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DEAR ABBY: My mother passed away recently. She suffered from dementia and was a cancer survivor, but she lived well into her 80s. It was difficult for me to witness her mental decline when I spoke to her on the phone or visited her occasionally in the nursing home.

YAHOO SPORTS The Dallas Wings made UConn star Azzi Fudd the No. 1 pick in the WNBA Draft on Monday night, reuniting Fudd with her former Huskies teammate Paige Bueckers in the process. Without a clear-cut No.

WEWOKA-District Attorney Roy Powell allegedly turned over confidential evidence concerning a Seminole County audit to the county commissioners who were accused of law violations in the audit, the Producer has learned.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) recently awarded a $300,000 grant to University of Central Oklahoma faculty members to support research aimed at strengthening the nation’s agricultural biosecurity.

East Central University’s inaugural chapter of the Gamma Delta Pi sorority is celebrating its first spring semester with a series of successes, making history for First American women at ECU and establishing a new community of sisterhood on campus.

Dear Dave, I’ll be graduating college in May with a degree in elementary education. I’ll have a job at a local school waiting for me, and this will be the first time in my life I’ve made more than minimum wage. The great news is my new job will raise our household income to over $100,000 a year.

The former office manager of the Seminole County Jail accused of stealing over $180,000 from a kiosk at the facility over a nearly five-year period has pleaded guilty.

The CVECares Committee with Canadian Valley Electric Cooperative announced that it has continued its mission of giving back to the community by donating $2,000 to two local organizations that are making a difference. United Way of Eastern Country Inc.

National Volunteer Week is being observed April 19-25, and the American Red Cross of South Central and Southeast Oklahoma is honoring the volunteers who contribute their time and talent to make the Red Cross mission possible every day.

Sen. Grant Green, R-Wellston, encourages Oklahomans and Route 66 enthusiasts to visit new public art installations in Wellston that were commissioned as part of this year’s centennial celebrations. At 10 a.m.