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A massive tornado touched down Monday afternoon in Moore, Okla., leaving entire neighborhoods flattened and dozens of people dead. Follow the latest updates in this live blog.

Ruth Price surveys the damage to her house on 156th Avenue Northeast after a tornado hit the area Sunday evening. Kyle Phillips / The Transcript

The hiring of three key administrators tops Monday’s meeting of the Norman Public Schools board of education. The board meets at 7 p.m. in the Norman City Council chambers, 201 W. Gray St....

The Pecan Valley housing addition in unincorporated Cleveland County northeast of Lake Thunderbird took the hardest hit in the Norman area as a tornado tracked across the lake Sunday evening. At the emergency command post set up at the ...

If you live in Norman but work in Oklahoma City, the Norman Chamber of Commerce invites you to attend the next 35 South Luncheon at noon Wednesday at the Bricktown Brewery, 1 N. Oklahoma Ave. Registration begins at 11:45 a.m. Keynote ...

The Andrew Freeman Creative Studio recently opened in Norman and is offering Oklahomans unique and rare educational opportunities....

The Oklahoma Grape Industry Council is partnering with Gov. Mary Fallin to help promote Oklahoma wines....

The sixth annual Youth Soccer Camp at the Whittier Recreation Center runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 29 through June 31 for ages 6-12. All camps are co-ed. The deadline to sign up is Thursday....

The Cleveland County Extension Office will host nearly 50 workshops throughout the summer. Workshops include photography, clay modeling, geocaching, kayaking and fishing. The workshops and field trips associated with the 4-H Youth ...

The Noble Farmers Market has been awarded a $2,000 grant by the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry. The grant funds, available pursuant to the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program Farm Bill, will be used to purchase and place ...

Moore-Norman Technology Center superintendent Jane Bowen was appreciative of a $3 million increase to the state’s career tech system budget. It was incorrectly reported Friday that Moore-Norman received the $3 million increase instead of ...

Several Norman residents will perform during Windsong Chamber Choir’s spring concert “Windsong Alone” 4 p.m. Sunday at Messiah Lutheran Church, 3600 NW Expressway in Oklahoma City. The concert is free but donations are accepted....

Five individuals face drug charges in Cleveland County District Court after Oklahoma City police executed a search warrant for a home in Cleveland County....

Charges were filed against a University of Oklahoma student Thursday after the student allegedly changed faculty members’ passcodes and his own grades on Wednesday. Roja Osman Hamad, 24, was charged in Cleveland County District Court with ...

Oklahoma temperatures will be soaring upward soon, and that can be quite a shock for horses, especially given how Old Man Winter hung on until recent weeks....

McClain County deputies and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is investigating a female Washington Middle School teacher after someone told school officials she was having sex with a student. The teacher in question has been ...

Four individuals involved in illegal drug trafficking were arrested Thursday after investigations and the cooperation of several law enforcement agencies. Those arrested included Pedro Lee Luera, 31, and Ryan Battilsa Matlock, 23, of ...

Noble High School juniors and seniors in Roger Clement’s Chemistry II class got a special preview of what professional chemistry and engineering would be like as they presented the fruit of semester-long projects in a mock trade show ...

NORMAN — All Jade Staggs ever wanted to do was play golf for Oklahoma. Growing up less than 15 miles from the campus, it was her dream school.

Weapons policy updates, state funding and a five-year strategic plan were the topics of note at the Moore Norman Technology Center Board meeting Thursday evening....