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You bet Casey Angle had a favorite part of Friday night’s softball game.
It's just an empty field now, but community and industry leaders hope a new rail line and road will help make a section of Claremore an industrial hub for northeast Oklahoma.
School is more than learning your ABCs and how to solve quadratic equations. We know that learning how to think critically, work cooperatively, and solve problems creatively are among the most important skills children need to be good citizens, contributing members of society, and productive workers in a competitive global economy.
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ORU stumbles against Central Arkansas For nearly two-and-a-half games at the Southland Conference Tournament everything was going accordin
COREY ROEPKEN World Correspondent
Ricketts, Sooners win emotional Super Regional game with sister of tornado victim in dugout You bet Casey Angle had a favorite part of Friday night’s softball game.
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Rocklahoma kicks off with music, camping in Pryor As the Rocklahoma festival grounds filled with tens of thousands of fans Friday afternoon, music bla
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Owasso city manager suspended pending investigation The City Council voted unanimously to place veteran City Manager Rodney Ray on administrative leave.
RHETT MORGAN World Staff Writer
Oklahoma House has anticlimactic early end to session The 101-member House had dwindled to 63 hardy souls by the time the last vote was taken.
RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer
House passes measure to 'quarantine' Insure Oklahoma — after Senate adjourns Earlier this week, Speaker of the House T.W. Shannon refused to allow a proposed law to extend the program ...
WAYNE GREENE World Senior Writer
Syrian regime OKs peace talks amid skepticism Syria’s government has agreed to attend a U.S.-Russian-brokered peace conference, according to Mosco
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Foreign preacher takes rare turn on Vietnam stage “Do you know why I love God?” Nick Vujicic asked a young girl on stage who, like him, was born without arms and legs.
Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, Vince Gill to join Blake Shelton for tornado relief concert Tickets for Blake Shelton’s tornado relief concert in Oklahoma City go on sale Saturday. RELATED ...
RITA SHERROW World Scene Writer
ORU students win $100,000 on 'American Bible Challenge' In previous competition on the show, taped in January in Hollywood, Calif., the brothers — four-time ...
REVIEW: 'Epic' just isn't big enough I could have nodded off a couple of times if not for my 8-year-old daughter snickering at the comedy ...
MICHAEL SMITH World Scene Writer
Lawler can make $18 million at Chesapeake in first full year Doug Lawler’s combination of salary, bonus and equity awards should reach $12.6 million for 2013 alone, ...
ROD WALTON World Business Editor
Stocks: Market fades, posts first weekly loss in a month Trading was thin ahead of Memorial Day. Volume was just 2.7 billion shares.
Oil: Price ends week down 2 percent on tepid demand outlook The loss Friday was just 10 cents, to $94.15 a barrel. But four straight losses resulted in a weekly ...
Coffeyville refinery challenges EPA fairness in noting three recent settlements “These prior settlements are unrelated to EPA’s RMP (risk management program) claims and are not indicative ...
River Spirit Casino could get naming rights for Expo Center “Our version of the proposal was approved by our gaming operations authority board on Wednesday,” said ...
KEVIN CANFIELD World Staff Writer
Hall and Oates donate signed guitar for tornado relief efforts Details about the auction will be announced at a later date, but 100 percent of the proceeds will go ...
JAMES D. WATTS JR.World Scene Writer
Grove man charged in wife's shooting death Grove Police Chief Mark Morris said the couple didn't have a history of domestic violence, but a neighbor ...
SHEILA STOGSDILL World Correspondent
American Airlines CEO's $20 million severance under fire again “As the United States Trustee previously argued in connection with her objection to the Merger Motion, ...
KYLE ARNOLD World Staff Writer
Fallin signs bill to spend $45 milion on tornado relief It allows the state to use the money to match federal disaster funds and for other 'disaster-related ...
Nike donating $1 million in goods to tornado relief Nike says it will make its donations through the nonprofit organization Good360 to prequalified char ...
Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys The Scouts' longstanding ban on gay adults remains in force.
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UK-bound Pakistan plane diverted, 2 men arrested A jet was launched to divert the Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying nearly 300 passengers ...
CASSANDRA VINOGRAD AND DANICA KIRKAAssociated Press
House passes storm damage tax relief Senate Bill 330 particularly addressed real property and vehicles damaged or destroyed in those stor ...
State Senate finishes its work for the year House Democrats were upset that pay raises for Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers were not provided, Inman ...
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Photos released in Dollar General robbery He appeared to shop for about 15 minutes and then pulled on a gun on the cashier as she was completing ...
AMANDA BLAND World Staff Writer
Tulsa man arrested on child neglect charge; warrant out for child's mother Prosecutors allege they failed to provide a safe environment, proper supervision or both.
Pace slows in testing after Tulsa dentist health scare So far, 70 patients have tested positive for hepatitis C, five for hepatitis B and three for HIV, but ...
Acid leak closes section of North Peoria Avenue overnight Responders investigated a “white cloud” emanating from a chemical distribution center, fire department ...
OU defeats Texas Tech 8-0 in Big 12 Tournament Oklahoma’s pitching staff continued its dominance on Friday morning.
ERIC BAILEY World Sports Writer
IRS replaces official who revealed targeting Lois Lerner was put on administrative leave on Thursday, said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and two ...
ALAN FRAM AND STEPHEN OHLEMACHERAssociated Press
Education standoff in state House When lawmakers returned to work Friday, House members passed a resolution to adjourn. The motion passed, ...
Temporary stay granted in hearing for brothers accused in quadruple slaying The brothers are charged in the Jan. 7 shooting deaths of four women at the Fairmont Terrace apartment ...
JARREL WADE World Staff Writer
Republican lawmakers' feud erupts on House floor Rep. Don Armes, R-Lawton said 'You've been breathing my air a long time' to Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma ...
Former Ottawa County detective found guilty of making, selling meth The former detective sold a half-gram of methamphetamine for $40 to an undercover narcotics agent, according ...
Tulsa man told dogs to attack officers, police say After he was handcuffed, he allegedly told his pit bull to “Get ’em! Get ’em!” — referring to officers ...
American Legion giving $1M to Oklahoma tornado victim veterans The Legion also provided relief funds after Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Katrina and other natural dis ...
Washington state I-5 bridge collapse caused by oversize load It happened about 7 p.m. Thursday on the four-lane Interstate 5 bridge near Mount Vernon, about 60 miles ...
MANUEL VALDES AND MIKE BAKERAssociated Press
TCU ninth-inning rally tops OSU at Big 12 baseball tournament Horned Frogs score six runs in the top of the ninth inning to upend Cowboys 8-4 late Thursday.
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Plan to give $1,200 debit cards to tornado victims rejected Fallin administration officials rejected a plan to distribute debit cards worth $1,200 - funded with ...
John Klein: College transfer rule that limited Wes Lunt must be changed Former Oklahoma State quarterback Wes Lunt, just like any college athlete, should not be free to transfer ...
JOHN KLEIN Senior Sports Columnist
Death notices for May 24 Including Tulsa and northeastern Oklahoma.
Class act: Collinsville teacher gets support from school during health crisis Terry Coburn's third-grade class had to say goodbye to their teacher for the second time this year.
KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer
Death notices for May 23 Including Tulsa and northeastern Oklahoma.
TCU ninth-inning rally tops OSU at Big 12 baseball tournament Horned Frogs score six runs in the top of the ninth inning to upend Cowboys 8-4 late Thursday night in ...
Grove woman killed; man also shot Dena Davenport, 49, and Doyle Handle, 52, were both shot in the head.
Plaza Towers students, teachers gather for a tearful reunion to close out the school year Just three days after a deadly tornado ripped apart Plaza Towers Elementary School, the school community ...
ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
New Bixby pastor loses home in tornado, church helps out The Rev. Jeff and Sherri Sloan were in Bixby closing on a house Monday afternoon.
BILL SHERMAN World Religion Writer
Republican lawmakers' feud erupts on House floor Rep. Don Armes, R-Lawton said "You've been breathing my air a long time" to Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma ...
Tulsa council to study whether to rename Brady Street Responding to two weeks of pleas from residents to take action, City Councilors agreed Thursday to create ...
Rocklahoma welcomes Korn as headliner For a festival that boasts so many repeat customers, there are a few prominent newbies this year - ...
JENNIFER CHANCELLOR World Scene Writer
Blake Shelton, Kenny Wayne Shepherd among musicians helping tornado relief efforts A growing roster of Oklahoma-tied musicians and others are planning benefit concerts, television broadcasts ...
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St. John plans layoffs, cites rejection of Medicaid expansion by Gov. Mary Fallin Tulsa's St. John Health System is "restructuring its workforce" because of changes in medical financing, ...
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Obama to visit Oklahoma on Sunday; tornado damage could top $1 billion Secretary of Homeland Defense Janet Napolitano toured the tornado-ravaged areas on Wednesday.
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More Obama aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not told White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending ...
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Tulsa tea party groups protest at local IRS office About 20 people picketed in the rain outside an east Tulsa federal building Tuesday as part of a national ...
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Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders - a ...
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Letter to the Editor: Complicit It was with sadness and disbelief that I read your Benghazi editorial on May 15.
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Amber Hilberling discusses husband's fatal fall Amber Hilberling told a national television audience on Friday that she still can't understand what happened ...
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Fallin's Medicaid decision leads to job losses here The negative fallout resulting from Gov. Mary Fallin's decision to reject the Medicaid expansion element ...
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Obama pledges prompt response for storm-ravaged Moore President Barack Obama pledged urgent government help for Oklahoma on Tuesday in the wake of "one of ...
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Boy Scouts' leaders to vote on lifting gay-youth ban With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the ...
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Tulsa library system budget takes hit from property tax cut The Tulsa City-County Library has cut more than $800,000 from its proposed operating budget for fiscal ...
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Letter to the Editor: Giving voice I implore the Tulsa World to cover the multiple investigations going on around the country. This is how ...
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Tulsa city councilors propose budget amendments to boost police force The plan, outlined Thursday by Councilors G.T. Bynum and Karen Gilbert, would increase the number of ...
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51 killed, including 20 children, in Moore tornado A powerful tornado roared through Moore and south Oklahoma City on Monday, killing at least 51 people ...
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Will congressmen help their fellow Oklahomans? What will Jim Bridenstine do? It was only a matter of time until he faced the question.
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Open carry in Oklahoma is nonissue When Oklahoma joined 43 other states in allowing residents to openly carry handguns last year, local ...
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