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Witney Round Table got an international response when it organised a balloon race to raise money for the Anthony Nolan bone marrow appeal.

People living in Murray are still coming to grips with the loss of two young lives. Thursday afternoon, a pickup truck with four teens inside was struck by a train while trying to cross a railroad crossing on Kansas Street in rural Murray, Iowa. Sign up for our Newsletters The Iowa State Patrol says 14-year-old Brooklynn Eggers and 15-year-old Gavin Werner were killed in the accident. Both were passengers. Sixteen-year-old Tyson Nall was...

Subscribe Based on Julie Murphys young adult bestseller, Anne Fletchers coming-of-age comedy puts a spotlight on the complexity of a mother-daughter relationship as former beauty queen Rosie (Jennifer Aniston) and her plus-size teenage daughter, Willowdean (Danielle Macdonald), navigate years of unresolved conflict between them. Case in point: It doesnt help that Rosie keeps calling Willowdean Dumplin, because she thinks her daughter looks like a "round little dumplin." Finally, our title heroi...

By: Jennifer Pierce Oklahoma City police identified a suspect allegedly involved in a double shooting that took the life of a woman last week. Police arrested 51-year-old Dennis Walker Senior recently on one first-degree murder complaint. Police said a witness helped investigators connect Walker to the deadly shooting of 57-year-old Joyce Smith. Police have not said what the relationship was between Walker and the victim. Police first came across Walker last Tuesday in the intersection of Nor...

The man is expected to survive. Police said a woman was then found shot inside of another vehicle near Northeast 35th Street and Lindsey Avenue. The woman, identified as 57-year-old Joyce Smith, was transported to OU Medical Center where she later died. Investigators believe the two shootings stem from the same event. No arrests have been made at this time.

By: Jennifer Pierce OKLAHOMA CITY - Tuesdays double shooting in northeast Oklahoma City left one woman dead and one man critically injured, police said. Police officials said an officer was on his way into work when he discovered one of the victims in the middle of the road. The victim who died was identified as 57-year-old Joyce Smith on Wednesday. Police think the two shootings were connected. A rolling shootout in northeast Oklahoma City sent police to two different scenes, only blocks apar...

Virginia elections board will ask prosecutor to investigate claims of irregularities during Richmond vote count Voters cast ballots in Richmond at the city registrars office. (Source: Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury) By Graham Moomaw | April 21, 2021 at 8:55 AM EDT - Updated April 21 at 8:55 AM The State Board of Elections voted Tuesday to ask Richmond’s commonwealth’s attorney to look into Republican officials’ accusations that Democratic members of the Richmond Electoral Boar...

Person shot, killed in northeast OKC identified as 57-year-old woman, police say © KOCO 5 According to police, the shooting was reported at about 4 p.m. near Northeast 36th Street and Kelley Avenue. Police have identified a victim shot and killed Tuesday afternoon in northeast Oklahoma City, as a 57-year-old woman. According to Oklahoma City police, at about 3:50 p.m., an off-duty officer was heading in to work when he came across a vehicle stopped in the roadway at Northeast 36 thStreet and...

Mickey Guyton didnt just co-host the 2021 ACM Awards on Sunday night (April 18), she performed, too. The country singer took a brief pause from hosting to deliver a powerful rendition of her song "Hold On" during the big awards show. Draped in a gorgeous blue dress, surrounded by dramatic fog and accompanied by a choir and string trio, Guyton brought the Opry House down with a flawless performance. Guyton once again showed a national television audience the power of a moving song with a message...

BILLY STRACHAN was born 100 years ago today, on April 16 1921 in Jamaica, then a British colony.  Aged just 18, he paid his own way to Britain in 1940 to join the Royal Air Force to take part in the war effort against Nazi Germany.  He rose through the ranks to become flight lieutenant, a remarkable achievement for a black person at that time.  Billy Strachan and his wife Joyce He married Joyce Smith and by 1946, the young couple and their three sons migrated to Jamaica to start a new life....