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Applications to build storm shelters have spiked a month after a tornado touched down in Moore.Moore spokeswoman Deidre Ebrey says officials there have…
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The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents plans to discuss construction of storm shelters at its regular meeting Thursday.In a release this week, the…
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Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt's office says the ballot title of an initiative petition to build storm shelters in public schools complies with…
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A group that wants to build storm shelters in every public school in Oklahoma has begun collecting signatures to place an initiative petition on a…
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The Oklahoma Senate has killed a proposal backed by Gov. Mary Fallin that would have called for a statewide vote allowing some school districts to…
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The Oklahoma House reversed course Thursday night and narrowly passed a plan it had earlier defeated to help school districts pay for safety upgrades such…
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When the school shelter advocacy group Take Shelter Oklahoma formed several months ago, its goal was simple: to obtain enough signatures to get a $500…
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Kathy Turner works with Take Shelter Oklahoma. The group wants to build safe rooms to protect students from tornadoes like the one that destroyed…
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Danni Legg transferred her two kids to Kelley Elementary this past August. She moved them from Plaza Towers Elementary, after the tornado in May destroyed…
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The results of a statewide survey released Thursday show 62 percent of Oklahoma’s 1,804 public schools don’t have storm shelters, and only 15 percent have…