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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: After taking my Terrier “Hank” for a walk around my subdivision yesterday, I noticed when taking off his leash that a tick had attached itself to the back of his neck! I don’t even know where it came from; we stayed on the sidewalk. I quickly tried to remove it with tweezers, but Hank is kind of a wiggly guy, and just as I tugged on the tick, he moved and the body of the tick broke off ! It looks like the tick’s head is still embedded in his skin.

Oklahoma Highway Patrol cited a lack of headlights as the cause of a crash in Jackson County just after 8:30 p.m. April 6.

The American Third Army liberated Buchenwald, a Nazi concentration camp, on April 11, 1945. The camp was located near Weimar, Germany. Reports say that the horrors and atrocities imposed on prisoners of Buchenwald ae only second to Auschwitz.

The 82nd anniversary of the Doolittle Raiders Toast is scheduled for April 18, 2024. Awards will be presented between 4:30 and 4:4:45 p.m. and the Doolittle Roaders Toast will be held between 4:45 and 5:30 p.m. The event will be held at Club Altus at Altus Air Force Base. The event is a U.S. Air Force Heritage event. You can send your RSVP to OK342@afa.org, or you can attend virtually at afa.org/toast and join the livestream.

The Oklahoma House Judiciary – Criminal Committee today passed a bill to strengthen penalties for strangulation offenses. John George, R-Newalla, authored Senate Bill 1211, which would raise the penalty for assault and battery by strangulation or attempted strangulation against an intimate partner or household member to a maximum of three years to a maximum term of up to 10 years in prison.