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Sunny day in the 80s in central Oklahoma Wednesday
Sunshine is ahead Wednesday in central Oklahoma with temperatures in the mid-80s, the National Weather Service reports. The Oklahoma City forecast is as ...
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Was TWA Flight 800 crash accidental
Skeptics who have long theorized that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by sinister forces will get a fresh surge of energy when a new documentary attempts to disprove that the 1996 crash was ...
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Normans Jazz in June opens Thursday
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band of New Orleans leads the list of world-class jazz and blues artists set to perform during the 30th annual Jazz in June festival that opens Thursday in Norman. PHOTO ...
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Prosecutors say stolen car was at heart of 2011 fatal shootings in Oklahoma City
Rayvon Johnson, 22, of Oklahoma City, is charged with first-degree murder in the 2011 deaths of Lamar Shirley and Marcel Grigsby. A third victim was the intended target, prosecutors ...
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Insurance payments on Oklahomas May tornadoes exceed $560 million
Tornado payments exceed $560M Insurance claims from the May tornadoes have topped 70,000, with insurance payments exceeding $560 million, the Oklahoma Insurance Department said ...
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Be there to be square as national square dance convention comes to Oklahoma City
Angel and Bill Baker dance during a Teacup Chains square dance in Edmond in January. The Bakers are helping plan the 62nd National Square Dance Convention that gets underway later this month in Oklahoma City. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The ...
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Square dancing Uniquely American
Angel and Bill Baker dance during a Teacup Chains square dance in Edmond in January. The Bakers are helping plan the 62nd National Square Dance Convention that gets underway later this month in Oklahoma City. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The ...
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Oklahoma shelters housing pets lost in the May storms will close after Sunday
Owners still looking for displaced pets are encouraged to attend Sunday's adoption day at the Cleveland County Fairgrounds. Any pets still without owners will then be dispersed to local and national rescue ...
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Norman area library events for June
Votes are being taken now in the teen area of the Norman Library, 225 N Webster Ave., for "You Pick It Movie Night," which is set for 7 p.m. Saturday in the library's Lowry Room. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. Popcorn and drinks will be provided. Librarians debate book choices "Battle of the Books," a teen program featuring local librarians who will debate their favorite ...
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Rodeo kicks off LibertyFest in Edmond
EDMOND -- Edmond's annual LibertyFest gets underway this weekend with the 45th annual LibertyFest Rodeo. The rodeo begins at 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Carl Benne Arena, 300 N ...
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Oklahoma City metro-area achievers
The Robert "Bob" Burton Democratic Scholarship is named in honor of the deceased county vice chairman who encouraged young Democrats to become active in the political party. Burton's widow, Shirley, is scholarship committee chairwoman. "On Nov. 5, 2012, I am proud to say I was able to vote in my very first presidential election with my mother by my side," Moore wrote in ...
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Red Earth writing program at Oklahoma City University will present literary readings
The Red Earth Masters of Fine Arts program at Oklahoma City University will host two public literary readings in July as part of its summer in residency ...
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Concert for tornado victims is planned at Putnam City Christian Church in Oklahoma City
A benefit concert for tornado victims titled "Community Voices Uniting as One" will be at 7 p.m. Friday at Putnam City Christian Church, 4215 N ...
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Veteran job fair set in Tulsa
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation has scheduled "Hiring Our Heroes- Tulsa," a hiring fair for veterans and military spouses, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 26 at the Tulsa Event Center, 2625 S. Memorial ...
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Thieves steal from church caught on camera
OKLAHOMA CITY – Police are working to arrest two thieves who targeted Crown Heights Baptist Church in Oklahoma City. Surveillance video shows a white van sitting across the street from the church’s parking lot for five minutes. Then one man inside the van walks up to a trailer carrying a high dollar lawn mower. Once he is sure no one is around, the van backs up, he hitches the ...
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Man barricaded inside Canadian County house
Union City emergency personnel said multiple agencies are at the scene, including Union City police, Mustang police, El Reno Police tactical team, Canadian County Sheriff's deputies and Mercy ...
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Man sends KFOR email threatening Governor Sheriff
OKLAHOMA CITY, — A McClain county man faces several charges after he sent an email to KFOR threatening to kill Governor Fallin, her family, and several sheriff’s deputies. The threats are all part of a rambling email sent by an account owned by Scott Helling. Much of it is hard to read, and laced with profanity. At one point the email says, ';…enough is enough, time to ...
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Oklahoma’s Swon Brothers come up short on ‘The Voice’
Danielle Bradbery won the Season 4 finale on NBC’s ';The Voice.'; Danielle Bradbery, the 16-year-old country-singing beauty, captured the Season 4 crown on ';The Voice'; Tuesday night. Michelle Chamuel finished second and the Swon Brothers took third on NBC’s popular singing competition. Bradbery’s victory came as no surprise. She was considered the ...
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OKC Valedictorian Vanishes In South America
OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma City valedictorian vanished Sunday while on a family vacation in South America, according to authorities in the United States and Ecuador. Family members say local authorities believe the teen may have been kidnapped. Officials with the American Embassy in Ecuador tell News 9 they have been notified of the disappearance and are monitoring the situation closely. ...
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Many Tulsa Residents Wowed By Plans For New Park On Riverside Drive
"It's exciting, it's really exciting. There are all kinds of ideas and they have baked in the entire community's input," said Tulsa resident Billie ...
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Man Arrested For Alleged Deadly Threats On OK Governors Child Authorities
McCLAIN COUNTY, Oklahoma - A man is in jail Tuesday night accused of threatening to kill the McClain County Sheriff, a detective and one of Governor Fallin's children. According to court documents, Scott Helling sent an email from a library in Norman claiming authorities were responsible for his son's death and theft of his personal property. Helling is facing one charge of ...
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Owasso City Council Still Taking No Action Against Embattled City Manager
OWASSO, Oklahoma - Rodney Ray is on paid leave while Owasso's city council discusses what, if any, action it will take with regard to his employment as city manager. The city council met behind closed doors Tuesday night to talk about an internal investigation into allegations against Ray. Councilors say the details of the meeting will never be discussed, but this special meeting comes ...
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Green Country Residents Take Class In Protecting Home From Wildfires
DRUMRIGHT, Oklahoma - Wildfire season is upon us. It's been nearly a year since residents in parts of Green Country fought their way through devastating wildfires. People in Creek County are understandably on edge. But this time, they're learning how to protect their homes and land. So many wildfire rage in the outskirts of towns, and fire experts say living rural means learning ...
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Ex-mobster tells of Bulger gangs killings
"You killed friends?" Bulger attorney Hank Brennan shot. "Yes," replied prosecution witness John Martorano. "Families?" "Yes." "Strangers?" "Yes." "Innocent people?" "Yes," said Martorano, who has admitted to 20 murders and who earlier served 12 years in prison on a government deal for his cooperation in the case ...
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James Lewis DeRosa Executed In Oklahoma After Being Convicted Of Killing Couple
McALESTER, Okla. -- Oklahoma executed a 36-year-old man on Tuesday for the October 2000 stabbing deaths of a couple on whose ranch he had worked. James Lewis DeRosa was killed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was the second inmate the state executed this year. Prosecutors say DeRosa and an accomplice, 33-year-old John Eric Castleberry, went to Curtis and ...
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Oklahoma's massively ambitious transport plan for next eight years
The Oklahoma Department of Transport has adopted a massive transport improvement plan that will cost the state $4.8 billion over the next eight years and will incorporate around 1,700 individual project around the state aimed at making Oklahoma’s roads, bridges and highways safer and better to drive on.
Oklahoma has around 12,000 miles of highways and many more thousands of miles of roadway and streets, maintaining this massive expanse of tarmac is an ongoing process and in recent years the Department of Transport acknowledged that it has fallen behind. Read more
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