Sep 28, 2009 -
OKLAHOMA CITY – Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday.
"The real story is what's missing," said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney who obtained the recordings through the federal Freedom of Information Act as part of an unofficial inquiry he is conducting into the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168 people and injured hundreds more.
Trentadue gave copies of the tapes to The Oklahoman newspaper, which posted them online and provided copies to The Associated Press.
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May 29, 2008 -
By Ben Silverman
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Like any red-blooded American teenager, John Tyler Hammons digs rock music, fast cars, video games and...fiscal planning?
Apparently so. The AP reports that the University of Oklahoma freshman trounced 70 year-old Hershel McBride to become the mayor of Muskogee, Oklahoma, making it the first city in the nation to be governed by a self-admitted gamer.
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Feb 19, 2010 -
OKLAHOMA CITY – An Oklahoma County judge has ruled a law regulating abortions violates the state's constitution.
Judge Daniel Owens issued the ruling Friday afternoon on HB 1595 saying the law violated the single-subject provision of the Oklahoma Constitution. The provision requires that laws only address one subject.
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Jun 30, 2009 -
http://jonathanturley.org/2009/06/30/oklahoma-legislature-to-consider-proclamation-linking-the-economic-crisis-to-obamas-immoral-policies/
I think Oklahoma ought to dock her pay for every second she spends working on this
Recently, Rush Limbaugh explained (if it were not already obvious) how Obama economic policies were the cause of Republican Gov. Mark Sanford’s affair with a beautiful Argentinian woman. But what caused the economic problems that caused the stimulus package that aroused Gov.
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Dec 10, 2009 -
OKLAHOMA MAY JUST BE THE PLACE TO LIVE!
An update from Oklahoma :Oklahoma law passed, 37 to 9, had a few liberals in the mix, an amendment to place the Ten Commandments on the front entrance to the state capitol. The feds in D.C., along with the ACLU, said it would be a mistake.
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Dec 19, 2007 -
SKIATOOK, Okla. - Huddled near her fireplace, Marla Carter wondered when Skiatook will be mentioned in news reports about the storm-related power outages that have left her without electricity for the past 10 days.
It's kind of like we've been forgotten about out here," she said Tuesday.
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May 30, 2009 -
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Confronted by two holdup men, pharmacist Jerome Ersland pulled a gun, shot one of them in the head and chased the other away. Then, in a scene recorded by the drugstore's security camera, he went behind the counter, got another gun, and pumped five more bullets into the wounded teenager as he lay on the floor.
Now Ersland has been charged with first-degree murder in a case that has stirred a furious debate over vigilante justice and self-defense and turned the pharmacist into something of a folk hero.
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Mar 02, 2010 -
A disturbing trend, similar to the last time a Democrat occupied the White House shows a steep rise in militia groups masquerading as ‘patriot’ grassroots groups The number of extremist groups in the United States exploded in 2009 as militias and other groups promulgated antigovernment conspiracy theories creating an explosion of populist anger across the country has infiltrated the mainstream, according to a report issued today by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Antigovernment "Patriot" groups - militias and other extremist organizations that see the federal government as their enemy - came roaring back to life over the past year after more than a decade out of the limelight.
The SPLC documented a 244 percent increase in the number of active Patriot groups in 2009.
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Feb 19, 2009 -
http://www.newsok.com/okc-officer-pulls-man-over-for-anti-obama-sign-on-vehicle/article/3347038?custom_click=headlines_widget
By Johnny Johnson - Staff Writer
Published: February 19, 2009
The police officers who stopped Oklahoma City motorist Chip Harrison and confiscated a sign from his car told him he has a right to his beliefs, but the U.S. Secret Service "could construe this as a threat against President Obama," according to the incident report released this morning.
The sign, which read "Abort Obama Not the Unborn," was returned to Harrison later that day, the report said.
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Apr 19, 2008 -
So apparently when Brad and Company left Texas, it wasnt for good, rather to visit his Grandma in Oklahoma! :D
How cute. :)
Details via NewsOK.com:
By George Lang
Assistant Entertainment Editor
SHAWNEE — Brad Pitt has not lived in Shawnee since he was a baby, but the town started buzzing when the actor and his girlfriend, Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie, landed their private plane for a few hours on Thursday for a birthday visit with Pitt's grandmother, Betty Russell.
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