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Emily Jerman
  Millwood School District and Remington Park Racing Casino are working together to better opportunities for the district's some 1,150 students.   The school district recently received $100,000 fro...

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Rod Lott
  One breast cancer research project hopes to find a cure by studying not women with cancer, but their cancer-free sisters.   Since 2004, The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences' "S...

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Mike Coppock
When Oklahoman and American Indian sports hero Jim Thorpe passed away in 1953, the governor of Oklahoma refused to build him a $25,000 memorial. His remains are now in a distant Pennsylv...

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Mike Coppock
On April 9, 1947, Oklahoma experienced the deadliest tornado in state history, resulting in a mystery around a 4-year-old girl that remains unsolved.   A two-mile-wide cyclone left 107 d...

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Emily Jerman
Controversy raged when the new John Marshall High School opened last August. A district official said dozens of parents pulled their children from the unfinished facility in an exodus to private and c...

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Scott Cooper
The University of Oklahoma has established a new office to handle inquiries into disseminating public information, but there are questions about whether the office is in full compliance with state law...

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Scott Cooper
The University of Oklahoma Norman campus was placed under a lockdown after a student reported possibly seeing an individual with a gun this morning.   The report turned out to be false, but th...

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Emily Jerman
MAPS for Kids efforts garnered Oklahoma City Public Schools an award in a nationwide contest this month. The district earned honorable mention honors in the American School Board Journal's 2007 Magna...

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Krista Nightengale
Aric Kampschaefer, 13, has earned himself a trip to South America through a contest with National Geographic Kids magazine.   The magazine recently asked for students age 9-14 to write a 100-200 word ...

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Emily Jerman
State superintendent Sandy Garrett released a statement today in response to a recently publicized report criticizing Oklahoma's education system, giving the state's academic achievement an "F."...