A KOCO anchor compared her black co-anchor to a baby gorilla, and she got to keep her job. But it’s 2019 and a white supremacist-enabling narcissist is running the country, so we can’t be too surprised. Despite being one of the more diverse news stations in Oklahoma City (which really isn’t saying much at all), […]
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Cover: Oklahoma Gazette sizes up Mick Cornett’s 14 years in office
Cornett leaves office as OKC’s 35th mayor next month, passing the gavel to mayor-elect David Holt.
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Cover Story: If Sinclair Broadcast Group’s planned purchase of Tribune Media goes through, it will own half the commercial television stations in OKC
Cover Story: If Sinclair Broadcast Group’s planned purchase of Tribune Media goes through, it will own half the commercial television stations in OKC.
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Local meteorologist undergoes cancer treatment
Damon Lane’s battle with skin cancer isn’t an uncommon one in sun-soaked Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma’s public defenders
I remember when public airwaves were made available for public good, to inform us about what was going on in the world, not to tell us what we were supposed to think about it. The celebrity culture of broadcasting has changed this, combing news and editorial comment (My Two Cents, et al.), along with the […]
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Oh, poop
But Doyle Sebastian Terry, 49, was already inside the jail. Officers were unaware that the transient held a foam cup filled with his waste as he sat at a nursing station on Sept. 9. The unnamed sergeant walked past and felt something hit the back of his head, News9 reported. It also struck his hand, […]
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The sporting life
Credit: Brad Gregg He retired in 1999, a few years after undergoing quintuple heart-bypass surgery. At the time of his departure, Park told The Oklahoman that surviving a heart attack had prompted a review of priorities. “After the heart attack, those things that were seemingly important to me were no longer important at all […]
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News to clues
For nine weeks, 13 amateur sleuths from across the country will use techniques of crime-scene investigation to uncover evidence in a staged murder. They must solve a new crime each week to advance; if they don’t, they’re out. It all leads to a season finale in which the killer among them is unmasked and someone […]
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R.I.P. Pokey
Credit: Brad Gregg Ed Birchall, the man behind the Ho-Ho character, passed away in 1988. More sad news came last week with the death of Bill Howard, the gentle wit, and hands, behind Pokey, Ho-Ho’s irrepressible puppet sidekick. Howard was 77. Farewell, Bill. You brightened many a childhood, and you’ll be missed.
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Snow job
Credit: Brad Gregg And so it was on Christmas Day that children and adults alike woke up and rushed to the window for a glimpse of that winter wonderland … only to find things exactly as they’d left them the night before. While parts of Oklahoma did receive significant snowfall that day, the flakes that […]