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- Wake for a toxic town
Mountains of tainted gravel surrounded their homes. Lead poisoned their children. And the creek turned orange. But when former residents of Picher, Oklahoma, returned to their vacated mining town, they celebrated what it once was -- a place of pride and patriotism.
- 'Last man standing' at wake for a toxic town
Wearing powder blue pants and a plaid fedora, 84-year-old Orval "Hoppy" Ray arrived fashionably late to a celebration in Picher, Oklahoma, a vacated mining town at the center of one of the nation's largest and most polluted toxic-waste sites.
- Driver in 10-death Okla. wreck had clean record
(AP)
AP - Truck driver Donald Creed had a clean record when the state of Missouri renewed his commercial driver's license in April. Less than three months later, investigators are trying to figure out why Creed didn't stop — and perhaps didn't even hit the brakes — before his big rig slammed into a line of vehicles on an Oklahoma turnpike, a collision that killed 10 people.
- Kansas City Fed: Regional Factory Production Now Net Positive
For the first time in 10 months the Tenth Federal Reserve District is reporting factory production that is now net positive. The Tenth Federal Reserve District encompasses Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wyoming, northern New Mexico, and western
- Oklahoma troubled by long line of sheriff scandals
(AP)
AP - A small-town sheriff and his top deputy kept close watch over a lonely stretch of interstate in eastern Oklahoma, looking for drug couriers to fleece. But one motorist carrying $30,000 in cash turned out to be an undercover federal agent.
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Introduction
Oklahoma became the United States forty-sixth state on November 16, 1907 and is the first state of five to join the Union in the twentieth century. The state's largest city and capital is Oklahoma City. Oklahoma gets its name from Indian words meaning "red person". There are 12 different ecosystems in Oklahoma including mesas, wetlands, sand dunes, and prairies. Two inventions that come from Oklahoma are the shopping cart and the parking meter. The Sooner State measures 68,679 square miles and ranks 19th in size among the 50 states.
State web site www.state.ok.us
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