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Participants in the swingers scene don't call themselves "swingers." They just call it "the lifestyle," according to LeeAnn (not her real name), a local woman who pursues this alternative sexual lif...

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Cherokee Principal Chief Chad Smith calls "desperate" an attempt by the descendants of former tribal slaves to link their ouster to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.   However, an attorney for ...

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  Former Vice President Al Gore was at the University of Oklahoma in March to discuss global warming. And so was one of his sharpest critics.   OU geophysicist David Deming is known for his critici...

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Former Vice President Al Gore denied he's running for president again, at a March appearance at the University of Oklahoma.   Former Senate colleague David Boren, now OU president, said, "Well, I am g...

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  Former state Rep. Thad Balkman said last week that the 100 Ideas initiative will reveal who is giving it money to operate, and how much.   That announcement came after Oklahoma Gazette requested ...

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Swingers, couples who engage in extramarital sex, are alive and breeding in Oklahoma City.  This lifestyle choice remains volatile in Oklahoma, if more and more common. Oklahoma Gazette a...

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  Invading the Confederate-held West was not an easy task for the Union. One reason: Stand Watie.   In Indian Territory "later Oklahoma " Watie, a Cherokee, led a minority band of the tribe that ha...

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  Oklahoma House Speaker Lance Cargill and former state Rep. Thad Balkman say a new "100 Ideas Initiative" will be used to lobby state legislators " but they won't say who is bankrolling them.   Un...

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On Tuesday, Sept. 26, Oklahoma County District Judge Ray Elliott asked a pool of more than 400 potential jurors if self-proclaimed "Video Vigilante" Brian Bates had handed them a flyer critical ...

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According to the police report, bail bondsman Daniel Carroll picked the wrong informant " a key witness against the self-proclaimed "Video Vigilante" " and was beat with a rock. ...

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Oklahoma County District Attorney Wes Lane said new charges and a resurrected case against the self-described "Video Vigilante" Brian Bates happened because Bates wo...

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After escaping Nazi-ravaged Poland and coming to Oklahoma, he rose to the state's highest court. Now he faces a different type of legal struggle.

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As self-proclaimed "Video Vigilante" Thomas Brian Bates pulled up to the abandoned liquor store at S.W. 43rd Street and S. Robinson Avenue last week, the blond woman wearing the tight red minisk...

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Self-proclaimed "Video Vigilante" Brian Bates did not act as a pimp when he allegedly offered to pay a local prostitute to film her, according to a brief filed last week, although he faces up to...