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Two people are dead after a small plane crashed Saturday, November 17th in the Oklahoma Panhandle. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the 1978 Beech Baron aircraft went down five miles east of Tyrone in Texas County.
The U.S. Drought Monitor says about half of Oklahoma is experiencing drought conditions and that western Oklahoma is experiencing exceptional drought.
Ongoing drought and wildfires have cattle ranchers in Oklahoma scrambling for hay.
Recent storms that dumped inches of rain across most of Oklahoma last week helped stave off drought-like conditions, but one swath in the western part of the state is still abnormally dry.
