With his heart failing from a deadly viral infection, Kansas high school football player Tyler Groom waited nervously inside an Oklahoma City hospital's operating room.

He was scheduled to receive two cardiac-assist devices that could keep him alive for a short time longer.

But on Aug. 19, just as Integris Baptist Medical Center physician Dr. James Long brought a scalpel to Groom's chest to make the incision, the operating room doors flew open.

Transplant cardiologist Dr. Doug Horstmanshoff burst in. A donor heart had just been located. Groom's life could be saved.
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TULSA ? Three years after city officials broke ground on the BOK Center, the newest and one of the largest entertainment venues in the state is ready to open its doors this weekend and show the public what $178 million looks like ? and they don't even have to buy a ticket.

Tulsans are excited about the contemporary exterior of the building, assistant BOK Center manager Jerry Goldman said, but there's a lot more to be proud of than the lustrous curves of stainless steel and 1,100 panes of glass that light up with alternating colored lights after sunset.
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The state Health Department says its inquiry into a deadly E. coli outbreak in northeast Oklahoma remains focused on food from a buffet restaurant in Locust Grove, even though tests of the restaurant's well water show possible bacterial contamination.

Water tests released Friday by the state Department of Environmental Quality show a private water well at the Country Cottage restaurant may be contaminated with potentially harmful bacteria. But the tests are inconclusive and "may be a very peripheral finding? in the state's overall investigation into the outbreak, state epidemiologist Kristy Bradley said.
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Well water at a restaurant linked to a deadly E. coli outbreak has tested positive for bacteria.

The Oklahoma Department of Education grades schools every year to find out who's succeeding and who's not.  

Major Dan Rooney is preparing to return to the skies over Iraq on his third tour of duty as a fighter pilot. But, this weekend he's hoping you'll pick up your golf clubs to help him accomplish his other mission.

Two teams of Tulsa volunteers took off for the Gulf Coast Friday night.

A rare type of E. coli has been identified as the source of a diarrheal illness outbreak in Mayes County.