SAPULPA, Okla. (AP) - The U.S. Commerce Department is awarding a $1.5 million grant to the city of Sapulpa for improvements to its water system. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the improved infrastructure will support business development and expansion in the Tulsa suburb. The project includes new waterlines to a local industrial park and increased wastewater capacity.
GERONIMO, Okla. (AP) - A 1-year-old Texas boy and a 31-year-old Oklahoma woman died of injuries suffered in a head-on collision in southwestern Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the boy, whose name wasn't released, from Arlington, Texas, and Savannah Benefiel of Walters died at a local hospital following the crash Friday on U.S. 277 near the town of Geronimo.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is offering a $10,000 reward for information about the unsolved slaying of a couple in northeastern Oklahoma. The OSBI says the reward is "for information that helps develop new, credible leads" in the shooting deaths of 65-year-old Jack Denney and 66-year-old Elaine Denney. The Denney's were found dead in their home in Locust Grove on Christmas Day 2007 and no arrests have been made in the case.
PRESTON, Okla. (AP) - Authorities say a man was killed in an oilfield accident in eastern Oklahoma. The Okmulgee County Sheriff's Department said Friday that Robert Allen of Cushing died after the oilfield pulling unit he was on collapsed near Preston, about 90 miles east of Oklahoma City. Sheriff's investigator Duston Todd said in a news release that Allen was on a tower of the pulling unit owned by Rick's Well Service when it fell on Thursday. Pulling units are typically used to make repairs to working oil wells.
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