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High Schools Practice Safety on the Field
High School football coaches in the metro say one of the best ways to prevent injury on game day, is to teach proper technique in practice, but there is only so much you can do to stop it.
Many people are talking about injury to football players after a weekend college game in Tulsa. Devon Walker, a Tulane player, broke his neck during a tackle at the game.
"It's real important that you talk safety in regard to the proper way to tackle, the proper way to hit, so that incident won't happen to someone else," Don Willis, the head football coach at Centennial High School, said.
Many do not know how to do this when they enter the program, Willis said. He said he has always emphasized teaching to tackle.
The practice is also important at Norman High School.
"Hopefully when we get in the game, if we've taught it well enough it'll happen that way in the game," said Norman High defensive coordinator John Emerson.
At Norman, a certified athletic trainer is always on hand at practice and games. Russell Schuchman helps with preventative measures, like taping up players. Schuchman is also there to help with first aid if injuries do pop up.
"My sole job is to make sure athletes are healthy and safe," Schuchman said. "Coaches, their job is to win ball games, so I'm there to take that pressure on them and make sure that their athletes are healthy."
Since football is a violent sport, injuries can't be completely avoided.
"Not every injury is preventable. Injuries are a nature of the sport. Athletes are going to get hit, but someone of those injuries you hope to prevent by educating the athletes with the proper tackling techniques," Schuchman said.
Schuchman said the Tulane athletes who came in for the tackle on Saturday, both had their heads down, something that should not happen.
Coaches and trainers say neck injuries like the one Walker suffered are very rare.
Walker is recovering from surgery to stabilize his spine. The team doctor said it will take days to determine the lasting effects of the injury.
Posted: Tuesday, September 11 2012, 07:22 AM CDT
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A man convicted of the stabbing deaths of an elderly Le Flore County couple almost 13 years ago is scheduled to be executed.
James Lewis DeRosa's execution by lethal injection is set for Tuesday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.
The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted last month against recommending that Governor Mary Fallin commute DeRosa's death sentence to life in prison without parole.
Defense attorney Tom Hird of the Federal Public Defender's Office did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.
DeRosa was convicted in the stabbing deaths of 73-year-old Curtis Plummer and 70-year-old Gloria Plummer on October 2nd, 2000.
Prosecutors say DeRosa and a co-defendant talked their way into the victims' rural Poteau home, slashed their throats and left with $73 and the couple's truck.
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- The Oklahoma Attorney General's Office says it's weighing its options after a federal appeals court said the state didn't have jurisdiction over a death-row case in which a man pleaded guilty to killing three people in Indian Country.
Agency spokeswoman Diane Clay says the state has about two weeks to petition the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a rehearing. That Denver-based court overturned the death sentences for David Magnan last week.
Clay says the state has three months to take the matter directly to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The state could also decide to take no action, instead leaving it up to federal prosecutors to file the case against Magnan.
Magnan remains in prison pending the outcome.
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Manning's WikiLeaks court-martial enters 3rd week
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- Prosecutors are moving quickly through the court-martial of Private First Class Bradley Manning.
The former Army intelligence analyst from Oklahoma is charged with aiding the enemy. He has acknowledged sending reams of government secrets to WikiLeaks, but says he didn't think it would hurt national security.
As the trial entered its third week Monday, testimony focused on documents in which the U.S. had assessed the threat level of individual detainees at the prison for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
So far, the military judge in Fort Meade, Maryland has heard from more than 40 of the government's approximately 140 witnesses.
Last week's testimony involved battlefield reports and videos. Still to come is evidence about 250,000 diplomatic cables Manning allegedly stole from a State Department database.
Manning says he leaked the material to expose wrongdoing.
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Habitat for Humanity to donate to tornado victims
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity says it will donate proceeds from sales at its Renovation Station stores in Oklahoma City to help pay for construction and repairs of homes of the May tornado victims.
Habitat said Monday that all proceeds through August 31st will be donated to the project. Habitat is also soliciting donations to help rebuild or repair homes damaged by the tornadoes in the Oklahoma City metro area.
Renovation Stations are retail stores operated by Habitat for Humanity that sell new and used building supplies, material, appliances, furniture and other household items. There are two in Oklahoma City -- one in north Oklahoma City and the other on the city's southwest side.
COLORADO-STORMS
Storms damage hangar in eastern Colo.
LA JUNTA, Colo. (AP) -- A storm has brought hail, heavy rain and strong winds to parts of eastern Colorado, with fire officials in La Junta (lah-HUN'-tah) reporting damage to an airport hangar and downed power poles.
There were no immediate reports of injuries Monday night.
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