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SPENCER -- The bodies of a man and woman were found in a car Friday by Oklahoma County sheriff's deputies.

?At this point it appears that both deceased had apparent head trauma,? spokesman Mark Myers said.

Their identities have not been released, and the medical examiner hasn't examined the bodies yet.

The sheriff's department received a call about 10:20 reporting suspicious activity at NE 34 and Wright Avenue, Myers said.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Oklahoma County Sheriff?s Department at 869-2501.
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LAWTON ? Two years and two days after President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, blacks in Lawton still were denied access to a highly popular swimming park.

The act outlawing segregation in schools, public places and employment had no effect on Doe Doe Recreation Park, a Lawton destination on a hot summer day. It was a private operation that had the right, legally at least, to deny entrance to anyone the owners chose.

On July 4, 1966, 42 years ago today, about 200 mostly black protesters descended on the park's gates carrying American flags, posters and singing religious and national hymns. Fifty-five were arrested for trespassing.
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An Oklahoma State University researcher gained national attention this week for figuring out that a bizarre chameleon species on the island of Madagascar is born and dies within a year.

For more than 100 years, people had known about the tiny chameleon species Furcifer labordi, but no one noticed that it was living a furious life in hyper-drive ? a life more like those of annual plants or short-lived insects than that of an animal with a spine, said Kris Karsten, the OSU student who published his doctorate research this week in the "Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Brandon Brixey has been charged with two counts of first-degree rape and single counts of lewd molestation, kidnapping, robbery and eluding a police officer.

Officials say Loretta Murphy, who owns Big Splash Water Park, delivered $130,657 in person to the Tulsa County Public Facilities Authority.

A ceiling collapsed on a firefighter as he battled an apartment fire on Thursday night.

Pets can become distressed by the additional noise and commotion involved with the Independence Day holiday.

A former Tulsa police officer whose conspiracy conviction was overturned will not be jailed leading up to his retrial in August.