WILBURTON ? John F. Medders remained a winner ? by six votes ? of the Latimer County District 2 County Commissioner post Friday following a recount of the votes cast in the Aug. 26 runoff. Each candidate gained two votes in the recount, but the hand count of all the ballots cast in the Democratic race left Medders, 65, of Buffalo Valley, ahead of Rayford Bratcher, 30, of Yanush. Bratcher led the runoff 497-491, and had 499 votes following the recount, with 493 votes cast for Bratcher. The re-tally was conducted in the Latimer County district courtroom by four county election board precinct workers.
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An Oklahoma City mother was sentenced today to five years in prison for allowing her 3-year-old son to drown in the bathtub in March 2007.

Alzaina Marie Barnard pleaded guilty in June to two counts of child neglect.

Authorities accused her of leaving two of her three children in the tub for several hours March 21 while she played cards on the Internet.

Barnard?s attorney, Robert Groshon, said William Barnard?s death was an accident. He urged Oklahoma County District Judge Virgil C. Black not to sentence Barnard to prison.
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A drug designed to keep pancreatic cancer and other tumorous tissues from recurring is being developed by scientists at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

The medicine, probably in a pill or injectable form, would be given after patients are treated successfully using chemotherapy and radiation, said cancer researcher Dr. Courtney Houchen.

More than 400 Oklahomans are killed each year by pancreatic cancer, which is the fourth-leading cause of cancer fatalities in the United States, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Houchen said today at an Oklahoma City news conference that the drug has been effective in animal testing and cell cultures.
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Tulsa Police plan an afternoon news conference to announce that the reward fund in the Neal Sweeney murder is being increased.

Police are looking for the man who robbed and shot his way out of a Tulsa credit union on Friday morning.

The Oklahoma State Department of Health said today it has determined the need to interview additional persons as part of its ongoing investigation into the source of an E. coli outbreak in northeastern Oklahoma.

A Wagoner County jury has found a Tulsa man guilty of first-degree murder in the death of his stepdaughter.

Police say a motorcyclist was going southbound on Highway 75 when for some reason he ran off the road.