Showcasing showmanship skills

Representative John Pfeiffer, left, and Arapaho-Butler’s Kamryn Oakes participated in the heifer showmanship round at the Oklahoma Youth Expo (OYE).

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two Texasbased natural gas companies are being sued by Oklahoma, which alleges they fraudulently reduced gas supplies to send prices soaring during Winter Storm Uri, making huge profits while thousands shivered across the state.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Headlinegrabbbing billionaire Elon Musk is clashing with a Supreme Court justice in Brazil over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation on X, the social media platform Musk bought when it was Twitter.

Total Eclipse of the Sun

Jordan Taplin observes the moon traversing the sun during the total solar eclipse at Southwest Elementary School.

Grandmother, granddaughter celebrate

Sue Ann Lancet, left, and her granddaughter, Scarlet Fowble, share a moment during Grandparent’s Day at Western Oklahoma Christian School, as Scarlet cheerfully toasts her grandmother with an orange after prayer.

(AP) — Measles outbreaks in the U.S. and abroad are raising health experts' concern about the preventable, oncecommon childhood virus.

40 YEARS AGO

carrier Mark Krewall showed off a 6-pound “hawg” he reeled in from a farm pond south of Bessie.

40 YEARS AGO

Green Stamps were given away by downtown merchants. Announcing the winners were Jean Wohl, left, and “Leprechaun” Laura Wohl.

(AP) — It's a major contributor to climate change — the way buildings and roads are made with concrete. It's also a problem that's growing as more of the world develops. So the race has been on to find solutions for a material that's responsible for roughly 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions.

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