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  • Mourners Remember Cascia Hall Grad Killed In Grand Lake Boat Crash

    She graduated from Cascia Hall in 2010, then she went on to study fashion design and Chinese at the University of Arkansas, in the fall she would have started her senior ...

  • OVCA celebrates first graduating class

    TULSA - The first graduating class of the Oklahoma Virtual Charter Academy accepted their diplomas in Tulsa Saturday. Thirty-one of the senior class' 50 graduates turned their tassels and tossed their caps in front of hundreds of friends and family members at the Tulsa Event Center. The charter, established in 2011, is the virtual home to 2,100 students in grades kindergarten through 12th ...

  • Time Waning For Oklahoma Lawmakers To Tackle Credits

    OKLAHOMA CITY - Despite calls by several Oklahoma legislators to address hundreds of millions of dollars in state tax credits and exemptions for businesses and industries, little has been done as another session approaches its end. At the same time, other legislators are still trying to write even more tax giveaways into state law for things like tickets and hospitality suites to ...

  • North Tulsa Forum Discusses Brady District Name Issue

    Some North Tulsans met for their monthly district forum Saturday morning and listened to a city councilor's brief statement regarding the Brady District name ...

  • Canadian Press NewsAlert Oxbow wins the Preakness Stakes

    Lisa Scotti, of Baltimore, reads hhere program before the sixth race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Mike ...

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Quills [DVD]

Quills [DVD]

"I didn't create the world," declares the Marquis de Sade in Philip Kaufman's Quills. "I just record it." ...

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  • Oklahoma Severe Storm Updates

    Follow live severe storm updates, road closings and travel conditions below. The following tweets are from reporters, state officials and ...

  • Live Wire Tornado watch issued until 11 p.m.

    There is a tornado watch for much of western Oklahoma and parts of central Oklahoma until 11 p.m. We are tracking the possibility of severe thunderstorm development right here on the KOCO.com Live Wire. The tornado watch includes the following counties: Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Garvin, Grady, Grant, Greer, Harmon, ...

  • $600M jackpot worlds second largest

    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Powerball is a game of numbers, and lottery officials say the majority of possible combinations have already been purchased ahead of Saturday night's near-historic $600 million drawing. The odds of winning the game's largest jackpot remain astronomically high: 1 in 175.2 million. But since about 80 percent of the possible combinations have been purchased, ...

  • Tornado watch issued for western central Oklahoma

    Oklahoma City is within the area that's under the watch until 11 p.m. Saturday. Forecasters say the storm system will progress eastward across Oklahoma on Sunday. The threat of storms with the potential to produce tornadoes is to continue into Sunday night in the state's ...

  • Sallisaw Man To Stand Trial For 1997 Beating Death During Robbery

    SALLISAW, Oklahoma - A judge has ruled there is enough evidence to put a Sallisaw man on trial for a 1997 beating death during a robbery. During a preliminary hearing Friday, Sequoyah County Special Judge Larry Langley ordered 38-year-old Rex Richard Robbins III to be tried on a first-degree murder charge. He is accused in the death of 28-year-old Mitchell Dayne ...

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