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With all precincts reporting, Oklahoma City voters elected Councilwoman Willa Johnson as county commissioner. Johnson outdistanced former state legislator Forrest Claunch for the vacated District 1 Oklahoma Board of County Commissioners post. Johnson received 5,967 votes, 54 percent, to Claunch’s 5,083 votes, 46 percent. The longtime city council member maintains a Democrat party hold on […]

NASA officials are only halfway confirming a story that the federal agency is terminating its contract with Rocketplane Kistler. Melissa Mathews, NASA spokeswoman, told Oklahoma Gazette the agency is taking the first steps toward terminating the contract with the Oklahoma City-based company. “On Friday, NASA’s associate administrator for exploration systems, Scott Horowitz, notified Rocketplane Kistler […]

The Sooners hold the Hurricanes to a three and out in their first offensive series. Marcus Walker did a great job of trying to sell that would-be interception, even convincing one official. Too bad the officials’ review system works better at Oklahoma than Oregon. Having Gino Torreta and Toby Keith announce the starting offensive and […]

No one could blame Sylvester Norwood if he never wanted to set foot in Oklahoma again. But the 71-year-old Kingfisher native wants to return to Norman, a place he has not seen since he was 18. It was there in 1955 when he helped write a small chapter of history for the University of Oklahoma […]

Oklahoma City’s Tornado Alley Roller Girls have been taking their skates, elbow pads and high-octane antics on the road recently with their new off-season travel team, the Trailer Thrashers.  One of the team’s new co-captains, Brooke Burleson, aka Sally Strych9, said the new team is comprised of 20 players from the league’s four teams. “We […]

Norman Police Capt. Leonard Judy confirmed the identities of three women shot and killed at a Norman residence Tuesday as: ” Tami Link, 52; ” Sheila Ellis, 56; and ” Letannah Bishop, 87.   The three women were shot at an east Norman residence — 1517 Oklahoma Ave. — owned by Link and her husband, 54-year-old Brent Link. […]

Cardio tennis takes place on a tennis court, but a racket is involved only half of the time. The Greens Country Club, 13100 Green Valley Drive, recently introduced the class, which focuses more on footwork drills, medicine balls and stamina-boosting routines, rather than just smashing little yellow tennis balls over the net. “We get a […]

In 1923, John Calloway “Jack” Walton became the first Oklahoma governor to be impeached. His less-than-a-year tenure was dominated by two forces: corruption and the Ku Klux Klan. Corruption ultimately led to his downfall, but his dealings with the latter may be his lasting legacy. Walton spent most of his days as governor waging war […]

nd DeMarco Murray, the next best had to be 103-year-old Caroline Blue. The Norman resident was honored as a longtime Sooner season-ticket holder during a second-quarter timeout. Blue has been attending Sooner games since The Great Depression and walked — unassisted — to the end zone to be honored on the SoonerVision jumbo video screen for all […]

The University of Oklahoma football team kicked off the season tonight in record-breaking fashion as the Sooners beat North Texas 79-10 at the Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Two redshirt freshman football players, quarterback Sam Bradford from Oklahoma City and running back DeMarco Murray from Las Vegas, each set individual records in the contest. Bradford threw […]