Dozens of Edmond residents were able to convince the Edmond Planning Commission to deny one construction project and send another back for more discussion during the commission's meeting Tuesday.

A rezoning request by developer Jim Harlin to build 23 duplex lots on the West side of Sooner Road just south of Danforth was unanimously turned down.

Joe Burnett who lives on 6 acres north of the proposed development said as many as 100 cars would be added to an already congested area.

"It takes 10 minutes, as much as 15 to get out of our driveways," he said.

The proposed lots would accommodate 46 units on two or five acre tracts.
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Clem McSpadden of Chelsea, a man whose distinct western voice was known from the marble floors of the state Capitol to the dirt rodeo arenas across North America, died Monday night at age 82 at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston after a lengthy battle with cancer.

McSpadden, the grandnephew of Will Rogers, was born Nov. 9, 1925, in Bushyhead to Herb and Madalyn McSpadden.

He was only 2 years old when the family moved to Will Rogers' Ranch at Oologah so his father could manage the operation.


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State Superintendent Sandy Garrett said Tuesday that social struggles like poverty and budget crunches due to rising costs should not keep schools from setting and reaching higher goals for children.

She focused on three initiatives in her annual Oklahoma State of Education address at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City.

They are:

? Reducing classroom interruptions to make sure children have every opportunity to learn.

? Hiring graduation coaches and test coordinators so counselors have time to help students in need.

? Integrating technology so students are as connected in the classroom as they are out of the classroom.


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The BOK Center general manager says they were looking for someone with the broadest possible appeal across many generations for the opening act.

Tulsans are drilling into the financing for a downtown Drillers stadium.  A new downtown property tax would pay for part of it. 

A traffic causes and big mess and snarls traffic on a Tulsa interstate Tuesday afternoon.

Some folks are beating the high cost of gasoline but not with a fuel efficient car or a bike.  They're doing it with a trike. 

Police have released the frantic 911 call from a mother after a man steals her van with her three children inside.