There are many ways to pick numbers for the lottery. But, a Sallisaw woman found the right combination of sports and betting. Sixty-year-old Nita K. Jacobs, a Texas transplant, got an Aug. 25 call from her neighbor, who wanted to know if Jacobs was interested in picking any Powerball numbers, The Associated Press reported. […]
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Oklahoma, stated
What does the rest of the country think about Oklahoma in 2007? To answer this question, I recently completed an unofficial and unscientific survey of news stories about Oklahoma found in newspapers and broadcasts across the nation. My methodology was simple: I typed “Oklahoma” into a Google news search and read stories from non-Oklahoman sources. […]
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Norwood failed to break OU football color barrier, but has no regrets
No one could blame Sylvester Norwood if he never wanted to set foot in Oklahoma again. But the 71-year-old Kingfisher native wants to return to Norman, a place he has not seen since he was 18. It was there in 1955 when he helped write a small chapter of history for the University of Oklahoma […]
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Chickasha woman’s boyfriend alledgedly shares too much information
Some guys like to brag to their girlfriends about their past exploits. Usually it’s ill-advised ” but especially when the implied incident allegedly was with the girlfriend’s mom, as one guy found out in Chickasha. According to the Chickasha Express-Star, Minco Police Chief Gus Handke recently responded to a call from a trailer park […]
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Building strong children
The famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass had it right about education in this often-cited quote: “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” Those words are as true today as in the mid-19th century when Douglass, a former slave, became the conscience of America, standing up boldly in speech after speech […]
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Six homes featured on Lincoln Terrace tour
Step out of the present and walk through the doors of the past this weekend at the Lincoln Terrace Neighborhood Association’s historic home tour. Located directly south of the state Capitol complex, this historic neighborhood will open the doors to six of its grandest residences to anyone and everyone interested in catching a glimpse of […]
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103-year-old Sooner fan provides inspiring performance
nd DeMarco Murray, the next best had to be 103-year-old Caroline Blue. The Norman resident was honored as a longtime Sooner season-ticket holder during a second-quarter timeout. Blue has been attending Sooner games since The Great Depression and walked — unassisted — to the end zone to be honored on the SoonerVision jumbo video screen for all […]
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Sooner freshmen make record-setting debut
The University of Oklahoma football team kicked off the season tonight in record-breaking fashion as the Sooners beat North Texas 79-10 at the Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Two redshirt freshman football players, quarterback Sam Bradford from Oklahoma City and running back DeMarco Murray from Las Vegas, each set individual records in the contest. Bradford threw […]
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Trooper killer taken off death row
The man convicted of murdering an Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer is off of death row after a ruling today from the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. Ricky Ray Malone was convicted of first-degree murder for the December 2003 killing of Officer Nik Green. Malone received the death sentence from Comanche County Judge Mark Smith. A […]
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Oklahoma senator aboard aircraft shot at in Iraq
While visiting in the Middle East, a plane in which U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) was traveling was shot at leaving the airport in Baghdad. The C-130 military aircraft was en route to Amman, Jordan with Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Alabama), Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Florida) along with Rep. Bud Cramer (D-Alabama) aboard. Inhofe’s Washington, […]