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Oklahoma lake enthusiasts urged to play it safe this summer
As crowds flock to Oklahoma lakes for the Memorial Day weekend, officials once again urge everyone to play it safe. The busy holiday weekend comes less than two weeks after two people died in a May 14 boating accident on Grand Lake. A preliminary report shows alcohol, drugs and speed contributed to the ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Pecan Valley residents struggle to recover
More than 200 homes were damaged or destroyed by a tornado that tore through east Norman, Pecan Valley and the Newalla area on Sunday. Many residents are left struggling to ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Hospitals continue to treat patients injured from tornadoes
At least 367 people have been treated over the past few days at Oklahoma City-area hospitals for tornado-related injuries. As of Thursday evening, OU Medical Center and The Children's Hospital have received a combined 93 patients, including 59 children and 34 adults. Of the 59 adults, eight were victims of Sunday's tornadoes. No children were treated as a result of those ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Longtime friend takes in Orr Family horses
After the May 3, 1999, tornado ripped through Moore, the Orr family opened its stables to neighbors seeking shelter for displaced horses. Now that same favor is being extended to the Orr ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Energy company donation seeds nonprofit for school safe rooms
Apache Corp. said Thursday it would donate $500,000 to a new nonprofit established by two state legislators to help schools build safe rooms and storm ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Stories from the storm
A couple dozen members of NET Church in Oklahoma City brought two U-Haul trucks filled with supplies to First Baptist Church in Moore on Tuesday. Pastor Joel Tudman, the assistant strength coach at OSU, said Okung donated $3,000 to help buy the supplies donated by NET Church. Church volunteers unloaded water, baby formula and diapers, bathroom tissue and paper towels, gloves, granola bars, ...
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Oklahoma City group trying to turn U.S. Postal Service on to natural gas
An idea launched on the Internet is becoming closer to reality, thanks to the timely intervention of a former U.S. Air Force pilot. Oilman Ron Mercer and adman Bob Hammack hatched their plan almost two years ago: Save the U.S. Postal Service from going broke by switching from gasoline to cheaper natural ...
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Ford Cliff firefighters head to Oklahoma
Josh Adams, one of five Ford Cliff volunteer firefighters going to Oklahoma, checks out equipment Thursday that can be used to help with clean up efforts in communities devastated by the tornado. BRIGID BEATTY I LEADER ...
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Oklahoma Tornadoes Businessmen donate fuel light plants to relief effort
Two Oklahoma companies banded together to provide light and fuel for rescue workers working late into the night after the May 20 storms. Within an hour of the storm, employees of Eve's Bit Sales gathered light units from the Hinton store and headed to Moore, where they stayed until 4 ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Woman meets the military officer who shared the clothes off his back
Sandra Adams, 65, reunited with the Oklahoma Air National Guardsman who took the clothes off his back to help her after the May 20 tornado in Moore. She returned his military shirt at their hospital meeting ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Plaza Towers principal helps knit school together
Amy Simpson is the principal of Plaza Towers Elementary -- the Moore school that has become the symbol of the deadly destruction wreaked by a massive ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Despite losing race against tornado mother daughter reunited
And so she raced against the storm. She had 30 miles to cover from her job in Edmond to Plaza Towers Elementary School, where her 8-year-old daughter Jazmin Rodriguez is a third grader. She lost. The tornado got there first, and the destruction kept her from driving the final few hundred yards. And so she got out of her car and ran, arriving to find little left of the school and almost nothing ...
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Adam Wilmoth column Recipients of Oklahoma spirit grateful for helping hands
Energy Editor Adam Wilmoth's mother's home was heavily damaged in Monday's tornado. He has spent the week dealing with downed power lines and heavy traffic, and has experienced the generosity of Oklahomans helping with the cleanup and providing food, water and other ...
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Teen unknowingly records audio of dramatic rescue
MOORE – A cell phone recorded audio of a teenager rescuing two young girls at Plaza Towers Elementary School Monday. When the tornado hit the school, Jacob Lyles ran to the building and started looking for children. Lyles said he climbed through a hole and found a girl trapped under the debris. At some point, Lyles' cell phone, which was in his pocket, somehow started recording the ...
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Blake Shelton Carrie Underwood aiding fellow Oklahomans
Blake Shelton has a date and location for his benefit and fellow Oklahoman Carrie Underwood is writing a large check to help benefit those affected by this week's storms in their home state. Organizers say Shelton's "Healing in the Heartland" benefit concert will be held May 29 at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City. The event will be televised live on ...
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Carrie Underwood donates $1 million to Red Cross for disaster relief in wake of deadly Oklahoma tornadoes
Carrie Underwood performs an October 2012 show at Oklahoma City's Chesapeake Energy Arena. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Oklahoman Archives As Carrie Underwood wraps her 2012-13 "Blown Away Tour" tonight in Abbotsford, B.C., Canada, a $1 million donation is being made to the Red Cross for disaster relief. The charitable contribution to the Red Cross derives from the tour's ...
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Storm shelters should be mandatory in Oklahoma
As Oklahomans begin the process of grieving for lost loved ones, we must learn from this tragedy. For far too long, public policy has failed Oklahomans. There's no reason or excuse that every public building developed since May 3, 1999, shouldn't have an F5-rated storm shelter above or below ground. One could make arguments for this to extend to private residences as well. This ...
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Magellan Midstream Partners may extend Arkansas pipeline
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Caballo Energys cryogenic gas processing plant goes online
TULSA -- Caballo Energy LLC's new cryogenic gas processing plant in Alfalfa County is now online, the company announced Thursday. The Carmen Gas Processing Plant can process up to 60 million cubic feet of gas a day, bringing Caballo's total capacity to 100 million cubic feet. The new plant, which is operating at 80 percent capacity, serves expanding natural gas production in the ...
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Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen still goofy and great
He's Rick Nielsen, the lead guitarist of power-pop top guns Cheap Trick and composer of such uber-catchy classics as "Surrender," "I Want You to Want Me" and "Dream Police," the rock star from Rockford, Ill., who models his stage wardrobe after Huntz "Satch" Hall, who always played the buffoon in the Bowery Boys and Dead End Kids films. Of course, ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes SBA offers assistance to Oklahoma businesses affected by tornadoes
The U.S. Small Business Administration is opening a business recovery center Friday at the Moore Norman Technology Center's South Penn Campus to provide financial and counseling services to business owners affected by recent ...
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Country star Gary Allan asking fans to help with Oklahoma tornado relief efforts at Saturdays Music Mayhem at Lake Eufaula
EUFAULA - Gary Allan is slated to headline the Music & Mayhem Festival Saturday at Eufaula Cove Amphitheatre, and multiplatinum country music star is partnering with the venue and Oklahoma radio stations and reaching out to country fans asking them to support their neighbors in their time of need. The venue and Allan have teamed up with volunteers from the local U.S. Cellular store to have ...
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Local Scout leaders divided over policy change regarding gays
Meeting in Grapevine, Texas, the BSA's National Council voted Thursday to open its ranks to gay Scouts but not to gay adult leaders. Of the roughly 1,400 voting members who cast ballots, 61 percent supported the proposal. The policy change takes effect Jan. 1. Gayle Reams, 74, of Bethany, said he joined the Philmont Staff Association in 1974 to help enhance the learning experience of young ...
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Oklahoma City pools gear up for season
Summer is on its way, which means the city's pools and splash grounds will be full of people trying to beat the heat. The Will Rogers and Earlywine family aquatic centers will open this weekend with limited hours. Both will be open with regular summer hours beginning June ...
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Shooting kills Grove woman hospitalizes suspect
Dena Davenport, 49, of Grove, died about 8 p.m. Thursday after being shot in the head, Grove Police Chief Mark Morris said. Shooting suspect Doyle Handle, 52, of Grove, was flown to a Joplin, Mo., hospital, also suffering a gunshot wound to the ...
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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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