Dr. Mike Wilcox demonstrates advanced lifesaving techniques for rural hospital staff members Wednesday during the Comprehensive Advanced Life Support workshop at Cameron University’s MacMahon Centennial Complex. The two-day event ended Thursday, and drew 28 healthcare providers from 11 different small hospitals throughout Oklahoma. This was the second year for Cameron to host the medical training.
Local workshop benefits rural hospital professionals
Rural hospital staff members from across Oklahoma spent Wednesday and Thursday learning about the latest techniques and equipment for saving lives at the Comprehensive Advanced Life Support workshop in Cameron University's MacMahon Centennial Complex.
Livestock seek shade to beat the heat this week in Southwest Oklahoma. Area lakes left low after years of below-average rainfall are declining even more as a result of summer evaporation.
Options considered for extending life of Waurika Lake
WAURIKA LAKE  Waurika Lake Master Conservancy District board members were told lake levels are continuing to drop and the drought is still not loosening its impact on the area.
A boy is comforted after he was injured by a hit-and-run driver Thursday near Lake Lawtonka.
Teenager left at roadside by hit-and-run driver in county
A teenage boy escaped potentially serious injury Thursday after a hit-and-run driver knocked him to the ground on a Lake Lawtonka access road. 
Big Pete Piehnik lets it go during “House of the Rising Sun” as Juan Anthony Reyes looks for the right place to come in with his moody trumpet during a set at The Silver Spoon.
Big Pete does a little ‘cooking’ at local eatery
Big Pete Piehnik put the hidden "trooper" into the word troubadour last week. One night fresh from the hospital, Piehnik was presiding over the weekly open mic night activities in the proverbial smoke-filled room of AP's Club out Medicine Park way. The next evening, Piehnik was putting on another steady night of amazing music. 
This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Dwayne Johnson as Hercules in a scene from “Hercules.”
Revamped ‘Hercules’ will hit theaters
Director Brett Ratner ("X-Men: The Last Stand") revamps the classic tale of Hercules this weekend, and his leading actor, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, had to overcome several physical hurdles to complete his role as the son of Zeus.
Maj. Gen. John G. Rossi, left, commanding general of Fort Sill and the Fires Center of Excellence, shakes hands with Col.William A. Turner, the new Field Artillery School commandant and chief of the Field Artillery branch, at his assumption of responsibility ceremony here Wednesday.
New chief of artillery at Sill to drive momentum worldwide
Fort Sill welcomed Col. William A. Turner as the 51st commandant of the Field Artillery School and chief of the Field Artillery branch at a reveille ceremony in his honor Wednesday.
Dr. Mike Wilcox demonstrates advanced lifesaving techniques for rural hospital staff members Wednesday during the Comprehensive Advanced Life Support workshop at Cameron University’s MacMahon Centennial Complex. The two-day event ended Thursday, and drew 28 healthcare providers from 11 different small hospitals throughout Oklahoma. This was the second year for Cameron to host the medical training.
Livestock seek shade to beat the heat this week in Southwest Oklahoma. Area lakes left low after years of below-average rainfall are declining even more as a result of summer evaporation.
A boy is comforted after he was injured by a hit-and-run driver Thursday near Lake Lawtonka.
Big Pete Piehnik lets it go during “House of the Rising Sun” as Juan Anthony Reyes looks for the right place to come in with his moody trumpet during a set at The Silver Spoon.
This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Dwayne Johnson as Hercules in a scene from “Hercules.”
Maj. Gen. John G. Rossi, left, commanding general of Fort Sill and the Fires Center of Excellence, shakes hands with Col.William A. Turner, the new Field Artillery School commandant and chief of the Field Artillery branch, at his assumption of responsibility ceremony here Wednesday.

Sports

One of the women goes full speed during the bowtie Wednesday.
Fun most used word at Playday Finals

Fun is the word most members of the Grand National Horsemen's Association use to describe their involvement with the group, however, there is another word that some of those in a couple

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Big Pete Piehnik lets it go during “House of the Rising Sun” as Juan Anthony Reyes looks for the right place to come in with his moody trumpet during a set at The Silver Spoon.
Big Pete does a little ‘cooking’ at local eatery

Big Pete Piehnik put the hidden "trooper" into the word troubadour last week.

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