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Published: 2/12/2009 2:34 AM
Last Modified: 2/12/2009 3:07 AM

OSU-Tulsa to show students' videos

Oklahoma State University-Tulsa will showcase a collection of videos produced by students about creativity.

The free event is set for 6 p.m. Thursday at OSU-Tulsa Auditorium, 700 N. Greenwood Ave.

It's part of OSU's creativity initiative, which administrators began this semester as part of a mission to promote and encourage creativity throughout the university. The Stillwater campus will celebrate early next week with a creativity festival that will include panel discussions and national speakers, including Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor for the New Yorker. For a complete schedule, go online to

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"When you give students an opportunity to express themselves in a creative and innovative way, they will really show you the fullness of their potential," OSU marketing professor Tracy Suter said.

Sand Springs grant to fund new radios

SAND SPRINGS — The city is getting a $128,000 Homeland Security grant to upgrade mobile radios used by police officers and firefighters.

The funds will be used to replace 35 radios purchased in 2000 and 2001.

"You may not think of eight or nine years as a long time, but imagine using a computer that's as old as that," Assistant Fire Chief Tom Jenkins said.

The city was a pioneer two decades ago when it switched to 800-megahertz radios in partnership with the

city of Tulsa. Since then, the technology has become standard for many state public safety agencies.

The radios will be an upgrade to digital capability.

Jenkins said the city is exploring whether to give the old radios to smaller area police and fire departments.

Mounds officials seek school bus vandals

MOUNDS — Authorities are looking for whoever punctured the tires on eight school buses over the weekend.

A flat tire was discovered on one of the buses about 6 a.m. Monday before routes started.

Another bus experienced a flat during the morning route. Superintendent Gary Lundy said another bus picked up those students and took them to school.

It was after the rest of the buses returned from the routes that several low tires were noticed, he said.

Lundy said the district had to replace 32 tires.

He said the tires probably were punctured Sunday.

Crash near Inola kills motorist, 2 children

Three people, including two children, died Wednesday afternoon when an SUV slammed into a parked tractor-trailer rig two miles west of Inola.

A white Honda sport utility vehicle had passed another vehicle shortly after 2 p.m. on U.S. 412. When the driver moved back into the outside lane, he veered into the truck, which was parked on the shoulder, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. George Brown said.

The SUV's driver and two children, ages 2 and 3, died at the scene. The truck driver was not hurt, Brown said.

All three adults involved were wearing seat belts, and both children were in car seats, Brown said. The victims' names had not been released.

Schools in Prue are locked down briefly

PRUE — Schools were locked down Wednesday while authorities searched a heavily wooded area for an armed man who fired a shot during a domestic disturbance.

Osage County Sheriff Ty Koch said the shooting occurred two to three miles from the schools, but a decision was made about 12:30 p.m. to lock them down as a precaution.

Koch said there was a large open area between the woods and the schools, so no one was taking any chances.

The sheriff said the schools remained locked down for the rest of the afternoon.

Meanwhile, he said, a manhunt for Roy William Mills, 31, continued into late Wednesday.

He was armed with a rifle and possible shotgun, Koch said.

The sheriff said the domestic disturbance occurred about 12:20 p.m. near the entrance to Lake Road at 209th West Avenue.

He said Mills' girlfriend called the Sheriff's Office to report that she and Mills were arguing in her home and that he had fired a rifle into the floor.

Koch said it was the second disturbance involving Mills at the same location since November.

Claremore track live racing starts Feb. 28

CLAREMORE — Cherokee Casino Will Rogers Downs will open its live racing season Feb. 28.

The track is increasing its purse structure and is attracting prominent horsemen including Oklahoma trainer Kenny Smith and country musician Toby Keith.

Of the track's 2,200 stall applications for the spring meet, Smith will receive 12. This is the first time he has raced horses at the Claremore track.

"About half of my horses I'm bringing are Toby Keith's," Smith said. "I've been training for him since he started about 12 years ago."

The racino is offering 44 days of racing with 15 stakes races. Six of the stakes races are $50,000 guaranteed, including thoroughbred, quarter horse, paint and appaloosa stakes races beginning March 21.

The race schedule runs from Feb. 28 to May 23, with racing every Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, as well as every Wednesday in March; Friday, April 3; Easter Sunday, April 21; and Mother's Day, May 10.

Cherokee Casino Will Rogers Downs is two miles east of Claremore on Oklahoma 20.

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