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Bachelor’s degrees are expected to be granted to 367 candidates as East Central University conducts its 2025 Spring Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 17 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the Kerr Activities Center.
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District Attorney Erik Johnson announced Thursday that a Seminole County jury has convicted Benjamin Lee Wayne Cullum of First Degree Manslaughter in connection with a motorcycle crash that ultimately claimed the life of David Scott Cathey. The jury recommended a 35-year prison sentence following the conviction.
Read moreAccording to the May monthly report from the Oklahoma Tax Commission (OTC), medical marijuana sales dropped in SEMINOLE COUNTY between and March and April. Tax revenue brought in a total of $37,551.97 in April. This was $3,322.04 less than the $40,874.01 that was collected in the previous month.
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On a day set aside to bring awareness to missing and murdered Indigenous people, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt vetoed a bill to allow state funding for the Office of Liaison for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP).
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Seminole State College students received real-world job interview experience during a mock interview workshop hosted on campus April 30. The event, themed “Be More Employable,” was organized in partnership by SSC’s Business and Industry program, the SSC Boren Library’s Career Center, and the College’s federally-funded Student Support Services, Upward Bound, and Talent Search grant programs.
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The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation reports that the rare genetic disease affects nearly 40,000 people in the U.S. Elijah Brown, a biochemistry and molecular biology senior in the Oklahoma State University Ferguson College of Agriculture, has spent most of his college career engaged in new drug discovery research to improve quality of life for people with cystic fibrosis.
Read moreOklahoma Baptist University conferred degrees upon 221 graduates (194 undergraduate students and 27 graduate students) during Spring Commencement on May 3. The ceremony took place at First Southern Baptist Church in Del City. Dr. Carolyn Bishop, president of the Consortium for Global Education, delivered the commencement address.
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