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Show highlights local eateries By Nanette Light From beer varieties like toasted coconut porter to vanilla porter, a duo of local brewers is cooking up their own concoction of golden nectar.

Pop-country has made superstars out of acts like Rascal Flatts, Taylor Swift and more, but the term is not particularly endearing in Nashville, even to the artists who have come to define it.

While Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes to a close at the end of this week, the race to raise both funds and awareness is still going strong, with events winding down this last week and more planned for November.

An Oklahoma man is lucky to be alive tonight after being beaten, thrown into a small pond, and left for dead.

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Get Out! The staunch women's anti-war group Code Pink has advocated complete withdrawal of troops from both Iraq and Afghanistan.

The girls in the Pink Ribbon Club are busy painting signs for the upcoming Race for the Cure.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol has closed State Highway 9 from 192nd to County Line Road in Cleveland County due to an accident.

An exchange student living in Norman a few years back used to go out in the evenings and take pictures of the sky and trees.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9265 in south Oklahoma City recently raised $3,260 in a motorcycle poker run for the Camp ClapHans scholarship endowment fund at the J. D. McCarty Center for children with developmental disabilities in Norman.

The public is invited to celebrate Labor Day with food, face painting, music, speakers and U-2 concert ticket opportunities at a picnic hosted by Cleveland County Democrats 5 to 8 p.m. Monday in the stone shelter in Abe Andrews Park, between Acres and Daws streets on Webster Avenue, north of the Norman Public Library.

More than a million federal workers learned this week that they should plan on a cost-of-living raise of no more than 2 percent next year.

Altus, OK 73521 Corner of Highway 62 and Veterans Drive, behind the E-Z Go. cost: $10 + This is advance sale price ONLY.

OKLAHOMA CITY Tart yogurt is here, and more is on the way. Chris Lower, at right, and friend Mark Murphy look at Lowera s new restaurant location at Nichols Hills Plaza.

Pink oleander By YVONNE SWANSON St. Petersburg Times If you're green at heart but have a black thumb, don't give up on gardening just yet.

Pink and red plastic carnations lay strewn on the grass near an overturned marble headstone that had marked Helen Mannason's final resting place.