Live. Local. Leaving.
Longtime KOCO chief meteorologist Rick Mitchell heading to severe skies of Dallas TV.
It's about time
A century-old time capsule is opened in an OKC church.
Fade out
A Senate bill phases out incentives that lure filmmakers to the state.
Challengers in Oklahoma City Council races discuss online photos
Photos in revealing poses, of Confederate flags
Picture of horror
A century later, the photograph of an Oklahoma lynching still resonates.
Romney and religion
Will Mitt Romney’s Mormonism be a factor for Oklahoma voters in next Tuesday’s presidential primary?
Fame, Sweet fame
Does this OKC woman have time to be a worldwide Internet sensation?
To the letter
The OKC school district begins investigating charges of grade-tampering by a high school principal.
Creative dissent
Opposition came in various forms at last week’s rally against the Personhood Act.
Spirited reformation
Two grassroots organizations seek changes to Oklahoma’s liquor laws.
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Clifton Adcock
The Oklahoma City Council on Nov. 6 laid out the city’s wish-list for next year’s state legislative session.
Report-card reaction
Parents and educators mull over the state Education Department’s grades for OKC public schools.
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Tim Farley
Surprise was not among the reactions administrators and parents showed when the state Department of Education last month released its grades for Oklahoma’s public schools.
Killing fields
Metro police are baffled by an exceptionally bloody year in city homicides.
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Jerry Bohnen
It would be easy to assume that this year’s spike in murders in Oklahoma City has been gang-related. But that might be the wrong conclusion based on a study of the 81 homicides recorded by Oklahoma City police as of Nov. 9. It appears probable the city’s murder list could creep into the 90s by year’s end.
A new hope
Supporters of an American Indian cultural center say the results of a state audit boost chances of completing the beleaguered project.
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Tim Farley
A state audit that found no wrongdoing within the Native American Cultural and Educational Authority (NACEA) during the last nine years has given new life to a multimillion-dollar project in Oklahoma City.
Viva la comunidad
Five years after a controversial state law sought to reduce illegal immigration, the impact on OKC’s Latino community appears minimal.
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Peter Wright
The Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2007, better known as House Bill 1804, was tough for its day. It remains the gravitational center of illegal immigration arguments in Oklahoma, even as it has been dissected by lawsuits, eclipsed by bills in other states and rendered less relevant by an increasingly young and legal Latino community.
Bike boom
OKC bicycling get a boost from the creation of special bike lanes and expansion of downtown’s bike-share program.
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Clifton Adcock
Oklahoma City has begun work creating the first street lanes that will be shared between bicycles and cars. That development comes amid an expansion of the city’s downtown bike-share program.
Rice returns
Former state senator Andrew Rice is back in OKC, this time as head of the Variety Care Foundation.
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Mark Beutler
Less than a year ago, Oklahoma lost one of its rising young political stars when former state Sen. Andrew Rice announced he was leaving. The twoterm senator had been the Senate’s Democratic leader and in 2008 lost a hard-fought race against U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe.
Lotta pot
Nearly 500 pounds of marijuana is confiscated during a traffic stop in south OKC.
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Gazette staff
A traffic stop yesterday in southwest Oklahoma City netted nearly 500 pounds of marijuana and the arrest of two people. The Central Oklahoma Metro Interdiction Team (COMIT) stopped the speeding Chevy pickup truck around 4 p.m. on S.W. 25th Street near S. May Avenue.
A closer look
The death of an OKC man while in police custody has drawn the attention of the FBI.
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Clifton Adcock
The FBI has been brought in to investigate the case of a man who died while in police custody, according to the man’s family’s attorney.
A taxing question
Would passage of SQ 766 be a tax cut or a tax hike? Depends on who you ask.
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C.G. Niebank
Those on both sides of State Question 766, which would limit taxes on intangible property such as software applications, say its fate could have dire consequences statewide.
Sheriff in town
Longtime Oklahoma County Sheriff John Whetsel faces a tough challenge from Darrell Sorrels.
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Clifton Adcock
Voters in Tuesday’s election will have a choice between new blood and an old hand for Oklahoma County Sheriff.
Park places
City officials unveil three preliminary designs for what will be the MAPS 3 park.
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Clifton Adcock
Consultants working on the MAPS 3 downtown park unveiled three proposed designs during an Oct. 25 public meeting. Around $132 million of the $777 million in MAPS 3 funding is set aside for the project.
Info on informants
A lawsuit connected to the Murrah building bombing suggests that FBI informants include a number of journalists nationwide.
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Jerry Bohnen
If Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue is right, there are journalists around the country who also happen to be informants for the FBI.
School shakeup
An OKC school principal resigns amid allegations that he rigged student grades and attendance.
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Jerry Bohnen
Embattled Douglass Mid-High School Principal Brian Staples resigned last week in the wake of a an Oklahoma City Public Schools investigation into allegations of grade-tampering and other misconduct.
Idea-go-round
MAPS 3’s future downtown park — and the city in general — could benefit from a carousel, according to one resident.
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Clifton Adcock
A trip to Missoula, Mont., left images of carousels spinning in the imagination of Edmond resident Celia Moor.
