use of abortion drugs could have far-reaching impact. The question at hand: Are abortion rights so absolute that states can’t regulate the procedure in any way, even if a specific method may kill a woman in the process? House Bill 1970 requires mifepristone (RU-486) or any other abortion-inducing drug to be provided only as explicitly approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration guidelines. The Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down the law, basically ruling that since abortion is constitutional, regulation of it is not. The state is appealing the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. An amicus brief filed by Rep. Randy Grau, R-Edmond, and 82 other lawmakers provides their defense of the law. During the drug-approval process, Grau notes the FDA informed the drug sponsor “that restrictions ‘on the distribution and use of mifepristone are needed to assure safe use’ of the Mifeprex (RU-486) regimen.” The FDA also “concluded that available data did not support the safety of home use of misoprostol,” which is used in conjunction with mifepristone, and “rejected the sponsor’s suggestion” that guidelines include “information on self-administering misoprostol at home.” Fourteen U.S. deaths have been associated with use of the RU-486 regimen, with eight the result of bacterial infection that followed “an unapproved use” of the Mifeprex (RU-486) regimen. “On the other hand,” Grau wrote, “the FDA has not received a single report of a woman dying from bacterial infection following the FDA-approved oral use of misoprostol.” Under HB 1970, mifepristone can still be taken to induce abortions in Oklahoma — when used as authorized by the FDA. The law does not apply to ectopic pregnancies. It’s hardly a frontal assault on Roe v. Wade. Instead, this debate is far more basic: Are federal drug regulations to be taken seriously only when the patient isn’t a pregnant woman?

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Making big government look easy Evidence of the astonishing incompetence of the Obama administration continues to roll in. It started with the stimulus package. One-third of the money went to public employee union members — a political payoff not very stimulating to anyone else. Billions went to green energy loans. Infrastructure projects, which the president continues to tout, never seem to get built. He’s been talking about dredging the port of Charleston, for example, to accommodate the big container ships coming in when the Panama Canal is widened. The canal widening is proceeding on schedule to be completed in 2014. The target date for dredging the port of Charleston: 2024. Then there’s Obamacare. Barack Obama has already said the administration will not enforce the employer mandate, will not verify eligibility Michael for insurance subsidies Barone and will not require employer-provided policies to cap employees’ out-of-pocket COMMENTARY costs. The Constitution’s requirement that the president take care to faithfully execute the laws apparently does not apply. Then there’s the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law. According to the law firm Davis Polk, the administration as of July had missed 62 percent of the deadlines in that law. All of which indicates incompetence in drafting or in implementing the legislation — likely both. We have a president who delights in delivering partisan speeches to adoring audiences but doesn’t seem interested in whether his administration gets results. But I blame someone else, someone who has been dead these last 68 years. I blame Franklin D. Roosevelt. I blame Roosevelt for making big government look easy — and politically rewarding. He set an example most of his successors — Obama is just the latest — have a hard time duplicating. Roosevelt certainly had his defects. As his generally admiring biographer Conrad Black notes, he was devious, largely ignorant of economics, cruel to subordinates, vacillating on many issues. But he had a great gift for picking the right person for the right job — if he thought the job was important. Roosevelt’s knack for picking the right man (or right woman: Frances Perkins was a fine secretary of labor) is the central theme of Eric Larrabee’s 1987 book, “Commander in Chief.” Larrabee shows how FDR selected the unflappable George Marshall to organize a vastly expanded Army, the splenetic Ernest King to lead an aggressive Navy, the grandiloquent Douglas MacArthur to dramatize the side conflict in the South Pacific and the emollient Dwight Eisenhower to hold together fractious Allied coalition forces. No other president has made such excellent military appointments right off the bat. Roosevelt’s knack is apparent in domestic appointments, as well. He picked social worker Harry Hopkins to run a winter work relief program in late 1933. In two weeks Hopkins had 4 million on the payroll. When spring came, Roosevelt ordered the program shut down. In two weeks, the payroll was down to zero. Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, Hopkins’s bureaucratic rival, was a stickler for detail and scourge of graft. But he spent billions bringing in big projects under budget and on time. Roosevelt picked some good regulators, too — stock speculator Joseph Kennedy to set up the Securities and Exchange Commission, Utah banker Marriner Eccles to run the Federal Reserve. FDR’s knack for choosing the right person for important jobs resulted from some unknowable combination of knowledge and intuition. It also showed an overriding concern for getting results. It’s not clear that Obama shares that determination. In his defense, he has made some high-quality appointments, and Roosevelt’s administrators did not face today’s tangle of legalistic requirements and environmental restrictions. But New Deal legislation tended to run dozens of pages rather than thousands. And some unworkable laws were overturned by the Supreme Court. Roosevelt’s example shines through history. But Obama’s continuing stumbles show that it’s a hard — and politically damaging — example to follow. Big government these days is harder than FDR made it look. CREATORS.COM

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Excited about cause? Hold yet another rally

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POINT OF VIEW | DUNCAN WILL RECOVER

Now is the time to meet our expectations BY ED APPLE

My wife, Betty, and I have lived in Duncan for more than 45 years. We came here as a result of economic opportunity. We have stayed because of much more than that — a quality of life that has afforded us the opportunity to achieve our dearest and fondest dreams. Ed Apple All the values that we’ve aspired to have been here for us: The raising of our two daughters; association with the best and most loyal of friends; the finest examples of the Oklahoma spirit of goodness and self-reliance. It hasn’t always been easy and there have been trials, but we have always felt safe and secure in this special place. Now, the recent, heartless murder in our town has stunned and shaken me and many others. This evil act by three teenage boys has caused us to seek answers to questions that we never thought we’d have to answer. What do we do now? What are the right and essential actions for us to take? Of immediate urgency has been the welfare and needs of the two families who were so devastated beyond comprehen-

sion, the family of Chris Lane in Australia and the Harper family in Duncan. To assist, caring individuals here and across Oklahoma have responded. More will be done as time helps us grasp the grievous consequences of the senseless atrocity. When societal problems arise, I often go back to the most basic premise of our country, the preamble to our Constitution. “We the people” is the place to look for our solutions. We have to look to ourselves as individuals and as members of our community to examine what we can and cannot do for the common good of our citizens. The coming days will be difficult for Duncan. However, I firmly believe we will renew our resolve to be the best place we can be. We must examine the actions of those whom we entrust with our wellbeing and to support them in their duties. We must not be complacent and ignorant of the needs of the suffering and the less fortunate. Now is the time for us to live up to our expectations. But most importantly, may God bless and console the Lane and Harper families. Apple is a former member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.

YOUR VIEWS

Moral compass broke Regarding “DA: Gun laws couldn’t save Lane” (News, Aug. 23): The events in Duncan were indeed tragic. Hundreds of lives are affected because of the acts of a few. Although tragic, what happened in Duncan was predictable. It was predictable because we’ve become a nation of contradictions. We drop our kids off at school to be fed, educated and protected but become enraged at the teacher or principal who suspends them for bad behavior. We allow our kids to play violent video games that depict killing without consequences and rationalize it by saying it builds coordination. But playing baseball does the same. We embrace government handouts but demonize capitalism, entrepreneurial spirit and hard work. We idolize those who get paid millions to play a game but scoff at those who are paid to protect us. Finally, we demand that lawmakers enact laws to keep us safe, but sue to demand that a monument to the basis for all law, the Ten Commandments, be removed from our houses of government. Yes, the event in Duncan was tragic. But events such as this will continue until we correct our moral compass. Matthew Dukes, Midwest City

RACISM IN AMERICA Yes, we do have racism in America, and two of the most racist people are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Where were they after the senseChristopher less killing of ChrisLane topher Lane in Duncan? Oh, now I remember, the killing in Duncan involved blacks killing a white person. Had it been whites killing a black person, then Jackson, Sharpton and the liberal news media would’ve been camping out in Duncan. Where is our illustrious president? Why hasn’t he weighed in on this senseless murder? Yes, we still have racism in the United States but it’s not located where the news media would have you believe it is. Until such time as we treat all murders the same, we will continue to have racism in America. Loyle Coleman, Shawnee

KIDS PARENTS’ RESPONSIBILITY Not all 16-year-old boys are monsters. Not every American teenager becomes so bored that he decides to murder another human being just “for fun.” As the mother of a 16-year-old, I realize that it’s my responsibility to teach my child to respect and protect life. If he fails to follow my teachings, his failure is ultimately my own. I’ve tried to instill in all three of my kids a sense of civic duty

Send letters to yourviews@ opubco.com or to Your Views, P.O. Box 25125, Oklahoma City, OK 73125. Word limit is 250. Include a postal address and telephone number. For other guidelines, go to www.newsok.com/voices/ guidelines or call (405) 475-3920. since they were young. This summer, my youngest son and I spent a week volunteering in Moore after the tornado. As my son tirelessly picked up debris and helped load supplies for survivors, I felt pride in knowing that the lessons he was learning would help him grow into a responsible and caring human being. As parents it’s our responsibility to make sure they always find their way. Sadly, in Duncan, three young men missed out on these lessons and stole a promising young life away from those who loved him. It isn’t the guns that kill people; it’s the heartless individuals who choose to selfishly wield them in their cowardly hands and play God. They’re bleeding the lifeblood of our country away. It’s past time for our president to address this social cancer. Until such time, my heart truly goes out to the family and friends of Christopher Lane. Camille Olive, Galena, Mo.

CODDLING CRIMINALS Regarding “DA: Gun laws couldn’t save Lane” (News, Aug. 23): Gun laws alone are never going to stop the killing. Criminals will always be capable of obtaining a firearm — with or without laws. What we need are stronger penalties when crimes are committed. The slaps on the wrist that are being handed out now are a joke to these thugs. They’ll gladly spend a year or two in jail. It’s just more time to hone their skills! We must stop coddling these people. If they’re old enough to obtain a weapon, and use it, they’re old enough to serve the time. Now, there’s no threat to these wanna-be gangsters. We have to give them a reason not to commit the crime before it happens. Maybe if they were faced with spending the rest of their lives in prison, they wouldn’t be quite as eager to cause harm or take a life. Sharon Tytgat, Tuttle

POLITICIZING MURDER Jack Dill, Jim Pierce and Bill Logan (Your Views, Aug. 24) politicized the murder of Christopher Lane. Two black boys and one white boy in custody will stand trial and assuredly be imprisoned for the murder of Lane. To compare this tragedy to the Trayvon Martin case is ludicrous. Let all Oklahomans pray that no one walks away from justice in this senseless crime. Jamie Brewster, Oklahoma City

Yet another millionFor all the sound of fury member march? I “rally” of the “Occupy” movewish it weren’t so. ment in 2011-2012, what Marches, rallies and did the effort actually J.E. protests are staples in accomplish? Even marchMcReynolds fatigued District of CoWashington, D.C., but far less so around here. Nevlumbia workers would ertheless, Oklahoma City prefer the occasional mass EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK is the rally/march capital protest to the smelly, ugly of the state because it’s the rabble who occupied actual capital of the state. Washington’s McPherson Square for In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. gave months on end. his “I have a dream” speech at a WashFifty years ago, the March on Washington march. Next month, a rally unington for Jobs and Freedom filled the officially known as the “Million Muslim Washington Mall and produced a speech March” is scheduled for Washington that’s inspired millions of people who Mall. Locals are weary of the disruption weren’t yet born when King’s electrifythat comes with mass gatherings, but ing address took place. Perhaps with a marches are de rigeur in the nation’s touch of feigned nostalgia, those of us capital. who were around then can say, “Now On any given day, someone is marchthat was a march!” ing somewhere in Washington. Today’s version? Not so much. Writes Rally fatigue is understandable for USA Today’s Rick Hampson, “March Washingtonians. It’s harder to complain fatigue: so many of them, for so many about march madness in Oklahoma. causes, to so little effect. Is marching on Still, I found it strange that rallies have Washington, one of the signal rituals of taken place in connection with the Baby American popular democracy, out of Veronica case. Legal matters are decided step?” by judges, not lawmakers. Apparently not in the minds of orgaMost rallies and marches center on nizers of a Washington rally set for the getting legislation passed or stopping it second Wednesday of September. Origifrom being passed. A child custody case nally called the “Million Muslim March,” doesn’t fit that model, but the rallying it may or may not bear that moniker by folks seem compelled to do something — the time the event takes place. This rally just as people do these days by signing is supposed to protest religious profiling. meaningless online petitions or inking For anyone wishing to improve the pertheir names to letters to the editor that ception of Islam in America, here’s a they didn’t actually write. thought: Don’t march on 9/11! Oklahoma’s public school teachers Rallies have become so ubiquitous and have taken fake snow days for state Cap- so laughable at times that parodies of itol rallies. At least this was done to get them have been held — fake rallies lawmakers to vote on increased educastaged for comic effect. Whether frivotion spending. Didn’t work. Nor do most lous, historically significant, inspirationWashington marches. al or pointless, marches on Washington USA Today last week listed a host of are disruptive for the locals but perhaps causes for which massive but fruitless life-changing for some participants. rallies have been held: “Marching on For other protesters (quite a few, I Washington hasn’t brought gun control suspect), it’s an excuse to decamp to or changed immigration policy or moved Washington and party hearty with likethe abortion debate out of the trench it’s minded advocates of (Your Cause Here). been in for decades. It did not end the So march on, ye noble activists! Take war in Iraq; President George W. Bush only memories. Leave only Birkenstock said being influenced by street protests prints. That may be the only impression would be like making policy ‘based upon your Mall crawl will make. a focus group.’ ” McReynolds is The Oklahoman’s opinion editor. CRITICAL OF HER CONSERVATIVE COLLEAGUES

Justice Ginsburg goes on offensive on press tour WASHINGTON — Maybe No justice is going to it’s good that the justices admit to basing retirement have another month off plans on the president in Ruth before the Supreme Court power; Liptak wrote that Marcus starts up again. The Ginsburg “said repeatedly wounds from last term that the identity of the don’t seem fully healed. president who would apThere was Justice Anpoint her replacement did COMMENTARY tonin Scalia, speaking in not figure in her retirement Montana last week, none too subtly planning.” chastising his colleagues’ rulings on gay But denials notwithstanding, no jusrights. “It’s not up to the courts to intice can avoid thinking about it. Legacy vent new minorities that get special doesn’t matter if it is at risk of being protections,” Scalia said, according to dismantled. Linda Greenhouse, in “BeThe Associated Press. coming Justice Blackmun,” describes Asked about the most wrenching how, after Ginsburg’s arrival, Harry decision in his time on the bench, Scalia Blackmun decided it was time to go: replied, “Well, is Obamacare too re“Roe was safe, and a sympathetic presicent?” Which suggests that scars linger dent was in the White House.” from the 2012 term, too. Ginsburg’s second message is even But we have become sharper: an unsparing criaccustomed to Scalia’s vertique of her conservative bal pugilism. More surpriscolleagues. ing have been the latest On the court’s Citizens volleys from the liberal United ruling loosening justice he has described as campaign finance restrichis “best buddy” on the tions, she told Bloomberg: court: Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “People are appalled abroad. In the hermetic world the It’s a question I get asked all justices inhabit, Ginsburg the time: Why should elechas launched a virtual press tions be determined by how tour this summer, granting much a candidate can spend interviews to Reuters, the and why should candidates AP, USA Today, Bloomberg spend most of their time and The New York Times, these days raising the funds with two can’t-miss messso that they will prevail in ages. the next election?” The first is aimed at libTo the AP, Ginsburg all erals: She’s not retiring any but called her fellow opera Justice Ruth time soon, thanks for askbuff a hypocrite. “Scalia, Bader Ginsburg ing. No matter how much who really takes after the you want to ensure that a Democratic court for taking over legislative turf in president gets to pick the next nominee. same-sex marriage, doesn’t make a The suggestion that she retire was whimper in voting rights, which passed delivered in its most unvarnished form 98 to nothing in the Senate and 330 to by Harvard Law School professor Ransomething in the House,” she said. “I dall Kennedy, who wrote in The New didn’t put that to him, but surely he’s Republic in 2011 that Ginsburg, 80, and going to be asked the question, ‘How do fellow Justice Stephen Breyer, 75, ought you distinguish the two?’ ” to step down, pronto. “Their estimable And to the Times, Ginsburg repeated records will be besmirched … if they stay her earlier charge that the supposedly on the bench too long,” he warned. conservative majority was in fact an Ginsburg, speaking to Reuters’ Joan activist one. “If it’s measured in terms of Biskupic in July, predicted more such readiness to overturn legislation, this is chatter would “start up again” — and one of the most activist courts in histotook pains to squelch retirement fever. ry,” she said. “Stunning in terms of acShe told USA Today: “As long as I can tivism,” she said of the court’s decision do the job full-steam, I would like to striking down a key provision of the stay here.” Voting Rights Act. Speaking to The New York Times’ Justices tend to reserve their disAdam Liptak last week, Ginsburg disagreements to the courtroom and the missed any suggestion that her timing pages of their opinions and dissents. would be dictated by the election calenThis is gloves-off language from a jusdar. “There will be a president after this tice who still favors a pair of dainty lace one, and I’m hopeful that that president ones. WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUP will be a fine president,” she said.

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Creek Turnpike expansion project is nearing completion BY BARBARA HOBEROCK Tulsa World barbara.hoberock@ tulsaworld.com

A $59 million widening of a portion of the Creek Turnpike is expected to be completed in late September or early October, said Jack Damrill, Oklahoma Turnpike Authority spokesman. Damrill’s comments came Tuesday after the monthly meeting of the authority in Oklahoma City. A lane is being added in each direction from U.S. 75

to Memorial Drive, bringing the total number of lanes to three in each direction, Damrill said. Work began in May 2012, Damrill said. Contractors are working diligently to finish the project, said Tim Stewart, authority executive director. A similar project was recently completed on the Kilpatrick Turnpike in Oklahoma City, Damrill said. The cost was $55 million, Damrill said. The construction projects have had a negative impact on revenue generated on the two roads, but

it is expected to rebound, said Wendy Smith, authority director of finance and revenue.

24 fatalities this year In unrelated action, the system has seen 24 fatalities so far, compared to this time last year when there were 16, Stewart said. He attributed some of the deaths to inattentive driving and to drivers who did not use seat belts. Chairman Albert C. Kelly Jr. asked if some of the inattentive driving was the result of texting while driving.

Keetoowahs’ casino motion denied BY JARREL WADE Tulsa World jarrel.wade@tulsaworld.com

TULSA — A federal court struck down the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians’ motion to keep their Tahlequah casino open — a court action that could mark the tribe’s last legal option before an agreement with the state closes the casino on Friday. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals judges ruled on Tuesday that the tribe did not meet the requirements to halt the lower court’s order while the appeals process continues. The Oklahoma attorney general’s office said they would not alter the agreement reached with the tribe that set a deadline for the land the casino operates on to be

put into trust. A statement from Keetoowah Assistant Chief Charles Locust said the appeals court order forces the casino to close on Friday. “This administration is working to resolve this situation,” Locust said. The agreement was a part of a settlement with the state after a court ruled that the Tahlequah casino had been operating illegally for more than 25 years on land that was never in trust. In order to operate gaming facilities, tribes must have the land taken into trust by the federal government. The U.S. Department of the Interior had agreed to do that, but a ruling by U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell halted that action. About 150 casino employees may lose their jobs Friday.

“I think you are on point with distractions,” Stewart said. Despite the increase, the state still has one of the

safest turnpike systems in the country, said Gene Love, a member of the authority. The authority has made

a push to install cable barriers along turnpikes in an effort to reduce fatalities, Stewart said. Those are working well, Stewart said.

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Putting program to the test Alex Tu, left, an Advanced Placement student, works on a computer during a computer science class Tuesday at Carl Albert High School in Midwest City. The state schools superintendent said students at the six Oklahoma schools participating in the National Math and Science Initiative program have shown a 55 percent increase on Advanced Placement exam scores in math, science and English after the first year of the program. AP PHOTO IN BRIEF

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Lawmaker wants stronger oversight for state’s roofers Less than two weeks after the May 20 tornado, a contractor knocked on Barbara Jenkins’ door and offered to check her roof for damage. About five minutes later, he told the 82-year-old woman her roof, like many others in Moore, was in bad shape and needed to be replaced. The roofer, who didn’t have a business card or a listing in the phone book, said it was only fair that she sign a repair contract with him, since he had examined her roof. She signed it, but began to regret her actions and called her insurance adjuster, who came out and found nothing wrong with the roof. Jenkins was able to get out of the contract, but incidents like this have caused some lawmakers and industry professionals to question why roofing contractors are not required to undergo testing or licensing to work in Oklahoma. While roofing companies do have to register with the Construction Industries Board and pay a $75 registration fee, the board lacks investigative or enforcement power. The Oklahoma Roofing Contractor Registration Act has been in place since 2010. When a complaint is filed with the board, it is forwarded to the local district attorney, who decides if prosecution is necessary. Rep. Jon Echols, R-Oklahoma City, said he was shocked to learn that there was so little oversight. “There is almost no regulation on this industry, and the legitimate contractors feel taken advantage of because they’re playing by the rules while they’re competing with other people who are not playing by the rules,” he said. Echols wants to file legislation that would allow the board to investigate claims and require roofing contractors to take a licensing test similar to those required of others in home construction. He said he is concerned that until the state establishes a proper investigative agency for roofing, consumers will not know who to call to file a complaint about fraudulent practices. Complaints involving roofers are not uncommon. A tarp has covered Sheril Davis’ dilapidated roof in northeast Oklahoma City since she got into a contract dispute with her roofer in 2010. The 63-year-old retail worker said she has been forced to

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WORMS CAUSE WATER ALERT An infestation of red worms has prompted Colcord city officials to issue a notice alerting residents not to drink the water, Vice Mayor Cody Gibby said Tuesday. The community’s water source may be unsafe for human consumption, he said. The Colcord Public Works Authority issued a warning Monday advising residents not to drink the water or use it for food preparation or hygiene purposes. “The worms are in the water tower system,” Gibby said. They range from a half-inch to an inch long and resemble a centipede. “Bleach doesn’t even kill them,” Gibby said. “We don’t know what we are dealing with.” The state Department of Environmental Quality is running tests, he said. The Colcord School District dismissed classes, and all commercial businesses are closed, Gibby said. Residents are able to get bottled water at the Colcord Fire Department. Colcord is in Delaware County in northeastern Oklahoma. SHEILA STOGSDILL, STAFF WRITER

Barbara Jenkins is shown with her husband, Gary, left, and her son, Rick Shepherd, in front of her home in a Moore neighborhood on Monday. After the May 20 tornado, unscrupulous out-of-state roofers told her that her roof was damaged and needed to be replaced. PHOTOS BY JIM BECKEL, THE OKLAHOMAN

MAYOR DIES IN JOPLIN Mayor Kent Ketcher has died, one day after city officials appointed an interim mayor. Ketcher, 76, died Tuesday at Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Mo., according to a notice from Brown-Winters Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Miami. Councilman Rudy Schultz was appointed interim mayor Monday. Schultz has called for a special meeting of the Miami City Council for 6:15 p.m. Thursday at the Miami Civic Center to consider a resolution calling for an election to fill the office of mayor. Ketcher, a Miami native, was elected mayor in April 2011.

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sleep in the living room because heavy rains collapsed sheet rock onto her bed. She said she didn’t know where to file a complaint. “I can’t make it another winter in this house like it is,” Davis said. “I’m going to have to move if something doesn’t change and figure out what to do with my stuff and see if I can get some help until I can raise enough money to get it fixed.” Donn Lipscomb, with Moore Roofing and Insulation, has been in the roofing industry for 38 years. “There’s a lot of people that once the hailstorm comes through, all of sudden they’ve got a pickup and a ladder and they’re a SEE ROOF, PAGE 12A

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Surgery to separate conjoined twins is success

Emmett, top, and Owen Ezell rest is separate hospital beds after undergoing successful separation surgery Saturday in Dallas. The boys were born July 15 conjoined at the abdomen. PHOTO PROVIDED

Jenni Ezell might go ahead and put the Christmas tree up now. Ezell is going to be busy between now and December, and there are two special reasons why she can’t wait for Christmas to arrive this year, she said. Their names are Emmett and Owen — Ezell’s previously conjoined twins. The boys were successfully separated at a Dallas hospital on Saturday, and are expected to be released from the hospital and taken home right before Christmas. Until Saturday, Ezell and her husband, Dave, took each day individually, spending as much time as they could with the twins, who were born July 15 conjoined at the abdomen. After a successful surgery, the parents — who

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THE EZELL TWINS BLOG Jenni Ezell plans to continue blogging about her twins. You can read her blog at http://the ezelltwins.weebly .com/blog.html.

until last month lived in Guthrie, but opted to move to Dallas to seek medical treatment — are free to think about what their SEE TWINS, PAGE 12A

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State superintendent to tout higher standards BY KIM ARCHER AND ANDREA EGER Tulsa World

State Superintendent Janet Barresi is planning a Wednesday news conference at the Capitol to tout higher standards and more rigorous state assessments to coincide with the release of preliminary test scores results to schools. Barresi, who is campaigning for re-election, has invited Robert Sommers, CareerTech director and newly appointed education secretary, Glen Johnson, chancellor of

Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, and two representatives of the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce to join her at the 3 p.m. news conference in the Blue Room. School officials will have 30 days to review the data and request corrections before the state finalizes scores. Local school leaders say they are eager to see the latest test data in the wake of the state’s announcement that they would be invalidating an unknown number of student scores because of testing disruptions in April.

Chris Johnson, chief accountability officer at Tulsa Public Schools, said preliminary test scores were first sent out in June but “were full of errors that included missing students, missing tests and duplicate entries.” Johnson said the repeated delays, little communication and apparently widespread problems in keeping track of testing booklets and student score sheets by the state’s new testing vendor have caused untold difficulties for teachers, principals and other school employees.

“CTB has missed all of their deadlines so far for delivering data, which has caused delays in our ability to review and correct data, as well as plan for instruction,” he said. “Communication has not been efficient from CTB. In some cases, we have had personnel waiting at our testing center for delivery all day, only to receive no materials. There has never been notification from CTB as to the reason delivery dates were missed.” At a special state Board of Education meeting last

Temporary hospital eyed in Moore BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A temporary hospital building will open in the fall in Moore, which is beginning to rebuild after a violent tornado raked the town in May. The nearly 11,000square-foot facility is expected to open in November and will operate for two years while a permanent structure is built, The Norman Transcript reported on Tuesday.

Members of the Norman Regional Hospital Authority said the building is not a trailer or a portable classroom, but a facility outfitted with all the typical hospital equipment. Construction of the permanent facility will be ongoing while the temporary facility is in place, officials said. The temporary facility is expected to be 200 feet long and 64 feet wide with 10,880 square feet of usa-

ble space. It will include a trauma room, a triage room and six treatment rooms as well as a lab, ultrasound, X-ray, CT and other support services. Joplin, Mo., also set up a temporary hospital following the EF5 tornado that hit the town in 2011. That full-scale hospital facility is being disassembled, and the same company that did the work there will provide Moore’s

temporary structure. The permanent hospital is in the planning stages, with focus groups meeting with government, business, school and community leaders. Community feedback will be shared with the master facility planning group to guide design decisions for the new building. INFORMATION FROM:

boys will look like or the sports they’ll like to play or what their favorite food will be. “Someday, I get to sit down with these two boys and tell them their story, tell them what they went through,” Dave Ezell said. “There are pictures and photos and emails, and we can look at those and say, ‘Look at all these people who did all of this for you guys.’” A team of about 40 doctors, surgeons and nurses worked together for roughly nine hours to separate Emmett and Owen. The surgery came with a substantial amount of risk. One or both of the boys

could have been lost. Before the boys went back to surgery Saturday, the team of doctors and nurses stopped before passing through the double doors to the operating room. The Ezells said goodbye to the boys before the team walked the boys out of sight. “As a mother, I hope I never have to experience a moment like that again,” Jenni Ezell wrote in her “Ezell Twins” blog on Tuesday. “I didn’t know what was going to happen. I didn’t know if I would see my babies alive again, if I would see only one, or if I would see them after they had gone to be with their creator.” During surgery, the med-

ical team had to separate the boys’ shared liver and other parts of their digestive system. The Ezells sat in the hospital waiting room, getting updates every hour or so. “Every time that phone rang, my heart stopped,” Dave Ezell said. “The moment that thing rang, you feel like someone’s calling you to tell you things are going to south.” But that didn’t happen. Rather, time after time, the phone call would be to share good news — that the boys were still doing well. It was hard for the Ezells to believe that trend would continue. On Tuesday, the boys started to open their eyes and wiggle around. They have more surgeries ahead

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roofer,” said Lipscomb. “They come out of the woodwork.” Lipscomb said requiring a licensing test would reduce the number of unscrupulous roofers in the state. He said allowing the board to investigate consumer reports, even if that meant inspectors coming to job sites and asking questions, makes sense. Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn said giving the construction board the au-

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thority to look into reported cases would be a step in the right direction. “We have to refer them to the police department,” Mashburn said. “And, so what will happen, they get lost in the shuffle. If we had an agency that is wellversed and knowledgeable and able to investigate and forward charges to our office, it would really help us to have confidence in the investigations and be able to file charges.” Echols said he has yet to talk to anyone involved in the industry who is op-

posed to the idea of testing for licenses or allowing the board to investigate claims. He wonders how, given the scope of the industry in Oklahoma, the state has gone this long without more regulation. “When you consider the size of the roofing industry in the state of Oklahoma and in all of the construction areas, it is the No. 1 cost from my constituents to their homeowners insurance,” said Echols. “To me it doesn’t make any sense.”

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have indicated a final head count of students whose scores will be disqualified won’t be known until the state’s test results from 2012-13 are finalized in late September. Public schools throughout the state used to be able to rely on receiving students’ results in July, which allowed teachers to address learning deficits from the beginning of the new academic year. Numerous Tulsa area districts reported learning from the company in the last couple of weeks that some of their students’ test booklets and answer sheets were missing.

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week, state officials announced that all lessthan-satisfactory student scores from April 29-30 would be thrown out because of the disruptions caused by computer server problems at the state’s testing vendor, CTB/ McGraw-Hill. “I’m not certain how much faith any of us can have in this year’s results,” said Sapulpa Superintendent Kevin Burr. “We witnessed a complete breakdown of credibility in testing during this past spring and that’s impossible to get out of the minds of those most affected.” State education officials

of them and they’ll remain in the hospital to heal. Both parents attribute the success of the surgery to the thousands of people who prayed for Emmett and Owen. “It was God,” Jenni Ezell said. “There’s no other explanation. I was talking to the doctors and the surgeons and the nurses, and they’re like, ‘This is incredible.’ Even the surgeons were saying, ‘This wasn’t us. There was a bigger hand in this.’”

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Edmond deal to dry up flood risk for residents EDMOND — Karen Wheeler was relieved to hear Tuesday that the city is getting ready to start work on eliminating flooding in the Willowood housing addition, where she has lived for eight years. “I was a little irritated,” said Wheeler, 3029 Longsdale Drive. “It has been way too slow.” Wheeler donated one and a half lots to the city of Edmond a year ago to help get her home and 54 other houses in her neighborhood out of the floodplain. She wants the work finished so she doesn’t have to keep buying flood insurance. She said her mortgage and insurance payment went up $150 because she lives in a flood zone. Wheeler’s home hasn’t flooded, because it sits on a hill next door to the Spring Creek tributary that runs through the neighborhood. Her driveway has a steep incline. But her neighbors aren’t as fortunate, and high water runs into their homes, she said. “It has flooded three or four times since I have lived here,” Wheeler said. “Four-by-four trucks couldn’t get down the road and they had to turn around. It got bad.” No one questions the flooding problem in the neighborhood east of Second Street and Coltrane Road. How 55 homes ended up in the floodplain

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isn’t so clear. City Planner Bob Schiermeyer said floodplain maps in 1983 were not as detailed as today’s documents, which clearly show the homes in the floodplain. “Something wasn’t accurate when it was built and I don’t know what it was,” said City Engineer Steve Manek. “I have been here 12 years and it has been a longstanding problem.” Construction in a floodplain isn’t allowed, Manek said. Mayor Charles Lamb said there was no flood insurance before 1973 or 1974. “We just didn’t have the mapping to work with,” Lamb said. City council members on Monday approved a $3.13 million contract with Crossland Heavy Contractors. A Federal Emergency Management Agency grant will pay for 75 percent of the contract. The city is responsible for 25 percent of the cost, or $716,003. Manek said the floodplain will be narrowed so the water will stay in the

Something wasn’t accurate when it was built and I don’t know what it was. I have been here 12 years and it has been a long-standing problem.” STEVE MANEK CITY ENGINEER

channel, and the concrete bridge under Longsdale Drive will be replaced with a larger structure. The contractors have 200 calendar days to get the job finished. “We know there is going to be a lot of interruption and we apologize,” Manek said. “It will take about a half-million dollars just for the bridge. It is a hard project.” Wheeler just wants the work finished so her flood insurance payments will go away. She also would have the option to sell her home if it didn’t sit in a flood zone. “If we have any extra money, we want to spend it on the kids,” Wheeler said.

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Affidavit details arrest of rapper BY BRYAN DEAN Staff Writer bdean@opubco.com

Rapper 2 Chainz and his entourage may need a refresher course on probable cause. Oklahoma City police pulled over the musician’s tour bus last week because of a broken taillight. Officers said they smelled an overwhelming odor of marijuana and could see smoke in the bus as the driver came out of the door, giving them probable cause to search the bus without a warrant. But when one of the people on the bus was ordered to open the door, he refused and held a small copy of the U.S. Constitu-

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tion up to the window, according to a probable cause affidavit filed Monday. All 11 people on the bus, including the driver, were arrested on obstruction complaints. Affidavits supporting the arrests were filed this week, giving more details about the incident.

Police pulled the bus over on Interstate 40 at Meridian Avenue just before midnight, Aug. 21. The bus was on its way out of town following a performance at the Chesapeake Energy Arena, where 2 Chainz opened for Lil Wayne. Officers said they pulled the bus over because the

Lawsuit alleges female inmates suffered abuse BY CARY ASPINWALL Tulsa World cary.aspinwall@ tulsaworld.com

TULSA — Female inmates were routinely subjected to sexual battery and harassment by employers through a work-release program at a Turley halfway house, according to a lawsuit filed against the private company operating the facility. At least 20 women have made allegations against Oklahoma City-based Avalon Correctional Services, said an attorney who filed the negligence lawsuit in Tulsa District Court. The suit alleges Turley Residential Center staff “did not follow the procedures for operating the work-release program and further directed women to places of employment with supervisors who utilized their positions of authority to sexually exploit the women.” Attorney J. Spencer Bryan, representing Jane Does 1 through 50 in the lawsuit filed last week against Avalon, said at least 20 women have made similar allegations so far, but they think additional victims may come forward.

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Johnson, Carl Junior, 74, piano repairman and tuner, died Aug. 21. Wake 7 p.m. Wednesday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday (Criswell, Ada). Wilson, Ann Pike, 65, homemaker, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Wednesday (Criswell, Ada).

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Doyebi, Frankie, 66, died Saturday. Services 10 a.m. Wednesday, Redstone Church (Smith, Anadarko). Spray, Otis A., 93, backhoe operator, died Saturday. Services 2 p.m. Thursday, Virginia Avenue Baptist Church (Smith, Anadarko).

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Gillaspy, Altus Rae, 87, refining unit operator, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Friday, First Baptist Church (Flanagan-Watts, Marietta).

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Satterfield, Ola Mae, 81, died Monday. Services 5 p.m. Wednesday (Mills & Coffey, Antlers).

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Alexander, Elizabeth, 88, retired switchboard operator and city employee, died Sunday. Services 2 p.m. Saturday (Arnold Moore & Neekamp, Bartlesville). Pugh, James Evert, 76, oil field cementer, died Monday. Services pending (Walker-Brown, Bartlesville).

BETHEL ACRES

Brooks, Willie G., 80, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday, Rock Creek Baptist Church, Shawnee (Cooper, Tecumseh).

BLACKWELL

Sodowsky, Claude David, 91, farmer, died Sunday. Services 1:30 p.m. Thursday (Roberts and Son, Blackwell).

BUFFALO

Waugh, Wilford D., 90, farmer and rancher, died Monday. Services 2 p.m. Friday, Rosston United Methodist Church (Wilkinson, Buffalo).

BUTLER

Golden, Sarah Ann, 72, housekeeper, died Sunday. Graveside services 2 p.m. Thursday, Butler Cemetery (Kiesau-Lee, Clinton).

CHEROKEE

Davidson, Terry Easley, 69, died Friday. Services 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Cherokee Municipal Cemetery Pavilion (Goodwin, Cherokee).

Bryan said the sexual abuses happened with an employer in the food services industry, but he declined to name the employer due to an ongoing criminal investigation related to the complaints. “Different women had different experiences, but sexual battery is the most common theme,” he said. “Those allegations generally involve unwanted and repeated touching and groping ... pulling down clothing to expose body parts and unwanted kissing.” Several of the women said the employer would “gloat that nobody would believe them because they’re inmates,” Bryan said. When the women reported the abuses to Avalon staff, the staff would retaliate against them by issuing unfounded misconducts, accusing them of lying, refusing to contact law enforcement or discharging them from the facility, according to the lawsuit. “Despite communicating these complaints to Avalon, nothing was being done,” Bryan said. Brian Costello, president and chief operating officer of Avalon, said he couldn’t comment on the specific allegations con-

tained in the lawsuit because he had not yet been served with the documents filed. “I don’t know specifics of the individual claims, so it’s very difficult to know what we’re talking about,” Costello said. “We have been made aware of one instance with one employer that was investigated, that is the only instance that we have ever been made aware of.” As soon as there is a hint that there may be a problem with a specific employer that Avalon contracts with, the staff immediately removes the inmates and finds them a job elsewhere, Costello said. “We take those allegations seriously. We’re pretty happy with the program and our relationship” with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Costello said. As part of its contract with corrections, Avalon administers a work-release program out of its Turley facility, a halfway house for women. The facility also offers job training and classes to prepare inmates to re-enter the workplace as they complete their jail or prison sentences. Avalon is paid to house

CHOCTAW

construction laborer, died Sunday. Services 2 p.m. Wednesday (Orr Gray Gish, Frederick).

Freeman, Theresa Irene, 75, homemaker, died Monday. Services pending (Vondel L. Smith and Son South, Oklahoma City).

CUSHING

Wingfield, Cleo “Bud,” 99, helium extraction plant operator, died Sunday. Graveside services 10 a.m. Friday, Fairlawn Cemetery (Palmer & Marler, Cushing).

DEL CITY

Crum, Rebecca “LaVerne,” 88, died Sunday. Services 10 a.m. Wednesday (Ford, Midwest City).

DUNCAN

Wiles, Bob, 80, died Monday. Services 10:30 a.m. Friday (BeckerRabon, Lawton).

DURANT

Robison, Robert Lee, 82, manager, died Monday. Services 11 a.m. Thursday (Lescher-Millsap, Muskogee).

EDMOND

Kessler, Christian, 49, died Friday. Services 4 p.m. Saturday (Vondel Smith Mortuary North, Oklahoma City). Shoemaker, Hazel F., 89, homemaker, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday (Matthews, Edmond).

EL RENO

Jaenicke, Robert H., 74, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Friday, New Hope Baptist Church (Caskets Inc & Johnson, Del City).

ENID

Dungan, Charles D., 85, schoolteacher, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday, Enid Cemetery Chapel (Amy Stittsworth, Enid). Gable, Phillip Edward “Phil,” 73, golf course superintendent, died Thursday. Services were Monday (Amy Stittsworth, Enid). Johnson, Alvin W., 91, farmer, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday, Enid Mennonite Brethren Church (Ladusau-Evans, Enid). Neece, Hester E., 74, accountant, died Aug. 21. Services pending (Amy Stittsworth, Enid). Ravia, John William, 58, auto mechanic, died Thursday. Services pending (Amy Stittsworth, Enid). Robinette, Deana Loraine, 54, homemaker, died Saturday. Services pending (Amy Stittsworth, Enid).

FREDERICK

Hanes, Randy Lynn, 46, general

HARRAH

Tatum, Lyndall Edith, 92, real estate secretary, died Monday. Graveside services 2 p.m. Thursday, Clearsprings Mashak Cemetery, Midwest City (Bill Eisenhour NE, Oklahoma City).

HARTSHORNE

Dyer, C.V., 78, sheet metal worker, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Friday (Brown’s, Atoka).

HOBART

Perez, Sandra Jane “Sandy,” 57, secretary, died Monday. Services 2 p.m. Thursday, Washington Street Baptist Church (People’s CoOperative, Lone Wolf).

IDABEL

Daniels, Gerold LaWayne, 51, health care worker, died Aug. 21. Services 2 p.m. Saturday (Nunley’s, Idabel). Nunley, Crystal Wyshaun, 30, died Aug. 20. Graveside services 10 a.m. Saturday, Williamston Cemetery (Nunley’s, Idabel).

JONES

Shaffer, Sharlotte, 76, homemaker, died Friday. No services (Brown’s, Luther).

LAVERNE

Wheeler, Clyde Arlie “C.A.,” 92, politician, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday, United Methodist Church (Myatt, Laverne).

LAWTON

Johnson, James Sr., 83, died Sunday. Services 10 a.m. Friday, Central Baptist Church (BeckerRabon, Lawton). Murrow, Jan Kevin, 53, furniture mover, died Aug. 8. Prayer service 7 p.m. Thursday. Services 10 a.m. Friday (Comanche Nation, Lawton).

LINDSAY

Ellithorp, Willie, 70, oil field business owner and rancher, died Tuesday. Services pending (B.G. Boydston, Lindsay). Williams, Kay Rita, 77, retired bank vice-president, died Monday. Services 2:30 p.m. Thursday, United Methodist Church (B.G. Boydston, Lindsay).

MCALESTER

Copeland, Willie Mae, 83, business owner, died Monday. Services 2 p.m. Thursday, First Baptist Church (Bishop, McAlester).

MIDWEST CITY

Dillon, Elizabeth A., 36, died Sun-

passenger side taillights were out. Police got to the door of the bus as driver Cedric Brooks, 31, was coming off the bus. The arresting officer said he smelled marijuana and saw smoke through the open door. Brooks quickly shut the door and told officers he was not authorized to allow police on the bus, the affidavit states. The officer explained to Brooks that the marijuana smell gave him probable cause to search, but Brooks refused to open the door. When backup officers arrived, police approached the door again and ordered a passenger sitting by the door, Abdullah Mujahid, 52, to open it. He shook his

At least 20 women have made allegations against Oklahoma City-based Avalon Correctional Services. Attorney J. Spencer Bryan

as many as 180 female offenders at Turley at a daily cost to taxpayers of $33.75 per offender, or $12,319 per year per offender, according to Department of Corrections annual reports. Avalon also operates two halfway houses for male offenders in Oklahoma — in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. The lawsuit alleges Avalon employees failed to supervise the employers participating in its work-release program and failed to “adequately investigate complaints of sexual abuse and sexual manipulation.” The company’s failure to report the sexual misconduct “was motivated by desire to maintain its contract with ODOC,” the suit claims. Many of the Turley victims have been hesitant to speak out because they fear retaliation, Bryan said. “Many of these women are mothers and wives that just want to get back to their husbands and children,” he said.

day. Services pending (John M. Ireland, Moore). Lester, Juvene B., 87, Traub Elementary School secretary, died Tuesday. Services 1 p.m. Thursday, Country Estates Baptist Church (Paylor Family, Midwest City).

MOORE

Caskey, Sherel Layla, 35, OG&E print service lead, died Aug. 24. Services 1 p.m. Saturday (John M. Ireland, Moore). Ward, Thomas Daniel, 83, truck driver, died Tuesday. Services pending (John M. Ireland, Moore).

NORMAN

Hames, Allen Hugh, 76, died Sunday. Graveside services 10 a.m. Thursday, I.O.O.F. Cemetery (Havenbrook, Norman). Lowell, Jeanne L., 67, teacher, died Monday. No services (John M. Ireland, Moore). York, Mildred, 84, died Monday. Services 2 p.m. Thursday (Havenbrook, Norman).

OKLAHOMA CITY

Bart, Sarah Sally, 81, homemaker, died Aug. 24. Graveside services 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens (Chapel Hill, Oklahoma City). Blinn, Susanne Wells, 91, died Tuesday. Services 3 p.m. Friday, First Presbyterian Church (HahnCook/Street & Draper, Oklahoma City). Bonebrake, Ronal Keithley, 72, radio station president and owner, died Monday. Services 2 p.m. Thursday, All Soul’s Episcopal Church (Smith & Kernke, N May, Oklahoma City). Faul, Gavin Christopher, infant son of Brian and Sarah Faul, died Sunday. Services 10 a.m. Wednesday (Vondel Smith Mortuary North, Oklahoma City). Haines, Tom David, 79, insurance sales, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Friday, St. Luke’s United Methodist Church (OK Cremation, Oklahoma City). Hale, Danny Joe, 54, died Sunday. Services 1 p.m. Saturday, Victory Baptist Church, Duncan (CarterSmart, Duncan). Hightower, Jack M., 82, firefighter, died Sunday. Graveside services 10 a.m. Thursday, Resthaven Memory Gardens (John M. Ireland, Moore). Hornbeck, Calvin C., 88, retired from state hospital police, died Thursday. Services 11 a.m. Friday, Loving St. James Baptist Church, Spencer (Pollard, Oklahoma City). Jefferson, Curtis, 88, died Sat-

head “no” and held a copy of the U.S. Constitution up in the window, the affidavit states. Police said they also made phone calls to those on the bus, ordering them to come out, but they refused. Officers had the bus towed with the men still on it to the police training center at 800 N Portland Ave. An investigator with the district attorney’s office got a search warrant about 9 a.m. The men got off the bus after officers showed them the warrant, and they were arrested. One of those arrested was 2 Chainz, whose real name is Tauheed Epps, 35. Epps made two comments about the incident on his Twitter feed after he

was released on bail Aug. 22 from the Oklahoma County jail. The first said: “Don’t ask me ask OKC police department what they found on the bus,,,,u won’t get an answer because nuthn was found.” The second included expletives and said, in part, “our bus gets pulled 1 a week and they always say I smell weed I need to search ur bus.” Police said they found some drugs on the bus but have not determined who they belonged to. No charges have been filed in the case thus far. A search warrant return, which would detail what was found on the bus, also hasn’t been filed.

CRIME BRIEFS MAN ENTERS PLEA IN ROBBERIES An Oklahoma City man, one of six charged in connection with a string of armed bank robberies earlier this year in the Oklahoma City area, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a bank robbery charge. Michael Deon Lewis told Chief U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange that he had a firearm when he entered the IBC Bank, 901 SW 19 in Moore, and demanded a teller put money in a bag. Sentencing for Lewis, 27, will be later. He faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and/or a $25,000 fine and five years supervised probation upon his release. Federal prosecutors agreed to drop two other bank robbery-related charges against Lewis as part of a plea deal. Lewis is required to pay $11,213 restitution to the IBC Bank for the March 14 robbery and $11,068 to MidFirst Bank, 7500 S Western Ave., which was robbed April 12. Lewis was among six men indicted in six armed bank robberies that occurred from Jan. 18 through April 12. Lewis is the first of the six to have his case resolved. The others charged with bank robbery and related counts are Jerry Carlton Lewis, Clarence David Hudson, Charles Glen Johnson, Leon Wayne Murrell and Nicholas Deshon Tubbs. MICHAEL MCNUTT, STAFF WRITER

DRIVER IN FATAL CRASH IS CHARGED A motorist who struck and killed a bicyclist in Oklahoma City has been charged with first-degree manslaughter. Angela Renea Myers, 37, is accused of driving while under the influence of alcohol. The charge filed in Oklahoma County District Court states she was driving 53 mph, eight miles over the speed limit. She told police at the scene she didn’t see the bicyclist while they were both in the outside lane. Jason Weldon, 40, was riding a bicycle about 11:30 p.m. Aug. 9 on NW 10 near County Line Road when he was struck by Myers’ vehicle. Weldon was pronounced dead at the scene. The bicycle’s lights were on, according to a police report. MICHAEL MCNUTT, STAFF WRITER

urday. Services pending (Rolfe, Oklahoma City). Matthews, Rex Roland, 74, died Tuesday. Private services (Vondel Smith Mortuary at South Lakes, Oklahoma City). Muenzler, Dr. W. Stanley, 81, ophthalmologist, died Tuesday. Services pending (Hahn-Cook/ Street & Draper, Oklahoma City). Scharabok, Patricia Marie, 45, died Saturday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday, Sunnylane United Methodist Church, Del City (Ford, Midwest City). Tilson, Lora Mae, 72, died Aug. 23. Services 10 a.m. Friday (Ford, Midwest City). Tucker, Jill Ann, 56, died Aug. 21. Graveside services 3 p.m. Wednesday, Resurrection Memorial Cemetery (John M. Ireland, Moore). Watts, Russell Allen, 37, septic service laborer, died Sunday. Graveside services 2 p.m. Friday, Sunny Lane Cemetery, Del City (John M. Ireland, Moore). Webb, Alwyn, 61, died Aug. 23. Services 1 p.m. Aug. 30 (Temple and Sons, Oklahoma City). White, Romena, 52, died Aug. 23. Services 10 a.m. Aug. 30 (Temple and Sons, Oklahoma City). Williamson, Billy “Talako,” 65, production company owner and jewelry dealer, died Monday. Services 2 p.m. Thursday (MercerAdams, Bethany).

OKMULGEE

Barnett, Frank, 86, died Monday. Services pending (House of Winn, Okmulgee). Wood, Jerry W., 70, rancher, died Saturday. Services 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nuyaka Baptist Church (McClendon-Winters, Okmulgee).

PERRY

Nemechek, Edward Jerry, 96, died Monday. Private services (Brown Dugger, Perry).

PRYOR

Hagerman, Tom, 47, died Saturday. Services 5 p.m. Friday (Shipman’s, Pryor).

SHAWNEE

Asgar, Alpha Mae, 80, jewelry sales, died Saturday. Services 2 p.m. Thursday, Sunnymeade Baptist Church (Advantage, Oklahoma City). Garner, Micheal Dale, 61, died Aug. 22. Services 2 p.m. Thursday, St. John Lutheran Church (Absolute Economical, Oklahoma City).

STAFFORD

McLaughlin, James W., 83, farmer

and automobile mechanic, died Saturday. Services 2 p.m. Wednesday, Broadway Heights Baptist Church (Kiesau-Lee, Clinton).

YUKON

Avants, Clara, 70, died Monday. Graveside services 11 a.m. Thursday, Spring Creek Memorial Cemetery, Oklahoma City (Bill Merritt, Bethany). Holland, Curtice Edgar Sr., 92, postal carrier, died Tuesday. Services pending (Yanda and Son, Yukon). Martin, Michael Ray, 63, construction estimator, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Saturday (Buchanan, Oklahoma City). Organ donor

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2013

James A. Swain

Jan. 3, 1980 - Aug. 13, 2013

Dorie Seikel Barrett

October 11, 1926 - August 24, 2013

OKLAHOMA CITY Doris Townsell Seikel Barrett was born October 11, 1926, and died August 24, 2013, after a lengthy illness. Born to Bonnie and Earl Townsell in Atkins, Arkansas, Dorie moved to Oklahoma City as a child and attended Eugene Fields and Horace Mann elementary schools. She then attended junior high and high school in Stillwater, graduating as valedictorian. Dorie was inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, an academic honor society at Oklahoma A&M and received her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry in 1949. She worked for many years at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in hematology and oncology. Dorie met and married William Robert Seikel, of McCloud, in 1947 after he returned from World War II. They were married for 30 years until Bill’s death in 1978. Dorie married John Adams Barrett, of Shawnee, OK, in 1982. They enjoyed 22 years of fun and travel until his death in 2004. Her four children were the pride and joy of her life. She is survived by Dr. Mike Seikel and wife Jeary Seikel, of OKC; Paul Seikel, of OKC; Dr. Stacy Seikel Thomas and husband John Thomas, of Winter Park, FL; and Robin Reynolds and husband Paul Reynolds, of Broken Arrow. She has ten grandchildren: Emily Seikel, of Austin, TX; Matt Seikel and wife Denise Duong, of OKC; Steven Seikel, of Tulsa; Beep Seikel, of Scottsdale, AZ; Jessica Reynolds, of Norman; Allison Reynolds, of OKC; Elizabeth Reynolds, of Tulsa; Jonathan Reynolds, of Norman; Beau Thomas, of Yangon; Myanmar and Autumn Thomas, of Maitland, FL. Dorie is also survived by her two sisters: Virginia Jacob, of Danville, CA; and Joye Harding and brother-in-law Mike Harding, of OKC; her devoted friend, Nick Nichols, of Park Ridge, IL; daughterin-law, Linda Seikel, of OKC; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents and husbands. Upon moving to Shawnee, Dorie helped establish the Hospice program. She served as president of the volunteers and was often on call for anyone needing help. She was active at the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art in Shawnee. As president of the Volunteer Association, she was instrumental in bringing publicity to “the best kept secret in Oklahoma, the MGMOA.” She left her volunteer duties when she and Jack began to spend a great deal of their time in Naples, FL on their boat named Grin-N-Barrett. Her Pi Beta Phi affiliation was a lifelong love. Beginning with her pledge class in 1945, she became a part of a group of friends who remained together for life. What started as a bridge group in OKC eventually became a birthday club. “The Girls” often told her that she didn’t play bridge up to her IQ, which was fine with Dorie. Above all else, Dorie loved to entertain her friends and family. She attended to every detail of social events. During the final years of her life, her friends living in the Waterford condominiums were recipients of her hospitality. Also, during the final years of Dorie’s life, her family expanded to include the people that worked to assist her. They are Laura Hicks, Phyllis Arterberry, Camille Brown, Misty Sims, Vinita Lewis, Tracy Long, Charmaine Buchanan, Manuel Liberty, and hospice nurse Lori Brasel. A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, August 28, 2013, at 4 p.m. at Smith & Kernke North May Chapel. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made in Dorie’s honor to Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 NE 13th, OKC, OK 73104.

OKLAHOMA CITY Memorial services for James Anthony Swain, 33, of Oklahoma City, will be held Thursday August 29th, at 1:00 pm at the Community of Christ Church in Del City, Oklahoma. James was born to Charles and DiAnna Swain, January 3, 1980. He passed away August 13th. He wed his longtime sweetheart Nickie Rolen on March 16, 2003. They had one child, Anthony Dwayne. He is survived by his wife and son of the home, his father Charles Swain of Elmore City, mother DiAnna Swain of Midwest City, brother David Swain and fiancé Tammy, grandmother Carol Swain and aunt Sandy Whiting, all of Wichita, KS, uncles Rodney and Tom Hurley of Midwest City, step-brother Michael Webb, John Webb (Crystal) of Elmore City, foster brother Joe Miller of Moore, mother-inlaw Rebecca Milam, sister-inlaw Kayla (Mitchell) Hunt, and brother-in-law Bubba Rolen, all of Sulphur, nephews and nieces Blaine Swain and Kilya Borgardts, Thomas and Autumn Webb, and Jimmy and Elora Hunt.

Paul Jay Smith

July 14, 1954 - Aug 14, 2013

OKLAHOMA CITY Paul Jay Smith, 59, of Oklahoma City, passed away Wednesday, August 14, 2013. He was born July 14, 1954, in Oakland, California. He is survived by his mother, Dolores (Lumsden) Smith; sister, Felicia Kiplinger; and niece, Christine Kiplinger; all of Oklahoma City; as well as numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. He was preceded in death by his father, Paul Smith; paternal grandparents, George and Mary (Tyler) Smith; and maternal grandparents, Lee and Blanche (Locke) Lumsden. Jay graduated from Midwest City High School in 1972. He attended the University of Oklahoma. He served in the U.S. Air Force, where he was a dental technician. After leaving the Air Force, Jay began a 30-year career with the U.S. Postal Service until his retirement in 2009. During his life, Jay enjoyed being outdoors, camping, swimming, running, riding his bike, riding his Sea-Doo and hanging out with friends and family. Jay had a great sense of humor and was a generous and kind man. He had an amazing memory for past events and loved to tell stories. Jay enjoyed reading, especially the Bible, which gave him much guidance and salvation during difficult times in his life. Jay was a special person and will be dearly missed by his family and friends. Jay will always be in our hearts and minds, and we take comfort in knowing he has joined Dad in heaven and his earthly struggles are over. A celebration of Jay’s life is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday, August 29, 2013, at Spring Creek Assembly of God Church, 1600 S.E. 15th Street, Edmond, Oklahoma.

Ronald Scott Elder Apr. 22, 1951 - Aug. 24, 2013

Ronal Keithley Bonebrake March 18, 1941 - August 26, 2013

OKLAHOMA CITY Ronal Keithley Bonebrake-Beloved husband, father, grandfather-Survived by his loving spouse Linda, children Stephanie Bonebrake Williams and husband Tom, and Laurie Bonebrake Graham and husband Brandon. Ron was also a cherished mentor to children Aimee, Trip and Jack Zedlitz and their spouses Amy, Michelle, and Sara. Ron was a proud grandfather to Hardy, Charlotte, and Blythe Williams and Hudson Graham. He was also greatly loved by Abby, Alex, Coleman, Isabel, Grae, Zac, Zoe, and Zara Zedlitz. He is survived as well by his former wife Kay. Ron was a 1959 Casady graduate and graduated from Harvard in 1963. Throughout his academic life, he was an outstanding athlete in football, soccer, and track. He was a wide receiver on the acclaimed Casady Football Teams that won 36 games over four years. Ron went on to play football at Harvard where he excelled again. Ron owned and worked with his parents, Sue and Matt, running the KOCY and KXXY Radio Stations for many years. Together they were responsible for bringing Rock and Roll to Oklahoma City. He was also a retired commander in the United States Naval Reserve. Along with his wife, Linda, Ron spent many happy winters in Naples, Florida where he was the President of the Lions Gate Condominiums. He enjoyed playing golf in Naples and Oklahoma City. Ron was a faithful and stalwart friend. Lifetime relationships were forged with his Navy Reserve buddies, Dick Lampton and Chuck Morrison. He continued his friendships with the Casady Class of '59 and his seven roommates from the Harvard Class of '63. Ron was loved and respected throughout his life. Memorial contributions may be made to Casady School or All Souls Episcopal Church. Private burial will be held at Memorial Park at 11:00 a.m. Memorial Services to be held at All Souls Episcopal Church on August 29th at 2:00 p.m. Rest in peace my precious love and friend.

OKLAHOMA CITY Ronald Scott Elder passed away at his home on Saturday, August 24, 2013, at the age of 62. He was born April 22, 1951 in Oklahoma City. Scott was an avid music lover and learned to play the guitar at a young age. He also had a keen mechanical ability. Later in life he combined these two talents and became an accomplished Luthier. Scott was preceded in death by his mother June Frances Lee, his father Fred Roy Elder and his oldest brother Phillip Dale Elder. He is survived by his wife Mary, son Christopher and daughter Caryn, brothers Les and Rick Elder, stepmother Carla Mae Elder, sister-in-law Nancy and his grandchildren Anthony Elder, Madeline Elder, Waylon Troyer, Tyler Troyer and Sara Troyer along with numerous loved nieces and nephews, beloved extended family and countless friends. A Celebration of Life will be held Friday, August 30th, at 10:00 a.m. in the Bill Merritt Chapel, 6201 NW 39th Expressway. Memorial donations may be may be made to: The Northview Community Church Building Fund, 9932 W. Hefner Rd., Yukon, OK 73099.

Jack M. Hightower

Dorothy Maxine Thomas Feb 6, 1923 - Aug 23, 2013

OKLAHOMA CITY Memorials may be made to Pediatric Cancer Research at Children’s Hospital. Viewing at 4-8 p.m. Tuesday & Wednesday, with family receiving friends at 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday at Vondel Smith at S. Western. Services at 10 a.m. Thursday, August 29, 2013, at the South Colonial Chapel. Friends may leave condolences for the family at www.vondelsmithmortuary.com

Samuel Ellis Dilbeck

September 26, 1953 - August 22, 2013

NICOMA PARK Samuel Ellis Dilbeck was born Sept. 26, 1953 in Amarillo, Texas to John Lloyd Dilbeck and Wanda Evelyn Parker. When Sammy was six months old the family moved back to Oklahoma to the Jones-Choctaw area. Sammy attended grade school at State Center and graduated in 1971 from Jones High School. He was proud to serve in the U.S. Air Force during the Viet Nam War, where he was stationed in Thailand. He came home to the hospital at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas and spent the next few months there. He was discharged at the rank of Staff Sargent in 1974 and spent the next 40 years in the care of the VA Medical Center in OKC. Sam passed away at home on August 22, 2013 at the age of 59. He was preceded in death by all four grandparents, his father, and two tiny brothers. Survivors include his mother; son, Jeffrey and wife, Sky of Moore, OK; son, Sammy and wife, Julie of Corsicana, Texas; grandsons, Max, Jones, Jason, and David; granddaughters, Landry and Campbell; brothers, Steven and wife, Pam of Macomb, OK, Scott and wife, Kathy of Choctaw, OK; his sister, Susan Henderson and her husband, Steve of Nicoma Park, OK; and many nieces, nephews, and friends. Susie and Steve were his caregivers since 1989, and were helped by Hospice of OKC the past year. Memorial services will be held at First Christian Church of Jones, OK on Saturday, August 31st, at 10:00am. Funeral arrangements are by Bill Eisenhour Northeast Funeral Home.

Feb. 13, 1931 - August 25, 2013

Raymond Eugene Newport, Sr.

April 11, 1946 - August 23, 2013

OKLAHOMA CITY Raymond Eugene Newport, Sr., 67, of OKC, passed away suddenly on Aug. 23, 2013, in Houston, TX. He was born in Kansas City, MO on Apr. 11, 1946, to Hubert Dean Newport and Virginia (Smith) Newport. He was preceded in death by his father, Hubert Dean Newport and his step-father, Leslie Monroe Bartlett. He is survived by his mother, Virginia Bartlett of Nashville, TN; his wife of 39 years, Beverly (Dyer) of the home; three children, Ramey and his wife Melissa of OKC, Heather and husband Chris Brown, of Miami, OK and John Newport; five grandchildren, John Newport, Jr. of the home, Colbyn Brown, Kaleb Newport, Kaden Newport and Halyn Brown; brother, Terry Dean Newport and wife, Quy; sister, Gay (Bartlett) Hubbell and husband, Mike; niece, Kimberly (Newport) Regan and husband, Aaron; nephews, Nicholas and Jackson Thurman; and greatnephew, Jaggar Reagan. Raymond served in the U.S. Navy. He was a member of St. James the Greater Catholic Church. Raymond coached soccer when Heather and Ramey were at St. James. He enjoyed camping out with the Boy Scouts. Raymond was a great Catholic School parent, and did anything that he was asked to do. He was a driver and trainer for C.R.S.T. International for 26 years and was the “Driver of the Year” in 2005, as well as “Solo Driver of the Quarter” in 2005. In March of 2013, he had 23 years of safe driving. He was 167,065 miles short of achieving his 4 Million Miles Club. Raymond loved his family and friends and would go out of his way to do anything for them. He was the best husband, father, and Papa a family could ask for. Raymond will be missed by all who knew him and will be forever in our hearts. A Wake will be held 7:00 pm, Friday, Aug. 30, 2013, at St. James Greater Catholic Church, 4201 S. McKinley Ave., OKC. The Mass will be 10:00 am, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013, at St. James. Interment to follow at Heritage Burial Park in OKC. Services are under the direction of John M. Ireland Funeral Home and Chapel, Moore, OK.

CHOCTAW Ted Spring, of Choctaw, passed away on Aug. 25, 2013. He was 63 years old. Ted was highly decorated as a Medic in the Special Forces for the Green Beret in Vietnam. Ted also loved hunting as well as many other hobbies. Ted is preceded in death by his parents Merrill and Eunice (Armstrong) Spring. Those left to cherish his memory include his wife Sandra K. Spring of the home, his daughter Heather Arnheart of Oklahoma City, his son Theodore M. Spring Jr. of Texas, his step-daughter Frances Scott of Nicoma Park, OK, 2 granddaughters Cassandra Arnheart, and Cadence Scott, as well as a host of Friends and loved ones. Visitation for Ted will be Wednesday, August 28, 2013, at the Barnes Friederich Funeral Home. Funeral Service for Ted will be 2:00 PM Thursday, August 29, 2013, at the Barnes Friederich Funeral Home Chapel, with interment to follow at the Elmwood Cemetery in Choctaw.

Wesley Greenroyd Dec. 18, 1929 - Aug. 25, 2013

JONES Wesley Greenroyd, 83, of Jones, Oklahoma died 08-252013. Services will be held at Bethel Church Choctaw, 3254 N. Choctaw Rd., Choctaw, Oklahoma on Friday 830-2013 at 10:00 a.m. Interment at Jones IOOF Cemetery. For a full obit please refer to website.

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OKLAHOMA CITY Jack M. Hightower, age 82, of OKC, passed away August 25, 2013. He was born February 13, 1931, in OKC, OK, to Charles & Mildred Hightower. Jack proudly served his country in the US Army during WWII and received an Honorable Discharge for services rendered to his country. He was a firefighter for the OKC Fire Department and retired after 22 years of service to his community. Jack is survived by 3 children, Jacqueline Sorrell & husband Earnest of OKC, Janette Hightower of Bethany and Toni Hill of Bethany; 3 grandchildren, Misty VanCuren, Britni West and Summer Delarosa; 2 sisters, Geneva Kemper of OKC and Barbara Rash of OKC. He is preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Elouise; daughter, Pamela West; 2 brothers, J.W. Hightower and Verdell Hightower. Graveside Services will be held at 10:00 A.M., Thursday, August 29, 2013, at Resthaven Memory Gardens, OKC. Services are under the direction of the John M. Ireland Funeral Home, Moore, OK.

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Jeremiah "Jeremy" J. Potter

July 16, 1950 - Aug. 25, 2013

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CHOCTAW Jeremiah "Jeremy" J. Potter was killed in a single car accident Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. "Potter" as he was known by, grew up in Choctaw and attended McLoud Schools, where he graduated May, 2009. He played soccer, was a Boy Scout and participated in the pre-engineering program at Gordon Cooper VoTech. His travels included Cancun, Mexico, a train trip with his Mom and Grandparents to Chicago, Niagara Falls, New York City, and Washington, D.C. For his senior year he ventured to Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, and Hawaii where Australia was his favorite. Jeremy volunteered at Santissimo Sacramento Parish in Piura, Peru, where he worked and assisted the poor. Jeremy Potter married Rachel Teer on September 8, 2012, in Oklahoma City. He is survived by his wife, Rachel Teer Potter, and two sons, Nathaniel and Samuel, plus many loved ones. In lieu of flowers, please send funds for Rachel and boys to: Rachel Teer Potter, 2507 N. Hudson, Okla. City, OK 731033024. Open viewing is from 9:00am - 9:00pm Wednesday, August 28th. Formal viewing will be 6-8:00pm the same day at Smith-Parks Funeral Service, 2039 N. Tim Holt Dr., Harrah, OK 73045. A "Celebration of Life" service will be held 10:00am, Thursday, August 29, 2013, at Harrah Church, 101 S. Dobbs, Harrah, OK 73045. Services are under the direction of Smith~Parks Funeral Service in Harrah, OK. A guest book is available to share your memories online. Please visit: www.smithparks.com

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METRO | STATE

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Texts indicated missing Girl’s death near school is called a ‘tragic accident’ student considered suicide BY DYLAN GOFORTH Tulsa World dylan.goforth@tulsaworld.com

TULSA — Tulsa police

and Tulsa Public Schools officials called the death of a child who was hit by an SUV in the parking lot of a Tulsa elementary school Tuesday an unfortunate, tragic accident. The 4-year-old girl had been standing with her mother in a grassy curbside area on the Park Elementary School grounds, at 3205 W 39th St., when she “did what little kids do” and stepped off into the area where vehicles turn to get onto the campus, Tulsa Public Schools spokesman Chris Payne said. The girl was then struck by a black Chevrolet sport utility vehicle, dragged 10 to 12 feet and

pinned under the vehicle, Payne said. She died at the scene. The girl and her mother were there to pick up a sibling, a boy who attends the nearby Early Childhood Development Center-Porter and was being dropped off by a school bus at Park Elementary, Payne said. The collision happened just after 3 p.m. during a busy time when many people were outside the school, Payne said. “It’s just a tragic, tragic, accident,” Payne said. “We’re very saddened, and we feel bad for the child’s family and the sibling.” Payne and Tulsa police Sgt. Vic Regalado said it didn’t appear that the driver could have done anything to avoid the collision. Police declined to

identify the driver. School officials planned to have counselors at the school to speak with affected students and teachers. Payne said officials may take a look at afterschool pickup procedures to see whether changes need to be made. “Our deepest sympathies go out to the family of the 4-year-old girl who was hit by a car in front of Park Elementary this afternoon,” Superintendent Keith Ballard said in a statement. “This is truly a tragedy for everyone involved, and all of Tulsa Public Schools grieves when such a young life is taken away. “Our hearts and prayers also go out to the driver and family of the vehicle.” World Staff Writer Andrea Eger contributed to this story.

Defense questions accomplice BY SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE,

N.M.

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The defense worked Tuesday to discredit a key witness in the capital murder trial of escaped Arizona convict John McCluskey, grilling one of his accomplices about his past murder conviction, their pris-

on break and the role he played in the slayings of an Oklahoma couple while the two were on the lam in New Mexico. Tracy Province was on the stand for a second day in the trial of his former bunkmate, who Province testified Monday was the triggerman in the Aug. 2, 2010, slayings of Gary and Linda Haas of Tecumseh,

Okla. The retirees were carjacked for their pickup truck and trailer. Michael Burt, who is leading McCluskey’s defense, suggested Province was “performing” for the jury and that his credibility was questionable given inconsistent statements he made to investigators following the slayings.

State infant mortality rate down BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Oklahoma’s infant mortality rate is declining but remains above the national rate, state health officials say. The Oklahoma State Department of Health said Tuesday that the state’s infant mortality rate has declined from 8.6 per

1,000 live births in 2007 to 7.9 per 1,000 live births in 2012. But the state’s infant mortality rate remains above the national rate of 6.15 per 1,000 live births recorded in 2010. Suzanna Dooley, director of the agency’s Maternal and Child Health Service, says about 90 fewer

Oklahoma babies would die each year if the state matched the national rate. Dr. Terry Cline, Oklahoma’s health commissioner, says the decline in Oklahoma’s infant mortality rate is good news. But Cline said there are still too many babies that do not live to see their first birthday.

BY NIGEL DUARA Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. — Authorities in Oregon say text messages found hours before the discovery of a missing college student’s body on a heavily-wooded hill were the first indication he planned to kill himself. Johnathan Croom was found just 1,000 yards from the vehicle he abandoned near Riddle, Ore. Douglas County sheriff’s spokesman Dwes Hutson said crews searching the area for days after Croom’s green SUV was found were looking for a live person. They called his name and made lots of noise, as they had since last week, but heard nothing back. The discovery of the texts changed the nature of the search.

“That led us to believe that he was probably going to do this,” Hutson said. Hutson says crews brought in dogs used to find cadavers, and found the 18year-old Croom’s body within hours. The Apache Junction, Ariz., college student was scheduled to drive home from Seattle and was due back Aug. 17. Croom’s father said Monday night his son was grieving the end of a recent relationship. “He was a young man who had a broken heart and headed out to try to find himself,” said David Croom, Johnathan’s father. “We’re looking forward to finding out exactly what happened.” He thanked everyone who helped search for his son. The teen had talked with

his parents about the book “Into the Wild” and told a friend he wanted to run away. Croom also talked to his parents about Christopher McCandless, whose journey to Alaska was documented in the book. McCandless gave up his worldly goods to live in the Alaska wilderness, only to die there, perhaps from eating wild potatoes. Earlier this year, a 19year-old from Oklahoma disappeared after talking to his parents about the same book and setting out to test himself against the Oregon wilderness. Dustin Self’s truck was found in April on Steens Mountain in southeast Oregon. The last search for Self was in the spring, after snow melted, but it yielded no hints to his location.

NFL

REDHAWKS

Vikes think hit dirty

OKC clinches division title

Former OSU player Kevin Williams appears to have avoided disaster on a hit to his right knee that could’ve done much more damage.

The RedHawks clinched the Pacific Coast League American Southern with a 5-4 win over Nashville on Tuesday.

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INSIDE HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL

EDMOND SANTA FE PITCHER BACK IN THE CIRCLE JoBi Heath, below, suffered a torn ACL in a basketball game, but is back on the field for softball season. PAGE 10B

A FINAL RUN

PHOTO BY SARAH PHIPPS, THE OKLAHOMAN ARCHIVES

AFTER DOUBTING WHETHER HE WANTED TO PLAY FOOTBALL ANYMORE, JEREMY SMITH RETURNED, AND IS READY TO BE THE POKES’ FEATURED BACK John Helsley

jhelsley@ opubco.com

OSU FOOTBALL STILLWATER —

Jeremy Smith went MIA in the spring of 2011, questioning his future both at Oklahoma State and in the game of football. “I found him at his girlfriend’s house back in Tulsa,” said Cowboys receiver Tracy Moore, Smith’s best friend since their playing days at Tulsa Union. “We

sat and we talked for a little while.” Talked some sense. “It wasn’t really hard to convince him to come back,” Moore said. “He just kind of felt like he wasn’t ever going to play. I told him, ‘It’s not worth quitting. What would you be doing without football?’” Fast forward to today and the question offers an ironic twist: What would the Cowboys be doing without Smith? Now a senior, Smith enters Saturday’s season opener as OSU’s No. 1 tailback and its only back with meaningful game experience. And as further post-

OSU VS. MISSISSIPPI ST. I When: 2:30 p.m. Saturday I Where: Reliant Stadium, Houston I TV: ABC (Cox 8/HD 705; Dish 5, DirecTV 5, UVerse 5/HD 1005) I Radio: KXXY FM 96.1

er-boy proof for sticking it out. “Nothing’s really given to you,” Smith said. “You always have to work for it. Be patient with everything.

And believe in what the coaches are telling you, keep your faith in God strong and everything will be good.” Smith had long avoided the topic of his near-departure, yet referenced it in describing his own talks with Clint Chelf during the quarterback’s stay-or-go considerations of a year ago. And on the verge of finally having “his time” as the Cowboys’ feature back, he’s thankful those negative thoughts of walking away didn’t linger long. “It’s just so much different from high school,” SEE SMITH, PAGE 4B

Jeremy Smith by the numbers

1,436

Career rushing yards. Currently ranks No. 22 all-time at OSU.

Career touchdowns. Enters season ranked 9th all-time.

6.2

Career yards per carry average. Ranks second, behind Barry Sanders’ 6.8 average.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

AGGIES’ COACH NOT TALKING MANZIEL Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin stuck to an athletic department edict not to discuss the status of Johnny Manziel. But whether or not the Aggie quarterback will play in Saturday’s season opener against Rice remains the daily question in college football. PAGE 6B

ONLINE LIVE CHAT WITH GINA MIZELL Join OSU beat writer Gina Mizell at 11 a.m. on Wednesday for the Power Lunch live chat. Get your Cowboys questions ready and log on at NewsOK.com/sports to join in.

SCAN IT

Silence is golden for Sooner QBs

Concussion issue hits home for Darlington

TREVOR KNIGHT | LIKE NORMAL, ALL QUIET ON THE QUARTERBACK FRONT

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OU FOOTBALL NORMAN — As a horrified national TV audience watched 18-year old highschool quarterback Zack Darlington suffer his second concussion in two months, then be carted off the field and airlifted to a hospital, his big brother paced around a dorm room more than 1,000 miles away anxiously awaiting any update on his condition. Oklahoma sophomore center Ty Darlington repeatedly tried calling his parents with no luck until

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Ty Darlington, right, blocking for his brother Zack while both were players at Apopka (Fla.) High. Zack Darlington, a Nebraska commitment, is out indefinitely after he suffered his second concussion in two months. PHOTO PROVIDED

an update finally arrived from a surprising source. “He was the first member of my family I talked to after he went off on the helicopter,” Ty said Tuesday. “I was freaking out, and then Zack texted me from his hospital bed.” Concussions continue to dominate discussions at all levels of football, from the NFL’s legal battles with former players to new NCAA targeting rules. But the debate on head injuries hit particularly close to home for Zack Darling-

ton’s extended family in Oklahoma, who watched his Apopka (Fla.) High team open its 2013 season on ESPN at Byrnes High in Duncan, S.C. Zack Darlington, a Nebraska commitment, is out indefinitely, according to a statement released Monday by his dad, and Apopka coach, Rick Darlington. Nebraska has informed the family that it will honor his commitment regardless of his football SEE OU, PAGE 3B

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COMMENTARY

ORMAN — Trevor Knight was a no-show Tuesday night in the OU football interview room. Most media were disappointed, and some fans will be the same. They’d like to hear from the newly-crowned Sooner quarterback, who has faced the microphones just once since the spring game, and that was 3½ weeks ago, when Blake Bell was the heir apparent.

UL-MONROE AT OU I When: 6 p.m. Saturday I Where: Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, Norman I TV: PPV I Radio: KOKC AM 1520; The Franchise FM 107.7

Not me. I wasn’t disappointed. I didn’t figure Knight would talk Tuesday, despite being told otherwise. Bob Stoops and Josh Heupel are growing too fond of the muzzle. Keep the quarterback quiet as long as you can. SEE TRAMEL, PAGE 3B

CONTACT US The Oklahoman Sports Department P.O. Box 25125 Oklahoma City, OK 73125 I Phone: (405) 475-3313 (800) 375-6397 ext. 3313 I Fax: (405) 475-3315 I Website: NewsOK.com I Email: sportsdesk@ oklahoman.com Mike Sherman, Sports Editor (405) 475-3164 msherman@ opubco.com

SPORTS

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2013

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TUNING IN Wednesday MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 7 p.m.

Nashville at Oklahoma City

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 2:30 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m.

TENNIS Noon 6 p.m.

WNBA 6 p.m.

Texas at Seattle Baltimore at Boston Cincinnati at St. Louis

KGHM-AM 1340 FSOK (Cox 37) ESPN (Cox 29) FSPLUS (Cox 68)/Cox 3

U.S. Open U.S. Open

ESPN2 (Cox 28) ESPN2 (Cox 28)

Washington at Atlanta

NBATV (Cox 256)

MEN’S SOCCER

1:30 p.m.

Maribor vs. Viktoria Pizen

FSPLUS (Cox 68)

Thursday HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL 6:30 p.m.

Norman at Norman North

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

KREF-AM 1400

5 p.m. 6 p.m.

North Carolina at South Carolina Tulsa at Bowling Green

7 p.m. 8:15 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 10 p.m.

Utah State at Utah Mississippi at Vanderbilt Rutgers at Fresno State USC at Hawaii

ESPN (Cox 29) ESPNU (Cox 253) KRMG-AM 740 FS1 (Cox 67) ESPN (Cox 29) ESPNU (Cox 253) CBSS (Cox 249)

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 7 p.m.

Nashville at Oklahoma City

NFL PRESEASON 6:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 9:30 p.m.

Victoria Duval pulled a stunner in the first round of the U.S. Open on Tuesday. AP PHOTO

Teen stuns a former champ U.S. OPEN | DUVAL, RANKED 296TH IN THE WORLD OUTLASTS STOSUR IN THREE SETS BY HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer

NEW YORK — American teenager Victoria Duval stunned 2011 U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur in the tournament’s first round on Tuesday. The 17-year-old qualifier, ranked 296th, won 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, leaping into the air in celebration after converting her fourth match point with a forehand winner. “A big moment, big stage. Not easy closing any match out, let alone a past U.S. Open champion,” Duval said. “So happy I did it, though.” Duval jumped up and down with arms aloft after pounding a forehand winner to convert her fourth

match point. And why not? Duval had never beaten a player ranked higher than 69th, never even faced one in the top 20, and never won a Grand Slam match. “I know she didn’t play her best today, and this is the best I’ve played in my career, so I’m really excited,” Duval told the Louis Armstrong Stadium crowd. “I just tried to stay in the moment.” Stosur was unhappy with the way she played, including 10 double-faults and a total of 56 unforced errors, 21 more than Duval. “I’m not going to be a sore loser and say she didn’t do anything,” the 11th-seeded Stosur said. “But, you know, I think I certainly helped her out

there today, that’s for sure.” No. 2 Victoria Azarenka, the 2012 U.S. Open runner-up and a two-time Australian Open winner, needed 10 minutes and six break points to take the first game against 99thranked Dinah Pfizenmaier, then dominated the rest of the way en route to a 6-0, 6-0 victory. Her match in Arthur Ashe Stadium came after top-seeded Novak Djokovic began his bid for a second U.S. Open title, and seventh major trophy overall, by beating 112thranked Ricardas Berankis of Lithuania 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. “I played every point like it’s a match point,” said Djokovic, who recently added former top-10

player Wojtek Fibak as a coaching consultant. Other straight-set winners included No. 5 Tomas Berdych and No. 10 Milos Raonic. On a day that American men went 5-2, led by No. 13 John Isner and No. 26 Sam Querrey, a handful of seeded players made quick departures. No. 14 Jerzy Janowicz of Poland, a semifinalist at Wimbledon last month, was the most surprising to go, although he was treated by a trainer for a painful back during a 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 loss to 247th-ranked qualifier Maximo Gonzalez of Argentina. “It was like someone puts a knife through your lower back,” Janowicz said.

TUESDAY AT THE U.S. OPEN I MEN’S SEEDED WINNERS: No. 1 Novak Djokovic, No. 5 Tomas Berdych, No. 7 Roger Federer, No. 10 Milos Raonic, No. 12 Tommy Haas, No. 13 John Isner, No. 22 Philipp Kohlschreiber, No. 26 Sam Querrey, and No. 31 Julien Benneteau. I MEN’S SEEDED LOSERS: No. 14 Jerzy Janowicz, No. 15 Nicolas Almagro, No. 25 Grigor Dimitrov and No. 28 Juan Monaco. I WOMEN’S SEEDED WINNERS: No. 2 Victoria Azarenka, No. 4 Sara Errani, No. 6 Caroline Wozniacki, No. 7 Petra Kvitova, No. 10 Roberta Vinci, No. 13 Ana Ivanovic, No. 14 Maria Kirilenko, No. 21 Simona Halep, No. 22 Elena Vesnina, No. 26 Alize Cornet, No. 27

Svetlana Kuznetsova and No. 28 Mona Barthel. I WOMEN’S SEEDED LOSERS: No. 11 Sam Stosur, No. 17 Dominika Cibulkova, No. 20 Nadia Petrova and No. 31 Klara Zakopalova. I TOP PLAYERS ON COURT WEDNESDAY: Men: No. 3 Andy Murray vs. Michael Llodra, No. 6 Juan Martin del Potro vs. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, No. 9 Stanislas Wawrinka vs. Radek Stepanek. Women: No. 1 Serena Williams vs. Galina Voskoboeva, No. 3 Agnieszka Radwanska vs. Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor, No. 5 Li Na vs. Sofia Arvidsson, Venus Williams vs. Zheng Jie. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

While the top 100 players in the FedEx Cup gather outside Boston this week to resume their pursuit of riches, 129 players are in Indiana for another form of PGA Tour playoffs. Only those guys are pursuing jobs. The Hotel Fitness Championship in Fort Wayne, Ind., is the first of four $1 million tournaments that will determine who gets PGA Tour cards for the 2013-14 season. It essentially is like Qschool, but stretched out over four weeks instead of six days. The four-event series is for players who were No. 126 to No. 200 in the FedEx Cup, and the top 75 players from the Web.com Tour money list. Everyone starts from scratch, and the leading 25 players on the money list from these four tournaments will get their PGA Tour cards. The top 25 from the Web.com Tour money list are assured their cards. How high they finish on this money list

only determines their pecking order for getting into tournaments next season. The series should start to provide some insight in one question: Does this format favor the players who had poor seasons competing against the best in the world, or those who had good years competing in the minor leagues? Not everyone who is eligible will be competing. Some players, such as Ben Curtis and Tommy Gainey, already are exempt for 2013-14 from winning on tour last year. The field includes a major champion (Trevor Immelman) and former Ryder Cup players Chad Campbell and Chris DiMarco. It also includes Patrick Cantlay, who was in the top 25 on the Web.com Tour money list almost the entire year until a back injury kept him out for two months. He fell out of the top 25 after the final week of the regular season, and now starts with no money next to his name along with everyone else. The series moves to North Carolina next week,

TENNIS Noon 6 p.m.

Hotel Fitness Championship LPGA: Safeway Classic

GOLF (Cox 60) GOLF (Cox 60)

U.S. Open U.S. Open

ESPN2 (Cox 28) ESPN2 (Cox 28)

RATINGS WATCH NFL preseason football games dominated the TV ratings, topped by a 7.1 for the Minnesota-San Francisco game Sunday on KFOR-4. Sports events Aug. 20-26 1. Minnesota at San Francisco, NFL preseason, Sunday, KFOR-4, 7.1. 2. Seattle at Green Bay, NFL preseason, Friday, KWTV-9, 6.9. 3. Cincinnati at Dallas, NFL preseason, Saturday, KOCB-34, 5.8. 4. St. Louis at Denver, NFL, Saturday, KWTV-9, 5.3. 5. The Barclays fourth round, PGA Tour, Sunday, KWTV-9, 5.0.

MORNING ROUNDUP

OSU cross country team is preseason No. 1 Oklahoma State University’s men’s cross country team has been named No.1 in the nation in a preseason poll by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. The Cowboys are the defending champions and winners of three of the past four NCAA titles. OSU earned 10 of the 12 first-place votes in the national poll. Tulsa was tied for fifth with Arkansas. Oklahoma was among others receiving votes with eight points. The OSU women were ranked 21 in their preseason poll.

Former Chicago Bulls star Scottie Pippen won’t face any criminal charges after a fight with an autograph seeker outside a Malibu, Calif., sushi restaurant earlier this summer, prosecutors said Tuesday. Prosecutors said there was insufficient evidence against Pippen, who was dining with his family June 24 when he was approached by Camran Shafighi inside Nobu restaurant, a celebrity hangout on the beach in Malibu. They said Shafighi had a bloodalcohol level more than twice the legal limit for driving and exaggerated injuries that were deemed minor.

DC TO BID FOR 2024 SUMMER OLYMPICS

Top seed Novak Djokovic won his opening match at the U.S. Open on Tuesday. AP PHOTO

Chase for PGA Tour spots continues AP Golf Writer

2 p.m. 5:30 p.m.

NFLNET (Cox 252) KWTV-9 (Cox 10) KOCB-34 (Cox 11) NFLNET (Cox 252)

DA: CHARGES WON’T BE FILED AGAINST PIPPEN

GOLF

BY DOUG FERGUSON

GOLF

N.Y. Giants at New England Baltimore at St. Louis Houston at Dallas San Francisco at San Diego

KGHM-AM 1340

THIS WEEK’S GOLF EVENTS

FEDEX CUP PLAYOFFS: DEUTSCHE BANK CHAMPIONSHIP I When: Friday-Monday. I Where: TPC Boston. Norton, Mass. I TV: Golf Channel (Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m.; Sunday, Noon; Monday, 10:30 a.m.) and NBC (Sunday, 2 p.m.; Monday, 12:30 p.m.). I Notes: Points leader Tiger Woods, bothered by a back ailment at the Barclays, withdrew Monday from Notah Begay’s charity event Wednesday in Verona, N.Y. Woods is scheduled to play the first two rounds at TPC Boston in a group with No. 2 Adam Scott and No. 3 Phil Mickelson. … The top 100 in the FedEx Cup standings qualified for the event. The field will be cut to 70 for the BMW Championship at Conway Farms in Lake Forest, Ill., and to 30 for the Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta. … Former Oklahoma State golfer Hunter Mahan is the only player to play in every event in FedEx Cup playoffs history. … Other Oklahomans in the field include: Former OSU golfers Bo Van Pelt, Rickie Fowler and Charles Howell III; Oklahoma City native Jimmy Walker; and former OU golfer Martin Flores. I Other tournaments: LPGA Safeway Classic, Thursday-Sunday; Champions Tour Shaw Charity Classic, Friday-Sunday; European Tour Wales Open, Thursday-Sunday; Web.com Tour Hotel Fitness Championship, Thursday-Sunday.

followed by Columbus, Ohio, and wrapping up with the Web.com Tour Championship at PGA Tour headquarters (Valley Course).

After a week off, the new season begins. Those who failed to earn one of the 25 cards will have status on the Web.com Tour next year.

The inconveniences of the daily routine in the nation’s capital will be a selling point as Washington, D.C., makes a push to host the 2024 Olympics. “We are the safest and most secure city in the world,” said Bob Sweeney, president of DC 2024. “The largest expense of any Olympic Games is security, and the fact that we’ve got it pretty built into our everyday life here in Washington, we would leverage that asset tremendously to put on this high-profile event.” Sweeney announced the formation of a nonprofit group aimed at making D.C. the first American city to host the Summer Games since Atlanta in 1996, and the first to host an Olympics since the Winter Games were held in Salt Lake City in 2002. The bid has a long way to go. Washington was one of 35 U.S. cities to receive a letter from the U.S. Olympic Committee to gauge interest, and Sweeney expects about 10 to step forward as serious candidates. The USOC hasn’t even decided for certain that it wants to bid for the 2024 Games, which will be awarded by the International Olympic Committee in 2017. Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Tulsa have announced their interest. San Diego wants to host a cross-border Olympics with Tijuana, Mexico.

GASOL TO SPEAK FOR MADRID BID Madrid’s 2020 Olympic bid committee says it has appointed Los Angeles Lakers star Pau Gasol to act as one of its spokesmen. The committee says Gasol will address the International Olympic Committee during Madrid’s final presentation in Buenos Aires next month. Madrid is vying with Tokyo and Istanbul for the 2020 Summer Games, and the IOC will deliver its decision in Argentina on Sept. 7. FROM WIRE REPORTS

SPORTS

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2013

FANS SPLIT ON TREVOR KNIGHT DECISION The decision to name Trevor Knight the starting quarterback has had a bit of a polarizing effect on the Oklahoma fan base since the announcement last Thursday. But more than anything, it has added some excitement and an intriguing storyline to the Sooners’ upcoming season. Here are some comments from readers on Bob Stoops’ choice of Knight over junior Blake Bell. Some are positive, some are negative, all are passionate:

POSITIVE OUTLOOK “I’ve said ever since Stoops came to OU that if they put a mobile QB in this system they would be unstoppable because it’s impossible to account for a QB that can scramble on busted plays and gain big chunks of yards. How many times did (Landry) Jones have to just toss it in the stands because there wasn’t anybody open and he was slower than a turtle? Now we have a guy who can turn those throwaway plays into 5-10 yd. gains or even more sometimes. Offensively OU will be a juggernaut this year and I have to think defensively they’re going to be better (they certainly couldn’t be any worse). Looking forward to seeing what Knight is all about and some of the newcomers defensively.” — Joel Christopher Driver

and hoping for Bell. I know I was hoping for Knight or Kendal (Thompson). It’s much more exciting. The Bell Dozer was getting boring. Efficient, but boring. We’ll go through some growing pains with Knight, but let’s give him a chance. He’s going to be great! These coaches are smart and it sounds like it didn’t take a genius to make the pick. So, we’re good!” — Scott Moore “To those of you who have something negative to say or think Blake was shafted … Bob Stoops knows what he is doing by picking Trevor Knight. Stoops has had two Heisman winners (one nearly went back to back) and another that should have won it (Heupel). You can guarantee that Knight is going to be a great QB. There might be growing pains this season but this sets OU up nicely for the future.” — Steven Pemberton II “Trevor is the new wave type of quarterback. I hope the offensive coaches don’t screw it up. Kendal Thompson likely will be in the mix before the season is over. If size matters, OU’s real next generation qb will play in Edmond this year. Offense does not appear to be a problem for the foreseeable future, the defense will need to step it up. It is virtually impossible to score 30+ points every week!” — Jack Ray

NEGATIVE OUTLOOK “Blake Bell deserved the starting spot. Bell went in the OSU game with only seconds to go and scored the tying touchdown on the last play of the game. This kid has not played a down. I guess Bob does not believe in loyalty. If this kid was head and shoulders better than Bell he would have named him the starter a long time ago. Sorry Blake.” — Abbadual Gonzoleese “Blake Bell was shafted and I am no longer an OU fan. Hope OU gets STOMPED this season!” — Mel Calvert “Honestly I just think it is a big mistake. Yet another 3 to 4 loss season I predict. Blake Bell brings something to the team that OU has not seen in a long time. A motivated quarterback. One who will get in the faces of other players and get them pumped up. He has a good arm when he needs to use it. I think old Stoops is just that old and tired.” — Gary Carroll “This is all well and good, but I’m telling the majority of OU fans have been waiting patiently for Bell, and I truly feel that unless Knight is spot on perfect, you will get the usually gripes and complaints about him and the crowd will yell for Bell. I dread it.” — Ann Eaves Parker

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Needlessly, if you ask me. It’s not like Sooner coaches have to worry about loquacious quarterbacks. Sam Bradford and Landry Jones have conditioned Soonerville with seven straight seasons of quarterbacks with boring personalities. No reason to think Knight is going to be any different. In fact, it’s one of the job requirements. Strong and accurate arm. Good decision-making. Show no personality, even under threat of Chinese water torture. Mobility is optional. The Sgt. Schultz routine is not. “I know nuuuuuuuuuuthing.” Stoops’ best quarterbacks have been — how to put this delicately — dull. Bradford, Jason White, Heupel himself. In that group, you’ve got two Heismans, three AllAmericans, one national championship, four national title games and not one decent quote. Here’s what’s madden-

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ing. They didn’t come by it honest. Since White’s playing days, he’s become an engaging interview with lots of good insight. I called him last week for a story. And Bradford is much more chatty since becoming a St. Louis Ram. Of course, Heupel’s about the same, having never left the cocoon. It’s not like every Stoops quarterback is monotonous. Nate Hybl and Paul Thompson both were great talkers; smart, funny, personable, while somehow avoiding tipping us off on a trick play

for Texas or locker-room gossip. After their careers, I worked radio with both. They were enjoyable and entertaining and never once betrayed state secrets. Remarkable what a sharp mind can achieve. A guy at one of OKC’s all-sports radio stations told me that Landry Jones’ agent has called, trying to get Landry a radio gig. Lord help us all. For all we know, Landry is Sir Laughs A Lot. But if so, he’s hidden it well. As is, the state of Oklahoma wants to hear Landry on the radio the way the Greatest Generation wants to hear Tokyo Rose. Time was, OU quarterbacks were spokesmen for the squad. Steve Davis and J.C. Watts were charming and confidenceinstilling, as befitting Baptist preachers. Jamelle Holieway was endearing in a street-wise sort of way, yet never said anything that caused a firestorm. Boz, yes. Holieway, no. The most quotable

Sooner quarterback ever might have been Cale Gundy. You’d never know it today, with Gundy on Stoops’ staff and entering his 15th season of talking in empty clichés. But when Gundy was a player, he spoke his mind. Even famously questioned the Sooners’ play-calling after the 1990 Texas game, when Gundy was a freshman. If a quarterback today ever questioned the playcalling, Stoops would call out the National Guard and have the campus on lockdown. If the reformed Gundy has advice for Knight, no doubt it will be, do as I say, not as I said. Eventually Knight will talk, maybe after the Louisiana-Monroe game Saturday night, but you can rest assured, he’s been well-coached. He’ll have nothing to say. Berry Tramel: Berry can be reached at (405) 760-8080 or at btramel@opubco.com. He can be heard Monday through Friday from 4:40-5:20 p.m. on The Sports Animal radio network, including FM-98.1. You can also view his personality page at newsok.com/berrytramel.

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Trevor Knight showed his skills in Cotton Bowl practices Trevor Knight began to impress his Oklahoma coaches and teammates early last season with his work running the scout team. But Sooner defenders’ praise of the freshman quarterback drastically increased after a month of Cotton Bowl preparations, when Knight played the role of Texas A&M superstar and Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel. Defensive coordinator Mike Stoops spoke Monday about Knight’s skills and what makes him a tough player to defend. “He can make explosive plays, and that’s the one thing you know about him: He can make a bad play a good play,” Stoops said. “He has that uncanny ability to make plays on his feet and he can make plays with his arm. He’s very multidimensional. He brings a variety of different skills to the game. His ability to run away from you is no joke. He has legit speed.” Asked if Knight’s performance before the Cotton Bowl was when he began to realize how special he was, Stoops said he knew it before then. “I coached him, so I oughta get most of the credit,” Stoops said with a laugh. “I coached him for a year, so I take a little bit of that pat on the back myself for getting him ready.”

HEUPEL ANXIOUS TO SEE KNIGHT Oklahoma co-offensive coordinator Josh Heupel said Tuesday that while he’s comfortable with what he knows about Knight, he’s not sure until he sees Knight in action. “You think you know what you have all the time,” Heupel said. “But when the lights come on and they get hit in the mouth and they have to distribute the ball in front of 85,000, when it doesn’t go well, how do they respond? Certainly, you’re going to find those things out about all your players, but your quarterback as well.” Heupel wouldn’t detail how much of the offense OU would show on Saturday or how different the offense would look. “We’ll see some of it on Saturday,” Heupel said. Then he was asked if all of it would be shown on Saturday. “We’ll see.”

BERRY REMEMBERS LAST VISIT TO NORMAN Louisiana-Monroe coach Todd Berry remembers his last visit to Norman vividly. In 1979, Berry was a true freshman playing for Tulsa when the Golden Hurricane came into Owen Field. “We’re standing there getting ready to go out on the field and my head coach, John Cooper, was looking over at Barry Switzer, who was their head coach at the time, and I’m like ninth in the tunnel,” Berry told The News Star. “Billy Sims is their running back over there, so it’s a regionally televised game and I’m excited. I’m feeling good too. I’m feeling real good. We come running out on the field and I’m strutting a little bit.” Todd Berry Defensive lineman George Gilbert was on Berry’s heels and eventually knocked into his heels, sending Berry tumbling. “I go into a forward roll on regional television coming out of the tunnel,” Berry said. “Fortunately, we worked and awful lot on forward rolls and I was up and — I had my name on the back of my jersey and I was looking for the largest crowd that I could duck into so nobody could read my number or my name.” Oklahoma won that game 49-13.

SAUNDERS LOOKING FORWARD TO BEING OUTSIDE Last season, Jalen Saunders was used primarily in the slot. But the transfer from Fresno State will be outside more this season, though co-offensive coordinator Jay Norvell said Saunders would see time at both positions this year. Saunders is excited for the time on the outside, though. “Playing on the outside in the conference, on this team, it’s a pleasure to even play that position, Saunders said. “You can be the deep threat. You get to run natural routes, I guess you can say.” There are some challenges to being outside, though, especially going up against defensive backs rather than linebackers. “Just a little bit,” Saunders said. “You have to be more physical outside than you are in the slot.”

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playing future. “They’ve been overthe-top supportive,” Ty Darlington said. “They told him that whether he can play football this year, or next year, or if he never plays again, they’re still gonna honor his scholarship. That kind of loyalty is really impressive to my family.” The Darlington family tree has firm roots in Oklahoma. Shelly Darlington, the boys’ mother, was on the OU pom squad. Her dad, Jack Fried, co-wrote the 1976 book, “The Winning Edge,” about Sooner football. So lots of Oklahoma eyes were glued to ESPN for Saturday’s game, which quickly went from exciting to horrifying in

the fourth quarter when Zack Darlington rolled to his right, sustained a violent hit and collapsed on the sideline. Mark Fried, an uncle who lives in Norman, called watching the scene unfold on TV an “out-ofbody experience.” The collision happened right next to Zack’s 8-year old brother Wyatt, an Apopka water boy. ESPN briefly switched to studio coverage, then commercials before returning to the stadium. ESPN’s first shot after resuming coverage showed two of Zack’s sisters crying. “It was a very scary scene for everybody,” Mark Fried said. “For me personally to sit there and watch all of that unfold on ESPN was really surreal. It’s one thing to see that sort of thing happen, but now it’s happening to someone from your family that you care about.” Ty Darlington, the ol-

dest of seven siblings, sat in his Headington Hall dorm room, watching his brother play with teammates Trevor Knight, Matt Dimon, Christian Daimler and Taylor McNamara. “I’m a maniac during those games,” he said. “I get so intense.” That intensity turned to panic during that long, tense stretch when he couldn’t get any answers about his brother’s condition. “It was difficult for me because I had to go about my day,” Ty Darlington said. “I didn’t have anywhere to go, I wanted to do something, but there’s nothing I can do from here.” He’s spoken several times to his brother since Saturday. “He feels fine physically, so it’s gonna be hard for him to stand on the sideline and watch,” Ty Darlington said. “He’s had a really good attitude so far.”

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How do you work in your law practice in the fall when you’re on the road a lot covering football? I can’t do as much heavy lifting in the fall as in I do in the rest of the year. Technology makes it possible to stay in touch, whether it’s conference calls or getting documents emailed to me. My partners do a great job of stepping in and managing things. It’s not that crazy. What’s your impression of OSU’s opener Saturday? First of all, I just think that it’s great that Week 1, we have so many great games. We’re so used to having the paycheck games to kick off the season. Week 1 is usually pretty boring. We’ve got our matchup, Big 12-SEC, you got TCU-LSU and Alabama-Virginia Tech. As for our game, I think one of the keys is getting look at the contrasting styles. You’ve got the up-

tempo spread offense from Oklahoma State — as good as any offense as we’ve seen the last few years — against a big, physical, SEC-style of methodical play. That contrasting style is interesting. And folks have talked for years about the SEC dominance and superior physical play. This is kind of a nice way to see how it matches up against one of the better, if not the best team, in the Big 12. Can you imagine if Mississippi State beats Oklahoma State? What does that say about the Big 12? If a team that is a middle in the road in the SEC handles the favorite in the Big 12, you really have a hard time having the Big 12 saying they are the secondbest conference or on par with the SEC. What’s your impression of OSU’s quarterback battle? I’m curious about the back story with Wes Lunt leaving, how much that

affected the way Mike Gundy decided to deal with the quarterback position. Maybe it didn’t affect it at all. Maybe it made him feel he needed to be a little more egalitarian about the process and give both guys an open shot at it. And because the assumption with the way things ended last year that Clint Chelf would be the guy. So, I wonder what impact Lunt leaving and the way he viewed things affected Gundy and the decisionmaking process. But other than that, I think that in this day and age, you have to get your second quarterback ready. It’s hard to go through a season and keep that one guy healthy. Who stands out for Mississippi State? Clearly, you start first and foremost with the quarterback spot with Tyler Russell, he’s a guy that they ought to be concerned about. He has a talented arm and is very much likely to end up on an NFL roster. Secondarily, I look up front. That offensive line is big, physical and experienced. They would assume that they could pound or run the ball a little bit against Oklahoma State and do it with LaDarius Perkins, who is a good, solid powerful running back.

Smith on the depth chart in 2010, serving as Hunter’s understudy and prepping for the starting and starring role the next fall. Fivestar back Herschel Sims and four-star Desmond Roland had just been signed and were due in Stillwater that summer. Along with the stiff competition, Smith also faced internal questions about just how bad he wanted to play, and work to play. In the middle of spring practices, Smith went missing, before Moore and others convinced him to come back. “Coach (Mike) Gundy pulled me in his office and talked to me,” Smith said. “I had a lot of talks with my mom and my dad.” Moore chimed in, too, offering the words that Smith needed to hear.

“I’m definitely happy for Jeremy,” Moore said. “We’re like best friends. I talked to him a lot, told him to stick with it — ‘It’s going to be fine. It’s going to be OK.’ And I was really blowing smoke, because I really didn’t know. “So I’m happy he’s got the opportunity now. I know he’s excited, because he works harder than probably anybody else on the team. I don’t expect it to drop off at all from what Joseph Randle has done. Jeremy’s a very talented back and I expect him to do great things.” Smith’s career has been on the upswing ever since his spring of discontent. In 2011, he ran for 646 yards and nine touchdowns, averaging 7.1 yards per carry as the backup to Randle. Last year, although injuries cut into his avail-

ability, he remained productive, running for 371 yards and eight TDs while again serving as Randle’s apprentice. For Gundy, there’s plenty of evidence that Smith is ready for his enhanced role. “He’s played well, scored and made some good runs against really good, quality opponents in our league,” Gundy said. For Smith, his learned patience is finally paying off. “I’ve been an Oklahoma State fan my whole life,” he said. “And to be the guy, the starting running back, is just a blessing from God. “I have to take full advantage of the situation. I thank the coaches for believing in me. And for always talking to me and keeping my mind set on the game.”

debut at Mississippi State, going 6-4 in both 1954 and 1955 before leaving for Washington. Wade Walker, who later became OU’s athletic director, spent six years as the Bulldog coach, 1956-61, going 22-32-2. Emory Bellard, who is credited with inventing the wishbone, took over after getting fired at Texas A&M; Bellard went 37-42 from 1979-85. Jackie Sherrill did the same, jumping from A&M to Mississippi State, and going 74-76-2 from 1991-2003. Sylvester Croom was the first black head coach in SEC history; he went 21-38 from 200408. Series history: Mississippi State is 2-2 vs. OSU. The Bulldogs won 14-13 in 1970 in Jackson, Miss., and 29-11 in 1999 in Starkville. OSU won 26-7 in 1971 in Stillwater and 42-23 in 1998 in Stillwater. Yes, a Cowboy team that went 5-6 in 1998 beat the eventual SEC West champion by 19 points. Cowbells: No one quite knows for sure what started the Mississippi State tradition of fans ringing cowbells. According to legend, a cow wandered onto the field in an earlyera game against Ole Miss. Mississippi State won the game, and someone began bringing that cow to every game. Eventually, they settled on just bringing a cowbell. Famous alums: Author John Grisham, comedian Jerry Clower. First-round NFL draft picks: 10. I 2012: Fletcher Cox,

DT, 12th pick, Eagles I 2011: Derek Sherrod, OL, 32nd pick, Packers I 1996: Walt Harris, DB, 13th pick, Bears I 1996: Eric Moulds, WR, 24th pick, Bills I 1983: Michael Haddix, RB, 8th pick, Eagles I 1982: Johnie Cooks, LB, 2nd pick, Colts I 1982: Glen Collins, DE, 26th pick, Bengals I 1975: Jimmy Webb, DT, 10th pick, 49ers I 1959: Billy Stacy, DB, 3rd pick, Cardinals I 1956: Art Davis, DB, 5th pick, Steelers

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MEDIA ESPN college football analyst Rod Gilmore, who also is an attorney in a corporate law practice, isn’t the biggest celebrity in his family. That honor belongs to his wife, Marie Gilmore, who is mayor of Alameda, Calif., on two islands on San Francisco Bay. They both attended Stanford, where Rod was a defensive back, and Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. After calling Friday night games for several years, Rod has joined Bob Wischusen and reporter Quint Kessenich on a new Saturday broadcast team. They will call the OSU-Mississippi State at 2:30 p.m. Saturday on KOCO-5. Gilmore discussed the game and his career in a telephone interview. What’s it like to be married to a mayor? I guess the neat and fun thing is that when my wife and I are about town, everyone wants to talk to her about politics. No one wants to talk to me about football.

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Smith said. “You come from being the guy, to somebody who has to actually work. And work and work. “I guess it’s all about maturity level. Once you get more mature, you understand how to work. And not to ever give up on anything you really want to succeed at. Even when you mess up, you’ve got to get right back up and keep going. “That’s the way life is, I guess.” Gaining life lessons wasn’t on his mind that spring of 2011. Kendall Hunter was leaving for the NFL, but Joseph Randle had jumped ahead of

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OSU plays Mississippi State on Saturday in Houston, and the Bulldogs have a solid reputation. But very little tradition. I guess you could say OSU and Miss State are similar — if you took away OSU’s 1976 Big Eight trichampionship, and Barry Sanders’ Heisman Trophy, and the 2011 season that resulted in a Big 12 title and Fiesta Bowl victory. The truth is, Mississippi State is more like the SEC’s Iowa State. Tries hard, wins some games, but never really factors into any kind of title contention. Here is a primer on Mississippi State’s football history: Bowl history: The Bulldogs haven’t played in a major bowl since the 1940 season, when they beat Georgetown 14-7 in the Orange Bowl. Mississippi State also played in the Orange Bowl four years earlier, losing to Duquesne 1312. Since those trips to Miami, Mississippi State has played in 14 bowl games: I 1963 Liberty (beat North Carolina State 16-12) I 1974 Sun (beat North Carolina 26-24) I 1980 Sun (lost to Nebraska 31-17) I 1981 Hall of Fame (beat Kansas 10-0)

I 1991 Liberty (lost to Air Force 38-15) I 1992 (season) Peach (lost to North Carolina 2117) I 1994 Peach (lost to North Carolina State 2824) I 1998 Cotton (lost to Texas 38-11) I 1999 Peach (beat Clemson 17-7) I 2000 Independence (beat Texas A&M 43-41) I 2007 Liberty (beat Central Florida 10-3) I 2010 Gator (beat Michigan 52-14) I 2011 Music City (beat Wake Forest 23-17) I 2012 Gator (lost to Northwestern 34-20). Championships: Mississippi State won the 1941 SEC title with a 4-0-1 record. The Bulldogs won the SEC West Division in 1998 with a 6-2 record but lost to Tennessee 24-14 in the conference title game. Coaching icons: Mississippi State’s greatest coach ever was Allyn McKeen, who in nine years (193948) went 65-19-3, including seasons of 8-2, 10-0-1, 8-1-1 and 8-2 from 193942. If you like your icons to be post-World War II, Mississippi State has had some big names who didn’t necessarily do big things in Starkville. Murray Warmath went 5-4 and 5-2-3 in 1952 and 1953, then left for big things at Minnesota. Darrell Royal made his head coaching

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Spencer has history with Mississippi State There are several similarities between Oklahoma State’s Glenn Spencer and Mississippi State’s Geoff Collins, the two defensive coordinators in the matchup between the Cowboys and Bulldogs Saturday at Reliant Stadium in Houston. Both were promoted to their new post for the 2013 season after coaching linebackers and serving as the co-defensive coordinator in 2012. Both are originally from Georgia. And both were on the same Georgia Tech staff in 2001. Spencer was the running backs coach, while Collins was a graduate assistant. Spencer described Collins as young, energetic, innovative and a good motivator. And he imagines Collins’ transition to the full-time coordinator role has mirrored his own in a lot of ways. “Probably like me, he didn’t have to get to know the kids any more,” Spencer said of Collins. “But he’s in charge now, and he can use the same terminology they were using. So I’m sure he’s going to implement his own touch on things like I have, too. “He was afforded, like I was, (the opportunity) to be a part of their defense last year, watch all that film and know the corrections they need to make and maybe see places where he thought they could improve. And then he was given the reins to be able to do it.”

DAK PRESCOTT: MISSISSIPPI STATE’S VERSION OF J.W. WALSH Here’s a scenario: A redshirt freshman backup quarterback enters the game in short-yardage and red-zone situations, ready to use his dual-threat skills in a package built just for him. The description sure sounds like J.W. Walsh’s role for Oklahoma State down the stretch last season. But that’s also the way Mississippi State used backup Dak Prescott in 2012 — as a change-up option to starter Tyler Russell, a prostyle quarterback. Prescott tallied four rushing touchdowns and four passing touchdowns last season, to go with 194 passing yards and 110 rushing yards. Unlike OSU coach Mike Gundy, who suggested Walsh and Clint Chelf may form more of a twoquarterback system Saturday against the Bulldogs, Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen said at his Monday press conference that Prescott’s job will largely stay the same against OSU. “It would be more situationally, than a set, ‘Hey, the third play of the game, you’re going in,’” Mullen said of when Prescott will see the field. “There’s a package that he’s going to run. Now, when we get in a situation where we want to use that package, (he’ll play). “Last year, we probably force-fed Dak on a little bit more, being a young player. Dak’s played in games, has experience. He’s thrown touchdown passes. He’s run for touchdowns in SEC games in big environments. As far as trying to make sure he has that experience early on, that’s not as critical. “It’s just he’ll be ready to go — be ready to be the backup quarterback and be ready to run whatever package he has.”

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SMITH APPRECIATIVE OF YURCICH’S COACHING STYLE New Cowboy offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich is still an unknown to those outside of the program, but players have started to get used to his personality traits and coaching style. So far, running back Jeremy Smith has enjoyed Yurcich’s approach. “During the spring, I didn’t really hear him speak much. Now I hear him speak just a little bit more,” Smith said with a laugh. “He’s just one of those guys who he’s not going to ask for much. He’s going to say, ‘I want this. I want it this way. Either you can give it to me this way, or I’ll find somebody else who can do that.’ “I really, really, really like the approach. You don’t have to curse anybody out or anything like that. It’s just football. Either you can do it or you can’t.” Anything else outsiders should know about Yurcich? “We caught him jogging a couple days ago,” Smith said. “It was right over there on campus. He was looking pretty funny. He swings his hands a little bit. “I think him and Coach (Mike) Gundy are like the funniest people to watch running. Coach Gundy just turns red like he’s about to pass out or something. But at least they’re getting their jogs in.” BY GINA MIZELL

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Ending a streak of 39 consecutive starts, University of Tulsa safety Demarco Nelson has been declared academically ineligible for Thursday’s season opener at Bowling Green. A university spokesman told the Tulsa World that Nelson, a senior from Glenpool, is academically ineligible to compete per the NCAA’s Progress Towards Degree Requirement. The status of Nelson’s eligibility for the rest of the season has not been determined. TU has submitted an appeal to the NCAA on Nelson’s behalf. Entering his senior season, the 6-foot, 195-pound free safety is included on watch lists for the Bronko Nagurski Trophy (presented annually to the best defender in college football) and the Jim Thorpe Award (given to the best defensive back).

FIELDS UNLIKELY TO PLAY FOR TCU Suspended TCU defensive end Devonte Fields will be in uniform when the 20thranked Horned Frogs open the season against No. 12 LSU on Saturday in Arlington, Texas. The depth chart released by TCU lists Fields or Matt Anderson starting at right defensive end, but it’s still unlikely the reigning Big 12 defensive player of the year will play. TCU announced in May that Fields was suspended for the first two games for an unspecified violation of “university and team policy.”

TEXAS’ DORSEY TO TRANSFER Texas senior defensive tackle Ashton Dorsey, a part-time starter last season, will transfer. Longhorns coach Mack Brown announced the move but did not say where Dorsey would go. Dorsey has struggled with a calf injury in training camp and was not listed on the depth chart released Monday for this week’s season-opener

against New Mexico State. Dorsey played in nine games for the No. 15 Longhorns last season and started twice. He ranked third on the team in tackles for loss with 10. His absence has pushed freshman Hassan Ridgeway and Alex Norman into the top backup roles behind starter Malcom Brown.

LOUISVILLE’S MAULDIN INVOLVED IN MOPED ACCIDENT Lorenzo Mauldin’s availability for Sunday’s season opener against Ohio will be determined following his release from the hospital after the Louisville defensive end was hit by a vehicle while riding his Moped on campus. Cardinals coach Charlie Strong said after practice that Mauldin told him that he had some pain and soreness after visiting him in the hospital. Considering the circumstances of the accident, the coach called it “good news” that the junior could be released as early as Wednesday. However, Strong wouldn’t say if his starting end could play against the Bobcats and noted that junior B.J. Dubose was prepared to go in Mauldin’s absence. Dubose had 15 tackles in seven games last season with four starts. University spokesman John Drees said that Mauldin’s Moped was hit by a sedan riding in the same lane near the school’s training facility just before 9 a.m. Tuesday and left the scene. Drees added that university police are investigating. Mauldin missed time last season with a sprained knee but posted a careerhigh 22 tackles, including a team-high 4.5 sacks and 6.5 tackles for loss.

SYRACUSE HAS QB BATTLE Sophomore Terrel Hunt and Oklahoma transfer Drew Allen have been vying all preseason to be Syracuse’s starting quarterback. But neither is listed as the starter for the Orange

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heading into Saturday’s opener against Penn State at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. “Both of our kids have done a good job,” coach Scott Shafer said. “Drew has grown every day he’s been here. His confidence level is up. I think he feels comfortable with the offense we want to promote. He’s confident, and his teammates are confident. “I think we’ve got two guys the kids can rally behind. I feel good about the way we’re heading into this week. Both guys are preparing well and ready to play.”

MICHIGAN STATE NAMES QB Andrew Maxwell will get the first chance to drive Michigan State’s offense this season, with three other quarterbacks waiting for their chance behind the wheel. “I’m comfortable we have a No. 1 quarterback,” Spartans coach Mark Dantonio said of Maxwell, a fifth-year senior. “He was the No. 1 quarterback last year. And he gained some experience with that. He had some balls dropped, and we’ve got to protect him, run the football and do the things that surround him as well. “But he has great knowledge of our system. I think he’s competitive. He has great leadership skill. And like I told him today, ’Here’s the keys. Bring it back full.’ I think he’ll do that.” Dantonio praised all four candidates for the job, including three more mobile alternatives: sophomore Connor Cook and freshmen Tyler O’Connor and Damion Terry. All are listed as first-team quarterbacks, with their names separated by “or” on the depth chart for Friday night’s opener against Western Michigan. Maxwell started all 13 games as a junior and completed 234 of 446 passes, 52.5 percent accuracy, for 2,606 yards and 13 touchdowns. He threw nine interceptions but just six in the last 25 halves of a disappointing 7-6 season. FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen’s offenses are often described as prolific. This season, rebuilding is a better description. Holgorsen has had a quarterback surpass 4,000 yards passing in his system every year since 2005 when he was offensive coordinator at Texas Tech and later at Houston and Oklahoma State. In three of those years, the quarterback surpassed 5,000 yards. With Geno Smith gone and his replacement still undecided, Holgorsen’s offense is in transition, and this might be the year a solid group of running backs take control. Holgorsen wants to move the ball any way he can. He’s just not sure yet who’ll be the primary movers when the Mountaineers play William & Mary on Saturday. “There’s going to be a lot of questions answered,” he said Tuesday. West Virginia averaged 39 points per game in Holgorsen’s first two seasons. The 4,292 passing yards a year ago made up two-thirds of the offensive output, even though the Mountaineers threw the ball a little more than half of the time. Now consider Florida State transfer Clint Trickett and longtime Smith backup Paul Millard, who are sharing the snaps in practice this week. Both have yet to start a game in Holgorsen’s system. College Football Schedule

Week 1 All Times CDT Thursday, Aug. 29 EAST Rhode Island at Fordham, 6 p.m. Jacksonville at Delaware, 6:30 p.m. Towson at UConn, 6:30 p.m. SOUTH North Carolina at South Carolina, 5 p.m. Presbyterian at Wake Forest, 5:30 p.m. UT-Martin at Chattanooga, 6 p.m. Robert Morris at E. Kentucky, 6 p.m. Pikeville at Morehead St., 6 p.m. Akron at UCF, 6 p.m. W. Carolina at Middle Tennessee, 6:30 p.m. S. Utah at South Alabama, 6:30 p.m. SE Missouri at SE Louisiana, 7 p.m. Cumberland (Tenn.) at Tennessee Tech, 7 p.m. Jackson St. at Tulane, 7 p.m. Mississippi at Vanderbilt, 8:15 p.m. MIDWEST Liberty at Kent St., 5 p.m. Illinois St. at Ball St., 6 p.m. Tulsa at Bowling Green, 6 p.m. Grand View at Drake, 6 p.m. Indiana St. at Indiana, 6 p.m. UNLV at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Northwestern St. at Missouri St., 6 p.m. Hampton at W. Illinois, 6 p.m. Dayton at Youngstown St., 6:30 p.m. Valparaiso at North Dakota, 7 p.m. SOUTHWEST Incarnate Word at Cent. Arkansas, 7 p.m. FAR WEST Utah St. at Utah, 7 p.m. Monmouth (NJ) at Montana St., 8:05 p.m. Sacramento St. at San Jose St., 9 p.m. E. Oregon at Portland St., 9:05 p.m. Rutgers at Fresno St., 9:30 p.m. Southern Cal at Hawaii, 10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30 EAST Morgan St. at Army, 6 p.m. SOUTH Samford at Georgia St., 6 p.m. FAU at Miami, 7 p.m. MIDWEST W. Michigan at Michigan St., 7 p.m. N. Dakota St. at Kansas St., 7:30 p.m.

West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen hasn’t decided on a starting quarterback yet. AP PHOTO

Trickett attempted 34 passes last season. Fellow junior Millard tried that many passes in the last two years combined. “Would I rather have a three-year starter returning at quarterback?” Holgorsen said. “What we’re dealing with right now is what 30 or 40 or 50 other schools are dealing with right now. It’s college football and graduation. That opens the door for the next star to be born as well.” He said the quarterback who minimizes his mistakes will take the most snaps. “I’m not going to sit here and worry or lose sleep or gripe or moan,” he said. “I’m excited about the guys we’ve got. Somebody will rise up.”

SOUTHWEST Texas Tech at SMU, 7 p.m. Southern U. at Houston, 7:30 p.m. FAR WEST N. Arizona at Arizona, 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31 EAST Villanova at Boston College, 11 a.m. William & Mary at West Virginia, 11 a.m. Albany (NY) at Duquesne, 11:10 p.m. Georgetown at Wagner, noon Holy Cross at Bryant, 2 p.m. Penn St. vs. Syracuse at East Rutherford, N.J., 2:30 p.m. Sacred Heart at Marist, 5 p.m. SOUTH Campbell at Charlotte, 11 a.m. Elon at Georgia Tech, 11 a.m. Toledo at Florida, 11:21 p.m. FIU at Maryland, 11:30 p.m. Louisiana Tech at NC State, 11:30 p.m. BYU at Virginia, 2:30 p.m. NC Central at Duke, 3 p.m. Edward Waters at Alcorn St., 4 p.m. Virginia Tech vs. Alabama at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m. Jacksonville St. at Alabama St., 5 p.m. Furman at Gardner-Webb, 5 p.m. Savannah St. at Georgia Southern, 5 p.m. CCSU at James Madison, 5 p.m. Reinhardt at Mercer, 5 p.m. Maine at Norfolk St., 5 p.m. VMI at Richmond, 5 p.m. Coastal Carolina at SC State, 5 p.m. Austin Peay at Tennessee, 5 p.m. Charleston Southern at The Citadel, 5 p.m. Washington St. at Auburn, 6 p.m. Old Dominion at East Carolina, 6 p.m. Alabama A&M at Grambling St., 6 p.m. W. Kentucky vs. Kentucky at Nashville, Tenn., 6 p.m. Miami (Ohio) at Marshall, 6 p.m. McNeese St. at South Florida, 6 p.m. Texas St. at Southern Miss., 6 p.m. Warner at Stetson, 6 p.m. UAB at Troy, 6 p.m. Georgia at Clemson, 7 p.m. MIDWEST Purdue at Cincinnati, 11 a.m. S. Illinois at Illinois, 11 a.m.

Buffalo at Ohio St., 11 a.m. UMass at Wisconsin, 11 a.m. UC Davis at South Dakota, 2 p.m. N. Illinois at Iowa, 2:30 p.m. Cent. Michigan at Michigan, 2:30 p.m. Temple at Notre Dame, 2:30 p.m. Howard at E. Michigan, 5 p.m. Murray St. at Missouri, 6 p.m. Butler at S. Dakota St., 6 p.m. N. Iowa at Iowa St., 7 p.m. Wyoming at Nebraska, 7 p.m. SOUTHWEST Rice at Texas A&M, noon Mississippi St. vs. Oklahoma St. at Houston, 2:30 p.m. Louisiana-Lafayette at Arkansas, 3 p.m. Ark.-Pine Bluff at Arkansas St., 6 p.m. Idaho at North Texas, 6 p.m. Louisiana-Monroe at Oklahoma, 6 p.m. Houston Baptist at Sam Houston St., 6 p.m. Wofford at Baylor, 6:30 p.m. Concordia-Selma at Abilene Christian, 7 p.m. Panhandle St. at Lamar, 7 p.m. New Mexico St. at Texas, 7 p.m. Prairie View at Texas Southern, 7 p.m. LSU vs. TCU at Arlington, Texas, 8 p.m. FAR WEST Colgate at Air Force, 2 p.m. Langston at N. Colorado, 2:35 p.m. Nicholls St. at Oregon, 3 p.m. E. Washington at Oregon St., 5 p.m. San Diego at Cal Poly, 6:05 p.m. UTSA at New Mexico, 7 p.m. E. Illinois at San Diego St., 7 p.m. Stephen F. Austin at Weber St., 7 p.m. Appalachian St. at Montana, 8 p.m. Nevada at UCLA, 9 p.m. Boise St. at Washington, 9 p.m. Northwestern at California, 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 1 SOUTH MVSU vs. Florida A&M at Orlando, Fla., 10:45 a.m. Ohio at Louisville, 2:30 p.m. Bethune-Cookman at Tennessee St., 7 p.m. FAR WEST Colorado vs. Colorado St. at Denver, 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 2 EAST Florida St. at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

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Aggies, Sumlin won’t talk about Manziel BY KATE HAIROPOULOS The Dallas Morning News

COLLEGE STATION, Texas

— Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin on Tuesday stuck to an athletic department edict not to discuss the status of Johnny Manziel, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner. But whether or not the Aggie quarterback will play in Saturday’s season opener against Rice remains the daily, if not hourly, question in college football. Manziel met with NCAA investigators for nearly six hours Sunday, according to an ESPN report. The NCAA and A&M are investigating allegations that Manziel sold autographs to memorabilia dealers. He denied the allegations in the interview, according to a CBSsports.com report. A&M faces a hard-and-fast deadline to make a call on where Manziel’s eligibility stands by kickoff at noon Saturday. “I can’t talk about how

RICE AT TEXAS A&M I When: Noon Saturday I Where: Kyle Field, College Station, Texas I TV: ESPN (Cox 29/HD 720; Dish 140; DirecTV 206; U-Verse 602/HD 1602)

that decision is going to be made and what goes into that decision,” Sumlin said during a regularly scheduled news conference. “I’ve said from Day One there will be a lot of people involved.” A&M president Bowen Loftin said on Texags.com radio Tuesday that “we’re just waiting to make the very best decision we can.” An A&M spokesman twice during the news conference read the statement issued Monday night by athletic director Eric Hyman, instructing coaches and players not to

discuss the status of their “starting” quarterback. Running back Ben Malena, being perhaps overly cautious at one point, referred to Manziel as “the quarterback we have.” Manziel hasn’t been available for comment since reports of the charges broke Aug. 4, the same day the Aggies reported for camp. A&M system chancellor John Sharp has said that he knows Manziel is innocent. Manziel has continued to practice with the team and is listed as the starter on the depth chart. Freshman Kenny Hill and junior Matt Joeckel are vying for the backup position. Sumlin said the competition was “ongoing,” not tipping his hand at who would start if Manziel doesn’t. “The backup quarterbacks are putting in the time and effort,” center Mike Matthews said. “So if it turns out that he (Manziel) isn’t able to play, I’ll be confident in our backup.”

Hill played in a similar offense to A&M’s in high school at Southlake (Texas) Carroll, where he eventually became the starter as a sophomore after the planned starter was declared ineligible the day of the first game. Sumlin said he’s been pleased with Manziel’s focus and that the structure he’s had since fall camp began has done nothing but help him. “What it comes down to is we have a plan as a football team and I have a plan as a coach,” Sumlin said. “I can’t tell you how many times we’ve gone into games with players where you’ve had to make gametime decisions.” Sumlin said things going on internally are different from the outside perception. “I’m very, very pleased with how our players and coaches have handled it,” Sumlin said, “and more than anything else they’re looking forward to playing football.”

The status of Texas A&M quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel for Saturday’s opener against Rice is still up in the air. AP PHOTO

Big 12 gets two shots at SEC this weekend BY CHUCK CARLTON The Dallas Morning News

Coach Dabo Swinney, center, and Clemson face Georgia on Saturday night. PHOTO BY MARK CRAMMER, ANDERSON (S.C.) INDEPENDENT-MAIL/AP

Tigers aren’t fazed by Georgia BY PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer

CLEMSON, S.C. — Clem-

son coach Dabo Swinney has played and coached in numerous openers and plans to treat Saturday night’s game against No. 5 Georgia as just the latest one, nothing more and nothing less. But that’s difficult when top-10 teams meet to kick off the season. Swinney said Tuesday that his eighth-ranked Tigers can’t get too caught up in what happens against the Bulldogs at Death Valley, win or lose. There’s a long season remaining, and even a defeat won’t derail Clemson from its championship goals. “So what?” Swinney said about a potential Tigers win. “You’ve got to be careful. It’s not a one-all, end-all deal. It’s a long season.”

GEORGIA AT CLEMSON I When: 7 p.m. Saturday I Where: Memorial Stadium, Clemson, S.C. I TV: KOCO-5 (Cox 8/HD 705; Dish 5; DirecTV 5; U-Verse 5/HD 1005)

Swinney said if you need proof, take a look at Alabama, which lost games in November each of the past two seasons, yet rallied to win the national championship. The coach said it’s much more important for Clemson to compete hard, even if the Tigers come up short on the scoreboard. “We’ve got 12 games on the schedule. Every opponent is critical. We’ve got much bigger goals than an opening game,” he said. Still, Swinney’s excited about the buzz around campus, the activity at Memorial Stadium or the prime spot this game car-

ries in college football. ESPN’s “College GameDay” will be at Clemson for the first time in seven years. On Monday night, Swinney was swarmed by well-wishers at a local grocery store where he did an appearance. “I think that’s great. There’ll be people rolling in probably (Wednesday) night just to smell the campus,” Swinney said. Clemson is coming off an 11-2 season, its most victories in a year since the school’s lone, 12-0 national championship season in 1981. The school plans to honor the coach of that achievement, Tigers folk-

hero Danny Ford, at a pregame ceremony where his name will be etched into the facing of the stadium. But Swinney’s had the Tigers focused on bigger things from almost the moment they defeated LSU 25-24 on a last-second field goal in the Chick-fil-A Bowl last New Year’s Eve in Atlanta. The next step for Clemson in Swinney’s eyes is playing well consistently against strong opponents like Georgia. Should the Tigers fall short, they are still favorites to win the ACC and still in contention for the BCS crown. “Both teams have very little room for error and from that standpoint, it’s a big challenge,” Swinney said. “But we’re going to grow over these first few weeks and we’ve got a lot to prove as a football team.”

Hokies relishing their role as underdog BY HANK KURZ JR. AP Sports Writer

BLACKSBURG, Va. — Quarterback Logan Thomas and his teammates at Virginia Tech love being underdogs. Coming off their worst season in two decades, even though they finished 7-6 and went to their 20th consecutive bowl game, the Hokies have never been counted out more in those 20 years than they are in their season-opener against top-ranked, twotime defending national champion Alabama. Oddsmakers have installed the Crimson Tide as 19½-point favorites in

ALABAMA VS. VIRGINIA TECH I When: 4:30 p.m. Saturday I Where: Georgia Dome, Atlanta I TV: ESPN (Cox 29/HD 720; Dish 140; DirecTV 206; U-Verse 602/HD 1602)

Saturday’s game. That’s fine with the Hokies, who relish the chance to turn some heads. “Obviously a little bit of the pressure is taken off of us,” Thomas said. “We’re the ones expected to get

beat by 21 or whatever it is, so that makes it a little bit easier in that aspect, but I think it will be even. We don’t expect any Alabama team to come out dead or expecting us to be under the radar at all.” The Crimson Tide will be focusing on Thomas, at least for starters, defensively. The Hokies have a new offensive coordinator in Scot Loeffler, who spent last season at Auburn, but Tide coach Nick Saban said Thomas has shown that he can take over a game, and not letting him do it is their top priority. “We know he’s capable of playing well if we don’t

do the things we need to do,” Saban said. The Hokies, meantime, have been talking about this game, and seething about their perceived lack of respect, throughout the summer, linebacker Jack Tyler said. The game in Atlanta is the kind of stage they all crave, he said. “Football’s football. I think everybody’s here for a reason. They wanted to play prime-time college football, and that’s what this game’s going to be,” Tyler said Tuesday. “I don’t think I see intimidation in anyone’s eyes. I think I see a dog that’s ready to pounce and to win a game.”

Gary Patterson has too many other concerns at TCU to worry about carrying the Big 12 banner against LSU and the Southeastern Conference. Just the same, he’s not oblivious to the big-picture implications of opening Saturday at AT&T Stadium against a team from the undisputed heavyweight champion of college football. “We have to prove when we get the opportunity to play well or win. That’s the key,” Patterson said. “Obviously, you can’t have what it looked like in the Cotton Bowl.” Big 12 nerves in general, and Oklahoma’s in particular, are a little raw from what happened in January at the Cotton Bowl. Texas A&M and Johnny Manziel romped over the Sooners 41-13. It was the fifth straight win — all by at least 13 points — for the SEC at the Cotton Bowl. The SEC has won the three head-to-head meetings with the Big 12 for the national title in the BCS era. Oh, and that seven-year run of crystal footballs collected by the SEC serves as the ultimate bragging right, with four Heisman winners and 63 first-round draft picks in that span. SEC commissioner Mike Slive refers to his annual media day news conference as his “brag bag.” The new favorite statistic for Big 12 folks was that the top six teams in the

SEC went 30-0 against the bottom eight, pointing to a conference of haves and have-nots. The Big 12 had nine of its 10 teams go to bowls. It’s impressive, just not SEC level dominance. “We think we can play with anybody in the country,” commissioner Bob Bowlsby said last month, “but it’s impossible to call yourself the best league in college football unless you can win the national championship. Aspirationally, that’s what we want to do.” The Big 12 will get three chances against the SEC this season: LSU vs. TCU, Oklahoma State vs. Mississippi State at Reliant Stadium in Houston and Ole Miss at Texas. The meeting of No. 12 LSU and No. 20 TCU maybe the most intriguing of the three SEC-Big 12 matchups. LSU lost 11 juniors to the NFL from a team that finished 10-3 and lost to Alabama in the final minute. “Don’t fall asleep on LSU,” ESPN analyst Todd Blackledge said. Meanwhile Patterson is coping with a two-game suspension to standout sophomore defensive end Devonte Fields and an athletic but inexperienced linebacker group. Still, with the return of quarterback Casey Pachall from substance abuse treatment, TCU could go from seven wins in 2012 to 10. That — and not conference pride — is Patterson’s focus. Nor is he looking for a debate. MCT Information Services

THIS WEEK’S BIG 12 GAMES Friday I Texas Tech at SMU, 7 p.m., (ESPN) I North Dakota State at Kansas State 7:30 p.m., (FS1) Saturday I William & Mary at West Virginia, 11 a.m. (FS1) I Oklahoma State vs. Mississippi State, 2:30 p.m. (ABC) I Louisiana-Monroe at Oklahoma (FSN-PPV) 6 p.m., (PPV) I Wofford at Baylor, 6:30 p.m. (FSPLUS) I Northern Iowa at Iowa State, 7 p.m. I New Mexico State at Texas, 7 p.m., (LHN) I TCU vs. LSU, 8 p.m., (ESPN)

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Vikings say hit on Williams was dirty HIT TO KNEE | FORMER OSU STANDOUT AVOIDED DISASTER, BUT TEAMMATES CALL HIT DIRTY AND CALL OUT LEAGUE ON SAFETY BY JON KRAWCZYNSKI AP Sports Writer

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Kevin Williams appears to have avoided disaster on a hit to his right knee that could’ve done much more damage. Minnesota Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said he is hopeful to have his star defensive tackle from Oklahoma State on the field for the season opener in Detroit, but that bit of good news did little to quell the outcry from some of his Pro Bowl teammates after the NFL said San Francisco 49ers offensive lineman Joe Looney would not face any discipline for the block in the third quarter of Sunday night’s preseason game. Jared Allen and Chad Greenway both called the hit a dirty play and said the league’s focus on player safety seems to hold defensive players to a much different standard than their counterparts on offense. “I have a problem when we talk about player safety in this league and we have a clear case of a guy intentionally trying to hurt a guy and we do nothing about it,” said Allen, who has been fined several times in the past for hits. “We pat him on the back and say it’s OK.” The collision occurred on a running play to the right. Williams was about 10 yards away from the play and started back to his right when Looney went down and hit him in the knee. An MRI revealed no ligament damage to Williams’ knee and the Vikings said he had a significant bruise and a hyperextension.

Buffalo Bills running back C.J. Spiller, right, runs past Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle Kevin Williams during a preseason game earlier this month. AP PHOTO

Frazier said on Tuesday that Williams was listed as day to day. He did not practice on Tuesday. The Vikings open the regular season at Detroit on Sept. 8. “It definitely could’ve been worse,” Frazier said. “The fact that we have a chance to have him back for Detroit is big for our football team.” Frazier said he spoke to league officials about the hit. “There’s a big emphasis regarding player safety and that play really endangers our players’ safety,” Frazier said. “It’s not

something that the league wants. It’s not something that any of us want as we are trying to make the game safer for our players.” The NFL said Looney’s hit was a legal play because Looney was not moving toward his own goal line, which is the definition for a peel-back block that has recently been outlawed by the league. “It is the type of play, however, that after the season the Competition Committee will look at with respect to player safety,” NFL spokesman Randall Liu said

NFL NOTEBOOK

Broncos place Carter on IR Denver safety Quinton Carter has landed on season-ending injured reserve for the second straight year. Carter started 10 games as a rookie in 2011 out of Oklahoma and had interceptions in consecutive playoff games that year. But a torn right hamstring at an indoor practice the following summer led doctors to discover he needed surgery on his left knee. He played in just three games in 2012 before aggravating his surgically repaired knee and going on IR. The Broncos also placed center J.D. Walton on reserve/PUP to reach the 75-player roster limit Tuesday. Walton had complications in his comeback from left ankle surgery and needed another operation in June. He won’t be able to practice until Oct. 15 at the earliest but might not return until November.

CUTS MADE INCLUDE STATE PLAYERS NFL teams made their mandatory roster cuts to 75 on Tuesday, dropping some players from OU, OSU and Tulsa. Here is a list of Tuesday’s moves: I Arizona cut former OU safety Javon Harris. I The Raiders cut former OU linebacker Keenan Clayton. I The Titans let go of former OSU safety Markelle Martin, who was also injured. I The Vikings cut former Tulsa standout Tyler Holmes.

NFLPA FILES GRIEVANCE ON BEHALF OF HERNANDEZ The NFL Players Association filed a grievance to help former Patriots star tight end Aaron Hernandez collect an $82,000 workout bonus. Hernandez’s contract provided for him to receive that amount if he participated in 90 percent of the team’s voluntary offseason workouts. “On behalf of all players, it is our responsibility to protect the rights in the collective bargaining agreement,” the union said in a statement. “We are not tone-deaf to what the allegations are in this case, but for the benefit of all players, there are important precedents here we must protect.” The Patriots cut Hernandez after he was arrested on June 26 and before he was charged with murder later that day. He pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail in the shooting death of Odin Lloyd, a friend whose body was found June 17 near Hernandez’s house. The union believes Hernandez earned the bonus before his arrest. Patriots owner Robert Kraft indicated he disagreed.

Tebow on Tuesday but gave no indication of whether he would make the team. “He’s great to work with, outstanding,” Belichick said. Kraft said it’s Belichick’s job to make the cuts. “We want to make sure we have the 53 best people to help us win games during this year,” Kraft said. “I’m rooting for (Tebow) and I’m in his corner, but I have the privilege of letting Bill make those decisions. He’s got a pretty good record doing it.”

RG3 COULD GET OK FROM DOCTOR THURSDAY Robert Griffin III could be cleared to play in the regular season when he meets with his surgeon Thursday night. Redskins coach Mike Shanahan said Tuesday that Griffin will meet with Dr. James Andrews while the Redskins are in Florida for their final preseason game against the Buccaneers. Even if Andrews gives the thumbs-up, the final decision on whether Griffin plays in the Sept. 9 opener rests with the coach. Shanahan has said that even if Griffin is medically ready, the coach could see something in practice that might give him pause. Andrews cleared Griffin for practice before the start of training camp but has yet to give the OK for the quarterback to play in games. Andrews examined Griffin again before the Aug. 19 home preseason game and “felt very good” about Griffin’s progress, according to Shanahan. While Griffin has sat out the preseason, he’s moved well in practice and told ESPN 980 on Tuesday that he’s “not below 100 percent.”

CRUZ EXPECTS TO PLAY IN OPENER VS. DALLAS Giants receiver Victor Cruz has shed the protective boot he’s been sporting, and expects to play in the regular-season opener against the Cowboys Sept. 8. “Feeling good,” Cruz said Tuesday, a day after the boot came off his injured left foot. “It’s been better, feels a lot better, a lot of the swelling has gone down. Obviously, looking forward to better days coming.” Cruz was sidelined more than a week after hurting his heel in a preseason game against the Indianapolis Colts Aug. 18. He jumped to catch a pass from Eli Manning on the opening series and a defender landed on his foot. Two days later, he used crutches to walk to the podium with his foot in a boot. Cruz missed the third preseason game, vs. the Jets, and will also skip Thursday’s exhibition finale at New England. He hopes to practice Monday and play the following weekend.

TEBOW SURVIVES ROSTER CUT

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Tim Tebow has one game left to improve his chances of staying with the Patriots after surviving the mandatory roster cut to 75 players on Tuesday. Tebow is expected to see considerable playing time Thursday night against the Giants in the Patriots’ final exhibition game. He played poorly in the first two games and did not play in the third. The third-string quarterback faces another hurdle when all NFL teams must reduce their rosters on Saturday to the regularseason limit of 53. The Patriots can still juggle their roster between then and their opener on Sept. 8 against the Bills in Buffalo. Kraft and coach Bill Belichick praised

The Bengals placed fullback Chris Pressley and quarterback Zac Robinson, a former OSU standout, on the physically unable to perform list. Pressley has a knee injury and Robinson a sore passing elbow that sidelined them for training camp. ... Ravens linebacker Jameel McClain will miss at least the first six weeks of the regular season as he recovers from a bruised spinal cord. ... Packers starting running back DuJuan Harris is out for the year after injuring his right knee last week against the Seahawks. ... Derek Wolfe practiced with the Broncos for the first time since his arms and legs went numb following a frightening hit in a preseason game at Seattle 10 days earlier. FROM WIRE REPORTS

in an email. That didn’t sit well with linebacker Chad Greenway, who called the hit “uncalled for” and “quite ridiculous.” “Now we have a guy that’s been one of the best at his position for a long time and dealing with an injury he didn’t have to deal with,” Greenway said. “The reality is if the roles were reversed, and it was a defensive guy going into a quarterback or a receiver or a high-profile player, you tell me what’s going to happen. We’ve seen the fines. We’ve

seen what’s gone on in this league. “I think you have to be consistent. If you’re going to go down that route, you better be consistent with every player, offense, defense, no matter what number’s on the back of your jersey.” San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh said Tuesday that Looney was not trying to hurt Williams, who is entering his 11th season and has made the Pro Bowl six times. “It was an unfortunate play. I don’t think it was a dirty play,” Harbaugh said. “I don’t think it was intentional. I don’t think there was any malice on the part of Joe Looney.” Facing a lawsuit from thousands of former players alleging the league turned a blind eye to evidence that concussions suffered during games led to longterm health issues, the league has cracked down hard in recent years on hits deemed excessive, particularly against what they call “defenseless players.” The primary beneficiaries of the new rules, and the heavy fines that are levied against players who break them, have been quarterbacks and receivers. Allen said it’s time defensive players start getting the same treatment. “You go back and look at that play and you tell me he’s not a defenseless player,” Allen said. “He has no idea that that guy is there, and that dude could’ve taken him up high. He could’ve hit him right in the chest and he chose to duck down and hit him in his knee. Needless to say, I’m a little upset about it.”

Ratliff to miss at least 6 games BY SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer

IRVING, Texas — Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Jay Ratliff’s long absence just got a little longer. Ratliff will miss at least the first six games of the season after he was placed on the physically unable to perform list with hamstring and groin injuries. The Cowboys made the move Tuesday as part of getting their active roster down to 75 players. Ratliff, who turns 32 Thursday, missed offseason workouts and training camp after sports hernia surgery late last season. He missed 10 games in 2012 with ankle and groin problems. He last played Nov. 18 against Cleveland. Dallas cut nine players and placed defensive end Tyrone Crawford and lineman Ryan Cook on season-ending injured reserve. The released players were receivers Anthony Amos, Jared Green and Eric Rogers, quarterback Nick Stephens, tight end Colin Cochart, guard Dennis Godfrey, linebacker Deon Lacey, cornerback Brandon Underwood and kicker Brett Maher. Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said he was confident Ratliff would play this season. “I believe in Jay,” Jones

said before the move with Ratliff was announced. “There’s some things that can be frustrating when you have injuries. I’m convinced that we’ve got a program now — he’s had a few setbacks — that hopefully will put him on the road where he can play for us at some point this season.” Ratliff has only two sacks since signing a seven-year, $49 million contract with $18 million guaranteed two years ago. He will have missed 16 of 22 games by the time he’s eligible to return Oct. 20 at Philadelphia. “The groin injury has been the one he’s been dealing with mostly through all of last year and through the offseason, so I think the biggest issue with him is regaining his strength,” coach Jason Garrett said. “Strength enough to go out on the field and do the things he needs to do to anchor and change direction and all the things that are required to play his position.” With Ratliff sidelined, the Cowboys could be forced to play the opener Sept. 8 against the New York Giants without both starters on the left side in their new four-man defensive front. Left end Anthony Spencer is recovering from knee surgery.

George Selvie, a fouryear veteran who didn’t join Dallas until after training camp started, has taken Spencer’s place. Nick Hayden, a sixth-year pro who was out of football last season, started in Ratliff’s spot in last weekend’s preseason game against Cincinnati. “He’s done a very good job for us since he’s been here,” Garrett said. “He shows up as a playmaker in the run game and also affecting the quarterback in the pass game.” The release of Stephens means Alex Tanney will get most or all of the playing time in the final preseason game Thursday night against Houston. The Cowboys didn’t sign Tanney, a second-year player out of Monmouth College in Illinois, until the start of training camp and need to decide whether to keep a third quarterback behind Tony Romo and Kyle Orton. Rogers made a strong early impression in training camp in Oxnard, Calif. — not far from his college home at Cal Lutheran — but didn’t have a catch in four preseason games. Green, the son of former Washington Redskins star and Hall of Fame cornerback Darrell Green, and Amos had three catches apiece in the preseason.

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MLB SCOREBOARD American League W

Texas ................... Oakland ............... Los Angeles......... Seattle................. Houston...............

76 74 59 59 44

55 57 71 71 86

Detroit ................. Cleveland............. Kansas City ......... Minnesota ........... Chicago ................

77 71 66 57 54

Boston ................. Tampa Bay........... Baltimore ............ New York ............. Toronto ................

78 74 70 70 59

55 56 60 62 74

.586 .569 .538 .530 .444

Pct

.580 .565 .454 .454 .338

— 2 161⁄2 1 16 ⁄2 311⁄2 GB

.583 .542 .508 .442 .415

WCGB

L10

— — 141⁄2 141⁄2 291⁄2

— 51⁄2 10 181⁄2 22

WCGB

— 21⁄2 61⁄2 71⁄2 19

WCGB

— — 31⁄2 41⁄2 16

Home

W-1 W-2 W-4 L-4 W-1

L10

— 3 71⁄2 16 191⁄2

L10

38-28 35-32 28-34 28-35 23-42

Home

L-2 L-1 W-2 L-2 L-1

Away

41-25 40-26 35-33 28-33 30-34

Str

6-4 5-5 5-5 7-3 2-8

Away

38-27 39-25 31-37 31-36 21-44

Str

6-4 6-4 3-7 3-7 8-2

East Division

Pct

Str

6-4 5-5 5-5 4-6 5-5

Central Division

Pct

55 60 64 72 76

West Division

Pct

36-30 31-34 31-31 29-39 24-42

Home

W-3 L-3 L-1 W-1 L-1

Away

41-23 43-25 38-29 38-27 32-33

37-32 31-31 32-31 32-35 27-41

National League Los Angeles......... Arizona ................ Colorado .............. San Diego ............ San Francisco ......

77 67 62 59 58

St. Louis .............. Pittsburgh ........... Cincinnati ............ Milwaukee........... Chicago ................

78 76 74 58 55

Atlanta ................ Washington......... Philadelphia......... New York ............. Miami ..................

79 66 60 59 49

54 63 71 72 73

— 91⁄2 16 18 19

.591 .580 .556 .443 .420

— 11⁄2 41⁄2 191⁄2 221⁄2 GB

.603 .504 .455 .454 .377

— 13 191⁄2 191⁄2 291⁄2

AMERICAN LEAGUE Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 7, Toronto 1 Oakland 6, Detroit 3 (6) Boston 13, Baltimore 2 L.A. Angels 6, Tampa Bay 5 Chicago White Sox 4, Houston 3 Kansas City 6, Minnesota 1 Texas at Seattle Thursday’s Games Oakland at Detroit, 12:08 p.m. Kansas City at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Tampa Bay, 12:10 p.m. Baltimore at Boston, 6:10 p.m. Seattle at Houston, 7:10 p.m. Monday’s Results Kansas City 11, Tampa Bay 1 Toronto 5, N.Y. Yankees 2 Oakland 8, Detroit 6 Houston 10, Chicago White Sox 8 Texas 8, Seattle 3 NATIONAL LEAGUE Tuesday’s Games Washington 2, Miami 1 Milwaukee 7, Pittsburgh 6 N.Y. Mets 5, Philadelphia 0 St. Louis 6, Cincinnati 1 San Francisco 5, Colorado 3 San Diego at Arizona Chicago Cubs at L.A. Dodgers Thursday’s Games Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets, 12:10 p.m. Miami at Washington, 6:05 p.m. Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m. Monday’s Results St. Louis 8, Cincinnati 6 Philadelphia 2, N.Y. Mets 1 Colorado 6, San Francisco 1 Arizona 6, San Diego 1 L.A. Dodgers 6, Chicago Cubs 2 INTERLEAGUE Tuesday’s Games Atlanta 2, Cleveland 0 Thursday’s Games Cleveland at Atlanta, 6:10 p.m. Monday’s Results No Games Scheduled AMERICAN LEAGUE Tuesday’s Games YANKEES 7, BLUE JAYS 1

I Alfonso Soriano hit a threerun homerun in the top of the first inning and Andy Pettitte allowed five hits and no runs in seven innings. NEW YORK

Gardnr cf Jeter ss Cano 2b Nunez 2b Overay pr-1b ASorin lf ARdrgz 3b Grndrs rf V.Wells dh MrRynl 1b-2b CStwrt c Totals

TORONTO ab r h bi

5 1 1 0 5 1 2 1 0 4 0 5 4 4 4

1 0 0 2 1 0 0

0 1 0 2 2 2 1

0 0 0 4 1 0 0

4 1 1 1 4 0 0 0

39 7 12 7

ab r h bi

Reyes ss RDavis cf Gose ph-cf Encrnc dh Lawrie 3b DeRosa 1b Kawsk ph Arencii c Sierra rf

4 0 1 0 3 0 2 0 1 3 2 3 1 4 3

Goins 2b Pillar lf

0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 0 0 0 3

0 0 0 0 0 0 0

3 1 2 0 3 0 1 1

Totals

30 1 10 1

New York........................ 401 001 100 Toronto ........................... 000 000 010

— —

7 1

E—Arencibia (9). DP—New York 4. LOB—New York 9, Toronto 5. 2B—Gardner (26), R.Davis (13), Sierra (1), Pillar (1). HR—A.Soriano 2 (11), A.Rodriguez (4), Mar.Reynolds (17). SB—Granderson (7). IP

7 2

5 5

0 1

2 1

3 0

42⁄3 31⁄3 1

7 3 2

5 2 0

2 1 0

5 1 2

New York

Pettitte W,10-9 Warren Toronto

Happ L,3-4 E.Rogers Wagner

HBP—by Happ (Cano). WP—Happ. Umpires—Home, Bob Davidson;First, Quinn Wolcott;Second, James Hoye;Third, Jim Reynolds. T—2:43. A—34,047 (49,282).

ANGELS 6, RAYS 5

I Erick Aybar drove in four runs including a two-run double in the ninth inning. LOS ANGELES

Shuck dh Aybar ss Trout lf Hamltn rf Calhon rf

TAMPA BAY ab r h bi

Trumo 1b Conger c Nelson 3b GGreen 2b Bourjos cf Totals

5 4 5 3 0

1 0 1 0 0

1 2 2 1 0

1 4 1 0 0

5 4 3 3 3

0 0 1 1 2

0 1 1 2 0

0 0 0 0 0

35 6 10 6

ab r h bi

DJnngs cf Zobrist 2b Longori 3b WMyrs dh SRdrgz lf DeJess ph-lf YEscor ss Loney 1b JMolin c Joyce ph Fuld rf Totals

4 4 3 3 3

0 1 0 1 1

0 2 0 0 1

0 0 0 0 0

2 2 5 4 1 4

0 2 0 0 0 0

0 2 2 3 0 0

0 0 2 3 0 0

35 5 10 5

Los Angeles ................... 000 100 302 Tampa Bay ..................... 010 022 000

— —

C.Wilson Cor.Rasmus Boshers Kohn Frieri W,2-4 D.De La Rosa S,2-5

5 ⁄3 2 ⁄3 1 1 1

8 1 1 0 0 0

3 2 0 0 0 0

5 1 1 1 0 1

5 1 0 1 0 0

6 1 1

8 1 0

3 1 0

6 2 3

Tampa Bay

Ro.Hernandez McGee H,24 Jo.Peralta H,33 Rodney L,5-4 BS,8-38

Ro.Hernandez pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. Umpires—Home, Tim Timmons;First, Laz Diaz;Second, Mark Wegner;Third, Mike Winters. T—3:36. A—12,939 (34,078).

ATHLETICS 6, TIGERS 3 (5)

I Brandon Moss hit a tiebreaking two-run homer off Justin Verlander, and the Athletics beat the Tigers in a game cut short by rain. OAKLAND

Crisp cf Dnldsn 3b Lowrie ss Moss rf Cespds lf S.Smith dh

DETROIT ab r h bi

2 3 3 2 3 2

1 1 1 2 0 1

0 1 1 1 1 1

0 0 2 2 1 1

AJcksn cf TrHntr rf MiCarr 3b Fielder 1b VMrtnz dh Infante 2b

ab r h bi

2 3 2 1 2 2

1 1 1 0 0 0

L10

Str

6-4 5-5 4-6 5-5 4-6

WCGB

— — — 15 18

WCGB

— 7 131⁄2 1 13 ⁄2 231⁄2

L10

Totals

0 1 0 1 1 0

0 0 0 2 0 0

38-27 30-37 25-44 23-40 24-38

Home

W-2 L-3 L-3 W-2 L-2

Away

41-24 42-23 41-23 30-35 25-41

Str

5-5 7-3 7-3 3-7 3-7

Away

39-27 37-26 37-27 36-32 34-35

Str

8-2 4-6 5-5 6-4 2-8

Callasp 2b Barton 1b Vogt c

Home

W-1 W-1 W-2 L-1 L-1

37-30 34-32 33-36 28-38 30-35

Home

Away

W-2 W-1 L-1 W-1 L-2

45-18 37-29 35-31 27-37 29-39

34-34 29-36 25-41 32-34 20-42

3 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 3 0 1 0

Tuiassp lf Avila c Iglesias ss

2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0

23 6 7 6

Oakland ............................... Detroit .................................

Totals

201 300

18 3 3 2

021 00x

— —

6 3

E—Callaspo (15), Infante (6). DP—Oakland 1. LOB—Oakland 6, Detroit 3. 2B—Lowrie (37), Cespedes (19). HR—Moss (22), S.Smith (7). IP

5 0

4 3

5 1

3 1

3 0

Oakland

Milone W,10-9 Detroit

Verlander L,12-10 B.Rondon

B.Rondon pitched to 4 batters in the 6th. WP—Verlander. Umpires—Home, Will Little;First, Gary Darling;Second, Jerry Meals;Third, Paul Emmel. T—2:06 (Rain delay: 1:20). A—34,356 (41,255).

RED SOX 13, ORIOLES 2

I Shane Victorino homered twice and drove in a careerhigh seven runs. BALTIMORE

BRorts 2b Machd 3b FrRdrg p

BOSTON ab r h bi

3 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0

C.Davis 1b Tegrdn ph-c A.Jones cf ACasill ss Markks rf

3 1 3 1 4

0 0 0 0 0

Wieters c Betemt 1b

3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

Hardy ss McLoth cf Valenci dh-3b Pearce lf

3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0

Totals

3 1 2 0 2 0 0 0

30 2 4 2

ab r h bi

Ellsury cf Victorn rf Pedroia 2b Bogarts 3b D.Ortiz dh JGoms lf Napoli 1b Sltlmch c D.Ross ph-c Drew ss Mdlrks 3b-2b

5 3 3 0 3 4 3 7 5 1 3 2

0 3 5 5 3

0 0 0 1 1

0 0 1 1 1

0 1 2 1 0

1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 4 2 2 0

Totals

36 13 14 13

Baltimore ....................... 002 000 000 Boston ............................ 102 530 20x

— —

2 13

LOB—Baltimore 4, Boston 5. 2B—Ellsbury (29), Victorino (23), Pedroia 2 (34), J.Gomes (15). HR—Victorino 2 (11), Napoli (17). SF—Machado, D.Ortiz. Baltimore

W.Chen L,7-7 Mig.Gonzalez Patton Matusz Fr.Rodriguez Boston

Doubront W,10-6 Thornton D.Britton

32⁄3 1 ⁄3 2 1 1

8 1 2 3 0

8 0 3 2 0

3 0 1 0 0

5 0 3 1 2

62⁄3 1 ⁄3 2

4 0 0

2 0 0

1 0 0

7 0 1

HBP—by W.Chen (Victorino), by Doubront (Pearce). Umpires—Home, Wally Bell;First, Marvin Hudson;Second, Tim McClelland;Third, Marty Foster. T—2:59. A—36,226 (37,499).

ROYALS 6, TWINS 1

I James Shields picked up the win after throwing 7 1/3 innings, striking out seven and only allowing four hits and one earned run. KANSAS CITY

AGordn lf Bonifac 3b Hosmer 1b BButler dh S.Perez c Lough rf Getz 2b AEscor ss Dyson cf Totals

MINNESOTA ab r h bi

5 4 4 5 5 5 5 3 4

0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1

2 2 0 2 2 2 1 1 1

3 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1

40 6 13 6

ab r h bi

Dozier 2b CHrmn rf Mornea 1b Wlngh lf Doumit c Colaell dh Plouffe 3b Thoms cf Flormn ss

4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 1

Totals

0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0

1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

29 1 4 1

Kansas City.................... 000 000 051 Minnesota...................... 000 000 010

— —

6 1

E—Florimon (12). DP—Kansas City 1. LOB— Kansas City 10, Minnesota 5. 2B—A.Gordon 2 (24), Bonifacio (20), Dozier (29). HR—B.Butler (14). SB—Lough (5), Getz (12), Florimon (10). Kansas City

Shields W,9-8 W.Smith H,1 K.Herrera

71⁄3 2 ⁄3 1

4 0 0

1 0 0

4 0 0

7 2 2

7 ⁄3 2 ⁄3 1

6 3 3 1

0 4 1 1

2 1 0 0

7 1 0 0

Minnesota

Correia Burton L,2-8 Thielbar Pressly

Umpires—Home, Jerry Layne;First, Hunter Wendelstedt;Second, Alan Porter;Third, Greg Gibson. T—3:10. A—27,006 (39,021).

WHITE SOX 4, ASTROS 3

I Jordan Danks hit the game winning single to center in the bottom of the eighth inning scoring Alexei Ramirez and Gordon Beckham. HOUSTON

Grssmn lf Hoes rf

CHICAGO ab r h bi

5 1 3 0 5 0 0 0

Altuve 2b JCastro c MDmn 3b Carter dh

4 2 4 4

0 2 0 0

0 1 3 1

0 0 2 1

Wallac 1b BBarns cf Villar ss

4 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 3 0 1 0

6 5

E—De.Jennings (2). DP—Los Angeles 1, Tampa Bay 2. LOB—Los Angeles 8, Tampa Bay 12. 2B— Aybar (23), Zobrist (31), Y.Escobar (21), J.Molina 2 (11). HR—Trout (23). SB—Bourjos (5). CS—Nelson (1), Zobrist (2). Los Angeles

— 51⁄2 12 14 15

East Division

Pct

52 65 72 71 81

WCGB

Central Division

Pct

54 55 59 73 76

West Division

.588 .515 .466 .450 .443

Kemp passes major hurdle by running bases

AMERICAN LEAGUE Wednesday’s Games Texas (M.Perez 7-3) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 12-7), 2:40 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 11-9) at Toronto (Redmond 1-2), 6:07 p.m. Oakland (Straily 6-7) at Detroit (Fister 11-6), 6:08 p.m. Baltimore (B.Norris 9-10) at Boston (Lackey 8-11), 6:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Richards 4-5) at Tampa Bay (Archer 7-5), 6:10 p.m. Houston (Cosart 1-1) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 9-12), 7:10 p.m. Kansas City (B.Chen 5-2) at Minnesota (A.Albers 2-1), 7:10 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE Wednesday’s Games Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 7-13) at L.A. Dodgers (Nolasco 10-9), 2:10 p.m. Miami (H.Alvarez 2-3) at Washington (Strasburg 6-9), 6:05 p.m. Milwaukee (Gorzelanny 3-5) at Pittsburgh (Morton 5-3), 6:05 p.m. Philadelphia (Hamels 5-13) at N.Y. Mets (Matsuzaka 0-1), 6:10 p.m. Cincinnati (H.Bailey 8-10) at St. Louis (Wainwright 15-7), 7:15 p.m. San Francisco (Bumgarner 11-8) at Colorado (Chacin 12-7), 7:40 p.m. San Diego (Erlin 1-2) at Arizona (Miley 9-8), 8:40 p.m. INTERLEAGUE Wednesday’s Games Cleveland (Masterson 14-9) at Atlanta (Maholm 9-10), 6:10 p.m.

Totals

35 3 10 3

ab r h bi

De Aza lf Gillaspi 3b Kppngr ph-1b AlRmrz ss A.Dunn dh Konerk 1b Bckhm pr-2b AGarci rf JrDnks cf Phegly c LeGarc 2b-3b

3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0

0 3 4 4

1 2 0 0

0 2 0 2

0 0 0 1

0 4 4 4

1 0 0 0

0 2 3 0

0 1 2 0

3 0 0 0

Totals

32 4 9 4

Houston.......................... 000 101 010 Chicago ........................... 000 100 03x

— —

3 4

E—A.Garcia (3). DP—Houston 1, Chicago 2. LOB—Houston 8, Chicago 7. 2B—Grossman (13), M.Dominguez (20), Al.Ramirez (36), Jor.Danks 2 (5). SB—Carter (1), Al.Ramirez (26), Jor.Danks (6). IP

1 ⁄3 1 ⁄3

5 0

3 0

1 0

2 1

72⁄3 0 1 ⁄3 1

8 1 0 1

3 0 0 0

8 0 1 1

Houston

Clemens Bedard L,3-10 BS,1-2 Fields

Chicago

Quintana Petricka Veal W,2-3 A.Reed S,36-41

Petricka pitched to 1 batter in the 8th. WP—Petricka. Umpires—Home, Brian O’Nora;First, Fieldin Culbreth;Second, Jordan Baker;Third, Adrian Johnson. T—3:10. A—15,491 (40,615).

Monday’s Late Game RANGERS 8, MARINERS 3

TEXAS

Gentry cf Andrus ss Kinsler 2b ABeltre 3b Przyns c Rios rf JeBakr lf DvMrp lf

SEATTLE

ab r h bi

3 5 4 3 5 4 3 1

0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0

1 3 1 1 1 2 1 0

0 1 0 0 3 2 0 0

Frnkln 2b BMiller ss FGtrrz rf KMorls dh Seager 3b Morse lf Smoak 1b Ackley cf

ab r h bi

4 4 4 4 4 2 2 3

0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1

0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1

0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0

Oakland’s Brandon Moss, center, celebrates with teammates after hitting a two-run home run against the Tigers in the fifth inning Tuesday. AP PHOTO Morlnd 1b Profar dh Totals

4 1 1 1 4 1 0 1

36 8 11 8

Quinter c

3 0 1 0

Totals

30 3 5 3

Texas............................... 200 200 310 Seattle............................ 002 100 000

— —

8 3

DP—Texas 1. LOB—Texas 6, Seattle 2. 2B— Gentry (10), Kinsler (24), Rios (24). HR—Pierzynski (15), Moreland (19), Seager (20). CS—Andrus (6), B.Miller (2). S—Kinsler. Texas

Blackley W,2-1 Cotts Soria Scheppers Seattle

J.Saunders L,10-13 Medina O.Perez

6 1 1 1

5 0 0 0

3 0 0 0

1 1 0 0

4 2 1 1

7 1 1

9 2 0

7 1 0

3 0 0

0 1 2

HBP—by J.Saunders (Gentry). Umpires—Home, Todd Tichenor;First, CB Bucknor;Second, Dale Scott;Third, Bill Miller. T—2:40. A—15,995 (47,476).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Tuesday’s Games METS 5, PHILLIES 0

I Jonathon Niese thew a complete game three hitter striking out five batters and drove in three runs with a double in the sixth inning. PHILADELPHIA

Berndn cf Rollins ss Utley 2b Kratz c MYong 3b Ruf lf Frndsn 1b Mayrry rf Kndrck p Miner p DeFrts p Ruiz ph Totals

NEW YORK ab r h bi

4 3 4 3 3 3 3 3 2 0 0 1

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

29 0 3 0

ab r h bi

EYong lf DnMrp 2b ABrwn rf I.Davis 1b Flores 3b Lagars cf TdArnd c Quntnll ss Niese p

2 4 4 3 4 3 3 3 2

Totals

0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1

0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1

0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 3

28 5 5 5

Philadelphia................... 000 000 000 New York........................ 001 004 00x

— —

0 5

E—K.Kendrick (2), Frandsen (4). DP—New York 1. LOB—Philadelphia 3, New York 6. 2B— M.Young (22), Quintanilla (8), Niese (1). S— E.Young. SF—T.d’Arnaud. Philadelphia

K.Kendrick L,10-11 Miner De Fratus New York

Niese W,6-6

6 1 1

5 0 0

1 0 0

4 1 0

3 1 0

Umpires—Home, Paul Nauert;First, Angel Hernandez;Second, Doug Eddings;Third, Dana DeMuth. T—2:19. A—25,700 (41,922).

NATIONALS 2, MARLINS 1

I Ross Ohlendorf allowed only one run in five innings pitched and struck out three batters. MIAMI

Yelich lf DSolan 2b Stanton rf Morrsn 1b Lucas 3b Ruggin cf Hchvrr ss Mathis c Eovaldi p Pierre ph ARams p DJnngs p Qualls p Totals

ab r h bi

4 4 3 2 4 4 4 3 2 1 0 0 0

1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

31 1 4 1

WASHINGTON ab r h bi

Span cf Zmrmn 3b Harper lf Werth rf Dsmnd ss AdLRc 1b WRams c Rendon 2b Ohlndrf p Roark p Storen p Lmrdzz ph Clipprd p RSorin p

3 4 4 4 4 4 4 2 2 0 0 1 0 0

Totals

0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

1 1 2 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

32 2 9 2

Miami.............................. 000 001 000 Washington................... 200 000 00x

— —

1 2

DP—Miami 1. LOB—Miami 6, Washington 8. 2B—Stanton (22). HR—Yelich (2). SB—Desmond (17). Miami

Eovaldi L,2-5 A.Ramos Da.Jennings Qualls Washington

Ohlendorf W,3-0 Roark H,1 Storen H,17 Clippard H,27 R.Soriano S,34-40

6 2 ⁄3 1 ⁄3 1

8 0 0 1

2 0 0 0

1 1 0 0

6 1 0 0

5 1 1 1 1

3 0 0 0 1

1 0 0 0 0

1 2 0 0 0

3 2 1 2 1

Ohlendorf pitched to 1 batter in the 6th. WP—Eovaldi. Umpires—Home, Mike DiMuro;First, Scott Barry;Second, Alfonso Marquez;Third, Ted Barrett. T—2:37. A—24,616 (41,418).

BREWERS 7, PIRATES 6

I Aramis Ramirez had three hits, including his 350th career home run, and drove in four runs. MILWAUKEE

Aoki rf Segura ss Lucroy c ArRmr 3b CGomz cf KDavis lf LSchfr lf YBtncr 1b Gennett 2b Lohse p Wooten p Gindl ph Kintzlr p Hndrsn p

Totals

ab r h bi

2 5 4 5 4 5 0 4 4 2 0 0 0 0

2 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

2 1 3 4 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

35 7 14 6

PITTSBURGH ab r h bi

Tabata lf JGomz p GJones ph JuWlsn p Morris p JHrrsn ph Watson p Walker 2b McCtch cf PAlvrz 3b RMartn c GSnchz 1b Lambo rf Mercer ss Locke p Mazzar p Pie ph-lf

3 0 1 0 0 1 0 5 5 4 4 5 4 4 1 0 3

Totals

1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1

1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 0 1 2 1 0 0 2

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

40 6 15 6

Milwaukee ..................... 100 130 110 Pittsburgh...................... 000 041 100

— —

7 6

DP—Milwaukee 2, Pittsburgh 3. LOB—Milwaukee 8, Pittsburgh 9. 2B—Ar.Ramirez (13), Y.Betancourt (13), McCutchen (33), P.Alvarez (15), Pie (1). HR—Ar.Ramirez (8), Walker (9), P.Alvarez (32). SB—Lucroy (5). S—Lohse. SF—Gindl. H

Lohse 51⁄3 13 Wooten W,3-0 12⁄3 1 Kintzler H,20 1 0 Henderson S,22-25 1 1

5 1 0 0

0 1 0 1

2 1 1 0

Milwaukee

Pittsburgh

Locke Mazzaro J.Gomez Ju.Wilson Morris L,5-7 Watson

42⁄3 1 ⁄3 1 1 1 1

8 0 0 2 2 2

5 0 0 1 1 0

2 1 0 1 1 0

4 0 2 0 0 0

Umpires—Home, Mark Carlson;First, Gerry Davis;Second, Dan Iassogna;Third, Brian Knight. T—3:28. A—23,801 (38,362).

CARDINALS 6, REDS 1

I Matt Holliday went 2 for 3 with an RBI and Joe Kelly picked up the win after six innings pitching. CINCINNATI

Choo cf Frazier 3b Votto 1b

ST. LOUIS ab r h bi

4 1 2 1 4 0 1 0 3 0 0 0

Phillips 2b Bruce rf Ludwck lf Simon p Mesorc c Cozart ss Latos p MParr p

4 3 4 0 4 3 3 0

Heisey lf

1 0 0 0

Totals

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

1 1 0 0 0 1 2 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

33 1 8 1

ab r h bi

MCrpnt 2b Beltran rf Hollidy lf SRonsn pr-lf Craig 1b YMolin c Freese 3b Jay cf Descals ss J.Kelly p Siegrist p MAdms ph Rosnthl p Wong ph Maness p

3 1 1 1 4 2 2 0 3 0 2 1

Totals

0 4 4 4 3 4 2 0

1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0

0 1 2 1 1 1 0 0

0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0

1 0 1 0

0 0 0 0

33 6 11 5

Cincinnati....................... 000 010 000 St. Louis ......................... 200 001 12x

— —

1 6

E—Bruce (2). DP—Cincinnati 1, St. Louis 1. LOB—Cincinnati 8, St. Louis 6. 2B—Bruce (35), Craig (29). HR—Choo (17). SB—Jay (5), Descalso (6). SF—M.Carpenter. Cincinnati

Latos L,13-5 M.Parra Simon St. Louis

J.Kelly W,6-3 Siegrist H,8 Rosenthal H,27 Maness

6 1 1

9 0 2

4 0 2

0 0 1

4 1 1

6 1 1 1

8 0 0 0

1 0 0 0

3 0 0 0

1 3 1 0

Latos pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. HBP—by Simon (Holliday). Umpires—Home, Bruce Dreckman;First, Tim Welke;Second, Mike Everitt;Third, Dan Bellino. T—3:02. A—35,201 (43,975).

GIANTS 5, ROCKIES 3

I Hunter Pence went 1 for 5 but hit a two-run homerun and Brandon Belt went 4 for 5. SAN FRANCISCO ab r h bi

GBlanc cf Scutaro 2b Belt 1b Pence rf Sandovl 3b HSnchz c BCrwfr ss Kschnc lf Petit p SRosari p Pill ph J.Lopez p SCasill p Romo p Totals

5 4 5 5 4 4 4 2 3 0 1 0 0 0

1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

1 2 4 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

37 5 13 5

COLORADO ab r h bi

CDckrs lf LeMahi 2b Tlwtzk ss Cuddyr rf Helton 1b WRosr c Arenad 3b Blckmn cf Bettis p Ottavin p Pachec ph Outmn p Belisle p JHerrr ph

5 5 3 4 3 4 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 1

Totals

0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

1 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

33 3 8 3

San Francisco ................ 300 001 100 Colorado ......................... 001 100 100

— —

5 3

E—Blackmon (2). DP—San Francisco 1, Colorado 2. LOB—San Francisco 8, Colorado 8. 2B— G.Blanco (17), Sandoval (22), Co.Dickerson (9), W.Rosario (20), Blackmon (8). HR—Pence (16), Sandoval (10). S—Bettis. SF—Scutaro. San Francisco

Petit W,1-0 S.Rosario H,6 J.Lopez H,11 S.Casilla H,14 Romo S,32-36 Colorado

Bettis L,0-3 Ottavino Outman Belisle

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Umpires—Home, Jeff Kellogg;First, Eric Cooper;Second, Paul Schrieber;Third, Chad Fairchild. T—3:03. A—26,601 (50,398).

INTERLEAGUE Tuesday’s Game BRAVES 2, INDIANS 0

I Alex Wood only allowed five hits in 5 2/3 innings and struck out five batters. CLEVELAND

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DP—Cleveland 1, Atlanta 1. LOB—Cleveland 10, Atlanta 2. 2B—Kipnis (30), A.Cabrera (30). 3B—E.Johnson (1). SB—Brantley (13). Cleveland

Salazar L,1-2 Rzepczynski M.Albers Carrasco Atlanta

A.Wood W,3-2 Ayala S.Downs H,3 Avilan H,22 Kimbrel S,42-45

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Ayala pitched to 1 batter in the 6th. WP—Salazar, A.Wood. Umpires—Home, Ed Hickox;First, Jim Joyce;Second, Jeff Nelson;Third, Jim Wolf. T—2:41. A—21,400 (49,586).

Midwest City native Matt Kemp ran the bases on Tuesday for the first time since spraining his left ankle a month ago, and the Dodgers slugger said he’s getting closer to returning. Kemp said he felt better than he had expected because he was skeptical about how things would go. The next step will be running the bases again Wednesday. If things go well, manager Don Mattingly said Kemp could be cleared for a minor league rehab assignment. “Everything felt pretty much normal,” Kemp said. “In the back of your mind, you feel like, ‘Man, I just sprained my ankle,’ so you kind of like take it easy. But I felt really normal after the third or fourth time, so I just let it go.” The minor league regular season ends Monday, although Class A Rancho Cucamonga could reach the postseason, which would give the Dodgers more time to get Kemp in some rehab games. Kemp said he has no plans to go to Arizona and play in instructional league games there. “When I do join the team, I’ll be ready to go,” he said. “I just need at-bats.” Kemp has been on the disabled list since July 24, his third stint there this season. His return will make things interesting in the outfield, where Carl Crawford has been playing in left, Andre Ethier in center (Kemp’s usual position) and rookie Yasiel Puig in right. “I don’t know why people keep asking me what role I’m going to play. I want to play every day,” Kemp said. “I don’t like to sit out of games. I like to give my team a chance to win, and I feel like I can do that.” Mattingly answered carefully when asked how Kemp will fit into the lineup again. “I’m not going to try to make lineups out now,” he said. “I don’t want to throw anybody aside, but you get to a point where it’s got to be about us winning. Matt’s had a hard year physically and I think he’s going to understand. Somebody is going to be mad.”

CARDINALS DEMOTE LYONS, RECALL SALAS The Cardinals demoted Tyler Lyons to Triple-A Memphis, a day after the lefty started against the Reds, and recalled reliever Fernando Salas to boost the bullpen. Lyons, a former OSU standout, is 2-4 with a 4.73 ERA in nine games for St. Louis, and allowed one earned run in five innings with no decision in a win over Cincinnati. He’s 7-2 with a 3.39 ERA in 16 starts at Memphis. Salas has appeared in 19 games with St. Louis, going 0-2 with a 4.79 ERA, and is 1-2 with a 1.90 ERA and 12 saves in 22 games in the minors. The former Cardinals closer has eight saves and a 1.64 ERA this month.

PIRATES ACQUIRE BYRD, BUCK FROM METS A day after falling out of first place, the Pirates made a trade they feel will bolster their offense. And it was welcome news to manager Clint Hurdle and his players. The Pirates acquired outfielder Marlon Byrd and catcher John Buck from the Mets on Tuesday, hoping the veterans can help the franchise to its first playoff berth in 21 years. The Pirates began the day a half-game behind St. Louis in the National League Central after the Cardinals took sole possession of first place Monday night with an 8-5 win over the Cincinnati Reds. The Pirates were idle. The Pirates sent the Mets minor league infielder Dilson Herrera and a player to be named later in exchange for Byrd, Buck and cash considerations. Pittsburgh had claimed Byrd off waivers and were able to work out the four-player deal with New York. Byrd, 35, is hitting .285 with 21 home runs and 71 RBIs this season, including .345 with seven homers against left-handers, and will give Pittsburgh needed depth in the outfield while leadoff hitter Starling Marte recovers from a sprained right hand.

CANO HIT BY PITCH, LEAVES GAME Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano sustained a bruised left hand when he was struck by a pitch Tuesday night in the first inning against the Blue Jays. Precautionary X-rays were negative, and the Yankees said he is day to day. Cano was removed from the game shortly after he was hit, and he was diagnosed with a bruised left hand. He was hit near the wrist on the opposite side of the thumb by left-hander J.A. Happ. After a lengthy examination by trainer Steve Donohue, Cano stayed in to run the bases and scored on a three-run homer by Alfonso Soriano. Cano, who is batting .305 with 24 home runs and 85 RBIs, then left the dugout with Donohue. Eduardo Nunez replaced him in the bottom half of the inning. Cano is the second Yankees player to be hit by a pitch from Happ this year. Outfielder Curtis Granderson missed 38 games with a broken right wrist after Happ struck him during a spring training game in February.

JAYS’ GIBBONS WILL RETURN AS MANAGER John Gibbons won’t pay the price for the Blue Jays’ disappointing season, general manager Alex Anthopoulos said Tuesday. Anthopoulos insisted that Gibbons will return as manager in 2014, even though the Blue Jays remain stuck in last place in the AL East with a 59-73 record. Asked about the possibility of replacing Gibbons, Anthopoulos said “there’s never been any thought on that respect at all.” Touted as a World Series favorite this spring after remaking their roster with a slew of winter trades and free agent signings, the Blue Jays have slumped badly instead, struggling with a mix of injuries and poor performance. He was rehired last November after former OSU assistant John Farrell was traded to Boston.

BALENTIEN MOVES CLOSER TO JAPANESE HOME RUN RECORD Wladimir Balentien hit two home runs Tuesday to move within five of tying Japanese baseball’s single-season record of 55. Balentien’s Yakult Swallows Swallows have 33 games remaining in the regular season for him to match the record set by Sadaharu Oh in 1964 and matched by former major leaguers Tuffy Rhodes in 2001 and Alex Cabrera in 2002. Balentien hit a three-run homer in the second inning and added a solo shot in the seventh at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo. The Chunichi Dragons won the game 10-8. Balentien, a native of Curacao, played for the Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds before signing with the Swallows in 2011. FROM WIRE REPORTS

SPORTS/SCOREBOARD

THE OKLAHOMAN | NEWSOK.COM FOOTBALL NFL Standings

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Chicago ............................ Detroit ............................. Green Bay........................ Minnesota .......................

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Thursday, Aug. 29 Indianapolis at Cincinnati, 6 p.m. Detroit at Buffalo, 6 p.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Jets, 6 p.m. New Orleans at Miami, 6:30 p.m. Washington at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m. Jacksonville at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. N.Y. Giants at New England, 6:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at Carolina, 6:30 p.m. Tennessee at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Cleveland at Chicago, 7 p.m. Green Bay at Kansas City, 7 p.m. Houston at Dallas, 7 p.m. Baltimore at St. Louis, 7 p.m. Arizona at Denver, 8 p.m. Oakland at Seattle, 9 p.m. San Francisco at San Diego, 9 p.m. Sunday’s Games New Orleans 31, Houston 23 San Francisco 34, Minnesota 14

BASKETBALL

WNBA Standings

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Minnesota ............................... 21 7 Los Angeles ............................. 19 8 Phoenix.................................... 14 13 Seattle..................................... 14 14 San Antonio............................. 10 18 Tulsa ........................................ 9 19 EASTERN CONFERENCE

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Chicago .................................... 20 Atlanta .................................... 14 Washington ............................. 13 Indiana..................................... 12 New York ................................. 11 Connecticut ............................. 7

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Tuesday’s Games Minnesota 73, New York 47 Seattle 72, San Antonio 71 Connecticut at Los Angeles Wednesday’s Games Washington at Atlanta Monday’s Results No Games Scheduled

FedExCup Leaders Through Aug. 25 Rank Player ...................................... Points 1. Tiger Woods ............. 4,009 2. Adam Scott............... 3,846 3. Phil Mickelson .......... 2,625 4. Matt Kuchar ............. 2,541 5. Justin Rose............... 2,397 6. Brandt Snedeker....... 2,219 7. Graham DeLaet ........ 1,806 8. Bill Haas ................... 1,719 9. Jordan Spieth ........... 1,684 10. Gary Woodland ....... 1,633 11. Keegan Bradley ...... 1,599 12. Kevin Streelman..... 1,581 13. Henrik Stenson....... 1,552 14. Jim Furyk ................ 1,516 15. D.A. Points.............. 1,497 16. Jason Day ............... 1,497 17. Billy Horschel ......... 1,488 18. Webb Simpson ....... 1,461 19. Jason Dufner .......... 1,419 20. Boo Weekley........... 1,394 21. Hunter Mahan ....... 1,313 22. Dustin Johnson ...... 1,226 23. Rickie Fowler ......... 1,185 1,179 24. Charles Howell III .. 25. Zach Johnson.......... 1,142 26. Harris English......... 1,136 27. Bubba Watson ........ 1,123 28. Steve Stricker ........ 1,118 29. Charl Schwartzel .... 1,084 30. Jimmy Walker ....... 1,073 31. Lee Westwood........ 1,069 32. Patrick Reed ........... 1,063 33. Russell Henley........ 1,049 34. Roberto Castro ....... 1,036 35. Nick Watney ........... 1,026 36. Rory McIlroy ........... 1,025 37. Matt Jones ............. 1,019 38. Brendon de Jonge... 1,019 39. John Merrick........... 1,007 40. Chris Stroud ........... 984 41. Jonas Blixt.............. 971 42. David Lynn.............. 964 43. Kevin Chappell........ 962 44. Graeme McDowell .. 941 45. John Huh................. 935 46. Matt Every.............. 908 47. Chris Kirk ................ 905 48. Ken Duke ................ 903 49. Scott Piercy ............ 898 50. Jason Kokrak .......... 884 51. Brian Gay ................ 872 52. Daniel Summerhays .............................. 867 53. Ryan Moore ............ 865 54. Luke Donald............ 855 55. Sergio Garcia .......... 848 56. Rory Sabbatini........ 846 57. Sang-Moon Bae...... 839 58. Michael Thompson . 829 59. Angel Cabrera......... 827 60. Ryan Palmer ........... 824 61. Fredrik Jacobson .... 821 62. Scott Stallings ....... 817 63. Martin Laird............ 814 64. David Lingmerth..... 807 65. Charley Hoffman .... 799 66. Kyle Stanley ........... 760 67. David Hearn............ 733 68. Bryce Molder ......... 717 69. Cameron Tringale ... 712 70. Tim Clark ................ 704 71. John Rollins ............ 696 72. Josh Teater............. 687 73. Nicholas Thompson 684 74. K.J. Choi.................. 680 75. Kevin Stadler.......... 674 76. Marc Leishman ....... 653 77. Ian Poulter.............. 647 78. Martin Flores ......... 631 79. Scott Brown ........... 629 80. Brian Davis ............. 622 81. Luke Guthrie........... 607 82. Robert Garrigus...... 602 83. Derek Ernst............. 599 84. Brian Stuard ........... 583 85. Bob Estes ............... 581 86. Stewart Cink .......... 580 87. Jerry Kelly .............. 580 88. Brian Harman ......... 579 89. Brendan Steele....... 574 90. Martin Kaymer ....... 572 91. Ernie Els.................. 571 92. Richard H. Lee ........ 565 93. Greg Chalmers........ 559 96. Bo Van Pelt ............ 544 453 115. Jeff Maggert ....... 117. Morgan Hoff444 mann............................. 361 126. Robert Streb ........ 296 142. Tag Ridings .......... 284 149. Brandt Jobe .........

Oct. 31-Nov. 3 — WGC-HSBC Champions, Sheshan International GC, Shanghai YTD Money $8,215,119 $4,646,513 $5,224,727 $5,100,008 $3,691,881 $4,913,261 $2,105,300 $3,281,963 $2,724,820 $1,637,012 $3,180,813 $2,878,018 $3,465,963 $2,433,929 $2,507,287 $2,981,763 $3,117,543 $2,487,284 $2,678,134 $2,601,662 $2,414,497 $2,572,844 $1,783,942 $1,826,492 $2,287,259 $2,127,757 $1,674,756 $2,553,532 $1,818,323 $1,941,570 $2,012,001 $1,927,999 $1,958,106 $1,575,164 $1,401,439 $1,763,936 $1,492,707 $1,324,524 $1,847,060 $1,544,269 $1,990,166 $1,550,053 $1,495,919 $2,135,769 $1,431,882 $1,138,947 $1,536,416 $1,705,863 $1,659,337 $1,227,221 $1,356,047 $1,146,686 $1,299,065 $1,428,446 $1,604,085 $1,133,725 $1,696,240 $1,672,420 $1,751,279 $1,521,592 $1,236,722 $1,567,947 $1,755,393 $1,748,109 $1,512,853 $1,462,943 $1,078,515 $763,258 $954,889 $1,355,952 $1,164,049 $1,315,532 $857,770 $944,951 $923,910 $1,334,559 $1,490,599 $805,597 $1,012,142 $931,257 $991,902 $1,132,355 $1,330,856 $1,015,708 $748,891 $999,462 $814,310 $909,759 $886,721 $862,110 $1,054,508 $905,396 $632,283 $938,531 $1,022,331

$871,003 $454,871 $428,922 $309,105

PGA Tour Schedule and Winners

SOFTBALL

Tuesday’s Results High School City Area

Blanchard 2, St. Mary 0 Moore 20, Putnam West 1 Millwood 7, John Marshall 1 Heritage Hall 11, Crooked Oak 1 Wayne 10, Minco 0 Carl Albert 6, Guthrie 0 Mustang 2, Edmond North 0 Tecumseh 7, Shawnee 2 Putnam City 4, Norman North 3 Westmoore 9, Ponca City 1 Deer Creek 6, Piedmont 2 Newcastle 4, Bridge Creek 3 Purcell 4, Lindsay 0 Davis 5, Kingston 0 Southmoore 8, Yukon 0 Putnam North 10, Norman 0 Bethel 14, Jones 2 Little Axe 4, Washington 3

State

Copan 9, Foyil 4 Prague 9, Seminole 3 Bristow 11, Mannford 7 Porum 11, Braggs 2 Verdigris 5, Inola 2 Kansas 4, Commerce 1 Sterling 4, Rush Springs 1 Sperry 7, Dewey 2 Healdton 8, Ringling 0 Oologah 6, Locust Grove 0 Broken Arrow 11, Sapulpa 0 Amber-Pocasset 11, Anadarko 3 Amber-Pocasset 7, Lookeba-Sickles 0 Sequoyah Tahlequah 8, Wagoner 0 Sequoyah Tahlequah 12, Jay 4

Tuesday’s Games CARL ALBERT 6 GUTHRIE 0

Guthrie...............................000 000 0 — 0 1 2 Carl Albert......................... 201 003 x — 6 8 1 W — Meador. L — Dean. LH — Guthrie: Watson 1-3. CA: Wright 2-3, 2B, 2 RBI.

MUSTANG 2 EDMOND NORTH 0

Edmond North................... 000 000 0 — 0 6 1 Mustang.............................200 000 x — 2 5 2 W — Chestnut. L — Helsley. LH — EN: Nordyke 1-3. Mustang: Joyner 2-3.

PUTNAM CITY 4 NORMAN NORTH 3

Norman North ...................010 200 0 — 3 8 2 Putnam City.......................010 300 x — 4 7 3 W — Perry. L — Burton. Norman North: Smith 2-4. Putnam City: Oliver 3-3, 2 2B, 1R.

BASEBALL

Tuesday’s Results High School State

Calera 15, Soper 7

VOLLEYBALL

Tuesday’s Results High School City Area

Bethany def. Hennessey 3-0, 25-9, 25-13, 25-12 US Grant def. Capitol Hill 3-0, 25-14, 25-13, 25-15 Heritage Hall def. Tulsa Washington 3-0, 25-8, 25-18, 25-15 Moore def. Tulsa Kelley JV 3-1, 25-11, 21-25, 25-15, 25-22 Edmond North def. Putnam City North 3-0, 25-10, 25-8, 25-12 Deer Creek def. Putnam City 3-1, 25-18, 26-24, 16-25, 25-16 Norman def. Enid 3-2, 19-25, 25-8, 21-25, 25-53, 15-13 Mustang def. Midwest City 3-1, 23-25, 25-18, 25-16, 25-20

GOLF PGA

Jan. 4-7 — Hyundai Tournament of Champions (Dustin Johnson) Jan. 10-13 — Sony Open, Waialae CC, Honolulu (Russell Henley) Jan. 17-20 — Humana Challenge, PGA West (Palmer Private, Nicklaus Private), La Quinta CC, La Quinta, Calif. (Brian Gay) Jan. 24-27 — Farmers Insurance Open, Torrey Pines GC (North and South), San Diego. (Tiger Woods) Jan. 31-Feb. 3 — Waste Management Phoenix Open, TPC Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Ariz. (Phil Mickelson) Feb. 7-10 — AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Pebble Beach, Calif. (Brandt Snedeker) Feb. 14-17 — Northern Trust Open, Riviera CC, Los Angeles (John Merrick) Feb. 20-24 — WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, Ritz-Carlton GC at Dove Mountain, Marana, Ariz. (Matt Kuchar) Feb. 28-March 3 — Honda Classic, PGA National GC, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (Michael Thompson) March 7-10 — WGC-Cadillac Championship, TPC Blue Monster at Doral, Doral, Fla. (Tiger Woods) March 7-10 — Puerto Rico Open, Trump International GC, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico (Scott Brown) March 14-17 — Tampa Bay Championship, Innisbrook Resort (Copperhead Course), Palm Harbor, Fla. (Kevin Streelman) March 21-24 — Arnold Palmer Invitational, Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Orlando, Fla. (Tiger Woods) March 28-31 — Shell Houston Open, Redstone GC (Tournament Course), Houston. (D.A. Points) April 4-7 — Valero Texas Open, TPC San Antonio (AT&T Oaks Course), San Antonio (Martin Laird) April 11-14 — Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC, Augusta, Ga. (Adam Scott) April 18-21 — RBC Heritage, Harbourtown GL, Hilton Head Island, S.C. (Graeme McDowell) April 25-28 — Zurich Classic, TPC Louisiana, New Orleans (Billy Horschel) May 2-5 — Wells Fargo Championship, Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, N.C. May 9-12 — The Players Championship, TPC Sawgrass (Players Stadium Course), Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla (Tiger Woods) May 16-19 — HP Byron Nelson Championship, TPC Four Seasons Resort, Las Colinas, Texas. (Sang-Moon Bae) May 23-26 — Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, Colonial CC, Fort Worth, Texas (Boo Weekley) May 30-June 2— Memorial Tournament, Muirfield Village GC, Dublin, Ohio (Matt Kuchar) June 6-9 — FedEx St. Jude Classic, TPC Southwind, Memphis, Tenn. (Harris English) June 13-16 — U.S. Open, Merion GC, Ardmore, Pa. (Justin Rose) June 20-23 — Travelers Championship, TPC River Highlands, Hartford, Conn. (Ken Duke) June 27-30 — AT&T National, Congressional CC (Blue Course), Bethesda, Md. (Bill Haas) July 4-7 — The Greenbrier Classic, The Greenbrier (The Old White TPC), White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. (Jonas Blixt) July 11-14 — John Deere Classic, TPC Deere Run, Silvis, Ill. (Jordan Spieth) July 18-21 — The Open Championship, Muirfield, Gullane, Scotland (Phil Mickelson) July 18-21 — True South Classic, Annandale GC, Madison, Miss. (Woody Austin) July 25-28 — RBC Canadian Open, Glen Abbey GC, Oakville, Ontario (Brandt Snedeker) Aug. 1-4 — WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Firestone CC (South Course),Akron, Ohio (Tiger Woods) Aug. 1-4 — Reno-Tahoe Open, Montreaux Golf & CC, Reno, Nev. (Gary Woodland) Aug. 8-13 — PGA Championship, Oak Hill CC, Rochester, N.Y. (Jason Dufner) Aug. 15-18 — Wyndham Championship, Sedgefield CC, Greensboro, N.C. (Patrick Reed) Aug. 22-25 — The Barclays, Liberty National, Jersey City, N.J. (Adam Scott) Aug. 30-Sept. 2 — Deutsche Bank Championship, TPC Boston, Norton, Mass. Sept. 12-15 — BMW Championship, Conway Farms GC, Lake Forest, Ill. Sept. 19-22 — Tour Championship, East Lake GC, Atlanta Oct. 3-6 — Presidents Cup, Muirfield Village GC, Dublin, Ohio Oct. 10-13 — Frys.com Open, CordeValle GC, San Martin, Calif. Oct. 17-20 — Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, TPC Summerlin, Las Vegas Oct. 24-27 — CIMB Classic, The MINES Resort & GC, Selangor, Malaysia

Champions Tour Schedule

Winner in parentheses March 22-24 — Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic, Fallen Oak, Biloxi, Miss. (Michael Allen) April 19-21 — Greater Gwinnett Championship, TPC Sugarloaf, Duluth, Ga. (Bernhard Langer) April 26-28 — Liberty Mutual Insurance Legends of Golf, Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa, Savannah, Ga. (Brad Faxon) May 3-5 — Insperity Championship, The Woodlands CC (Tournament Course), The Woodlands, Texas. (Esteban Toledo) May 23-26 — Senior PGA Championship, Bellerive CC, St. Louis, Mo. (Kouki Idoki) May 31-June 2 — Principal Charity Classic, Wakonda Club, Des Moines, Iowa. (Russ Cochran) June 6-9 — Regions Tradition, Shoal Creek CC, Birmingham, Ala. (David Frost) June 21-23 — Encompass Championship, North Shore CC, Glenview, Ill. (Craig Sadler) June 27-30 — Constellation Senior Players Championship, Fox Chapel GC, Pittsburgh, Pa. (Kenny Perry) July 11-14 — Senior U.S. Open Pen, Omaha CC, Omaha, Neb. (Kenny Perry) July 25-28 — Senor British Open, Royal Birkdale, Southport, England. (Mark Wiebe) Aug. 2-4 — 3M Championship, Twin Cities GC, Blaine, Minn. (Tom Pernice Jr.) Aug. 16-18 — Dick’s Sporting Goods Open, En-Joie GC, Endicott, N.Y. (Bart Bryant) Aug. 23-25 — Boeing Classic, Snoqualmie Ridge, Snoqualmie, Wash. (John Riegger) Aug. 30-Sept. 1 — Calgary Golf Classic, Canyon Meadows G & CC, Calgary, Alberta. Sept. 6-8 — Montreal Championship, La Vallee du Richelieu Golf Club (Rouville Course), Montreal. Sept. 20-22 — Pacific Links Hawaii Championship, Kapolei GC, Kapolei, Hawaii. Sept. 27-29 — Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach, Pebble Beach GL and Del Monte GC, Pebble Beach, Calif. Oct. 11-13 — SAS Championship, Prestonwood CC, Cary, N.C. Oct. 18-20 — Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn, Rock Barn, Conover, N.C. Oct. 25-27 — AT&T Championship, TPC San Antonio (AT&T Canyons Course), San Antonio Oct. 31-Nov. 3 — Charles Schwab Cup Championship, TPC Harding Park, San Francisco

AUTO RACING Sprint Cup Schedule

Sept. 1: AdvoCare 500, Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, GA Sept. 7: Air Guard 400, Richmond International Raceway, Richmond, VA Sept. 15: Geico 400, Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet, IL Sept. 22: Sylvania 300, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, NH Sept. 29: AAA 400, Dover International Speedway, Dover, DE Oct. 6: Price Chopper 400, Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, KS Oct. 12: Bank of America 500, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, NC Oct. 20: AMP Energy 500, Talladega Superspeedway, Talladega, AL Oct. 27: TUMS Fast Relief 500, Martinsville Speedway, Ridgeway, VA Nov. 3: AAA Texas 500, Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, TX

Nationwide Schedule

Aug. 31 — Atlanta 300, Hampton, Ga. Sept. 6 — Virginia 529 College Savings 250, Richmond, Va. Sept. 14 — Dollar General 300, Joliet, Ill. Sept. 21 — Kentucky 300, Sparta, Ky. Sept. 28 — Dover 200, Dover, Del. Oct. 5 — Kansas Lottery 300, Kansas City, Kan. Oct. 11 — Dollar General 300, Concord, N.C. Nov. 2 — O’Reilly Auto Parts Challenge, Fort Worth, Texas Nov. 9 — Great Clips 200, Avondale, Ariz. Nov. 16 — Ford EcoBoost 300, Homestead, Fla.

HORSE RACING

Remington Park Wednesday’s Races

POST TIME: 7:00 P.M. FIRST RACE Purse $15,313, Maiden Claiming $15,000, 3, 4, & 5 yo’s, F & M (fillies and mares), Six Furlongs 1 He Sips Bourbon-120 Berry M 8-1 1a Konawa Tiger-120 Kimes C 8-1 2 Miss Homemaker-118 Bowman A 20-1 3 Alluring Angel-120 Wade L 4-1 4 Cindy’s Silver-120 Murphy G 12-1 5 Easter Skye-120 Quinonez B 10-1 6 Possible Prospect-120 Thompson T 3-1 7 Woo Da Woo-120 McNeil B 6-1 8 Unmerited Favor-120 Quinonez L 5-1 9 Heaven’s Rainbow-115 Johnstone C 20-1 10 Honor Baby-123 Landeros B 15-1 SECOND RACE Purse $31,500, Allowance, 3 yo’s & up, F & M (fillies and mares), One Mile (turf) 1 Heavenly Alibi-119 Corbett G 8-1 2 Fast Resource-122 Berry M 6-1 3 Braseana-119 Birzer A 10-1 4 Buena Fortuna (MEX)-122 Landeros C 5-1 5 Gold Medal Dancer-119 Quinonez L 2-1 6 Honest Opinion-122 Wade L 9-2 7 Bonnie Parker-122 McNeil B 3-1 THIRD RACE Purse $13,000, Claiming $15,000, 3 yo’s & up, F & M (fillies and mares), Five And A Half Furlongs 1 Liquor Lies-115 Steinberg G 10-1 2 Expect Freedom-123 Birzer A 12-1 3 Grandfield Belle-123 Laviolette S 4-1 4 Wildcat Angie-120 Berry M 3-1 5 Switchen Er Up-120 Landeros C 5-1 6 Here Comes Sue-120 Kimes C 20-1 7 Prefered Jamanio-118 Johnstone C 30-1 8 Heartland Xpress-123 Rook S 20-1 9 Lounge Lady-120 Medina J 6-1 10 Sultry Edge-123 Landeros B 8-1 11 T R’s Hope-123 Wood D 10-1 FOURTH RACE Purse $49,000, Allowance, 3 yo, F (fillies), Six And A Half Furlongs 1 Hard Cider-122 Corbett G 15-1 2 More Than Even-122 Birzer A 2-1 3 Black Ocean-118 Vazquez R 8-1 4 Rah Rah Rachel-118 Cardoso D 6-1 5 Bringinginthelute-118 Wade L 3-1 6 Avis E.-118 Berry M 5-1 7 Okie N Around-118 Landeros B 10-1 8 Me n’ Dixie-120 Kimes C 12-1 FIFTH RACE Purse $20,000, SOC $15,000-$10,000, 3 yo’s & up, F & M (fillies and mares), Seven And A Half Furlongs (turf) 1 Jamaican Me Crazy-120 Thompson T 12-1 2 She’s Gone Dancing-123 Landeros B 9-2 3 Grand Entry-120 McNeil B 15-1 4 Jet’s Attack-120 Corbett G 8-1 5 Ruffled Feathers-120 Vazquez R 6-1 6 Cat Vanblu-120 Berry M 3-1 7 She Has Bling-120 Laviolette S 15-1 8 Shannon’ Phavorite-120 Arguello, Jr. F 4-1 9 Oui Oui Ann-115 Steinberg G 10-1 SIXTH RACE Purse $10,000, Claiming $7,500, 3 yo’s & up, One Mile Seventy Yards 1 Ardenhall-122 Corbett G 5-1 2 Classical Survivor-122 Cunningham T 20-1 3 Mampo (MEX)-114 Johnstone C 12-1 4 Major Hope-122 Vazquez R 3-1 5 Too Much Duck-119 Landeros C 6-1 6 Loganworth-122 Wethey, Jr. F 8-1 7 Delaybu-122 Medina J 20-1 8 Le Flying Monkey-122 Boxie P 10-1 9 Tommy Two Stroke-119 Tohill K 12-1 10Easy Okie-122 Birzer A 4-1 SEVENTH RACE Purse $34,300, Maiden special weight, 3, 4, & 5 yo’s, Seven Furlongs 1 Okie Can Do-119 Medina J 4-1 1a Bob Fudge-119 Quinonez L 4-1 2 Ocean Alarm-118 Johnstone C 20-1 3 I’ma Girl Watcher-119 Landeros B 20-1 4 Scat’s Your Daddy-119 Arguello, Jr. F 5-1 5 Shellac-119 Wade L 6-1 6 Run Son-119 Kimes C 8-1 7 Barn Knee-119 Berry M 3-1 8 Cee Cee’s Boy-119 Risenhoover S 15-1 9 Lawyer Clyde-119 Birzer A 12-1 10 Artax Apalachee-119 Collier T 10-1 EIGHTH RACE Purse $30,000, AOC $25,000, 3 yo’s & up, One Mile (turf) 1 I Remember Harlin-119 Rook S 10-1 2 Splendiferous-119 Vazquez R 9-2 3 Caberneigh-122 Murphy G 6-1 4 Bold Stephen-119 Birzer A 12-1 5 Mojo Workin-119 Arguello, Jr. F 5-1

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6 Heavenville-119 Wade L 7-2 7 Pocket Medal-119 Tohill K 8-1 8 Frederico-119 Berry M 10-1 9 Sarah’s Chief-119 Landeros C 15-1 10Moonshine Mullin-119 Wethey, Jr. F 8-1 NINTH RACE Purse $8,500, Claiming $5,000, 3 yo’s & up, One And One Sixteenth Miles 1 Tizzam-122 Murphy G 10-1 2 Thezimman-122 Berry M 9-2 3 Hoya-122 Medina J 30-1 4 Molly’s Maze-122 Rook S 30-1 5 Da Boysrbackintown-122 Collier T 20-1 6 Golden Chapel-122 Risenhoover S 12-1 7 Flame Broiled-122 Thompson T 7-2 8 Gabriel’s Mission-122 McNeil E 15-1 9 Doctor Ross-119 Corbett G 5-1 10Regal Indian-122 Wethey, Jr. F 30-1 11Letmeby-122 Wood D 10-1 12Mr. Barry-122 Birzer A 12-1 13T. C. Champ-122 Quinonez B 6-1 14Under Oath-122 Wade L 20-1

PCL Standings W

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Omaha (Royals)....................... 67 71 Memphis (Cardinals)............... 66 72 Iowa (Cubs) ............................. 63 75 Nashville (Brewers) ................ 53 85 American South Division

Oklahoma City (Astros)......... 79 59 Albuquerque (Dodgers)........... 72 66 Round Rock (Rangers) ............ 72 66 New Orleans (Marlins) ........... 69 69 Pacific North Division W

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Tuesday’s Games Iowa 7, Omaha 6 Memphis 8, New Orleans 2 Oklahoma City 5, Nashville 4 Round Rock 8, Albuquerque 5 Colorado Springs 13, Las Vegas 12 Salt Lake at Tacoma Reno at Tucson Fresno at Sacramento Wednesday’s Games Omaha at Iowa, 6:35 p.m. Memphis at New Orleans, 7 p.m. Nashville at Oklahoma City, 7:05 p.m. Las Vegas at Colorado Springs, 7:35 p.m., 1st game Round Rock at Albuquerque, 7:35 p.m. Salt Lake at Tacoma, 9 p.m. Reno at Tucson, 9:05 p.m. Fresno at Sacramento, 9:05 p.m. Las Vegas at Colorado Springs, 10:05 p.m., 2nd game Monday’s Results Las Vegas 2, Colorado Springs 1 (10), 1st game Iowa 2, Omaha 1 New Orleans 1, Memphis 0

Nashville 6, Oklahoma City 3 Albuquerque 6, Round Rock 5 Las Vegas 10, Colorado Springs 9, 2nd game Tacoma 11, Salt Lake 5 Fresno 7, Sacramento 0 Tucson 12, Reno 4

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Thursday, Aug. 29 Favorite Points Underdog BOWLING GREEN 31⁄2 Tulsa MINNESOTA 14 Unlv SOUTH CAROLINA 11 1⁄2 North Carolina CENTRAL FLORIDA 21 1⁄2 Akron UTAH 2 1⁄2 Utah St Mississippi 3 1⁄2 VANDERBILT FRESNO ST 9 1⁄2 Rutgers Southern Cal 22 HAWAII Friday, Aug. 30 MICHIGAN ST 27 1⁄2 W. Michigan MIAMI-FLORIDA 32 FLA Atlantic Texas Tech 5 SMU Saturday, Aug. 31 c-Oklahoma St 13 Mississippi St OKLAHOMA 23 1⁄2 UL-Monroe WISCONSON 44 Massachusetts MICHIGAN 32 C. Michigan OHIO ST 36 Buffalo NC STATE 13 1⁄2 Louisiana Tech MARYLAND 20 Florida Intl IOWA 3 N. Illinois NOTRE DAME 30 Temple Byu 3 VIRGINIA a-Alabama 19 1⁄2 Virginia Tech TROY 5 Ala-Birmingham CINCINNATI 10 1⁄2 Purdue b-Kentucky 4 1⁄2 W. Kentucky MARSHALL 18 Miami-Ohio SOUTHERN MISS 7 1⁄2 Texas St TEXAS 42 New Mexico St TEXAS A&M 27 1⁄2 Rice FLORIDA 23 1⁄2 Toledo ARKANSAS 11 UL-Lafayette AUBURN 14 1⁄2 Washington St NORTH TEXAS 15 1⁄2 Idaho d-Penn St 7 Syracuse NEBRASKA 28 Wyoming NEW MEXICO 3 Tex San Antonio Georgia 1 1⁄2 CLEMSON e-Lsu 4 Tcu WASHINGTON 3 1⁄2 Boise St UCLA 20 Nevada Northwestern 6 CALIFORNIA Sunday, Sept. 1 LOUISVILLE 20 Ohio f-Colorado St 2 1⁄2 Colorado Monday, Sept. 2 Florida St 10 PITTSBURGH a-at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, GA. b-at LP Field in Nashville, TN. c-at Reliant Stadium in Houston, TX. d-at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. e-at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX. f-at Sports Authority Field in Denver, CO. home team in caps

LOB — Nashville 3, OKC 6. DP — Nashville 2, OKC 1. 2B — Statia (9). 3B — Velez (2), Springer (4). HR — Morris (23). SB — Paredes (15). SF — Krauss.

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REDHAWKS

RedHawks manager Tony DeFrancesco came prepared. “I brought my swim goggles,” DeFrancesco said, knowing champagne-spraying celebrations can burn the eyes. The Oklahoma City RedHawks notched a 5-4 win over Nashville on Tuesday night at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark to clinch the Pacific Coast League American Southern Division title. It’s the seventh time in 10 seasons managing in Triple-A that DeFrancesco has led a team to the playoffs. DeFrancesco guided Sacramento, the Oakland A’s Triple-A affiliate, to PCL championships in 2003, 2004 and 2007. The River Cats also reached the PCL finals in 2009 and won two additional division titles. “It’s always special,” DeFrancesco said. “Every team has a different personality. Winning the division is always an accomplishment. It’s what you play for. This probably is the most enjoyable one because of all the changes.” Of the 25 players on Houston’s active roster, 15 played for the RedHawks earlier this season. Despite a constant revolving door, Oklahoma City has posted a 28-12 record since the All-Star break, including an 18-1record at home. RedHawks center fielder George Springer, a candidate for Baseball America’s minor league Player of the Year, received a championship ring with the Class A Lancaster JetHawks last season, his first full pro season. He’s hoping to make it two rings in two seasons. “Anytime you get a shot at a ring it’s special,” Springer said. “The goal at the end of the day is to get a ring.” Players were instructed

to remove uniforms and cleats before entering the clubhouse, where lockers were covered with plastic. “This is unbelievable,” said outfielder Ruben Sosa, who played at Oklahoma City University. “Now we’re going to go take it all.” Oklahoma City will host Games 1 and 2 of a firstround series next Wednesday and Thursday (Sept. 4-5) against either Omaha or Memphis. The Storm Chasers lead the Redbirds by one game with six to play in the Northern Division. “It will be a blast,” Springer said. “You get some good, quality experience, learn how to play on a higher scale than a regular-season game. It’s not just another game in May or June.” All four of Houston’s full-season minor league teams probably will advance to the playoffs. Three already have clinched berths. “It’s big for the organization,” DeFrancesco said. “The major league club has been struggling some the past couple of years, but the organization is No. 1 in (minor league) winning percentage. Having all these teams in the playoffs is a great foundation for the future. “At the end of the rainbow hopefully there’s some gold.” Top prospects often are promoted when major league rosters expand in September. Triple-A playoffs sometimes feature rosters filled with players who have spent much of the season in Double-A. Houston general manager Jeff Luhnow, though, said during a recent visit to OKC he might leave Springer and first baseman Jon Singleton — the organization’s top two prospects — with the RedHawks until the season ends. “You never know,” DeFrancesco said. “There could be some guys who might not be here for the next round. Some guys might get called up to the big leagues. But we’re enjoying this. The guys in this room worked hard all year to win this.”

ODDS

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Tuesday’s Game REDHAWKS 5, SOUNDS 4

RedHawks claim division crown

Tuesday’s Deals

PCL SCOREBOARD American North Division

REDHAWKS 5, NASHVILLE 4

TRANSACTIONS Monday’s Deals BASEBALL National League NEW YORK METS — Acquired 2B Dilson Herrera and a player to be named from Pittsburgh Pirates for C John Buck, OF Marlon Byrd and cash. Selected the contract of OF Matt den Dekker from Las Vegas (PCL). Recalled C Anthony Recker and LHP Robert Carson from Las Vegas. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Recalled RHP Fernando Salas from Memphis (PCL). Optioned LHP Tyler Lyons to Memphis. Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Signed OF Lew Ford. Released RHP Chris McCoy. FOOTBALL NFL ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed TE Richard Quinn. Released S Javon Harris and TE Mickey Shuler. BALTIMORE RAVENS — Placed LB Jameel McClain on the PUP list. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Placed RB Jonathan Stewart on the PUP list. Placed G Edmund Kugbila on injured reserve. Waived/ injured DT Frank Kearse and WR receiver Joe Adams. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Placed FB Chris Pressley and QB Zac Robinson on the reserve/ PUP list. Placed LB Sean Porter on the injured reserve. Waived/injured LB Brandon Joiner. Waived G Otis Hudson and OT Jason Weaver. DALLAS COWBOYS —Placed DT Jay Ratliff on the PUP list. Placed DE Tyrone Crawford and OL Ryan Cook on injured reserve. Waived WR Anthony Amos, WR Jared Green, WR Eric Rogers, QB Nick Stephens, TE Colin Cochart, G Dennis Godfrey, LB Deon Lacey, CB Brandon Underwood and K Brett Maher. DENVER BRONCOS — Placed S Quinton Carter on injured reserve. Placed C J.D. Walton on reserve/PUP list. DETROIT LIONS — Released K Havard Rugland and CB Dequan Menzie. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Waived/injured WR Nathan Palmer. Placed S John Boyett on the reserve/non-football injury list. Moved LB Josh McNary to an exempt status on the roster. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Waived WR Jamar Newsome. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Waived G Lance Louis, FB Jorvorskie Lane, LB Michael Clay, WR Julius Pruitt, WR Andrell Smith, WR Jeff Fuller, DE Emeka Onyenekwu, LB Nathan Williams and LB David Hinds. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Placed WR Greg Childs, WR Percy Harvin, DE Greg Scruggs and CB Tharold Simon on the reserve/PUP list. Placed LB Korey Toomer on the reserve/nonfootball injury list. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released TE Evan Landi and DL Anthony Rashad White. NEW YORK JETS — Signed K Dan Carpenter. Released K Billy Cundiff and TE Hayden Smith. Placed RB Mike Goodson active non-football injury/illness list. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Placed LB Miles Burris on the reserve/PUP list, and CB Joselio Hanson and RB Latavius Murray on injured reserve. Signed K Justin Medlock. Waived CB Mitchell White. SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Placed WR Dan DePalma, FB Chris Gronkowski and WR Mike Willie on injured reserve. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Traded LB Parys Haralson to New Orleans for an undisclosed 2014 draft pick. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Released WR Donavon Kemp. Terminated the contract CB Will Blackmon. TENNESSEE TITANS — Placed WR Kevin Walter on the PUP list. Waived/injured S Markelle Martin. Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Named Marnie Strath director. Agreed to terms with WR Mike Sims-Walker. Signed WR Aaron Kelly. Added QB Jason Boltus and K-P Brody McKnight to the practice roster. Released WR Isaac Anderson and K Justin Palardy. COLLEGE ARMSTRONG ATLANTIC — Named Kayley Ralton women’s assistant soccer coach;Ben Lown men’s and women’s assistant golf coach;Brian English assistant baseball coach and Brandon Chappell men’s assistant basketball coach. BERRY — Named Thomas Johnson men’s assistant basketball coach. CALDWELL — Named Brian Maher women’s tennis coach. INDIANA STATE — Named Jeff Martin and Michael Roberts assistant track and field coaches. LA SALLE — Named Leah Angstadt assistant field hockey coach. NYU — Named Ashley Reed women’s assistant basketball coach. RANDOLPH-MACON — Named Ben Moore volunteer assistant baseball coach. SAINT AUGUSTINE’S — Named Tony Sheals men’s basketball coach. SAMFORD — Named Rachel Ingram women’s golf coach. TEXAS — Announced senior DT Ashton Dorsey will transfer. YESHIVA — Named Michael Damon sports information director.

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REDHAWKS NOTEBOOK

RedHawks 5, Sounds 4 The RedHawks clinched a playoff berth with a 5-4 win over Nashville Tuesday night at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark. Center fielder George Springer collected two hits and was one of five RedHawks to drive in a run. Japhet Amador, signed last week by Houston out of the Mexican League, had three singles, drove in a run and scored a run. Eric Berger, making a spot start, allowed only two George Springer and the hits and one run over five RedHawks clinched the innings. Berger was pressed PCL’s American Southern into duty after Houston Division title on Tuesday called up scheduled starter night. Paul Clemens to start PHOTO BY NATE BILLINGS, Tuesday night for the AsTHE OKLAHOMAN tros.

SEVENTH DIVISION TITLE Oklahoma City’s Triple-A team renamed the franchise the RedHawks before the 1998 season. This is the RedHawks’ seventh division title, the first in three seasons affiliated with the Houston Astros. The RedHawks captured six division titles as the Texas Rangers’ Triple-A affiliate (1999, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2010).

PCL’S BEST RECORD With six games left in the regular season, the RedHawks are 20 games over .500, the best record in the Pacific Coast League. However, home-field advantage in the PCL playoffs is predetermined before the season starts based on a rotating division format. If the RedHawks advance to the PCL finals they once again will host Games 1 and 2 of a best-of-five series. The PCL champion will play the International League champion on Sept. 17 in Allentown, Pa. The Triple-A title game used to be called the “Bricktown Showdown,” played every year in Oklahoma City, but now rotates among other Triple-A ballparks.

ON DECK In the third game of a four-game series Wednesday night at 7:05, the RedHawks will start right-hander Asher Wojciechowski (9-6, 3.48 ERA) against Nashville right-hander Alfredo Figaro (0-0, 3.38). BY MIKE BALDWIN

10B

SPORTS

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2013

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SOFTBALL PREVIEW

Edmond Santa Fe’s Heath back in the circle Jacob Unruh junruh@ opubco.com

HIGH SCHOOLS

When Edmond Santa Fe’s JoBi Heath went up for a layup in the Class 6A girls basketball semifinals last March, she immediately knew something wasn’t quite right. She didn’t have the power to jump and collapsed to the court, suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament with just 20 seconds remaining in the game. Then came the horrifying news that she would have to miss six to nine months, missing golf season and possibly missing

softball season. “I was crying for days; I was so sad,” said Heath, now a junior. “Then when he said six months, I just worked real hard and I knew I could get back before then.” She accomplished her goal, being released 4½ months after the injury to where she can pitch for the Wolves. However, she is still not able to run the bases. “I still get sore,” Heath said. “It still hurts, but I just play through it. It’s no big deal.” The news of her return spread across social media, with her sharing it on Twitter and Instagram. “I was just so excited and telling my friends,” Heath said. “I didn’t even think about what I was saying.” Her return was good

JoBi Heath Edmond Santa Fe pitcher

news for the Wolves, too. She has them off to a solid start at 3-2, while also showing personal improvement. “She’s grown a lot since then,” Edmond Santa Fe coach Rhonda Lawson said. “She has a little more

velocity and movement, even after the injury.” Lawson said it’s a blessing to have Heath in the circle guiding an inexperienced team that missed the state tournament last season. The Wolves are replacing three seniors, including Big All-City outfielder Breezy McComas. But Lawson thinks a strong freshman class will help this season. “I think some young players that haven’t really gotten to play are now getting the opportunity,” she said. “We’re lacking a little bit of experience, but hopefully that will all come soon.” With Heath on the field, things are already looking up for the Wolves. “I’m feeling good,” Heath said. “Coach Lawson’s calling good pitches

DISTRICT A-7 PREVIEW

Kiefer looks to continue streak Kiefer enters the season riding a 24-game winning streak in district play. The streak, which started in 2010, began while the Trojans were still in Class B and continued last season after they made the move to Class A. Despite losing 11 seniors from an 11-1 team in 2012, coach Josh Calvert says his young team is ready to continue the winning tradition. “Because we graduated some talented players, there hasn’t been that excitement around town to start the season,” Calvert said. “But since we got started, I’ve had several parents tell me we’re a lot better than they thought we’d be. Up to this point we haven’t missed a beat. These kids take a lot of pride in being successful and they don’t want to disappoint the people around here.” Not all the Trojans’ talent has graduated. Back is senior quarterback Justin Rovang, a three-year starter who threw 13 touchdowns last season with just two interceptions.

Calvert is expecting big things from sophomore twin brothers Blake (LB) and Trey Sneed (RB). Blake was second on the team in tackles, and Trey rushed for more than 1,000 yards during their freshmen seasons. “(Blake and Trey are) really solid football players for us,” Calvert said. “Our sophomore class is really talented. We feel like we’ve done a good job of getting our young guys ready.”

YOUTH MUST STEP UP FOR MORRISON With seven two-way starters gone from last season’s 9-3 team, Morrison coach Cory Bales is forced to thrust several inexperienced players into key roles this season. “There’s going to be a lot of young kids that are going to be playing significant snaps,” Bales said. “We’ve got to have those younger kids play a lot better and grow up real fast. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it is.” Taking some of the pressure off the inexperienced players will be sophomore Jordan Quinata, who has moved to quarterback for the Wildcats after rushing

I Madison Nordyke, Edmond North Hit .437 with 32 RBIs and 32 runs scored as a junior, while also dominating in the circle with a 2.50 ERA and 15-1 record to lead the Huskies to the state title. I Caleigh Clifton, Wayne OU commitment hit .605 with 15 home runs, 61 RBIs and 62 runs as a sophomore. I Jayden Chestnut, Mustang Junior right-hander who is committed Madison Norto OU is already 5-2 this season after dyke going 38-14 in first two seasons. Edmond North I Abby Meador, Carl Albert softball player Senior is off to a scorching start at the plate, hitting .643 with 20 RBIs in eight games. I Jenna Lynn, Moore Right-hander has been limited to three games this season with a cut on the middle finger of her pitching hand, but is 2-1 and will return this week to the circle.

and they aren’t hitting right now. “I just worked really hard (to return). You’ve really got to get it going.

You’ve got to work every day — day and night — to really build that muscle up and get back.”

HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK DISTRICT A-7 COACHES’ POLL 1. Keifer (11-1) 2. Morrison (9-3) 3. Hominy (5-6) 4. Yale (6-5) 5. Drumright (3-7) 6. Barnsdall (4-6) 7. Depew (0-10) Note: Last year’s records in parentheses

for 1,300 yards at running back as a freshman. Quinata is joined in the backfield by senior running back Scott Vandorn, who rushed for more than 1,000 yards while splitting time at running back last season. “We have to be smart with them,” Bales said of Quinata and Vandorn. “We’re going to use those guys to carry a lot of the load for our inexperienced kids, but that means we’ve got to focus on keep them healthy.”

EXPERIENCE A STRENGTH FOR YALE Yale returns several key contributors from last year’s 6-5 team.

A trio of seniors — tight end/defensive end Konner Fowler, running back/defensive back Devion Saunders, and quarterback/defensive back JR Wakely — will lead the way for a team looking to build on a first-round exit from the playoffs last season. Fowler, who played quarterback last season, will move to tight end, with Wakely expected to take over at quarterback. Wakely rushed for 731 yards while playing running back as a junior. “We have several seniors that are three- and fouryear starters,” said coach Craig Ellis, who is entering his fifth year at Yale. “This should be the best year in a long time at Yale.”

EXTRA POINTS Drumright sophomore Trevon Harris is back to play a major role in the offense after missing his freshman season with an ankle injury. ... Hominy returns experience up front, led by two-way linemen Jason Bradford, Shaun Skyes, and Reilly Holloway. BY TRENT SHADID

SAFETY

NFL to study hits to knees BY BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer

Casady to open season Friday Casady opens its football season Friday at home against Southwest Preparatory Conference foe Holland Hall. Last season, the Cyclones went 5-5, missing the playoffs in favor of Holland Hall after losing the regular-season matchup 41-18. Casady returns a strong cast this season, including Oklahoma commitment Josh Wariboko-Alali, a 6-foot-3, 310pound junior offensive lineman.

ST. MARY OFFENSE LOOKING TO IMPROVE Mount St. Mary coach Chris Stiles wants to see better ball security this week against Newcastle after the Rockets struggled in last week’s scrimmage against Oklahoma Christian School. “Offensively they gave us a lot of looks and a lot of stunts and blitzes, and I’m glad we saw all of that,” Stiles said. “It helps us, but we were certainly challenged in moving the football and had some turnovers. But all in all, everything is correctable and we expect to see great improvement this week.” Stiles said he was pleased with the defense, particularly defensive linemen Jesse Turner and Josh Maddox. But the focus this week will remain on improving the offense. “Running the flexbone and running the triple-option offense, it’s execution, it’s timing, it’s repetition,” Stiles said. “We just keep doing what we do. We do very few things, but we’ve got to do them very well.”

QB BATTLE ON AT WESTMOORE The quarterback battle at Westmoore between Devon Navarro and Bryson Lee is still underway. Westmoore coach Billy Langford said one quarterback has pulled in front of the other during practice, but won’t make any decision until after the Jaguars scrimmage at Mustang on Thursday.

OU BASKETBALL OFFERS MUSTANG’S LONG, MEYER The Oklahoma basketball program is looking to the future with a pair of recent scholarship offers. The Sooners offered a pair of Mustang sophomores, 6-foot-4 point guard Jakolby Long and 6-foot-8 forward Austin Meyer, during OU’s alumni weekend festivities in Norman, according to Mustang coach Terry Long. Both players have begun to attract attention from multiple programs after strong performances on the AAU circuit over the summer. The offer is Long’s second, along with Wichita State, and it is Meyer’s first.

WELLSTON EXPECTS TURNAROUND SEASON

NEW YORK — The NFL

will keep a close eye on hits to the knees of defenseless players this season, with the possibility of extending the rules protecting such players. If the league’s competition committee finds enough evidence this season that hits to the knees are “becoming a problem,” it could take action, chief of football operations Ray Anderson told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The committee could make a recommendation to the owners next March to prohibit direct hits to the knees of defenseless players. The owners would then vote on such a change. “We are always looking at plays that may elevate themselves and we do include in that category hits on defenseless players,” Anderson said. “And certainly the hits to knees to players who have not had the opportunity to protect themselves or are not looking in the direction of where the hit comes from — we have had a couple hits whereby a player was hit below (or at) the knees.” Currently, hits to the head and neck of defenseless players are outlawed. But two direct hits to the knee in preseason games that injured Miami tight end Dustin Keller and Minnesota defensive tackle Kevin Williams have drawn complaints from some players. Keller is out for the sea-

SOFTBALL PLAYERS TO WATCH

Texans safety D.J. Swearinger, bottom, tackles Dolphins tight end Dustin Keller on Aug. 17. Keller was taken off the field on a cart after injuring his leg. He will miss the entire season with the knee injury. AP PHOTO

son with several torn knee ligaments. Williams has a hyperextended knee. Anderson said the league will monitor plays during the year, study the data when the competition committee begins meeting after the season and see whether such hits to the knees are an “aberration or becoming a problem.” “This issue has not directly come up,” Anderson added. “But when we have had discussions when making the head and neck area completely off-limits to players, there was some concern players might lower their targets and might include knees and below. We will look at that going forward.”

After winning just five games the past seven years, including going 1-9 in Class 2A last season, Wellston is making changes. Coach Fred Peery says everything from the Tigers’ style of play to their uniforms will be new and improved this season. “I think this will be one of the best seasons we’ve had around here in a long time,” Peery said. “We’re changing some stuff around here. We’re doing some different things offensively, but trying to keep a lot under wraps. And we’ve got some new uniforms that are going to have us as one of the best looking teams out there.” The Tigers return eight starters on offense and seven on defense — including junior running back/linebacker Christopher Murphy, who is expected to play a major role on both sides of the ball. “Our expectation is to make the playoffs and go from there,” Peery said. “If we don’t, most of our kids will be disappointed. They’ve put the time and work in to have that expectation. We haven’t been this excited around here in a long time.” BY JACOB UNRUH, STEPHANIE KUZYDYM, SCOTT WRIGHT AND TRENT SHADID

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Piedmont City Council OKs lawsuit against wind farm BY PAUL MONIES AND ANDREW KNITTLE

PIEDMONT — A planned wind farm between Piedmont and Okarche could be up in the air after the

Piedmont City Council members voted to support legal action against the developers of the project and declared the wind farm a public nuisance. The actions, which came

at a city council meeting Monday evening, were aimed at the Kingfisher wind farm, a 300-megawatt development in northern Canadian County and southern Kingfisher Coun-

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ty. The project is being developed by Virginia-based Apex Clean Energy Inc. The city council voted 3-1, with one abstention, for a resolution authorizing legal action if Apex

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The Cushing Fire Department conducts a tank firefighting exercise Tuesday at the Enbridge Cushing Terminal in Cushing. PHOTO BY PAUL HELLSTERN, THE OKLAHOMAN

OIL WATER Cushing fire crews prepare for the worst ALSO ... PIPELINE EXPO GOES STATEWIDE TULSA — After five years of “incredible growth,” the Tulsa Pipeline Expo is broadening its focus. It now will be known as The Pipeline and Energy Expo. “We believe this move correctly emphasizes what we’re trying to go after,” Chairman Bill Solomon said. Solomon said the new name reflects the expo’s mission to expand Oklahoma’s energy sector by offering year-round industry endeavors. The expo launched in 2009 as the brainchild of Solomon, who wanted a way to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his company, lift technology supplier Vacuworx Global. He said the company was too busy to mark its anniversary, but Vacuworx and several other companies arranged an expo to show appreciation for their customers. The annual event has grown there, attracting more than 150 companies to the Tulsa Fairgrounds for this year’s event. Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett said the expo is an ideal event to spotlight Oklahoma’s oil and gas industry. “Let’s keep a good thing going,” he said. JAY F. MARKS, BUSINESS WRITER

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ENERGY EDITOR CUSHING — Powerful water cannons set up on the northern Oklahoma prairie could be the best defense against a costly fire at one of the country’s busiest and richest oil terminals. The Cushing Fire Department on Tuesday tested specialized equipment needed to quickly and safely extinguish a fire at

ONLINE To see a video about the Cushing Fire department testing its specialized tank fire-fighting equipment at the Enbridge Energy and Gavilon Pipeline and Storage facilities, scan the QR code or go to NewsOK.com.

one of the thousands of storage tanks throughout Cushing that collectively hold billions of dollars worth of crude. “This is a skill we don’t get to train on continuously throughout the year like we do with a structure fire or vehicle accident,”

Cushing Fire Chief Chris Pixler said. “Any skill you’ve been trained on, if you don’t use it, you lose it. It’s important anytime we get an opportunity to come out into the field and do a full-scale scenario

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BUSINESS WRITER TULSA — Former Oklahoma Energy Secretary Mike Ming is excited about the impact his new employer will have on the oil and natural gas industry. Ming said General Electric Co., one of the oldest companies in the United States, is poised to make its

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GE poised to make impact in oil industry, official says mark as an innovator. Technology from its other segments will be adapted to benefit all aspects of the oil and gas industry. “For a company like GE to commit itself to the space is really pretty telling,” Ming said Tuesday at the Tulsa Pipeline Expo. “It’s going to fit a need.” He said many people still don’t know GE, which was founded in 1892 by Thomas Edison, is in the oil and gas business, but that division employs more than 43,000 people in 100-plus countries.

DALLAS — The U.S. government wants to wait until March for a trial on its lawsuit aimed at blocking the merger of American Airlines and US Airways, a deal that would create the world’s biggest airline. The airlines want to start the trial in November. They had hoped to close the merger next month, but that was before the U.S. Justice Department and six states filed the antitrust case two weeks ago. The Justice Department said in a court filing Tuesday that it needs until March 3 to prepare for trial. The lawsuit is the last obstacle preventing American Airlines parent AMR Corp. from closing the merger and emerging from nearly two years of bankruptcy protection. AMR and US Airways Group Inc. said that the government’s request was unreasonable after a Justice Department investigation that they say lasted 16 months.

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‘Rock the Boat’ shines light on Bricktown Canal

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The Bricktown Canal opened 14 years ago, but the upcoming inaugural Rock the Boat festival will mark the first time the waterway has hosted live music, food vendors, pop-up retailers and free entertainment. The Rock the Boat festival, from noon to 6 p.m. on Sept. 8, is being organized by Downtown Oklahoma City Inc., which is assuming some of the entertainment district’s operations previously overseen by the Bricktown Association. Other organizers include Bricktown Water Taxi and retail consultant Allison Bailey. Students from ACM@UCO will provide live music aboard the canal’s water taxis, while face painting, table tennis, a photo booth, caricatures, balloon animals and magic shows will be among the entertainment mix offered along the canal just west of the Chickasaw Bricktown

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The Rock the Boat festival set for Sept. 8 will feature ACM@UCO students performing aboard Bricktown Water Taxis. PHOTO BY NATE BILLINGS, THE OKLAHOMAN

Ballpark. “For quite some time we’ve been hoping to see more events that tie the canal more closely into the unique entertainment options in Bricktown,” said Chad Huntington, manager of Water Taxi. “The canal is such a great venue by itself, and it’s exciting to see an event that focuses on it directly.” Huntington credits Downtown Oklahoma City Inc. with exploring a “new direction” for promotion of the Bricktown Canal.

ALSO ... SYRIAN THREAT PROMPTS PRICE HIKE The price of oil climbed above $109 a barrel, its highest in more than two years, as the U.S. appeared to edge closer to intervening in Syria’s civil war. U.S. defense secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday that American forces were ready to act on any order by President Barack Obama to strike Syria in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons in the conflict. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that it was “undeniable” that the Syrian government used chemical weapons. The U.S. Navy has four destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean Sea within range of targets inside Syria. The U.S. also has warplanes in the region. U.S. benchmark crude for October delivery was up $3.04 to $108.95 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange as of 1:16 p.m. The price rose as high as $109.32, matching its high for the year. That’s the highest price since May 2011. The contract fell 50 cents, or 0.5 percent, to close at $105.92 on Monday. While Syria is not a major oil supplier, traders are concerned that the conflict may draw in Iran, a key ally of Syria and a big oil producer. The Middle East nation also shares a border with Iraq, another larger oil producer in the region. “The issue, of course, is not Syria itself but certainly, factions within Syria that are clients of Iran,” said Addison Armstrong a director at Tradition Energy, an independent energy research firm. The price of oil has surged more than 15 percent in the last three months on concern that civil war in Syria and unrest in Egypt could disrupt production and exports, especially in Libya and Iraq. The threat of spreading violence that could block important supply routes. Brent crude, which sets prices for imported oil used by many U.S. refineries, was up $2.96 to $114.11 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London. ASSOCIATED PRESS

“There has been a disorganized approach toward development and promotion of the canal historically,” Huntington said. “Downtown Oklahoma City Inc. has made it clear they want to go in new directions, and one of those directions is making the canal a focal point.” Elizabeth Newton, event coordinator with Downtown Oklahoma City Inc., said Rock the Boat is part of an effort to boost programming along the canal and promote retailers and res-

taurants already operating along the waterway. Bricktown Canal retailers include the Red Dirt Emporium, Bricktown Candy Company and Put a Cork In It, while restaurants include Zio’s, Bourbon Street Café, Chelino’s and Mickey Mantle Steakhouse. “This will provide a great mix of activities for locals and visitors alike,” Huntington said. “Hopefully it will spur further interest in future events and development along the canal.”

The first Holiday PopUp Shops produced downtown will return for a second year but at a new location in Midtown. The first Holiday PopUp Shops was in the empty restaurant at the Myriad Gardens, but the building is now being renovated into the home of The Parkside, an eatery to be operated by the owners of Cafe 501. Pop-up shops are temporary retail stores set up for special events, festivals or seasons, and also are used to test a market to see if more permanent retailing might be possible. “It was an experiment last year, an experiment that went well,” said Allison Bailey, a pioneer of the pop-up shop movement in Oklahoma City. “We’re taking what worked and

improving on it to create an entire pop-up shop village.” The village will consist of a series of geodesic domes, one for each shop. With their new location, the Shops will add features for shoppers including a Christmas tree lot operated by the Bishop John Carroll School Athletic Department. The new Holiday PopUp Shops will be open Nov. 29 through Dec. 22 at NW 9 and Walker Avenue on property owned by Midtown Renaissance. The presenting sponsor is nearby St. Anthony Hospital. “It was a natural fit for us to partner on the Holiday Pop-Up Shops,” said St. Anthony spokeswoman Sandra Payne. “Each of these shops serves the community and cares deeply about Oklahoma City. We are happy to help support their presence in Midtown.”

Mounting tensions with Syria sink U.S. stocks BY KEN SWEET Associated Press

NEW YORK — Fears of an escalating conflict in Syria rippled across financial markets on Tuesday, sinking stocks, lifting gold and pushing the price of oil to the highest in a year and a half. The increasing possibility of U.S. military strikes raised worries on Wall Street that energy trade in the region could be disrupted, raising fuel costs for consumers and business. “If Syria becomes drawn out and becomes a longterm issue, it’s going to show up in things like gas prices,” said Chris Costanzo, investment officer with Tanglewood Wealth Management. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 170.33 points, or 1.1 percent, to 14,776.13, the lowest in two months. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index lost 26.30 points, or 1.6 percent, to 1,630.48 and the Nasdaq composite fell 79.05 points, or 2.2 percent, to 3,578.52. “The law of unintended consequences and the history of previous military interventions in the region

Trader Christopher Fuchs, center, works Tuesday on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the post that trades J.C. Penney. AP PHOTO

is not a recipe for political and economic stability,” said Neil MacKinnon, global macro strategist at VTB Capital. The sell-off in U.S. stocks was broad. All 10 industry sectors in the S&P 500 index were in the red, and only 31 of the index’s 500 stocks rose. Utilities and other high dividendpaying stocks mostly escaped the selling. The impact wasn’t just in stocks. Gold prices advanced and government bond prices jumped because traders see those investments holding their value better in times of un-

certainty. Gold rose $27, or 2 percent, to $1,420 an ounce while the yield on the benchmark U.S. 10year Treasury note fell to 2.71 percent from 2.79 percent. While Syria itself has little oil, traders feared an intervention in Syria could cause further instability in the Middle East and possibly disrupt the flow of oil from the region. Energy prices dragged down the airline industry on concerns that higher oil prices could lead to higher fuel costs. United Continental Holdings, the world’s largest airline by

revenue, dropped $2.15, or 7.2 percent, to $27.71 and Delta Air Lines lost $1.16, or 5.7 percent, to $19.11. In corporate news, discount shoe seller DSW jumped $6.43, or 7.9 percent, to $87.75 after the company reported an adjusted profit of 97 cents per share, easily beating analysts’ estimate of 80 cents per share, according to FactSet. J.C. Penney fell 18 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $13.17 after the company’s biggest investor, Bill Ackman, said he plans to sell his entire stake in the discount department store chain. The tensions with Syria overshadowed two positive reports on the economy. The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index rose to 81.5 in August, up from 80.3 the month before. Economists had expected 79, according to FactSet. The Standard & Poor’s/ Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 12.1 percent in June from a year earlier, nearly matching a seven-year high. But month-over-month price gains slowed in most markets, a sign that higher mortgage rates may be weighing on the housing recovery.

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STAFF WRITER NORMAN — The Hibdon Tires Plus store destroyed by fire on Sunday will be rebuilt, although maybe not at the same location, company officials said. The store at 221 N Interstate Drive is one of two Hibdon Tires Plus stores in Norman. The other store at 501 N Interstate Drive will now open on Sundays to help with customer demand while the other store is being rebuilt, said Susan

Steeno, public relations manager for Bridgestone Retail Operations in Bloomington, Ill.

Dates, sites studied “We’re in the very early stages of evaluation regarding a specific location and reconstruction dates,” she said. The company’s first concern is employee and customer safety, Steeno said, “and thankfully no one was hurt.” About 25 employees worked at the store, with 11 of them on the premises when the fire ignited about 5:45 p.m., she said. Customers had left for the day, and the employees were in the process of closing. Fire officials said the

The scarred remains of Hibdon Tires Plus stands at 221 N Interstate Drive.

A partially blackened car remains in a bay at Hibdon Tires Plus on N Interstate Drive in Norman. A fire swept through the business at closing time on Sunday. PHOTOS BY STEVE SISNEY, THE OKLAHOMAN

blaze accelerated rapidly but was brought under control in about an hour. Firefighters remained on

the scene for hours, however, and returned on Monday to ensure all hot spots were extinguished,

Deputy Fire Chief Jim Bailey said. The fire’s cause remains under investigation, he said, with most of the effort so far concentrated on removing a collapsed metal roof so investigators can get to the debris underneath. Hazardous materials crews also worked Monday to clean up oily

runoff from the fire, caused by numerous melting tires. A preliminary damage estimate has been set at $1.75 million. Steeno said the 25 workers from the store have been relocated to other metro area stores, including the other Norman shop.

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Refinery fire issues pit safety vs. enforcement BY PETE YOST Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The federal government is fighting with itself over a massive fire at a Chevron refinery in California that sent 15,000 people to hospitals with respiratory ailments. In one corner is the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, which conducted 119 interviews in an effort to find out what caused last year’s accident and how to prevent it from happening again. In the other is the Environmental Protection Agency, which is conducting a criminal investigation and wants the interviews to help it determine who’s responsible. The 7-month-old document dispute has become so contentious that the safety board, headed by Rafael Moure-Eraso, went to court in an effort to quash grand jury subpoenas that federal prosecutors issued on behalf of the EPA, according to correspondence obtained by The Associated Press. The fight between the board and the EPA illustrates how two vital public priorities — promoting safety and punishing violators — can be at odds with each other. While bureaucratic turf battles are a way of life in government, it is unusual for such disagreements to result in a subpoena fight. The chemical board does not conduct criminal investigations, but relies on cooperation from industry workers to carry out its mission of pinpointing the causes of accidents and recommending ways to avoid them. In contrast, the EPA has a division with 200 agents whose job it is to prosecute criminal conduct that threatens people’s health and the environment. The board “has been working diligently with

Smoke pours from a fire at the Chevron Richmond Refinery, seen behind Alcatraz Island on Aug. 6, 2012, in San Francisco. AP PHOTO

the Department of Justice to seek alternatives to release of the Chevron accident witness statements,” Moure-Eraso said in a statement. “Requiring the CSB to turn over these interviews and notes where they would be used to draft criminal charges and for prosecution purposes would likely have a devastating effect on our work.” The Aug. 6, 2012, accident at Chevron’s Richmond refinery 10 miles northeast of San Francisco sent clouds of gas and black smoke billowing over residential neighborhoods. In the weeks after, some 15,000 people were sent to hospitals with breathing problems. Chevron has paid $10 million to settle 24,000 claims from residents and to compensate area hospitals and local government agencies. According to a person familiar with the inquiry, the EPA is trying to determine the extent to which Chevron managers were aware of serious, widespread corrosion problems at the refinery and whether the managers chose not to replace aging pipes. Corrosion in pipes is a problem at refineries because sulfur in crude oil reacts with steel, a process called sulfidation. The 52inch pipe section that ruptured at the Chevron re-

finery had lost 90 percent of its original thickness in the 36 years since its 1976 installation, an interim report by the chemical board concluded in April. According to the report, nearly three years before the accident at Richmond, Chevron metallurgists recommended that the company perform “100 percent component inspections” of high-temperature carbon steel piping that is susceptible to corrosion. The recommendation was repeated a year later in a corporate newsletter, but it wasn’t followed, the chemical board’s report said. The battle over the subpoenas has been handled in closed-door proceedings in San Francisco in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, the brother of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. If the chemical board surrenders the records to the EPA, future witnesses before the board will invoke their constitutional right to remain silent, Moure-Eraso said in a Feb. 22 letter to the judge. There is fear, he wrote, that witness statements to chemical board investigators will now be sought by law enforcement officials and potentially used against them as the basis for criminal charges.

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NEW YORK — Walmart Stores Inc. says it

WASHINGTON — Americans’ confidence

in the economy inched closer to a 51⁄2-year high on growing optimism that hiring and wages could pick up in coming months. The Conference Board, a New York-based private research group, said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index rose to 81.5 in August. That’s up from a revised reading of 81 in July. And it’s just below the 82.1 reading in June, which was the highest since January 2008. Consumers’ income expectations, which fell earlier this year after a January tax hike, rebounded to the highest level in 2 1⁄2 years, said Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board’s economic indicators. Although consumers were more confident about the future, their assessment of the current economy dipped slightly in August.

HOME PRICES UP 12% WASHINGTON — U.S. home prices rose

12.1 percent in June from a year earlier, nearly matching a seven-year high. But month-over-month price gains slowed in most markets, a sign that higher mortgage rates may weigh on the housing recovery. The Standard &Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index slowed only marginally from May’s year-over-year gain of 12.2 percent, the fastest since March 2006. And all 20 cities posted gains from the previous month and compared with a year ago, according to the report released Tuesday. Most economists expect the overall index to slow to single digits in the coming months, which they see as a more sustainable pace.

PENNEY’S STAKE TO BE SOLD NEW YORK — J.C. Penney’s biggest investor, William Ackman, plans to sell his entire stake in the struggling department store operator for about $504.4 million — a loss of around $470 million from what he paid for it. The move comes two weeks after Ackman resigned from J.C. Penney Co.’s board as part of a deal to resolve an unusually public battle between the activist investor and the retailer. Pershing Square Capital Management’s Ackman disclosed in a regulatory filing late Monday that he was going to sell his nearly 18 percent interest — or 39.1 million shares. On Tuesday, Ackman said that the shares will be priced at $12.90 each, about 3 percent below Monday’s $13.35 closing price.

now will extend its health care benefits to its U.S. workers’ domestic partners, including those of the same sex. The nation’s largest private employer said Tuesday that the changes were made so it could have a uniform policy for all 50 states at a time when some states have their own definitions of what constitutes domestic partnerships and civil unions.

SPRINT TO CUT 800 JOBS NEW YORK — Sprint is eliminating about

800 customer service jobs because fewer people are calling its centers, the company said Tuesday. With growth in other parts of the business, however, Sprint said it expects the company’s workforce to remain at about 40,000. Sprint Corp. said most of the affected workers were notified last Thursday. Others will be told next month after Sprint figures out which additional positions will be cut.

SELF-DRIVING CARS PLANNED IRVINE, Calif. — Nissan Motor Co. says it will make cars that drive themselves by 2020. The Japanese automaker made the pledge Tuesday at an event in California. CEO Carlos Ghosn has said before that he wants Nissan to be the first to sell selfdriving cars. But Tuesday’s announcement was more specific. Nissan says it will have a commercially viable autonomous driving system in multiple vehicles by 2020. It hopes to offer that system at a reasonable price within two vehicle generations. The company says it’s working on autonomous cars with several universities, including M.I.T. and the University of Tokyo.

EX-TRADER ARRESTED IN SPAIN MADRID — A former JPMorgan Chase & Co. trader wanted by the United States for allegedly falsifying bank records to cover up $6 billion in trading losses was arrested in Madrid Tuesday, Spanish police said. A statement said Spaniard Javier Martin-Artajo, 49, was arrested after he presented himself to police in Madrid, who had located and asked him to turn himself in. U.S. prosecutors earlier this month filed criminal charges against Martin-Artajo and another ex-JPMorgan trader, Julien Grout. The two were accused of marking up the market value of an investment portfolio to hide its plummeting value. The portfolio eventually incurred a $6 billion loss for JPMorgan. For months following its disclosure, the shortfall was attributed to Bruno Iksil, a trader who became known as the “London Whale”. FROM WIRE REPORTS

Government agents in 74 countries sought data on Facebook users in the first half of 2013. About half of the orders came from the U.S., the company said. . AP PHOTO

Facebook reports governments demanded data on 38,000 users BY MATT APUZZO Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Government agents in 74 countries demanded information on about 38,000 Facebook users in the first half of this year, with about half the orders coming from authorities in the United States, the company said Tuesday. The social-networking giant is the latest technology company to release figures on how often governments seek information about its customers. Microsoft and Google have done the same. As with the other companies, it’s hard to discern much from Facebook’s data, besides the fact that, as users around the globe flocked to the world’s largest social network, police and intelligence agencies followed. Facebook and Twitter have become organizing platforms for activists and, as such, have become targets for governments. During anti-government protests in Turkey in May

and June, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called social media “the worst menace to society.” At the time, Facebook denied it provided information about protest organizers to the Turkish government. Data released Tuesday show authorities in Turkey submitted 96 requests covering 173 users. Facebook said it provided some information in about 45 of those cases, but there’s no information on what was turned over and why. “We fight many of these requests, pushing back when we find legal deficiencies and narrowing the

scope of overly broad or vague requests,” Colin Stretch, Facebook’s general counsel said in a blog. Facebook spokeswoman Sarah Feinberg said the company stands by its assertions that it gave no information regarding the Turkey protests. Facebook and other technology companies have been criticized for helping the National Security Agency secretly collect data on customers. Federal law gives government the authority to demand data without specific warrants. Facebook turned over some data in response to about 60 percent of those requests.

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Fans, get your head in the health care game My Oklahoma State University and University of Oklahoma friends are burning up Facebook with posts about this weekend’s football season openers — from a Bomber classmate’s pick for the Sooners’ starting quarterback to a Theta sister’s road trip to Houston. Meanwhile, there’s little talk online or off and a lack of awareness of another opener that’s just around the corner. Open enrollment to buy private medical insurance in new health insurance marketplaces kicks off Oct. 1. For 12 months’ coverage effective Jan. 1, Oklahomans will have bronze,

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TRADE TALK silver, gold and platinum options to choose from a variety of plays, er plans — from going deep with Hail Mary passes, or a high out-of-pocket deductible to cover mainly medical emergencies — to playing it closer with off-tackles runs, or higher monthly premiums for more covered benefits — to plans in between. The marketplaces,

which are part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) signed into law in March 2010, are meant to provide coverage to people who don’t have season tickets for health insurance — either through their work, Medicare, or Medicaid, the state-federal insurance for needy women and children. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, about 17 percent of people in Oklahoma lack insurance. Oklahoma’s marketplaces — for individuals and families, and small businesses — will be federally run, and phone or online enrollment will be available. To watch a pregame show of your

options now, visit healthcare.gov or call (800) 318-2596. Some employer mandates under the ACA have been postponed by a year — until Jan. 1, 2015. But the law’s main game rule — what’s known as the “individual mandate” — still takes effect Jan. 1. That’s when most Americans are required by law to have health insurance or pay penalties on their tax returns. Residents who buy health insurance on the exchange and have incomes between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level ($11,490 to $23,550, or $31,322 to $94,200 for families of

four) will be eligible for variable tax credits depending on income and family size. If you’re planning to buy health insurance in Oklahoma’s new marketplace, I and medical reporter Jaclyn Cosgrove (jcosgrove@opubco.com) want to hear your story. Perhaps you don’t have coverage from your workplace, don’t earn enough to buy your employer’s coverage or recently turned 26 and have been kicked off your parents’ plan. According to survey results released last week by The Commonwealth Fund, some 15 million adults 19 to 25 — or about half Americans this age —

Cushing: Practice is important, fire chief says quate firefighting equipment between this facility and other facilities,” he said. “We had a few communications issues we’re working out now, but other than that, we’ve handled this scenario like we needed to. It’s nice to have this kind of cooperation among the companies.”

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such as this that we do it and keep those skills fresh.” The fire department worked with several of the 14 oil companies in the area for the exercise. Crews used four pumps that each sucked at least 6,000 gallons of water per minute out of nearby ponds before mixing the water with foam and launching it at a decommissioned Enbridge storage tank. At the same time, other crews hauled hoses up the steep stairs along the outside of the storage tank and poured foam directly into the massive container. The test took place at the Enbridge Inc. storage yard with equipment from both Enbridge and Gavilon Midstream Energy. “These kinds of handson experiences using the specialized equipment they may not be as familiar with can provide valuable experience for everyone involved,” Enbridge spokeswoman Lara Burhenn said. The oil companies are all required to have a plan for

Working together

Crews used four pumps that each sucked at least 6,000 gallons of water per minute out of nearby ponds before mixing the water with foam and launching it at the oil wells. PHOTO BY PAUL HELLSTERN, THE OKLAHOMAN

putting out tank fires. But just having a plan is not enough, said Charles Wolfe, director of environmental safety at Deeprock Energy Resources in Cushing. “The plan is easy to write, but actually doing it is complex,” Wolfe said. “If

your calculations are not accurate, you won’t put out fire. It takes everyone working together.” In Tuesday’s exercise, one of the nozzles failed to work properly, reducing the distance and power of the spray. “In a real-life scenario,

we would have gone next door and asked to borrow another,” Pixler said. “This exercise gave us an opportunity to discuss those options.” Overall, Pixler rated the test as a success. “We learned for a tank this size, we have the ade-

The 14 oil companies in the area and emergency responders often work together. Led through the efforts of the Safety Alliance of Cushing, the groups have informally agreed for years to share resources in the event of an emergency. They are in the process of finalizing a formal mutual-aid agreement. “When there’s a disaster, you have to put competition aside and take care of what needs to be done,” said Jody Cundiff, a senior financial analyst at Gavilon and a member of the of the safety alliance’s executive committee. “If you have a massive fire going on, being able to come together and work together is very important to minimizing the damage.”

GE: Company plans research center in city FROM PAGE 1C

entity,” Ming said. Ming said GE is committed to applying its experience in innovation to the industry, as evidenced by its plan to open an oil OIL AND GAS PRICES Oklahoma crude oil prices as of 5 p.m. Tuesday: Oklahoma Sweet: Sunoco Inc. — $105.50 Oklahoma Sour: Sunoco Inc. — $93.50 Oklahoma oil and gas drilling activity posted July 26: COMPLETION Canadian: Devon Energy Production Co. LP; Roer 8-13-9 No. 8H Well; SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 (SL) of 08-13N-09W; 2,899,000 cu-ft gas per day, 171 barrels oil per day; TD 17,160. Carter: Mack Energy Co.; Pierce Unit No. 15-7 Well; SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 of 07-02S-02W; TD 2,800. Dewey: Duncan Oil Properties Inc.; Melissa T No. 1-21H Well; NW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 (SL) of 21-16N-19W; 126.5 barrels oil per day, 16,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 12,375. Ellis: Mewbourne Oil Co.; Brosh Unit 34 No. 3H Well; NE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 (SL) of 03-21N-26W; 401 barrels oil per day, 2,848,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 11,909. Mewbourne Oil Co.; McQuigg 20 No. 2H Well; NW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 (SL) of 20-18N-25W; 423 barrels oil per day, 797,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 11,990. Grady: Eagle Rock Mid-Continent Operating LLC; Riddle No. 12-32 Well; SE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 (SL) of 32-05N-05W; 220 barrels oil per day, 1,403,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 15,044. Sheridan Production Co. LLC; Holder A No. 3-31 Well; SW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 31-05N-05W; 173 barrels oil per day, 1,535,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 16,501. Grant: Plymouth Exploration LLC; Marcella No. 1-36H Well; SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 36-25N-05W; 771 barrels oil per day, 634,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 10,345. Johnston: XTO Energy Inc.; Ross No. 4-29H Well; NW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 29-04S-05E; 111 barrels oil per day, 532,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 14,265. Marshall: Merit Energy Co.; Long John No. 3-22H Well; NW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 (BHL) of 22-05S-06E; 90 barrels oil per day, 30,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 11,610. Noble: Eastok Pipeline LLC; Eastok-Cabernet No. 1-35 SWD Well; SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 of 35-20N-01E; TD 6,882. Pawnee: Eastok Pipeline LLC; Eastok-Rieman No. 1-35 SWD

and gas research center in Oklahoma City. GE announced the center in April, bringing on Ming as general manager about a month later. GE has seven research centers around the globe,

but the Oklahoma City center will be the first specific to one industry. Ming said officials hope to settle on a site for the center soon. It will employ about 125 people. “It’s going to be a fun,

technical place to work,” he said. “If you want change the world ... we’re not hiring just yet, but it’s going to be happening pretty quick.” Ming said GE will collaborate with universities,

government agencies and companies to bridge the gap between innovative ideas and working prototypes. “If you have a technology need, we want to partner with you,” he said.

Well; NW1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 of 35-20N-05E; TD 5,505. Mid-Con Energy Operating Inc.; Emma Martin No. 4A Well; E1⁄2 E1⁄2 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 of 20-21N-08E; 12 barrels oil per day; TD 2,484. Payne: Devon Energy Production Co. LP; Hopkins No. 1-12WH Well; SE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 (SL) of 12-18N-01W; 112 barrels oil per day, 66,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 9,848. Devon Energy Production Co. LP; Hopkins No. 1-6 WH Well; NE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NW1⁄4 (BHL) of 06-18N-01E; 85 barrels oil per day, 155,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 10,606. Devon Energy Production Co. LP; Hopkins No. 1-7 MH Well; NE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (BHL) of 07-18N-01E; 143 barrels oil per day, 105,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 9,425. Devon Energy Production Co. LP; Schroeder 3319N-3E No. 1MH Well; NE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 (BHL) of 33-19N-03E; 102 barrels oil per day, 132,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 7,380. Devon Energy Production Co. LP; Schroeder 4-18N-3E No. 1MH Well; SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 (BHL) of 04-18N-03E; 68 barrels oil per day, 72,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 10,006. Truevine Operating LLC; Boyd No. 1-18H Well; SW1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 (SL) of 18-20N-02E; 30 barrels oil per day, 38,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 8,450. Truevine Operating LLC; Gates No. 3-12H Well; NE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 (BHL) of 12-18N-02E; 20 barrels oil per day, 24,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 7,935. Roger Mills: Apache Corp.; Glass No. 2-25H Well; SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 25-16N-24W; 175 barrels oil per day, 332,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 13,144. Apache Corp.; Merritt No. 1-22H Well; SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 15-16N-24W; 243 barrels oil per day, 422,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 13,200. Tillman: Atchley Resources Inc.; Taylor Trust No. 1-25 Well; C SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 of 25-02S-18W; 8 barrels oil per day; TD 4,500. Washington: Anadarko Minerals Inc.; Brandon No. 3-5 Well; C SE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 of 05-26N-14E; 7,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 1,564. Anadarko Minerals Inc.; Brandon No. 5-5 Well; N1⁄2 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 of 05-26N-14E; 5,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 1,542. CEP Mid-Continent LLC; B Allen II No. 7 Well; SE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 of 28-27N-14E; 4.32 barrels oil per day; TD 1,535.

INTENT TO DRILL Beaver: Strat Land Exploration Co.; Johnson No. 1-4 Well; N1⁄2 N1⁄2 1 S ⁄2 NW1⁄4 of 04-05N-22E; TD 6,802. Coal: Pablo Energy II LLC; Stephanie No. 2H-36 Well; NE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 (SL) of 36-01N-09E; TD 11,220. Pablo Energy II LLC; Stephanie No. 3H-36 Well; NE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 9SL) of 36-01N-09E; TD 11,180. Pablo Energy II LLC; Stephanie No. 4H-36 Well; NE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 (SL) of 36-01N-09E; TD 11,155. Pablo Energy II LLC; Stephanie No. 5H-36 Well; SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 25-01N-09E; TD 11,519. Pablo Energy III LLC; Stephanie No. 6H-36 Well; SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 25-01N-09E; TD 11,494. Creek: Gaskins Glendell L; Harrison Mills Unit No. 1 Well; SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 of 08-14N-10E; TD 3,300. Garfield: SandRidge Exploration & Production LLC; Harmon 2407 No. 1-3H Well; S1⁄2 S1⁄2 SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 03-24N-07W; TD 11,627. Garvin: Cimarex Energy Co. of Colorado; Dunlap No. 3-17 Well; SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 of 17-01N-02W; TD 10,825. Grady: Red Rocks Oil & Gas Operating LLC; Esias Thompson No. 2 Well; NW1⁄4 NW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 14-05N-05W; TD 12,850. Hughes: GLB Exploration Inc.; Strickland No. 1 Well; C SW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 of 12-06N-10E; TD 2,830. Vanguard Permian LLC; Lauder-

dale No. 36-1H Well; SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 (SL) of 36-07N-11E; TD 12,250. Lincoln: Sherman Larry Oil LLC; Shirley Mae No. 1 Well; C NE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 of 25-15N-04E; TD 4,687. McClain: Raydon Exploration Inc.; Davis No. 1-36 Well; C NW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 of 36-05N-01W; TD 5,800. Noble: Red Fork (USA) Investments Inc.; Apperley No. 2-15H Well; SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 15-20N-01E; TD 9,250. TBK Energy Co.; Helen No. 1 Well; C NW1⁄4 NW1⁄4 of 01-24N-01E; TD 4681. Okmulgee: Rocky Top Energy LLC; Bryant No. 2 Well; SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 of 29-12N-12E; TD 1,999. Rocky Top Energy LLC; Bryant No. 3 Well; SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 of 29-12N-12E; TD 1,999. Rocky Top Energy LLC; Bryant No. 4 Well; N1⁄2 SW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 of 29-12N-12E; TD 1,999. Payne: Calyx Energy LLC; Robison No. 9-1MH Well; SE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 (SL) of 09-17N-04E; TD 8,760. Pottawatomie: Postrock Midcontinent Production, LLC; Barnett, Charley No. 2-1 Well; S1⁄2 NE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 of 02-09N-04E; TD 4,700. Woods: Chesapeake Operating Inc.; Clipper 32-28-13 No. 1H Well; NE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 of 32-28N-13W; TD 10,366.

the Oklahoma City Stockyards: Receipts: 7,494 Feeder Steers: Medium and Large No. 1: (weighted average): Calves: 318 lbs. $221; 369 lbs. $211.23; 418 lbs. $207.24; 468 lbs. $188.86; 512 lbs. $182.41; 576 lbs. $177.24; 631 lbs. $159.46; 691 lbs. $153.94; 721 lbs. $149.02; 762 lbs. $145.50; Yearlings: 619 lbs. $165.34; 670 lbs. $161.53; 724 lbs. $157.29; 776 lbs. $151.81; 826 lbs. $151.50; 870 lbs. $144.73; 922 lbs. $143.22; 1,014 lbs. $134.50. Feeder Heifers: Medium and Large No. 1: (weighted average): Calves: 383 lbs. $174.34; 420 lbs. $164.50; 473 lbs. $159.88; 524 lbs. $159; 570 lbs. $155.79; 618 lbs. $142.17; 674 lbs. $142.17; Yearlings: 625 lbs. $152.88; 676 lbs.

SOURCE: OIL-LAW RECORDS CORP. LIVESTOCK Tuesday’s livestock report from

SOYBEANS Alva . . . . . . . 13.56 Buffalo. . . . . 13.56 Hooker. . . . . . 13.31 Medford . . . . 13.31 Miami. . . . . . . . n/a Ponca City . . . 13.31 Shattuck. . . 13.25 Stillwater . . 13.79 Gulf. . . . . . . . 15.08 CORN $5.25-$6.50 per bushel. COTTON Grade 41, Leaf 4, Staple 34 cotton in southwestern OK 81.00 cents per pound, FOB rail car or truck. KANSAS CITY GRAIN Wheat, No.2 Hard, bu.........................$n/a-$n/a Corn, No. 2 yellow..................................$n/a-$n/a Milo....................................................................$n/a-$n/a Soybeans, No. 1.......................................$n/a-$n/a

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AT&T OFFERS JOBS IN STATE AT&T has about 140 job openings throughout Oklahoma, the company said Tuesday. The positions include technicians to help with U-verse installation, sales consultants and customer service representatives for its call centers and openings at retail stores. U-verse premises technicians are responsible for the installation and customer care of U-verse integrated digital TV, highspeed Internet and voice services. Customer service representatives, who work in call centers, are responsible for sales and support for new and existing AT&T customers. Also, AT&T also is hiring for positions in its retail stores, including retail sales consultants and retail store managers. Additionally, AT&T recently added 75 new positions at its Wireless Way location in Oklahoma City. These positions primarily support business customers. FROM STAFF REPORTS

$148.75; 732 lbs. $143.36; 772 lbs. $142.59; 800 lbs. $137.75; 903 lbs. $130.85. HOGS Receipts: 130 Compared to Monday: Barrows and Gilts: Steady. U.S. Nos. 1-3 220-270 lbs. $60 Sows: Steady. U.S. Nos. 1-3 300-500 lbs. $62-$64 U.S. Nos. 1-3 500-700 lbs. $66-$68 Boars: 200-250 lbs. $20; over 250 lbs. $7 SOURCE: USDA-OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT MARKET NEWS SERVICE

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Sep 13 515 519.25 498.75 Dec 13 499.75 504.25 485.50 Mar 14 511.50 515.75 498 May 14 519.25 523 505.75 Est. sales 298,636 Mon’s. sales 445,229 Mon’s open int 1,112,390 off 8488.00

499.75 486.25 498.75 506.25

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455.90 432.80 430.40 427.30

Sep 13 44.48 44.72 44.00 Oct 13 44.56 44.83 44.13 Dec 13 44.93 45.17 44.42 Jan 14 45.07 45.28 44.56 Est. sales 133,284 Mon’s. sales 151,784 Mon’s open int 294,774 up 140.00

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Aug 13 123.20 123.20 122.95 Oct 13 127.10 127.15 126.60 Dec 13 130.17 130.17 124.80 Feb 14 131.35 131.45 131.20 Est. sales 49,236 Mon’s. sales 42,354 Mon’s open int 296,409 up 1352.00

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CASH WHEAT 2 cents lower. 6.5-7.02 Alva . . . . . . . . . 6.83 Banner. . . . . . . 6.87 Buffalo. . . . . . . 6.83 Cherokee . . . . 6.86 Clinton . . . . . . . 6.82 Davis . . . . . . . . 6.52 El Dorado . . . . 7.02 El Reno . . . . . . 6.87 Frederick. . . . . 6.92 Geary . . . . . . . . 6.87 Hobart . . . . . . . 6.82 Hooker. . . . . . . 6.99 Keyes . . . . . . . . 7.02 Lawton . . . . . . 6.92 Manchester . . . . 6.82 Medford . . . . . 6.86 Miami. . . . . . . . . n/a Okarche . . . . . 6.87 Okeene . . . . . . 6.87 Perry . . . . . . . . 6.89 Ponca City . . . . 6.86 Shattuck. . . . . 6.82 Stillwater . . . . 6.89 Temple . . . . . . 6.92 Watonga . . . . 6.87 Weatherford . . . 6.92 Gulf. . . . . . . . . . . . 7.77 FEED GRAINS MILO Alva . . . . . . . 10.00 Buffalo. . . . . 10.00 Hooker. . . . . 10.44 Keyes . . . . . . 10.44 Manchester. .7.61 Medford . . . . .9.10 Miami. . . . . . . . n/a Ponca City . . . .9.10 Shattuck. . . . 8.94 Weatherford . . 9.28 Gulf. . . . . . . . . . n/a

were enrolled in a parent’s health insurance plan last year. An estimated 7.8 million wouldn’t have been eligible without the ACA’s provision that allows them to remain on parents’ plans until age 26, researchers found. Whether you’re a Republican, Democrat or independent; a Cowboy, Sooner or TU Golden Hurricane, we’re all in this game together — on the same team. And if you’re playing without insurance, start thinking about pulling your weight. Plan to sign up for coverage in the state’s health insurance marketplace. The season opener is Oct. 1.

Aug 13 154.32 154.77 154.32 Sep 13 154.35 155.30 154.35 Oct 13 156.80 157.05 156.02 Nov 13 156.92 157.95 156.77 Est. sales 11,960 Mon’s. sales 10,661 Mon’s open int 35,208 off 1514.00

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PHOTOS OF THE DAY Mazda employees work Tuesday on the assembly line of the Mazda6 (Atenza) model at its plant in Hofu, Yamaguchi prefecture, southwestern Japan. Mazda, the longtime also-ran of Japanese automakers, shows a new super-efficient plant thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rolling off vehicles at a stunning rate of one every 54 seconds. The plant is part of the reason why Mazda has managed to defy skeptics whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve predicted fates ranging from bankruptcy to a buyout by Chinese interests. AP PHOTOS

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Movado Group raised its full-year earnings outlook after reporting a 55 percent surge in second-quarter net income. The watch maker foresees fiscal 2014 earnings of $1.90 per share on revenue between $575 million and $580 million. Its prior guidance called for earnings of $1.80 per share on revenue in a range of $570 million to $575 million. Movado Group (MOV) Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s close: $41.99

2013

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$28

1-YR: 44%

5-YR*: 14%

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Total returns through Aug. 27

Company Spotlight

Price-earnings ratio (trailing 12 months): 17

Market value: $1.1 billion

*Annualized

Source: FactSet

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52-WK RANGE TICKER LO HI

AAON Inc

AAON 11.95

26.91

23.40

-1.04

-4.3%

AT&T Inc

32.71

39.00

33.69

-.13

-0.4%

Access Midstream

ACMP 29.21

49.29

45.90

-.37

-0.8%

ADDvantage Tech

AEY

2.92

2.44

...

...%

+22.4%

1.87

CHG %CHG WK MO QTR

1YR RTN

P/E

DIV

+68.2%

+104.5%

0.20f

Magellan Mid Ptrs

MMP

39.06

-0.1%

-3.6%

1.80

Matrix Service

MTRX 10.05

+36.9%

+62.6%

1.94f

NGL Energy Partners NGL

+13.5%

...

New Source Energy

Alliance Holdings GP AHGP 43.52

66.27

62.15

-.07

-0.1%

+30.6%

+36.2%

3.14f

Alliance Resource

78.99

78.23

-.52

-0.7%

+34.7%

+28.4%

4.61f

ARLP

52.21

Amer Elec Power

AEP

40.56

51.60

42.77

+.12

+0.3%

+0.2%

+4.1%

1.96

Anadarko Petrol

APC

65.82

92.90

90.88

-.14

-0.2%

+22.3%

+31.3%

0.72f

Apco Oil & Gas Intl

APAGF 8.82

19.16

13.95

-1.59

-10.2%

52-WK RANGE LO HI

YTD CHG

+13.3%

-7.9%

...

NAME

TICKER

NSLP

YTD CHG

1YR RTN

P/E

DIV

+26.7%

+38.4%

2.13f

+37.6%

+45.8%

...

+29.2%

+21.6%

+3.1%

...%

CHG %CHG WK MO QTR

56.78

54.72

-.03

-0.1%

17.93

15.82

-.29

-1.8%

21.19

31.59

30.14

+.13

+0.4%

19.19

21.29

20.10

...

...%

1.98f 2.20f

OGE Energy

OGE

26.84

39.55

35.69

-.35

-1.0%

+26.8%

+35.8%

0.84

ONEOK

OKE

39.39

55.49

51.79

-.19

-0.4%

+21.1%

+19.8%

1.52f 2.88f

ONEOK Partners LP

OKS

45.40

61.34

49.77

+.04

+0.1%

-7.8%

-4.9%

Orchids Paper Pdts

TIS

17.18

28.99

27.55

-.66

-2.3%

+36.3%

+71.1%

1.40

Panhandle Oil & Gas PHX

24.70

33.49

28.11

-.49

-1.7%

-0.4%

-4.3%

0.28

BOK Financl

BOKF 50.89

69.36

65.03

-1.45

-2.2%

+19.4%

+20.9%

Baker Hughes

BHI

39.44

50.97

46.65

-.60

-1.3%

+14.2%

+0.7%

0.60

Phillips 66

PSX

40.90

70.52

57.10

-1.03

-1.8%

+7.5%

+43.4%

1.25

BancFirst Cp OK

BANF

39.13

53.73

50.74

-2.05

-3.9%

+19.8%

+29.1%

1.16

PostRock Energy

PSTR

1.22

2.20

1.53

-.12

-7.3%

+6.0%

-17.1%

...

Bank of America

BAC

7.83

15.03

14.11

-.38

-2.6%

+21.5%

+78.1%

0.04

Prosperity Bcsh

Blueknight Engy Part

BKEP

6.08

9.50

8.17

-.36

-4.2%

+24.2%

+39.7%

0.48f

Boeing Co

69.03

9 109.49 103.21

-2.32

-2.2%

+37.0%

+51.1%

1.94

Chesapk Engy

CHK

16.23

-.33

-1.3%

+56.6%

+37.7%

0.35

26.63

26.02

1.52a

Chesapeake Granite

CHKR 13.07

22.10

13.59

-.01

-0.1%

-17.8%

-20.4%

2.68e

Compressco Ptrs LP

GSJK

25.72

19.52

+.12

+0.6%

+16.8%

+36.7%

1.70

ConocoPhillips

COP

15.07 53.95

67.91

66.02

-.29

-0.4%

+13.8%

+22.4%

2.76f

Contl Resources

CLR

66.07

99.01

93.28

-.82

-0.9%

+26.9%

+29.1%

...

Devon Energy

DVN

50.81

63.95

56.96

-1.11

-1.9%

+9.5%

-3.5%

0.88

38.56

61.78

59.58

-1.69

-2.8%

+41.9%

+50.2%

0.86

Rose Rock Midstream RRMS 27.58

42.18

32.85

-.15

-0.5%

+4.4%

+24.2%

1.76f

SandRidge Energy

4.52

7.80

5.18

-.15

-2.8%

-18.4%

-18.1%

SandRidge Miss Tr I

SDT

11.90

25.70

12.86

+.07

+0.5%

-21.8%

-39.1%

SandRidge Miss Tr II

... 2.53e

SDR

10.50

21.22

14.15

-.02

-0.1%

-13.0%

-19.5%

SandRidge Permian Tr PER

13.42

20.95

14.85

-.01

-0.1%

-12.7%

-12.4%

Schlumberger Ltd

SLB

66.85

85.02

81.17

-.73

-0.9%

+17.1%

+11.7%

1.25

SemGroup Corp

SEMG 34.62

59.50

54.27

-.66

-1.2%

+38.9%

+57.2%

0.80f

2.37e 6

2.33e

3.03

4.25

3.04

-.03

-1.0%

-20.2%

-9.9%

0.32

Sonic Corp

SONC

9.06

16.99

16.09

-.60

-3.6%

+54.6%

+80.6%

...

19.87

24.95

23.18

-.43

-1.8%

+10.4%

+17.1%

0.76

Southwest Bncp

OKSB

9.57

16.18

14.61

-.56

-3.7%

+30.4%

+37.0%

...

Gulfport Energy Corp GPOR 24.73

58.18

57.42

-.18

-0.3%

+50.2%

+129.5%

...

13.96

26.71

22.50

-1.09

-4.6%

+32.6%

-6.9%

...

48.13

-.31

-0.6%

49.37

Halliburton

+38.7%

+42.6%

0.50

3.30

8.87

5.51

-.14

-2.5%

+39.5%

-22.6%

...

38.86

49.68

46.39

-.40

-0.9%

+3.0%

+13.5%

...

Educational Devel

EDUC

Gen Electric

HAL

29.83

Helmerich & Payne

43.76

69.38

63.22

-.85

-1.3%

+12.9%

+38.6%

2.00f

Holly Frontier Corp

HFC

36.22

59.20

44.95

-.45

-1.0%

-3.4%

+25.3%

1.20a

Intl Bancshares

IBOC

16.92

25.85

22.76

-.90

-3.8%

+25.8%

+33.3%

0.40

Spirit Aerosystems

SPR

Syntroleum Corp

SYNM

Unit Corp

UNT

WPX Energy Inc

WPX

14.03

21.12

18.85

-.44

-2.3%

+26.7%

+30.2%

...

WMT

67.37

79.96

72.86

-.17

-0.2%

+6.8%

+3.8%

1.88

LSB Industries

LXU

28.15

45.00

30.53

-.95

-3.0%

-13.8%

-18.0%

...

WalMart Strs

Laredo Petroleum

LPI

15.78

26.80

26.21

-.18

-0.7%

+44.3%

+19.7%

...

Williams Cos

WMB

30.55

38.57

36.12

-.10

-0.3%

+10.3%

+16.0%

1.47f

Linn Energy LLC

LINE

20.35

42.57

24.57

-.28

-1.1%

-30.3%

-30.0%

2.90

Williams Partners LP

WPZ

45.01

55.48

49.52

-.20

-0.4%

+1.8%

+4.1%

3.45f

BUSINESS

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2013

WEATHER Partly sunny

ACROSS THE U.S.

Late-summer heat is expected statewide the next couple of days with high temperatures in the mid- to upper 90s. There will be plenty of sun today and tomorrow. Winds: SSW 6-12 mph.

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Arkansas: Sunny to partly cloudy today. Hot; humid in the east. Mainly clear tonight; humid in the west. Mostly sunny and hot tomorrow. Texas: A stray thunderstorm in South Texas and along the Coastal Bend today; clouds breaking in the north, central areas. Sunshine in the east. New Mexico: Mostly sunny today; a thunderstorm in spots in the south during the afternoon. A thunderstorm in spots in the south this evening. Kansas: Hot today with a full day of sunshine; humid in the east and northeast. Patchy clouds tonight; humid in the east and northeast. Missouri: Hot and humid today with abundant sunshine. Mainly clear tonight. Sunshine and hot tomorrow. Colorado: Mostly sunny today. A thunderstorm in the afternoon in the north and highest elevations; very warm in the west, east and central parts.

As of 7 a.m. yesterday Lake Normal Altus 1,559.0 Arbuckle 872.0 Arcadia 1,006.0 Brok. Bow 599.5 Canton 1,615.4 Copan 710.0 Eufaula 585.0 Ft. Cobb 1,342.0 Ft. Gibson 554.0 Ft. Supply 2,004.0 Foss 1,642.0 Grand 745.0 Hudson 619.0 Hulah 733.0 Kaw 1,009.1 Kerr 460.0 Keystone 723.0 Oologah 638.0 Salt Plains 1,125.0 Skiatook 714.0 Tenkiller 632.0 Texoma 615.0 Thunderbird 1,039.0 Webb. Falls 490.0 Wister 478.0

Yesterday in Oklahoma City:

Yesterday’s pollen

Current 1,530 868.90 1,006 599.25 1,602 711.18 587.21 1,337 558.24 2,004 1,628 744.80 620.32 737.03 1,019 459.83 725.82 645.36 1,125 708.27 634.74 617.19 1,039 489.81 479.72

Total Precipitation Mold and pollen counts courtesy of the Oklahoma Allergy & Asthma Clinic.

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Jan. 1 - This date in 2013 ........................ 45.19 Normal Jan. 1 - This date ....................... 24.44 Oklahoma City annual precip. is ....... 35.85

Wind: Locations are not final, power company says FROM PAGE 1C

included within that distance. Apex said it has not finalized the placement of turbines for the Kingfisher project. Based on its current plan, up to 43 turbines could be within a threemile radius of Piedmont’s city limits. If the city joins a lawsuit, the legal costs and fees would be the responsibility of the Central Oklahoma Property Rights Association, a group of residents and landowners that has expressed concerns about wind farm development in central Oklahoma. Dahvi Wilson, a spokeswoman with Apex, said the company was disappointed the city chose to pursue legal action. Apex plans to continue developing the project, which she said will bring millions of dollars and hundreds of jobs to Canadian and Kingfisher counties. “We remain committed to working with the city councilors in every way we can to find resolutions that address any concerns they may have,” Wilson said in an email. “We once again extend an invitation to the city councilors to have a conversation with us about the project.” Separately, the council voted 3-1, with one abstention, to declare the construction, maintenance and modifications of industrial-scale wind turbines within three miles of city limits a “public nuisance.” State law allows cities to regulate public nuisances within their city limits. It also allows them to regulate projects outside city limits “for the protection of the public health, the public parks and the public water supply.” It is unclear how far outside its city

limits a city can go to regulate those subjects.

Health concerns The amended city ordinance lists several healthrelated findings for large wind turbines, including complaints about “shadow flicker” and noise. It also mentions concerns over declining property values and visibility issues. Pam Suttles, a Piedmont resident who heads up the property rights association, said her group wants wind projects far from the city. She said a lawsuit was the group’s last option after trying to fight wind projects at the local, county and state levels. “We need some protections from the risks,” Suttles said. “I don’t believe these wind farms were ever intended to be next to cities. Piedmont is one of the fastest-growing, thriving cities in the state. Why would you want to risk that?” Suttles said her group isn’t anti-wind and sees the value in wind projects in other parts of the state. But she said most people wouldn’t want a wind turbine in their backyard, just like they wouldn’t want a coal mine in their backyard. Apex representatives said they’ve worked to make sure there are setbacks of at least 1,500 feet from all residences and an average setback of 3,200 feet from the houses of nonparticipating landowners. Jeff Clark, executive director of The Wind Coalition, a trade association, said the wind-related concerns listed in the city ordinance were inaccurate or had been debunked. He said it was unfortunate the city council based their opposition on what he called “junk science.” “It is a very creative way for a very small group of people to try to drive an

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Jan. 1 - This date in 2010 ....................... 26.48 Jan. 1 - This date in 2011 ......................... 18.64 Jan. 1 - This date in 2012 ......................... 21.75

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agenda, and it’s built entirely on junk science,” Clark said. “I cannot fathom how they think they can impose their will on a three-mile radius from the city. They are doing a disservice to the people who elected them.”

Ongoing fight It isn’t the first time some Piedmont residents have been split on the effects of nearby wind farms. In January, the council postponed action on a deannexation proposal from some city residents who had leased their land to wind developers. The ongoing, public fight also led to the ouster of former Piedmont councilman Vernon Woods, who lost handily in an Aug. 13 recall election. Before Monday’s vote to approve legal action against the wind farm, Bobby Williamson, the man who beat Woods in the recall election, was sworn in as the Ward 2 councilman. The recall election came after Woods angered a local group who accused of him of holding backroom meetings with representatives from Apex after city officials decided not to allow the massive turbines to be erected within Piedmont city limits earlier this year. Woods never denied that he continued to meet with the company, but he claimed he did so because some residents of northern Piedmont were interested in having the turbines on their property. Apex developed the nearby Canadian Hills wind farm west of Oklahoma City. The 300megawatt farm is now owned by Boston-based Atlantic Power Corp. and has 136 turbines, including 15 inside the city limits of El Reno.

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IN THE COMMUNITY

Setting a high standard Five National Merit Scholarship winners graduated in May from Southwest Covenant Schools in Yukon. PAGE 5D

COMMUNITY

CHEF

THE SIMPLE MAJESTY OF FLOUR

UP TORTILLAS Dave Cathey

dcathey@ opubco.com

FOOD DUDE

Editor’s note: Chef It Up is a monthly series in which local chefs share kitchen tips and recipes to create restaurant-quality meals for your family.

At top, chef Marc Dunham, culinary arts director at the Francis Tuttle School of Culinary Arts, flips and rolls a tortilla in the school’s demonstration kitchen in Oklahoma City. Below is a finished tortilla. PHOTOS BY PAUL B. SOUTHERLAND, THE OKLAHOMAN

hef Marc Dunham has his hands full as director of the School of Culinary Arts at Francis Tuttle Technology Center, but he makes time for homemade tortillas. As he grew up in New Braunfels, Texas, flour tortillas were a part of daily life. “You go anywhere in Austin or San Antonio and order a taco, you’re going to get a flour tortilla,” Dunham said. “You go to Chicago, and you’ll get corn.” I can vouch. Fifty-ish miles north in Austin where I grew up, flour tortillas are the default filling wrapper and sauce sopper regardless of your cultural background. But if you’re in a city where the local populace will support fresh masa-making, you’re more likely to find corn tortillas. During his demonstration, Dunham pointed out something I’d never realized: The flour tortillas made in Texas aren’t your gardenvariety, authentic made-in-Mexico tortillas. They are true Tex-Mex tortillas. “This is what’s a little bit different about this particular style of tortilla down in Texas,” Dunham said. “It’s going to add a little more water content, and a little more fat. This is one of those instances where you have cultures collide.” Whether you call it culture clash or a tortilla with the soul of a biscuit, the result is a slightly fluffier, more substantial tortilla. Authenticity is probably the most misunderstood attribute a dish is judged upon. Authenticity doesn’t indicate quality; it indicates the limitations of geography. While the tortillas Dunham made might not be authentic to interior Mexico, they are pervasive south of the Oklahoma border and no less delicious. If you order a tortilla in Spain, don’t be surprised when a egg-potato frittata lands in front of you. Corn tortillas are wonderful when they’re made correctly, but making them correctly is a twoday process involving dried corn kernels and slaked lime to create nixtamal — the foundation for masa. And you can’t make tamales or corn tortillas without masa. Up until two years ago, one couldn’t even find the ingredients needed to make nixtamal in Oklahoma City. The fact that you can now is a step in the right direction, but as we are only just embarking on this virtual culinary school, we’ll stick to the simplest things first. This Tex-Mex version not only bears the soul of a biscuit and the convenience of a tortilla, but is a remarkably simple process. Dunham had a few important SEE TORTILLAS, PAGE 3D

EDMOND

CHURCH PLANS FALL FESTIVAL Acts Community Baptist Church will hold a fall festival from noon to 5 p.m. Sept. 7 at the Wings Event Center, 13700 N Eastern Ave. The festival will feature games, a duck pond, a basketball dribble, food, crafts and music. Admission is free. OKLAHOMA CITY

$300K TO GO TO DATABASE The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a third grant of $300,000 to the Oklahoma Historical Society to develop an Internetbased, searchable database of newspapers from Oklahoma. Chad Williams, director of the research division, said the historical society placed more than 200,000 newspaper pages on the Internet with the earlier grants. “This rich digital resource will be maintained permanently at the Library of Congress,” Williams said. “These titles reflect the state’s political, cultural and economic history from the 1850s to the 1920s.” The newspapers are word searchable and available at http:// gateway.okhistory. org/ and http:// chroniclingamerica. loc.gov. NORMAN

OFFICER IS HONORED Sgt. Bob Moore, of the Norman Police Department, has received a National School Safety Recognition Award from the School Safety Advocacy Council. The award was based partly on his development of the “My Body … My Life” program, which began in the early 1990s as a selfdefense and rape prevention initiative. Moore and other officers also provide the training for a wide segment of the community, including civic, scholastic and business organizations. FROM STAFF REPORTS

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2013

A PORK-TACULAR CELEBRATION THE FOOD DUDE PRESENTS

Dave Cathey dcathey@ opubco.com

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These parts aren’t known for following the University of Arkansas Razorbacks, but “soooeeey pig!” was echoing to and fro along the Broadway Extension after the most recent installment of American Propane’s monthly “Open Flame.” That’s because the Pork Council was kind enough to supply a distinguished group of chefs with the raw materials to create a porktacular feast at The Cabana at American Propane, 7401 N Broadway Extension. Who better to spearhead the attack on pork than the man who goes by chef Pork Belly, Josh Valentine, whose time on Bravo’s “Top Chef” was marked by relentless use of bacon and pork. For the event, Valentine produced his version of Vietnamese banh mi, which by now surely is an Oklahoma City specialty. How do you top one of the state’s hottest chefs cooking his favorite ingredient? Invite the chef who mentored Valentine to that love affair with pork, Kurt Fleischfresser. The Big Kahuna prepared Grilled Marinated Pork Shoulder Steaks with White Gazpacho and Basil Barbecue Potatoes. Uptown Grocery Co. and Buy For Less supplied not only the ingredients for the night but the masterful cooking skills of chef Jermiah Duddleston, who turned a simple pork tenderloin into a composed dish of Roasted Garlic Pork Tenderloin With Brussels Slaw. As for myself, I handled the appetizers with help from my son Luke. We made two kinds of queso: one celebrating pork with homemade chorizo, the other celebrating the arrival of Hatch chiles. Valentine soon will be opening The George Prime Steakhouse atop Founders Tower. The 200-plus capacity dining room won’t rotate like it did in its pre-

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This pork tenderloin prepared by chef Jermiah Duddleston is topped by Brussels Slaw.

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vious lives as The Eagle’s Nest and Nikz at the Top, but the anticipation for this partnership between Valentine and Kevin George has the local foodie-sphere spinning on its collective heels. When Fleischfresser isn’t tutoring young chefs at his Apprentice Program at The Coach House, he’s probably dreaming up ideas for cooking classes at The Tasting Room or planning Flash Menus for one of the Western Concepts properties, including Sushi Neko, Musashi’s and The Lobby Bar. So far, he’s done a Robata night at Musashi’s and Gourmet Gas Station fare at The Tasting Room. To learn more about Flash Menus, join an email list of any of the Western Concepts res-

GRILLED MARINATED PORK SHOULDER STEAK 4 8-ounce pork shoulder steaks, cut about ½-inch thick 4 cloves of garlic, peeled and coarsely chopped 1 jalapeno, seeded 4 sprigs of rosemary, sprigs removed 1 small red onion, peeled and coarsely chopped ½ cup Italian parsley, chopped Fresh ground black pepper 2 teaspoons smoked paprika ¼ cup olive oil I Put everything but the pork in a food processor and puree to a paste. Divide and smear this paste on the steaks and wrap tightly. Let marinate for at least a couple of hours or overnight. I Salt the steaks and grill over a medium flame to preferred temperature. Let rest for about as long as they grilled and serve with White Gazpacho Sauce and Basil Barbecue Potatoes.

WHITE GAZPACHO SAUCE 3 cloves garlic, peeled and thinly sliced 2 tablespoons toasted and sliced almonds ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil 6 very thin slices of lemon plus the juice from the rest of the lemon 2 anchovy filets 3 English cucumbers, peeled, seeded, lightly salted and chopped into several pieces each 1 small white onion, peeled and sliced thin 3 stalks celery, rinsed and chopped ¼ cup of Panko Bread Crumbs I In a food processor blend the first five ingredients together until it is almost a paste. Add the rest of the ingredients to the hopper and pulse until it is almost the consistency of oatmeal. Adjust seasoning and chill until needed.

This banh mi made by chef Josh Valentine is filled with barbecued pork belly, sliced carrots, jalapenos and cilantro.

Chef Kurt Fleischfresser created this dish of Pork Shoulder Steaks, Basil Barbecue Potatoes and White Gazpacho Sauce. PHOTOS BY TODD FRASER, THE OKLAHOMAN

taurants, which also include Will’s Coffee Bar. Go online to western conceptsdining.com to find information or “like” those restaurants on Facebook for updates. If you haven’t been to Uptown Grocery Co. yet, the time has come. Chef Duddleston and his team offer a dizzying array of prepared foods, including deli, sushi, hot bar and salad bar. The store has a bakery, offers dry-aged prime

beef, includes a florist and specializes in organic and natural foods without scrimping on standard cleaning products and staple ingredients. There were a few ingredients we got from somewhere other than Buy For Less. Savory Spice carries a Chimayo Chile Chorizo blend that I used to make the chorizo. Savory Spice also carries the smoked paprika The Big Kahuna used in his pork recipe.

BASIL BARBECUE POTATOES

QUESO TWO WAYS

2 pounds of a small variety potato like fingerlings ¼ cup olive oil Salt and pepper I In a large mixing bowl, combine the potatoes and oil, making sure the potatoes are lightly coated with oil. Add salt and pepper, then roast at 400 degrees until fork tender, 20 to 30 minutes. I Wipe clean the mixing bowl and return potatoes until cool. Lightly smash the potatoes to break the skin. Toss with 1½ cups of Basil Barbecue Sauce.

16 ounces cream cheese 16 ounces queso blanco or other Mexican melting cheese like queso quesadilla, queso asadero or queso enchilado 8 ounces water or chicken stock 1½ cups Bacon-Green chile sauce 1½ cups chorizo I Combine cheeses and stock in double-boiler or crock pot and melt. I Divide melted cheese mixture into two crocks, fondue pots or pots. Add chorizo to one crock and Bacon-Green Chile and diced bacon to the other. Keep warm at lowest setting and add more stock or water to maintain consistency.

BASIL BARBECUE SAUCE 1 cup Head Country Hickory BBQ Sauce 6 ounces Coca-Cola 3 cloves garlic 1 cup fresh basil leaves I Put all of the ingredients in the blender and puree.

ROASTED GARLIC PORK TENDERLOIN WITH BRUSSELS SLAW 1 pork tenderloin, fat trimmed, membrane removed and cut into three equal portions 1 tablespoon roasted garlic kosher salt fresh cracked black pepper olive oil I Rub pork with roasted garlic and season with salt and pepper. I Over a medium flame, grill pork to medium doneness. Let rest and serve under Brussels slaw.

BRUSSELS SLAW 1 pound Brussels sprouts, stemmed and shaved ½ cup shaved red onion ½ cup shaved purple carrot curls 1 cup mayonnaise ¼ cup honey ¼ cup apple cider vinegar ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper salt I Combine slaw ingredients and allow flavors to combine in refrigerator about 2 hours.

MEXICAN CHORIZO 1 pound pork 3 tablespoons Chimayo Chorizo Spice 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar I Combine all ingredients at least two hours, preferably overnight. I In a medium-high skillet, fry the chorizo until cooked through. Drain and serve.

BACON-GREEN CHILE SAUCE 8 to 10 Hatch green chiles, roasted, peeled, seeded and chopped 1 small white onion fine diced 4 cloves garlic, mashed in 2 teaspoons salt 4 slices thick-cut bacon 1 cup chicken stock Salt and pepper to taste I Fry the bacon over medium heat to render off as much fat as possible. Remove bacon onto paper towels to cool and drain. I Add diced onions and let sweat over medium to medium-low heat at least 10 minutes. Add garlic and cook another 10 minutes, lowering heat if the onions and garlic appear to get too dark. Add green chiles and residual liquid and sweat another 10 minutes. I Increase heat to high and add chicken stock, simmer at least 20 minutes over medium-low flame. I Dice the bacon and add to sauce. I Season with salt and pepper and serve.

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MELBA’S SWAP SHOP OLD RECIPE STILL MAKES FRESH PIE DEAR MELBA: This pie recipe is over 75 years old. I remember my mother, Jean Dillow, making it when I was growing up and everyone raving about it. My Melba father was in the Lovelace military, a career Marine, and we lived mlovelace@ in Virginia until his opubco.com retirement, when we moved to Yukon. SWAP SHOP After we moved, we had trouble finding the Holland Rusk. If readers have trouble finding it, tell them to ask the store manager to order it. They will usually do that. However, it’s practically the same thing as Zwieback toast, which is usually found in the baby food section.

HOLLAND RUSK PIE Crust ⁄2 cup softened butter 1 ⁄4 cup sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 package Holland Rusk or Zwieback toast I In large mixing bowl, cream together butter, sugar and cinnamon. Blend Holland Rusk in food blender to make fine crumbs. I Mix thoroughly with butter mixture. Divide in half and press one-half into a well-buttered 8-inch pie pan. 1

Filling 2 cups milk 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1 ⁄4 cup sugar 1 ⁄4 teaspoon salt 2 eggs yolks 1 teaspoon vanilla I Heat milk in top of double boiler. In medium mixing bowl, blend cornstarch, sugar and salt thoroughly and gradually stir into milk. Cook over boiling water, stirring occasionally, about 15 minutes. I In medium bowl, lightly beat egg yolks and vanilla. Gradually add hot mixture. Return to double boiler and cook about 3 minutes until thickened. Spread in piecrust. Meringue 2 egg whites 4 tablespoons sugar I In large bowl of electric mixture, beat the 2egg whites and sugar until peaks form. Spread over pie filling. Sprinkle with remaining crumb mixture and bake in 300-degree oven about 20 minutes or until meringue is light brown. Suzanne Dillow Parker, Oklahoma City DEAR MELBA: I’m hoping you can put a note in your column about my mother, Violet Barnes Stephenson, of Okeene, who will be 100 years old Sept. 9. She was an elementary teacher in the Okeene schools system for 38 years and says she has taught over 1,000 students to read. I know she would love to receive cards. Mail them to her at Box 308, Okeene, OK 73763. Bunnie Bond, Okeene DEAR MELBA: One of my favorite chuckles: I’m retired. I was tired yesterday, and I’m tired again today. I feel like my body has gotten totally out of shape, so I got my doctor’s permission to join a fitness club and start exercising. I decided to take an aerobics class for seniors. I bent, twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour. But, by the time I got my leotards on, the class was over. Carol of N.C. If you have a problem other readers might help solve or an idea you’d like to share, email mlovelace@opubco.com or write to Melba’s Swap Shop, Box 25125, Oklahoma City, OK 73125. Please include your name and address.

COOKING CLASSES SATURDAY I Open Faced Eggplant Sandwiches — Chef Jason Kimball, Gourmet Grille NW Expressway, 1 to 1:45 p.m., free. I Cherry Tomato Salad w/Buttermilk Basil Dressing — Diane Gleason, Gourmet Grille Midwest City, 1 to 1:45 p.m., free. I Beet salad — Chef Jermiah Duddleston, Uptown Grocery Co., 10 a.m., free.

TUESDAY I Chef Knife Skills — Reina Mohan, Francis Tuttle, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., $29. I Gluten-free meals — Petra Lusche, Francis Tuttle, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., $29. I Sushi Making — Michiko Dowling, Francis Tuttle, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., $29.

SEPT. 4 I Marinating Unraveled — Chef Mathew Johnson of The Lobby

Bar and Tasting Room, International Pantry, 6:30 p.m., $45. I 100% Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread — Karen Moseley, Francis Tuttle, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., $29.

SEPT. 5 I Outside BBQ — Chef Kurt Fleischfresser, The Tasting Room, 6 p.m., $64.19, $78.38 with wine. I Marinating Unraveled — Chef Mathew Johnson of The Lobby Bar and Tasting Room, International Pantry, 6:30 p.m., $45. I Chef Knife Skills — Vera Cheek, Francis Tuttle, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., $29. I Cooking Basics: Pasta Dishes — Megan Guthrie, Francis Tuttle, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., $29.

SEPT. 5 — OCT. 3 I Back to Basics: Homemade Series — Peter Schaffer, Francis Tuttle, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursdays, $79.

CONTACTS I Francis Tuttle Technology Center, 12777 N Rockwell Ave., 717-4900, www.francistuttle.com or jmansell@francistuttle.com. I Gourmet Grille, in three Buy For Less locations, 3501 Northwest Expressway, 576-3354; 2500 N Pennsylvania, 568-4745; and 10011 SE 15, Midwest City, 622-2144, thegourmetgrille.com, info@the gourmetgrille.com. I Uptown Grocery Co., 1230 W Covell Road in Edmond. 509-2720. I International Pantry, 1618 W Lindsey St. in Norman, 360-0765.

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‘Closed Circuit’ shocks with terrorism drama FLOUR TORTILLAS These ingredients will be used to make tortillas. PHOTO BY PAUL B. SOUTHERLAND, THE OKLAHOMAN

Tortillas: Easy tips FROM PAGE 1D

tips as you embark on tortilla perfection: I On your mixer, use the mixing attachment rather than the dough hook in the initial stages to better distribute ingredients. I Have extra water handy as the dough mixes, as myriad variables can contribute to the moisture level of the newborn dough, including weather conditions. A slightly tacky, wet dough is preferable to dough that’s too dry, because the fix for overly moist dough is a few dashes of flour, while integrating moisture into dry dough means another round in the mixer, which can lead to a tough dough. I Always keep the dough covered to avoid a skin forming on it. I Make sure milk and water are room temperature. I Instead of a dough ball, form the dough into a log to make it simpler to cut off uniformly sized pieces. Dunham’s recipe calls for 1½-ounce dough balls to create standard 6- to 7inch tortillas. You can adjust the dough ball’s size for larger or smaller tortillas. For instance, if you’re making a chimichanga, you’ll want a 3-ounce dough ball to create a 10- to 12-inch tortilla. Speaking of chimichangas, the secret to keeping a filling-stuffed flour tortilla from unfolding in a deep-fat fryer isn’t toothpicks, it’s paste. Simply mix a tablespoon of flour with a tablespoon of water and line the edges of the outer seams of the tortilla with paste before folding. Make sure the pasted edges have adhered to the pouch, then fry the chimichanga seamside down in the fryer or skillet. Dunham’s tortillas might be too good to sacrifice at the alter of deep-fat frying, so check out the spicy chicken recipe he offered for family-pleasing tacos. If you have any tortillas left over, store them in a resealable bag and treat everyone to breakfast tacos in the morning. No reason to get fancy — eggs and bacon or sausage or both with a little salsa is plenty. Any leftover chicken, rice and beans would be welcome, too.

3 pounds all-purpose flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 4 teaspoons salt 6 tablespoons lard 24 ounces lukewarm milk 6 ounces lukewarm water I Using speed 2 of mixer, combine lard, salt and baking powder with paddle attachment for 2 minutes. Add flour and mix with paddle attachment for 2 minutes. Stop and scrape the bowl on the sides and bottom. I Continue to mix on speed 2 for another 2 minutes. I Switch to the dough hook and add the milk and water and mix on speed 2 until the dough is smooth and elastic, about 5 to 7 minutes. Dough should pull away from sides and bottom easily. I On a smooth surface, form the dough into a long log and cut away 1½-ounce pieces. I Cupping your hands like a bear claw, roll the individual dough balls on the work surface, allowing the ball to rotate freely between the surface and your palm. This creates a smooth, consistent dough ball. I Lightly dust your work surface — don’t dust too much as it will create a cakey tortilla. Using a rolling pin, roll out the tortilla in three passes, rotating the tortilla by a third with each pass. I Heat an ungreased skillet or griddle to about 300 degrees. When brown bubbles begin to form on the tortilla, flip and repeat. Yield: 52 tortillas

CITRUS ADOBO CHICKEN TACOS WITH CABBAGE, APPLE SLAW

Learn, dine at culinary arts school

Serves 4 Equipment Needed: Small food processor Cazuela or roasting pan Cutting board Chef’s knife Mixing bowl Wooden spoon Strainer Fork 2 pounds chicken thighs, boneless 4 chipotle peppers in adobo, plus 2 tablespoons of adobo sauce Juice from 2 oranges Juice from 1 lime 1 teaspoon Mexican oregano 1 teaspoon achiote paste (optional) 1 teaspoon cumin powder, or toasted cumin seed crushed in a spice mill or molcajete 1 teaspoon black pepper Salt to taste

Francis Tuttle’s new School of Culinary Arts is populated by high-school age students but is open to anyone. Even if you simply want to be the best home cook in the county, there is a track for you at the Rockwell campus. If you don’t cook or aspire to, you still must eat, and the school has three dining options open to the public. Tut’s is Francis Tuttle’s way-betterthan-average cafeteria, which opens for breakfast at 7 a.m. The plancha fires up for custom breakfast burritos from 9 to 10 a.m. Tut’s features brick-oven pizza daily until 2 p.m. Daily specials include pastas on Monday, burgers on Tuesday, burritos on Thursdays and barbecue and chickenfried specialties Friday. Wednesdays are chef’s choice. Tut’s also offers deli and take-away items. Cravings is a bakery and coffee bar that offers fresh-baked loaves of bread and pastries from 2 to 7 p.m. The newest addition to the school is District 21, a full-service restaurant open for dinner from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. I’ll have a more intimate examination of District 21 to share in the fall, but I can say with no hesitation that it’s worth your time and money. Meanwhile, from Chef Dunham, here is a recipe for Tex-Mex tortillas and some spicy chicken with which to stuff them.

FOR THE SLAW 2 cups red or green cabbage, shredded thin 1 gala or other sweet apple, julienne Juice from 1 lime 2 tablespoon mayonnaise 1 tablespoon adobo sauce 2 tablespoons cilantro, chopped Salt to taste I Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place the chipotles, adobo, orange juice, lime juice, oregano, achiote, cumin and black pepper in food processor and process until smooth. I Season the chicken all the way around with salt. Rub the entire chicken with the adobo blend from the processor. Place in the cazuela or roasting pan and cover with foil. Place in the 350-degree oven. I Place the cabbage, apples, lime juice, mayonnaise, cilantro and salt in a mixing bowl and mix thoroughly. Cover and place in the refrigerator until the chicken is cooked. I Cook the chicken at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes. Allow the chicken to cool slightly, and use a fork to shred. Toss the shredded chicken in the juices from the pan. I Remove the slaw from the refrigerator and build your tacos using fresh flour or corn tortillas and the citrus adobo chicken. Serve each with a little of the slaw.

BILLY GRAHAM DEAR DR. GRAHAM: We love our son and daughter-in-law, but they let our grandchildren (ages 6 and 8) watch virtually anything on television. Should we say anything? Or are we just being oldfashioned? Mrs. H.G. DEAR MRS. H.G.: No, you aren’t just being old-fashioned. Instead you’re being wise, and you’re also being concerned about your grandchildren’s future. I’ve often asked myself how young children learn the difference between right and wrong. How will their character be shaped? They should learn this primarily from what their parents teach and from the example their parents set. This is why the Bible says to parents, “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from

it” (Proverbs 22:6). If children grow up on a steady diet of violence and immorality on TV, is it any wonder they end up believing that the goal of life is selfish pleasure? Pray for your son and daughter-in-law, and ask God to give you an opportunity to share your concern with them. Pray for your grandchildren also. Pray most of all that they (and their parents) will put Christ at the center of their lives. And pray, as well, that as their grandparents you’ll “set an example … in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity” (1 Timothy 4:12). Send your queries to “My Answer,” c/o Billy Graham, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, NC, 28201; call (877) 2-GRAHAM, or visit the website for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association: www.billygraham.org.

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“Closed Circuit” opens with rapidly multiplying CCTV camera images of a bustling urban greenmarket that eventually fill the movie screen with dozens of mundane snapshots of Londoners going about their daily routines. Then there’s a flash of blinding light and all screens go blank, signaling the startling start of a keen, complex political thriller that might hit uncomfortably close to home for many moviegoers. Rife with eerie echoes of the 1995 Murrah Federal Building bombing, 9/11, the London subway attack of 2005, and even the recent Edward Snowden affair and all its implications of government overreach, this is a drama propelled by both a ripped-from-theheadlines urgency and thoughtful consideration of our fevered obsession with security in this age of international terrorism. In the aftermath of this fictional terrorist attack — a truck bombing that killed more than 150 innocent people — director John Crowley (“Intermission”) and writer Steven Knight (“Eastern Promises,” “Dirty Pretty Things”) lay out a complicated legal procedural that delves deeply into Britain’s idiosyncratic criminal justice system and how it imperfectly balances the right to open trial with the government’s desire to closely guard state secrets. The story overlays its nuts-and-bolts legal procedural and dire anti-terrorism mechanisms with a brisk and glancing love story between two attractive principals. Claudia Simmons-Howe (Rebecca Hall) is a lawyer-appointed special advocate for the man accused of masterminding the attack, a heroin-addicted immigrant named Farroukh Erdogan (Denis Moschitto). As such, she has clearance to view classified evidence but cannot disclose it in open court. Her cohort on the defense is hunky solicitor Martin Rose (Eric Bana), who can argue Erdogan’s case in court but cannot be privy to the classified evidence that Claudia knows. To further complicate things, Martin and Claudia once had a torrid affair that broke up Martin’s marriage, but against stringent court rules they keep mum on their past connection. As Martin and Claudia begin to piece to-

MOVIE REVIEW ‘CLOSED CIRCUIT’ R 1:36 3 stars Starring: Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall (above), Julia Stiles, Ciaran Hinds. (Language and brief violence)

gether their defense — with the oversight of an imperious attorney general (Jim Broadbent) and the suspect assistance of a wily barrister (Ciaran Hinds) — they uncover some dubious MI5 finagling and a larger, sinister conspiracy that threatens their case and puts their lives in grave danger. Crowley relates the story with brisk efficiency and trusts his audience to interpret and pick up subtle clues on the go. You don’t have to be familiar with the arcane workings of the Old Bailey to follow along (although it might not hurt to have passing knowledge of the legal culture through various BBC courtroom dramas). But if you stay onboard with the darktinged twists and turns of the story, it all comes clear in the end. As per usual with a British production, the cast is top notch — with Bana proving a solidly tenacious legal bulldog, Hall giving Claudia a sharp wit and touching vulnerability, and keen support coming from Anne-Marie Duff as the ruthless MI5 bureaucrat and Julia Stiles as the savvy New York Times reporter. Smart, challenging and provocative, “Closed Circuit” caps off a summer of silly blockbusters with a grown-up antidote and hopefully a hint of better things to come in the fall. — Dennis King

‘Spectacular Now’ lives up to Oklahoma novelist’s title Sutter Keely, the seemingly self-possessed teenager who prefers to live in “The Spectacular Now,” floats on a cool breeze through high school, outwardly awesome and full of solutions for smalltown boredom. So girls fall hard for him, but the sad truth about Sutter that keeps him living in the present and not for the future is what also makes him a “favorite ex-boyfriend,” and provides the tough emotional pull in this eloquent and emotional adaptation of Oklahoman Tim Tharp’s novel. Beautifully played by Miles Teller, Sutter has a lot of Lloyd Dobler in him, and like John Cusack’s kickboxing enthusiast in “Say Anything,” he falls for a smart girl who usually stays home on weekends, Aimee Finecky (Shailene Woodley of “The Descendants”). But for all its sweetness and elevated-boombox romance, “Say Anything” was a more idealized story about mismatched teenagers in love. “The Spectacular Now” goes for something more emotionally realistic and does not suffer from that earlier film’s third-act problems — in Tharp’s story, the shortcomings of parents have much more of a causal effect on the teenage characters’ state of being. Sutter is the king of chill, but the good times are enabled by furtive swigs from a flask and a Big Gulp cup that isn’t filled with 100 percent soda. Aimee is charmed by Sutter, a boy who she thought would never talk to her, and since Sutter is free after his breakup with bombshell cheerleader Cassidy (Brie Larson), they quickly move from sudden acquaintances to actual couple. The genius of James Ponsoldt’s direction comes from how much he conveys with subtlety. Aimee’s mother is heard but never seen, and all viewers get from her little brother is a gesture. She’s alone in this world but feels responsible for people who will never reciprocate.

Q&A WITH AUTHOR: “The Spectacular Now” novelist Tim Tharp will participate in a Q&A session with The Oklahoman’s George Lang after the 6:15 p.m. Wednesday screening at AMC Quail Springs Mall.

MOVIE REVIEW ‘THE SPECTACULAR NOW’ R 1:35 3½ stars Starring: Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley, Brie Larson. (Alcohol use, language and some sexuality — all involving teens)

Aimee and Sutter take one another on as projects, but Sutter needs a lot of work: Some of the damage was inherited from his father and might be too much for one caring person to rectify on her own. The dad is a mystery for most of “The Spectacular Now,” but Kyle Chandler’s jawdropping performance clears up everything.

Accurate portrayals All that said, “The Spectacular Now” would not work without the realistic, natural performances by Teller and Woodley. Both actors project an unusual amount of truth about the real secret lives of American teenagers, especially ones who, for various reasons, must fend for themselves. Woodley was already on most radars as an actress to watch, and “The Spectacular Now” more than validates all that

praise that came after “The Descendants.” Teller is the less-tested property, and “Project X,” “21 and Over” and that unspectacular “Footloose” remake say almost nothing about this actor’s ability. But this film should settle any questions about Teller. It’s early but, based on “The Spectacular Now,” he could be one of the greats. There is one quibble, and it’s a local problem. Tharp’s novel takes place in and around Oklahoma City and contains tons of local color, and at one time, the script by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (“(500) Days of Summer”) was just as locally colorful, but Ponsoldt (“Smashed”) relocated the film’s action to Georgia and Florida. Fans of the novel will miss the place names, but they will recognize everything else. — George Lang

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Walter Lippmann, who originated the terms “Cold War” and “stereotype,” said, “It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: The music is nothing if the audience is deaf.” At the bridge table, the auction is nothing if the players are deaf to it. This deal would be impossible for anyone who did not remember the bidding; it would be testing for someone who did. How should South plan the play in three notrump? West leads his fourth-highest heart. East wins with his ace and returns the three, his original fourth-highest. (If he had started with only three hearts, he would have led back his higher remaining card in the suit.) To be honest, although it was best here, I disapprove of West’s opening lead. With no side-suit entry, he should have led his spade. (The last time I did not lead partner’s suit, diamonds, they made three no-trump vulnerable instead of going down three.) South has eight top tricks: three spades, one heart and four clubs. He does not have time to play on diamonds, so must get four spade tricks. With silent opponents, declarer would cash his ace and queen, but that does not rate to work here, needing West to have a singleton jack. South should hope that West has a singleton eight or nine. Declarer plays a club to dummy’s 10, then leads speciﬁcally the spade 10. If East plays low, South runs the 10. If East covers with his jack, declarer wins with his ace (or queen) and happily notes the fall of the eight on his left. He returns to the dummy with a club, plays a spade to his seven, and can claim.

DEAR ABBY: A friend of mine was a victim of domestic violence. When I asked her why she didn’t phone 911 for help, her response was, “They play those 911 calls on the radio all the time.” She didn’t want her promiJeanne nent husband’s career Phillips damaged by adverse publicity. Today, a group of us discussed the issue over breakfast. Many of the DEAR ABBY women said that because of the popularity of 911 calls being broadcast on the Internet, radio and TV, they’d be hesitant to phone for help when needed, too. Abby, someone is going to suffer serious harm out of fear that their call for help will be publicized. Do you know what can be done about this new “drama entertainment”? I wouldn’t want my terrified call heard by the public either, so I’d take my chances without calling for help. I just hope I don’t wake up dead one day as a result. Publicity-shy DEAR PUBLICITY-SHY: Nothing can be done about “drama entertainment” as long as the public has an appetite for it. The reason for the practice of “if it bleeds, it leads” in the media is that it draws viewers and listeners — which means advertising revenue. In the case of domestic violence, calling 911 is the lesser of two evils. Outof-control abusers have been known to maim and kill the ones they “love.” Ask yourself if your friend’s husband’s career was worth risking her life for. It makes more sense to risk a 911call being broadcast than to have cameras and TV reporters camped on your lawn while the EMTs or the coroner carry your battered body out on a gurney. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. UNIVERSAL UCLICK

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School produces five Merit scholars AT A GLANCE ABOUT THE SCHOLARS

Steve Lessman Headmaster, Southwest Covenant Schools BY HENRY DOLIVE For The Oklahoman

YUKON — Members of the

class of 2014 at Southwest Covenant Schools have embarked on their senior year, seeking academic honors and college scholarships. Their immediate predecessors left them a high standard to meet. Five members of the most recent graduating class from the private, Christian-based school are launching their college careers with one of the most coveted prizes in academia: a National Merit Scholarship. The five scholarship awards might be considered even more amazing in light of the total number of May graduates at the school: 21. Southwest Covenant has had an impressive academic history with some of the highest average ACT scores in Oklahoma, said headmaster Steve Lessman, whose son was one of the National Merit Scholarship winners. “It was quite a shock last fall when these five young men were named National Merit semifinalists,” he said. To have all five move on to become finalists, then National Merit Scholarship winners was even more exciting. Seth Brown, James Burton, Trevor Carmack, Christian Hagan and Garrett Lessman were named finalists in January. In June, they were announced as National Merit Scholars, the top prize of the competition. “It’s a big deal,” said Susie Nix, academic services coordinator at the school for the past 13 years and a

These 2013 graduates of Southwest Christian Academy won National Merit scholarships. From left are Trevor Carmack, Garrett Lessman, Christian Hagan, James Burton and Seth Brown. PHOTO PROVIDED BY STEVE LESSMAN

Southwest Covenant Schools is located in Yukon. PHOTO BY PAUL B. SOUTHERLAND, THE OKLAHOMAN

close follower of the winners’ academic careers. According to its website, the National Merit Scholarship Program is a privately funded academic competition that annually awards scholarships to less than 1 percent of the more than 1.5 million students who enter the competition.

made an average score of 28.3 on the ACT, Nix said. Steve Lessman said the 2013 senior class as a whole received more than $1 million in scholarship aid. “They’ve had good teaching and a rigorous curriculum,” Nix said, “but they have challenged each other. They motivate one another. I can’t say I was surprised. It will be interesting to see what God does with these young men.” Ron Yocum was headmaster for five years before retiring in June. He observed firsthand the academic achievements of the five winners. “I was surprised but not shocked,” Yocum said. “I wasn’t surprised at the

ability. All five are fantastic students.” Yocum said that sometimes, students possess the intellect to excel academically but lack the work ethic. That wasn’t the case with the scholarship recipients, he said. “All five showed the propensity to work hard,” he said. The entire 2013 senior class was special, Yocum said. “The scores were high, and they pushed each other.”

Beyond ordinary Garrett Lessman has enrolled at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He said his goal is to be the general manager of a Major League Baseball team.

“This was a very exciting thing for me and my family and the school. I am thankful God gave me the opportunity to do this,” he said. Garrett Lessman said he’ll carry a double major of business and financeeconomics, with minors in mathematics and history. He said he hopes to attend law school after receiving his bachelor’s degree, and wants “to do something with numbers.” Hagan is attending the University of Oklahoma with a double major of business and petroleum engineering. He said he hopes to join an oil or gas company as a petroleum engineer, then move into an executive position. “I am really interested in the business side and want to work my way up,” he said. Southwest Covenant “is an amazing school,” he said. “It is really small, but they can take ordinary people and make them go a lot further.” Brown, Burton and Carmack could not be reached for comment. The 2014 senior class will be similar in size to the most recent class. Are similar academic honors awaiting them? Possibly so, said Nix, recalling that the 2013 class members excelled academically throughout their careers. “This (2013) class has been a top class academically from day one,” she said. “And the one coming in is like that.”

I Seth Brown was a valedictorian, senior class president and lettered four years in basketball and soccer. He is attending Oklahoma Christian University. I James Burton was a co-valedictorian, is an accomplished musician and was a member of the basketball team. He enrolled at Oklahoma Baptist University. I Trevor Carmack was co-valedictorian, a football letter recipient and a member of the Southwest Covenant Botball robotics program. He is attending the University of Oklahoma. I Christian Hagan was an all-district football player and a letter winner in football and soccer. He enrolled at OU. I Garrett Lessman was co-valedictorian, student body president, an all-district football player and a letter recipient in baseball and basketball. He is attending Baylor University.

ABOUT THE SCHOOL Southwest Covenant Schools was founded by Southwest Covenant Church in 1982 as a private, Bible-based educational ministry. It has an enrollment of about 300 in prekindergarten through grade 12 and is accredited by Christian Schools International. The school is raising funds to build a $4 million, 40,000square-foot elementary school, to be named for the first headmaster, Jack Hough. The new building will serve an additional 250 to 300 students and will bring enrollment to about 450, said Steve Lessman, headmaster. Safe rooms for the entire school are planned. SOURCE: SOUTHWEST COVENANT SCHOOLS

Young explorers embark on science adventures FROM STAFF REPORTS

STUDENT EXPLORERS This year’s participants were Sierra Brown, Wewoka; Naima Khoubiz, Tulsa; Katie Rice, Tahlequah; Clay Dominy, Shawnee; Andy Le, Oklahoma City; Ella Moxley, Norman; Ethan Beazer, Marietta; Hanna Glass, Elgin; Abby Holden, Claremore; Nathalie Ortiz, Burneyville; Logan Loomis, Baker; Garrett Knowles, Arnett; Hannah Sorrells, Antlers; and Jason Allen, Agra.

trict in Claremore, working with zoologists from the University of Oklahoma and Rogers State University. Like professional scientists in

the field, the students were asked to make a hypothesis, collect data from area wetlands and forests, and draw conclusions based on their findings. Nick

Czaplewski, associate staff curator of vertebrate paleontology, shared techniques for tracking modern animals. Katrina Menard, curator of recent invertebrates, joined the group in Claremore to assist students in exploring entomology. Students were allowed to investigate an Oklahoma fossil site known as White Mound, where more than 400 million years ago an assortment of animals lived in a shallow ocean. Students collected fossils and constructed examples of what an ancient

ecosystem looked like based on their findings. Participants also canoed down the Illinois River, tried out OU’s ropes course and spent a night in the museum’s Hall of Ancient Life.

About ExplorOlogy Oklahoma Science Adventure is part of the ExplorOlogy Program, an educational project funded in part by the WhitmanNewman Foundation. The program is provided at no cost to students selected to participate.

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Fishing clinic set Sept. 7

REUNIONS ALVA Alva High School reunion, class of 1958, Sept. 13-14, Cambria Suites, Oklahoma City. Email 58jglass@gmail.com.

CHOCTAW Choctaw High School class of 1959, monthly breakfast, first Wednesday, Dixie Diner, 11201 NE 23, Nicoma Park. Call Don Windle, 326-3690. Choctaw High School class of 1957, monthly breakfast, 9 a.m. first Friday, Don’s Alley, 4601 SE 29, Del City.

DEL CITY Del City High School, classes of 1955-61, reunion Sept. 20-21 at Del City Community Center. Contact Ron Craven, 361-3022, or ronald_craven @yahoo.com.

EL RENO El Reno High School classes of 1967-68, reunion Oct. 4-5. For more information, send email to d_2468@yahoo.com.

ENID Enid High School class of 1973, 40th reunion, Sept. 13-14. Contact ehsaa@suddenlinkmail.com.

MIDWEST CITY Midwest City High School class of 1963, 50th reunion, Sept. 21-23. Call Jan Casey Ellis, 732-7211. Midwest City High School class of 1973, 40th reunion, Sept. 20-21. For more information and registration, go to the class website at www. mchs73.com or visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/#!/groups/73MCHS/.

MUSTANG Mustang High School class of 1973, 40th reunion, Sept. 21. For more information call Cheryl Warren Cooley at 324-2432 or email cheryco@cox.net.

NORMAN Norman High School class of 1969, 5:30 p.m. third Saturday, Coach’s Restaurant, 102 W Main. Email Peggy Clark Smith at psmith1951@aol.com or go to www.nhs1969.com.

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Kids enjoy the 2012 fishing clinic in Midwest City. BY MEGAN EBERSOLE For The Oklahoman

MIDWEST CITY — The Midwest City Parks and Recreation Department and Kiwanis Club will hold a fishing clinic from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 7 at Soldier Creek in Joe B. Barnes Regional Park.

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The clinic is free for boys and girls ages 6 to 15. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. and will be followed by learning stations featuring casting, knot tying, outdoor ethics and much more. After the instruction portion of the clinic, the children will be allowed to fish in a designated area of Soldier Creek.

Children are welcome to bring their own poles or borrow one. A limited number of poles will be provided. For more information, contact the Midwest City Parks and Recreation Department at 739-1293. Megan Ebersole is a special events and recreation assistant for Midwest City.

Heels for Hope benefit 5k run makes dash to Oklahoma River FROM STAFF REPORTS

Heels for Hope Foundation mission to raise awareness for ovarian cancer,” said Heels for Hope chairwoman Susan Schene. “Each year as this event grows, we hope ovarian cancer awareness grows.” This year’s race will feature special guest Jari Askins, associate provost for external relations at OU Health Sciences Center. Askins will help start the race and will give winners their awards in the postrace ceremony. “We are so grateful to have gained the support of community leaders as we work together to kick ovar-

ian cancer with style and promote research here in Oklahoma,” Schene said. Preregistration is $25 and includes a race T-shirt, post-race drinks and snacks. Racers can preregister online by midnight Sept. 4 at www.signmeup. com/93530. Registration will be available at 7:30 a.m. the day of the race. All race proceeds benefit the Heels for Hope Foundation and support local ovarian cancer research, awareness and education efforts. One in 58 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Most cases are diagnosed at an ad-

vanced stage with a survival rate of less than 50 percent. Heels for Hope originated after Rosemary Persa, director of Oklahoma Blood Institute’s reference lab, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2008. In support of her continued battle as well as other women diagnosed with ovarian cancer, Heels for Hope Foundation was founded, and this event was created to represent Rosemary’s love for highheeled shoes. For more information, go online to www.heelsfor hope.org.

High school welcomes police officer BY NASREEN IQBAL Staff Writer niqbal@opubco.com

We want the students to feel that they can talk to him and depend on him for advice and counsel.” LARRY STEPHENSON

MID-DEL SCHOOLS DIRECTOR OF SAFETY AND SECURITY

Tilley will serve as a first responder in the event of a school emergency, monitor student truancy and act as an educator by assisting in classroom presentations. Topics presented by Tilley will include policing as a career, criminal investigation, alcohol and drug

awareness, gang and stranger awareness, general crime prevention, conflict resolution, character values and bullying. “We want the students to feel that they can talk to him and depend on him for advice and counsel,” said Larry Stephenson, Mid-Del Schools director of safety and security. The program has been in schools across the country since the 1980s and is a collaborative effort by law enforcement officers, educators, students, parents and the community to provide a safe environment and offer law-related education to reduce crime, drug abuse and violence. The program is new to Mid-Del schools, and Clabes said he hopes the addition of a school resource officer at Midwest City High School will serve as a steppingstone for other district schools to follow.

Capitol Hill High School class of 1964, 6 p.m. second Tuesday at Boomerang Grill, and 11:30 a.m. last Monday at Grill on the Hill. Call Doris Gray Martin, 392-5508, or go to www.capitolhillhs64. com. Capitol Hill High School class of 1960, 6 p.m. first Friday, Grill on the Hill, 324 SW 25. Ed Hendrix, 524-7454. Central High School class of 1942, 12:30 p.m. last Thursday, Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler, 2652 W Britton Road. Call June Porter Honiker, 842-0815. Central High School class of 1944, 5 p.m. fourth Tuesday, Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler, 6629 Northwest Expressway. Call Albert Janco at 848-1991, or email jancoa@asme.org. Central High School class of 1945, 4:30 p.m. second Monday, Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler, 6629 Northwest Expressway. Call John Knuppel at 3545079. Classen High School class of 1973, 40th reunion, Sept. 21. Call John Long, 340-9355. Classen High School, Boulevard Boys, 11:30 a.m. first Friday, Boulevard Cafeteria, 525 NW 11. Boulevard Girls, 11:30 a.m. first Friday, Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler, 2652 W Britton. Boulevard Boys and Girls, 6 p.m. third Tuesday, Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler, 2652 W Britton. Harding High School class of 1963, 50-year reunion Sept. 20-21. Call 834-0641 or email reunion@ hardingclass63.org. John Marshall High School, alumni association looking for classmates. Call Debi Nelson, 4787424. Mount St. Mary class of 1968, reunion Sept. 21. Contact Gary Chaffin at 681-9054 or gchaffin @sbcglobal.net. Northeast High School, former and current students are asked to send information for a contact list. Call 286-3405 or email mikebennett405@aol. com. Northeast High School class of 1971, graduates are asked to email contact information to Kathy McKinnon Jackson at nehs71grads@aol.com. Northwest Classen High School classes of 195763, looking for classmates for an upcoming reunion. Call (918) 227-0740. Contact Patty Jones Harper at paharper@sbcglobal.net or 842-7654. Northwest Classen Alumni Association, looking for information regarding upcoming class reunions. Go to www.nwchsaa.org. Southeast High School class of 1958, monthly breakfast, 9 a.m. first Thursday, Denny’s, 1617 SW 74. Call Luther Cummings, 391-7574. Southeast High School class of 1961, monthly breakfast, 9 a.m. second Saturday, Pioneer Pies, 2201 SW 74. Southeast High School class of 1956, 6 p.m. second Tuesday, Western Sizzlin’ Steakhouse, 2110 SW 74. Call Pete White, 232-8888. Southeast High School class of 1959, monthly breakfast, 9:30 a.m. second Tuesday, Denny’s, 1617 SW 74. U.S. Grant High School, class of 1983, 30-year reunion. Call Greg at 317-5130.

PUTNAM CITY Putnam City High School class of 1963, 50-year reunion, Oct. 25-26. Contact Carol Schieber at Schieber.Carol@gmail.com or call 912-7840. Putnam City High School class of 1968, 45-year reunion, Oct. 25-26, Quail Creek Country Club. For information, go to pc68reunion.com or contact Betty Chrisman at bachrisman@swbell.net.

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YUKON — Members of the class of 2014 at Southwest Covenant Schools have embarked on their senior year, seeking academic honors and college scholarships. Their immediate predecessors left them a high standard to meet. Five members of the most recent graduating class from the private, Christian-based school are launching their college careers with one of the most coveted prizes in academia: a National Merit Scholarship. The five scholarship awards might be considered even more amazing in light of the total number of May graduates at the school: 21. Southwest Covenant has had an impressive academic history with some of the highest average ACT scores in Oklahoma, said headmaster Steve Lessman, whose son was one of the National Merit Scholarship winners. “It was quite a shock last fall when these five young men were named National Merit semifinalists,” he said. To have all five move on to become finalists, then National Merit Scholarship winners was even more exciting. Seth Brown, James Burton, Trevor Carmack, Christian Hagan and Garrett Lessman were named finalists in January. In June, they were announced as National Merit Scholars, the top prize of the competition. “It’s a big deal,” said Susie Nix, academic services coordinator at the school for the past 13 years and a close follower of the winners’ academic careers. According to its website, the National Merit Scholarship Program is a privately funded academic competition that annually awards scholarships to less than 1 percent of the more than 1.5 million students who enter the competition.

Outstanding class All members of the class performed well throughout their careers at Southwest Covenant, Nix said. “They are just a good academic bunch.” Nix said two additional class members also were National Merit semifinalists and have gone on to college with high honors. The 21-member class made an average score of 28.3 on the ACT, Nix said. Steve Lessman said the 2013 senior class as a whole received more than $1 million in scholarship aid. “They’ve had good teaching and a rigorous curriculum,” Nix said, “but they have challenged each other. They motivate one another. I can’t say I was surprised. It will be interesting to see what God does with these young men.” Ron Yocum was headmaster for five years before retiring in June. He observed firsthand the academic achievements of the five winners. “I was surprised but not shocked,” Yocum said. “I

AT A GLANCE ABOUT THE SCHOLARS I Seth Brown was a valedictorian, senior class president and lettered four years in basketball and soccer. He is attending Oklahoma Christian University. I James Burton was a co-valedictorian, is an accomplished musician and was a member of the basketball team. He enrolled at Oklahoma Baptist University. I Trevor Carmack was co-valedictorian, a football letter recipient and a member of the Southwest Covenant Botball robotics program. He is attending the University of Oklahoma. I Christian Hagan was an all-district football player and a letter winner in football and soccer. He enrolled at OU. I Garrett Lessman was co-valedictorian, student body president, an all-district football player and a letter recipient in baseball and basketball. He is attending Baylor University.

ABOUT THE SCHOOL: Southwest Covenant Schools was founded by Southwest Covenant Church in 1982 as a private, Bible-based educational ministry. It has an enrollment of about 300 in prekindergarten through grade 12 and is accredited by Christian Schools International. The school emphasizes a Christcentered academic program based on a Biblical worldview, and offers an accelerated curriculum. It graduated its first high school class in 1996. The school is raising funds to build a $4 million, 40,000-square-foot elementary school, to be named for the first headmaster, Jack Hough. The new building will serve an additional 250 to 300 students and will bring enrollment to about 450, said Steve Lessman, headmaster. Safe rooms for the entire school are planned. For more information, go to www.southwest covenant.com or call 354-9222 or 354-0772. SOURCE: INFORMATION PROVIDED BY SOUTHWEST COVENANT SCHOOLS

wasn’t surprised at the ability. All five are fantastic students.” Yocum said that sometimes, students possess the intellect to excel academically but lack the work ethic. That wasn’t the case with the scholarship recipients, he said. “All five showed the propensity to work hard,” he said. The entire 2013 senior class was special, Yocum said. “The scores were high, and they pushed each other.”

Beyond ordinary Garrett Lessman has enrolled at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He said his goal is to be the general manager of a Major League Baseball team. “This was a very exciting thing for me and my family and the school. I am thankful God gave me the opportunity to do this,” he said. Garrett Lessman said he’ll carry a double major

of business and financeeconomics, with minors in mathematics and history. He said he hopes to attend law school after receiving his bachelor’s degree, and wants “to do something with numbers.” Hagan is attending the University of Oklahoma with a double major of business and petroleum engineering. He said he hopes to join an oil or gas company as a petroleum engineer, then move into an executive position. “I am really interested in the business side and want to work my way up,” he said. Southwest Covenant “is an amazing school,” he said. “It is really small, but they can take ordinary people and make them go a lot further.” Brown, Burton and Carmack could not be reached for comment. The 2014 senior class will be similar in size to the most recent class.

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Putnam City schools to offer free meals FROM STAFF REPORTS

Every student in the Putnam City school district’s Apollo Elementary School, Hilldale Elementary School and Tulakes Elementary School will be offered free breakfast and lunch this year, regardless of the family’s economic status. Jeff Edwards, child nutrition director, said this is the 15th year for all students at Apollo Elementary and Hilldale Elementary to be offered free meals and the sixth year for all Tulakes Elementary students to be offered free meals. The decision comes because of the high percentage of students at the three schools who are eligible for free or reduced-priced meals. Some families at the three elementary schools have older children at middle schools or high schools. Families that wish for older brothers and sisters to receive free or reduced-price meals at their schools should complete an application for those students and schools, Edwards said. The free meal program is financed through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Schools can participate in the pro-

Jeff Edwards, child nutrition director, said this is the 15th year for all students at Apollo Elementary and Hilldale Elementary to be offered free meals and the sixth year for all Tulakes Elementary students to be offered free meals. The decision comes because of the high percentage of students at the three schools who are eligible for free or reduced-priced meals. gram in four-year cycles. Putnam City’s participation will be examined each year to determine if funding covers expenses, Edwards said.

Mustang elementary gets technology grant FROM STAFF REPORTS

MUSTANG — Students and teachers at Mustang Valley Elementary will experience learning in new and innovative ways thanks to a $40,000 grant for technology equipment along with professional development for teachers valued at $25,000 from the Oklahoma Educational Technology Trust. Established in 2001 by a $30 million contribution from AT&T Oklahoma to Oklahoma public schools, the trust has distributed more than $13 million to 188 schools. The grant assists with

the purchase of Smart Boards to create an environment in which students collaborate and strengthen the relationship between the community and school. “Through the OETT grants, we are focused on creating long-term change in our schools,” said Jeff Mills, Oklahoma Educational Technology Trust board chairman. “Our goal is to improve overall student achievement and learning through the use of technology.” Since 2003, more than 5,000 teachers, principals and superintendents have received professional de-

velopment training to assist their students with the new technology. Oklahoma Educational Technology Trust was established in 2001as a result of an agreement between then-Attorney General Drew Edmondson and AT&T Oklahoma, relating to the company’s transition to a modernized form of regulation. The trust is administered by Communities Foundation of Oklahoma, and the professional development is coordinated through the University of Oklahoma’s K20 Center. For more information, go to www.oett.org.

Putnam City district seeks students with special needs FROM STAFF REPORTS

Putnam City School District’s special services department is seeking unserved children, from birth through 21 years, who have a disability and live in the district, said Lynette Thompson, executive director of special services. “Children with special needs, regardless of the severity of their disabilities, are entitled to a free, appropriate education,”

HOW TO GET HELP People who know of a child with special needs in the Putnam City school district who is not currently enrolled in a special education program can contact the district’s special services department at 495-3770.

Thompson said. The district abides by the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004, Public Law 108-446,

which mandates that each public school maintain an ongoing effort to search for and find children who live in the school district and who have special needs.

High school welcomes police officer BY NASREEN IQBAL Staff Writer niqbal@opubco.com

thusiastic,” Midwest City Police Chief Brandon Clabes said. Tilley will serve as a first responder in the event of a school emergency, monitor student truancy and act as an educator by assisting in classroom presentations. Topics presented by Tilley will include policing as a career, criminal investigation, alcohol and drug awareness, gang and stranger awareness, general crime prevention, conflict resolution, character values and bullying. “We want the students to feel that they can talk to him and depend on him for advice and counsel,” said Larry Stephenson, MidDel Schools director of safety and security.

The program has been in schools across the country since the 1980s and is a collaborative effort by law enforcement officers, educators, students, parents and the community to provide a safe environment and offer law-related education to reduce crime, drug abuse and violence. The program is new to Mid-Del schools, and Clabes said he hopes the addition of a school resource officer at Midwest City High School will serve as a steppingstone for other district schools to follow. “Our hope is that we can add officers to our other high school and middle schools in the future. We look forward to this partnership with the school district,” Clabes said.

IN BRIEF UTILITY BILL ASSISTANCE OFFERED EL RENO — The Salvation Army Canadian County Service Center will offer

assistance to people who need help paying their utility bills from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday at 201 S Bickford in El Reno. Deposits and late fees will not be paid. Payment is limited to one month’s bills. Applicants are required to bring a photo ID, proof of residency, proof of household monthly income, proof of monthly expenses and an original utility bill. Applicants must live in Canadian County. If utility bill is not in applicants’ names, they must bring a lease/mortgage statement, tax return, marriage certificate or certificate of death. FROM STAFF REPORTS

Kids enjoy the 2012 fishing clinic in Midwest City.

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Youth fishing clinic set Sept. 7 BY MEGAN EBERSOLE For The Oklahoman

MIDWEST CITY — The Midwest City Parks and Recreation Department and Kiwanis Club will hold a fishing clinic from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 7 at Soldier Creek in Joe B. Barnes Regional Park.

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS The Central Oklahoma Master Conservancy District (District) is currently soliciting Requests for Qualifications (RFQ) for professional engineering services to perform the Lake Thunderbird Water Reuse Preliminary Engineering. Qualifications may be submitted until 12:00 PM, September 26, 2013. The project description and proposal forms may only be obtained by contacting the Centrall Oklahoma Master Conservancy District, 12500 Alameda Drive, Norman, Oklahoma 73026, or by calling 405-329-5228. Qualifications should be sealed and clearly marked: Request for Qualifications – Lake Thunderbird Water Reuse Preliminary Engineering The District reserves the right to accept or reject any and all proposals at its option and to waive any formalities. Faxed RFQs will not be accepted.

Notice Application No. 1401430020 Oil & Gas Conservation Division Jim Thorpe Office Building Oklahoma City, OK 73105-4993 State of Oklahoma To: All persons, owners, producers, operators, purchasers, and takers of oil and gas, and all other interested persons, particularly in Okfuskee County, Notice is Hereby Given: That Rose Rock Resources, Inc. is requesting that the Corporation Commission, pursuant to OCCOGR Rule 165:10-5-6, and Rules of Practice 165:5-7-27 administratively authorize the approval of the disposal/injection of saltwater into a well as follows: Sutterfield #3B, W/2 / SE/4 / NE/4 / NE/4 24-11N-11E, Injection Zone: Cromwell sand Depth: 2339' to 2770' Injection Pressure and Rate: 0 psi at 2000 barrels per day. Objections may be filed with the Corporation Commission within fifteen (15) days after publication of the Notice. Objections should be mailed to the Oil and Gas Conservation Division, Pollution Abatement Department, Jim Thorpe Office Building, P.O. Box 52000, Oklahoma City, OK 73152-2000. Jeffrey Andrews, Rose Rock Resources, Inc., 7510 N. 220 Rd., Beggs, OK 74421.

Public Auction at APUBLIX SELF STORAGE, 8401 NW 10TH, OKC, OK. 73127. (405) 787-5227. On Friday, August 30th, 2013 at 12:00 PM. Units to be auctioned: UNIT #317, 10 X 15, BARRETT, D. P.O. BOX 850642, YUKON, OK. 73085 HOUSEHOLD GOODS UNIT #320, 5 X 10, BARRETT, D. P.O. BOX 850642, YUKON, OK. 73085 HOUSEHOLD GOODS UNIT #412, 5 X 10, SKAGGS, J. 2808 MOULTON DR. OKC, OK. 73117 HOUSEHOLD GOODS UNIT #410/411, 10 X 10, BARNI/ COAT, K. 9717 NW 10TH #267, OKC, OK. 73127 HOUSEHOLD GOODS UNIT #425, 5 X 10, GRANGER, K. 1124 GILADE AVE #245. 921 BRADLWY AVE.. OKC, OK. 73117. HOUSEHOLD GOODS

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ed area of Soldier Creek. Children are welcome to bring their own poles. A limited number of poles will be provided. For more information, contact the Midwest City Parks and Recreation Department at 739-1293. Megan Ebersole is a special events and recreation assistant for Midwest City.

CITY OF MOORE NOTICE TO BIDDERS BID #1314-002 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Moore will receive sealed bids in the office of the City Clerk, Purchasing Division, Moore City Hall, 301 North Broadway, Suite 203, Moore, Oklahoma 73160 for “DEMOLITION SERVICES”. The property generally located North of SW 19th Street and West of S. Telephone Road also known as “River Creek Duplexes”. Bids will not be accepted after 1:45 p.m., CST, Friday, September 6, 2013. Work shall include but may not be limited to the following prescribed items: DEMOLITION OF ALL EXISTING STRUCTURES INCLUDING THE REMOVAL OF ALL FLOOR SLABS AND FOUNDATIONS. SHALL GRADE SITE TO DRAIN AND BE MAINTAINABLE. DEMOLISH AND REMOVE CONCRETE OR OTHER PAVING AND WALKS. CONTRACTOR SHALL LEAVE SITE READY TO ACCEPT FILL AND PREPATORY WORK FOR SITE IMPROVEMENTS. Demolition Contractor shall be responsible for complying with all City of Moore requirements. Demolition Contractor shall protect and repair any damage to surrounding property. Demolition Contractor shall be responsible for arranging for and coordinating shut off of water, electricity, gas and sewer services with appropriate utility companies. Demolition Contractor will not be responsible for the actual cost of such disconnects. Owner shall pay for disconnects as a direct billed item. Demolition Contractor shall not be responsible for the cost of inspections for, and/or removal of any asbestos. A mandatory pre-bid conference shall be held on-site on Tuesday September 3, 2013, 10:00 a.m. at the intersection of SW 14th St. and Yule Dr. Moore, Oklahoma 73160. Bids received more than ninety-six (96) hours [excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays], before the time set for the receipt of bids, as well as bids received after the time set for receiving bids, will not be considered and be returned unopened. Bids will be made in accordance with the notice to bidders, requirements for bidders, plans, specifications, and bidders proposal, which are on file and available for examination in office of the City Clerk, Purchasing Division, Moore City Hall, 301 North Broadway, Suite 203, Moore, Oklahoma 73160. Bids filed as provided herein will be publicly opened at 2:00 p.m., CST, Friday, September 6, 2013, Moore City Hall, City Council Chambers, Suite 126, 301 North Broadway, Moore, Oklahoma 73160. All bids will remain at least forty-eight hours thereafter, before a contract will be made and entered into thereon. The bidder must use the bid forms and affidavits provided in the bid packet, and all forms must be signed and notarized/attested. The bidder must file the bid in a sealed envelope. All bids must be typewritten or in ink. One (1) copy addressed to the City Clerk, Purchasing Division of the City of Moore will be submitted, and that copy must be sealed and clearly marked with the name of the bidding vendor, indicate the title of the bid, and identified as follows: “BID #1314-002” “DEMOLITION SERVICES” A cashier’s check, a certified check, or a surety bond in the amount of five percent (5%) of the bid shall accompany the sealed proposal of each bidder. Personal or company checks will not be acceptable. Bid deposits will be returned to the unsuccessful bidders. The City of Moore reserves the right to accept the bid which, in the judgment of the Staff, is the best for the application of needs, materials and services as covered in the specifications, and is deemed the best, overall, for the good of the City. The City of Moore reserves the right to reject any and all bids; waive irregularities and formalities in any bid submitted. In addition, the City of Moore reserves the right to contract with one or more parties to perform identical services as deemed appropriate. The City of Moore is an equal opportunity employer. Carol Folsom, Purchasing Agent carolf@cityofmoore.com 405-793-5022

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Anyone claiming ownership or financial interest contact Chris @ Puckett’s, 314 SW 29, OKC: Honda engine, A012070427; Honda Vtech engine, 3302010; Nissan V-6 engine & Transmission, OVQ30881358A; 5.0 engine, KF25. LOOKING FOR owner of '81 CHEV VIN#1GA2V87T0BL132747; Auction date: 8-29-2013 9:30am at 3012 S. HIGH, OKC. Contact JORGE (405) 503-6344. Anyone having financial interest in the following property below should contact AAAA Wrecker Service @ 405-424-4869. The listed property below has been impounded and stored @ 3307 NE 10th St Oklahoma City, OK. If the property is not claimed, it will be sold at a public sale on September 5, 2013 @10:00 A.M. Total amount due the day of the sale for storage and tow bill against the vehicle are listed with the vehicle below: 1. PJ Trailer 16' Gray Tag: No Tag Vin: 211844D $1,268.80 $ 2. 1968 Cadillac Coupe Deville Tan Tag: ZVW908 Vin: 6S69B99502566 $2,680.46 3. 1992 Oldsmobile Cutlass White Tag: No Tag Vin: 1G3AL54N4N6414157 $1,194.60 4. 1999 Honda Civic Black Tag: No Tag Vin: 1HGEM1155XL084837 $2,354.08

5. 1998 Yamaha Timberwolf 4Wheeler Red Tag: No Tag Vin: JY44BDW01WA338146 $3,730.18 6. 2002 Suzuki GSX-R1000 Motorcycle Burned Tag: No Tag Vin: JS1GT74A322109121 $3,149.77 $ Anyone having legal or financial interest in a 1957 Chevy VIN#: A57S183918 Call Regina 405-2137928 Anyone having legal or financial interest in a 2004 Audi VIN#: WAULC68E14A055433 call Regina 405-213-7928 1) 2000 Cadilla 1GYEK12R4YR129472, 2) 2000 Honda Vin# 2HKRL1874YH547907, 3) 2005 Yamoto 4 Wheeler LWGZCKL0450003156, 4) 1954 Chevrolet H54K003811, 5) 1997 Ford 1FALP42TRS102245. Call Teresa 474-2426.

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Young explorers embark on summer science adventures FROM STAFF REPORTS

NORMAN — Fourteen students from across the state participated in Oklahoma Science Adventure, a summer field science experience hosted by the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. The students spent a week exploring scientific disciplines and working with museum scientists. The students conducted field research at several locations in Oklahoma, including the Rogers County Conservation District in Claremore, working with zoologists from the University of Oklahoma and Rogers State University. Like professional scientists in the field, the students were asked to make a hypothesis, collect data from area wetlands and forests, and draw conclusions based on their findings. Nick Czaplewski, associate staff curator of vertebrate paleontology, shared techniques for tracking modern animals. Katrina Menard, curator of recent invertebrates, joined the group in Claremore to assist students in exploring entomology. Students were allowed to investigate an

Oklahoma fossil site known as White Mound, where more than 400 million years ago an assortment of animals lived in a shallow ocean. Students collected fossils and constructed examples of what an ancient ecosystem looked like based on their findings. Participants also canoed on the Illinois River, tried out OU’s ropes course and spent a night in the museum’s Hall of Ancient Life. Oklahoma Science Adventure is part of the ExplorOlogy Program, an educational project funded in part by the WhitmanNewman Foundation. The program is provided at no cost to students selected to participate. This year’s participants were Sierra Brown, Wewoka; Naima Khoubiz, Tulsa; Katie Rice, Tahlequah; Clay Dominy, Shawnee; Andy Le, Oklahoma City; Ella Moxley, Norman; Ethan Beazer, Marietta; Hanna Glass, Elgin; Abby Holden, Claremore; Nathalie Ortiz, Burneyville; Logan Loomis, Baker; Garrett Knowles, Arnett; Hannah Sorrells, Antlers; and Jason Allen, Agra.

Free computer classes offered at Norman, Moore libraries FROM STAFF REPORTS

The Norman and Moore libraries have announced their schedules of computer classes for September. Classes are free, but registration is required. In-person registration for the Norman classes will be from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday in the Computer Training Center at the library, 225 N Webster Ave. To register for the Moore classes, call 793-4349 or go to the library at 225 N Howard Ave. Online registration is available at www.justso youknow.us/norman or www.justsoyouknow.us /moore.

Norman classes

I Really basic personal computing, 1 p.m. Tuesday. I Computer basics, 9:30 a.m. Sept. 4. I Windows (three-part class), 9:30 a.m. Sept. 5, 6 and 9. I Word processing (four-part class), 9:30 a.m. Sept. 10-13. I Microsoft Excel (four-part class), 1 p.m. Sept. 16-19. I Facebook account setup and instruction, 9 to 11 a.m. Sept. 20. I PowerPoint, 6:30 p.m. Sept. 23. I LinkedIn, 9:30 a.m. Sept. 24.

I Publisher, 6:30 p.m. Sept. 25. I Twitter, 6:30 p.m. Sept. 26.

Moore classes

I Computer basics, 9:30 a.m. Sept. 6. I Basic Microsoft Word, 9:30 a.m. Sept. 10. I Intermediate Microsoft Word, 9:30 a.m. Sept. 13. I Microsoft Excel (two-part class), 9:30 a.m. Sept. 17 and 6:30 p.m. Sept. 19. I Basic Windows 7, 9:30 a.m. Sept. 24. I Pinterest for beginners, 9:30 a.m. Sept. 27.

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Youth fishing clinic set Sept. 7 BY MEGAN EBERSOLE For The Oklahoman

MIDWEST CITY — The Midwest City Parks and Recreation Department and Kiwanis Club will hold a fishing clinic from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 7 at Soldier Creek in Joe B. Barnes Regional Park.

gram in four-year cycles. Putnam City’s participation will be examined each year to determine if funding covers expenses, Edwards said.

Putnam City district seeks students with special needs FROM STAFF REPORTS

Thompson said. The district abides by the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004, Public Law 108-446,

which mandates that each public school maintain an ongoing effort to search for and find children who live in the school district and who have special needs.

I, Rabin Stephen Mutebi, hereby places in newspaper notice of divorce from Slyvia NDagire.

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Artists to show off wares at Arts Festival Oklahoma FROM STAFF REPORTS

Celebrating 35 years of art, entertainment and festival cuisine, Arts Festival Oklahoma at Oklahoma City Community College is set for Labor Day weekend, Saturday through Monday. Since 1978, the festival has attracted thousands to the college campus. In recent years, an estimated 25,000 festival patrons have enjoyed the visual art beneath the tents, performing artists on stage and an abundance of food choices from concession row. Also a popular spot on the arts festival grounds, the children’s tent overflows with glitter and glue, ribbon and yarn, paint and brushes — ready for the youngest artists to create their own masterpieces. The annual festival is on the north end of the OCCC campus, SW 74 and May Avenue. Admission is free; on-site parking is $5 per vehicle. Visual artists from across the country will present a diverse collection of work, including drawings, fine crafts, glass art, jewelry, mixed media, oil/acrylic, watercolor, pastels, photography, pottery, sculpture and wood art. More than 120 art booths will cover the college grounds this year. To see a list of artists attending the festival, go online to www.occc.edu/afo/ artist.html.

Since 1978, the festival has attracted thousands to the college campus. In recent years, an estimated 25,000 festival patrons have enjoyed the visual art beneath the tents, performing artists on stage and an abundance of food choices from concession row. your seat on the lawn at 8 p.m. Sunday to hear the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. Keep your seat after the Philharmonic performs and enjoy the fireworks display.

plete without traditional foot-long corn dogs dripping in mustard, funnel cakes sprinkled with powdered sugar and your favorite flavor of ice cream. And if you like Mexican, Greek and German food varieties, they will be available, too. Festival hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday.

Learn more For more information, call 682-7576 or go online to www.occc.edu/afo.

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Putnam City schools to offer free meals FROM STAFF REPORTS

Putnam City district seeks students with special needs FROM STAFF REPORTS

Thompson said. The district abides by the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004, Public Law 108-446,

which mandates that each public school maintain an ongoing effort to search for and find children who live in the school district and who have special needs.

High school welcomes police officer BY NASREEN IQBAL Staff Writer niqbal@opubco.com

Our hope is that we can add officers to our other high school and middle schools in the future. We look forward to this partnership with the school district,” CHIEF BRANDON CLABES MIDWEST CITY POLICE

Topics presented by Tilley will include policing as a career, criminal investigation, alcohol and drug awareness, gang and stranger awareness, general crime prevention, conflict resolution, character values and bullying. “We want the students to feel that they can talk to him and depend on him for advice and counsel,” said Larry Stephenson, MidDel Schools director of safety and security. The program has been in schools across the country since the 1980s and is a collaborative effort by law enforcement officers,

educators, students, parents and the community to provide a safe environment and offer law-related education to reduce crime, drug abuse and violence. The program is new to Mid-Del schools, and Clabes said he hopes the addition of a school resource officer at Midwest City High School will serve as a steppingstone for other district schools to follow. “Our hope is that we can add officers to our other high school and middle schools in the future. We look forward to this partnership with the school district,” Clabes said.

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MIDWEST CITY — The Midwest City Parks and Recreation Department and Kiwanis Club will hold a fishing clinic from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 7 at Soldier Creek in Joe B. Barnes Regional Park.

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Free computer classes offered at Norman, Moore libraries FROM STAFF REPORTS

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Steve Lessman Headmaster, Southwest Covenant Schools BY HENRY DOLIVE For The Oklahoman

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Southwest Covenant Schools is located in Yukon. PHOTO BY PAUL B. SOUTHERLAND, THE OKLAHOMAN

The 21-member class made an average score of 28.3 on the ACT, Nix said. Steve Lessman said the 2013 senior class as a whole received more than $1 million in scholarship aid. “They’ve had good teaching and a rigorous curriculum,” Nix said, “but they have challenged each other. They motivate one another. I can’t say I was surprised. It will be interesting to see what God does with these young men.” Ron Yocum was headmaster for five years before retiring in June. He observed firsthand the academic achievements of the

five winners. “I was surprised but not shocked,” Yocum said. “I wasn’t surprised at the ability. All five are fantastic students.” Yocum said that sometimes, students possess the intellect to excel academically but lack the work ethic. That wasn’t the case with the scholarship recipients, he said. “All five showed the propensity to work hard,” he said. The entire 2013 senior class was special, Yocum said. “The scores were high, and they pushed each other.” Garrett Lessman has

enrolled at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He said his goal is to be the general manager of a Major League Baseball team. “This was a very exciting thing for me and my family and the school. I am thankful God gave me the opportunity to do this,” he said. Garrett Lessman said he’ll carry a double major of business and financeeconomics, with minors in mathematics and history. He said he hopes to attend

law school after receiving his bachelor’s degree, and wants “to do something with numbers.” Hagan is attending the University of Oklahoma with a double major of business and petroleum engineering. He said he hopes to join an oil or gas company as a petroleum engineer, then move into an executive position. “I am really interested in the business side and want to work my way up,” he said. Southwest Covenant “is an amazing school,” he said. “It is really small, but they can take ordinary people and make them go a lot further.” Brown, Burton and Carmack could not be reached for comment. The 2014 senior class will be similar in size to the most recent class. Are similar academic honors awaiting them? Possibly so, said Nix, recalling that the 2013 class members excelled academically throughout their careers. “This (2013) class has been a top class academically from day one,” she said. “And the one coming in is like that.”

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Putnam City schools to offer free meals FROM STAFF REPORTS

Putnam City district seeks students with special needs FROM STAFF REPORTS

Thompson said. The district abides by the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004, Public Law 108-446,

which mandates that each public school maintain an ongoing effort to search for and find children who live in the school district and who have special needs.

High school welcomes police officer BY NASREEN IQBAL Staff Writer niqbal@opubco.com

MIDWEST CITY — Newly appointed school resource officer Sgt. Terry Tilley will guard the halls of Midwest City High School this year. Tilley was appointed to the position by the Midwest City-Del City School District and police department representatives. He previously served as the security officer at Monroney Middle School and took classes to prepare for the position of school resource officer. “Sgt. Tilley is a great fit for this program. He has shown great interest in intervention, taken classes to prepare him for a position such as this and is very enthusiastic,” Midwest City Police Chief Brandon Clabes said. Tilley will serve as a first responder in the event of a school emergency, monitor student truancy and act as an educator by assisting in classroom presentations. Topics presented by Tilley will include policing as a career, criminal investigation, alcohol and drug awareness, gang and stranger awareness, general crime prevention, conflict resolution, character values and bullying. “We want the students to feel that they can talk to him and depend on him for advice and counsel,” said Larry Stephenson, MidDel Schools director of safety and security. The program has been in schools across the country since the 1980s and is a collaborative effort by law enforcement officers, educators, students, parents and the community to provide a safe environ-

ment and offer law-related education to reduce crime, drug abuse and violence. The program is new to Mid-Del schools, and Clabes said he hopes the addition of a school resource officer at Midwest City High School will serve

as a steppingstone for other district schools to follow. “Our hope is that we can add officers to our other high school and middle schools in the future. We look forward to this partnership with the school district,” Clabes said.

Kids enjoy the 2012 fishing clinic in Midwest City.

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Youth fishing clinic set Sept. 7 BY MEGAN EBERSOLE For The Oklahoman

MIDWEST CITY — The Midwest City Parks and Recreation Department and Kiwanis Club will hold a fishing clinic from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 7 at Soldier Creek in Joe B. Barnes Regional Park.

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Heels for Hope dashes to the Oklahoma River FROM STAFF REPORTS

The Heels for Hope Foundation is pulling out the stilettos for the sixth annual Heels for Hope event, which brings runners and walkers together to raise money for ovarian cancer research. Heels for Hope is a 5k race, one-mile walk and 25-yard high heel and feather boa dash. The dash begins at 9 a.m. Sept. 7 at Wheeler Park on the Oklahoma River. The shotgun start for the run and walk is at 9:15 a.m. “This race is our major fundraiser to support the Heels for Hope Foundation mission to raise awareness for ovarian cancer,” said Heels for Hope chairwoman Susan Schene. “Each year as this event grows, we hope ovarian cancer awareness grows.” This year’s race will feature special guest Jari Askins, associate provost for external relations at OU Health Sciences Center. Askins will help start the race and will give winners their awards in the postrace ceremony. “We are so grateful to have gained the support of community leaders as we work together to kick

ovarian cancer with style and promote research here in Oklahoma,” Schene said. Preregistration is $25 and includes a race Tshirt, post-race drinks and snacks. Racers can preregister online by midnight Sept. 4 at www.signmeup. com/93530. Registration will be available at 7:30 a.m. the day of the race. All race proceeds benefit the Heels for Hope Foundation and support local ovarian cancer research, awareness and education efforts. One in 58 women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Most cases are diagnosed at an advanced stage with a survival rate of less than 50 percent. Heels for Hope originated after Rosemary Persa, director of Oklahoma Blood Institute’s reference lab, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2008. In support of her continued battle as well as other women diagnosed with ovarian cancer, Heels for Hope Foundation was founded, and this event was created to represent Rosemary’s love for highheeled shoes. For more information, go to www.heelsforhope.org.

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Your feet deserve the correct shoes DEAR DOCTOR K: You’ve often advised readers to buy supportive shoes that fit properly. Can you be more specific about what to look for in a good shoe? DEAR READER: Buying the right shoe is an investment in your foot health. But how do you identify the “right” shoe? The bottom line is how you feel when you put them on. For women, the best shoes are low-heeled but not flat, with a wide, padded heel, a wide toe box and a sole that provides sufficient cushioning. In general, the higher the heel, the worse for the foot. Men tend to feel most comfortable in athletic shoes, sturdy oxfords, wingtips, loafers or lowheeled boots. Look for sturdy sole construction that provides support and cushions against shock. Buy shoes made from breathable materials that keep feet dry and less susceptible to foot fungus. Here are some useful tips when you shop for shoes: I Wait until the afternoon to shop. Your feet naturally expand during the day. I Wear the same type of socks that you intend to wear with the shoes. I Ask the salesperson to measure both of your feet. Get measured every time you buy new shoes, because feet change with age. If one foot is larger or wider than the other, buy a size that fits the larger foot. (If you can afford it, buy two pairs of shoes of different sizes, and use the proper size for each foot.) I Stand in the shoes. Make sure you have at least a quarter- to a half-inch of space between your long-

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est toe and the end of the shoe. Wiggle your toes to make sure there’s enough room. I Walk around in the shoes. Is there enough room at the balls of the feet? Do the heels fit snugly, or do they pinch or slip off? I Find shoes that fit from the start, not shoes that need to be broken in. If a salesperson tells you, “Oh, that little pinch will go away as soon as you walk in them a day or two,” thank him or her for the advice ... and find a pair that doesn’t pinch. I Trust your own comfort rather than a shoe’s size or description. I Pay attention to width as well as length. If the ball of your foot feels compressed, ask for a wider size. I Make sure the soles provide enough cushioning. Your feet have to deal with all the weight of your body. When that big slice of cheesecake puts a couple of extra pounds on the wall of your belly, it also gives your feet more pounds to carry. Trust what your feet tell you about shoes. If your feet don’t like the shoes today, it’s likely that they will really not like the shoes a month from now. Dr. Komaroff is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. To send questions, go to AskDoctorK.com, or write: Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115. UNIVERSAL UCLICK

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OKLAHOMA CITY

Alva High School reunion, class of 1958, Sept. 13-14, Cambria Suites, Oklahoma City. Email 58jglass @gmail.com.

Midwest City High School class of 1963, 50th reunion, Sept. 21-23. Call Jan Casey Ellis, 732-7211. Midwest City High School class of 1973, 40th reunion, Sept. 20-21. For more information and registration, go to the class website at www.mchs73.com or visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ #!/groups/73MCHS/.

DEL CITY Del City High School, classes of 1955-61, reunion Sept. 20-21 at Del City Community Center. Contact Ron Craven, 361-3022, or ronald_craven @yahoo.com.

EL RENO El Reno High School classes of 1967-68, reunion Oct. 4-5. For more information, send email to d_2468 @yahoo.com.

ENID Enid High School class of 1973, 40th reunion, Sept. 13-14. Contact ehsaa@suddenlinkmail.com.

MUSTANG Mustang High School class of 1973, 40th reunion, Sept. 21. For more information call Cheryl Warren Cooley at 324-2432 or email cheryco@cox.net.

NORMAN Norman High School class of 1969, 5:30 p.m. third Saturday, Coach’s Restaurant, 102 W Main. Email Peggy Clark Smith at psmith1951@aol.com or go to www.nhs1969.com.

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UCO’s Wellness Center offers fitness programs FROM STAFF REPORTS

vide personal enrichment, training and skillbuilding. Classes offered include: I Barre Fusion, 4 to 4:50 p.m. Wednesdays, Sept. 4-Oct. 9, offers a total body program that combines the disciplines of ballet, yoga and Pilates and focuses on improving balance, stability, and core strength. Registration

Artists to show off wares, work at annual festival FROM STAFF REPORTS

Celebrating 35 years of art, entertainment and festival cuisine, Arts Festival Oklahoma at Oklahoma City Community College is set for Labor Day weekend, Saturday through Monday. Since 1978, the festival has attracted thousands to the college campus. In recent years, an estimated 25,000 festival patrons have enjoyed the visual art beneath the tents, performing artists on stage and an abundance of food choices from concession row. The annual festival is on the north end of the OCCC campus, SW 74 and May Avenue. Admission is free; on-site parking is $5 per vehicle. Visual artists from across the country will present a diverse collection of work, including drawings, fine crafts, glass art, jewelry, mixed media, oil/acrylic, watercolor, pastels, photography, pottery, sculpture and wood art. More than 120 art booths will cover the college grounds this year. To see a list of artists attend-

ing the festival, go online to www.occc.edu/afo/ artist.html.

Onstage Onstage entertainment will be provided by performing groups from around the city and state. Music to please all patrons will include classical, country, Latin, pop and more. Come early and secure your seat on the lawn at 8 p.m. Sunday to hear the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. Keep your seat after the Philharmonic performs and enjoy the fireworks display.

The goodies Roasted peanuts? Kettle Korn? Ice cream floats? Indian tacos? What’s your favorite? The concession row will feature these fair classics as well as fruit smoothies, shaved ice, pulled pork and beef brisket sandwiches. Festival hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday. For more information, call 682-7576 or go online to www.occc.edu/afo.

deadline is Friday. I Chi Gong, Tai Chi and Aikido, 4 to 5 p.m. Mondays, Sept. 9-Oct. 28, provides an outlet for mindfulness and stress management through the ancient martial arts. Registration deadline is Sept. 5. I Jiu-jitsu, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Mondays, Sept. 16-

Oct. 17, teaches the art of self-defense while utilizing grappling techniques, pins, join locks, and throws. Registration deadline is Sept. 12. I Eras of Dance: 1920s to today, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sundays, Sept. 29Nov. 3, explores social dancing from the speakeasy and swing of the jazz

age to today’s line dances and hip-hop. Registration deadline is Sept. 26. “We want to give everyone involved with Central and the surrounding community the opportunity to achieve personal health and fitness from different experiences,” said Brittney Criswell, UCO health promotion coordinator.

All fitness levels are encouraged to participate.

How to sign up To register, go to www. ucogroupfitness.com and select instructional programs. Fees vary based on the class. For more information, call 974-2320 or email bcriswell@uco.edu.

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These 2013 graduates of Southwest Christian Academy won National Merit scholarships. From left are Trevor Carmack, Garrett Lessman, Christian Hagan, James Burton and Seth Brown. PHOTO PROVIDED

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UCO Wellness Center has fitness programs FROM STAFF REPORTS

EDMOND — University of Central Oklahoma’s Wellness Center is offering instructional fitness programs this fall to help faculty, staff, students and community members get fit. The noncredit fitness classes are taught by certified instructors and provide personal enrichment, training and skillbuilding. Classes offered include: I Barre Fusion, 4 to 4:50 p.m. Wednesdays, Sept. 4-Oct. 9, offers a total body program that combines the disciplines of ballet, yoga and Pilates and focuses on improving balance, stability and core strength. Registration deadline is Friday. I Chi Gong, Tai Chi and Aikido, 4 to 5 p.m. Mondays, Sept. 9-Oct. 28, provides an outlet for mindfulness and stress management through the ancient martial arts. Registration deadline is Sept. 5. I Jiu-jitsu, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Mondays, Sept. 16Oct. 17, teaches the art of self-defense while uti-

We want to give everyone involved with Central and the surrounding community the opportunity to achieve personal health and fitness from different experiences.” BRITTNEY CRISWELL

UCO HEALTH PROMOTION COORDINATOR

HOW TO SIGN UP I To register, go to www.ucogroupfitness.com and select instructional programs. Fees vary based on the class.

LEARN MORE I For more information, call 974-2320 or email Brittney Criswell at bcriswell@uco.edu.

lizing grappling techniques, pins, join locks, and throws. Registration deadline is Sept. 12. I Eras of Dance: 1920s to today, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sundays, Sept. 29Nov. 3, explores social dancing from the speakeasy and swing of the jazz age to today’s line dances and hip-hop. Registration

deadline is Sept. 26. “We want to give everyone involved with Central and the surrounding community the opportunity to achieve personal health and fitness from different experiences,” said Brittney Criswell, UCO health promotion coordinator. All fitness levels are encouraged to participate.

Artists to show off wares at Arts Festival Oklahoma FROM STAFF REPORTS

Since 1978, the festival has attracted thousands to the college campus. In recent years, an estimated 25,000 festival patrons have enjoyed the visual art beneath the tents, performing artists on stage and an abundance of food choices from concession row. after the Philharmonic performs and enjoy the fireworks display.

The goodies Roasted peanuts? Kettle Korn? Ice cream floats? Indian tacos? What’s your favorite? The concession row will feature these fair classics as well as fruit smoothies, shaved ice, pulled pork and beef brisket sandwiches. A festival is not complete without traditional foot-long corn dogs dripping in mustard, funnel cakes sprinkled with powdered sugar, and your favorite flavor of ice cream. And if you like Mexican, Greek and German food varieties, they will be available, too. Festival hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday.

Learn more For more information, call 682-7576 or go online to www.occc.edu/afo.

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Mustang elementary gets technology grant FROM STAFF REPORTS

Putnam City district seeks students with special needs FROM STAFF REPORTS

Thompson said. The district abides by the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004, Public Law 108-446,

which mandates that each public school maintain an ongoing effort to search for and find children who live in the school district and who have special needs.

High school welcomes police officer BY NASREEN IQBAL Staff Writer niqbal@opubco.com

IN BRIEF UTILITY BILL ASSISTANCE OFFERED EL RENO — The Salvation Army Canadian County Service Center will offer

Kids enjoy the 2012 fishing clinic in Midwest City.

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Youth fishing clinic set Sept. 7 BY MEGAN EBERSOLE For The Oklahoman

MIDWEST CITY — The Midwest City Parks and Recreation Department and Kiwanis Club will hold a fishing clinic from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 7 at Soldier Creek in Joe B. Barnes Regional Park.

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Heels for Hope dashes to the Oklahoma River FROM STAFF REPORTS

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NORMAN

Alva High School reunion, class of 1958, Sept. 13-14, Cambria Suites, Oklahoma City. Email 58jglass @gmail.com.

Norman High School class of 1969, 5:30 p.m. third Saturday, Coach’s Restaurant, 102 W Main. Email Peggy Clark Smith at psmith1951@aol.com or go to www.nhs1969.com.

DEL CITY Del City High School, classes of 1955-61, reunion Sept. 20-21 at Del City Community Center. Contact Ron Craven, 361-3022, or ronald_ craven@yahoo.com.

EL RENO El Reno High School classes of 1967-68, reunion Oct. 4-5. For more information, send email to d_2468 @yahoo.com.

ENID Enid High School class of 1973, 40th reunion, Sept. 13-14. Contact ehsaa@suddenlinkmail.com.

MUSTANG Mustang High School class of 1973, 40th reunion, Sept. 21. For more information call Cheryl Warren Cooley at 324-2432 or email cheryco@cox.net.

OKLAHOMA CITY Capitol Hill High School class of 1964, 6 p.m. second Tuesday at Boomerang Grill, and 11:30 a.m. last Monday at Grill on the Hill. Call Doris Gray Martin, 3925508, or go to www.capitolhillhs 64.com. Capitol Hill High School class of 1960, 6 p.m. first Friday, Grill on the Hill, 324 SW 25. Ed Hendrix, 524-7454. Central High School class of 1942, 12:30 p.m. last Thursday, Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler, 2652 W Britton Road. Call June Porter Honiker, 842-0815. Central High School class of 1944, 5 p.m. fourth Tuesday, Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler, 6629 Northwest Expressway. Call Albert Janco at 848-1991, or email jancoa@asme.org. Central High School class of 1945, 4:30 p.m. second Monday, Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler, 6629 Northwest Expressway. Call John Knuppel at 354-5079. Classen High School class of 1973, 40th reunion, Sept. 21. Call John Long, 340-9355. Classen High School, Boulevard Boys, 11:30 a.m. first Friday, Boulevard Cafeteria, 525 NW 11. Boulevard Girls, 11:30 a.m. first Friday, Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler, 2652 W Britton. Boulevard Boys and Girls, 6 p.m. third Tuesday, Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler, 2652 W Britton. Harding High School class of 1963, 50-year reunion Sept. 2021. Call 834-0641 or email reunion@hardingclass63.org. John Marshall High School, alumni association looking for classmates. Call Debi Nelson, 478-7424.

Mount St. Mary class of 1968, reunion Sept. 21. Contact Gary Chaffin at 681-9054 or gchaffin @sbcglobal.net. Northeast High School, former and current students are asked to send information for a contact list. Call 286-3405 or email mikebennett 405@aol.com. Northeast High School class of 1971, graduates are asked to email contact information to Kathy McKinnon Jackson at nehs71 grads@aol.com. Northwest Classen High School classes of 1957-63, looking for classmates for an upcoming reunion. Call (918) 227-0740. Contact Patty Jones Harper at paharper@ sbcglobal.net or 842-7654. Northwest Classen Alumni Association, looking for information regarding upcoming class reunions. Go to www.nwchsaa.org. Southeast High School class of 1958, monthly breakfast, 9 a.m. first Thursday, Denny’s, 1617 SW 74. Call Luther Cummings, 391-7574. Southeast High School class of 1961, monthly breakfast, 9 a.m. second Saturday, Pioneer Pies, 2201 SW 74. Southeast High School class of 1956, 6 p.m. second Tuesday, Western Sizzlin’ Steakhouse, 2110 SW 74. Call Pete White, 232-8888. Southeast High School class of 1959, monthly breakfast, 9:30 a.m. second Tuesday, Denny’s, 1617 SW 74. U.S. Grant High School, class of 1983, 30-year reunion. Call Greg at 317-5130.

PUTNAM CITY Putnam City High School class of 1963, 50-year reunion, Oct. 25-26. Contact Carol Schieber at Schieber. Carol@gmail.com or call 912-7840. Putnam City High School class of 1968, 45-year reunion, Oct. 25-26, Quail Creek Country Club. For information, go to pc68reunion.com or contact Betty Chrisman at bachrisman@swbell.net.

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‘Gold Rush’ producer mines for ratings gold BY KATE O’HARE Zap2it

The quest for Southern Hemisphere riches ends — at least for now — at 8 p.m. Friday with the finale of the summer series “Gold Rush: South America.” The spinoff of Discovery Channel’s hit reality series “Gold Rush” premiered on Aug. 2 and continued its predecessor’s habit of finding viewers, becoming the day’s No. 1 cable show among adults ages 25-54 and men ages 25-54 and No. 2 in all of television among men 24-54 and men 18-49. The regular “Gold Rush” series has its fourth season premiere in October. In a TV universe where it’s often difficult to get men to give up their video games and sports to ac-

tually sit down and watch reality or scripted television, “Gold Rush” has succeeded by following a motley bunch of gold miners seeking to make a fortune by finding the precious metal. It also helps that the men do it by driving around huge earth-moving equipment. “It’s man heaven,” says executive producer Christo Doyle, who has become known to fans through his online and now televised behind-the-scenes chats with the “Gold Rush” miners and camera crews. His one-hour on-air show is now called “The Dirt” — on finale night, it airs right before “Gold Rush: South America” — and it features Doyle doing candid, sometimes contentious and sometimes

From left, Freddy Dodge, Todd Hoffman and Dave Turin star in “Gold Rush: South Ameria,” which ends its season at 8 p.m. Friday on Discovery. DISCOVERY CHANNEL PHOTO

confusing, interviews with the show’s featured miners: Oregon native Todd Hoffman, his dad, Jack Hoffman, Freddy Dodge and their hard-luck crew; teen

Parker Schnabel, his beloved, ninety-something “Grandpa,” John Schnabel, and his outspoken mother, Nancy Schnabel; and the father-son “Dakota Boys,”

dad “Dakota Fred” Hurt and son Dustin. Over the course of “Gold Rush: South America,” Todd Hoffman, tired of wresting gold from

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Alaska’s frozen ground (he did get more than $1 million last year), decides to try his luck in the jungle instead. As Twitter and TV fans know, Hoffman and Doyle don’t have the warmest of relationships, with each resenting the other’s perceived intrusions into his territory. Says Doyle, “Recently, he said on Twitter, ‘Christo Doyle, no matter what you do, we’ll never actually be friends,’ which I’m actually fine with. We have a good professional relationship; we really do. I respect him for what he does, and he respects me. “We both know that ‘Gold Rush’ wouldn’t be where it is today without each other. At least I know that; maybe he doesn’t know that.”

#1 Alfalfa Hay $8/bale in field Available for pickup Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun, SW OKC. 627-9363

Alfalfa sm. sq. bales in field.

Delivery Available. 405-443-1988

07 32' Holiday Rambler, 2slides, slps 6, x-cond $17K 405-517-1575 2006 Puma, 27 foot bumper pull, queen bed, separate bath, new tires & awning, $6900, 634-3565. Class C 21ft Coachman Starlight, V10 Ford, 40K miles. Call for more information. » » 593-7323

National Company Seeking Self-starting men and women for

Customer Service Sales Reps

Responsibilities include greeting customers, explaining company benefits and procedures. Flexible hours, day, evening and weekend shifts avail. Call 405-464-7351 for interview appointment.

Commercial Cabinet Builders & Trim Carpenters Experienced Only. Call 405-557-0358

Electrical Apprentice

Residential & commercial work. Good pay with benefits. Call to apply 405-391-2700.

Maintenance TECH needed

for APT Complex. Working understanding of HVAC. Email desertcrestllc@gmail.com or Fax 405-670-4691

Washita Valley seeks

Entry Level Trailer Mechanic

Will be required to work on pull behind trailers for pickups & 18 wheeler flatbeds, changing out lights, mud flaps, etc. Must have good MVR. Apply at 1701 SE 59th, OKC, OK

WE PAY & TOW AWAY Your unwanted vehicle - wrecked, running or not.

Class A End Dump Drivers Needed

‘‘ 512-7278 ‘‘ Servicing OKC, Edmond, Yukon, Norman & MWC

Class B CDL Drivers

2002 Cavalier 2 door sport coupe, 4 cyl, twin cam, auto, new paint, very nice, $2500 obo, 537-0006.

20qt. Hobart Legacy HL200 Mixer with all attachments & s/s stand, like new, $5,200. 405-567-8319

for RDSI Waste Services. 405-348-8411 or Email info@rdsiok.com

Announcing Another Catching Bros. LLC

AUCTION

Animal Emergency Center is hiring for multiple positions. MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE. Pay is DOE. Apply within at 931 SW 74th, Okla. City 73139.

Friday, August 30th, 2013, 10am 18873 US Hwy 82 Sherman, Texas 75092 Auction will be conducted at the Catching Bros. Auctioneers, llc facility in Sherman Texas. The Auction will feature Small Farmer Dispersal, tractors, construction, combines, hay and tillage implements, trucks, trailers and many other items to be offered at PUBLIC AUCTION.

DRYCLEANING PRESSER LAUNDRY INSPECTOR

Apply in person: Excel Cleaners, 8900 S. Penn, 7am-12Noon, M-F 2007 Mustang GT, leather, automatic, exc. condition, 29K miles. $14,500 Call 262-2410 before 7pm '07 Ford Focus, auto, AC, alloys, CD, 52K mi, $4900. 203-9612

1997 Civic, black, 2 dr, Auto, 18'' rims & tires $2500 obo 204-2792

'02 Mercedes SLK 230, silver with black leather pkg, 85K miles, like new, garaged kept, exc. condition, $8,700 » » » 405-227-2207

NEED A JOB? FT 2nd shift Custodial Positions avail. Complete app online at edmondschools.net For more info 340-2220

CMAs & MATs - All Shifts Sommerset Assisted Living 1601 SW 119th St. 405-691-9221

$250 & Up for non-running vehicles, no title ok. 405-819-6293

2004 Ford Harley Davidson 250 Turbo Dsl 4 door, 4X4, black, fully loaded, 113,000 miles, $19,500 obo, 405-974-8178 '97 Ford Ranger, 80K miles, Exc. Condition $5,100 405-917-1998

Lake ready 1986 Royale, 50 hp Evinrude, new deck and interior; on tandem trailer with new paint, boards and tires; getting married, must sell, $3200 obo, 580-977-7034.

2004 Harley Davidson FXDL. Dyna Low Rider. 23K miles. $7,750. » » » 405-833-9551 » » »

Development Possibilities. Blacktop Frontage. 620-927-0111

SOONER

HOME HEALTH CARE Serving the Sooner State!

'01 Toyota Corolla, runs, AC, manual trans, AS IS $2,250obo. » » » 405-248-8169 » » »

160 Acres Canadian County

FENCED LOT - DPS approved for auto storage, Edmond, 3900 N. Boulevard » » 593-7323

Branch Manager (RN) Norman Home health care experience preferred. RN/LPN full time/part time positions statewide

Catching Bros. Auctioneers offers several options to market your equipment. If you have equipment to sell please contact us for a marketing option that will suit your needs. Visit www.catchingbros.com for a complete listing or contact us for full color descriptive brochure. Don't miss this opportunity to purchase good clean usable farm equipment at PUBLIC AUCTION. Catching Bros. Auctioneers, LLC David Catching TXAUCT#6610 Clint Catching TXAUCT#10821 18873 US HWY 82 Sherman Texas 75092 903-868-3132 www.catchingbros.com

MARBLE CONFERENCE TABLE Beautiful marble conference table/ 6 navy blue conference chairs. Excellent condition! $800.00 Call Vicki- 405-236-5200 9:00 a.m-5:00 p.m.

PRN: RNs/LPNs Oklahoma City & Statewide Submit Resumes to linda@soonerhs.com Phone: 405-321-7400 Fax: 405-321-3711

Wurlitzer console piano, tuned annually, Italian Provincial fruit wood cabinet, $800. 364-6768

Evergreen Life Services now hiring Program Coordinator

This position requires bachelor degree in human or social services or a minimum of 4 years of experience in the field of intellectual disabilities. Prefer experience with DDSD. Candidates with experience in this field preferred. Job requirements: On-call after hours, 15 clients, supervise 30+ staff, work schedules, home visits, meetings, payroll, any duties assigned by Area Supervisor. Supervisory experience a plus. Full time position with benefits: vacation, sick, insurance, 401k. Send resume to hiremeevergreen@gmail.com

AR 15 5 AR 15's FOR SALE. Text for info/Pics $900-$1450. 405-274-4958

Development Possibilities. Blacktop Frontage. 620-927-0111

AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD TOY PUPPIES UTD SHOTS, VET CERT, DOB 7/ 4/13 BLUE EYED, BLUE MERLE AND BLACK TRI MALES $600.00 918-429-2153 Blue Heeler Pup, 6wks, working parents, $150. 405-574-2212 Dachshund, Mini, 6wks, s/w 2M SH blk/tan, 1M LH choc/crm $150 Del City, 808-3263 Dachshunds pups, 6 wks, small, $100-$200; 636-0377 or 882-4072. English Bulldog, AKC, 10wks, s/w $900-$1200ea. cash 405-593-4125 English Mastiff Pups, 12 weeks, 1st s/w, 1M, 1F AKC Registered, $450 Call or text 474-0675 lv msg

Handyman & more, tuck point & brick work, painting, 409-3725.

English Olde Bulldogge 4-M, 1-F, EIGHT WEEKS OLD, UTD SHOTS, VET CKD.IOEBA REGISTERED. BLUE RIBBON PAPERS. PARENTS ON PREMISES. 1500.00-2500.00 jeanisedbilyeu09@gmail.com or 405-326-4616

ALL TYPES REPAIRS REMODELS Same day service. 25 yrs exp & refs! ¡ 314-3621 Handyman & more, tuck point & brick work, painting. 409-3725

Paint, Drywall, Handyman 34 yrs Exp. Free Est. 503-3794 German Shepherd, AKC, 7 month male, all German bloodlines, very trainable, loves to please, not a house dog, $400 cash, 240-7731. German Shepherds, AKC, Large Pups, 18wks, S/W, POP $500-$650 ¡ 405-250-8266 German Shepherd, AKC, 3F, 1M, 9 wks, POP, $300. 405-437-5339 GOLDENDOOLES see www.puffypups.com $700-$800. 580-467-1876 Maltese, ACA 2 M, 9wks, $200 Will meet. 580-660-0120 www.heartlandpuppiesok.com Pomerian, Parti, 4mos, very small F, blk&wht, papers, good w/cats & kids. $250 405-659-7576 Yukon Poodle Toy, apricot, s/w, AKC 10 wks 2M 1F, $400 CASH 249-5459 Schipperke Puppies, Beautiful, registrable, $275. 405-348-1180 Schnauzer/Border Collie mix 8wk old 4F 2M $80ea. 405-613-6310

Pair of OU Season Football

Yorkies, ACA, M/F, $200-$400, s/w/dc can send pic 580-504-7115

2 OU Season Football Tickets, Sec 13, Row 50, $845/both 405-735-6528

RACCOONS, 1F, 2M, $150-$155 405-226-5444 or 405-627-5739

Tickets, Section 22, Row 52, Seats 9 & 10. Good view. $890. » » » 405-573-9284 » » »

Remodeled 2/1 ch&a, new crpt, stv/dw, $795+1mo dep 341-5548.

160 Acres Canadian County

Dispursing Fall Calving Cows. 50 blk&wht baldies bred to start calving Sept 1. Great dispositon & body cond. Schnaithman Farms, Garber, OK. 405-410-6646

needed for Edmond waste management company. Call 348-8411 or email resumes to info@rdsiok.com

Diesel Mechanic Needed

1,231 Acres Municipality Water Rights For Sale 620-927-0111

120 Bred Angus Heifers to start calving Jan. 15th. Bred to reg. LBW Angus bulls. Great dispositon & quality. Schnaithman Farms, Garber, OK. 405-410-6646

405-381-4117

I Buy Junk Cars-Trucks-Vans 24/7 running or not 769-1960 508-8124

Classic Car Restoration Free transport avail 918-605-6070 YesteryearClassicAutos.com

Solid Brazilian Cherry• Hardwood Flooring • (2600sf) Beautiful, never used $2.50/sf • 632-0499

Sphynx kittens So cute and naked! 3 mos. Kitty comes neutered, vaccinated, microchipped, and w/ health guarantee. Local Edmond breeder. $1100 (405) 513-0353

Sheet Metal 3'x10', $16, R-Panel $18 Mon-Sat, 390-2077, 659-3054

¡ No Title - No Problem ¡

$250 & Up for non-running vehicles, no title ok. 405-819-6293

Public Auction CAD Mill Works Friday Sept. 6, 2013 6:30 pm 501 West Mississippi, Anadarko OK Preview Auction Items Aug 27 6-8pm LOTS & LOTS of Carpenter Tools 1986 Yale Forklift, 2006 Yamaha Midnight Star Go To www. tillmansauction.com for Info & Pics 1 405-542-3837

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Young explorers embark on summer science adventures FROM STAFF REPORTS

Free computer classes offered at Norman, Moore libraries FROM STAFF REPORTS

Norman classes

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Moore classes

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Young explorers embark on summer science adventures FROM STAFF REPORTS

Free computer classes offered at Norman, Moore libraries FROM STAFF REPORTS

Norman classes

I Publisher, 6:30 p.m. Sept. 25. I Twitter, 6:30 p.m. Sept. 26.

Moore classes

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‘Gold Rush’ producer mines for ratings gold BY KATE O’HARE Zap2it

'96 Chevy Suburban LT 159K, new AC/tires/parts, $2,250. 669-4094

confusing, interviews with the show’s featured miners: Oregon native Todd Hoffman, his dad, Jack Hoffman, Freddy Dodge and their hard-luck crew; teen

Parker Schnabel, his beloved, ninety-something “Grandpa,” John Schnabel, and his outspoken mother, Nancy Schnabel; and the father-son “Dakota Boys,”

dad “Dakota Fred” Hurt and son Dustin. Over the course of “Gold Rush: South America,” Todd Hoffman, tired of wresting gold from

AT&T Retail Store

5308 Shalimar Drive,

AR 15 5 AR 15's FOR SALE. Text for info/Pics $900-$1450. 405-274-4958

German Shepherd, AKC, 14 mo M, black, neutered, housebroken, on leash, some off, good with kids, high energy, $750 obo, 496-0203.

From left, Freddy Dodge, Todd Hoffman and Dave Turin star in “Gold Rush: South Ameria,” which ends its season at 8 p.m. Friday on Discovery. DISCOVERY CHANNEL PHOTO

on SW 29th & May needs Bi Lingual Sales People. $10hr. We will train you. Call 694-6942 for interview.

National Company Seeking Self-starting men and women for

3/1.5/1, ch&a, nice area, $750 rent + $500 dep, 692-7459

3072 SW 37th St, $550/mo + dep 3bed, 1ba, ch&a ¡ 685-6817, Co.

Customer Service Sales Reps

2006 Big Dog K-9 - $13000 (OKC) 4,972 low miles, upgrade tribal motif & upgraded Super Trapp Mean mothers 2-2 exhaust pipes. Exc. cond., only ridden in nice weather. Comes w/dust cover & passenger seat ($400 value). 2004 Harley Davidson FXDL. Dyna Low Rider. 23K miles. $7,750. » » » 405-833-9551 » » »

Responsibilities include greeting customers, explaining company benefits and procedures. Flexible hours, day, evening and weekend shifts avail. Call 405-464-7351 for interview appointment.

Maltese, AKC/CKC, okcpoms.com $250-$550 OK#02 405-609-9241

Pair of OU Season Football Tickets, Section 22, Row 52, Seats 9 & 10. Good view. $890. » » » 405-573-9284 » » » 2 OU Season Football Tickets, Sec 13, Row 50, $845/both 405-735-6528

POMS, Reg, Tiny okcpoms.com $300-$600 ¡ OK#02 405-609-9241 Poodles, Standard, Puppies 2F blk ,cream 10wks $450 405-923-6016 Poodles, Toy/Mini, okcpoms.com, $275-$375 OK#02 405-609-9241 Poodle Toy, apricot, s/w, AKC 10 wks 2M 1F, $400 CASH 249-5459 Schipperke Puppies, Beautiful, registrable, $275. 405-348-1180 Schnauzer/Border Collie mix 8wk old 4F 2M $80ea. 405-613-6310

Commercial Cabinet Builders & Trim Carpenters Experienced Only. Call 405-557-0358

Electrical Apprentice

07 32' Holiday Rambler, 2slides, slps 6, x-cond $17K 405-517-1575 Class C 21ft Coachman Starlight, V10 Ford, 40K miles. Call for more information. » » 593-7323

Residential & commercial work. Good pay with benefits. Call to apply 405-391-2700.

Maintenance TECH needed

for APT Complex. Working understanding of HVAC. Email desertcrestllc@gmail.com or Fax 405-670-4691 Baby Mini Potbelly Pigs, 6wks6mos $50ea; Bred gilts 2-3mo bred $50 All colors 918-399-9366

Washita Valley seeks

Entry Level Trailer Mechanic

Will be required to work on pull behind trailers for pickups & 18 wheeler flatbeds, changing out lights, mud flaps, etc. Must have good MVR. Apply at 1701 SE 59th, OKC, OK

WE PAY & TOW AWAY Your unwanted vehicle - wrecked, running or not.

Class A End Dump Drivers Needed

¡ No Title - No Problem ¡

‘‘ 512-7278 ‘‘ Servicing OKC, Edmond, Yukon, Norman & MWC

405-381-4117

1999 Chevy Camaro, auto, for parts, $600 »»» 405-324-5992

Sphynx kittens So cute and naked! 3 mos. Kitty comes neutered, vaccinated, microchipped, and w/ health guarantee. Local Edmond breeder. $1100 (405) 513-0353 20qt. Hobart Legacy HL200 Mixer with all attachments & s/s stand, like new, $5,200. 405-567-8319

$250 & Up for non-running vehicles, no title ok. 405-819-6293

2002 Cavalier 2 door sport coupe, 4 cyl, twin cam, auto, new paint, very nice, $2500 obo, 537-0006.

'05 Stratus SXT, 2.7L, 111K, cold AC, loaded, $3450. 669-4094

Diesel Mechanic Needed

Announcing Another Catching Bros. LLC

for RDSI Waste Services. 405-348-8411 or Email info@rdsiok.com

AUCTION

Animal Emergency Center is hiring for multiple positions. MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE. Pay is DOE. Apply within at 931 SW 74th, Okla. City 73139.

DRYCLEANING PRESSER LAUNDRY INSPECTOR

1997 Civic, black, 2 dr, Auto, 18'' rims & tires $2500 obo 204-2792

CMAs & MATs - All Shifts Sommerset Assisted Living 1601 SW 119th St. 405-691-9221

SOONER

HOME HEALTH CARE '04 Sonata GLS, 138K, new tires/ AC, loaded, x nice $3950.201-3831

'97 Mark 8 LSC, 157K, dependable, cold AC, $1750. 201-3831

Serving the Sooner State!

160 Acres Canadian County Development Possibilities. Blacktop Frontage. 620-927-0111

FENCED LOT - DPS approved for auto storage, Edmond, 3900 N. Boulevard » » 593-7323

Branch Manager (RN) Norman Home health care experience preferred. RN/LPN full time/part time positions statewide PRN: RNs/LPNs Oklahoma City & Statewide

'02 Mercedes SLK 230, silver with black leather pkg, 85K miles, like new, garaged kept, exc. condition, $8,700 » » » 405-227-2207

'01 Toyota Corolla, runs, AC, manual trans, AS IS $2,250obo. » » » 405-248-8169 » » »

$250 & Up for non-running vehicles, no title ok. 405-819-6293

08 Ford 350 Turbo Deisel, 4x4, ex cond, 4dr, long bed, lthr seats, 25,600 mi, $35,000 405-517-1575 2004 Ford Harley Davidson 250 Turbo Dsl 4 door, 4X4, black, fully loaded, 113,000 miles, $19,500 obo, 405-974-8178 '97 Ford Ranger, 80K miles, Exc. Condition $5,100 405-917-1998

Alfalfa sm. sq. bales in field.

Delivery Available. 405-443-1988

Class B CDL Drivers

needed for Edmond waste management company. Call 348-8411 or email resumes to info@rdsiok.com

I Buy Junk Cars-Trucks-Vans 24/7 running or not 769-1960 508-8124

Classic Car Restoration Free transport avail 918-605-6070 YesteryearClassicAutos.com

#1 Alfalfa Hay $8/bale in field Available for pickup Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun, SW OKC. 627-9363

MARBLE CONFERENCE TABLE Beautiful marble conference table/ 6 navy blue conference chairs. Excellent condition! $800.00 Call Vicki- 405-236-5200 9:00 a.m-5:00 p.m.

Submit Resumes to linda@soonerhs.com Phone: 405-321-7400 Fax: 405-321-3711

Girls mountain bike, like new, $150; Shirley Temple doll $50; Chatty Cathy doll $50; large dog kennel $50; 405-733-2549.

Evergreen Life Services now hiring Program Coordinator

Dispursing Fall Calving Cows. 50 blk&wht baldies bred to start calving Sept 1. Great dispositon & body cond. Schnaithman Farms, Garber, OK. 405-410-6646 120 Bred Angus Heifers to start calving Jan. 15th. Bred to reg. LBW Angus bulls. Great dispositon & quality. Schnaithman Farms, Garber, OK. 405-410-6646

AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD TOY PUPPIES UTD SHOTS, VET CERT, DOB 7/ 4/13 BLUE EYED, BLUE MERLE AND BLACK TRI MALES $600.00 918-429-2153 Blue Heeler Pup, 6wks, working parents, $150. 405-574-2212

1,231 Acres Municipality Water Rights For Sale 620-927-0111

Chows, AKC, 1F black, 1M blue, 10 wks, s/w, $350-$400, 520-3237

160 Acres Canadian County

Dachshunds pups, 6 wks, small, $100-$200; 636-0377 or 882-4072. English Mastiff Pups, 12 weeks, 1st s/w, 1M, 1F AKC Registered, $450 Call or text 474-0675 lv msg English Olde Bulldogge 4-M, 1-F, EIGHT WEEKS OLD, UTD SHOTS, VET CKD.IOEBA REGISTERED. BLUE RIBBON PAPERS. PARENTS ON PREMISES. 1500.00-2500.00 jeanisedbilyeu09@gmail.com or 405-326-4616

GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPPIES 8wks old, s/w, POP, AKC, $350 405-391-2132 GOLDENDOOLES see www.puffypups.com $700-$800. 580-467-1876 Havanese Pups AKC Ready to go! Beautiful $900-$1800 ’ 550-3331 Maltese Puppy, full blood, cute & fluffy, $400 Cash. OKC area. ’ ’ 672-5411 ’ ’

Wurlitzer console piano, tuned annually, Italian Provincial fruit wood cabinet, $800. 364-6768

Pit Bull Puppies, 3F, green eyed blondes, 9wks, $175ea. s/w, POP, 405-273-0601

1986 Winter console piano, excellent cond, $500, 405-202-8341.

317 S. Chanda, Immaculate 3bd, 2ba, 2gar, FP $975mo, $1500dep No pets. No smoking 226-8507

Excaliber-Buckmaster, max point, 175 lb pull, 400 fps, 6 arrows, quiver, pull rope, scope, $375, 405-273-0958.

Development Possibilities. Blacktop Frontage. 620-927-0111

PIT BULLS, UKC, 7wks, 5F, 4M, $400-$1,000. 405-238-4308 www.valleybullies.webs.com Yorkie, Adorable Pups, $200- $500, call for info, 570-9134 or 570-5274.

Steel Carports, Patio Covers 2car carport $1695 799-4026/694-6109

Paint, Drywall, Handyman 34 yrs Exp. Free Est. 503-3794

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your seat on the lawn at 8 p.m. Sunday to hear the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. Keep your seat after the Philharmonic performs and enjoy the fireworks display.

Learn more For more information, call 682-7576 or go online to www.occc.edu/afo.

2010 TSX TECH, black, navi, 24K, certified 100K warranty, $25,494. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2010 ACURA TSX TECH, navigation, only 9K, leather, $24,981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2009 Acura TL, 57K, black, lthr, loaded, sunroof $20,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com 2009 ACURA TL TECH, navi, leather, 59K, black, nice $23,981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2009 MDX, silver, 56K, 3rd row, lthr, cert 100K warr, $24,794. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2008 ACURA TSX TECH, navigation, white, leather, 91K, $15,981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2008 ACURA MDX, navigation, DVD, 3rd row, lthr, 75K, $24,981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2007 ACURA RDX AWD Turbo, nav, 83K, lthr, snrf, $16,984. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2006 ACURA MDX, white, tan int, 72K, very well kept, $16,981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2004 ACURA MDX, white, tan int, 180K, 3rd row, leather, $9981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 Come see Bob Howard Acura's great selection of luxury used cars, trucks, and SUVs! BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752

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¡CASH¡

CALL 1st OR LAST

Auction 69 Ford Mustang Convertible & 66 Ford Mustang. Bridges Auction - 580-492-5260

2010 BUICK LACROSSE, V-6, leather, sunroof, navi, $20,981. Bob Howard Buick GMC 936-8822 2004 Buick Park Avenue, all options, loaded , 1 owner $8,900 Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 '00 Park Ave., loaded, dependable, hail damage $2,250 ¡ 863-6399 1995 BUICK CENTURY Special Edition, power windows & locsk, $1500. 405-310-0583 co.

$250 & UP!! ¡CALL BECCA¡

405-408-4835 NO TITLE .... THATS OK

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WE PAY & TOW AWAY Your unwanted vehicle - wrecked, running or not.

¡ No Title - No Problem ¡

‘‘ 512-7278 ‘‘ Servicing OKC, Edmond, Yukon, Norman & MWC

1999 Chevy Camaro, auto, for parts, $600 »»» 405-324-5992 AAA cash car, trk cycle. Run/notfree tow. From $350 850-9696

Saturday Service Hrs 9am - 2pm Conventional Oil Change only $9.95, 8am - 11am. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2012 ACURA TL, SH-AWD, Navigation, Sunroof, Spoiler, Heated Seats, Only 10k miles, $33788. 405-562-5391 co. 2012 MDX TECH, nav, 14K, 3rd row, perfect family car, $37,983. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2012 TSX SE, silver, 7K, auto, lthr, cert 100K warr, $25,981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2012 ACURA TL, AWD, nav white 39K, cert 100K warr $32,983. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2011 MDX TECH/ent, nav, DVD, 3rd row, cert 100K warr, $33,493. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2011 ACURA MDX, 3rd row, lthr, cert 100K warr, $33,482. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2011 ACURA MDX ADVANCE, nicely loaded, 27K, black, $39,981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2011 ACURA RL TECH, nav, only 10K pampered miles, $38,981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2011 MDX, 34K, black, 3rd row, financing avail WAC, $33,981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2011 TSX, white, 35K, leather, 4 cyl, auto, fin. avail WAC, $22,594. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2010 ACURA TSX, maroon, 49K, lthr, snrf, cert 100K warr, $20,994 BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2010 ACURA TSX, V6, navigation, 64K, white, leather, $23,981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752

2011 BMW 5-Series Automatic, Mojave Metallic ext, Beige int, Leather Interior, excellent cond, 16200 mi, 2011 BMW 535i xDrive, ONE OWNER excellent condition inside and out, always garaged. Loaded with options. $46000 Tulsa 918-671-6758

'11 BMW 135I COUPE, hurry, $28,950. VOLVO JAGUAR OKC Call Terry 405-596-6789 '11 BMW 528i, black beauty! Loaded with only 47K mi, won't last! $34,613. 405-896-2190 co. 2010 BMW Z4 sDrive, CONVERTIBLE, super sexy car! Only 25K miles!! $35,988. 405-310-0583 co. '08 BMW 328i SEDAN, only 56K mi, leather, loaded! $17,988. 405-896-2190 co. '07 BMW 328xi, 65K, black, AWD, lthr, loaded, $15,984 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com

'04 BMW 330i, leather, roof, automatic, will not last! Great import, $10,988. 405-896-2190 co.

"BEST PRICE On any Buick or GMC in the state, Guaranteed" Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 'BEST SERVICE On any Buick or GMC in the state, Guaranteed" Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 2013 Buick Verano loaded, w/turn by turn, navi, $20,900. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2011 BUICK LACROSSE CXS, $25,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2011 BUICK REGAL CXL, black on black, leather, loaded, $19,988. 405-310-0583 co.

2009 IMPALA LS, 77K miles, clean economy car, clean Carfax, $9988. 405-310-0583 co.

2000 CADILLAC CATERA, power windows & locks, runs good, A/C blows cold, $5988. 405-310-0583 co. 2013 CADILLAC ATS, 2.0L Turbo, back up camera, magnetic ride control, heads up display, navigation, $42,988. 405-562-5391 co.

2013 CADILLAC SRX, heated seats, sunroof, navigation, backup camera, loaded!!! $39,988. 405-562-5391 co.

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2013 CHEVROLET IMPALA, full factory warr, LT Pkg, bluetooth, remote start, sunroof, $17,988. 405-562-5391 co. 2013 CHEVY IMPALA, LT Pkg, 3.6L V6, gas saver & lots of room, $17,988. 405-310-0583 co.

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FOR YOUR JUNK AUTO

'04 Cadillac DeVille, Loaded, Red, Excellent, 134K mi. ¡ $5,995 513-4543, Edmond

2003 CADILLAC ESV, loaded, P/W, P/L, roof, $9900. 405-310-0583 co.

JEEP Willys, 1946 CJ2A, $2,000, call 405-670-6063

2012 Audi A3 Hatchback, FWD, 4 cyl.turbo diesel, Automatic, Silver ext, Black leather int, like new cond, A/C, AM/FM stereo, CD, fold down rear seat, satellite radio, sunroof, $28,750. 405-823-5562 '12 AUDI A6 SEDAN, 8K mls., "loaded", $39,999. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165 2012 Audi A6, 49K, black, lthr, loaded, lo mi, $38,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com '07 A4 SEDAN FWD, moon, lthr, AT, AC, PW PL $14,994 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

'05 CADILLAC CTS, only 67K, $10,900. VOLVO JAGUAR OKC Call Terry 405-596-6789

2009 CHEVROLET COBALT SS, a Bad Boy, manual, black on black, $15,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2009 Chevy Impala, 78K, white, reduced $12,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com 2009 CHEVY IMPALA 3.5 LT, lthr, rear spoiler, X clean, $11,988. 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com

2008 CHEVROLET MALIBU HYBRID, LS trim, automatic, keyless entry, alloys, $12,988. 405-562-5391 co.

2013 Chevy Impala LT, loaded, GM Certified, only $16,900. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 2013 XTS PREMIUM, 8600 miles, black on caramel, ride in luxury, $45,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2013 CADILLAC CTS COUPE VSERIES, Crystal Red, Automatic, Navigation, Custom Wheels, $59,988. 405-562-5391 co. 2013 CADILLAC XTS, Platinum, Cue System, Navigation, Heated/Cooled Seats, Loaded, $53,988 405-562-5391 co. '12 CADILLAC CTS CPE., 29K mls., $29,995. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165 2012 CADILLAC CTS-V, navigation, Recaro seats, super fast & super clean! $58,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2012 CADILLAC CTS, 5 to choose from, all leather & loaded! $28,988 & up! 405-310-0583 co. 2012 CADILLAC CTS SEDAN, Luxury Pgke, Heated Seats, Sunroof, Back up Camera, $24,988. 405-562-5391 co. 2011 CADILLAC EXT, only 21K miles, 22's, navigation, backup camera, sunroof, only $48,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2011 CADILLAC SRX, Performance Collection, 20'' wheels, nav, roof, backup camera. 405-310-0583 co. 2011 Cadillac CTS, must see! One owner, all options, only 17k miles. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 2010 CADILLAC DTS, Premium Collection, navigation, sunroof, heated & cooled seats, low miles, only $26,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2010 CADILLAC SRX, panoramic sunroof, leather, heated seats, won't last long at $29,988. 405-310-0583 co. '10 SRX Luxury, nav, moon, loaded, $32,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM 2009 CADILLAC SRX, power windows & locks, leather, all the goodies, only 67K miles, $18,988. 405-310-0583 co.

2008 CADILLAC CTS, matte black, professionally done, black rims, SLEEK! $15,988. 405-310-0583 co.

2013 Chevy Cruze LT, one owner, loaded, ony 1k miles. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 2013 Chevy Cruze, 5K, black, like new, $17,981 753-8792‘ BobHowardHonda.com

2012 CHEVROLET CRUZE LT, RS Pkg, local trade, only $14,988. BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000 '12 CHEVY MALIBU LT, roof, 17K mls., $16,991. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165 2012 CHEVY CAMARO 2SS, 6.2L V8, sunroof, backup camera, $28,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2012 MALIBU, 18K, white/tan, financing avail WAC, $17,484. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752

2011 CHEVROLET CAMARO 2-SS CONVERTIBLE, 6 sp, automatic, RS Package, remote start, $29,988. 405-562-5391 co.

2008 CHEVY MALIBU LTZ, sunroof, leather, great MPG, $11,988. 405-562-5391 co. 2008 Chevy Impala LT, 1 owner, all opts, 40k, certified, only $13,500 Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 2007 Impala, 89K, silver, like new, gas saver, $10,981. 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com 2006 Chevy Malibu, one owner, all options, LT, special sale price $6900. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 '04 Monte Carlo, cold AC, dependable, high miles $3,750. 863-6399 2002 Cavalier 2 door sport coupe, 4 cyl, twin cam, auto, new paint, very nice, $2500 obo, 537-0006.

2012 CHRY 300 LIMITEDS, miles mid 20's, rainbow colors $21,988. 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com

2011 CHRYSLER 300 LIMITED, navigation, heated seats, alloys, keyless, loaded, only 10K miles, $26,488. 405-562-5391 co. 2009 Chrysler 300C, 18K, red, lthr loaded lo mi $21,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com

'13 DODGE CHARGER R/T, 5K mls., nav, roof, beats audio, $37,881. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165 '11 CHEVY CORVETTE GRAND SPORT CONVERTIBLE, $48,900. VOLVO JAGUAR OKC Call Terry 405-596-6789

'11 CHEVY CRUZE, 4 cyl., great gas mileage, 100K mi, power train warranty! $14,988. 405-896-2190 co.

2012 DODGE CHARGER SE, Get your card out, this is a real Charger! Seriously, super clean, 30K mi, priced to move, $21,492! Call William. (405) 310-0511 co.

2011 Chevy Camaro SS, V8, all options, one owner Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2008 CADILLAC DTS, "Riding in Style", Only $13,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2008 CADILLAC STS, Navigation, Sunroof, Only 30k miles, Super Nice Car, $19,988. 405-562-5391 co '08 CADILLAC STS, all options, 1 owner, pearl white. VOLVO JAGUAR OKC Call Terry 405-596-6789 2008 CADILLAC SRX 4DR. SUV, AWD, lthr. int, 48k mi, loaded, 3rd row, snrf, $22,000 405-623-4025 2007 CADILLAC XLR CONVERTIBLE, Only 50k miles, Chrome Wheels, Navigation, Very Rare, $31,988. 405-562-5391 co. 2005 CADILLAC STS, navigation, sunroof, great driver, only $11,988. 405-562-5391 co.

2012 DODGE AVENGER, automatic, chrome wheels, sporty and great mpg, $15,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2011 Challenger, 15K, gray, lo mi, lthr, Hemi, $27,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com 2010 CHEVROLET CAMARO LT, custom paint job, P/W, P/L, clean Carfax, $22,988. 405-310-0583 co.

2009 CHEVROLET HHR, LS Package, AM/FM CD player, remote start, automatic, $11,488. 405-562-5391 co.

2010 DODGE CHALLENGER SRT8, Carfax 1 owner, sunroof, alloys, custom racing stripes, $32,988. 405-562-5391 co. '10 DODGE CHARGER R/T, 30K mls., nav, roof, $23,881. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165

2010 Dodge Caliber 57K silver price reduced $11,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com 2010 DODGE CHARGER, SXT, auto, alloys, nice only $14988. 405-562-5391 co., '10 JOURNEY SXT, 3 row, 64K, some hail, $10,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM 2009 DODGE CHARGER SE, cloth int, 104K, white, sharp, $11,981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 '05 Stratus SXT, 2.7L, 111K, cold AC, loaded, $3450. 669-4094 2000 DODGE CHARGER SXT X-clean, low miles black $14,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com

2013 Ford Focus red gas saver lo mi right price $16,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com

2012 FORD FUSION SEL, clean car, 31K miles, still under factory warranty, only $17,988. (405) 310-0511 co.

2012 FORD FOCUS SEL, automatic, clean car, $15,988. 405-310-0583 co. '12 FUSION SE FWD, 22K, moon, alloys some hail $13,997 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM '12 FORD MUSTANG, auto, air, chrome wheels, 23K mi, $20,988. 405-896-2190 co. 2012 FORD FUSION SELpkg lthr loaded, Car Fax low mi $17,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2012 Focus 30K white, super clean, lo mi, $14,481 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com 2012 Ford Focus 39K silver gas saver low miles $14,484 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com 2011 Ford F350 Crew Cab, diesel 4x4, with work bed, only $25,900. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 2011 Ford Fiesta 35K silver gas saver lo mi $14,481 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com

'09 FORD FUSION SE, 51K mi, manual transmission! Great gas mileage, $12,988. 405-896-2190 co. 2009 FORD FUSION SE, V6, Carfax 1 owner, power windows & locks, sunroof, leather, alloys, $10,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2009 FORD FUSION, leather, loaded, two tone, low miles, $14,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2008 FORD MUSTANG GT DELUXE, black, $15,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2007 Mustang GT, leather, automatic, exc. condition, 29K miles. $14,500 Call 262-2410 before 7pm '07 Ford Focus, auto, AC, alloys, CD, 52K mi, $4900. 203-9612 '06 MUSTANG CONVERTIBLE, V6, AT, $10,999. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM 2005 FORD FOCUS HATCHBACK, automatic, extra clean, only $3988. BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000 2005 FORD FOCUS SEL, leather, roof, spoiler, only $4988. BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000 '05 FOCUS ZX4 SES, AT, AC, PW, PL, $6994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

NEW 2013 GMC EXT CAB 4WD, loaded, $29,864. Stk #DZ134730. Bob Howard Buick GMC 936-8822

2012 CIVIC COUPE SI, 6spd, blk, 19K, fin avail WAC, $20,483. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2012 HONDA CROSSTOUR EX-L, V6, 12K, 2WD, nav, $23,981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2012 Honda Accord Cpe LX-S, 18K black, cert, $17,981. 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com 2011 HONDA INSIGHT EX, Auto, One owner, Car Fax, only $15,988 BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000 2011 Honda Accord EX, 52K, red, certified, $16,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com 2011 HONDA ACCORD SE, 33K, grey, lthr, alloys, AC, $18,481. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2011 Honda Accord EX, 37K, Honda cert reduced $19,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com 2011 Accord LX, 51K, gray, gas saver low miles $15,484 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com 2010 Honda Crosstour, 47K, great price, lthr, nav, $19,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com '10 HONDA ACCORD EXL SDN, auto, leather, sunroof, $17,864. Bob Howard Buick GMC 936-8822

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2013

THE OKLAHOMAN

2009 HONDA ACCORD EXL, leather, roof, one owner Carfax, only $13,988. BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000 '09 ACCORD EX-L, leather, moon, $14,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM '08 ACCORD LX, AT, AC, PW, PL, $11,999. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM 2008 FIT SPORT, auto, lt blue, 55K, one owner, great car $12,482 BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 '07 ACCORD LX SEDAN, auto, AC, PW, PL, $7994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM 2005 HONDA ACCORD EXL Only 50k, loaded, only $12,988 BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000

2004 Jaguar AWD X-Type, leather, low miles, $5988. WHEELS OF NORMAN 364-1401

2014 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE OVERLAND, 4x4 all options, 1100 mi, already tagged, save $1000s 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com

'05 HUMMER H2, black exterior, hard to find, only 95K mi, $20,563.. 405-896-2190 co.

2013 Hyundai Sonata, one owner, only 4k miles. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 2013 HYUNDAI SONATA GSLPkg, loaded, 1 owner, Car Fax $16,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com

'13 JEEP WRANGLER UNLIMITED SAHARA, navigation/leather. VOLVO JAGUAR OKC Call Terry 405-596-6789 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo Limited, 4x4, one owner, all options. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 2012 Jeep Wrangler, 4 door, 4WD, Unlimited, all options. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 2012 JEEP COMPASS, Sport Pkg, one owner, clean Carfax, $15,988. 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2012 JEEP LIBERTY LIMITED, leather, loaded, $18,988. 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com

'13 VELOSTER 3dr CPE, PW, PL, AC, $18,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

2012 HYUNDAI ELANTRA GLS, auto, one owner, X clean $15,988. 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '10 HYUNDAI GENESIS COUPE, 17K mi, auto,air, one of a kind! $23,988. 405-896-2190 co. 2005 HYUNDAI SONATA black, Leather, loaded, $7,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '04 Sonata GLS, 138K, new tires/ AC, loaded, x nice $3950.201-3831

'11 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE LTD, $30,881. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165 2011 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE OVERLAND, leather, navigation, sunroof, sleek & sexy!!! $28,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2011 JEEP CHEROKEE OVERLAND, lthr, loaded, panoramic roof, Has it all, red $31,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '11 JEEP LIBERTY LMTD., 40K mls., $18,991. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165 2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee 66K white clean $15,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com 2007 JEEP CHEROKEE OVERLAND, Hemi, 1 owner, $12,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '07 GR CHEROKEE LTD 4WD 4dr, moon, loaded, $16,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

2012 INFINITI M37, silver w/charcoal interior, world class luxury, super clean, must see! Marked down, $36,988! Ask for Andy. (405) 310-0511 co. '12 INFINITI M37, Tech Pkg, $33,991. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165 '10 QX56, loaded, moon, nav, leather, $29,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

'05 LAND ROVER LR3 SE. Very nice condition, winch, $12,988. 405-896-2190 co.

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105 Carfax Certified 1st Quality 2007-2013 Mercedes Benz from $15,995 & w/miles as low as 1K. Most in full fact warr w/100k ext. warr avail. 1.74% for 66mo with app. Best credit. Trades welcome. Join 30,000+ satisfied clients today 972-243-3400, 9-6pm M-F. 2010 MB ML350, 51K, white, lthr, nav, nicely equipped, $28,994. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2004 MERCEDES C320, Auto, Sunroof, Leather, nice $6988. 405-562-5391 co. '03 MERCEDES S-430, loaded, $11,995. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165 '02 Mercedes SLK 230, silver with black leather pkg, 85K miles, like new, garaged kept, exc. condition, $8,700 » » » 405-227-2207

2012 NISSAN MAXIMA 3.5 SE, sunroof, low low miles, $19,988. 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com

2011 NISSAN JUKE S, graphite w/grey int, only 16K mi, super clean and low miles, only $18,988 (405) 310-0511 co. '11 NISSAN 370Z, TOURING, 29K mls., $29,991. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165 '11 VERSA, AT, AC, mpg plus, $11,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM 2011 NISSAN ROGUE, S, Auto, nice and ready to go, $13988. 405-562-5391 co.

2010 NISSAN ALTIMA, Blue, super low miles at 20K, clean and well maintained, must go! $19,988. (405) 310-0511 co.

'11 LEXUS LS460, leather, roof, nav, hard loaded! Only 21K mi, $47,988. 405-896-2190 co.

'11 LEXUS IS250, only 28,000 miles, perfect color, $28,900. VOLVO JAGUAR OKC Call Terry 405-596-6789 2011 IS350, 24K, lthr, red, loaded, new tires & ready to ride $34,981 BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752

2012 MINI COOPER HATCHBACK, automatic, Carfax 1 owner, alloys, leather, $21,988. 405-562-5391 co.

2010 NISSAN MAXIMA, great mpg, clean Carfax, automatic, 3.5L V6, $19,988. 405-310-0583 co.

2007 LEXUS ES350, silver, nav, lthr, 107K, nicely loaded $14,494. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2005 RX330, Thundercloud Edtn, silver, 130K, lthr, nav, $13,982. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 '03 LS430 SEDAN, must see, $13,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

2007 Lincoln MKX 33K gold heat & cool lthr seats $19,981753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com

2013 NISSAN ALTIMA COUPE, eyecatching, hard to find, sleek & sporty, white w/charcoal int, only 18K mi, selling for $19,988. Call Sara. (405) 310-0511 co. 2010 NISSAN ALTIMA SL, sunroof, alloy wheels, power seat, loaded, 66K mi, Only $15,988. (405) 310-0511 co. 2010 NISSAN ALTIMA 2.5S, low miles, local trade, only $13,988. BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000

2007 Lincoln MKX 58K black lthr loaded lo mi $19,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com '05 LINCOLN LS, moon, leather, $7999. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM '03 Lincoln Town Car Cartier ivory pearl, 1 owner, 1/2 top, loaded, exc cond, 55K, $10,500. 823-5872 '97 Mark 8 LSC, 157K, dependable, cold AC, $1750. 201-3831

2013 VOLKSWAGEN CC, blue w/charcoal leather, superior sporty driving luxury sedan, must see!!! 33K mi, only $23,988. Call Kevin. (405) 310-0511 co.

'13 ROGUE SV, FWD, 3K mi, some hail, $16,997. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

2013 NISSAN ALTIMA, silver, awesome fuel economy, 31K mi, the most innovative Altima ever! Only $19,988! Call Kevin. (405) 310-0511 co.

06 Trail rated Liberty, loaded, 63K dk bl/tan lthr/tow $16K 615-4377 '04 Jeep Liberty Limited, CD, cold AC, $5,450 ¡ 863-6399

'99 Jeep Wrangler, hard top, great hunting vehicle, only $6,900 Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2012 MAZDA 3I TOURING, certified Sky Active, 40mpg, only $16,988. BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000

2013 NISSAN JUKE SL, white w/charcoal leather, less than 1K miles!!! Loaded with turbo, only $20,988! Call Cameron. (405) 310-0511 co. '13 ALTIMA S, PW, PL, p/seat, AT, AC, $17,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

2009 NISSAN ALTIMA 2.5SL, leather, navi, roof, good Carfax, only $12,988. BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000 2009 NISSAN ALTIMA 2.5L, great gas mileage, sunroof, alloys, very nice car, $12,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2009 Nissan Altima, 52K, beige, reduced to $13,481 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com '07 ALTIMA SEDAN, PW, PL, AT, AC, 77K mi, $10,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

'98 Breeze, 2.4L, 4cyl, cold AC, dependable $1,450. 669-4094 2007 INFINITI G35, silver w/graphite leather, 47K mi, save $3000! Must sell for only $16,888. (405) 310-0511 co. 2012 KIA SOUL, back to school special! Fun, reliable, cute! Gray, auto, factory warr, 32K mi, only $15,902. Call Rocky. (405) 310-0511 co.

07 INFINITI G35 Sedan loaded, 57K mi, blk on blk. $16,500. Call 405-826-3669 '07 FX35, 52K mi, leather, moon, loaded, $22,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

2012 Kia Sportage 17K silver like new gas saver $19,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com 2012 SORENTO, 27K, auto, AC, like new, fin avail WAC $20,981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752

2006 G-35 93K black lthr loaded lo mi luxury $12,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com

2012 MAZDA 3 TOURING, 29K mi, gray on gray, super clean car, only $15,952. (405) 310-0511 co. 2012 Mazda CX9 Touring Leather, certified one owner only $23,988 BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000

2005 INFINITI G35, 35K miles, Wow!! Very clean car, $17,588. 405-310-0583 co.

2012 MAZDA 3I TOURING Hatchback, Certified, only $17,988 BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000

2012 MAZDA 2 Certified, only $14,988 BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000

'10 FORTE EX, PW, PL, AT, AC, some hail, $8997. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

'13 JAGUAR XF, all in stock, take $7000 off! VOLVO JAGUAR OKC Call Terry 405-596-6789

2009 Kia Rondo 72K like new gas saver super clean $8981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com

2005 JAGUAR S-TYPE, only 48K mi! Radiance red, beige leather, sunroof, priced to sell now!!! Only $10,988. Call Rocky. (405) 310-0511 co.

'07 MAZDA CXT, leather, moon, at pw pl alloys $11,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM '08 KIA SORENTO, 1 owner, only 24K! $14,900. VOLVO JAGUAR OKC Call Terry 405-596-6789

2008 SATURN OUTLOOK XR, loaded, cocoa exterior, tan leather int., 112K mi, must sell, $15,988. (405) 310-0511 co.

2010 MAZDA CX7 GRAND TOURING, leather, one owner, local trade, only $18,988. BobMooreMazda.com 405-301-8560

2007 MAZDA MIATA MX-5 Convertible, good Car Fax, $13,988 BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000

2006 MAZDA 6, V-6, local trade, only $8988. BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000

2010 VW BEETLE, only 13K mi!!! One owner, bright red, leather, super clean, NADA Value $16,100, My Price $13,988. Call Andy. (405) 310-0511 co. '10 GOLF HB, 31K miles, AT, PW, PL, $15,999. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM 2008 VW BUG CONVERTIBLE, alloys, leather, loaded, $10,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2007 VW PASSAT Wagon, 104K, black, auto, great 1st car $9981 BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752

2010 VOLVO XC90, leather, heated seats, 3rd row, sunroof, Carfax, 1 owner, $26,988. 405-562-5391 co.

'12 NISSAN VERSA, 1.8L 4 cyl gas sipper! Like new! Won't last, $14,988. 405-896-2190 co.

'08 MIATA CONV, hard top Grand Touring, $16,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

2012 VW JETTA SE, gray w/gray leather, touch screen, 37K mi, Only $16,988. (405) 310-0511 co. '12 BEETLE, AT, AC, PW, PL, $16,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM '12 TIGUAN S 2WD, AT, AC, PW, PL, $17,999. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM 2011 VOLKSWAGEN CC R-Line, loaded and extra nice, one owner, $20,988. BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000

'03 VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT GLS, leather, sunroof, excellent condition! $6988. 405-896-2190 co.

2012 NISSAN ALTIMA S, 2 to choose from, miles in the low 30s, super clean, Your Pick $15,488. (405) 310-0511 co.

2011 MAZDA MIATA, hard top GT, auto, leather, priced to sell fast, $21,988. BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000

2010 Mazda 3, 60K, blue, gas saver, lo mi, $11,981. 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com

2013 VW PASSAT, black w/gray int., great mpg, needs to go at $17,991. (405) 310-0511 co. '13 CC SPORT, nav, PW, PL, leather, $23,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

2009 SATURN VUE XE, super clean, black on gray, alloy wheels, Onstar, must sell, $13,451. (405) 310-0511 co. 2009 SATURN VUE, XE, auto, rack, power seat, nice $12,998. 405-562-5391 co.,

2012 MAZDA CX7 sporty import, 1 owner, Car Fax low mi, $17,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com

'13 JAGUAR XJ, brand new, take $12,000 off! VOLVO JAGUAR OKC Call Terry 405-596-6789

2009 KIA OPTIMA, 76K mi, perfect car for your son, daughter...or you! Low, low price of $9953. Call Kevin. (405) 310-0511 co.

2009 PONTIAC G-8, GT SEDAN, Premium/Sport Package, Leather, Heated Seats, $20,998 405-562-5391 co. 2009 PONTIAC G-6, GT, leather, sunroof, nice only $11988. 405-562-5391 co., 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix, leather, loaded, bought here new, $8,900 Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2012 NISSAN MAXIMA, navy blue, charcoal interior, sunroof, dual climate control, hail free! Real eyecatcher, $21,988. Call Rocky. (405) 310-0511 co.

2012 MAZDA 6 Auto, Certified, only $16,988 BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000

2012 MAZDA 6i TOURING, automatic, power seat, windows & locks, gas saver & only $15,988. 405-310-0583 co. '11 KIA OPTIMA SX-T-GDI, $23,450. VOLVO JAGUAR OKC Call Terry 405-596-6789

2012 NISSAN ALTIMA SPECIAL EDITION, white, 19K mi, power pkg, selling for NADA value $18,625, Priced to move at $16,988. (405) 310-0511 co.

2012 Mazda 3 I Touring, Auto, one owner, Car Fax cert, ONLY $15,994 BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000

2012 MAZDA CX7 Crossover SUV, Certified, only $19,588 BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000 2011 KIA SPORTAGE, only 25K mi! Bronze with gray int, loaded, ready for summer at $19,988. (405) 310-0511 co.

'10 TOYOTA MATRIX S, only 61K mi, auto, air, great import! $13,988. 405-896-2190 co. 2008 TOYOTA AVALON, leather, sunroof, loaded, $14,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2007 Toyota Camry, all options, loaded, one owner, only 60k miles Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 '06 TOYOTA COROLLA, automatic, air, import reliability at domestic price! $9893. 405-896-2190 co. '01 Toyota Corolla, runs, AC, manual trans, AS IS $2,250obo. » » » 405-248-8169 » » »

2010 NISSAN SENTRA SR, must see! Hard to find SR Edition, white, 39K mi, was $15,988, must sell!! $13,650. (405) 310-0511 co.

'06 COMMANDER, 4WD, 4dr, 3 row, $12,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

2003 Jeep Wrangler, hard top, V6, loaded, one owner, low miles Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2012 TOYOTA CAMRY Hybrid low miles,X-clean only $12,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2013 TOYOTA VENZA XLE, navigation, roof, loaded, under 2000 miles! Save thousands compared to new! 405-310-0583 co. 2012 TOYOTA COROLLA, auto, loaded, $13,988. 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2012 Toy Camry, 31K, super clean, lo mi, $19,981. 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com 2011 Toyota FJ Cruiser 4WD, auto, 23k 1 owner miles, $28,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com

'12 LEXUS IS-250, 12K mls, $31,881. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165

2011 Lexus LS460L, one owner, all options, only 14k miles. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2011 JEEP CHEROKEE OVERLAND, THE Luxury in Off Roading, all options, loaded, $28,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2012 HYUNDAI ACCENT, silver blue, 100K mi warranty! 35+ mpg, what a deal at $14,351! Call William. (405) 310-0511 co.

'11 RANGE ROVER SPORT, Luxury Pkg, black exterior, must see! $47,988. 405-896-2190 co.

'10 RANGE ROVER SPORT, only 37K mi, hard loaded, one of a kind, $39,988. 405-896-2190 co.

2001 Honda Accord, loaded, locally owned, only $3,900 Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

1997 Civic, black, 2 dr, Auto, 18'' rims & tires $2500 obo 204-2792

2012 LAND ROVER EVOQUE, 4WD, Navigation, Sunroof, 24 K miles, go anywhere only $42,988. 405-562-5391 co.

2010 RANGE ROVER SPORT 4WD, navigation, Luxury Pkg, extremely clean car won't last long! 405-310-0583 co.

2004 Honda Accord LX Sedan 4-Door 2.4L, 68k, Gold/Tan, $2900. 919-659-5728

2001 Honda Accord UEX $3550 692-8855 or 326-8855.

'13 LAND ROVER SPORT, Autobiography, 3700 miles, $81,900. VOLVO JAGUAR OKC Call Terry 405-596-6789

2012 Mercedes Benz E350, one owner, AMG package, panoramic roof, nav, Harmon Kardon sound system, all options, only 12k miles! Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 '12 MERCEDES ML350, 29K mi, like new, will not last at this price, $47,988. 405-896-2190 co. 2012 MERCEDES E350 BLUETECH, great gas mileage, AMG Appearance pkg, $41,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2011 MERCEDES BENZ GLK350, leather, loaded, only 29K miles, $30,988. 405-310-0583 co.

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2012 NISSAN MAXIMA, Carfax 1 owner, alloys, clean car, $23,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2012 NISSAN ALTIMA, S Pkg, several to choose, $14,988. 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2012 ALTIMA Sedan, cloth, auto, 32K, slvr great comm car $15,482 BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2012 Nissan Versa, 41K, red, gas saver, low mi, $11,984 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com '12 ALTIMA 2.5S, AT, AC, PW, PL, $14,781. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM 2012 Nissan Versa 36K black gas saver lo mi $12,982 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com

2008 SATURN VUE REDLINE, P/W, P/L, clean SUV, $14,988, won't last!!!! 405-310-0583 co. 2007 SATURN AURA, XE, auto, loaded $9988. 405-562-5391 co.,

'10 VOLVO XC-90, leather, sunroof, $25,900. VOLVO JAGUAR OKC Call Terry 405-596-6789 '10 VOLVO XC60, only $19,900, leather/sunroof! VOLVO JAGUAR OKC Call Terry 405-596-6789

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2006 SCION TC, ground effects, 5 spd, 88K mi, white w/charcoal, tuner or 1st car, need to sell! $9300, ask for Hope. (405) 310-0511 co.

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2011 FORD RANGER, hard to find, red, only 17K mi, clean one owner, NADA value $21,200, selling for $18,950! Call Sara. (405) 310-0511 co.

2010 ESCALADE EXT, under warranty, has everything, $43,988. 405-310-0583 co.

2010 FORD F150 PLATINUM, silver w/black leather, every option avail., touch screen nav & sunroof, super clean, $34,988. Ask for Hope. (405) 310-0511 co. '10 FORD F-150 4x4 PLATINUM, $33,991. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165 2010 F150 Super Crew Platinum 4x4, lthr, roof, Nav, $31,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com

2013 CHEVROLET SILVERADO LT, 16K miles, 1 owner, save thousands, $26,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2012 Chevy Crew Cab Z-71, 4x4, loaded, 6k miles, call for price! Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 2012 Chevy Crew Cab, 4x4, all terrain pkg., loaded, one owner! Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 2012 CHEVY C1500 Crew Cab LT pkg, 16k 1 owner miles, $27,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com

2009 FORD F-150 CREW CAB, Platinum, 4WD, Carfax 1 owner, super nice, $30,988. 405-562-5391 co.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2013 '02 Old Silhouette 3rd row seats depndbl. dual ac $3850 863-6399

2011 BUICK ENCLAVE CXL, P/W, P/L, leather, loaded, must see, $28,988. 405-310-0583 co. '10 BUICK ENCLAVE CXL, buckets, 35K mls., $28,881. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165

2013 CADILLAC ESCALADE AWD, navigation, roof, DVD, heated/cooled seats, 2nd row buckets, $65,988. 405-562-5391 co. 2013 CADILLAC ESCALADE ESV, power boards, navigation, DVD, rear buckets, only $65,288. 405-310-0583 co.

2012 CADILLAC SRX, navigation, sunroof, back up camera, heated seats, only 10K miles, $38,988. 405-562-5391 co.

2009 Ford F150 Crew Cab 4x4 King Ranch, 1 owner, all options, call for price! Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 08 Ford 350 Turbo Deisel, 4x4, ex cond, 4dr, long bed, lthr seats, 25,600 mi, $35,000 405-517-1575 2007 FORD F-150 XLT, one owner Carfax, only $12,451 BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000

2011 CADILLAC ESCALADE EXT, navigation, sunroof, heated/cooled seas, rear entertainment, $54,988. 405-562-5391 co.

'06 FORD F-150 CREW LARIAT, $15,881. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165 2011 CHEVROLET AVALANCHE LTZ, white diamond, great Carfax, $34,988. BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000

For Sale 2004 Ford F-150 Heritage Regular Cab, 4WD, 4.2 V6, Manual, good cond, 150,000 mi, $4,500, Andy Hudgens andyhudgens8@outlook.com (575) 626 5135

2011 Chevy Avalanche LT, one owner, loaded, only 18k miles! Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2004 Ford Harley Davidson 250 Turbo Dsl 4 door, 4X4, black, fully loaded, 113,000 miles, $19,500 obo, 405-974-8178

'11 CHEVY SILVERADO LTZ CREW CAB 4x4, leather, loaded! Must see! $43,988. 405-896-2190 co.

'99 Ford F350, diesel, flatbed, DW $3,950 ยก 863-6399 '97 Ford Ranger, 80K miles, Exc. Condition $5,100 405-917-1998

2011 CHEVY SILVERADO 2500HD LTZ, diesel Crew Cab, only 17K iles & only $42,588. 405-310-0583 co.

'NEW 2014 GMC CREW CABS, ready for immediately delivery!" Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2011 Chev. Silverado 6cyl. auto. black LS pkg ARE hardtop 1 owner 22,400 miles $16,900. 613-7909

2013 New GMC 1500 Reg Cab Sierra $16,900 all rebates applied. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2010 CHEVY AVALANCHE LTZ, sunroof, navigation, DVDs, Carfax 1 owner, $34,988. 405-562-5391 co.

2008 CHEVY AVALANCHE, one owner, all options, loaded, $16,900. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 2008 Chevy 2500 Ext Cab LT, diesel, one owner. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 2008 Chevy 1500 Crew Cab, loaded, one owner, only $12,900. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 2008 Chevy 2500 LT Crew Cab, 4x4, dsl, 1 owner, all opt, $28,700 Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

'07 CHEVY TAHOE LT, 60K mls., $23,991. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165 2011 CADILLAC ESCALADE AWD, Platinum, DVD, navigation, roof, clean, $54,988. 405-562-5391 co. 2010 CADILLAC ESCALADE, Hybrid, sunroof, entertainment, economical only $38988. 405-562-5391 co. 2010 CADILLAC ESCALADE, 54K, white, nav, fin avail WAC $40,981 BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752

2008 CADILLAC ESCALADE AWD, navigation, sunroof, heated/cooled seats, 2nd row buckets, chrome 22's, $32,988. 405-562-5391 co.

2011 GMC 1500 Crew Cab SLE, only 8k miles! Call for Price! Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

'07 CADILLAC ESCALADE, 80K mls., $26,881. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165

2011 GMC 1500 Crew Cab Denali, one owner, loaded, call for price. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

'05 ESCALADE AWD, 4dr, pearl wht, $14,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

2011 GMC SIERRA Quad Cab, 17K, 2WD, fin avail WAC, $26,482 BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752

2013 Chevy Traverse LTZ, one owner, loaded, call for price. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2009 GMC SIERRA CREW CAB SLT 4x4, Z71 Package, chrome package, running boards, $30,988. 405-562-5391 co. 2009 GMC 1500 Crew, 4x4, SLT, one owner, leather, all options, priced to sell, $24,900. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2012 Chevy Suburban LTZ, 4x4, nav, dvd, loaded, 1 owner, call for price. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

'07 GMC SIERRA CREW, 60K mls., $19,995. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165

2011 CHEVROLET EQUINOX FWD 2LT Package, leather, keyless, alloys, great MPG's, only 20K miles, $21,988. 405-562-5391 co.

2012 Chrysler 200 Limited, loaded, all options. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2010 NISSAN TITAN LE CREW CAB, leather, alloys, running boards, 1 owner, tow pkg, $22,988. 405-562-5391 co.

2013 RAM 1500 4X4, Express, Hemi, 20's, Sport bumpers, 3200 1 owner miles, Save $1000s 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com

'04 TITAN LE CREW CAB, 4WD, $12,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

2012 DODGE RAM 4X4 CREW CAB BIG HORN, HEMI, $29,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com

2010 DODGE RAM Crew Cab SLT, Hemi, one owner, 36K mi, $21988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2009 DODGE RAM, 1500 SLT, liner, alloys, boards all for $18,980. 405-562-5391 co.

2011 TOY. TUNDRA 4x4 Crew Cab 5.7 clean Carfax $27,988. 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '10 TOYOTA TACOMA ACCESS CAB, A/C, auto, $14,900. VOLVO JAGUAR OKC Call Terry 405-596-6789 "LARGE SELECTION of trucks, Crew Cabs, Regular Cabs, Extended Cabs, several to choose from!" Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2012 HONDA CRV, automatic, power windows & locks, Carfax 1 owner, $19,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2012 GMC TERRAIN SLE-1, super clean, charcoal w/charcoal interior, great mpg, bluetooth, was $25,988, now only $22,955. (405) 310-0511 co.

2012 Honda CRV 14K black super clean lo mi $24,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com

2012 GMC TERRAIN SLT, chrome pkg, including rims, very clean car, $28,988. 405-310-0583 co.

2012 Dodge Journey 39K red AWD loaded $18,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com

2011 HONDA CRV SE, perfect Carfax, priced to sell fast, $19,925 BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000 2011 GMC TERRAIN SLE-2, loaded, class & performance from an SUV! Black w/black int., must sell, $21,950. Call Sara. (405) 310-0511 co.

2011 HONDA PILOT, 43K, maroon, 3rd row, lthr, 4x4, $26,483. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2011 PILOT EX-L, 57K, white, 2WD, 3rd row, fin avail $24,981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2011 Honda CRV 30K green Honda cert $23,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com

'11 DODGE NITRO Heat! Silver ext only 19K mi like new, $15,988 405-896-2190 co.

2011 Honda Pilot, 62K, silver, 3rd row, all pwr, $19,982 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com 2011 GMC SIERRA SLE CREW CAB, leather, tonneau cover, running boards, chrome package, Bose stereo, $26,988. 405-562-5391 co. 2011 FORD FLEX SEL AWD, chrome wheels, Sony stereo, 3rd row seating, rear heat/air, $23,988. 405-562-5391 co.

2011 Honda Pilot 43K super clean lo mi reduced to $27,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com '10 HONDA CRV EXL auto leather sunroof $17,864. Bob Howard Buick GMC 936-8822 2009 HONDA PILOT 2WD, cloth int, 109K, 3rd row, $15,981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2009 Honda CRV 40K like new gas saver clean $19,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com

'11 EDGE Limited, AWD, dual moon, lthr, $28,991. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

2008 HONDA CR-V AWD, red, 57K, fin avail WAC, $17,994. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2008 Honda CRV 65K like new gas saver clean $17,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com 2007 HONDA ELEMENT SC 2WD, 104K, fun little SUV, $13,981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 2005 HONDA PILOT, 3rd row, lthr, 170K, good driver, $7981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752

2008 FORD EXPEDITION Eddie Bauer, beautiful dark blue w/2 tone leather, loaded, ready to roll, $2500 below NADA, Ready to Roll at $19,952. (405) 310-0511 co.

2011 CHEV TRAVERSE, 42K, black, clean, $20,484. 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com

2011 GMC ACADIA, nice 3rd row SUV, bronze, super clean, only 52K mi, only $21,488. (405) 310-0511 co. 2011 GMC Yukon, all options, one owner, only $24,900. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 '08 FORD EXPEDITION, leather, roof, alloys, very nice! $15,988. 405-896-2190 co. '08 FORD EXPLORER LIMITED, 80K mls., $15,995. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165

2010 CHEVROLET EQUINOX, 87K, financing avail WAC, $14,584. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752

2007 FORD EXPLORER, XLT, Sunroof, super nice, $11988. 405-562-5391 co.

2009 Chevy Suburban LT, lthr, 4x4, dvd, 1 owner, only $24,900. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2013 GMC YUKON XL DENALI, 20'' wheels, power boards, navigation, roof, DVD, 2nd row buckets, just like new! $58,988. 405-310-0583 co.

2008 Chevy Suburban LT, one owner, loaded, all options, priced to sell today, $16,900. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 2008 CHEVY EQUINOX LT, leather, sunroof, great gas mileage, $13,988. 405-310-0583 co.

2008 HYUNDAI VERA CRUZ, loaded, even has rear entertainment DVD! Must see. Only $17,988. (405) 310-0511 co.

'08 FORD EXPLORER Eddie Bauer Edition, leather, loaded, V6, $12,988. 405-896-2190 co.

2011 CHEVY EQUINOX, Navigation, nice , only 37K miles, $22988. 405-562-5391 co.

2010 CHEVY TAHOE, 20'' wheels, 3rd row seating, room for everyone, $25,988. 405-310-0583 co. NISSAN FRONTIER SE, automatic, Crew Cab, good Carfax, $19,867 BobMooreMazda.com 405-775-7000

Offroad Package 2001 Dodge Ram 1500 Manual, Black ext, 120,000 mi, $4800. 405-570-0404

2011 Chevy Traverse LT loaded, one owner Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2011 CHEVY EQUINOX 2LT, leather, power liftgate, $21,988. 405-310-0583 co.

2011 Dodge Ram 1500 Laramie 57K black lthr $28,982 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com

'12 HONDA CRV AWD EXL, loaded, $24,950. VOLVO JAGUAR OKC Call Terry 405-596-6789

2011 GMC YUKON DENALI AWD, rear entertainment, sunroof, navigation, loaded!!! $45,988. 405-562-5391 co.

2011 CHEVROLET TAHOE LTZ, 4X4, sunroof, 2nd row buckets, DVDs, 22" wheels, super clean ride $40,988. 405-562-5391 co.

'04 CHEVY SILVERADO SS, AWD, 89K mls., $16,881. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165

2006 DODGE RAM 1500 Regular Cab, V-8, automatic, tonneau cover, only 60K miles, $12,988. 405-562-5391 co.

2013 DODGE DURANGO RT, Hemi, lthr, Alpine stereo, AWD, 8500 one owner mi, $34,988. 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com

'12 FRONTIER CC, AT, AC, PW, PL, $19,999. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

'06 SILVERADO EXT CAB LT, 87K, $12,995. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

'13 GMC TERRAIN SLE-2, 15K mls., $24,555. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165

2011 GMC YUKON DENALI AWD, pwr boards, captains, navigation, sunroof, rear entertainment, $39,988. 405-562-5391 co.

'12 TITAN CC 4WD PRO 4X , 7K mi, $31,991. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

'11 RAM CREW CAB LARAMIE, loaded, $28,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

2006 Chrysler Pacifica 73K blue low miles $9481 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com

2007 GMC 1500 Ext Cab SLT 4x4, leather, loaded, low miles Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2008 Honda Ridgeline 73K black 4WD lo mi $17,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com

2007 CHEVY SILVERADO LS2, chrome wheels, Crew Cab, nice nice truck! Only $16,988. (405) 310-0511 co.

'96 Chevy Suburban LT 159K, new AC/tires/parts, $2,250. 669-4094

'13 CHEVY TAHOE LTZ 4x4, nav, roof, DVD, $49,991. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165 2013 Chev Equinox 1K black like new gas saver $22,484 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com

2013 GMC Acadia all options NEW $28,900 all rebates applied. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2005 Chevy Tahoe LT Z-71 4x4 one owner, leather, 40k miles Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2012 DODGE DURANGO CREW AWD, leather, 1 owner $29,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com

2011 GMC 1500 Ext Cab, loaded, one owner, Call for Price! Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2010 CHEVY SILVERADO 1500, power windows & locks, chrome appearance package, only 17K miles, $21,988. 405-310-0583 co.

2008 CHEVY SUBURBAN Z71 4x4 all possible options $24,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2008 CHEVY SUBURBAN, lthr, loaded, Clean Car Fax $18,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com

'06 FORD F-150 CREW, "Regency", 59K mls., $18,995. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165

'11 CHEVY SILVERADO CREW CAB, LT Pkg, w/chrome twenties! $25,900. VOLVO JAGUAR OKC Call Terry 405-596-6789

2011 CHEVY C1500 EXT CAB Xclean, white, low miles, $19,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com

2013 New GMC Terrain starting at only $23,900. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 2013 New GMC Yukons, several to choose from, only $37,900. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757

2011 GMC Terrain, one owner, all options, only $19,900. Byford Buick GMC 405.246.9757 2011 GMC ACADIA, only 27K miles, very nice, $19988. 405-562-5391 co. 2010 GMC Terrain 69K black clean reduced to sell $17,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com 2008 GMC ACADIA SLT, Navigation, Sunroof, Rear Entertainment, Back up Camera, $18,988. 405-562-5391 co.

LAND ROVER/Free Lander 2004 Land Rover Freelander 5Dr, Sport Utility, AWD, 6 cylinder, Automatic, Black ext, Tan int, Leather Interior, excellent cond, 85000mi mi, A/C, AM/FM stereo, CD, lugg rack, $5,500., SALNE222X4A298115 Jerry mtnhi@prodigy.net 405-639-8859 2008 LINCOLN NAVIGATOR, Black, Leather, Sunroof, Entertainment, $20,988. 405-562-5391 co.

'08 GMC ACADIA SLT, lthr., roof, DVD, $21,991. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165 2007 GMC Envoy Denali 136K silver lthr loaded $9982 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com 2007 GMC YUKON XL, SLE, vacation ready, only $16988. 405-562-5391 co.

2007 LINCOLN NAVIGATOR, 4WD, rear entertainment, sunroof, heated/cooled seats, $17,988. 405-562-5391 co.

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'13 PATHFINDER SV, PW, PL, AT, AC, 3rd row, $28,995. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

'03 Ford Windstar van, CD, dual air, 3rd row seat $3850. 863-6399 2010 Honda Odyssey 69K lthr loaded $22,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com 91 Plymouth Grand Voyager, new tires/batt, runs great, some repair needed $800 obo 455-2285 '12 SIENNA SE VAN, 1 owner, 8 passenger, $27,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

2012 NISSAN ROGUE, silver w/gray interior, super clean, ready to roll! Only $18,952. (405) 310-0511 co. 2012 NISSAN MURANO SL, Leather, Sunroof, Rear Entertainment, Carfax 1-Owner, $31,488. 405-562-5391 co. '12 MURANO SL, certified, nav, moon, 10K mi, $30,995. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

2011 TOYOTA SIENNA XLE pkg, leather,loaded, $24,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2011 TOYOTA SIENNA, DVD, nav, loaded, 50K, great van, $30,482. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752

Lake ready 1986 Royale, 50 hp Evinrude, new deck and interior; on tandem trailer with new paint, boards and tires; getting married, must sell, $3200 obo, 580-977-7034. Lake ready 1986 Royale, 50 hp Evinrude, getting married, must sell, $3200 obo, 580-977-7034.

2011 NISSAN ROGUE AWD, alloys, power package, leather, full factory warranty, $19,988. 405-562-5391 co.

1988 Bayliner 2455 Sunbridge Low Hours - Clean - Lake Ready $8500. 405-924-9841

'11 NISSAN PATHFINDER SE, 27K mls., $21,881. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165

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2011 Nissan Rogue 41K silver priced reduced $15,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com '11 ARMADA Platinum, nav, moon, leather, $33,995. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM 2009 NISSAN MURANO LE, AWD, sunroof, Bose stereo, rear entertainment, leather, $19,988. 405-562-5391 co. '09 MURANO, leather, loaded, SL AWD, $16,994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM

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F/T Retail $10-12/hr F/T Clerical $10-12/hr

2003 Olds Bravada 109K gold ready to sell $4981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com

2002 Harley Davidson Dyna Super Glide FXD-88TC 4,900 miles. Black & Chrome Like showroom new. Selling for price of chrome & upgrades. No Disappointments. $7,250. 405-682-1669 8am-8pm 1994 Harley Davidson Fatboy, black, 22K miles, bags & pipes $5,900 405-919-3835 2004 Harley Davidson FXDL. Dyna Low Rider. 23K miles. $7,750. » » » 405-833-9551 » » »

2011 TOYOTA HIGHLANDER, Carfax, 1 owner, very low miles, alloys, steps, very nice car, $24,988 405-310-0583 co. 2011 TOYOTA HIGHLANDER, Blizzard Pearl, 3rd row seat, alloys, only 17K miles!!! $24,988. 405-310-0583 co. 2011 Toy. Highlander, 31K, grey, all pwr, alloys, $22,984. 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com

2012 HARLEY DAVIDSON FAT BOY, super nice bike! $14,988. 405-310-0583 co.

2011 John Deere Gator 625, 71hrs, like new, $10,000cash. » » » 405-216-5627 » » »

'10 TOYOTA 4RUNNER LMTD 4x4, nav, roof, $35,995. BOB MOORE BUICK-GMC (888) 378-5165 2010 TOY. HIGHLANDER, 53K, fresh tires, well kept, $24,981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752

Hiring Customer Service Reps Full Time, $9/Hour. Apply at 13901 N May Avenue.

Levinge Freight Lines

CUSTODIANS Mid-Del area, full and part time, $7.25/hr. Must pass background check. NO FELONIES. Apply at 225 N King Ave MWC 8:30-2:30. Sodexho values workforce diversity

is now hiring someone to perform General Office and Accounting duties at our OKC Terminal. Must have office/clerical exp., transportation exp. a plus. Apply online at www.levingefreightlines.com or fax resume/application to 936-337-4347.

The Oklahoma Arts Council seeks an Executive Assistant to provide support to the Executive Director and serve as receptionist & office manager. Responsibilities include managing calendar, coordinating travel, processing expenses, maintaining supplies and providing general assistance to staff. Professional appearance & effective communication skills required. Bachelor’s degree & 3 yrs exp. preferred. Salary $30,000$36,000 commensurate with exp. Visit arts.ok.gov for details.

Auto Service Technician We are looking for a service technician paying $14-20 per hour based upon experience. We offer great benefits. Call JJ 405-650-4894 or Email: sales@creditking.biz

Programmer/Database Manager $50K PaceButler Corporation Cold Fusion 8 SQL Server M-F 8-5 pacebutler.com plashby@pacebutler.com

Mountain Mechanical Contractors, Inc. of Fayetteville, AR, (mountainmech.com), is accepting applications for a

2008 TOYOTA HIGHLANDER, pearl white w/gray int, 91K mi, NADA value $21,300, Must Sell! My price $18,988. (405) 310-0511 co. 2008 TOYOTA RAV4, 70K, 2WD, 6 cyl, great commuter, $16,981. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752 '08 RAV4 SPORT 2WD, PW, PL, AT, AC, alloys, $9994. 478-5380 BOBHOWARDNISSAN.COM 2000 TOYOTA LANDCRUISER, 4WD, Navigation, sweet driver, only $13990. 405-562-5391 co. 1997 Toyota Land Cruiser 4Dr, Sport Utility, 4WD, 4.5L, Automatic, Green ext, Tan int, Leather Interior, excellent cond, 89433 mi, $2600, Brian Ludwick 3882 W 150th St Cleveland OH 44111 brian.ludwic83@gmail.com (234) 738-1623

'01 Chevy C2500 Handicap Transport Van w/lift $3950 863-6399

99 Fleetwood Jamboree GT-Class C, 31.5', Triton V-10-Ford, 3rd owner, lrg slide, 47K, sleeps 8, BSMT model, $16,900 firm 405-882-8847 OKC

2005 Itasca Sunova Motorhome 29R w/21K miles, new tires, very clean great condition w/2 slides. $52,000 OBO. 405-313-5362 TOW DOLLY - dark blue w/ electric brakes, used 4 times, VGC, $1375 405-882-8847 OKC '06 Winnebago View, diesel, 21 mpg, 42K mi, perfect cond, loaded $47,000obo, Make offer. 823-2917 2006 Puma, 27 foot bumper pull, queen bed, separate bath, new tires & awning, $6900, 634-3565. 2012 A-Liner 15 Ft solid wall, all season, fold-down, used 3 times $12,900 OBO ¡ Tuttle, 550-0387 I BUY RVS & TRAILERS (405) 620-5760

2011 Chry Town &Country 35K red rear ent $18,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com

Experienced Construction Superintendent needed to construct upscale, large, wood frame, single story nursing home in the Abilene, TX area. Previous construction superintendent experience required and nursing home construction experience a plus. Send resume to:

Job Superintendent, email to

construction1.resumes@gmail.com or mail to P O Box 2207, Ft. Smith, AR 72902.

Addison Group is currently hiring for numerous positions within customer service, call center, administrative, and clerical starting at $12/hr. If you are looking for a career path, stability and growth, don't miss out on this opportunity. In addition to a competitive salary and great benefits, there is an excellent monthly bonus potential in call center. To apply, please email your resume to okcofficejobs@addisongroup.com or call (405)235-6700.

Housekeeper Housekeepers needed for a Residential Treatment Center in Maud (located 12 miles from Seminole). Must have housekeeping experience. Send resume to: ejobsebh@gmail.com

DOVE SCIENCE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY NOW HIRING:

Kindergarten Teacher WHO CAN START ASAP. Send resume to: info@dsaelementary.org

Heavy Equipment Operator Career! 3 Weeks Hands On Training School. Bulldozers, Backhoes, Excavators. National Certifications. Lifetime Job Placement Assistance. VA Benefits Eligible! 1-866-362-6497 Lics: OBPVS

Customer Service

M-F 2pm-7pm, some Saturdays, pd vacation & holidays. Round-Up Cleaners, 4401 W. Memorial Rd. Delivery YP Phonebooks in OKC area including Clinton, Elk City, Sayre, Weatherford & Shawnee. Payment issued within 72 hrs. (866) 314-5888

FREE TAX SCHOOL Liberty Tax Service

Earn extra income after taking the course. Register Now! Classes begin September 9th. Call 405-947-3992 Garage Door Installers Needed Experience preferred, not req'd. Driver's license required. Apply at 4141 SW 29th.

Grounds Worker

Exp Pref, full benefit package, Paid Holidays. Apply in person 10am—4pm No calls National Cowboy Museum

JANITOR

Established company seeking experience Janitor M-F 8-5 Apply in person Hagar Restaurant Service 6200 NW 2nd St OKC, OK 73127

LOAN OFFICER, FULL TIME 8:30 am-5:30 pm, M-F. Will train. Apply in person at 300 S. Ranchwood #1, Yukon. No phone calls.

Male Residential Officers needed for all male DOC facility. Will train. FT possibilities. Must pass background check and drug test Send resumes to 405-552-2616 or e-mail Jdeason@catalysthelp.org

Meat Market Manager

Large market experience required, 5+ years. Premium pay with benefits. Apply at 769-4321 NOW HIRING! 40 HOURS A WEEK GUARANTEED. Room for advancement. Driver's License and clean MVR required. McCoy Tree Surgery 405-618-1203 Damian Wisdom ORR FAMILY FARM Is hiring for Sept 15 - Nov 9th. Concession, zip line, tractor driver & other pos avail. Apply in person @ 14200 S. Western Mon-Fri 9am-5pm PART TIME help needed Immediate opening at Pet Vet Supply in MWC 405-733-4648 Residential Technicians Residential Technicians needed for a Residential Treatment Center in Maud (located 12 miles from Seminole). Qualified candidates must have knowledge of the 12-step philosophy, have a clean driving record, valid drivers license and auto insurance. You need to possess a willingness to learn. Personal recovery is a plus. Send resume to ejobsebh@gmail.com

Sears Carpet & Air Duct Cleaning-Techs Needed.

Will train. Driver's license required. 949-9240 or 630-5515

Site Manager & Custodian wanted at OCSNP. 9-1, M-F. Apply in person at 5016 NW 10. 9-1, M-F. Sodexo values workforce diversity. Swiss Cleaners Hiring

VENDING MACHINE Install &

Senior Staff Accountant 5-7 years experience. Accounting degree. donnac@valairaviation.com

Registered Nurses Registered Nurses (R.N.) needed for a Residential Treatment Center in Maud (located 12 miles from Seminole). Qualified candidates must possess a valid R.N. license and BLS or CPR, and two years experience with a chemical dependency population using the 12-step model. Personal Recovery is a plus. Send resume to ejobsebh@gmail.com

health, now hiring RN FT Mon-Fri. No weekends or on-call. Fax Resume to 793-2708 or email to apply@okfcs.org RN HOME HEALTH Home Care Agency in Norman is looking for RN Field/Case Managers. Competitive pay, mileage reimbursement and benefits. Fax resume 405 360-6098 or email Lori@doctorsparkhomehealth.org RN QA Nurse M-F LPN Staff Development LPN/RN M-F day shift charge nurse CNA - all shifts Apply in person at: The Lakes 5701 West Britton Road OKC

LPC, LCSW or LMFT to work at a new adolescent male group home opening in Norman, OK. Please email your resume to deanna.durbin@att.net or fax to 405-573-1010.

Warehouse Part Time evenings

OFCS, a leader in behavioral health now hiring Therapists & Lic eligible Therapists FT, PT and contract. Fax resume to 793-2708 or email resume to: apply@okfcs.org

Sunday thru Thursday lift, sort, load product in warehouse. Apply at 6801 Pat Ave OKC or visit www.imperialco.com

Dental Assistant Seeking experienced dental assistant for Midwest City office. 405-732-3200

Marketing & PR Rep Outpatient PT Clinic. Experience Req. $10-12/hr+perf bonus+gas. Call 752-7377. Must apply in person. www.azhar.us Public Information Officer Bachelor's Degree in Journalism, Public Relations, Marketing, Agriculture Communications, Professional Writing, or a closely related field; or three years experience. $2500-$3333.33 monthly plus benefits. info@conservation. ok.gov. Full ad at http://www.ok. gov/conservation/ Employment_Information.html

RN » RN » RN

OFCS, a leader in behavioral

Repair TECH needed at Imperial. Must pass background chk, clean Driver Record & RX screen, pay based on exper. Please apply at 6801 Pat Ave OKC or visit www.imperialco.com

DISTRICT ASSISTANTS

The Oklahoman has immediate openings for part-time District Assistants in our Metro Department. Approximately 25 hours a week. The zone manager in each area will determine schedules. Midwest City Please call Cyndi @ 405-475-3430 or email cmize@opubco.com Bethany Please call Mike @ 405-313-2031 or email mperalta@opubco.com Equal Opportunity Employer Looking for a part time Groomer with experience and their own equipment. Call 733-2238 Pet-Vet Grooming Salon

Okla. Counseling Intervention Ctr. Licensed or under Supervision CM, LPC, LADC, LCSW, LMFT Ph. 405-753-7159. Email resumes to chenderson@ocaic.com

» DIRECT CARE SERVICE» PROFESSIONAL MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Join a fun & creative team at Dungarvin OK, LLC. Guide people with developmental disabilities through daily activities in the Yukon, Edmond, OKC, Moore, Midwest City, Norman, Blanchard and Pauls Valley areas. No experience necessary, full paid training, good pay & benefits. Automobile, current DL and current liability insurance required. We are looking to fill Part-time and Full-time Positions. Apply on-line at: www.dungarvin.com, or in person at: Dungarvin OK, LLC 125 Triad Village Dr. Norman, OK 73071 Ph. (405) 329-7830 ext. 202.

wanted for busy orthopaedic office. FT, Health Benefits, ARRT Cert. and experience preferred, fax resume to (405) 632-4317 or e-mail to job@southwestortho.com

Director, Administrative Services State agency taking applications for Director of Administration. Must have knowledge and experience in budgeting, accounting and human resources. BS Degree in Agriculture, Ag Economics, Public Administration or a closely related field. Five years supervisory experience required. Three weeks annual and sick leave per year, health and dental insurance and retirement plan. Job details and application process found @ http://www.ag.ok.gov/ adminjobs.htm

Certified Home Health & Personal Care Aides Walk In Interviews: Aug 29 830am-6pm 10600 S. Penn Suite 11, OKC, OK 73170

Monday - Friday Apply at 3737 NW 50th St.

Radiology Tech

2005 CHRYSLER TOWN & COUNTRY, 167K, auto, A/C, $3982. BOB HOWARD ACURA 753-8752

Excell Private Care Services, LLC.

Experienced Dry Cleaner

MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONIST needed FT in-house for doctors office. Must be proficient in Word & Outlook. Benefits. Mon-Fri. Fax resume 235-8145

2010 CHRYSLER TOWN & COUNTRY, stow & go seating, dual power doors, 46K mi, only $17,988. (405) 310-0511 co.

2008 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN, people hauler, stow n go seating, power sliding doors, much more! Only $12,988! Call William. (405) 310-0511 co.

SUPERINTENDENT NEEDED:

07 32' Holiday Rambler, 2slides, slps 6, x-cond $17K 405-517-1575

96 Chevrolet 5.0, wheelchair, Braun lift, 63K, trailer hitch, very nice, $12,000 405-946-0383

2010 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN, people hauler, stow n go seating, power sliding door, much Moore! Only $15,452! (405) 310-0511 co.

in the Mechanical Contracting Industry. At least 10 years experience is required. Compensation is relevant to experience. Relocation is required and provided. Interview only after resume sent to PO Box 249 Fayetteville, AR 72702 or e-mail gfharvey@mountainmech.com or csharvey@mountainmech.com.

Credit Union Teller FT w/benefits. Fax resume to 947-3759 or email mdd496@ yahoo.com. Info 405-947-3730. MUST SELL Below Wholesale 45ft Class A, every option 405-204-4333

AMERICAN CLEANERS

Fax resumes to (405) 858-0119 or Email to jenni@asburymedical.com

Senior Estimator/ Project Manager

'07 NISSAN MURANO, great condition! Will not last at this price! $9988. 405-896-2190 co.

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Residential Therapist Residential Therapists needed for a Residential Treatment Center in Maud (located 12 miles from Seminole). The successful candidate must be a licensed Therapist and have a Master's Degree in Psychology or other related field. Two years chemical dependency and 12-step model experience mandatory. Personal recovery is a plus. Send resume to ejobsebh@gmail.com

THERAPIST

Oklahoma’s largest treatment foster care/outpatient agency is seeking a full-time therapist in our Oklahoma City office. Must be licensed or under supervision. Competitive salary and benefits. Please fax resume to 405-751-6488, email to Jobs@cflfostercare.com, or www.cflfostercare.com

Come join our team! We are now hiring for the following positions: •Vault Manager

•Players Club Manager

Must have management experience. Must be energetic, customer orientated, and dependable. Please apply with HR at Thunderbird Casino 15700 E. State Hwy 9 Norman, OK 73026 or online at

thunderbirdcasino.net

You may also send your resume to hr@tbecinc.com

Maintenance/Make Ready, FT, needed for The Park at Memorial Apts in NW OKC. Good benefits. Apply at 4201 W Memorial Road.

Maintenance Tech

Full time. Multi-family housing experience required. Please bring resume to Fairfax Apartments 7801 NE 10th Midwest City 73110

NOW HIRING LABORERS W-S Industrial Services is now hiring for labor positions. Excellent starting pay & plenty of hours. Clean background & travel required. Apply in person at 8421 SW 8th Street Oklahoma City, OK 73128

Property Maintenance

Volunteers of America of Oklahoma Responsible for preventative and corrective maintenance of the property to which assigned. Requires incumbent to be on call and respond, if required, to emergencies on the property when informed. Participate in &/or supervise all maintenance projects, assign work orders to maintenance personnel, and ensure all work is done properly and on a timely basis. EOE. Send resume to Staffingcoordinator@voaok.org

PRODUCTION MANAGER Buck’s Engines, 4532 Enterprise Drive, Contact Emily Roberson at 405-947-3321.

PROGRAM COORDINATOR

33-35K + competitive benefits. Bachelor’s degree in Social Services or related field with at least 2 years management exp. working with people with developmental disabilities required. Apply on-line at www.dungarvin.com or send resume and cover letter to Dungarvin Oklahoma, LLC, 125 Triad Village Drive. Norman, OK 73071 Ph. (877)625-1675 Fax (866)900-6257.

Saint Francis Community Services

is seeking individuals who want to make a difference in the lives of children and families: Bridge Recruiter/Trainer: Recruits & trains resource families to provide in-home care for children while in the custody of OKDHS. Bridge Resource Home Supervisor: Provides direct supervision for resource homes staff. Positions require a Bachelor’s degree in Human Services field & prefer 2 yrs experience working with families. SFCS offers an excellent benefit package & competitive wages. EOE. Must pass a drug screen, MVR, background checks. Send resume to tracy.hervey@st-francis.org or apply at www.st-francis.org The Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice is seeking a

President and CEO. OCCJ is dedicated to achieving respect and understanding for all people through education, advocacy and dialogue. Competitive salary and benefits package. Apply at stfpr.com/executive-search.

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Pipe & Duct Insulator Helper Install pipe and duct insulation on various mechanical systems. 10Hr Start Apply @ 8401 Gateway Terrace OKC OK 73149 SERVICE MANAGER Needed for Agri. & industrial tractor & equipment dealership. Exc. Salary plus commission & bonus. 401K, health, life & 125. Must have service manager experience. Send resume’ to: Central New Holland, Inc., 8408 West I-40, Okla. City, OK 73128. Phone 405495-6151 or Fax 405-789-8287

Service Technicians

needed for manufactured homes sales center. Must have general knowledge of home construction. Must have valid driver's license & good driving record. Benefits package. Apply in person at Solitaire Homes 6229 S Shields

Sub Contractors needed painting, drywall, siding, fences call 405-886-9808

Washita Valley seeks

Entry Level Trailer Mechanic

Will be required to work on pull behind trailers for pickups & 18 wheeler flatbeds, changing out lights, mud flaps, etc. Must have good MVR. Apply at 1701 SE 59th, OKC, OK

Route Tractor Trailer Drivers

Recover, Recycle, Replenish, Renew

Become a part of one of the largest private truck fleets in the U.S. Valley Proteins is an industry leader in the recovery and recycling of fats, food oils & proteins and is seeking Route Tractor Trailer Drivers. Successful candidates should have at least one year commercial driving experience or be a recent graduate from an accredited truck driving school; hold a valid CDL Class A license with a tanker endorsement; free of accidents/moving violations for the past 12 months; and a good work record/MVR. Route Tractor Trailer Drivers must be able to handle fat and bone barrels, grease barrels, use vacuum pump equipment to remove grease from containers and may include lifting 50-75 lbs. Some overnight routes will be required Monday through Friday but off on weekends. We offer a professional work environment with the opportunity to grow, a competitive base rate, bonus and a full range of benefits. Interested candidates should e-mail their resume to:

Community Administrator

Volunteers of America of Oklahoma, CPM preferred and may be substituted for degree if experience supports. Must have expertise and strong competence in tax credit management, 202, and 811 properties. Minimum 5 years of experience as Community Administrator or Assistant Community Administrator with Affordable Housing community. Experience with Resident Services a plus. Professional property management certification preferred (COS, CPM, Other) Experience with LIHTC, a plus. Evidence of training certificates and certifications required. Candidates without certification will be required to achieve certification within a specified timeframe not to exceed 24 months from beginning of employment. EOE. Send resume to Staffingcoordinator@voaok.org

Leasing Agent

Looking for upbeat leasing agent. Customer service experience req. Please bring resume to Fairfax Apts 7801 NE 10th Midwest City

ANN'S CHICKEN FRY HOUSE now hiring

Day Waitresses/Waiters

Apply 8:30-11am. 4106 NW 39th.

Buffalo Wild Wings

We are hiring New Management Members who are looking to be part of a Great Team and a fast growing company. Earn up to $40,000 as an Assistant and get bonused in AGM and GM positions with higher salaries. We always try to promote from within for AGM and GM positions and are currently looking for team players wanting a better balanced lifestyle while we update our schedules to be more family friendly.

$40,000

okbwwresumes@aol.com Cash Paid Vending at OU Football games! Aprx $75-$200/day Call Nick 210-389-4103 txfinco@aol.com Catering Cook Catering Cook needed immediatly for our S. Penn conference center location. Experience preferred. Call 405-200-3736 Sodexo/EEO Katrina

COOKS - 2+ YRS EXP. Upscale retirement community. F/T position. Apply at: Town Village, 13000 N May, 297-9600

Executive Chef Executive Chef needed for a Residential Treatment Center in Maud (located 12 miles from Seminole). Experience in preparing and presenting meals for up to 20 or more people. Must have experience in creating daily menus, running a kitchen, inventory, etc. Send resume to ejobsebh@gmail.com

akubena@valleyproteins.com

CAR SALES PROFESSIONAL Bob Howard Honda

or send a completed application from our website (www.valleyproteins.com) to: 8415 SE 1st Avenue Amarillo, TX 79118 Attention: Andy Kubena EEO and Drug Free Company

Now Hiring 6 Salespeople

Local work. Pre-employment drug test & background. Forklift a plus; Evening; Benefits. Biagi Bros ,5001 SW 36th St.

Monthly guarantee, great career with vacation and benefits. Apply in person @ 13201 N. Kelley, OKC, OK or call 405-753-8792, ask for Used Car Manager

In roofing & construction industry Exp. preferred but will train. Call 405-886-9808 or submit resume to: vmcvea@sbcglobal.net

SALES ASSOCIATE Mathis Brothers Furniture has full time position available immediately for qualified candidates. This is a retail sales position that requires evening and weekend availability. We need talented people who have a professional image, are selfmotivated and like dealing with the public. Become a part of Oklahoma's #1 retail sales force! Benefits include: • Great income Potential • Medical/ Dental/ 401K • Paid Training • Paid Vacation • Great Environment Please call 405.951-1217 to set up an interview. Compensation: Commission is based on volume sold. Compensation ranges from approximately $45,000 to $90,000.

CDL Class A Driver

CIRCULATION/ TRANSPORTATION (PT) NIGHT SHIFT TRUCK DRIVER The Oklahoman has an immediate opening for a Part-Time Night Shift Truck Driver to deliver bundles of newspapers to our distribution centers and other locations in the metro area. You will be responsible for loading and unloading the truck. Must be able to lift 25+ lbs every shift. Must have Class B CDL license, without automatic transmission restrictions and an excellent driving record. Scheduled days off will vary from person to person. Position will pay $12.25 to $12.50 per hour based on experience. $250 Sign on bonus after 90 days

Van Eaton Ready Mix

NOW HIRING MIXER TRUCK DRIVERS

Please apply online by accessing our website at www.opubco.com (click on employmentlink, then scroll down and click on ''See all job openings'').

in Shawnee, Norman, Edmond, & W. OKC

SIGN-ON BONUS with 2 yrs Mixer experience. Class A or B. Call 214-7450 EOE

Mathis Brothers is an EOE and promotes and drug free work environment. Salesperson Credit Connection Auto Sales is looking for a motivated Salesperson to make $45,000-$65,000 per year. We offer great benefits. Call JJ 405-650-4894 or Email: sales@creditking.biz SALES PROFESSIONALS/ SALES MANAGERS Leading manufactured home builder in the OKC area is seeking enthusiastic, professional, goal-oriented applicants for Sales Manager Trainee position. We offer excellent training, benefits & advancement opportunities. Realistic income 65-85k annual. Call Bob @ 503-816-1181 or 405-635-4812

Career Telemarketers, Start Now Pay $9-11Hr + Commission M-F Daytime hours Paid Weekly! 866-652-7760 Ext 4020 Ashley

CDL CLASS A END DUMP DRIVERS 2 years experience required Excellent benefit package. Drug Free Company is employee owned! Apply in person only Silver Star Construction 2401 South Broadway Moore. EOE DROP BURY CONTRACTORS Needed in the greater OKC area. Will Train. Must have pickup truck & good background. Long term contract. Call 405-601-4884 or fax resume to 405-607-6720.

ELECTRICAL JOURNEYMAN Immediate opening with residential experience. TRI TECH ELECTRIC, 237-1443, 9309 S. Sheilds Blvd, OKC.

HVAC

Mustang Public Schools is recruiting for two (2) licensed HVAC technicians with a wide variety of commercial HVAC equipment experience and expertise. Must pass a comprehensive background check; No Felonies; Good benefits, paid holidays, good hours, good working environment; Salary range between $15.00-$19.00/hour depending on level of license. Download applications at www.mustangps.org or contact 405-376-2461.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Veolia Water

Class A End Dump Drivers Needed

Wastewater Treatment Plant,

12800 N. Anderson Road, Jones, OK, Seeks Truck Drivers w/Class A CDL. Must be able to pass drug screen, physical exam, background check & have good MVR. Apply online @ www.veoliawaterna.com/careers reference job no. 34985, or call 405-399-5601 for further information.

405-381-4117

Continental Battery Co.

has opening for DOT Route Manager. Requires Class “B” CDL, good driving record and heavy lifting. Must be over 25. HAZMAT preferred. Good pay w/benefits. Apply in person at 2521 S. May Ave, Oklahoma City DRIVERS NEEDED! Deliver phone books. Make Xtra Money! Must have drivers license & transportation w/auto Insurance. Payment issued within 72 hours. Call Now!! 1-877-628-5191. Drivers Tango Transport is hiring for the following:

Company Drivers & Owner Operators

*********************** • CLASS A CDL & 6 months of recent OTR experience required • Company Drivers up to 38cpm • Owner Ops 96cpm + FSC • Drive Cascadias and Prostars • Excellent Home-time • Company Paid Life Insurance • 401k • Major Medical & Dental *********************** Apply By Phone Mon-Fri 8am-5pm

877-826-4605 or online

www.drivefortango.com Frontier Express Inc. Seeking class A CDL Regional Owner Ops

Regional/local & Co. Drivers OK, TX, LA, AR, MO, KS, CO. Weekly home time! No yr. restriction on trucks, 2 yrs exp. Call recruiter @ (405) 787-3797 ext: 231

HEAVY EQUIPMENT HAUL TRUCK DRIVER At least 2 years exp on heavy equipment. Must be able to load and unload truck. Class A CDL, Clean Driving Record. Excellent benefit package. Drug Free Company is employee owned! Silver Star Construction 2401 South Broadway Moore. EOE HOFFMAN GIRLS NEED

CLASS A CDL DRIVERS LOCAL , OVER THE ROAD , FUEL BONUS CALL JAN , 405-224-1333 AFTER 5 CALL 405-274-6172

NOW HIRING CDL-DRIVERS W-S Industrial Services is now hiring qualified CDL Drivers. Class A and B. Clean background & travel required. Excellent wages & benefits are available for well-qualified applicants. Apply in person at 8421 SW 8th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73128

OTR, Regional & Local Home Weekly Mid-Con Carrier Dedicated run, benefits, New Pete Requires CDL A with 1 yr exp.

Call 405-237-1300

Transportation

DEDICATED OPERATIONS MANAGER

One of the largest privately owned trucking companies in the southeast is now seeking a Dedicated Operations Manager at our dedicated site in Duncan, OK. Requirements: •1-2 Years of Driver Manager Experience in an Operations Truckload Carrier Environment •Multi-tasking and Proven Ability to Make Quick, Logical Decisions •Strong Interpersonal Skills and Ability to Effectively Supervise and Motivate Truck Drivers Fax resume to 1-336-668-2315 or Email hr_rep@epestransport.com Truck Driver/Warehouse Position available for bldg. materials dist. in OK City. Requires product delivery; loading & unloading; customer service; phones & data entry. Able to lift 80 lbs; able to get/have DOT medical card; clean driving record & valid driver's lic. Truck driving exp. a must. Pay negotiable. Email/fax resume to careers@idimn.com or 952-279-6810.

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Rates starting at $825/mo. 1 month FREE w/12 mo. lease. Citadel Suites, 5113 N. Brookline 405-942-0016 www.citadelsuites.com Including are the following: » All Utilities » Cable » Telephone » High speed internet » Business Center » 2 Pools » Free Movie Rental » Breakfast Mon.-Fri. » Social Hour

your own Dream Home! As low as $1000 dn $498+mo includes lot rent » 2 & 3br mobile home. Seller financing! Brand New Homes For Sale No Sec/Cleaning Dep, No App Fee »» Pets Allowed »» Community Living with Pool, Rec/fitness center, storm shelter Mon-Fri 8-5; Sat-Sun 10-4 3rd Month FREE Rent 672-2684 * 2 BR $399 &UP 3 BR $525 &UP * 1 YR JOB BACKGROUND CK. NO PETS MW CITY 427-0627 Rent to Own: Nice 2 & 3bed MWC $350 & up 390-9777 Rent to Own: Nice 2 & 3bed MWC $350 & up 390-9777

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Best Kept Secret! St. Croix Villas Gated, secure serene Villa Homes 1400-1650sf $155,000 & up. 8500 S. McKinley Mike 520-9393

PINE MOUNTAIN CABINS, SINGLEWIDES, DOUBLEWIDES, TRIPLEWIDES UP TO 6 BEDROOMS *****WE HAVE LAND***** 10 YEAR WARRANTY **FINANCING** USED SINGLES Under 10K USED DOUBLES Under 25K

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your own Dream Home! As low as $1000 dn $498+mo includes lot rent » 2 & 3br mobile home. Seller financing! Brand New Homes For Sale! No Sec/Cleaning Dep, No App Fee »» Pets Allowed »» Community Living with Pool, Rec/fitness center, storm shelter Mon-Fri 8-5, Sat-Sun 10-4 3rd Month FREE Rent 672-2684 Special Gov't Program! Own land/family land ZERO down. New and Repo homes. No Land? We have a home program for you. Don't prejudge, E-Z qualify by phone. $1000 furniture package with purchase. WAC 631-7600

WE HAVE LAND 405-634-4812 Got land? 0 Down! FREE 55" Plasma TV! No land? Low down! Se habla espanol. Programas de ITIN. Call today 405-631-3200 wac Abandoned D/W set up on 4.5 acres! Brick skirting & storm shelter. Ready to move in. Call for pre approval 405-631-7600 Handicap Accessible Home w/ ramp. 3bd/2bth Own for $625/mo 405-787-5004 wac $700mo. OWNER FINANCE 3bd. $1000 down READY NOW! 405-324-8000 3/2 Bath Singlewide $6500 plus delivery 405-631-7600

$300.00 OFF 1ST Month Large 2 & 3 bed Townhouses Washer/Dryers, Fireplaces P.C. Schools PARKLANE TOWNHOMES 8100 N. MacArthur Blvd. 721-5455 VALENCIA APTS APTS/TOWNHOUSES 2221 N Meridian $99 Special

946-6548

The Bali » 1120 N Tella

2bd 1ba ch/a Newly Remodeled $550 rent $300 dep T&J 537-3169

The Paseo 405 NW 24th New paint, new carpet, ch/a $525. T&J Mgmt 420-1966

Putnam Heights Plaza

1bed, newly remodeled, ch/a, 1830 NW 39th 524-5907 5944 NW 40th-Large 1 & 2bed, $345 to $445 mo, stove, fridge, covered prkng. No Sec 8 470-3535 Furnished/Unfurnished. Bills Paid » Wkly/Mnthly. Wes Chase Apts Elk Horn Apts, Hillcrest, 370-1077

800 N Meridian

1bed All Bills Paid 946-9506 MAYFAIR Great loc! 1&2 bd W/D hdwd flr quiet secure ¡ 947-5665 •ABC• Affordable, Bug free, Clean » 787-7212»

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Large 1 & 2 beds. Stove, refrig, 3 SW OKC Locations $345-420mo No Sec 8 632-9849

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Furnished, laundry, security $410 2820 S Robinson 232-1549 4900 S. Walker Large 1 & 2 bd Apts. $450 & Up + deposit + electricity. Laundry on site. 631-1115 2409 SW 45th Clean & Quiet 1bd 1ba, stove, fridge $375 mo, $200 dep, no sec 8 818-4089 Furnished/Unfurnished. Bills Paid » Wkly/Mnthly. Wes Chase Apts Elk Horn Apts, Hillcrest, 370-1077

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1 Bed $425. 681-5858 8081 S Shields 1 & 2bd Duplex Pet Ok BillsPd Rent/dep 632-4467

Townhouses SW I-240 & Western at 1100 SW 77 Terrace 2 bd, 2.5ba, 1200 sf, FP, W/D $700mo + $300dep 692-1325

Duplex For Rent, 3/2/2, 100 N MacArthur, Sherwood Estates, $950 mo, $750 dep, 370-1077.

Absolute Auct. Sat., Sep. 7, 10am Open House Sun. Sep. 1st, 2-4 344532 E 890 Rd., Chandler, OK 2554sf home on 10 ac MOL with pool. Call John Patterson, Metro 1st, info 1-405-255-0650

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Furnished/Unfurnished Weekly/Monthly 370-1077 Century Hotel 512 NW 9; rms $130wk/eff $160wk, single occup, dep, wi fi, cable. 232-5624

Daryl's Appliance: W&D $75 & up, limited supply!5yr war. refr/stove $125 & up, 1yr war. 405-632-8954 Whirlpool SxS Refrig, white, 25 cu ft, Like New! $600 496-5445 Washer & Dryer Set $280 X condition, like new » 248-4070

FARM & RANCH EQUIPMENT AUCTION FRI. - AUG. 30 - 12 NOON & SAT. - AUG. 31 - 9AM 4K Miles East of Elgin, OK - Hwy 17 FRIDAY: Selling ATVS, Lawn Equip./Tools, Misc. SATURDAY: Pipe, Livestock Equip., 3Pt. Equip., Tractors,Trucks, Autos, Rvs, Trailers,Tillage & Haying Equip. Items Include: (25) Late model pickups - 4WD & 2WD; 2000 Mack Dump truck w/161K, 3 axles; 1966 Ford Mustang convertible; 1951 Chevy pickup; 1979 Toyota Land Cruiser, 4WD, 48K; Campmaster Toybox RV, 20'; 2013 Neckover Groundload 42'; Stock 7 Flatbed Trailers; JD 568 Baler; 12 Wheel w/loader; MFWD, 869 hrs; JD 2350, 4010 & 3020 w/ loader; Pipe & pipe post. View web for updates & pictures. Selling for Estates, Banks, Corporations & Area Farmer/Ranchers. Our 58th Consignment Auction at this site 1991. For buying or selling, call Auction Co. BRIDGES AUCTION & SALES CO. (580)492-5260 bridgesauction.com »

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LABOR DAY ANTIQUE & CONSIGNMENT AUCTION MONDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 2013 11:00AM 2816 E. HWY 37 (BEHIND RICHARDSON HOME OFFICE) TUTTLE, OK 405-627-1767 www.miearsauction.com A FANTASTIC COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE FURNITURE, BRONZE STATUARY, COINS & CURRENCY, ANTIQUE GUNS, JEWELRY & COLLECTIABLES. H.A. MIEARS AUCTIONEER Solid Brazilian Cherry• Hardwood Flooring • (2600sf) Beautiful, never used $2.50/sf • 632-0499

MARBLE CONFERENCE TABLE Beautiful marble conference table/ 6 navy blue conference chairs. Excellent condition! $800.00 Call Vicki- 405-236-5200 9:00 a.m-5:00 p.m.

Mattress Sale

$50-$250 » 919-5005 » Must see 6 pc early American» bdrm set » $850 obo » 787-8099

WE BUY FURNITURE 942-5865 No Appliances

MOVING SALE! 12709 Downsview Lane NW OKC 73142 Friday Only, 8/30/2013 9am to 4pm ONE DAY ONLY! Pool Table, Game/Bumper Table, Twin Beds, 4 Sofas, Cocktail Table, Antique Swedish Pine Buffet, TV Cabinet, Bar Stools, Antique Belgian Nightstands and much much more.

Expo Center Aug 31-Sept 1 Sat. 9-5 & Sun. 9-4 918-659-2201 (G&S) AR 15 5 AR 15's FOR SALE. Text for info/Pics $900-$1450. 405-274-4958

Recurve takedown bow Royal Mag Hunter by Jeffery Archery, 50# $250 405/595-6835 WE BUY GUNS Mustang Pawn & Gun Over 1,000 New/Used Guns Tue-Sat 9-6 376-GUNS Vent rib barrel for Remington 1100 with 3 chokes. Paid $150 take $100. used once 756-2370 20Ac 15mi N of Sallisaw $32,000 $1000dn, $292mo 405-640-8811 Dove/Crane/Goose Hunts, 580351-8110, curtsguideservice.com OK’s largest selection of used Golf cars ¡ 800-276-0571

Jet 3 by Pride motorized Scooter/ Wheelchair like new w/charger included Red. $900 819-7037 Jazzy Elite XL Power chair, great cond, 2 new batt. & air seat for lrg framed person $500; Pride 530 Lift chair, lt blue $500; InvaCare lift bed & matt $250 397-5752 Weslo Air Strider Step-Type Exerciser w/ elect. monitor, $95. » » » 405-794-3173 » » » 96 Chevrolet 5.0 van, wheelchair Braun lift, 63K, trailer hitch, very nice, $12,000 405-946-0383

410-5700

6 wks old kittens, grey bobcat colors, 2 bobtails, $5 each. Call 10am - 7pm. 672-8126 Bengal Kittens, TICA, Last two! $350-$450 ¡ 881-9305/885-5472 FREE 2 Kittens. 3 mo. old. First shots. Gray/white male and calico female. Adorable and fun! FREE 405-216-8320 or timwash@cox. net. Edmond.

OU Donor Season Tickets Home Tickets, Sec.31, Row 63,Seat 19 & 20..$1500 or $1900 with Texas Tickets. (405) 373-4528.(405) 642-1315

Pair of OU Season Football Tickets, Section 22, Row 52, Seats 9 & 10. Good view. $890. » » » 405-573-9284 » » »

2 OU Season Tickets, Sec 33 Row 38, btw 20 & 30 yard line $1300; 2 Texas tickets $500 405-364-4900, Norman

Sphynx kittens So cute and naked! 3 mos. Kitty comes neutered, vaccinated, microchipped, and w/ health guarantee. Local Edmond breeder. $1100 (405) 513-0353

(2) OU Donor Season Tix

w/ Sooner Club Tailgate passes, $1,150 » 329-8820 New/Used Auto Equipment Lifts, Wheel Svc., Body Shop, Parts Washers, etc. $250 & up Steven 405-818-7860

Elegant 4bd 2ba 2car brick home Near lake 2000sf $1285 603-4775

Total remodel, very nice, 2 bd, 1 ba, $625 mo, $350 dep, 306-0167 2bd 1ba ch/a, fresh paint. Nice! $650 Accurate Prop 732-3939

4bd 2ba ch/a detached gar 2036sf $1300 Accurate Prop 732-3939

3bd ch/a $675 www.longburk.com Longburk RE 732-7474

13515 E Stella Rd 4bd 2ba, pool, fp, 2800sf 5 acres $1250 mo + dep 17456 Blackjack Ridge 3bd 2ba 2car, 1590sf, 1.5 ac $1050mo+dep Home & Ranch Realty 794-7777

20qt. Hobart Legacy HL200 Mixer with all attachments & s/s stand, like new, $5,200. 405-567-8319 4x16 Lightening Sign, changeable face, 1yr old, $1100obo; Single-Head 6 Needle Embroidery Machine, $600obo. 326-0092

Samsung 50" Plasma Display TV 3 yrs old Exc Cond $450.00 OBO 405-436-8825

34 FT Heston field cultivator with harrow, good condition $5,900; J.D. 1600A mower/condition, good condition $6000; J.D. 224 Baler, fair condition $750. 405-361-9790

Girls mountain bike, like new, $150; Shirley Temple doll $50; Chatty Cathy doll $50; large dog kennel $50; 405-733-2549.

Beautiful Custom Tele, '98 red pearl with hard case $895; Mandolin made by Gibson $440. 405-391-2595 or 405-514-8770 1986 Winter console piano, excellent cond, $500, 405-202-8341.

4ft chain link fence, 50 ft row $48 Cedar panels, 6x8, $28 » » » 405-833-5439 » » »

FENCED LOT - DPS approved for auto storage, Edmond, 3900 N. Boulevard » » 593-7323 Warehouse space, 15,760 sq ft, 2 acres, zoned I-2, priced for fast sale at $499,000, Hard Working Realty, 405-630-9054.

Shawnee , Oklahoma

SAKO A7 NIB SAKO A7 Stainless 243 cal. Never fired with box. $675.00 405.761.3126

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GREAT Office Space. Various NW locations, 300-6000sf 946-2516

King Tempur-Cloud Luxe Breeze Mattress Only three weeks old. In perfect condition, with matching box springs. Have had the recommended tempur-pedic mattress pad on it the whole time. This mattress is $5,299 plus tax new. $3,000 OBO 831-9076 or 255-5705

All wood 8X8 barn, will assemble, $995, 405-886-8230. Steel storage units 8x20 & 8x40 new/used/sale/rental Pioneer Equipment 745-3036 3 Slightly Used Bldgs. Can Deliver $650-$1450 ¡‘¡‘¡‘¡ 371-6026

4 OU Season Tickets - 2 in Sect. 102 & 2 in Sect. 1, $479ea. 405-715-3611 or 405-550-3394 2 OU Season Football Tickets, Sec 13, Row 50, $845/both 405-735-6528 2 OU Season Tickets below cost Sec. 35 row 67 seats 11 & 12 $825 214-914-1914 OKC Area 2 OU SEASON FOOTBALL TICKETS, Section 2, $850 329-4507 2 OU Season Football tickets, Sec 24, Row 67, $860 405-366-5465 or 405-255-2252 2 OU Football Season Tickets, reg price $875 cash. 405-570-3538

ALAPAHA blue blood BULLDOGS $300-$700 ¡ Serious Inquiries only. ¡‘¡ 405-923-4387 Aussie Mini Pups, 8M 1F, merles & tris, $300-$400. 620-357-1277 cossmanminiaussies.com

Aussie puppies M's & F's, blk, red, mrl, 8 weeks. Call after 6PM. 580-606-0799

5x8, 5x10, 6x12, w/gates; like new 16 foot tandem; $650-$1500 Cash. 405-670-1850

Australian Shepherd Puppies AKC Heavy bone, show qual AKC, health guar, shots, wormed, DOB 6-10-13, all colors this litter. Merles $1000, Red tri's $800, Black Tri $550 Andi Sheperd 405-823-7878 www.wildheiressaussies.com AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD TOY PUPPIES UTD SHOTS, VET CERT, DOB 7/ 4/13 BLUE EYED, BLUE MERLE AND BLACK TRI MALES $600.00 918-429-2153

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Blue Heeler Pup, 6wks, working parents, $150. 405-574-2212 BOSTON TERRIER Pups, black & white $350, red & white $450, BOXER pups $350. 580-614-1241 Boxer Adorable AKC Pups 8 weeks, 3 F/3 M. Docked/Dew Claws/Shots/Wormed. White$500 /Black & White $600. Call or text @ 405-818-2501. BOXER Puppies AKC Fawn,Brindle & White,Blk Mask & Flashy Ch Bloodlines 6wks s/w/t/ dc $350-$450 Call/Text (405)473-6929 Boxer pups, 4 Beauties! shots, $250 405-408-8724 990-3171 Cavalier King Charles 5 fm, 1 m ACA papers, shots wormed. $500 580-239-1843 Chihuahua, Extra Cute, 8 wks EXTRA TINY TEACUPS $250 Cash ¡ 405-435-6534 CHIHUAHUA PUPPIES 8 wks, F, 2 black, 1 white, M, 3 black --- 16 wks M black & tan, choc & tan, choc & white, F black, shots and wormed Hennepin $150 & $75. 405-268-1597 Chihuahua Pups, Tiny, Adorable, 3M, 8wks old $125. 405-201-8200

Chihuahua Reg. Tiny Toy M Pup, S/W ¡ $230 ¡ 650-3035 Chows, AKC, 1F black, 1M blue, 10 wks, s/w, $350-$400, 520-3237 Cocker Spaniels AKC 2choc M, 4 blk/tan F, S/W, AKC $300. 405-609-0493 Dach Mini AKC Puppies Vet Chkd, Hlth Guart. Home Raised $300 & 350 jenkinscuddly puppies.com 580-364-6047 Dachshund, Mini, 6wks, s/w 2M SH blk/tan, 1M LH choc/crm $150 Del City, 808-3263

English Bulldogs, AKC Reg, (1) 3 year F $400; 4M, 12 wks-7 mos, $1000-$1200; Also Champion Stud Service; 405-329-0066. English Bulldog, AKC, 10wks, s/w $900-$1200ea. cash 405-593-4125 English Mastiff, AKC, 1 brindle F, 11wks, POP, 2nd s/w, vet chk $450. 405-323-8894 English Olde Bulldogge 4-M, 1-F, EIGHT WEEKS OLD, UTD SHOTS, VET CKD.IOEBA REGISTERED. BLUE RIBBON PAPERS. PARENTS ON PREMISES. 1500.00-2500.00 jeanisedbilyeu09@gmail.com or 405-326-4616

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German Shepherd AKC S/W POP 6wks Solid Blk & Silver Sable Adorable pups ready for a good loving home $500. 405-664-4517 German Shepherd AKC Pups european blood line black and red 5f 3m. 5 weeks old. call for pictures $500. 580-917-2323 German Shepherd, AKC, 14 mo M, black, neutered, housebroken, on leash, some off, good with kids, high energy, $750 obo, 496-0203. GERMAN SHEPHERD, AKC, 3F Dad over 100lbs, s/w, $300 Cash ¡ 405-417-2956 German Shepherds, AKC, Large Pups, 18wks, S/W, POP $500-$650 ¡ 405-250-8266 German Shepherd, AKC, 3F, 1M, 9 wks, POP, $300. 405-437-5339

French Bulldog Pups, AKC, 9wks 1M, 1F, vet chk, short & stubby, $1,800. stubbornbullies.com 918-407-5220 or 918-407-5221

Goldendoodles!! GOLDENDOOLES see www.puffypups.com $700-$800. 580-467-1876

Great Dane

Blue 2y F, UTD, AKC reg $300.00 call/text 405-four 9 six-8 two 39 Havanese, AKC, M & F, 8wks, blk & wht, $250-$300. 580-678-4359 Havanese Pups AKC Ready to go! Beautiful $900-$1800 ’ 550-3331

Dachshund Mix Puppies, mother 20 lbs Dachshund, father ?, 6 months old, spayed, neutered & shots, very sweet, $80. Shawnee area 405-408-6697 Dachshunds pups, 6 wks, small, $100-$200; 636-0377 or 882-4072.

German Shepherd, AKC, 7 month male, all German bloodlines, very trainable, loves to please, not a house dog, $400 cash, 240-7731.

GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPPIES 8wks old, s/w, POP, AKC, $350 405-391-2132

LAB AKC PUPPIES AKC LAB Puppies 1m1f 9wks$300. AKC Male German Shepherd 8 mon $500. 4053974555

350 ADORABLE PETS!!!

At FREE TO LIVE Near Edmond ALL Dogs & Cats Shts/Neut $60 282-8617 www.freetoliveok.org

‚ Acoustic popcorn removal ‚ Drywall repair ‚ Powerwashing ‚ Custom hand trowel finishes & spray finishes ‚ Interior/Exterior painting Call Jeff for free estimate at 405- 408-5453, insured.

Rose Electric LLC

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RAY'S ELECTRIC »»» 820-7466 »»» SHARPE'S ELECTRIC & Heat & Air, OKC, 341-8488.

Any type fencing or repair, 30 yrs,

667-3820

A/C & Appliance Service, 26 years exper, $40 service call, 371-3049.

Mr. Fixit Handyman Service. We do it all for less. Free estimates. Bonded. Ins. Visa/MC. 603-6104. Home Repair & Remodel. Roofing. Siding. Free Estimate. 410-2495.

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RESIDENTIAL HAULING »» AND CLEANING, 630-5484.

40 Chores by 40 Plus. 25 yrs exp. Insured/Ref's/Free Est, 473-1838

Baby Mini Potbelly Pigs, 6wks6mos $50ea; Bred gilts 2-3mo bred $50 All colors 918-399-9366 Registered adult grey foxes, pair $200 »»» 405-496-8299 RACCOONS, 1F, 2M, $150-$155 405-226-5444 or 405-627-5739

HAY for sale Johnson & Bermuda Grass 5x6 Bales - all weed sprayed $48 each 580-856-2182 4x6 round bales, net wrapped Mixed Grass Hay, sprayed & fertilized, $45/bale. 405-409-3970 or 405-409-3971 #1 Alfalfa Hay $8/bale in field Available for pickup Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun, SW OKC. 627-9363

Alfalfa sm. sq. bales in field.

Free Estimates. 881-6036

Bill's Painting & Home Repairs Quality Work! Free Est. 306-3087.

Rottweiler, AKC, 3M $700; 1F $500 T/DC done, 6wks 210-6341 Schipperke Puppies, Beautiful, registrable, $275. 405-348-1180 Schnauzer/Pug, Mini, Darling lil' SNUGS! hand raised, socialized, NOT kept in kennels, AKC, POP, s/w, refs, $150 ¡ 405-285-8666 Schnauzer/Border Collie mix 8wk old 4F 2M $80ea. 405-613-6310

Fletcher Love Birds, Parakeets, Society Finches. $20.-$130.00 (405)316-0568 Cockatiel Birds 7 wk old babies! $40-$45. 405-670-9678

SCHNAUZERS MINI, REG, M & F E/T/D ¡ $175 ¡ 580-641-2625

All Professional Tree Service.

Senior Disc. Insured. Removal of dead/dangerous trees. 885-2572.

L & R Tree Service, Low Prices, Insured, Free Estimate, 946-3369. Top Trim & Remove. 32yrs local exp. Free Estimates. 371-6026 »» GENE’S TREE SERVICE »» Insured-Free Estimate. 682-2100.

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before 2 p.m. Monday through Friday to advertise the item you've found in the next day's edition and online on newsok.com .

Beautiful Black Lab Mix puppy, found vic of SW 89 btw Penn & May, call to identify. 680-8866 Shar Pei/Lab Mix, blk M, found 826 dwntwn by court hse 735-1095

Weimaraner Pups AKC Highest Quality, $500, 918-694-3868 WESTIE PUPPIES, Reg. S/W, Vet ck'd, READY TO GO! $300-$400ea ¡ 580-336-8450 YORKIE, ACA, Micro Mini Teacup! 12wk F, approx 2.5lbs grown. blk/gold $2000 627-0419 ¡ ok#17 Yorkie, Adorable Pups, $200- $500, call for info, 570-9134 or 570-5274. Yorkie, Male, 12wks, Super Cute, $200 ’’’’ 580-678-4359 YORKIE AKC M, Parti carrier, extremely small, $595 ’’ Visa/MC, 826-4557 ’’ Yorkie F, Tiny T-cup, aprox 2lb grown/vet ck $1600 405-380-5859 Yorkie-Maltese (Morkie), ITTY BITTY! ¡ Baby Doll Face $495 ¡ Visa/MC ¡ 826-4557 Yorkie-Poo puppies, 7 wks 2M, 1F, $300 ea, 405-670-9678.

OKLAHOMA CORPORATION COMMISSION Oil and Gas Conservation Division Jim Thorpe Building P. O. BOX 52000-2000 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73152-2000 STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: All persons, owners, producers, operators, purchasers, and takers of oil and gas, and all other interested persons, particularly in Texas County, Oklahoma: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation, located at 400 W. Illinois, Ste. 1300 Midland, TX 79701 is requesting that the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, pursuant to OCC-OGR Rules 165:10-5-5 and 165:10-56 and Rules of Practice 165:5-727 administratively authorize the approval of the injection of saltwater and CO2 for enhanced recovery into the following well: Hovey Morrow Unit #38-4 App. No. 1401650050 2310’ FSL & 330’ FWL Sec. 22, T5N, 13ECM, Texas County, Oklahoma C/2 NW/4 NW/4 SW/4 Injection Zone and Interval: Morrow – 6106-6500’ Injection Pressure and Rate: 2500 psi and 5000 bpd – Water Injection Pressure and Rate: 2500 psi and 12000 mcf – CO2

Cox Communications and Cox Business are excited to announce that on September 30, 2013, NBC Sports (SD 251, HD 716) will move from Sports & Info Pak to Cox TV Essentials. NBC Sports will be available to Cox TV Essentials subscribers with a digital receiver or a CableCARD. Please contact Cox at 405-600-8282 for more information.

Sooner State Shelters

Get a storm shelter installed NOW! All units meet all FEMA specs, made from 10ga steel, double welded inside & out, 4 pt. latching systems, 3'' lip to protect door from falling debris. We offer 0.9% APR financing. 888-654-5484 or 405-371-0352 ERIC POTTS STORM SHELTERS Seamless patio top, since 1972, (405) 593-0042 or 410-8216.

For lease fully eqpt. restaurant Putnam City area. 640-7209

OBJECTIONS may be filed with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission within fifteen (15) days after the publication of this notice. Objections, if any, should be mailed to Oil and Gas Conservation Division, Pollution Abatement Department, Jim Thorpe Building, P. O. Box 52000-2000, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73152-2000.

Garay's Roofing Construction

Exp. & Quality work. Free Estimates. Roof repair, Re-roofing, Locally owned since 1985. Insurance claims welcomed. 370-3572 Legacy Siding & Roofing - Free Estimates State lic/ins. 917-9595

» Oklahoma Tree Service Ins., Free Est. 682-0649 A Plus Painting - 29yrs exp.

Concrete Work, Patios, Walks, Block Work, Etc. 405-593-3509

BUDDY'S PLUMBING, INC. All types, repair & remodel, gas, water & sewer, leak detection, video camera insp ¡ 405-528-7733

Development Possibilities. Blacktop Frontage. 620-927-0111

NOTICE PIT BULLS, UKC, 7wks, 5F, 4M, $400-$1,000. 405-238-4308 www.valleybullies.webs.com POMERANIAN PUPS, Will be small, Vet ck'd $250 w/out papers ’ 918-786-9823 Pomerian, Parti, 4mos, very small F, blk&wht, papers, good w/cats & kids. $250 405-659-7576 Yukon POMS, Reg, Tiny okcpoms.com $300-$600 ¡ OK#02 405-609-9241 Poodle AKC, Toy, M&F, red & wht Parti, $150-$200. 580-583-2696 Poodles, AKC, Tiny Toy & Toy pups, $300-$700 OK#1. 788-9709 www.tinyteacups.com Poodles, Standard, Puppies 2F blk ,cream 10wks $450 405-923-6016 Poodles, Toy/Mini, okcpoms.com, $275-$375 OK#02 405-609-9241 POODLES mini, 1M 1F, white 9wks, s/w, $250. 405-535-3360 Poodle Toy, apricot, s/w, AKC 10 wks 2M 1F, $400 CASH 249-5459

Birds for Sale

Paint, Drywall, Handyman 34 yrs Exp. Free Est. 503-3794

160 Acres Canadian County

BULL found near NE 63 & Air Depot 405-771-3974

Pit Bull puppies, Red Nose/Colby, 7F $150 ea, 1M $125, 694-7411. Pit Bull Puppies, 3F, green eyed blondes, 9wks, $175ea. s/w, POP, 405-273-0601

Delivery Available. 405-443-1988 Bermuda hay $5/bale in the field, Choctaw 405-281-6666

Ceiling & Wall Doctor Total Remodeling

1,231 Acres Municipality Water Rights For Sale 620-927-0111

Blue eyed, blonde, in-tact M Dog, crnr of Libby & Eastman 8/22, no collar/tag/chip (405)833-1912, 650-4540, 463-0309

Italian Greyhounds, 2 AKC pups. Adorable! $250 405-408-8724

Jack Russell Puppies Available August 31st, $200. 405-250-7996 Dane Gang Kennels is proud to announce the Fall puppy crop of Great Dane Puppies, whelped in Sept-Oct will be ready for Christmas! $800-$2000 ¡ 580-228-3402

Maltese AKC, Highest Quality! M & F. $300-$700. 918-694-3868 Maltese Puppy, full blood, cute & fluffy, $400 Cash. OKC area. ’ ’ 672-5411 ’ ’ PAPILLON, AKC, 3F 1M, all colors small, champ. quality! Rdy 9/16, dep holds $400-500 405-905-6220

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The Oklahoman runs free found ads as a community service. YORKSHIRE TERRIERS 1 female, 1 male, $400/female, $350/male. 405-527-6070 or 405-642-9622

4 Black Males. $500 405-227-7842

Golden Retriever puppies M's. & F's, 8 weeks old. Call after 6PM. 580-606-0799 German Shepherd Puppies AKC Our bloodlines make all the difference! (German Imports), $2500-$3500 windridgek9.com 580-450-0232

Labradoodle Puppies 10 weeks old. 3 Males 1 Female Black, Tan and White All shots are current. $650 For more information: 580-682-3020 or astraub01@yahoo.com LABS, AKC reg, born 6/21/13, 2 yel M, 1 blk M, 3 blk F, wormed, 1st shots, $300 each, cash only. 580-436-2494 or 580-421-3584 Lhasa Pups AKC $250-$400 9wks www.ladygrayerspups.webs.com Maltese, ACA 2 M, 9wks, $200 Will meet. 580-660-0120 www.heartlandpuppiesok.com Maltese, AKC/CKC, okcpoms.com $250-$550 OK#02 405-609-9241

YORKIE POOS 4 avail. 6 wks old, s/w, $250 each. 405-964-3153 / 405-684-7623 Yorkies, ACA, M/F, $200-$400, s/w/dc can send pic 580-504-7115 Yorkies, Small, Cute, Guarantee $285-$475 ok#245 405-380-8469 Yorkies ACA 1 yr old Female, 2.5 lb: AKC 4 month old Female, 3 lbs grown: ACA 6 month old Female 4 lbs grown $600-$800 CASH 580-3023635 or 405-663-4047 Yorki-Poo, Adorable ’ $395 ’’ Visa/MC ¡ 826-4557 ’’

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Costume Rental Inventory, selling in entirety only, over 700 costumes + racks, accessories, etc. $8,000 obo ¡ 405-413-7599 YOUR CREDIT We want to make you a loan! $145 - $1,410. Call Today (405)787-3200

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