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Grills have gone wild across Oklahoma
With grilling season in full bloom, the Made in Oklahoma Coalition has supplied three ways to keep the propane or charcoal burning on your back ...
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Its more than just a simple water fight
Six months ago, the ongoing drought conditions were drying up Oklahoma City's primary water supply. Lake Hefner's level was so low that much of the lake bottom was exposed. Boating was replaced by walking out on dry land well into the lake. The lake was in trouble and city officials decided it was time to act, so they exercised a legal right I first learned about when I was working ...
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Teachers gather in Midwest City to learn how to better prepare advanced placement students
Carol Leibl, with the National Math and Science Initiative, leads an advanced placement biology course during a summer training program for teachers from across the country held at Del City High School. Photo by Paul B. Southerland, The ...
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Shoppers return to Midwest City Walmart day after deadly standoff
Sammie Lamont Wallace, 37, who was shot and killed by police during a standoff at a Midwest City Walmart, has a violent history and lengthy rap sheet, police in Dallas ...
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Melbas Swap Shop Dont squash the cucumbers
You shared a squash recipe, so I decided to tell you my squash story. Recently, I noticed some good-looking zucchini squash in the store and bought four. I washed, peeled, chopped them and put them in a pan to ...
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More Oklahoma state news briefs for June 19
Sunbeam to break ground After 106 years of serving Oklahoma City, Sunbeam Family Services will break ground on its new home at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at 1100 NW 14. The new location will help Sunbeam in several ways and includes 45,000 square feet of space for Sunbeam's four service areas of counseling, early childhood education, foster care and senior ...
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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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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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Team Blakes Danielle Bradbery wins The Voice
This June 17, 2013 image released by NBC shows Muskogee duo Zach Swon, left, and Colton Swon of The Swon Brothers, on stage during the singing competition series "The Voice," in Los Angeles. The Swon Brothers finished third to runner-up Michelle Chamuel and winnner Danielle Bradbery in the finale on Tuesday. (Photo by: Tyler ...
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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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Oklahoma storms Moore family was without electricity for almost a month
A family in the Baer's Westmore subdivision in Moore looked on as neighbors had their power restored after the May 20 tornado. But a combination of utility repairs and city inspection paperwork meant Ken Steiner and his family spent almost a month without electric ...
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Oklahoma State football A stunning success story at the box office
Good news for all on both sides of Bedlam who despise Mike Holder's ticket policy. He has an exit strategy. Some day in the future, OSU football no longer will designate a singular home game by which admission is granted only through season tickets or the opponents' limited ...
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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 City's ambitious overhaul of downtown
Oklahoma City with her 550,000 residents in the city core and a further 700,000 in the wider metropolitan area is the largest urban area in the state and Oklahoma’s largest city. We are therefore the economic hub of the state, so Project 180 was always going to cause a significant amount of disruption.
When construction on the Devon Tower was first reported by Oklahoma City news media in October, 2009 many residents of the city waited in anticipation to see what the finished product would look like. The 50-story building, will be the new headquarters of Devon Energy, will be the tallest building in the city and will contain 1.8 million square feet of office space. It is a true substantiation of the city’s status as a commercial power hub. Read more
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