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Helen Kasony, 64, was last seen about 9:10 a.m. at the Walmart in Mena, Ark., on June 11, police said.

TALIHINA (AP) — A patient who died after the medical helicopter he was on crashed has been identified as 49-year-old Michael David Wilson of Bethel. It was not yet determined Thursday whether Wilson died as a result of Tuesday's crash of a medical helicopter or if he died of previous injuries. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma public safety director John Hobbs says Wilson's body was sent to the state medical examiner's office. A spokeswoman for the medical examiner did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The McCurtain Gazette has reported that Wilson was injured earlier Tuesday when he fell from a scaffold while working at Battiest Assembly of God Church. The helicopter crashed as it was taking off to

About 5:15 p.m., Rickey Ford, 56, was driving a motorcycle north on U.S. 59, about six miles south of Hodgen, when a southbound pickup making a left turn struck his bike, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

DURANT— Authorities say three teenagers were injured after a 14-year-old driver crashed a car into a tree in Bryan County.

POTEAU — The trial of an Oklahoma man accused of killing a pregnant Arkansas woman has been pushed back to July.

HOLDENVILLE — State and local authorities say they're searching for a missing Holdenville man who may be the victim of foul play.

The Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association released the pairings for the CLass 6A and 5A area tournaments on Sunday: Class 6A BOYS EAST At Tulsa Rogers Friday Winner’s Bracket Owasso vs. Broken Arrow, 6:30 p.m. Loser’s Bracket Stillwater vs. Bixby, 8 p.m. At Catoosa Winner’s Bracket Tulsa Union vs. Jenks, 6:30 p.m. Loser’s Bracket Tulsa Washington vs. Bartlesville, 8 p.m. Saturday At Catoosa Stillwater/Bixby winner vs. Owasso/Broken Arrow loser, 8 p.m. Tulsa Washington/Bartlesville winner vs. Tulsa Union/Jenks loser, 6:30 p.m. WEST At Choctaw Friday Winner’s Bracket

Gayland Moore, 38, was found dead at a Holdenville home Monday morning, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation reports. Franklin Combs, 53, was booked in the Hughes County jail on a murder complaint.

Jami Kay Jacob, 34, of Broken Bow, died Tuesday afternoon at a hospital in Little Rock, Ark., the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

An Oklahoma park ranger was investigating a disturbance a McGee Creek State Park in Atoka County when a man got in his vehicle and drove toward the ranger, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. The ranger shot at the man, hitting him at least once.

STRINGTOWN (AP) — Five Oklahoma prison inmates were hospitalized following a fight in a housing unit of the Mack Alford Correctional Center in Stringtown. Department of Corrections spokesman Jerry Massie said Wednesday that a fight broke out between 20 or 30 inmates about 3:45 p.m. on Tuesday. Massie says the medium-security facility was locked down afterward and five inmates were taken to hospitals for stab or blunt force injuries. Two of the inmates were flown by medical helicopters to hospitals outside the area. Massie says the extent of the inmates' injuries was not immediately known but that none are believed to be life threatening. The names of the injured inmates were not released.

McALESTER — An autopsy shows that an inmate found unresponsive in his cell at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary died from a methamphetamine overdose.

POTEAU (AP) — Le Flore County's commissioners have decided not to build a Ten Commandments monument on the courthouse lawn at Poteau. The panel this week voted unanimously against putting the monument on public property. Chairman Lance Smith told the Times-Record newspaper of Fort Smith, Ark., in a story published Wednesday that the monument could lead to a lawsuit that the county “probably couldn't win.” The commission said it had a responsibility as stewards of taxpayer money and that it couldn't justify the cost of defending a lawsuit. A similar monument in Haskell County was moved to private property. Le Flore County commissioners had initially approved the monument in early 2009.

DUNCAN — The city of Duncan is shutting down a railroad crossing where a young basketball star was killed three years ago.

LAWTON — The Lawton Police Department says an inmate has died after he was assaulted earlier this year.

McALESTER — A judge has dismissed a felony charge against a McAlester police officer accused of committing assault and battery on a woman while she was being booked in the county jail last year.

HOWE — Authorities say a toddler boy drowned after wandering into a creek in LeFlore County.

McALESTER — Finders keepers wasn't the rule after a 73-year-old man left a jacket containing $14,000 at an Oklahoma restaurant.

Two people were killed in a Pontotoc County, Oklahoma crash Tuesday. An infant was flown to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City.

QUINTON — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is still working to identify the person whose remains were found last December in Pittsburg County.