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Oklahoma City gay community kicks off Pride Week with a downtown festival
Updated: Sat, May 19, 2012
Food, sunshine and a slate of live performances kicked off the annual weeklong event Saturday. Other events include a Sunday parade and a two-night rodeo next weekend. Read More
Movie review: 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'
Published: Fri, May 18, 2012
Stellar acting boosts “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” an optimistic film based in India. Read More
Protesters rally after allegations surface of a teen's bullying
Updated: Fri, May 4, 2012
More than 100 people held signs outside of Harrah Middle School, speaking out against bullying. Read More
Choctaw native to star in Robinson biopic
Updated: Thu, May 3, 2012
Over the years, Ryan Merriman has cheated death in “Final Destination 3,” been “Touched By an Angel” in the TV series of the same name and tossed footballs and dribbled basketballs in various roles. But the Choctaw-born and bred actor is taking up baseball again for one of his biggest onscreen opportunities... Read More
Tulsa YWCA takes stand against racism
Published: Sat, Mar 12, 2011
YWCA Tulsa announces the 4th Annual Stand Against Racism presented by ONEOK, a program of the YWCA aimed at raising awareness that racism still exists in American communities and that it can no longer be ignored or tolerated. As part of this year’s Stand, the YWCA Tulsa will host the inaugural Race Against Racism... Read More
Dior suspends Galliano for alleged anti-Semitism
Updated: Fri, Feb 25, 2011
PARIS — Famed fashion house Christian Dior SA suspended creative director John Galliano on Friday after he was detained and accused of an anti-Semitic insult — a bombshell development just days before the catwalks in Paris heat up for fashion week.
The designer vigorously denied wrongdoing and said... Read More
Oklahoma pharmacist's hearing set; timing means murder trial delay
Updated: Mon, Nov 15, 2010
An Oklahoma County district judge today set a hearing for Dec. 6 on a defense request for him to step down from a pharmacist's murder case.
That schedule means the trial for Jerome Jay Ersland will be delayed until next year. The trial had been set to begin Dec. 6.
Defense attorneys allege Oklahoma County... Read More
CNN's Rick Sanchez fired after calling Jon Stewart a bigot
Published: Fri, Oct 1, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) — CNN says that anchor Rick Sanchez has been fired, a day after he called Jon Stewart a bigot while on a radio show.
Sanchez said on a satellite radio program Thursday that Stewart is bigoted toward "everybody else that's not like him." The Comedy Central "Daily Show" host has frequently poked... Read More
Alveda King causes anger and joy at Beck rally
Updated: Thu, Sep 9, 2010
Fox News star Glenn Beck staged the show at the Lincoln Memorial, and then fired up his flock by claiming, "Something that is beyond man is happening. America today begins to turn back to God."
Mama Grizzly Sarah Palin almost stole the show with a political shot at President Barack Obama, telling her fans,... Read More
Report: Castro blasts Ahmadinejad as anti-Semitic
Published: Tue, Sep 7, 2010
HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic attitudes and questioned his own actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 during interviews with an American journalist he summoned to Havana to discuss fears of global nuclear war. Jeffrey... Read More
Report: 100 Russian skinheads attack concertgoers
Published: Sun, Aug 29, 2010
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news agencies say scores of skinheads have attacked about 3,000 people at a rock concert in central Russia, beating them with clubs. TV news channel Rossiya-24 cited witnesses as saying a 14-year-old girl was killed and possibly dozens of people wounded on Sunday evening Miass city, 900... Read More
South African girl survives attack, then dies in crash
Published: Fri, Aug 27, 2010
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African girl who survived a criminal attack that shocked the nation was among those killed when a train hit a school van this week, a family spokesman said Friday. Liesel Augis was only six years old when she was raped, beaten unconscious with a brick and thrown into a fire by a... Read More
From the nuclear-powered desk: A too-many-words-stravaganza
Updated: Wed, Aug 5, 2009
Sometimes, when the fount of knowledge that is my glowing, trans-dimensional head gets on a roll, it’s hard to slow down the flow of cascading brilliance. Try as I might to distill these priceless gems of inspiration into columns for you, my adoring public, it’s sometimes impossible to cut deep enough to satisfy... Read More
The Obama Essays: Barbara Higdon
Updated: Fri, Jan 16, 2009
I had to think back to the first time I could vote. This was John Kennedy's time, and I remembered four years prior when he was introduced as a possible vice president Read More
White supremacists target Ada newspaper
Published: Wed, Oct 15, 2008
ADA (AP) - Ada police are investigating how flyers for a white supremacist group ended up wrapped around delivered copies of the Ada newspaper.
Several subscribers to the Ada Evening News reported receiving a newsletter from the Ku Klux Klan wrapped around their local papers during the weekend.
Newspaper... Read More
Political yard-sign thefts up across nation
Published: Fri, Oct 3, 2008
The theft of political yard-signs happens every election cycle, but signs for presidential candidate Barack Obama are vanishing at a faster rate than other candidates, Democratic officials said Friday.
At a news conference, state Democratic Chairman Ivan Holmes said while Obama's signs are disappearing from yards,... Read More
Man accused of Obama threat to appear in fed court
Updated: Tue, Aug 26, 2008
DENVER (AP) -- A Colorado man suspected of making racist threats against Barack Obama is scheduled to appear in federal court Thursday on a charge of methamphetamine possession.
Therin Gartrell, 28, was also scheduled to be charged with state violations Thursday, but that was put on hold without... Read More
White Separatist Group Sues Town of Jena
Updated: Fri, Sep 21, 2007
JENA, La. (AP) -- A white separatist group planning a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Jena is suing the town, claiming officials are violating the Constitution by asking participants not to bring firearms, changing the parade route by one block and requiring the posting of a bond.
The Nationalist... Read More
Proposals abound for Mel Gibson healing
Published: Sat, Aug 5, 2006
Kippur appearance at a synagogue. A trip to Washington's Holocaust museum. A circumcision? Ever since Mel Gibson said he wanted the Jewish community to help him make amends for his anti-Semitic comments, suggestions have been pouring in, some in jest and some quite serious.
"I don't think he should be totally... Read More
Updike's 'Terrorist' poses little threat
Updated: Fri, Jun 16, 2006
BOOK REVIEWS "Terrorist" by John Updike (Knopf, 310 pages, $24.95). John Updike has taken an unlikely step in his latest novel, "Terrorist." The 75-year-old writer, whose fiction is known mostly for its depiction of the vicissitudes of white, middle-class, suburban life, has written a novel about a... Read More
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