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Literary figures with local ties had choice words about a good, stiff drink. Their picks " both drinks and words " carried a wide vocabulary. Here are their drinks and where to get them. W...

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When "Walt" was a young man, he was active, energetic and worked in the military as a medical officer. Through a 30-year military career, he remained physically fit into his 40s, to the point that he ...

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KGOU news director Scott Gurian remembers the first story he did when he joined the Oklahoma public radio station back 2004 " it was a comparison piece between his native New Jersey and his soon-to-be...

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Oklahoma City's council today voted 8-1 to approve a new Tax Increment District, or TIF, for downtown Oklahoma City. The planned TIF will exist in the footprint of the proposed tower headquarters fo...

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Few express more optimism about Devon Energy's proposed downtown skyscraper than former mayor Kirk Humphreys. Humphreys, who is chairman of the Oklahoma City Public Schools Board of Education, said t...

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Miles Tolbert said he knew Barack Obama at Harvard Law School back when he attended from 1988 to 1991. "¦ Along with about 500 other people. Yes, Tolbert said, the guy is smart. ENVISIONINGWIND ENER...

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It was a good night for most at the Republican election night watch party at the Marriott on Northwest Expressway. The Oklahoma state Senate finally, after a century, went into the control of the Rep...

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On July 3, an Oklahoma County deputy watched a gray Chevrolet Impala with California tags sweep across several lanes of traffic in a way that signaled something amiss. "It was traveling at less than ...

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The Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce gets to build the silver football-shaped building in downtown Oklahoma City, but the big flashing sign out front has to wait for now. HIP DESTINATIONEVEN...

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An "iconic" silver football-shaped building with a huge flashing sign and a large front lawn isn't allowed in the downtown grid of Oklahoma City, according to city code. EXPRESSED MISGIVINGSHARD STAN...

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With fears of an economic crisis hitting the state as well as Wall Street, one thing Oklahomans need is ethical, thoughtful legislation without money being paid under the table, said David Dank, incum...

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With child poverty rates above the national average, a high teen birth rate and other burgeoning factors bringing down Oklahoma's child welfare statistics, state health officials acknowledge that chil...

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An intelligence report from a terrorism institute suggests an old threat has new clothes: Immigration and eminent domain radicalism are the heirs of Timothy McVeigh. The message on the Yahoo Web grou...

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When Oklahoma 2nd District Congressman Dan Boren, D-Seminole, voted for the first version of the Wall Street bailout package, he had been well compensated by those whom he would help, according to a w...

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Plans for the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce's new home have been officially approved, but not by many. Oklahoma City's Downtown Design Review Committee last week approved the silvery, foo...