Bethany News

Editor's Note: This is the second of a three-part series on the distinguished individuals who will be honored by the USAO Alumni Association at this year's annual Homecoming on Nov.

Oklahoma Baptist University students David Goff, Bethany Slagle, Melissa Krauss and Amanda Eves tackle playground equipment with children at Oklahoma CityA's Baptist Mission Center.

After 15 years in the concrete business, James Carpenter found himself with quite a collection of job-site leftovers in his Bethany yard.

It was Friday, a nice June evening in 1968, when young Joreta Sharp Lacey answered the door at her sister's home in Bethany, where she and her 2-year-old son, Kipper, were living.

An elementary school in the Oklahoma City suburb of Bethany was placed on lockdown for a time because of a burglary suspect in the are.

THE first person to receive a 1,000 award from the Mullany Fund will be presented with the prize at the Full Length and Fabulous Ball on Saturday.

After lying in a hospital bed for weeks recovering from swine flu, 10-year-old Tony Estlinbaum started therapy Friday at the Children's Center in Bethany.

There are familiar fixtures at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City.

Free seasonal flu vaccines are available in Bethany on Monday. The Oklahoma City County Health Department is hosting the clinic until 6 p.m. It is being held at the Bethany First Baptist Church at Northwest 37th Street and Mueller Avenue.

The Department of Defense has identified 844 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations.

A 37-year-old Natchez native is one of two Special Forces soldiers killed this week in the southern Philippines when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device on Jolo Island in the Philippines.

A soldier born in Iowa has died in a bomb attack in the Philippines blamed on al-Qaida-linked militants.

As a child, Priscilla Cude used to follow the stock market with her father. It was a sign of things to come, as Cude went on to a successful career in banking, capped when she became executive vice president and chief financial officer for First Bethany Bank & Trust.

The Department of Defense has identified two soldiers who were killed in a bomb attack in the Philippines that has been blamed on al-Qaida-linked militants.

BETHANY a ' A Bethany High School graduate was killed Tuesday by a roadside bomb in the Philippines, his family said.

The proliferation of cell phones has led to an increase in the number of 911 calls to dispatch centers, but the way cell phone calls are routed means they don't always go to the right place.

One of the formerly conjoined twins born last October in Oklahoma City is expected to go home.

Kylee Hope Wells went home to Calumet with her mother and grandmother Wednesday, 8 months after she and her conjoined twin, Preslee Faith, were separated in a 6-hour surgery.

The first director of Enid Higher Education Program has been named president of Southwestern Christian University in Bethany.

Sooner fans without tickets for this weekend's game against Idaho State can still see the game on pay-per view.