Oklahoma libraries are participating in a program bringing WiFi to rural communities.
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Chicken-Fried News: ‘Where’s the money?’
A former employee at Oklahoma Beef Council has been accused of embezzling $2.6 million.
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GE Global Research Oil and Gas Technology Center calls Innovation District
Its $125 million facility opened recently in the district, which includes University Research Park, Automobile Alley and University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
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Commentary: The truth about Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest provider of sex education and women’s health care. It helps an estimated 10 million women across the globe each year. In 2011, 97 percent of its worldwide services involved things like Pap smears, education, pregnancy tests, STI and STD testing (including HIV and AIDS). Thirty-five percent of its services are contraceptive in nature […]
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Obituary: Donald Capra
Oklahoma Gazette remembers local immunologist and president emeritus of OMRF Donald Capra, who died February 24.
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Chicken-Fried News: Hare, hare!
According to Tom Coburn’s Wastebook, we might have an Ebola vaccine if the government wasn’t spending so much money on rabbit massages.
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Yay for inmates!
Now it will pay. The company agreed to refund more than $36,000 to the state after an investigation “found the company overcharged state entities,” NewsOK.com reported. The investigation found that Sysco charged different prices to several state facilities and departments, including the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, county jails, juvenile centers and hospitals. Now, hey, […]
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Commentary: Fracking fracas
It was only a matter of time before Tulsa, after its own nearby oil strikes, was proclaiming itself The Oil Capital of the World.
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Council offers tax incentives for two companies
The council voted unanimously to approve the incentives. GE announced last year that it planned to build a new global research center northeast of downtown that would create 133 jobs with an average salary of $129,800. The council approved an incentive of $1 million to GE and another $750,000 for site clearance and public improvements. […]
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The cancer cure
Last fall marked the start of a Phase 1 clinical trial at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, a culmination of work from its researchers on a compound named OKN-007, which has shown marked success in animal trials. The story behind the drug has the makings of good fiction: a family tragedy, an intrepid optimist and several […]