Edmond residents were so shaken by a recent earthquake that they went a little overboard with calls to the 911 dispatch center.
9/11
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Local groups react to recent executive orders
Groups continue to promote diversity, unity and progress in the face of the recent political and community climate.
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Commentary: What have we done?
If Hollywood designed the perfect candidate to represent the anti-Christ for evangelicals, he would be thrice married, twice divorced, a builder of casinos, a sexual predator (unless the women are ugly), a liar and a man so in love with himself that his fondest wish is to die in his own arms.
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Chicken-Fried News: Frequent caller
One OKC woman found out the hard way that you can’t keep calling the police for funsies.
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Oklahoma Muslims face challenges during the holidays
Recent incidents of terrorism and cultural and generational differences pose problems for Muslim Oklahomans, especially during the holiday season.
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Embracing Oklahoma City’s Muslim community
Adam Soltani reflects on anti-Muslim hate in the metro community.
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Chicken-Fried News: It’s a … meteorite?
911 received numerous calls about a streaking light and a possible plane crash or meteorite, or maybe it was a UFO full of aliens. Who knows?
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Commentary: Seeking acceptance in America’s heartland
I, like countless other Oklahomans and Americans, will never forget where I was the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Like a typical college student, I was still asleep when news broke of a plane hitting the World Trade Center in New York. I was alarmed when my mother flung the door open to my room, […]
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Letters to the Editor: Aug. 7, 2014
Who’s to blame? Donald Smith (Commentary, Letters, “No war,” July 16, Oklahoma Gazette) wishes to remind those of us with “short memories” that the United States sent troops into Iraq at the order of George W. Bush. I wish to refresh his memory and ask him if he remembers 9/11. Does he remember which Middle […]
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Heeeere’s Johnnie’s corpses
“Just trying to scare people, that’s what I like to do,” Mullins told News9, and then laughed. It worked. Neighbors called 911, and the police and fire departments responded. So far, News9 reports, nobody has broken any laws. In fact, Mullins has added another corpse. They will rest where they rest until after Halloween, Mullins […]