David Cook makes American Idol final two
See ya Syesha. David Cook, the American Idol contestant Oklahoma is claiming as its own, and David Archuleta have made the final two.
Syesha Mercado was voted off the show Wednesday night. See how the office pools are fairing.
China earthquake, amateur video footage
Saw this on the Wall Street Journal site.
Bike to work week fun video
Yes, really.
One of The Oklahoman’s business reporters, Don Mecoy, approached me with a video idea last week. He and his fellow reporters from the Biz desk were working on alternate methods of getting to work stories. With gas prices high, people have options: bike, bus, walk (ok, maybe not walk) and other stuff.
So Don Mecoy, who has a couple nice bikes, decided he would bike to work from Edmond. Read his account here. Jim Stafford would ride the bus.
David Jones and Kyle Roberts shot Mecoy as he rode to work, about 10 miles. Stafford took a hand held camera on the bus as he rode from Edmond to downtown – past The Oklahoman’s office – to catch the right ride to the office.
Kyle edited together a classic piece. Mecoy and Stafford were great sports and good to work with. It’s not your routine gas price package.
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Bad accident this morning in OKC
A bad accident in SE OKC this morning. A woman was driving a car when she collided with a passenger van carrying about a dozen people. Two people are dead and six are injured. The accident happened about 7 a.m. near Winfield Lane and SE 94.
Several people were thrown from the vehicle, described as a work van.
Police are investigating the death a person whose body was found about 5 a.m. today in west Oklahoma City. The body was found in a front seat of a small, dark-colored foreign-made car near a park on the south side of Lake Overholser. Police are searching for the person who may have driven the car. They are also checking hospitals for anyone who may have been injured this morning in a vehicle accident.
Oklahoma County voters narrowly approved the latest Tinker Air Force Base bond issue proposal Tuesday. With all precincts reporting, approval of the plan to buy the abandoned General Motors plant and lease it to Tinker was carried by about 53 percent of the vote, according to the Oklahoma County Election Board.
Thunderstorms will develop this morning over southwest Oklahoma, expanding to most of Oklahoma during the day and early Wednesday night. Today: Cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeasterly winds 10 to 15 mph. Seventy percent chance of thunderstorms.
Ride your bike to work week. The Oklahoman’s Don Mecoy did just that yesterday. And we followed him with cameras. His fellow business reporter Jim Stafford rode the bus. See their rides to work online at NewsOK.
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