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OSU-CHS awarded $16 million grant to improve health in rural, tribal and urban communities Courtesy of OSU News The Health Resources and Services Administration recently awarded OSU Center for Health Sciences a $16 million grant to enhance the school’s recruitment, retention and training programs focused on rural, tribal, and urban and underserved populations in Oklahoma. HRSA’s Medical Student Education Training Program grant will allocate
$4 million to OSU-CHS each year over the next four years. The goal of the funding is to increase the number of primary care physicians practicing in Oklahoma. According to HRSA, most counties and geographic areas in the state are designated as primary care Health Professional Shortage Areas. In 2023, U.S. News & World Report ranked OSU-CHS No. 1 in graduates practicing medicine in these shortage areas and No. 10 in graduates practicing medicine in rural areas. See OSU-CHS on 5
Tribune Content Agency Mayor Max III is the latest in a three-generation dynasty of Idyllwild mayors.
The unusual story of how a dog became a town’s mayor Mel Melcon, Kelvin Kuo Los Angeles Times
as many ballots as they liked. With 21,132 votes, Maximus Mighty Dog Mueller defeated 13 other dogs and two cats (and netted the animal rescue more than $31,000). He was the first in a poMost politicians caught litical dynasty now stretching with their tail between their three generations. legs are voted out of office or If you ask Mueller, run out of town, but not the the most unusual part of the mayor of Idyllwild, Califorwhole arrangement wasn’t that nia, a small mountain comit resulted in a canine mayor, munity about 25 miles south but the fact that the process of Banning. was nonpartisan. Here the top dog is an “When you become the actual dog — a 1-year-old, president of the United States, full grown American purebred half the people in the coungolden retriever with the legal try hate you on the first day name of Maximus Mighty— that’s not fun,” she said. Dog Mueller III. People call “But it would be fun to be him Mayor Max. able to create a mayoral office He’s the third dog to without anybody pushing an hold office in Idyllwild, part agenda on you that you have of a tradition dating back to to be one way or another.” 2012 when Idyllwild Animal That’s not to say Mayor Rescue Friends came up with Max and his successors don’t a novel idea for a fundraiser: a serve a political purpose. mayoral election in which no Mueller — who runs a marhumans were allowed to run, keting firm in Idyllwild — according to Phyllis Mueller, says she interviewed business 72, who serves with her husowners before the first animal band, Glen Warren, 59, as the election to learn about their mayor’s co-chiefs of staff. wants: more traffic and thus The animal election more business. didn’t upset the local political “If I were mayor of establishment, since Idyllwild Idyllwild and I told people doesn’t have a human mayor that I was going to be downof its own. The mountain town at 2 p.m. to meet the town is unincorporated, with people, most people wouldn’t local political decisions han- come and they certainly dled by the Riverside County wouldn’t come every day,” Board of Supervisors. Mueller said. “If I publish Animal candidates (and that Mayor Max is going to their human owners) had to be downtown at 2 p.m. ... live in Idyllwild or the nearby hundreds of people will come towns of Fern Valley, Pine because it’s interesting and Cove or Mountain Center. It unusual to see a dog as a cost a dollar to vote and peo- mayor.” ple were encouraged to cast See Dog on 8
Tribune Content Agency Thousands of people and the families of hostages hold up their mobile phones with the light on to sing the national anthem during a rally in support of the hostages held by Hamas, outside the Museum of Modern Art known as the “The Hostages and Missing Square,” on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023, in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Hamas releases second group of hostages following delays Gwen Ackerman Bloomberg News A second group of Israeli hostages and foreign nationals were handed over to the Red Cross on Saturday and brought out of Gaza into Egypt after hours of delay. Hamas, the militant group that governs the Gaza Strip, confirmed the release of 13 Israeli hostages in a Telegram text. The Israeli
military said it was informed those freed included four Thai nationals. The transfer of the hostages is the first stage in the second day of exchanges between Israel and Hamas, and is part of an agreement that involves a four-day cessation of fighting and a flow of more humanitarian aid into Gaza. As part of that agreement, another 39 people held in Israeli prisons were released, the Jerusalem Post reported. The same number was freed on Friday, all women and minors.
Earlier Saturday, Hamas delayed the release of the hostages, saying Israel had violated the terms of the truce. Israel denied the accusation. The last-minute snag underscored the fragility of the truce and deep distrust between Hamas and Israel. Hamas militants infiltrated Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people and abducting about 240 hostages. Their recovery has become an urgent priority for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s shaky government. See Hamas on 6