Oklahoma’s oil and gas extraction was one of the main contributing factors to the 3.3 percent income growth that led to the ranking, according to the press release by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis. Nationally, the average personal income grew only 2.6 percent. For the same reasons, Oklahoma was beat out by North […]
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Hamm conundrum
The court will ultimately decide how many of his billions of dollars Hamm gets to keep and how much will go to his wife, Sue Ann Hamm. Forbes reported that in a Feb. 13 order that was unsealed on March 4, an Oklahoma District Court judge determined that Hamm’s 122 million shares in the company […]
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Throwing stones at glass houses
“Everybody understands terrorism destroys people’s lives, it destroys property. All I meant was, all I was saying was the homosexual agenda is destroying people’s lives. I never meant to call them terrorists,” Kern said in defense of her beliefs. And then … and then she said that disagreeing with her belief is akin to being […]
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Kind of awesome
Who do you pick? Kevin Durant. Duh. The Oklahoma City Thunder star has a reputation for being Mr. Nice Guy off the court, so the partnership makes a lot of sense. This is more than an endorsement deal, though; it’s an initiative. The program, dubbed Strong and Kind, aims to promote — you guessed it […]
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Live and learn — or don’t
According to NJ.com, Miller was released March 21 after serving 15 years in a New Jersey state prison for robbing a Stride Rite in Toms River, New Jersey, in 1999. What did he do on the first day of his freedom? Treat himself to a steak and lobster dinner? Party like it was still 1999? […]
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Bad driver
NewsOK reports Buelna was pulled over for making an illegal lane change by Oklahoma City sheriff’s deputy when, lo and behold, Thor, the sheriff’s deputy’s dog, alerted that there might be something amiss. When the car was searched, it was revealed that it concealed six pounds of heroin and over $9,000 in cash hidden in […]
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Jon Stewart takes on Hobby Lobby
His latest victim is one near and dear to many Oklahomans’ hearts (and vaginas): Hobby Lobby. In the midst of the Supreme Court brouhaha on the Oklahoma Citybased store’s beef with Obamacare — specifically, the law’s insistence that corporations provide its employees with specific types of birth control — Stewart ripped Hobby Lobby’s faith-based objection […]
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They’re moving! Not.
But not. Local superstar couple nearly broke the Internet with the announcement that he and wife Trisha Yearwood were packing up and moving to the big city. According to a report from CMT, the couple will officially have an empty nest in Owasso, Okla. when their youngest leaves for college in the fall, and they […]
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They’re taking a trip — to jail
Our guess is it was probably pretty easy to track down two young adults who were busted recently for growing a crapload of magic mushrooms in their apartment. Said one respondent on the Shroomery.org message board, “Why didn’t they lie and say they were medicinal mushroom jars?” Thanks for the legal advice, but various strains […]
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Aubrey’s angels
Less than a year after his departure, the energy titan has started another company. It has been raising money like gangbusters and is investing heavily in the Utica Shale formation in Ohio. But investment site The Motley Fool wants to know who keeps giving McClendon money. Fool contributor Tyler Crowe said McClendon’s American Energy Partners, […]