MESOPOTAMIA—It was going to be the first-ever Pride Month — a celebration of everyone doing everything they feel like doing in their hearts all the time — when it suddenly started raining and didn’t stop for forty days as God tried to wash all the wickedness off the earth.

Charles Shay was the only veteran at a ceremony in Carentan, where paratroopers landed in the early hours of D-Day, when the small French town marked the 77th anniversary of the epic World War II invasion Friday.

It’s been 77 years since D-Day, the pivotal World War II operation in which Allied troops invaded Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. The D-Day is said to be the largest seaborne invasion in history, with more than 160,000 soldiers landing on the beach in Normandy to take on the Nazi German fighters.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. James Leewright, R-Bristow, said now that Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed Senate Bill l033 into law, the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority (OMMA) and the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (OBNDD) can proceed with developing and finalizing agreements that will better protect legitimate Oklahoma businesses by ensuring more resources to go after criminal operations. Leewright is the principal author of the legislation.

FELONY Donna Johnson—bringing contraband (weapons/explosives/drugs/intoxicating beverage) MARRIAGE Richard Keith Jackson and Taylor McKenzie Lantz, both of Holdenville DIVORCE Nicole E. Crawford vs.

Breyshaun Gregory Baskin—possession of CDS without tax stamp Victor Kyle Billy—hughes county warrants Kelly D. Bohannon—hold for special programs Samuel Loyton Broaddus—urinating in public; resisting arrest; malicious injury or destruction of property less than $1,000; obstructing officer Julie Cole—receive, possess, conceal stolen vehicle Darian Ty Farris—obstructing officer Elgin Harold Fullbright Junior—public intoxication Sam Golden—possession of controlled substance; possession of paraphernalia Kendra Rae Guinn—hold for Seminole county Ronnie Joe Guinn Junior—knowingly receives any property that was stolen, embezzled, obtained by false pretense or robbery, or conceals, withholds such property; possession of controlled substance; carry or possess firearm by convicted felon Donna Johnson—brings into any jail or penal institution any weapon, explosives, drugs, alcohol or money or financial document for a person other than a inmate.

In 1929 there was a book published about key people in Oklahoma. Four of those people mentioned are from Holdenville.