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Up to Cowboys power past TCU Will win bring a playoff spot for No. 12 OSU? PAGE IB $1,000 in valuable coupons inside OU routs Iowa State Sooners now look ahead to three biggest games of the season. PAGE 8B Year to date, there has been $35,717 worth of valuable coupons in your Sunday paper. 1 THE OKLAHOMAN NEWSOK.COM 0KLAH0MAN.COM REACHING MORE THAN 475,000 PEOPLE EACH DAY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2015 $2 Patient deaths continue to be tied to doctor 2 years after his arrest Lawsuits have continued even after ex-physician William Martin Valuck was charged in 2014 against former physician William Martin Valuck, who pleaded guilty to killing eight of his patients last year in Oklahoma County. The osteopath, accused of over -prescribing painkillers and other narcotics from his south Okla Valuck was charged with a ninth murder connected to a fatal crash involving one of the doctor's patients though it was dropped as part of a plea agreement reached SEE DOCTOR, PAGE 6A BY ANDREW KNITTLE Staff Writer aknittleoklahoman.com Grim details and further accusations of deadly negligence continue to surface in civil lawsuits filed homa City clinic, pleaded guilty in August 2014 to second-degree murder in the deaths of Paul Bees-ley, Joyce Curnett, Christina Green, Lorra Hilton, Victoria Pretzer, SaShawn Saatian, Michelle Salazar and Jennifer Zimmerman.

Valuck NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH: KEEPING THE CULTURE ALIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICES Waitlist reaches all-time high PHOTO BY DOUG HOKE, THE OKLAHOMAN BY CLIFTON ADCOCK Oklahoma Watch After decreasing last year, the waiting list for a state program that provides services to Oklahomans with developmental and intellectual disabilities has grown again, to the highest level ever. As of Oct. 15, the wait time for those seeking state -paid services for their developmental disabilities was nearly a decade, according to the Oklahoma Department of Human Services. The number of people on the waiting list grew from 6,992 in July 2014 to 7,239 in October this year. The list could grow longer as increasing numbers of people apply for services and the state looks at more cuts in funding because of an expected budget shortfall next year.

"When we got on the waiting list, they said it would be several years, so I knew going into it," said Broken Arrow res -ident Olivia Morgan, whose son Josiah Melton, 9, has been on the waiting list since April 2008. Josiah is nonverbal and has chromosomal disorders. "Hopefully, we're getting close because we're seven years in." Oklahoma uses state and federal Medicaid funds to pay for various services for the developmentally and intellectually disabled in provider-run community homes or their family's home. Those needing services have conditions such as autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, brain injuries and intellectual disabilities. About half are children.

Services can be long-term case management, home health aides, personal or medical care, therapy, vocational training and SEE SERVICES, PAGE 6A men we make decisions, we think to the seventh generation' Above, from left: Sarah Adams-Cornell is shown with her daughters Isabella, 14, and Gabby, 9. Adams-Cornell, an advocate for the indigenous community, strives to educate on American Indian culture and history for her children and future generations: "One philosophy with the Native American culture is that when we make decisions, we think to the seventh generation: How will this impact people seven generations from today?" Keeping tribal affiliations, heritage and culture alive in their families and communities is a priority for many American Indians. This is especially true in Oklahoma, where indigenous people lived long before Europeans settled and, later, displaced tribes were concentrated in the mid- folate 1800s. Contributing to the loss of language, culture and traditions was the introduction of boarding schools, which served to assimilate native children into white America. In 2013, American Indians and Alaska Natives made up only about 2 percent of the total national population, and about half were documented as being of combined heritage with one or more other races, according to the U.S.

Census Bureau. Only 14 states have more than 100,000 American SEE CULTURE, PAGE 2A WEATHER SUNNY 1C IE 20A 16A Business Classified Deaths Opinion TODAY'S PRAYER Dear Lord, we are grateful for Your word because it blesses our minds, lips and hearts. Amen. Volume 124, 307 Six sections Copyright 2015 The Oklahoma Publishing Oklahoma City All rights reserved II 41 Puzzles Comics Sports IB.