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Determination?

When Dexter Blanch's dog nearly died from complications during spay surgery, he decided to use the event as inspiration and recently brought to market a chastity belt to give pet owners more control o...  
Mar 03, 2010 | 0 Comments

The Continuing Crisis

The Importance of the Dictionary: When Donald Williams was publicly sworn in as a judge in Ulster County, N.Y., on Jan. 2, offices were closed, and no one could find a Bible. Since holy books ar...  
Mar 03, 2010 | 0 Comments

Bright Ideas

An official in Shijiazhuang, China, told Agence France-Presse in December that the city's new “women only” parking lot was designed to meet females' “strong sense of color and different sense of dista...  
Mar 03, 2010 | 0 Comments

The Fragrance of Love

First, farmer Dick Kleis of Zwingle in eastern Iowa, composing a birthday note to his wife, arranged more than 60 tons of manure in a pasture to spell out “Happy Birthday, Love You” in shorthand. Then...  
Mar 03, 2010 | 0 Comments

Oops!

Helmut Kichmeier, 27, a hypnotist “trainee” who appears as Hannibal Helmurto in Britain's Circus of Horrors, accidentally hypnotized himself in January as he was practicing in front of a mirror. (Bein...  
Mar 03, 2010 | 0 Comments

Fine Points of the Law

A death-row inmate has a right to question the fairness of the sentencing jurors if they appear to be so friendly with the judge that they give him (and the bailiff) post-trial gag chocolates shaped l...  
Mar 03, 2010 | 0 Comments

Least Competent Criminals

Didn't Think Ahead: Two men tied up employees at a recycling company in Chicago in December, intending to take away the ATM on the premises, which is normally used to pay people who bring in scrap met...  
Mar 03, 2010 | 0 Comments

Sometimes, Men Just Have to Prove Theirs Is Bigger

A 31-year-old man was stabbed in St. Cloud, Minn., in January. He told police that he and another man were approaching each other on a sidewalk, and when neither man gave way, the other man stabbed hi...  
Mar 03, 2010 | 0 Comments

Recurring Themes

The Whole Truth and Nothing But: Last August, an applicant for the police force in Montgomery, Ala., following directions to be truthful during the job interview, admitted that he owned child pornogra...  
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A request to raze one of OKC’s oldest structures is slated for consideration March 18

Over time, buildings come and buildings go in any city. But downtown, where SandRidge Energy plans to raze four structures of the former Kerr-McGee complex as it creates a corporate campus in its cor...  
Mar 10, 2010 | 0 Comments

Would changed alcohol laws result in revenue for Oklahoma?

Oklahomans for Alcohol Law Reform is a grassroots organization attempting to change alcoholic beverage laws that are vestiges of the old “blue laws” system, including allowing liquor retailers to sel...  
Mar 10, 2010 | 2 Comments

Girl in a Coma’s latest album is all over the map, because that’s where the women have been

Girl in a Coma with Xiu Xiu 9 p.m. Wednesday Opolis 113 N. Crawford, Norman www.opolis.org 447-3417 $10 advance, $12 door $12 advance, $14 door under 21 If you can count among your fans ’80s icon Jo...  
Mar 10, 2010 | 0 Comments

Oklahoma's tiered alcohol retail system and pricing methods benefit Okies

Mike Weeks, an Oklahoma City land man, was surprised to find the $90 bottle of wine he purchased for his business partner’s 2009 Christmas present online for $50 two weeks later. “Why is the price ...  
Mar 10, 2010 | 0 Comments

Ex-Pedro the Lion leader David Bazan's solo work questions God, himself and the world at large

David Bazan with Headlights 9 p.m. Friday Opolis 113 N. Crawford, Norman www.opolis.org 447-3417 $10 advance, $12 door $12 advance, $14 door under 21 A basic tenet of politeness that states one shou...  
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