Opening act

Steven Jeffrey sings with the Oklahoma Opry at the McLain Rogers Amphitheater on Friday.

Ready for school

Billy Wallace, left, watches as Mary Allison signs Briley Musick- Allison, right, up for school at enrollment in the Clinton Middle School Cafeteria.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The horseshoe crab has been scuttling in the ocean and tidal pools for more than 400 million years, playing a vital role in the ecosystem along with being an item for fishing bait and medical research. Its blue blood is harvested for medical researchers and used by drug and medical device makers to test for dangerous impurities in vaccines, prosthetics and intravenous drugs.

2 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is listening for any peep from Voyager 2 after losing contact with the spacecraft billions of miles away.

State visit

District Judge Jill Weedon, left, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond, and Associate District Judge Donna Dirickson gathered Wednesday for Drummond’s visit to the Custer County Courthouse.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho mother Lori Vallow Daybell has been sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday in the murders of her two youngest children and a romantic rival in a case that included bizarre claims that her son and daughter were zombies and that she was a goddess sent to usher in the Biblical apocalypse.

(AP) — The Oklahoma House voted Monday to override Gov. Kevin Stitt's veto of a bill that extends agreements on selling tobacco for another year. In a bipartisan vote during a special session, the Republican- controlled House met the two-thirds vote needed to override. The Senate overrode the governor's veto last week.

On standby

Sinor EMS’ Jesse Gill, left, and Nicholas Garcia enjoyed fried goodies at the McLain Rogers Amphitheater on Friday.

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