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By Staff Reports
Saturday, January 12, 2013
1/12/13 at 2:27 AM
Creek County agency will offer maternity services
SAPULPA - Maternity health services are now available at the Creek County Health Department in Sapulpa.
Services will expand to the Health Department office in Bristow later this year, according to a news release from the Oklahoma State Department of Health.
Dr. James Ross of the Warren Clinic will provide the services, which will include routine checkup and lab services once a week. Delivery of the baby will be at Saint Francis Hospital South.
"We are pleased to be able to offer services to help improve the health of women and infants in the Creek County area," Ross said in the release. "These types of services and the counseling and information that will be made available should help us reduce our infant mortality rate not only in the county but surrounding areas."
Ross is fluent in Spanish, and the Creek County Health Department has Spanish interpreters available.
For more information, call Janie Osborne of the Creek County Health Department in Sapulpa at 918-224-5531 ext. 244 or email her at janieo@health.ok.gov.
-SHANNON MUCHMORE World Staff Writer
State officials seeking 2 new lottery millionaires
OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma Lottery Commission is looking for the state's two newest millionaires.
Lottery officials said two separate Powerball tickets from this week's drawing correctly matched all five white-ball numbers for a $1 million prize.
One of the tickets purchased in the Johnston County town of Ravia added the Power Play option to multiply the prize to $2 million.
The other $1 million ticket was purchased at a Murphy USA gas station in Owasso.
The winning numbers for Wednesday night's drawing were 11, 13, 20, 27 and 59. The Powerball number was 26.
Winners have 180 days to claim their prize at lottery headquarters in Oklahoma City.
- from the Associated Press
