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The Second Annual Lebanese Heritage and Food Festival was a time to share food and cultural heritage with new friends in Oklahoma. It was also a time for remembering....

NORMAN — The waiting list for Oklahomans seeking state-paid care for developmental disabilities has jumped to more than 7,000, and some families have been on that list for nearly a decade.

NORMAN — Several Cleveland County lawmakers are working hard to pass a law granting the county another district judge position, despite repeated efforts by a Senate colleague to crush the legislation.

Physical days for all middle school and high school athletes are scheduled, and are being held for 2013-14 school year athletic requirements....

Preston Larson, a research scientist in the Samuel Roberts Noble Microscopy Laboratory at the University of Oklahoma, is the 2013 recipient of the Regents’ Award for Superior Staff....

The Junior League of Norman will host a Graduation Ceremony on Monday for seven senior graduates of the Baby Steps program. Of the seven graduates, three are planning to attend Moore Norman Technology Center and three are planning to ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — In the new translation of “Star Wars,” Darth Vader is Luke’s bizhe’e. The classic 1977 film that launched a science fiction empire and revealed the force within a farm boy who battles evil has been dubbed in Japanese, French, Spanish and about a dozen other languages.

Norman Police investigators have yet to positively identify a deceased man found in the road Friday morning, since they did not find any identification on the body, said Capt. Tom Easley. Additionally, officers request that anyone driving ...

Fillup your car in your home’s garage After living in Oklahoma all his life, Dan Reeves understands the twists and turns Oklahoma weather can take. With more than two decades of home-building experience, Reeves works to make families cozy ...

NORMAN — Noble Public Schools held its ninth annual awards and recognition banquet, Thursday.

Spring clean up will be available for customers who have Thursday polycart service on Saturday. Items must be out by 7:30 a.m. Yard waste is not collected as spring clean up items. Yard waste that meets size requirements can be taken to ...

Four schools within the University of Oklahoma’s College of Fine Arts are partnering under the direction of Lyn Cramer to restage this once “must-see” musical by servicemen and women before leaving for WWII. Rarely performed today, ...

NORMAN — Protestors carried signs in front of the Cleveland County Courthouse Friday in protest of the elimination of $225,000 worth of county funding for the emergency youth shelter.

Republic Bank & Trust is partnering with their Norman Public Schools Partners In Education at both Kennedy and Truman Elementary schools to celebrate Teach Children to Save Week. Bankers were in the schools' third grade classrooms with ...

Norman’s first Compressed Natural Gas fueling station opened in January 2012. The $1.65 million investment was funded with a large portion of federal dollars. Prior to the opening of the city’s CNG station, Norman fueled its CNG vehicles ...

NORMAN — It was hard not to notice the difference when the crime-ridden, 33-unit Scholars West apartments transformed into Warehouse Flats, behind Norman’s iconic Legend’s restaurant on West Lindsey Street.

The sixth annual Norman Music Festival started off with a bang Thursday night as musicians and fans gathered in Downtown Norman to jam out to the sounds of local, national and international music....

Acclaimed novelist and short story writer Tobias Wolff addressed an intimate gathering of Norman’s lovers of literature Thursday evening at Longfellow Middle School....

The Internal Revenue Service has determined $52 million in bonds used to build the F. DeWayne Beggs Detention Center qualifies as tax exempt. In a letter dated April 18, Allyson Belsome, manager of Tax Exempt Bonds Field Operations for ...

NORMAN — The words Kolbey Carpenter heard on April 17 were hard to comprehend. The afternoon call he received from his mother about a fertilizer plant fire in his hometown of West, Texas, was to let him know about the day’s news in the small town of about 2,800.