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Three young men from the tiny town of Wilson will either go down as heroes of a worthy cause or will be known as not having all their dogs on one leash. The trio ” 17-year-old Willie Justin Miller, 18-year-old James Thompson and 22-year-old Matthew Gonzalez ” tried to pull off a daring rescue of […]

Maybe members of the Taliban are worried that the potency of Willie Nelson’s pot is stronger than their opium. Mortar fire disrupted a United Service Organizations concert in the middle of a Toby Keith number in the southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar, formerly a stronghold of the Taliban, according to a recent entertainment story in […]

According to a story from News9.com’s “INsite Team,” some Oklahomans are getting energized from a mysterious drink tied to Russia. Labeled “Tunguska Blast,” the beverage is being credited for helping one man lose 35 pounds and quit smoking. “I personally take 2 ounces in the morning and 2 ounces in the evening and I have […]

Breathe a sigh of relief, University of Oklahoma grads, et al. The Norman U still exists. But for a while, said school’s officials seemed to be in doubt, after a slew of disconcerting messages in chalk and on fliers blanketed the campus. “On April 21, all operations at OU Norman will cease,” fliers reportedly distributed […]

So, a 46-year-old intruder is trying to enter the home of a 95-year-old, wheelchair-bound woman. How does this scenario play out? Well, this time, at least, it ends with the cops finding the guy lying on her front porch in a pool of his own blood, stabbed several times with a screwdriver, according to a […]

As if state government didn’t already have too much of a hand in lady business, Tulsa County has made it even easier to invade a female stranger’s privacy, dismissing a felony charge against a man who, according to a Tulsa World report, snapped a photograph under a woman’s dress with his cell phone. Darwin D. […]

Aah, springtime, when flowers are blooming, breezes gently flutter the leaves of trees, and sunlight caresses the earth. When April showers bring “¦ morel mushrooms, and intrepid ‘shroom hunters on a quest for the flavorful fungus. Never mind that the tan to dark-brown morel features a deeply pitted, cone-shaped cap that resembles a shriveled ” […]

With Oklahomans catching NBA fever, everyone is throwing their two cents ” including Mr. “My Two Cents” Ogle himself ” into what the name of the eventual Oklahoma City basketball team should be. The signs are looking pretty good that fast NBA action will make Oklahoma a permanent stop. The Oklahoman sports columnist Berry Tramel […]