Front Page How Teen To Be Handled Is Debated Harris TULSA--Defense lawyers and prosecutors debated whether a teenage girl facing charges of stabbing to death a schoolmate should be tried as an adult. Montoya Harris, then a 14 year-old student at Madison Middle School, is being held on charges that she stabbed Sydney Dailey, 13, numerous times with a knife. During last week’s preliminary hearing, a police detective testified that Montoya Harris told officers she had gone “crazy on her,” referring to the dead girl, and stabbed the 13-year-old girl with a folding knife. The hearing was held in the courtroom of Tulsa County... [Read full story] High-Stakes Debut Made By Candidate on Foreign Stage President Hamid Karzai and U.S. Sen. Barack Obama at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday. The Democratic presidential candidate had two hours of talks with President Karzai, and WASHINGTON--U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (Dem., Ill.), whose long-shot White House bid was propelled by his early opposition to the invasion of Iraq, visited American forces there Monday on a high-stakes international tour that he portrays as a prelude to his presidency. As he began the trip designed to bolster his foreign policy credentials, the Democratic presumptive presidential nominee talked to CBS from Kabul Sunday as though his election--and re-election--were foregone conclusions. “The objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with [leaders] who I expect to be deali... [Read full story] Guns Said Possessed By Both In unrelated recent incidents, Oklahoma City policemen, believing in both cases that suspects had guns, fired and wounded a man and a teenager. The man was shot in the head on Saturday, and was being treated at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center. He died on Tuesday. The other suspect i... [Read full story] Survey Counters Some Perceptions of Blacks LANHAM, Md.--Seventy percent of Blacks already have a plan for their future, according to a survey, which goes on to counter long-held perceptions. The survey was sponsored by Radio One, the radio holding company, and was done by Yankelovich, the research firm. Nearly 54 percent of those surveye... [Read full story]   [Local news archives]

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