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The three largest contributors to House Speaker Lance Cargill's 100 Ideas campaign are all maximum contributors to his 2006 House race, records show. According to records recently rel...

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Tahlequah " Cherokee Freedmen will have only 11 days to register to vote for an election that may once again remove them from the tribe, a spokeswoman for the group said Thursday. ...

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Federal legislation that claims to protect citizens from malicious programming but may actually empower large computer software companies to do just that has been introduced to the U.S. Congress...

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The Texas space firm, Armadillo Aerospace -- backed by a game software designer -- successfully launched, landed, and launched again a prototype lunar lander at the Oklahoma Spaceport in Burns Flat Ju...

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The Oklahoma Board of Nursing Wednesday revoked for 20 years the license of a former OU Children's Hospital nurse who admitted to police she may have injured an ill baby in her care. ...

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The May 31, 1921, Tulsa race riot pit a white mob of 2,000 against some 75 black men who had fought in World War I. Tulsa race riot historian Scott Ellsworth, author of "Death in a Promised L...

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A bill that will outlaw abortions using any state funding became law on midnight Wednesday, Governor Brad Henry announced.   The bill states:   "It shall be...

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A privately funded organization to be used to lobby for new laws will disclose its list of donors early in June, its executive director said last week. Former Republican state Rep. Thad Balkm...

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Governor Brad Henry announced today he has appointed Oklahoma County Commissioner Jim Roth to the state Corporation Commission.   With the appointment, Roth becomes the sta...

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The descendants of Oklahoma Cherokee slaves filed an injunction in federal court in Washington, D.C., Tuesday asking a judge to throw out the tribe's recent decision to remove their citizenship ...

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Police last week arrested a woman accused of being involved in gymnasium theft cases around the country " including two here in Oklahoma City, first reported in Oklahoma Gazette last fall. ...

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E.W. Marland's mansion in Ponca City is an astonishing display of wealth and extravagance. It was here that Marland sunk much of his fortune building a home that estate officials say would now be wort...

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The Oklahoma State Senate passed Senate Bill 507 by a vote of 23-25. The 119-page would-be lawsuit "reform" legislation would place restrictions on average citizens filing lawsuits and require c...

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Writer Ben Fenwick's selected questions and answers from the print edition's follow-up article on OKC's swingers.   "Derek" "James" "LeeAnn"   "Derek"What activities do you underta...

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Governor Brad Henry today vetoed a measure that would have restricted abortions in Oklahoma, citing that the measure did not provide exceptions for instances of rape and incest, stating it would hav...