Slaughterville News

Gov. Henry announced federal assistance for nine counties, including Cleveland, in the April wildfires, county safety director Dan Cary told commissioners at Monday's meeting.

A thunderstorm collapsed over Slaughterville Sunday night producing high winds, tree damage and a downed power line.

Watch Video Google satellites thousands of miles above the earth can spot Tom Knott's Redbud Ridge Vineyard and Winery on Norman's east side.

NORMAN a ' Cleveland County Sheriff's Department officials say a trainee was saved from serious injury when a bulletproof vest stopped a bullet.

County Assessor David Tinsley is asking for help in identifying properties that were damaged or destroyed in the county fires last week.

Norman and area firefighters had several fires with which to contend Thursday, including a wildfire at 180th Avenue SE and Banner Road reportedly started by a resident burning trash in the area.

Firefighters were called to the railroad tracks on Cemetery Road shortly before 11 a.m. today where a controlled fire quickly got out of hand and set a large stack of railroad ties next to the tracks on fire.

Cleveland County Commissioners voted to extend the county-wide burn ban for another week at Monday's meeting.

Slaughterville Republican Bobby Cleveland was elected chairman of the Cleveland County Republican Party last week -- by one vote.

Cleveland County Commissioners renewed the burn ban in the county while grass fires raged near Slaughterville.

Area firefighters were busy Friday battling a grass fire near 108th Avenue SE and Maguire Road in eastern Cleveland County.

A fire Friday afternoon blackened about 20 acres and destroyed four outbuildings before firefighters from six fire departments extinguished it at Maguire Road and 108th Avenue.

Firefighters in several central and southern Oklahoma counties were battling large grass fires across the state as high winds and low humidity made conditions ideal for wildfires.

The Cleveland County OSU Extension Service will offer a Pesticide Applicator Certification Program 6 p.m. Thursday at the Slaughterville Town Hall, 10701 U.S. Highway 77.

Transcript Staff Sales taxes returned to the City of Norman this month were up over the same period in 2007, state officials announced.

Bobby Cleveland gets to vote for president one more time. Cleveland, a Slaughterville resident, is one of Oklahoma's seven presidential electors.

Bobby Cleveland gets to vote for president one more time. Cleveland, a Slaughterville resident, is one of Oklahoma's seven presidential electors.

The quarter sales tax passed Tuesday to fund the new county detention center will go into effect April 1, 2009, said bond attorney Glenn Floyd.