Credit: Brad Gregg On Jan. 15, a mystery shopper successfully pulled off a crab-leg heist. Officials estimated that $1,500 worth of crab legs and steak were stolen from a Homeland grocery store on N. Bryant. According to police, the shoplifter was a Hispanic or American Indian man wearing jeans, a gray jacket and a ball […]
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Voices Kerry
Credit: Brad Gregg There were only three dissenting votes, one of them being Sen. James Inhofe, R-Tulsa. Oklahoma’s senior senator cited Kerry’s support for treaties to reduce nuclear proliferation, his 1985 meeting with then-Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and — of course — Kerry’s support of U.S. action on climate change. “In this dangerous world filled […]
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Blue moon
Credit: Brad Gregg Moon has had several allegedly drunken run-ins with the law. In 2008, he was arrested by Warr Acres police and, in a tirade captured on video, demanded to be taken to county lockup. Four years later, he was accused of assaulting and threatening another lawyer at an OKC bar. Those threats, according […]
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So long, Mary Ann
Credit: Brad Gregg After KWTV Channel 9’s recent grab of ex-KFORsters Jim Gardner, David Payne and Bobbie Miller, CFN is just amazed that occasionally people leave 4 without being seduced by the bewitching eyes of Channel 9 anchor Kelly Ogle.
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Facebook fumble
Credit: Brad Gregg Her post urged fans to check out the Wikipedia page chronicling the tumultuous past of Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis. “Proud of my husband and the Pats,” she wrote. “By the way, if anyone is bored, please go to Ray Lewis’ Wikipedia page. 6 kids 4 wives. Acquitted for murder. Paid a family […]
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Appoint of order
Credit: Brad Gregg Paddack, who lost that 2010 election to Janet Barresi, has filed a joint resolution to make the job appointive instead of elective. The legislator has said the proposal — which would also make the offices of insurance and labor commissioners appointed positions — has nothing whatsoever to do with that previous race. […]
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Cars and guns
U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Muskogee, told a Tulsa radio station that he is working with some Senate Democrats on legislation that would require background checks for people buying a gun — the idea being to keep weapons out of the hands of convicted criminals and the mentally ill. That news, of course, has excited the easily […]
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Waiting for a Super Bowl
Hank Williams Jr. ain’t got nothin’ on Oklahoma City’s favorite psychedelic rockers, at least not when it comes to the upcoming Super Bowl Sunday. A brand-spanking-new Lips song, “Sun Blows Up Today,” will be front and center in a Hyundai commercial slated to run during the big game. The band will be spotted performing the […]
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Putting the gross in groceries
Credit: Brad Gregg Wait, what? With its organic line of pH-balancing feminine hygiene products, Healthy Hoohoo has penetrated the Whole Foods market, launching in select stores in four states, Oklahoma included. The Seattle-based company’s news release says it best: “Healthy Hoohoo makes it easier to cleanse and deodorize without the worry of drying out and […]
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Lobby for a loophole
Credit: Brad Gregg The Green family, founders and owners of the OKC-based company, don’t want to provide their employees insurance coverage for birth control — namely the morning-after pill — that they believe is tantamount to abortion. As a result, Hobby Lobby is facing $1.3 million in fines for each day it fails to comply […]