Canadian County Children’s Justice Center offers a unique collection of resources that appears to have a major impact on the decrease in adult crimes.
El Reno
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In cars
His frustration stems from TV coverage of the EF3 tornado that swept through sections of Central Oklahoma on May 31. That’s when Morgan urged viewers who couldn’t get underground to a shelter to “leave south Oklahoma City and go south. Do it right now.” A little later, Morgan repeated that a tornado warning was in […]
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Still lovin’ and learnin’
It was early 1972 when 13-year-old Tanya Tucker headed for Nashville to cut her very first record. By spring, “Delta Dawn” was a hit on every radio station in America. “I was in Las Vegas when I heard ‘Delta Dawn’ and myself on the radio for the first time,” Tucker said. “It was the beginning […]
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More than a fan
Thousands of kids grew up singing Boston rock classics “More Than a Feeling” and “Peace of Mind” into a hairbrush in front of the bathroom mirror. Tommy DeCarlo is the only one to go from fan to front man of the legendary Beantown export. “Back when I was a teenager, my friends and I would […]
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Quaker state
However, they ended up documenting the state’s biggest earthquake in recorded history. “We didn’t know we were going to go out to record a main shock,” said Holland, a seismologist for the Oklahoma Geological Survey. The surprise of having such a large quake in Oklahoma, considered geologically stable by most, has not been lost on […]
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Quaker state
However, they ended up documenting the state’s biggest earthquake in recorded history. “We didn’t know we were going to go out to record a main shock,” said Holland, a seismologist for the Oklahoma Geological Survey. The surprise of having such a large quake in Oklahoma, considered geologically stable by most, has not been lost on […]
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Double trouble
Tom and Gladys Erbar of El Reno are the principal plaintiffs on one lawsuit (CJ-2011-159), while the other (CJ- 2011-115), represented by Oklahoma City attorney Mark Henricksen, seeks class-action status and currently has nine listed plaintiffs. Henricksen told Oklahoma Gazette the lawsuit originally named 801 defendants, but one defendant has since been dropped due to […]
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ROUTE 66
That’s the sensation one gets cruising down the stretch of Route 66 between Weatherford and El Reno. The interstate travelers speed by, dozens of cars jostling for position as they squeal past billboards. It’s a race with nothing in mind but the finish line. You can witness the prix clearly — separated by little more […]
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Under pressure
Very hot. So it was last week that the city, for the first time in more than a decade, implemented a mandatory odd-even water rotation program. Update: On Tuesday, July 19 the City of Oklahoma City announced via press release that the temporary outdoor watering ban for NW and NE areas will end at noon, […]
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Bitter pills
The one-page report listed five painkillers — oxymorphone, morphine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone and oxycodone — and the anti-anxiety medication alprazolam as causing “probable mixed drug toxicity,” which led to central nervous system depression, pulmonary edema and aspiration pneumonia. “The chemicals found in his system were not those that had been prescribed by a physician, and we […]