DHS Head Steps Down After 14 Years

A state agency with more than 7,200 employees and a $2.2 billion budget is losing its director after several years of controversy including the deaths of three children.

Pets, No Longer Forgotten, As Final Days Approach for Their Owner

A hospice program in Oklahoma, and nationwide, gets care for pets and reunites them with their owners as end draws near.

Sports Capture Readers, But Are Far From Sure Thing

Newspapers find sports sells, but face competition from blogs.

Mayor Cornett Looks at the State of OKC

Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett used his State of the City address to tell members of the business community he has every reason to be optimistic about the future.

House GOP Set for More Reforms

House Republicans hold the first of three press conferences to go in depth on their legislative agenda in the upcoming session.

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Lawyer: Norway Suspect Wanted A Revolution

The man blamed for attacks on Norway’s government headquarters and a youth retreat said he was motivated by a desire to bring about a revolution in Norwegian society, his lawyer said Sunday. Though he told his lawyer that he acted alone, police said Sunday they were conducting an operation in a residential neighborhood of Oslo. [...]

Same-Sex Couples Exchange Vows in New York

New York is now the sixth state, along with the District of Columbia, allowing same-sex marriages. Across the Empire State, couples exchanged vows shortly after midnight. At Niagara Falls, gay marriage activists Kitty Lambert and Cheryle Rudd were wed in front of the rainbow-lit falls just a second or two after the clock struck 12. [...]

Rieslings Strike Right Balance For Summer

For many wine drinkers, summer is the season to enjoy white wine. It can be light and crisp with subtle citrus flavors — just the right balance on a steamy afternoon. But for some wine enthusiasts that doesn’t include Rieslings, which are often regarded as too sweet and almost soda-like. Paul Grieco disagrees with that [...]

‘Nothing Daunted’: From Society Women To Pioneers

Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood were best friends from kindergarten. They shared an upper-middle class childhood in Auburn, N.Y., went to Smith College together and took part in one of the most common coming of age rituals of their class — the European tour. It was 1916 — a time when women were expected to [...]

Retracing An Explorer’s Footsteps to Machu Picchu

On July 24, 1911, Machu Picchu was found by an American historian, and this weekend many are celebrating the centennial of the “discovery” of the cloud city high in the Andes — one of the most remarkable archeological sites on the planet. Now, of course, Peruvians say that the city was not discovered a century [...]

Farm Dinners Serve Up Local Food, Ambiance

The locavore movement, which favors locally produced food, has inspired many people to get in touch with their inner farmer. That’s easy during the harvest season, when farms across the country invite their neighbors over for dinner. “Farm to fork” takes on a whole new meaning during dinner in the middle of a pasture, with [...]

Debt Talks Impasse Leads To Market Fears

The opening of financial markets in East Asia is causing anxiety in official Washington and beyond. The concern is that a Friday night breakdown in talks between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner on raising the debt ceiling may have negative repercussions when trading gets under way. More meetings took place all day Saturday, [...]

Series Overview: The Cost Of Dropping Out

Of all the problems this country faces in education, one of the most complicated, heart-wrenching and urgent is the dropout crisis. Nearly 1 million teenagers stop going to school every year. The impact of that decision is lifelong. And the statistics are stark: The unemployment rate for people without a high school diploma is nearly [...]

A Stroll Down Main Street

On-Air Challenge: Every answer is the name of a state capital. You are given a word. The first letters in the word are the first letters in the name of the capital. The last letters in the word are the last letters in the name of that capital’s state. For example, given the word “main,” [...]

Ever Wonder What A Woolly Mammoth Sounds Like?

About a year ago, in a synthetic biology class at London’s Royal College of Art, 24-year-old Marguerite Humeau learned about the work of Japanese researcher Hideyuki Sawada. You might have seen his work in a recent viral video: a creepy, dismembered mouth “singing” a Japanese lullaby. That mouth has been called the most mechanically accurate [...]

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