News to know

In a groundbreaking case, a New Jersey judge ruled today that fathers don’t have a legal right to be in the delivery room at the birth of their child. The ruling stemmed from a case in which a couple broke up, and the mom-to-be didn’t want the dad in the delivery room. He sued, and the case wound up before Superior Court Judge Sohail Mohammed. […]

McDonald’s workers in three states filed lawsuits against the fast-food chain this week, saying the company engages in a variety of illegal practices to avoid paying them what they’re owed.

This year marks the 63rd annual event known as ‘Aggie Days’ for the agriculture department at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College (NEO). Aggie Days will take place April 1, 4-5, 2014.

The campus police department and the American Indian Center for Excellence (AICE), at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College (NEO), recognized police officer, Lt. David Noel for receiving the Cherokee Warrior Award, Medal of Patriotism. The reception took place Wednesday, March 12 in the Kah-Ne-You-Ah Hall Gallery.

Rescuers working amid cold, gusty winds and billowing smoke pulled four additional bodies overnight from the rubble of two Manhattan apartment buildings, as the death toll rose Thursday to at least seven from a gas leak-triggered explosion that reduced the area to a pile of smashed bricks, splinters and mangled metal.

Malaysian authorities expanded their search for the missing jetliner westward toward India on Thursday, saying it may have flown for several hours after its last contact with the ground.

President Barack Obama is seeking changes in overtime rules that will make millions of workers eligible for time-and-a-half pay for their extra work.

In the news

Austin, Texas, police said a drunken driver who was fleeing from police plowed his car into a crowd at the South by Southwest festival, killing two people and injuring 23. The driver had been driving the wrong direction on a one-way street when police attempted to pull him over. The driver fled and eventually drove into the crowd at SXSW. […]

Carthage firefighters say a woman was hospitalized after fire broke out in her house on Forest Street early Wednesday morning.

The Carthage hospital’s name is changing again.