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Former EPA official Ken Wagner says he's serious about the environment Former EPA official Ken Wagner says he's serious about the environment Of all the people Scott Pruitt took with him to Washington and the Environment Protection Agency, Ken Wagner was the one who kept his name out of the news. Wagner said he cringes at the perception that Oklahoma is “an oil and gas state” uninterested in the environment.“This state has made significant carbon (emissions) reductions,” he said.“If we want to attract businesses, we have to assure them we have clean air and clean Renewables such as wind and solar power are critical to economic development in both the near- and long-term, he said.“A clean environment should be one of Oklahoma’s top selling points for economic development,” Wagner said. Following a three-day trial that ended March 10, the jury found in favor of 38-year-old Jesse Edward Dalton's excessive force claim and ordered Tulsa County to pay him $175,000, the cap under state tort claims law.

After Porter County police say they made their way through a house strewn with garbage bags, old food on the floor and a kitchen in a "disgusting state," a 13-year-old girl led them to a plastic bag containing hypodermic needles and a methamphetamine smoking pipe. The discovery led to Tuesday's arrest of the girl's 30-year-old father, Jeremie Songer, on preliminary felony counts of neglect of a dependent and possession of a hypodermic needle, and a misdemeanor count of possession of paraphernalia. While visiting the garage filled with trash, police said the girl pointed out the plastic bag containing "bad" items and "stated her dad would be mad and give her a 'butt whooping' if he knew she was showing the bag to the officers," police said. Songer later said the bag had been hidden in the closet by his girlfriend during an earlier police visit to the home, and he placed it in the garage to be thrown away, according to police.

BIXBY — Officials with Bixby-based BTC Broadband announced the company’s support for net neutrality this week along with plans to offer residential fiber customers symmetrical upload and download speeds. Consumers are demanding greater amounts of usage at faster speeds, and streaming preferred content over a robust Internet connection is a viable and rapidly growing option over cable. ” BTC, which also said it has eliminated bandwidth-usage charges, is also offering symmetrical upload and download speeds on all of its residential fiber internet plans. In business for over 100 years, BTC Broadband is a fiber-based broadband communications company and was the first to offer residential Gigabit service to the Bixby area.

Every year since 2003, Scott Cherry has picked his best new restaurants of the year. Check out each year's choices and see how many of the closed restaurants you remember