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Ahead of Halloween on Saturday, Oct.

31, parents should avoid decorative contact lenses without a prescription and buy FDA-cleared lenses from authorized sellers to prevent eye injuries. Use face paints labeled for cosmetic use, test for irritation, and add reflective tape to costumes so kids can see and be seen.

Andolini's Pizzeria, a 21-year-old Oklahoma chain with five Tulsa-area locations, was named a “must-try” for Oklahoma by Food & Wine in its 50 States of Award-Winning Pizza list, citing its Brooklyn-style pies and honors such as TripAdvisor top-10 and a 2026 Oklahoma Magazine Best of the Best award.

Rogers State University's RoboClaws finished second at the VEXUausTINCANs Robotics Competition on Oct.

24 in Austin after winning every qualifying match and losing the championship to Texas A&M, and the team will next compete Nov. 14 at the University of Kansas.

A Haskell family returned to Green Country after Brittany Lewallen went into labor about 10 weeks early midflight to Orlando and their son Kyler spent 51 days in a Florida hospital.

Kyler is home and will receive physical, occupational, and speech therapy during his first year.

Country singer Kaitlin Butts will release her new album Hello, Honky Tonk on Friday, Oct.

30, and will perform on the Today Show at 10 a.m.; she attended Theatre Arts Tulsa in Broken Arrow (and says the record is her love letter to honky-tonks).

OSU Medicine is launching a program to help pregnant and postpartum patients with substance use (OSU Maternal & Addiction Recovery) that will provide integrated prenatal and addiction care, rapid access, delivery and postpartum support, and newborn care.

North Memorial Drive between East 166th Street North and East 176th Street North will be closed Monday, Nov.

2-23 for bridge work, with only local traffic allowed to the bridge and north-south through traffic asked to use North 97th East Avenue as an alternate route.

Broken Arrow mom Maggie Nichols and her three daughters left on Aug.

1 to visit all 50 states in 53 weeks to raise awareness for foster families; they have visited 13 states so far while road-schooling and meeting foster, adoptive, and kinship families.