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What to do in Oklahoma on May 25 2013 Check out the Chuck Wagon Gathering at the National Cowboy Museum
Coleman Bixler's head is nearly swallowed up by this oversized hat he wears while beating a drum after being selected from the audience to come on stage to assist Dr. H.P. Hedgethicket, III, Esq. during the professor's Old West Medicine Show. Bixler, 8, of Piedmont was given the hat and large coat to wear while he banged on a drum as Hedgethicket was concocting a scheme to make it ...
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Carrie Underwood donates to Oklahoma victims
Carrie Underwood has donated US$1 million to the American Red Cross' relief efforts in her home state of Oklahoma, which was hit by a tornado last week. Jason Merritt / Getty Images / ...
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Disaster Assistance From FEMA
Homeowners, renters and business owners in those counties are encouraged to register with FEMA for potential recovery assistance. Survivors can register online ...
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Baptist Church In Oklahoma Churns Out Meals For Victims
Hundreds of volunteers have come to Moore, Okla., to help the community following Monday's tornado. Some are helping clear debris, others bringing out water and supplies to people whose homes were damaged or destroyed, and whose lives are in disarray. One group of volunteers is cooking more than 10,000 meals a ...
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Oklahoma state Capitol briefs May 25
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Oklahoma wedding anniversaries May 25
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Oklahoma tornadoes Chambers and cities collaborate to boost storm-affected businesses in Oklahoma
The Greater Oklahoma City Chamber announced the Back to Business Initiative on Friday, allowing owners of businesses with damage from Monday's tornado to report their needs and get connected to ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes What will it take to get Moores stores back in business
After the cleanup, what will it take to get the Moore business community back on its feet? Optimism reigns as business owners say: we will ...
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Big 12 baseball Kansas comes back to sink Oklahoma State
Oklahoma State's Gage Green looks up as Kansas celebrates a run in the seventh inning of their Big 12 Baseball Championship tournament game at the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, Friday, May, 24, 2013. Photo by Bryan Terry, The ...
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Oklahoma principals recall day tornado hit
It was like any other day. If anything, it might have been a little better than usual -- with more deserved honors for the kids, more jokes and songs, more smiles. Even Mother Nature, after storms the previous day, seemed at first to cooperate as the sun shone ...
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Former Employee of Oklahoma City Assisted Living Center Gets Prison for Fraud www.privateofficer.com
--Yesterday, James Lester Hausam, Jr., 29, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was sentenced to serve 37 months in prison in connection with a scheme to steal money from a resident at a metro retirement home, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. In 2010, Hausam worked at an assisted-living center in Bethany, Oklahoma. There, he became friends with ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Oklahoma City resident shoots harrowing tornado video
When tornado sirens went off Monday, many Oklahomans headed for their cellars. South Oklahoma City resident Joshua Stacey went up to his roof ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Gov. Mary Fallin signs disaster relief bill
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signs disaster relief bill and says she also will sign a measure that contains a package of tax breaks for tornado ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Survivors helpers share stories
MOORE -- When a car pulls up and rolls its windows down, Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper Gabe Leach never knows whether its driver is in good spirits or ...
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Oklahoma lawmakers wrap up session
Oklahoma legislators, with deals made more than a month ago on reducing the state personal income tax rate and a major overhaul of the state workers' compensation, ground through a number of bills Friday before wrapping up this year's session with little ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Chaplains minister to disasters victims
MOORE -- They held hands before the chaplains, their family and friends looking on from the front yard. Except instead of an altar, Jason Kluge and Jenae Green stood before their crumpled home on SW 16; instead of exchanging vows, they were simply looking for ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Violent weather likely will prompt higher insurance rates less coverage
Moore resident John Landis lost two homes to tornadoes. When the May 3 tornado leveled his home in 1999, Landis had no insurance on the ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Local TV weathermen describe covering Moore storm
As one of the top weather markets in the country, Oklahoma City TV stations' personnel knew well in advance of the strong possibility for severe weather on May 20. Their chief meteorologists had their weather teams well positioned in covering the tornado, likely saving many lives through their stern warnings that ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes She would give when she didnt have things to give
Gayla Mullins said her sister, Gina Stromski, always was among the first to volunteer after disasters, like the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City and the deadly May 3, 1999, tornado in Moore. Stromski died in Monday's ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Plaza Towers teachers...
Children from Plaza Towers Elementary gathered to say goodbye to their teachers and their friends Thursday morning. They hugged, cried and ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Habitat for Humanity seeks donations for rebuilding
Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity built 60 houses for tornado victims after the May 3, 1999, destruction and plans at least as many after Sunday and Monday's devastation in Moore, Oklahoma City, Shawnee and ...
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Real estate briefs May 25
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Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanitys approach seen in New Testament
So I started to delay what follows, the comments I intend to offer from my semester in supervised ministry with Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity through Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa. But then Ann Felton Gilliland, chairman and CEO of Central Oklahoma Habitat, reminded me that life must go on. Central Oklahoma Habitat is asking for donations so it can help with rebuilding as well ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Acts of kindness May 25
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Oklahoma tornadoes Profiles of Life Nicolas McCabe
MOORE -- Nicolas McCabe was a newsmaker in birth and death. He was just eight days old in the photograph that ran in the June 12, 2004, edition ...
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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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