FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) _ The kindergartners at Patriot Elementary School are busy pasting cutout paper socks in smallest to largest order when the shouts ring out:

"Mr. Carlos. Mr. Carlos."

The dark-haired man in the Army uniform heads over to one table and crouches, eye level, to 5-year-old Caleb Marlatt who gives him a big smile and holds up his paper.

"Good job. Don't forget to put your name on it," the soldier says, moving on to other children who are eager for his attention.

Caleb, watching the other kids mob the soldier, says in a loud whisper, "Mr. Carlos is like my dad. My dad is in Iraq since I was a baby. I want to see him. Mr. Carlos is not my dad. But Mr. Carlos helps you like a dad."

And the ki
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SPALDING, Idaho (AP) _ From the rolling Clearwater Valley to New York City's concrete canyons, a silver medal that may have been given to a Nez Perce Indian chief by Lewis and Clark in 1806 has made an improbable journey.

Its provenance isn't ironclad, but some historians believe this Jefferson Peace Medal minted in Philadelphia went up the Missouri River in a pirogue, was buried in an Indian grave, later plundered by Northern Pacific Railroad workers, and eventually landed with Edward Dean Adams, the New York financier and J.P. Morgan contemporary.

Long considered stolen, it surfaced around 2002 in the American Museum of Natural History's South American collection.
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Tulsa homicide detectives make an arrest in the city's latest murder. Officers actually found their suspect already sitting in a jail cell.

Nearly 90,000 tickets are issued in the City of Tulsa every year. Sixty-three thousand of those folks don't have to show up for court, but many don't realize it.

A high-speed chase down the Turner Turnpike kept the Oklahoma Highway Patrol busy Friday afternoon.

Each year, long lines of people rely on the John 3:16 Mission for Thanksgiving baskets.

Analysts say Oklahoma is immune from the national economic troubles, mostly because of our strong oil and gas industry.