Arts & Entertainment
Mountain Lion Won't Get to Stay at Oklahoma Zoo
Written by Dick Pryor Thursday, 05 May 2011 15:02
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Tulsa Zoo veterinarians say they're not sure where a female mountain lion captured in north Tulsa came from, but she won't be staying at the zoo. Senior veterinarian Dr. Kay Backues told the Tulsa World there's no space for the 78-pound feline. Officials say she'll likely be taken to another zoo or an animal sanctuary. Zoo and Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation officials helped capture the lion after she was found April 23 in a tree in the backyard of a residence. The cat has been at the Tulsa Zoo while officials try to determine whether she was wild or was kept in captivity. Backues says DNA samples were taken from the cat and will be compared to mountain lion populations in Texas, New Mexico and South Dakota.
Powerball Ticket Worth $1 Million Sold in Mangum
Written by Dick Pryor Tuesday, 12 April 2011 15:27
MANGUM, Okla. (AP) - State lottery officials say a winning Powerball ticket worth $1 million was sold at a convenience store in Mangum. Lottery officials said Monday that the ticket for Saturday's drawing was sold at The Loop Quick Stop. The winning numbers for the drawing are 5, 14, 32, 53 and 56 and the Powerball number 11 and the Power Play multiplier is 4. Winners have 180 days from the day of the drawing to claim the prize at the Oklahoma Lottery Headquarters in Oklahoma City.
Garth Brooks to hold Nashville benefit concert
Written by Dick Pryor Thursday, 28 October 2010 20:55
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Oklahomans and county music stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood will hold a concert in December to benefit flood relief in Nashville, Tenn. Brooks made the announcement during a news conference Thursday morning in Nashville.
Brooks is the best selling solo artist in history with more than 130 million albums sold. He began occasional performances at the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas last December, but otherwise remains retired as he spends time with his children and Yearwood, his wife. This will be his only arena show of the year. May's flood caused more than $2 billion in damage in Nashville alone and there was widespread damage throughout middle Tennessee. Proceeds will go to the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.
Columnist, wordsmith James Kilpatrick dies at 89
Written by Dick Pryor Tuesday, 17 August 2010 19:39
WASHINGTON (AP) - James J. Kilpatrick, who rose from cub reporter to become one of the South's most prominent newspaper editors and the nation's most widely syndicated political columnist, has died. He was 89.
Kilpatrick's wife, Marianne Means, says he died Sunday night at George Washington University Hospital. Means says he was being treated for congestive heart failure. TV watchers in the 1970s knew Kilpatrick as the conservative half of the "Point-Counterpoint" segment of the CBS program "60 Minutes." His sparring with liberal commentator Shana Alexander was famously parodied on "Saturday Night Live."
Kilpatrick learned to read by age 4 and decided early on he wanted to be a newsman. When he wasn't attending class at the University of Missouri, Kilpatrick worked summers as a copyboy for the Oklahoma City Times.
After Two Decades, Chickasaw Cultural Center Opens
Written by Dick Pryor Monday, 09 August 2010 19:43
SULPHUR, Okla. (AP) - For generations, members of the Chickasaw Nation told the tribe's stories of hardship and renewal through its families, community organizations and churches. Now others can get a glimpse of the tribe's history - from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States to the Trail of Tears and what would become Oklahoma. The tribe opened the $40 million Chickasaw Cultural Center in July. Among its features are a 350-seat theater and an historical exhibit that includes a long hallway known as the "Removal" exhibit. That exhibit tells the story of the Trail of Tears - the forced movement of the Chickasaws and other tribes to what is now Oklahoma in the 1830s. Tribe historian Phil Morgan says the center makes the statement that the tribe has survived and will continue to do so.
