Rockers, tea party, are in the Metro-area headlines

Editor’s note : While Carrie Coppernoll is on leave, Assistant Local Editor Nick Trougakos will compile the weekly metro news roundup.

Here’s a look back at the week in metro news.

• Politics. About 3,000 people rally at the state Capitol for the Tea Party Express. Several British people are quite upset to learn no tea is involved.

• Rock. AC/DC plays a concert at the Ford Center. Some 54-year-olds pass their time with bridge games or walks through the park. Angus Young, pictured above, likes to flail and spin around on the ground while playing the guitar. To each his own.

• Fast food. More than 100 people camp out for 24 hours in front of a new Chick-fil-A restaurant in Yukon for a chance to earn a year’s worth of free food. Chick-fil-A’s slogan is "We didn’t invent the chicken.” The campers’ slogan is "We didn’t invent having to go to work.”

• Roads. The last dirt-work project is announced for the new Interstate 40 Crosstown Expressway. When it’s complete in two years, the old I-40 will be knocked down. Or someone will go nudge it over. Whichever is easier.

• Research. University of Oklahoma officials announce they received $10 million in stimulus funds for dozens of research projects at the Norman campus. I don’t know about you, but I’ll sleep better knowing we’ve got someone working on interrogation of anaerobic sulfate-reducing isolates and enrichments using genome-enabled and proteomic approaches.

• Animals. A sport utility vehicle on U.S. 81 sideswipes an elephant that had escaped the circus in Enid. Stop me if you’ve heard this one, but a policeman, a circus clown and a veterinarian walk into a bar ...

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