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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 essay displaying their passion for exploring, and submit an accompanying photograph.   Aric’s mom, Cindy Kampschaefer, knew just the photo Aric needed […]

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 Awards, which were presented in San Francisco Monday. The awards this year celebrated districts with programs that further community engagement and academic achievement through […]

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 the campus was placed under the lockdown anyway.   All buildings were locked up preventing any one from entering.

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. The Open Records Office was created just over a month ago and is run through OU’s collections department. “OU saw the need for such […]

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 charter schools. Discipline concerns sparked further debate, and, this spring, some called for change, even if that meant temporarily closing the school. THE […]

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 dead in Woodward. In its aftermath, two men dressed in Army fatigues entered a hospital and kidnapped 4-year-old Joan Gay Croft. The kidnapping began a lifelong […]

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 Pennsylvania town renamed Jim Thorpe, Penn. ” a place he had never visited.   When Hollywood’s Thorpe biopic starring Burt Lancaster came out, Thorpe […]

  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’ “Sister Study” has recruited more than 30,000 women to take part.   OUT OF OBLIGATIONIn Oklahoma, 288 women are enrolled. One is Melody Miner, […]

hers. “Emily Jerman     TIMELINE ” 1994 “? Griffin joins Millwood, amidst Remington’s tax devaluation. ” 2004-2005 “? Devaluation continued in the racing business. ” 2004 “? State voters approve electronic gaming, allowing Remington to became a racing casino. ” 2006 “? Remington feeds about $270,500 of property taxes into the district. ” 2004-2019 “? Remington will […]