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Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

The Oklahoma State Medical Examiner’s Office is considering a penny wise, pound foolish plan to stop performing autopsies in Tulsa. According to Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jeffery Gofton this plan is being considered as a way of cutting costs by performing all autopsies in Oklahoma City. And while the Medical Examiner’s Office may save a [...]

Liar Liar Pants On Fire

Either OHP Trooper Rocky Northcutt or Latisha White is a liar. Then too, one can argue that Carter County District Attorney Craig Ladd is a liar also, since he apparently attempted to extradite White from Louisiana under false allegations. This in order to try her on felony perjury charges for filing an allegedly false complaint [...]

Gene Stipe To Prison Hospital

Former State Senator and convicted felon Gene Stipe has been ordered to report to the U.S. Medical Center for Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri for up to 30 days for a mental evaluation to determine Stipe’s competency. And Stipe’s attorney Clark Brewster was apparently fit to be tied in spite of his own request for a [...]

Senator Jeff Rabon Busted For DUI

Sen. Jeff Rabon, D-Hugo, was cuffed, stuffed and booked into the Choctaw County jail Monday night on complaints of driving under the influence after a three-vehicle accident in Hugo, OK which resulted in one woman being taken to the hospital with reportedly minor injuries. Reportedly Rabon failed three field sobriety tests at the accident scene [...]

Coburn’s Frat Boys At It Again

Senator Tom Coburn’s ‘frat boy staff’ is at it again. This time with a mis-directed e-mail and as usual it was Senator Coburn’s communications director, John Hart that managed to make a fool of himself, embarrassing the Senator and Oklahomans in the process. The latest Coburn staff screw-up came in relation to the now over [...]

No MySpace At the Library

The Tulsa City-County Library has no room for MySpace. Library officials have banned MySpace.com from library computers, which suits some folks fine and angers others. It seems that some adults were using the library computers to view MySpace profiles that contain pictures that are supposedly inappropriate for children to see while in the library and [...]