News;Emily Jerman

Bang! A woman wearing a long black dress dropped the gun she’d fired at the pesky reporter who’d ventured too close to her Cherokee Outlet claim. She and the other women watching ran for their tents. The anonymous writer, hoping for a scoop for his Kansas newspaper, pressed on, unscathed. STORY OF A STORY SINGLES […]

In early 1958, 200 people turned out near a dark field outside town to get a glimpse of Sputnik as it crossed the metro’s skies. Thirty amateur astronomers officially keeping track of the craft’s progress as part of the national “Moonwatch” program aimed 10 telescopes at the sky to spot it. Then someone pulled in […]

Author Dan Mathews makes Oklahoma City stop to promote his book detailing his animal-activist adventures. Getting pelted with lunch meat while costumed as a root vegetable in Iowa might sounds like an odd dream ” or a trip ” but for animal-rights activist Dan Mathews, it’s all in a day’s work. “I dressed as a […]

In the beginning of her poem “A Life Worth Living,” state resident Barbara Saunders writes of women forging such an existence in the midst of a risk-laced environment: prison ” which she experienced firsthand as an inmate in an Oklahoma correctional facility in the Nineties. But, according to statistics, Oklahoma women face a precarious position […]

Using a downloadable astronomy tool named SkyGlobe, Bill Wilburn ” who helps man Science Museum Oklahoma’s planetarium shows in his off time ” can keep tabs on the heavens above from his office or home below. But it doesn’t beat viewing the splendor of spring with his own two eyes. And, at a time of […]

More than 100 years ago, the Oklahoma and Indian territories made efforts to enter the United States as separate states. Those championing the cause for the Indian territory “? what is now eastern Oklahoma “? used Sequoyah as the name for their proposed state when they met in Muskogee in 1905.   Sequoyah — who […]

An open house 6 p.m. Friday and staff and volunteer reunion 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in KGOU’s new campus studio in Copeland Hall will celebrate the public radio station’s first 25 years. Before going public in 1983, KGOU had been a commercial, University of Oklahoma campus rock station since 1970. But a committee […]

German composer Johann Sebastian Bach’s work and life will be explored through Saturday during the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma’s six-day Bach Festival in Chickasha, via:” lecture-concerts, ” performances and ” film. “We’ll be playing the music, but we’ll also be talking about how the world is changing,” said Sanders Huguenin, USAO academic […]

Former University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill made headlines again this week, 16 years after her sexual harassment allegations against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. In an autobiography released Monday, Thomas ended his public silence on the allegations, which turned his 1991 confirmation hearings into a national media spectacle. Thomas calls Hill “my most […]

As temperatures drop and leaves begin to change, the greater metro area offers surprises for hikers and nature-seekers alike. Amid a bevy of lake, refuge and state park offerings, here are four lesser-known hikes to consider, off the pavement but not far from the beaten path. Bluff Creek TrailThe trail north of Lake Hefner may […]