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By Michael Smith, Tulsa World, Okla. Jul. 11--It never fails. He can be walking down the street here in Tulsa, checking into a hotel out of state or going into a restaurant internationally, and Roy Clark has people hollering at him. "I'll hear someone from halfway down the block saying, "I'm a pickin',' " and I'm obligated to say back, "I'm a grinnin',' " said a chuckling Clark, 75, who splits his time these days between he and his wife's Tulsa home and their Patricia Island property on...
By Michael Smith, Tulsa World, Okla. Jul. 11--When you think of Oklahoma's cultural icons, you have to think of jazz legend Chet Baker, country music star Roy Clark, Oscar-winning actor Ben Johnson and guitarist/songwriter J.J. Cale. It's hard not to think of Tulsa's historic Circle Cinema in that way, too. So it seems fitting that as the city's oldest standing movie house celebrates its 80th birthday next week, it in turn honors several of the state's favorite sons of entertainment....
By Tim Logan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jul. 10--Last month, Michael Smith stopped by a house he's rehabbing in the Benton Park West neighborhood of south St. Louis. He found a window broken, and ran inside. Down in the basement, all the copper piping was gone. The only things left were nubs where his pipes went into the wall. Smith's loss is just one example of a growing side effect of rising metals prices and a weak housing market. Copper theft is surging across the St. Louis area,...
To: ENERGY EDITORS Contact: Chuck Ardo of the Pennsylvania Office of the Governor, +1-717-783-1116; or Michael Smith of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, +1-717-787-1323 YORK, Pa., July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At a time when conventional energy prices are at or near record highs, Governor Edward G. Rendell today signed into law a new fund that will save families and small businesses money on their energy bills by supporting investments in energy conservation and...
To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Chuck Ardo, +1-717-783-1116, or Michael Smith (DEP), +1- 717-787-1323, both of the Pennsylvania Office of the Governor HARRISBURG, Pa.,July 8/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Edward G. Rendell has followed through on an agreement reached in 2005 to protect one of the worlds largest bodies of fresh water -- the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River basin -- as he signed House Bill 1705, which will ensure this invaluable resource is protected for the millions of...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A man on the run for nearly 38 years since escaping from a California prison has been arrested in Oklahoma, authorities said on Friday. Michael Smith, who escaped from Correctional Training Facility in Soledad on June 7, 1968, was arrested on Thursday, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said. Smith escaped while serving the third year of a five-year-to-life sentence for first-degree robbery. His case was reopened in December 2003 and...
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Army dog handler was sentenced to six months in prison for tormenting detainees at Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib jail with his unmuzzled Belgian shepherd, an Army spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Sgt. Michael Smith, 24, faced up to 8 1/2 years in prison after he was found guilty on six of 13 counts brought against him. He will also have his rank reduced to private and must pay a total of $2,250 in fines for harassing and threatening...
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Army dog handler was sentenced to six months in prison for tormenting detainees at Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib jail with his unmuzzled Belgian shepherd, an Army spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Sgt. Michael Smith, 24, faced up to 8 1/2 years in prison after he was found guilty on six of 13 counts brought against him. He will also have his rank reduced to private and must pay a total of $2,250 in fines for harassing and threatening...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Army dog handler has been sentenced to roughly 6 months in prison for abusing detainees at Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib jail, an Army spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Sgt. Michael Smith, 24, will also have his rank reduced to private and must pay a $2,250 fine for using his unmuzzled dog to harass and threaten inmates at Abu Ghraib in 2003 and 2004, Army spokeswoman Shaunteh Kelly said. After he serves his 179-day sentence he will be released from the...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Army dog handler has been sentenced to roughly 6 months in prison for abusing detainees at Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib jail, an Army spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Sgt. Michael Smith, 24, will also have his rank reduced to private and must pay a $2,250 fine for using his unmuzzled dog to harass and threaten inmates at Abu Ghraib in 2003 and 2004, Army spokeswoman Shaunteh Kelly said. After he serves his 179-day sentence he will be released from the...
