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Norman, OK – Accident victims' families sue driver

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) Family members of the 10 people who were killed when a tractor-trailer slammed into a line of stopped cars on an Oklahoma turnpike have sued the truck's driver and his employer.

A lawsuit filed Sept. 28 in Cleveland County District Court names Donald L. Creed of Willard, Mo.; Kansas City, Kan.-based Associated Wholesale Grocers; two insurance companies, a California company and two individuals as defendants.

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Tulsa, OK – Officer shoots, kills man in Broken Arrow

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) Broken Arrow police say an officer investigating a domestic disturbance call has shot and killed a man.

Maj. Carole Newell says police were called about 11:45 p.m. Monday to a home in northeast Broken Arrow and were met by 29-year-old Nathan Samuel.

Newell says Samuel had a knife that he refused to put down and was shot and killed by an officer.

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ON PUBLIC RADIO 89.5 HD1 – David Wessel, the Economics Editor of the The Wall Street Journal and Author of In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic speaks to the Commonwealth Club of California this week.

How did we find ourselves confronting the worst threat to the U.S. economy since the Great Depression? Wessel will explain what the Federal Reserve did right and did wrong, where the economy stands now and where it is headed.

By Rich Fisher

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Oklahoma City, OK – Lawmakers call for nursing home reform

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A bipartisan group of state lawmakers wants to suspend an incentive program they say is giving bonuses to poorly performing nursing homes.

Rep. Richard Morrissette of Oklahoma City says a new Government Accountability Office report lists Oklahoma with the second worst average of poorly performing nursing homes in the nation.

Morrissette says 36 of Oklahoma's 318 nursing homes, or 11.3 percent, are poorly performing.

Tulsa, OK – What is in our economic future?

In today's report, KWGS' John Durkee talks with Tulsa Chamber of Commerce Economist Bob Ball. Ball reviews Tulsa latest unemployment figures plus looks into his crystal ball.

By Associated Press

Muskogee, OK – Former clerk gets suspended sentence

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) The former clerk and treasurer in Boynton has pleaded guilty to two counts of violating Oklahoma's Open Records Act for refusing to let town trustees see water department records.

Pauline Osburn was given a suspended sentence following her plea Monday.

The 73-year-old woman, who resigned in May, also is required to pay a $250 fine on each count, plus court costs of about $800 and a monthly probation supervision fee of $40 per month.

By Associated Press

Oklahoma City, OK – First doses of swine flu vaccine arrive in Okla.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) The first doses of the much-anticipated swine flu vaccine are arriving in Oklahoma and county health departments are developing distribution plans.

The Oklahoma and Cleveland County health departments are reporting that their allotment of the vaccine arrived Monday and state Health Department spokeswoman Leslea Bennett-Webb says it's anticipated most county health departments will have their vaccine by Tuesday.

By Associated Press

Oklahoma City, OK – Schools closed by flu-like illness have reopened

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Two Oklahoma school districts that closed last week because of flu-like illnesses have reopened.

The Roff district in Pontotoc County and the Haworth district in McCurtain County both resumed classes Monday.

Roff was closed Wednesday, Thursday and Friday after 200 students in the 347 student district were absent. Haworth was closed all last week after absence rates of 20 to 25 percent of its 600 students.