Roberts is executive director of Be The Change, an OKC nonprofit that focuses on what it calls marginalized citizens, including the homeless. Outreach teams provide services that include counseling for substance abuse and mental illness. The program also distributes food and directs people to agencies that might be able to put a roof over their […]
terry
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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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Flatlined
Hundreds of Oklahomans in need of free dental care packed the Oklahoma Mission of Mercy in Lawton last month. Photo: Clifton Adcock On a cold February evening at the Comanche County Fairgrounds in Lawton, a steady stream of people entered the building and walked between the cattle gates erected on either side herding them to […]
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A new book
A temporary library in southwest OKC becomes permanent after it draws scores of new users. BY CLIFTON ADCOCK Few cars are parked in the sprawling concrete prairie of a southwest Oklahoma City lot that once saw vehicles roaming like buffalo across its surface. Some parts of the Almonte Shopping Center still cling to life, but […]