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Charles Biggs

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This is what I did to lose about 40 pounds in 5 months

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I’ve lost about 40 pounds since March 1. Hurray! This is the most weight I have ever lost in one season. When I was 21, I lost 35 pounds at my summer job, which was delivering furniture for Manhattan Furniture. I wasn’t trying to lose weight that summer but it happened. About 10 years or…

It’s a challenge trying to be a long-distance Grandpa

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I never met one set of my grandparents, my mother’s parents, the late Amos Whitten Rogers and Elizabeth Mae Rogers of West Virginia. Believe it or not, they were both born in 1875 – 144 years ago! They had 11 children, who were born from 1895 through 1917. My mother was born in 1911. She…

South African missionary: Don’t let them take your guns

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Americans should fight to retain their constitutional right to carry firearms and Christians should acknowledge their Biblically based duty for self-defense, South African missionary Charl van Wyk said in Tulsa. Wyk is a full-time Christian missionary from South Africa, in Zimbabwe, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He wrote the best-selling book, Shooting…

Covering the police department can be quite a challenge

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Early in my career as a journalist, I was assigned as a “late night police reporter.” I worked for a big daily newspaper that came out in the mornings. That shift typically was from 3 p.m. to midnight. The newspaper had three staggered editions and the last one – the one that went to people…

Some college courses make you want to scratch your head

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When I was at The University of Oklahoma, I took Theory of Basketball, Theory of Baseball, Theory of Wrestling, Theory of Track and Field and, of course, Theory of Football. I was a journalism major and I thought I wanted to be a sportswriter, so I took these courses. All but Theory of Wrestling were…

Riley seeks to maintain offensive success, elevate the defense

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After fielding arguably the best offense in college football for several years, the Oklahoma Sooners need the defense to do better in 2019 in case of a potential dropoff in offensive production. Because of graduations and the NFL Draft, OU lost their starting quarterback, their best wide receiver and four of the five starting offensive…

Gundy is waiting for a quarterback to earn the starting job

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Oklahoma State hasn’t named a starting quarterback for 2019 but you can bet that Coach Mike Gundy will have one that will do well running his high-powered offense. After a disappointing 7-6 season in 2018, OSU lost offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich to Ohio State and Gundy hired Princeton’s Sean Gleeson. They will pick between redshirt…

Democrat hopefuls racing to get as far left as possible

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Just when you thought national politics couldn’t get any worse, it does. The Democrat debates are a series of desperate candidates trying to outdo each other in making promises that they can’t keep. They are overtly trying to buy votes and the sad fact is – it might just work. One Democrat wants the federal…

Corn Palace

Stop by the Corn Palace on a road trip to Mitchell, S.D.

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MITCHELL, South Dakota – Corn is king in this part of the Midwest. Driving through Central Kansas and Central Nebraska in the summer provides a graphic panorama of the importance of corn and the magnitude of this golden treasure. The City of Mitchell is home to the Corn Palace, billed as “The World’s Only Corn…

What happened to those theaters Tulsa used to have?

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When I was a kid growing up in Tulsa, going to a movie was a big deal. I grew up near McClure Park (11th street and Memorial Drive) and we were close to the Admiral Twin Drive-in. The park and the drive-in are still there. When the Crosstown Expressway (I-244) was built, we were afraid…