ADA, OK -- Former Oklahoma Lieutenant Governor Jerry Askins spoke to some future leaders Thursday.

ARMORE, OK -- An Ardmore leader who served the community for decades retired Thursday.

DENISON, TX -- Grayson College students and faculty showed up to thank a Veteran Thursday.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - George Jones, the peerless, hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic "He Stopped Loving Her Today," has died. He was 81.

RENO, OK -- A Reno man receives a 20-year prison term after accepting plea deal for murder.

SHERMAN, TX-Dozens came together to recognize a well-known member of the Sherman community who has announced his retirement.

COAL COUNTY, OK -- COAL COUNTY, OK -- Around 7:14 AM Thursday morning, the Coal County Sheriff's office received a call about a protestor at the construction site of the Keystone Pipeline near CR1590 and CR 3720

Tishomingo's 6th grade 4-H club presented a salute to veterans, troops and fallen heroes.

BONHAM, TX -- The Fannin County Children's Center celebrated 20 years of helping area children Thursday night.

Sheriff Deputy Greg Munholland responded to a fire along McGee Creek Road around 1 a.m. That's when he found out it was actually three fires - all within one mile. On Wednesday the Atoka Sheriff's Office arrested Hank Magby, 51, of Stringtown.

GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS -- Family, friends and officers across the region gathered in Sherman today to remember and honor Grayson County Deputy Chad Key, who was killed in the line of duty on Saturday.

LINDSAY, OK -- A Garvin County man was arrested Thursday morning at his home for allegedly distributing child pornography.

DALLAS (AP) - The dedication ceremony of George W. Bush's presidential center has ended after the nation's 43rd president gave a closing speech with tears welling in his eyes.

IDABEL, Okla. (AP) - The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is offering a $5,000 reward for information about an unsolved killing in southeast Oklahoma.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A plan to allow specially trained armed teachers in public school classrooms has been resurrected in the Oklahoma House.

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - An autopsy shows that an inmate found unresponsive in his cell at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary died from a methamphetamine overdose.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The state's consumer advocate has challenged State Farm Insurance Co.'s 20 percent rate hike for Texas homeowners as being too high.

WASHINGTON (AP) - You don't see this very often: a majority of Senate Republicans voting to make people who buy stuff on the Internet pay state and local sales taxes.

WEST, Texas (AP) - On April 17, a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, leveled part of that small town located some 20 miles north of Waco. Most of the victims were first responders from fire departments in West and other nearby towns that were on the scene trying to control the fire that preceded the blast.

WACO, Texas (AP) - The town of West, Texas, is preparing to say goodbye to 14 people who were killed when a fertilizer plant exploded and leveled part of the town.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has ordered that the U.S. flag at federal buildings and military facilities in Texas be flown at half-staff Thursday in memory of the victims who died in the fertilizer plant explosion last week in the town of West, Texas.

MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) - A North Texas chiropractor has been sentenced to sentences of 23 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of sexually abusing female patients.

LAMAR COUNTY, TX -- The suspect took the stand Wednesday in a Lamar County capital murder case.

LAKE TEXOMA -- Lake Texoma officials are reporting elevated blue-green algae cell counts in certain lake areas.

STRINGTOWN, OK-Three homes burned down in Atoka county early Wednesday morning and sheriff's officials suspect arson.