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Oklahoma News Minute
Posted: 04.30.2012 at 10:32 AM
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Four northern Oklahoma counties are under a flood warning following torrential rain that lasted into the early morning. Up to 10 inches fell in some areas. The rain is letting up but creeks are flooding in Garfield, Grant, Kay and Noble counties. Golf-ball sized hail pelted Pawnee.

ARDMORE, Okla. (AP) - Both northbound lanes of Interstate 35 have been closed near Ardmore after a cattle truck flipped over in the median this morning. Crews are offloading the animals and cleaning up an oil spill.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma is scheduled to carry out an execution tomorrow. Michael Selsor has been twice convicted of the 1975 killing of Clayton Chandler, the manager of a Tulsa convenience store. Chandler was killed in a robbery that netted about $500.

(Information from: The Oklahoman, http://www.newsok.com. Not for online use in Oklahoma City market)

YALE, Okla. (AP) - An 88-year-old man will be among the graduates at Yale High School this spring. Francis Bickell missed out in 1942 because he was overseas fighting in World War II. Bickell says he always regretted not finishing high school and thinks he could have gone farther after the war if he gotten his diploma.

(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

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