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May 8—The Oklahoma House recently approved legislation co-authored by a Cleveland County lawmaker that would award Oklahomas Promise scholarships to students with intellectual disabilities.

May 8—After 37 years of teaching and nine nominations for Norman Public Schools Teacher of the Year, a popular high school physics teacher is retiring from Norman High School.

May 6—The attorney for a City Council member removed from his Ward 3 seat last week said Friday she will ask the Oklahoma Supreme Court to overturn a district judges

May 4—When setting up practice this week, Oklahoma head coach Patty Gasso wanted her team to train as if they were preparing to face themselves this week.

Lincoln Elementary opened its doors to students in 1923, and 100 years later, invited current students, parents, teachers, faculty, alumni and the community to celebrate the milestone.

Apr. 30—Local lawmakers are reflecting on a bill passed in the House that will provide six full weeks of maternity leave for full-time state employees following the birth or adoption

Apr. 30—A stretch of East Alameda Street will get a little more narrow for cars, but a lot wider for bicyclists as the city plans to rehab the street between

Apr. 30—Norman residents who participated in a public exchange of ideas to shape Normans future growth said they came away from the One Norman Visioning Summit with a sense of

Major General Stanley F. H. Newman, who was credited with shooting down the last German airplane of World War II, died recently. He was 99

Andrew D. Lester, a white 84-year-old Kansas City, Missouri, homeowner who shot Ralph Yarl, a black 16-year-old twice after he mistakenly rang his doorbell last Thursday, has been charged with assault in the first degree and armed criminal action which could send him to prison for the rest of his life.