9 To Know: April 17, 2023

Here are the nine stories you need to know from both Oklahoma and around the world.

9 - A 61-year-old 1984 graduate of Oklahoma State University returned to help his alma mater raise scholarship money. Oklahoma's Own Garth Brooks raised more than $2 million at concerts over the weekend.

8 - The Oklahoma City Thunder's quest for a playoff berth ended Friday night in Minnesota. OKC fell 120-to-95.

7 - Thirty-thousand athletes from more than 100 countries are running the 127th Boston Marathon this morning. The race marks 10 years since two bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, which killed three and injured hundreds in the packed crowd.

6 - Mustang Public Schools says an alleged threat that surfaced over the weekend was intended as a joke. District officials say the troubling comment aimed at Meadow Brook Intermediate School was not credible.

5 - The US House Judiciary Committee is holding a field hearing today near the offices of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. That's the DA who charged former President Donald Trump in relation to alleged hush money payments. Republicans say they're looking into Democrats' "pro-crime policies."

Democrats call it a partisan stunt.

4 - The University of Oklahoma Women's Gymnastics wins their 6th national championship in just 9 years, Over the weekend OU beat LSU, Florida and Utah.

3 - Oklahoma Highway Patrol is asking for the public's help tracking down the driver who hit and killed a pedestrian on the Turner Turnpike. Troopers are looking for a 2015-though- 2019 Subaru Legacy with significant damage to the undercarriage of the vehicle.

2 - Wednesday of this week will mark the 28th Anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Downtown Oklahoma City. The remembrance ceremony April 19 will include 168 seconds of silence and reading the names of the 168 people killed.

1 - Gov. Kevin Stitt is calling for county leaders to resign and a local hospital is going on lockdown in McCurtain County this morning after the sheriff and county leaders are heard on tape allegedly threatening to beat, kill and bury two journalists. You can hear that audio on News9.com.

There is a special county meeting set for 9am today.