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Oklahoma News Briefs Summary of Atoka Fatality and Local Updates
Atoka man Robert Anderson Nix, 78, died after bouncing off a moving car on U.S. 69. The incident increased Oklahoma's 1978 highway toll to 40. Other items include wildlife refuge disputes over geese eating wheat, a court order delaying Lt. Jerry Tutton’s demotion, a mayoral probation case, Langston University presidential search, metal theft allegations by state DOT workers, Boynton’s first Black school board member via coin toss, Owasso grand jury petition, new FBI sketches in the Gene Hart case, and a northeast Oklahoma City murder auto identity.
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Associated Press
Atoka
U.S
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Robert Anderson Nix
Oklahoma
Nix
Muskogee General Hospital
Atoka Memorial Hospital
Phyllis C. Wingsfred
Caddo
Eerr. Iardmore
James Dillard
State Highway Patrol
Jerry Tutton
Jerry Horton
Tutton
Oklahoma City
H.E. Bailey
State Personnel Board
Muskogee
Boynton
Martin Luther King
Damon S. Haynes
Ward Posey
NAACP
Lyle Burris
Haynes
TULSA
Gene Leroy Hart
FBI
Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
Wayne Olivers
Hart
Mayes County
Locust Grove