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OKC school loses fight for traffic signal, safety zone

OKLAHOMA CITY – A fight for student safety at a local school is heading to the Oklahoma City council.

Leaders of the Antioch Christian Academy, near S.W. 119th St. and Portland, asked city leaders to install a school zone and traffic light nearby.

School leaders hoped to replace a traffic sign with a traffic light.

A wood cross sits close to where a mother died teaching her teenage daughter to drive earlier this year.

“The child pulled into the front of somebody and got broadsided and if there was a light there it may have been avoided,” Cindy Megonigle said.

That deadly accident is one reason why Cindy lobbied for a traffic light and school safety zone to be built.

“To provide safety for younger kids, we need to control the intersection better,” Megonigle said.

Cindy said because the intersection sits just off I-44, drivers often go faster than the legal limit of 45 miles per hour.

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OKC offering cash towards electric lawn mowers

OKLAHOMA CITY – Looking for a new lawnmower? The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, along with OSU/OKC and Black and Decker are willing to give you $100 towards the purchase of a new electric mower.

If you are an Oklahoma City resident, just bring your gas mower, completely drained of all gasoline and oil, to OSU/OKC’s Farmers Market Saturday. 

They will give you a $100 voucher to go towards the purchase of a new electric mower from the Black and Decker service center.

Okla. brothers in The Voice finals

The winner of NBC’s The Voice will be crowned Tuesday night.
Along with bragging rights, the winner will receive $100,000 and a record deal.
The Swon Brothers, country singers from Muskogee, Oklahoma, have been a fan favorite on the reality television singing competition since the beginning.
The Swon Brothers are the only duo to make it to the final round in the show’s history.
With the guidance from their coach, Oklahoma native Blake Shelton, they have made the top three in the final round of the competition.
Team Shelton has been victorious the last two of the three seasons.
Another coach on the show, Adam Levine, is predicting Shelton’s other contestant, Danielle Bradbury, to win the singing competition but the brothers said they are remaining hopeful.
“We want to win,” Zach Swon told Access Hollywood.

Man to be executed for elderly couple’s murder

POTEAU, Okla. – A man convicted of murdering an elderly couple in Le Flore County is to be executed Tuesday.

A Jury found 36-year-old James DeRosa guilty of stabbing to death 73-year-old Curtis Plummer and his 70-year-old wife, Gloria.

He was sentenced to death.

Last month the Pardon and Parole Board voted to follow through with the execution.

Prosecutors said DeRosa and another man talked their way into the elderly couple’s home in Poteau in Oct. 2000.

The other defendant testified against DeRosa in exchange for a lesser charge of life in prison.

Man wins big at Okla. casino, shot hours later

OKLAHOMA CITY – Three suspects are behind bars after police said they were involved in an early morning robbery and shooting in northeast Oklahoma City, putting one man in the hospital, luckily with non-life threatening injuries.

 

From the ground to the skies, in a matter of six hours, the pieces from an early morning robbery and shooting are coming together.

 

It started just after 6 a.m. Tuesday.

 

“A gentleman called 911 to report he had been shot,” OKC Police Sgt. Dexter Nelson said.

 

The victim told police he was previously at a casino and won a large sum of money.

 

He then met two men who wanted to sell him an ATV and drove the suspects to the area of N.E. 63rd St. and Midwest Blvd. to check out the 4-wheeler for sale.

Former El Reno Police Chief accused of raping student

EL RENO, OK — A former El Reno police chief turned himself in to law enforcement last month, accused of having a relationship with a high school student that resulted in charges of second degree rape.

“I can’t even believe it,” Haylie Ritchie, an instructor at Francis Tuttle Technology Center, said. “I can’t imagine it, especially being a former police chief doing that.”

Ritchie teaches summer courses at the Rockwell campus of Francis Tuttle. She says teachers often act like best friends to students, but former El Reno police chief Fred Savage allegedly crossed the line with a 17-year-old high school student, who was in Savage’s criminal justice class.

According to an affidavit that reads in part, “… in early February 2013, she initially texted (Savage) to get information about upcoming homework.”

OG&E claims no wrongdoing in damage of appliances

OKLAHOMA CITY — Power was out on the 3900 block of Northwest 14th street for four days after the May 31st storms. Jack Hollingsworth was happy to get the call at work two weeks ago that his power had been restored, but as soon as he flipped the switch everything was fried.

“The air conditioner, the board was fried, the transformer was fried, the refrigerator, microwave.” said Hollingsworth “This is just my house. Two televisions, a Wii and oven. Everything that basically wasn’t plugged into the surge protector.”

They had 250 volts running through their 110 volt wires and as much as $10,000 in damage. At least six houses down the street were affected. When Hollingsworth’s neighbor, Dennis Webb, turned everything on in his mother’s house, they smelled smoke.