http://www.okgazette.com/oklahoma/articles.sec-10-1-news.html Several Oklahoma City metro schools were named by Newsweek as among the 1,000 best high schools in the country. ]]> A proposal to turn over management of the Oklahoma City Zoo Amphitheatre to a new company was tabled at the last minute over concerns about a possible violation of the state Open Records Act.]]> For its 25th anniversary celebration, the OKC Pride Parade will follow its traditional parade route, kicking off at Memorial Park on N.W. 36th Street and Classen and concluding on “The Strip,” the area on N.W. 39th between Pennsylvania and May avenues historically associated with the city’s LGBT community.]]> In 1992, Jacqueline Smith signed up for a program with the unwieldy name of Oklahoma’s Higher Learning Access Program, or OHLAP. For qualifying students, it guaranteed full tuition to any of the state’s public universities or colleges or partial tuition to private establishments.]]> The medical significance of the helix can’t be lost on anyone who knows about DNA, but the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is putting the shape to use in an unusual way. ]]> The big, block letters and hand-drawn peace sign of Kirsten Hatfield’s final second-grade project and the images of her stark, empty bedroom make for a jarring juxtaposition. ]]> As Queen’s Freddie Mercury once put it, if Jaws was never your scene and you don’t like Star Wars ... there’s always the option of riding a bicycle in downtown Oklahoma City, which is going to get a little easier after Friday.]]> Mary Fallin, water, water rights, Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation, Sardis, OKC, Oklahoma legislature, politics, Aubrey McClendon, Oklahoma City
]]> Morning routines vary. Some people spring from their beds as if they’re starring in a Folger’s commercial. Others get alarmingly familiar with the snooze button.]]> It’s fair to say that the past few weeks have not been kind to Chesapeake Energy co-founder, board chairman and CEO Aubrey McClendon.]]>
]]> When it comes to gun laws, few states are friendlier to gun owners than Oklahoma. ]]>

The decision of CASA of Oklahoma County several years ago to leave the umbrella of county government and file as a nonprofit has prompted some uncertainty about its level of county funding. ]]> Oklahoma City Council last week approved a review of the six-year-old Core to Shore plan to develop the area between downtown and the Oklahoma River.]]> For Oklahoma City residents, Free Landfiill Day will be held from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at participating landfills:]]> Gov. Mary Fallin has signed into law a bill mandating that a doctor must be physically present when a woman takes a pill to induce an abortion, the latest measure in a legislative session that has brimmed with abortion-related bills.]]> George Washington never slept there, Elvis never left the building, or even entered for that matter, and it’s definitely not the House that Ruth Built. ]]> Eileen Price fought her way to her feet.]]> Josh Hughes, Summer Maxey, John Maloy and Jennie Whiteman may have never met, but they’re all working to get to the same place.]]> The rain came down so hard, it resembled waves crashing outside the floor-to-ceiling windows on the third floor of the Oklahoma City University Meinders School of Business building.]]>