Arvest offers shutdown payment deferment

Arvest2TULSA:  Arvest Bank has announced that customers whose ability to make regular payments as a result of the shutdown on consumer and mortgage loans may be able to temporarily defer those payments.

Mortgage loan customers may be eligible for short-term hardship programs, which include partial or full mortgage payment deferment while off work. The forbearance period will then be followed by other loss mitigation options to assist in making up the deferred payments. Consumer loan customers have deferment options as well.
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Democrat divide grows on shutdown

Mayor Vincent C. Gray

Mayor Vincent C. Gray

Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray stepped away from his role as scandal-scarred leader and into the spotlight as agitator in chief against the federal shutdown during a dramatic confrontation on the Capitol steps Wednesday with Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid according to a Washington Post story today.

It was a new public posture for an embattled mayor whose 2010 campaign remains under federal investigation — but who is now fighting to keep the District government in business by exempting it from the ongoing shutdown.
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IDF Chief warns of perils

Israel1A future war can begin with an attack by enemy missiles on Israel Defense Force (IDF) General Staff headquarters in Tel Aviv, or a cyber attack on Israel’s traffic light system, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz said on Tuesday.

Speaking at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Center’s conference, called Israel’s Perils and Prospects, held at Bar-Ilan University, Gantz began by noting the massive instability rocking the region, which he said “guides us every morning when we in the IDF wake up.”
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Oklahoma’s ‘mean’ laws to blame

PrisonWomanAndrew Knittle reports in the Oklahoman today that a sociologist claims Oklahoma’s ‘mean’ laws to blame for high female incarceration rate.

Oklahoma has “mean” laws, provides little help to addicts and the mentally ill and is full of tough-on-crime politicians who are not concerned with rehabilitating criminals, an OU sociologist is quoted from a Wednesday forum on female incarceration.  Oklahoma holds the distinction as the state that locks up women at the highest rate in the nation.
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Former agent charged again

Cheryl Salmon

Cheryl Salmon

A former Tulsa insurance agent with a prior conviction of embezzlement has now been charged with 11 counts of obtaining money by false pretense and one count of violation of the Oklahoma Producer License Act.

Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID) investigators found that Cheryl Salmon, 57, continued to act as an insurance agent after her license was revoked and again collected premium payments and deposited them into her personal account.  The total amount of premiums paid to Salmon is more than $150,000.
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