10 Things to Try in OKC This Year
As Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
More than a Zoo - Oklahoma City Zoo Leads Conservation Efforts Locally and Globally
Elephants in Africa are facing threats daily thanks to poaching, dramatic loss of habitat, disease and more. In the past 25 years, the population of African elephants dropped from 1.6 million to less than 500,000.
How Zane Woods Will Change the World
Zane Woods is going to change the world.
That change may not come today, it may not come tomorrow and it may not even come during Woods’ own lifetime, but he will, without a doubt, change the world.
Take a Hike Naked! It's a Thing and It Has a Day
They marched nude by the hundreds through forests, by lakes and along mountain trails, with many hoping to go unnoticed.
Urban Wilderness - Oklahoma's best urban hiking trails
Kathy Dinh of Oklahoma City is an outdoorsy kind of girl.
She likes to get out with her two Labradors and explore the wild places in Oklahoma and beyond. But when it comes to hiking, sometimes it’s easier to stay within the city limits and find those wild, lonely paths hidden among the sprawling urban landscape.
Welcome Home - OCU School of Law
Special publication for the grand opening of the OCU School of Law new facility. Majority of copy written by Heide Brandes
Long Road To Liberty
Long Road to Liberty Defining the African-American experience in Oklahoma, these pioneers came to settle one of America's last frontiers and create a new state.
Evolve or Dissolve - the Ongoing Evolution of Desmond Mason
“I’ve always been the outsider,” Desmond Mason said, his tall, NBA-sized frame squashed in the small metal coffee shop chair. “I’m an outsider in the art world. I was an outsider in the basketball world.
Battle Lines drawn as Oklahoma Lawmakers Take Aim at Gays
OKLAHOMA CITY – A raft of proposed laws in socially conservative Oklahoma, criticized for being discriminatory measures aimed at limiting the rights of gay and transgender people, has prompted a pushback from human rights groups seeking to sink the proposals.
Want to See Chinese Art? Visit Taiwan
After more than a half hour waiting in a line with what seemed to be hundreds of Chinese tourists, I stared at a cabbage.
After Spoiled Butterfly Bash, One Oklahoma Town Tries to Help Monarchs
(Reuters) - The small town of Blanchard, Oklahoma, threw a big party this fall, but the guests of honor did not show up. Residents suspect foul play somewhere on the guests' international trek to the festivities.
Trap, Neuter, Release
On a dark Thursday night that promised rain, MaryDoris Casey was creeping around some dumpsters behind a row of fast food restaurants and wading through overgrown lots filled with the detritus of empty soda cups and food bags.
Oklahoma unveils new execution protocols
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma set up new procedures on executions that include increasing by five times the dosage of a controversial sedative that was among the drugs used in a botched execution in April, which prompted the state to suspend lethal injections.
Victim in Oklahoma Food Warehouse Was Beheaded
A worker killed in an attack at an Oklahoma food distribution warehouse on Thursday was beheaded and the suspect, a fired coworker, had reportedly tried to convert his colleagues to Islam, law enforcement officials said on Friday.
Oklahoma Rape Suspect Arrested in Coma Dies
An Oklahoma suspect in multiple rapes who was arrested after a car crash left him in a coma died at a hospital on Tuesday hours before he was to be formally charged, prosecutors said.
Oklahoma Native Americans Tame Twisters with Sacred Rituals
Just over a year ago, tribal elder Gordon Yellowman watched on the TV news as a mile-wide tornado roared toward the homes of his Cheyenne-Arapaho people in Oklahoma.
On Iconic Route 66, German, Italian POWs Lie In Oklahoma Graves
Along America's most fabled road, Route 66, lie the almost forgotten graves of German and Italian prisoners of war brought to Oklahoma some 70 years ago and who now rest in the red soil of a former Wild West pioneer outpost.