Today In Oklahoma

It will be Wednesday before a Cleveland County jury decides the fate of William Eugene Davis, 52, of Norman, who allegedly gunned down his two sisters and the mother-in-law of one of the women more than two years ago.

The Norman Tea Party will have an organizational meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18 at the OEC building, at 242 24th Avenue NW. Our speaker will be Seth Brown from American Majority.He will discuss what is happening elsewhere with Tea Parties and explain some organizational options.

McLOUD, Okla. (AP) — Two workers have been trapped in a trench near the Kickapoo Casino.A dispatcher with the McLoud Police Department said Tuesday the Kickapoo Tribal Police Department was the scene of the accident at the intersection of U.

Transcript staffMembers of Journey Church are organizing a benefit garage sale for Haiti.The collection of belongings from church members will be sold Friday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at A+ Storage, 2002 Research Park Blvd.

A partial outage briefly knocked out at least one phase of electrical power in Norman Monday morning.The outage was reported about 10:30 a.m. Most power was restored about 11:15 a.m.OG and amp;E spokesperson Karen Kurtz said the electrical outage affected about 442 customers in central Norman.

A couple in south Norman became the first household in the state to receive a new smart meter from OG and amp;E Monday morning.OG and amp;E spokesman Brian Alford said all of Norman’s 42,000 customers — business and residential — will get the new $120 meters, which can be installed in less than five minutes.

A licensed clinical psychologist testified Tuesday that a Norman man’s alcohol use and mental health issues substantially reduced his capacity to form the intent to kill his sisters and another woman more than two years ago.

GERONIMO, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is shutting down a mobile command center used to support the search for a missing 7-year-old girl.The command center being closed Tuesday had been posted at Geronimo City Hall in western Oklahoma to help search for 7-year-old Aja Johnson and her suspected kidnapper, Lester Hobbs.

The Norman HOA Alliance will host a candidate forum tonight at 7:30 at the Oklahoma Electric Coop, 242 24 Ave. NW.The forum is open to the public and will be held in OEC’s meeting room.City Council seats for Wards 2, 4, 6 and 8, as well as the mayor post, are up for election March 2.

Winners in Saturday’s 2010 Norman Mardi Gras Parade have been announced, parade organizers said Monday.The OKC Lolitas won the Flanigan’s Folly award for best overall. Best of theme went to Krewe of Bogus.