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Max Gross | Bartlesville Radio • Wed 2018 Oct 17, 9:23pm

…According to an affidavit, an officer reported to the scene of a domestic incident and noticed an iPhone sitting on the porch of a residence. The phone had six holes resembling the appearance of bullet holes. A female victim told the officer that Moore had become upset with her and fired six shots at the phone.…

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Reagan Ledbetter | NewsOn6 • Wed 2018 Oct 17, 9:02pm

A social media post claims someone is killing rapists in Bartlesville and police want to make it clear, it's fake news.

This is the second fake news post in Bartlesville in the last month.…

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KFOR-TV • Sun 2018 Sep 2, 1:28pm

Oklahoma City named one of the worst cities for mosquitoes

Another capital swamp
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Tampa Bay Times • Thu 2018 Aug 23, 4:51pm

August 14, 2018 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police say a rodeo bull broke free from the Oklahoma City Stockyards and charged through streets and chased people, including one person who jumped into a river to escape the animal's path.… An Oklahoma City police report identifies a suspect as "Rodeo Bull," standing 4 feet tall, with brown hair and black eyes, and weighing 2,000 pounds.…

Jumped in the river. The icing on the cake of this tale of bull.
Phillips 66 - old sign
Examiner-Enterprise • Wed 2018 Jul 11, 8:08pm

…As Aug. 25th approaches I’m reminded of the time 68 years ago when life in Bartlesville stood still, frozen in time, an event which only a few people left alive still remember.… Along Cherokee Avenue 2,000 Boy Scouts lined the road, all in uniform. The creation of 500 floral displays along with arrangements of 3,000 red and yellow roses kept florists from every town the area working around the clock.…

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Captain Whitebread, Ace of Spades • Fri 2017 Jan 13, 12:16pm

The weather here has been insane. Highs in the 70s on Tuesday, and now we're prepping for an ice storm.

It's like Mother Nature said "You can't fit all four seasons into one week", and Oklahoma said, "Hold my beer and watch this"

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News9 • Fri 2016 Oct 21, 9:57pm

A major gay rights group is giving Oklahoma an "F" grade when it comes to LGBT protections.…

Silly.
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Clifton Adcock, OklahomaWatch • Fri 2016 Jun 17, 8:56pm

Gov. Mary Fallin directed the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety to delay use of recently obtained portable card readers capable of freezing or seizing funds from prepaid debit cards.…

For now…
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Page Jones, NewsOK • Tue 2016 Jun 14, 9:49pm

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol had a news conference Monday to dispel rumors about the functionality of its card readers.

Oklahoma Department of Public Safety Commissioner Michael Thompson said since the Electronic Recovery and Access to Data (ERAD) machines were introduced a month ago, they have not been used to seize any funds.

“So, contrary to the propaganda that we're doing a swipe and seize and taking everyone's money, that's simply not true,” Thompson said.

Oklahoma Highway Patrol Chief Rick Adams emphasized that to use the card readers, troopers must have probable cause to scan anyone's card.…

Not as reassuring as they might hope.
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Aaron Brilbeck, News9 • Wed 2016 Jun 8, 11:26am

…Oklahoma Highway Patrol has a device that also allows them to seize money in your bank account or on prepaid cards.… If a trooper suspects you may have money tied to some type of crime, the highway patrol can scan any cards you have and seize the money.

"We're gonna look for different factors in the way that you're acting,” Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. John Vincent said. “We're gonna look for if there's a difference in your story. If there's someway that we can prove that you're falsifying information to us about your business."

Troopers insist this isn't just about seizing cash.…

Of course it's not just about seizing cash - it's also about authoritarianism and violation of rights.
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Tom Dart, Guardian (UK) • Sat 2016 May 28, 6:08pm

Is Oklahoma trying to be America’s least progressive state?

As a budget crisis bites, liberals and some conservatives wonder if rightwing fears over abortion and transgender rights are tipping their state into chaos…

Utter nonsense. If we don't go along with the liberal insanity, we threaten "chaos." Least progressive is a great badge of honor.
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Grant Hermes, News 9 • Fri 2016 May 27, 2:01am

OKLAHOMA CITY - In an opinion written on Friday of last week, Attorney General Scott Pruitt reaffirmed the state's law on concealed carry gun licenses, saying it is clear when it reads, Oklahomans don’t need an Oklahoma license to carry; any license from any state will do.…
…“We can't do any kind of background check on those people and that's completely legal at this point,” Jessica Brown from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said. “These people have not been vetted through what we believe is a proper and good system. Also they do not know the laws pertaining to how they can carry that weapon and use that weapon legally.”

Brown added the law takes money away from the state. Application and registration fees by the hundreds…

Fees! Aye, there's the rub.
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Phil Cross, OKCFox • Fri 2016 May 20, 11:57am

…Off Oklahoma's beaten paths you'll find a mix of the odd and the interesting. Sometimes these unassuming places seem to lack explanation. … We tried it by driving to the starting point, which the locals have marked as "Start Here" with a smiling alien face spray-painted onto the pavement. Sure enough, when we put the car in neutral it began to roll backwards. From nearly every angle, on every side of the road, it appears the car was rolling uphill.…

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NewsOn6 • Mon 2016 Mar 21, 9:21pm

The state of Oklahoma officially recognized the Libertarian Party Monday.… Oklahoma State Election Board Secretary Paul Ziriax said… “This means Oklahomans can register as members of the Libertarian Party, and candidates can run as Libertarian for all partisan offices in the state. The Libertarian Party also will receive a ballot line for President and Vice President in November’s General Election.” …

My first Presidential vote (and at least one other) were for the LP candidate. Now? Too little, too late - I didn't leave them as much as they left me. However, I'm glad they got certification. For political partying's sake.
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Emily Droege, Examiner-Enterprise • Fri 2016 Jan 15, 3:44pm

Oil was all the talk more than a century ago, when unpaved roads wound through a forest of oil derricks and flares of natural gas lit the night sky.

The town, however, did not spring up overnight with the first discovery of oil. In fact this area of Indian Territory was settled 30 years before becoming incorporated on Jan. 15, 1897. …

Ali Gostanian and Alastair Jamieson, NBC News • Sat 2016 Jan 2, 10:56am

Broken Arrow, Oklahoma - A [36yo] masked, costumed man with a swastika tattoo on his forehead was arrested shortly before 8 a.m. local time Wednesday after refusing to leave a Kum and Go store and locking himself in the bathroom. …was wearing a red costume, including a mask… became abusive to officers… eventually arrested for obstruction. …had previously been seen in other businesses including a Whataburger…

Red costume with mask was a "devil" costume in other reports.

"Swastika tattoo on his forehead" doesn't even begin to cover it. See picture.

And, yes, there is a real chain of convenience stores called Kum n Go. Has nothing to do with either Bills Clinton or Cosby.

Earthquake
KOCO • Thu 2015 Dec 31, 10:59pm

Oklahoma had more earthquakes in 2015 than every state combined, including Hawaii but excluding massive Alaska. …

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John J. Dwyer, New American • Mon 2015 Nov 16, 6:56pm

…When the shotgun fired, they thundered across the line on horseback, mule, bicycle, and foot; in wagons; and even inside, outside, and on top of trains churning in from Texas and Kansas. Some got land, but most didn’t. There were fistfights, shootouts, and court battles. Many sneaked in early and claimed some of the best 160-acre tracts and town lots. These energetic folks earned the label “Sooners.”

By sundown on April 22, however, the entire country was settled, including the present-day towns of Oklahoma City, Norman, Stillwater, Kingfisher, and Guthrie, the latter designated as the territorial capital. More than 12,000 pioneers poured into Oklahoma City alone, which that morning had been a quiet railroad station on the prairie, sporting less than 10 structures near the dry banks of the North Canadian River.

The “Run of ’89” was an international sensation.…

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Dave Davis, NewsOn6 • Fri 2015 Oct 23, 10:37am

There are more than 240 laws that go into effect on November 1 in Oklahoma… …

And how many were repealed? I'd guess zero. Legislatures gotta legislate.
Dale Lewis, Examiner-Enterprise • Tue 2015 Oct 13, 8:46am

It was 1905 when Herbert Tyler and his son Donald rode the train to the Indian territory of northeastern Oklahoma looking for a site where they could build a cement plant. At the time, they needed a source of natural gas for their plant was well as large amounts of limestone and shale or clay. All of these things were plentiful in Washington County and they found just what they needed a mile north of the small community of Dewey. …

Bear
Tess Maune, NewsOn6 • Thu 2015 Oct 8, 11:03am

…Endicott said Oklahoma's bear population started growing years ago after a restocking effort by the state. They're coming in from Arkansas. The largest population is in southeastern Oklahoma, but the number up north is growing. … As bears look for a place to settle in, they're also looking for food - and what better place to find it than a deer feeder?…

Um, didn't we just spend the last hundred-plus years trying to make ourselves safe from large predators? Restocking? Whut?
Kelsey Walker, Examiner-Enterprise • Thu 2015 Sep 24, 5:27pm

Dewey will come alive with the sounds of the gunshots, cattle and other echoes of the Old West on Saturday and Sunday as part of the 11th annual Western Heritage Weekend.

Residents and out-of-town visitors can relive the town’s colorful past this Saturday and Sunday as Dewey showcases some of the area’s finest trick riders, skill shooters and plenty of other “Wild West” entertainers. The aim of the weekend extravaganza is to keep the spirit of Tom Mix and the former Dewey Roundup alive.… …

Great parade photo
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Rita Thurman Barnes, Examiner-Enterprise • Tue 2015 Sep 22, 4:16pm

As they say, time marches on and progress is progress and it’s all for the better but to me, to my classmates of the Col-Hi Class of ’65 there ain’t no way in heaven that that beautiful building that stands so magnificently out on Hillcrest Drive will ever be anything but Bartlesville College High School and you can take that to the bank.…

Tim Hudson, Examiner-Enterprise • Sat 2015 Sep 19, 8:31pm

A Bartlesville woman is free on bail after her arrest for allegedly exposing herself for her incarcerated husband, who is a convicted sex offender…

Scott MacFarlane, NBC Washington • Fri 2015 Aug 21, 4:03pm

An Oklahoma man who made threats against President Obama and former Presidents George W. Bush and Clinton — and who said he wanted to be the "next John Hinckley" — was stopped Sunday outside the White House. … Archie Monroe Glass, Jr.… was able to get within close range of the White House, despite being under travel restrictions and the supervision of probation officials and mental health providers.…

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Matt Patterson, NewsOK • Sat 2015 Aug 15, 5:55pm

Wiley Post didn’t have time to react when the plane he was piloting began to sputter after taking off near Point Barrow, Alaska, on Aug. 15, 1935 — 80 years ago today — on what was supposed to be a 10-minute flight.

The Lockheed Orion Explorer included a massive 550-horsepower engine and, when it began to misfire and lose power, the plane tilted to the right and plunged 60 feet into the ground. The force of the impact drove the engine into the fuselage, killing Post and Oklahoma’s favorite son, Will Rogers.…

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Rita Thurman Barnes, Examiner-Enterprise • Mon 2015 Aug 10, 4:07pm

“He worked for Phillips in the basement at 310 W. 5th in Bartlesville and on one occasion he was working on something that killed about half the birds in Bartlesville. He had glasses about an inch thick and grew a ton of tomatoes in his garden every year. He always rode a bike to work; his eyesight may have been too bad for him to be able to drive. You could not tell by looking but he was a brilliant man and did co-invent the aerosol can.”

Chris Casteel, NewsOK • Sun 2015 Aug 9, 10:36pm

…Lankford, R-Oklahoma City, choked up during a speech on the Senate floor in which he questioned whether the United States needed to reassess its most basic principles. And he was a lead author of the bill to bar the group from getting any federal funds.

That bill was blocked in the Senate, but the issue is expected to be a major component of the budget negotiations next month between the Republican-held Congress and President Barack Obama.… has been spending the majority of his time lately examining the way federal agencies make regulations. It is the type of un-sexy work the wonkish Lankford has specialized in since coming to Congress in 2011, first as a House member.…

Ted Cruz
Nathan Thompson, Examiner-Enterprise • Wed 2015 Aug 5, 8:21pm

Texas Republican Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz will make Bartlesville the target of his campaign with an event at Oklahoma Wesleyan University in mid-August… will be speaking in a joint event with Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., from 4 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. Aug. 13 at the Lyon Fine Arts Center on the campus of OKWU…

Examiner-Enterprise • Wed 2015 Aug 5, 8:18pm

Teams playing in the AABC Sandy Koufax World Series line up at Bill Doenges Memorial Stadium for opening ceremonies in downtown Bartlesville Wednesday. Larry Palmer sang the National Anthem…

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