Funeral disrupts burial as state custody moves for siblings
At Bethesda Assembly of God in Oklahoma City mourners watched a McLoud family drama unfold as authorities moved to take Emily Smith, 12, and Joshua Skalicky, 7, into state custody following Brandon Skalicky's death. Police and social workers faced a tense scene with screams and threats as the children were escorted to a car. The judge ordered temporary custody, and the siblings were not allowed to attend Brandon's funeral while a state investigation continued to determine possible charges.
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Roxanne Smith
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Cousins
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McDaniel
Tracy Pelfrey
del City
Emily
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George Johnson
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Richard Smotherman
Social Services
Gary Row
Ron
Richard Sherman
Smith
Heidi Canaday
Smotherman
Oklahoma Panhandle seeks federal disaster aid after storms
Governor Brad Henry urged a federal disaster declaration for Beaver Cimarron and Texas counties hit by an ice storm and a snow storm. If approved, public entities will get funds for response and recovery costs. Preliminary damage estimates total almost $6 million across cities counties and utility systems. Tulsa County prosecutors charged Shawn Deatherage with first degree murder for allegedly hacking his mother Cheryl Deatherage to death with a machete on New Year’s Day.
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Brad Henry
Bush
Oklahoma Panhandle
Beaver
Cimarron
Texas
Panhandle
Henry
Tulsa
Tulsa County
Shawn Deatherage
Cheryl Deatherage
Man killed self while wanted for double Garfield's killings
Oklahoma authorities pursued Bal Svader, 24, in the double slayings of Roger Martin Jr., 27, and Melissa Phillips, 19. He died by self-inflicted gunshot after officers used tear gas at a cellular tower building. bodies found on Martin's porch. Ed m and chain sale news included.
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Bal. Svader
Roger Martin Jr
Melissa Phillips
Martin
Phillips
Srader
Richard Sexton
BBC oil documentary to include state angle
The BBC plans a documentary focusing on Oklahoma oil workers who aided British petroleum production during World War II. Lloyd Noble and Fain-Porter Drilling drilled 94 wells in England’s Sherwood Forest, living in a monastery and working 12‑hour shifts daily. Production rose from 300 to 3,000 barrels per day.
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Ardmore
United Kingdom
British Petroleum
Sir Phillip Southwell
Lloyd Noble
Noble
Fain-Porter Drilling
Southwell
England
Sherwood Forest
Lawton Winter Cleanup Expands Two Weeks
Lawton announces extended refuse service through Jan 19. City crews will collect residential trash not normally gathered, including washers, dryers, water heaters, furniture, landscaping debris and building waste from curbside locations.
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Micnart D. Parcf Starr
Lawton
Lawton Comanche tax plan debated for 2007 ballot
City and county leaders discuss a trio of tax proposals to fund jail operations infrastructure and rural services. A seven year city sales tax would start July 1 2007 a county eight tenth percent sales tax would extend the jail levy past 2008 and a 1.75 percent rural tax would fund fire departments roads and the Great Plains Coliseum with $1 million annual fuel tax allocation to the Central District. Council weighs priorities and votes on ballot language while Cameron University police gain limited enforcement powers near campus.
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Lawton
Great Plains
Comanche County
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Comanche
Co Manche County
Tim Wilson
Cameron
Jim Ronan
Office of Public Safety
University Boulevard
27Th Street
Ronan
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