OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Public schools in Oklahoma's two largest cities will remain closed despite plans to end a strike by teachers for more classroom funding. Oklahoma City and Tulsa schools said Thursday they will remain closed Friday. It marks the second week of a statewide walkout by teachers who marched on the state Capitol. Education Association President Alicia Priest called for the walkout to end Thursday and urged teachers to shift their focus to electing pro-education candidates to the Legislature.
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - The murder trial has begun for a man accused of killing and dismembering his ex-girlfriend. The Daily Camera reports that attorneys made their opening statements Thursday morning to a jury of 16 people in the case of 33-year-old Adam Densmore, who is charged with first-degree murder, tampering with a corpse, abuse of a corpse and tampering with physical evidence in the death of Boulder resident Ashley Mead. Densmore has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
PHOENIX (AP) - An organizer with grassroots teacher group protesting low pay and school funding in Arizona says they are waiting for details before reacting to a pay raise proposal from Republican Gov. Doug Ducey. Tucson teacher Derek Harris said Thursday evening that Ducey's plan to boost pay by 20 percent by 2020 is just a plan now. He said he wants to see actual legislation and how the governor will pay for it.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The U.S. Marshals Service says a woman's obituary helped agents capture her fugitive son nearly four decades after he escaped from an Oklahoma prison. The agency says 58-year-old Stephen Michael Paris was arrested without incident Thursday at an office in Houston where he worked under a pseudonym. The agency says investigators found him after an obituary for his mother in Houston listed the same fake name. He escaped from prison in 1981 while serving a sentence on drug charges.
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