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Another top official with Oklahoma City-based Rocketplane has left the company.   Rocketplane president Randy Brinkley resigned and has been replaced by a member of the company’s board of directors, according to a report by Space News, which wrote that Brinkley sent NASA a seven-page letter blaming the space agency for Rocketplane’s financial troubles.   […]

Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson announced Wednesday he has requested a moratorium on Oklahoma executions, pending a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court regarding lethal injection, according to court records.   According to a brief filed by Edmondson, the hold comes before the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals was to schedule an execution for  the […]

Joe Tunnell dedicated 40 years of his life to high school football and to his players, and in the process, deeply etched his name into Oklahoma’s landscape. Prior to his retirement at the end of the 1999 season, Tunnell won more games as a head coach than any other Oklahoma prep coach before him. Although […]

The idea of building of facility for sex offenders in need of long-term care was presented to a legislative committee Tuesday afternoon. Lawmakers seek to address what continues to be a problem in Oklahoma: sex offenders being placed in nursing home and long-term care facilities.   Nursing home watchdog Wes Bledsoe (pictured) presented his latest findings […]

Oklahoma’s unemployment rate dropped seven-tenths of a percent to 4.2 in August, the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission Economic Research & Analysis Division reported today.   OESC reported a 4.9 percent unemployment rate in July. Although the August 2006 unemployment rate was 4 percent, the August 2007 figures represent a departure from the increasing rate that […]

The Children and Juvenile Law Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Kris Steele, R-Shawnee, and Sen. Harry Coates, R-Seminole, will meet on Friday to discuss new adoption procedure rules, which could have a huge impact on who can perform adoption services. “It boils down to regulated versus unregulated adoptions,” said Dierdre L. McCool, executive director of […]

At some point in the not-too-distant future, John Farrell is going to make some Major League franchise one heck of a general manager. In fact, many in the baseball community found it a bit surprising the former Oklahoma State hurler and coach opted to leave his job as Cleveland’s director of player development prior to […]

For the past few years, the leading advocates for changes in the criminal justice system have been doctors and health care organizations, claiming that numerous frivolous lawsuits are:” driving up costs,” putting them out of business or ” making them move to Texas. The organization leading the charge is Physicians Liability Insurance Co. Owned by […]

Get ready to rumble as the Masters of the Cage XVI Ultimate Night of Champions hits the ring 8 p.m. Friday at the Coca-Cola Bricktown Events Center, 429 E. California. Watch six Oklahoma natives battle it out in 10 fights for six titles. Oklahoma City natives and NCAA wrestling champions Jared Hess and Cole Province […]

The Oklahoma County Republican Party, under investigation for questionable 2004 campaign contributions, was billed thousands of dollars for candidates in districts well outside of Oklahoma County during that election cycle. In documents obtained by Oklahoma Gazette, various political and survey consulting firms conducted work for nine Republican state House candidates in the fall of 2004, […]