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Chicken-Fried News: Sickly situation

A little over 2,000 people live in Prague, Oklahoma, and it’s more than likely that the staff at the city’s main hospital, Prague Community Hospital, are hoping everyone in the city doesn’t get sick all at once. Last week, hospital employees went without pay and said they’ve heard of similar situations happening at other hospitals […]

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Quake questions

Credit: Brad Gregg Earthquakes measurable on the Richter Scale are now commonplace in Central Oklahoma. The “why” part has puzzled experts, but last week University of Oklahoma seismologist Katie Keranen and two other researchers weighed in with a report attributing a series of November 2011 earthquakes near Prague — including one of a 5.7 magnitude […]

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The hell you say

Just ask Kaitlin Nootbaar, the last academic year’s valedictorian of Prague High School. Her reference of Hades’ hangout in her valedictory address last May so irritated school administrators that they’ve withheld her diploma until she writes letters of apology to everyone short of the school’s janitorial staff. Kaitlin’s father, David Nootbaar, said he and his […]

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One in the Chamber

Gooding is Ray Carver, a fixer who “solves” disputes between mob families. He also narrates from the start, so you know on whose side the movie stands; however, his softly spoken platitudes like “The past is the devil. You can’t run from it. It’s always behind you” put me squarely on the opposite side. Meanwhile, […]

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Quaker state

However, they ended up documenting the state’s biggest earthquake in recorded history. “We didn’t know we were going to go out to record a main shock,” said Holland, a seismologist for the Oklahoma Geological Survey. The surprise of having such a large quake in Oklahoma, considered geologically stable by most, has not been lost on […]

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Quaker state

However, they ended up documenting the state’s biggest earthquake in recorded history. “We didn’t know we were going to go out to record a main shock,” said Holland, a seismologist for the Oklahoma Geological Survey. The surprise of having such a large quake in Oklahoma, considered geologically stable by most, has not been lost on […]

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