RAIFORD - A 67-year-old Muskogee man has died in a motorcycle accident on a rural McIntosh County highway. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says David Gray died about 9:45 a.m. Thursday when he slumped down and his motorcycle ran off the road and struck a guardrail on State Highway 9. The accident happened about 10 miles west of Eufaula near the tiny community of Raiford. Gray died at the scene.
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CASHION ? Law enforcement officers here are looking for a man who approached two women with a gun this morning.

The women ran into the nearby school, forcing officials to lock down the school while officers searched the area for a man with a gun, said Kingfisher County Sheriff Dennis Banther.

No one was injured.

One person was detained by officers, but he was released without being arrested, Banther said.

Officers are looking for a white man in his late teens or early 20s. He was described as 5 feet, 8 inches tall, weighing 165 pounds and has short brown hair. He was wearing a gray shirt and blue jeans.

Diana Baldwin: 475-3675, dbaldwin@oklahoman.
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The State Department of Education today released the list of schools statewide on the Needs Improvement list, which identifies schools that have failed to make adequate progress for two consecutive years in the same area. They must then make progress for two consecutive years to come off the list.

There are four areas schools are judged on: math performance, reading performance, percent of students taking state exams, and graduation rate for high schools or attendance rate for other schools.

There are 45 schools on the list this year, compared to 53 schools last year.
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