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A segment of Pheasant Run Road between Crossroads Boulevard and North Interstate Drive will be closed today to construct two speed tables. The construction is part of a city of Norman traffic calming program project requested by ...

The Norman Public School string faculty will visit elementary schools to demonstrate orchestra instruments to fifth grade students Sept. 7 through Sept. 9....

Prostate cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in men, and the disease is relatively simple to detect during its early stages....

Norman police detectives are investigating a shooting Wednesday morning on 108th Avenue NE between Tecumseh and Rock Creek roads....

After several months of construction, the barricades along Lindsey Street came down Wednesday afternoon. With the barriers removed, traffic was able to flow down the street that had been blocked for several months from Asp to Jenkins ...

Rock and fossil hounds will learn more about Oklahoma’s invertebrate fossils and have an opportunity to dig for and collect some of their own at an adult education program and field trip Sept. 17-18 by the Sam Noble Museum. The program ...

As a show of appreciation for Oklahoma’s first responders, the Sam Noble Museum has designated the week of Sept. 5 through 11 as “First Responders Week,” and is providing complimentary museum admission all week to all police, 911 ...

Inspired by the rhythmic talent of last year’s Norman High School percussion ensemble, Kyle Vanderburg, a University of Oklahoma composing graduate student, crafted the piece “Unknown Precipitation” for the group. New to composing for ...

A Norman woman faces animal cruelty charges relating to an investigation that began in July, according to court papers....

The Community After School Program will hold a fundraiser 5 to 9 p.m. Sept. 16 at Andy Alligator’s, 3300 Market Place in west Norman. Andy Alligator’s will donate 10 percent of all register receipts placed in the “fundraising bucket.” ...

Jefferson Elementary School received the Rookie of the Year award at the recent Schools for Healthy Lifestyles Annual Awards Reception....

Participants will find out if they have the nerve from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 16 during a neurobiology workshop at the Sam Noble Museum, 2401 Chautauqua Ave....

A bronze sculpture of Curtis Mewbourne of Tyler, Texas, a 1958 University of Oklahoma petroleum engineering graduate and founding donor of OU’s Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy, will be unveiled and dedicated in a public ceremony noon ...

For one week, Oklahoma will be awash in pink.... One person was killed Monday night in a head-on crash on state Highway 9, just east of 120th Avenue SE, according to Norman police. The crash happened about 7 p.m....

One person was killed Monday night in a head-on crash on state Highway 9, just east of 120th Avenue SE, according to Norman police. The crash happened about 7 p.m....

A segment of Garver Street, between Berry Road and Pickard Avenue, will be remain closed for the next two to four days while two additional speed tables are constructed. Local access will be maintained at all times for residences adjacent ...

A blaze at a large northwest Norman home that took firefighters about nine hours to extinugish over the weekend caused about $300,000 in damage to the residence, a fire official said Monday....

The Cleveland County Local Emergency Planning Committee will hold its quarterly meeting 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Norman Regional Hospital, 901 N. Porter Ave., in the Education Center. The meeting is open to the public....

Norman high schools were ranked as one of the top 10 high schools in the state for results on the 2010 ACT, which were presented to the State Board of Education recently, according to a news release....

Dynah Korhummel’s been jumping hurdles for the last few years — figuratively and literally — and mostly at gallop speed, as she and her 106-acre venture saddle up for a comeback....