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Ponca City resident to appear on Kansas TV program

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A long-time Ponca City resident, Royce Caldron, will be a guest on a program titled “Identity Quest” that is produced by KTWU-TV in Topeka, Kansas. This series features guests who are selected to have their genealogical brick walls researched. In genealogy, a brick wall refers to when someone has reached a dead end in their search for someone on their family tree.

IRS budget battle not over after debt ceiling agreement

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WASHINGTON — A handshake deal to redirect IRS funding to offset tight spending caps for other domestic programs won’t mark the end of a partisan battle over expanding the tax collecting agency. About $21 billion of an $80 billion tranche of funding that Democrats enacted last year is set to be cut and repurposed as part of the agreement between President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy to suspend the debt limit and cap federal agency spending.

U.S. & World Briefs

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Mother of Virginia elementary school shooter charged in federal court with gun, marijuana charges NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The mother of the 6-year-old student who shot his teacher at Richneck Elementary School has been charged in federal court with felony gun charges related to marijuana use.

Aaron Nola flirts with no-hitter, still helps Phillies to 8-3 win over Tigers

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PHILADELPHIA — Aaron Nola has always struggled with allowing the home run. It’s the price of a being pitcher who tries to throw strikes. Keeping his pitches in the zone allows him to pitch deeper into games, but it also makes him susceptible to the long ball. On Monday night, in the Phillies’ 8-3 win over the Tigers, that cost him a historic feat.
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Why the Belmont Stakes will be the best Triple Crown race of the year

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It’s not often that the best of the Triple Crown races is the last one but that’s how it is this year with 155th running of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday. It has arguably the best 3-year-old in Forte, the winner of the Preakness Stakes in National Treasure and eight other horses who should be fresh enough to handle the always tricky 1½-mile course.