Michael Eugene Brewster of Pensacola, Fla., was arrested Sept. 13 near Roland in far eastern Oklahoma after officers conducting a routine traffic stop determined the vehicle he was driving allegedly was stolen. Brewster is suspected of being the “Bucket List Bandit,” a moniker dubbed by someone with the creative instincts of a decomposing mackerel because […]
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New Yorkers think we’re interesting!
Maybe those damn Yankees find it interesting that our state has one of the nation’s most dismal percentages Credit: Brad Gregg of citizens lacking health insurance. Perhaps those highfalutin elitists think it’s ironic that most Oklahomans despise Obamacare almost as much as they despise vegetables and cedar trees. Whatever the reason, The New York Times […]
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No party for third parties
Credit: Brad Gregg Nope. There’s also independents. And Von Hayek acolytes. And Ron Paul fans. And Ayn Rand devotees, or “Randroids,” as we called them in college (they were cool with it; libertarians have a great sense of humor). And your cabin-dwelling uncle who thinks the FDA is poisoning the water table. The Libertarian party […]
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The Smoking Section
Credit: Brad Gregg A police officer dispatched to the Bell reported that he found a single cigarette butt inside the food. The officer also noted that the Dycheses were smoking cigarettes at the time. Hmm. The plot, like the smoke in the Dyches household, thickens. The family subsequently filed a lawsuit claiming personal injuries and […]
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Newspeak
Credit: Brad Gregg And on a completely unrelated note, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe has introduced a bill, the “Military Religious Freedom Act,” that would effectively ban any marriages or “marriage-like ceremonies” on military bases that were not between one man and one woman. Currently, military chaplains are allowed to perform ceremonies that are in accordance […]
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Thunder framed
We’ll give this to OKC’s Northwest Vision Center: We had no idea folks were clamoring to replicate the Russell Westbrook eyeglasses look.
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Maybe I’m corn-mazed
Credit: Brad Gregg The 35-acre corn maze at Reding Farm, which opens Sept. 28, is the largest in the state. This year it honors the OKC Thunder with images of the NBA Jumpman and Thunder logos, Durant’s No. 35 jersey, Rumble the Bison, a basketball and a hoop — just about everything except James Harden’s […]
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Bad teacher
Credit: Brad Gregg A former Western Heights High School coach, the 33-year-old Nash faces five counts of second-degree rape and forcible oral sodomy after a 16-year-old student told police she had been having sex with him. The age of consent is 16 in Oklahoma unless it involves teachers and other school employees, an exception that […]
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Beauty school bribery
Credit: Brad Gregg An investigator for the state cosmetology board and another woman who was hoping to get a beauty instructor’s license were indicted by a multi-county grand jury Sept. 6 in Oklahoma City on bribery charges. The Oklahoma State Board of Cosmetology regulates beauty schools and salons. A board investigator, Patricia Migliaccio, was accused […]
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Deceitful dentistry
Credit: Brad Gregg Oklahoma has seen its share of great impostors over the years, ranging from Frank Abagnale— the Tulsa con man who inspired the book and movie Catch Me If You Can — to half of the state Legislature, who still pretend the year is 1952. If Oklahoma County prosecutors are to be believed, […]