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 going to get shot if I don’t ask this one question,” Boren said. “But “¦ do you think you might ever enter […]
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Southeast Oklahoma’s Girls Gone Wine lets visitors make their own vino
Three women have opened Girls Gone Wine ” a winery in southeast Oklahoma that features customers making and bottling their own vino. Besides being the name of the winery, “girls gone wine” is also a phrase used by many wine shops and liquor stores across the country. It’s catching on as the moniker for […]
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OKC’s St. Baldrick’s Foundation raises money for child cancer research
Nearly a year after dying of cancer, 11-year-old Fletcher Vines continues to make an impact. Fletcher’s mom, Gail Vines, returned to OU Children’s Physicians on Feb. 9 to help honor his memory. The St. Baldrick’s Foundation had announced giving the University of Oklahoma Foundation a $25,000 grant to be used for research for […]
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Oklahoma State ecology department has faculty thinking green
A new department at Oklahoma State University will focus its research on conservation and sustainability of Oklahoma’s natural resources. The Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management opened its doors in July 2006. “We have had an interest for some time on campus to bring together several disciplines of natural resource management which […]
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OKC’s CARE Center extends helping hand to abused children
Oklahoma City’s CARE ” or Child Abuse Response and Evaluation ” Center helps children who have faced physical, sexual and mental abuse. Open since 1993, the CARE Center offers children and their families a less intimidating, warmer atmosphere where forensic interviews to determine whether abuse occurred can be done at once. COURTROOM PREPIf […]
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Vasectomy nothing to fear, says OKC doc
According to Dr. William Miller, “everybody, practically” who consults with him prior to scheduling a vasectomy is nervous. “It’s almost universal,” said Miller, who performs approximately 200 vasectomies a year in his office at Integris Baptist Medical Center. “Pain is the No. 1 concern, of course. After that, they come in all flavors. […]
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Oklahoma senator calls for mandatory HPV vaccination for sixth-grade girls
An Oklahoma state senator has introduced legislation to make vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) mandatory for preteen girls entering sixth grade. HPV is a family of sexually transmitted viruses. A few strains have been linked to cervical cancer. The newly developed, Food and Drug Administration-approved vaccine would inoculate young girls against four strains […]
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Oklahoma representative’s 100 Ideas initiative to reveal funding sources
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 records under the state Open Records Act from House Speaker Lance Cargill, R-Harrah, and his staff. DETAILED REPORTS According to […]
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Norman designer transforms yesterday’s clothes into today’s fashions
A Norman woman’s redesigned, vintage clothes have been snatched up by University of Oklahoma coeds. Now that she has connected to an eager market, Jessica Khandros is ready to move forward with a new collection. A former model, the 26-year-old Khandros operates Old News Custom Clothing. YOUTH APPEALAfter earning a bachelor’s degree in fashion marketing […]
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Oklahomans travel to Texas to buy hard-core porn
Oklahoma has some of the strongest obscenity laws in the country, which may be why a place like DW’s Video in Gainesville, Texas, has more Oklahoman than Texan license plates in the parking lot. “Probably about 60 percent of our business comes from Oklahoma,” said Charlotte, who works at the pornographic video store. […]