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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.
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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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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.…

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.…

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
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.…

Ken Jennings, CN Traveler • Wed 2015 Aug 5, 8:00pm

Oklahoma comes very close to being a boxy nonentity on the national map. Thank goodness for the state's "panhandle," a 166-mile-long strip of land extending west toward New Mexico, which gives the state its familiar saucepan shape. But what's it doing there, this awkward strip of land just 34 miles wide, the only thing separating Texas from Kansas and Colorado? Like so much else in American history, the panhandle is a mark left by slavery.…

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KOCO • Wed 2015 Aug 5, 7:49pm

Oklahoma's standard license plates, which show an Apache warrior shooting an arrow into the sky, do not contain a religious message, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, rejecting the claim of a pastor who claimed the plates were an affront to his Christian beliefs.…

And there are dozens of alternative plate designs available.
Meagan Farley, News On 6 • Mon 2015 Jul 27, 10:52pm

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Oklahoma …rancher was shot to death in his rural home Sunday evening… deputies were called the man's home after a hired hand found Charlie Kirk at about 6 a.m. Monday.…

Sounds like the Mullendore murders, at least in that an old rancher is shot dead mysteriously, and the body is discovered by a ranch hand.
Leslie Rangel, KFOR • Fri 2015 Jul 17, 2:58pm

…In Durant, Okla. Wednesday morning, trucks lined up awaiting his arrival, and now supporters are in Bricktown. Supporters want to let the President know the Confederate flag, they say, stands for heritage, not hate. The organizer of the event… Andrew Duncomb, an organizer in Oklahoma City who calls himself “the Black Rebel” …

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Matthew Nuttle, News9.com • Thu 2015 Jun 25, 6:13pm

Sean Bonner and Allen Morgenstern layout their plan to transform the state from the grassy, flat Native America we're all used to, into a new border-to-border lake.… At last check, the Kickstarter campaign… had already quadrupled its lofty goal of $100…

Savannah Evanoff, NewsOK • Tue 2015 Jun 23, 6:15pm

…Riggs was eight years old when Indian Territory and Oklahoma territory fused in 1907. Riggs’ mother was a Cherokee Indian and Blackburn said many of the songs in “Green Grow the Lilacs,” were Cherokee-inspired folk songs.

…As the rift over Indian Territory grew deeper, another rift developed. Cowboys felt threatened by farmers and the settling of territory, Blackburn said.

“In a way, ‘Green Grow the Lilacs’ and ‘Oklahoma!’ brings you this same story of the wild wild West with the free ranging cowboys who live off their whips, the gun on their hip and a bedroll on their horse. They control their destiny,” Blackburn said. “Suddenly the land is being broken up into these farms with fences that hem you in and keep you tied to the land, because once you farm it, you have to mortgage your land.”…

Richard Clark, NewsOn6 • Fri 2015 Jun 19, 8:18pm

TISHOMINGO, Oklahoma - Floodwater swept away one of Oklahoma's oldest bridges Thursday night.

The Norton Road Bridge spanned the Washita River just north Mannsville in Johnston County for 106 years. The river washed it away at about 9:45 p.m. on June 18, 2015.…

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Fox News / AP • Wed 2015 Jun 10, 1:50pm

…[Gary] Linderman ran the Ole Miner Pharmacy, the last business in Picher. He was known as the "last man standing" or "Lights out Linderman."

Customers from miles away visited the pharmacy in the once-booming lead- and zinc-mining town about 20 miles southwest of Joplin, Missouri.

Most residents left after the Environmental Protection Agency declared Picher a federal Superfund site in the 1980s. A 2008 tornado devastated those who remained. The town ceased municipal operations in 2009.…

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Brianna Bailey, NewsOK • Sun 2015 Mar 29, 8:54pm

…At 89 years old, Thibault’s health is failing, and she’s ready to leave her perch not far from the bar, but she would like to see the restaurant continue to serve customers. …hopes to sell The Haunted House to a new proprietor at an auction April 16… “I hope to sell it to someone who loves the restaurant business…. This place has been my life for more than 50 years.” … Thibault and her late husband, Arthur Thibault, opened The Haunted House restaurant in 1964, which then sat not far off the old Route 66 highway….

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TravelOK.com • Mon 2015 Mar 16, 7:57pm

…these one-of-a-kind properties are sure to make your visit memorable.…

Teleport Back to the 1950s

Immerse yourself in the iconography and style of the 1950s at the Happy Days Hotel in McAlester. Take your pick of the Elvis or I Love Lucy suite or the James Dean or Marilyn Monroe room and spend the night in themed-1950s comfort. Adding to the overall charm, the lobby is decked out with records on the walls, as well as black and white checkered tile. While you’re there, be sure to have a meal or two at Angel’s Diner. Slide into a booth and travel back in time with every bite of delicious, classic diner food.

Tiger
newsok.com • Tue 2008 Nov 11, 10:28pm

Oct. 29, 1981: A 2-year-old girl was bitten on the head by a 250-pound Siberian tiger while the animal was being filmed for a commercial in downtown Oklahoma City . The girl required plastic surgery from injuries sustained when adults tried to pull her from the animal's jaws. Dec. 6, 1986: An 11-year-old boy was fatally mauled by a 300-pound black bear