State Briefs

Published: August 11, 2008

Stillwater banker Roger McMillian has been dismissed from a sexual harassment lawsuit.

The charges were dismissed with prejudice last week in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City.

Plaintiffs Barbara Gose, Raeann Meyer and Lois Akers filed the lawsuit May 13 against McMillian and The Bank, N.A., accusing McMillian of creating a sexually-charged workplace and hostile work environment.

The lawsuit alleged that "it was necessary for women to grant sexual favors to McMillian for professional advancement.”

McMillian, who also is the town's mayor, was removed as a defendant from two counts because he was their supervisor, not their employer, and from two other counts because plaintiffs did not "state a claim upon which relief can be granted,” according to a motion for dismissal.

More than 50 vintage aircraft will land at Will Rogers' birthplace ranch at Oologah beginning at 8:30 a.m. Sunday to pay tribute to Oklahoma's native son and the biggest booster of aviation of his time.

The annual fly-in activities begin at 10:30 a.m. Friday when Lt. Gov. Jari Askins is scheduled to join Rogers family members in placing a wreath at the family tomb at the Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore, marking the anniversary of the Aug. 15, 1935 Alaska plane crash that killed Rogers and Oklahoma aviator Wiley Post.

For more information, call (918) 341-0719 or go to www.willrogers.com.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management will hold a wild horse and burro adoption at its Pauls Valley facility Friday and Saturday.

Sale times are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.

This will be the last weekend adoption, officials said. The next adoption will be a weekday event, Nov. 13 and 14. Starting in 2009, adoption will be held on the second Tuesday of each month.

For more information, call (866) 468-7826.

A Pittsburg County judge has postponed a man's first-degree murder trial after a defense attorney said he had new evidence that someone else confessed.

Defense attorney Jeremy Beaver sought the delay for Clint Edward Baker, who had been set for trial later this month.

Baker, 32, of Crockett, Texas, is charged in the March 17, 2007, murder of Todd Eugene Rich of California.