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Grandma got run over by a … grandson?

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So, the elections have mercifully come and gone, putting an end — at least for a while — to commercials of political candidates holding U.S. flags, kissing babies and laughing with confused elderly folks.

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We are grateful for the hard work of our men in blue. But there’s a thin blue line between law-abiding citizens and killers, robbers and 3-year-olds peeing in their front yard. Er, make that a thin yellow line.

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If nuclear power plants seem just way too safe, well, Chesapeake Energy might just have a fix to that.

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Considering Aerosmith hadn’t recorded a studio album in 11 years before Music from Another Dimension! was unleashed last week, introducing the band to the iTunes generation made smart marketing sense. Therefore, Oklahoma’s own reigning country queen, Carrie Underwood, was called upon to duet with Steven Tyler on the power ballad “Can’t Stop Loving You.”

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“After everything we established — everything we had done — you give me an hour? This was one of the biggest decisions of my life. I wanted to go home and pray about it. It hurt me. It hurt.

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If you thought those slick new SandRidge Energy commercials were just attempts to win some advertising, think again. Turns out Chesapeake Energy isn’t the only Oklahoma City-based energy company in possible need of an image makeover after facing rocky times in the corporate boardroom.

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Le Flore County commissioners are thinking about reviving a plan to place a Ten Commandments monument on courthouse property.

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After Oklahoma decided to terminate some Planned Parenthood funding, the organization responded by birthing a lawsuit against the state Department of Health. (Oh, Mistress of Tortured Metaphors, have you no shame?) Planned Parenthood does not perform abortions in Oklahoma, but it does in other states. In the Sooner State, however, the group — among other responsibilities — distributed Women, Infants & Children (WIC) services in three Tulsa clinics.

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We don’t know if The New York Times Magazine’s Nov. 11 feature on the OKC Thunder was, as The Oklahoman reporter Steve Lackmeyer proclaimed on his blog — presumably with a stuck “caps lock” key — “THE BEST ARTICLE EVER WRITTEN ABOUT OKLAHOMA CITY IN A NATIONAL PUBLICATION.”