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The towns of Slaughterville and Lexington won’t go to war over it but there are bragging rights on the line. Both towns want to claim the Extreme Makeover Home Edition was built in their own city limits.
The couple originally lived in Lexington, on SH 39 at 120th Avenue SE. The house was built on land [...]"
"Today’s Super Bowl may feature two boring teams and two very dry quarterbacks. For two weeks I have tried to catch Super Bowl fever. But it just has not come.
Where have the days gone when teams featured personalities and characters such as the “Playmaker” Michael Irvin, Lawrence Taylor, John Riggins, Icky Woods doing the Icky [...]"
"If you look hard enough, anyone can find controversy. The latest example is the Feb. 8 issue of Sports Illustrated. On the cover, American downhill skier Lindsey Vonn is shown in what some are calling a extremely provocative pose in a skin tight skiing outfit.
Detractors of the cover feel that Sports Illustrated is using Vonn’s [...]"
"It’s quite a jumble in the middle of the pack in the Big 12 men’s basketball standings, and several teams are hoping the conference’s overall strength leads to the league getting a higher number of bids to the NCAA Tournament next month.
The top is easy to figure. Kansas is unbeaten and may stay that way [...]"
"The weekly childbirth class at Norman Regional Hospital required both parents to be on their best behavior. No class cut-ups. This was serious stuff.
The class was the third go-round for Mark Amspacher and his wife, Claire. They had two other children. The newest daughter, Bonnie, and our son, Patrick, were due around the same time [...]"
"As I sat watching tv with my mother in our sunroom, I was quietly thinking about the things that I have learned from my mother. I always thought that I was a patient person, but since I have been living with her for the last almost eight years, that patience is really a virtue. I [...]"
"What people will do under extreme circumstances never ceases to amaze me. Over the weekend there were hundreds of people around the state doing their best to help their fellow man get through the difficult weather conditions. Many took in neighbors who were without power, donated clothes and food to shelters or just gave money [...]"
"Back in my country newspaper days, there were a few country correspondents who could really spin a yarn. Not sure where we inherited them but they seem to come with the territory.
Mrs. Arthur Hunt wrote the social news from Lexington. She’d write it out on a Big Chief tablet and we’d pick it up from [...]"
"After three days of updating my blog from the confines of my living room and not doing much sliding around, save that spent playing in the yard with the kids and shoveling my driveway, deicing my car and making one trip to my favorite buffet in Moore, I’ve made the trip back to the offices [...]"
"The weather updates seem to be a broken record today. Snow, snow, more snow, now the system has slowed down a little and it’s going to snow longer than it was looking a few hours ago.
So it’s a good time for some snow ice cream. In my house that means ice cream, creamer, a little [...]"
"Snow continues to fall and pile up around the county, as the number of power outages locally climbs.
About 1,000 outages in Norman and another 61 in Moore were being reported as of 1 p.m. by OG&E, and about 2,800 Oklahoma Electric Cooperative customers in Norman and Noble also were without power.
And while the snow has [...]"
"Plano West High School star Jackson Jeffcoat announced Friday that he has committed to play football for the University of Texas next year. Jeffcoat, who is the son of former Dallas Cowboy Jim Jeffcoat, is the No. 2 ranked prep player in the country.
Jeffcoat chose the Longhorns over the University of Oklahoma and Houston, where [...]"
"Light snow is falling and is expected to for several hours. The bigger issue this morning is what that snow, combined with the sleet from yesterday afternoon, will do to the roads.
At best, it will be a slow go, but you are better off just staying home if possible. The precipitation should clear off by [...]"
"Looks like the worst of this thing is past, and the new forecast is that tomorrow’s snow totals may not be very high.
Our area has ducked the worst of this, but not far south and west there are still big power problems, especially down through Purcell and Pauls Valley and then southwest through Chickasha, Cement, [...]"
"I just took a stroll around outside. The sleet is piling up, perhaps an inch or snow, and the ice accumulations on the branches are a quarter-inch, maybe slightly more.
At the moment most of the precip is light sleet but the National Weather Service radar shows two more heavy bands getting ready to roll in. [...]"
"If you’re in the 1,903 OG&E customers in Norman who has lost power, you aren’t reading this.
For those who are it may only be a matter of time, although precipitation seems to have predominantly changed over to sleet for the time being. Also, a heavier patch has just moved through, according to the National Weather [...]"
"From our news partners up the road at KOCO Channel 5 at about 3:20 p.m.: It now appears for at least the next few hours the precipitation in the Norman and Moore areas may change over to being predominantly sleet instead of freezing rain.
The good news is that gives the trees and power lines a [...]"
"More than 1,000 outages are being reported as of 2:33 p.m. in the Pauls Valley and Maysville areas, where more freezing rain has fallen than in the Oklahoma City metro area.
In the Cotton Electric Co-Op region around Lawton, more than 6,000 customers, or nearly 30 percent of the company’s customers, were without power at 2:35, [...]"
"The forecasted power outages for the area are not here yet, but it seems only a matter of time.
Ice continues to accumulate on trees and power lines and it’s becoming increasingly noticeable. The trees around Moore look significantly more coated in the last hour since the freezing rain has gotten stronger.
Here are some numbers from [...]"
"The rain has picked up off and on in Moore, and I heard from several people of it “pouring” on a couple of occasions in parts of Norman. The ice accumulation is increasing but the road and sidewalk outside here, at this point, still are in good shape.
Cleveland County offices were closed at noon, and [...]"
