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The Carl Albert Lady Titans continue to progress after taking their home tournament over the weekend. Carl Albert, ranked third in 5A, ran their win streak up to six adding three straight to take the Carl Albert Titan Classic with forward Jordan Gilbert taking Most Valuable Player honors.
Kyle Bratcher in his first bout pinned his opponent within 10 seconds.
Bratcher is a sixth grader at Monroney Middle School. He is a 4.0 student, avid wrestler fan (but none of that fake WWE stuff) and a paraplegic.
At age three, he suffered a brain tumor and the strength of the chemo therapy used after the tumor was removed, left him severely immobilized...
Hospital Authority members delivered their highly anticipated decision Tuesday on who they are going to pursue as their No. 1 choice as Midwest Regional Medical Center’s next lessee.
By a vote of 7-0, members named Mercy as their top choice and elected to pass on OU Health and Sciences Center and Community Health Systems, both of which had also...
State Senators Clark Jolly and Susan Paddack, along with State Representatives Scott Martin and Scott Inman addressed questions posed to them by the Parent Legislative Action Committee in a panel Tuesday in Edmond.
PLAC organizers, including parents and educators, synthesized all their complaints into a simple two part problem and then formulated four questions to the legislators most involved in education appropriations.
"We were able to wrap our hands around two major issues that we are seeing in our classroom and it boiled down to there’s too little funding and too much testing in our classrooms," said Meredith Exline, PLAC organizer. "Our goal at the PLAC is to educate parents and patrons in a nonpartisan way on what is happening at a legislative level."
Del City wrestling won its 18th district title last Thursday after defeating Carl Albert at home. The Eagles had a chance to clinch the Class 5A District 4 title in front of their fans in the John Smith Fieldhouse, and they didn’t disappoint with a dominating victory.
Those who insult the millennial generation for their do nothing attitude need to ignore the college students who opened their own business on Air Depot Blvd.
Pizza Depot, located at 1120 S. Air Depot, is a brand new non-chain pizza place that plans to rival national competitors on cost and taste.
Owner Aubrey Long is currently a business student at the University of Oklahoma. He opened the store with some friends in the area with approx. $30 thousand.
"We opened at the beginning of September. It took a few months to get everything going and it’s still in its infant stages. We just decided to open it and see what happens."
With the success of the "Underworld" franchise, some small segment of the movie-going market is still interested in a bit of monster mayhem. This years offering is "I, Frankenstein."
Based off the Dark Horse comic of the same name written by Kevin Grevioux and adapted by him for the screenplay, the film follows Frankenstein’s monster after the events of Mary Shelley’s book. After the doctor dies trying to destroy his creation, the monster spends 200 years in a solitary existence while hunting down creatures that seek to use him for evil.