Former chairman booked on charges
Robert Chiles, former Oklahoma Democratic Party Affirmative Action chairman, was transported from the Cleveland County Jail to the Oklahoma County Jail Monday, where he was booked on charges of check fraud and check forgery, said an officer at the Cleveland County Jail.
Chiles worked with Miranda Norman, political science senior, during her fall 2008 run for the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
-Lara Saavedra/The Daily
Patient with unknown illness passes away
Billy Anderson, a patient at OU Medical Center with an unidentified illness, died Saturday.
A memorial service will take place for Anderson at 10 a.m. Saturday at Destiny Church in Broken Arrow.
Anderson’s wife, Nikki Peterson, has been raising awareness of her husband’s mysterious condition through the Web site prayforbilly.com.
On the Web site, Peterson made daily updates about her husband’s health.
Anderson was on the OU Medical Center charity fund that covered most of his costs, but not physician’s costs, which Peterson said on her Web site “are also financially devastating.”
Anderson spent time in three Missouri hospitals before he was finally transferred to OU Medical Center in August 2008.
Articles in both the March 4 and May 11 issues of The Daily detailed Anderson’s battle with his mysterious illness.
In the March 4 story, Peterson said that her husband’s illness stemmed from immune system and abdominal ailments.
However, The Daily reported May 11 that Anderson’s health had shown signs of improvement.
“There is nothing more that [Billy] wanted than to come home to his family, to walk and laugh again and to get his health back,” wrote Peterson in her Sept. 26 blog post on the Web site. “We should all live with the appreciation of the blessing that we call life. It can be gone in an instant.”
-Jared Rader/The Daily
Jury clears OU graduate of rape charges
A jury in the Cleveland County District Court found OU graduate Blake Dilliner not guilty of second-degree rape Friday afternoon, according to a clerk for Cleveland County District Judge William C. Hetherington.
In September 2008, Dilliner, of Richardson, Texas, was charged with second-degree rape of a 20-year-old female in May 2008, according to an affidavit.
-Ricky Maranon/The Daily
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