The photos surfaced days after someone placed a billboard along Interstate 40 in downtown Oklahoma City touting "Brent Rinehart for Governor." "I don't know if it's bothersome or flattery," Rinehart ...said. "I'm not going to try and keep track of something on the Internet. That's a bunch of junk. Some folks need to get a life." "I didn't know I was running for governor," Rinehart said. "I don't even know who did it. I'm also flattered that someone would hope I would."
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"People like that -- they are very different," Willoughby said. "You don't know what they're capable of. I told my daughter to stay away from him." "He was afraid that something may have happened, ...and that's when he called us," Paco Balderrama said. "Officers got there, and they too suspected something probably happened inside the house." "The kid threw a dead snake in his yard one time with the head cut off," Neighbor Ken McDaniel said. "He used to throw stuff over the fence when he was in his back yard."
Police Sgt. Paco Balderrama said Michael Anthony Willoughby's father, Clay Willoughby, called police about 5:45 p.m. Thursday after returning to the family's home at 1501 NW 157 Terrace. A passer-by ...soon noticed a stuck pickup at Pennsylvania Avenue and Simmons and a suspicious person near the vehicle. Deputies in Logan County responded, locating the pickup and Michael Willoughby, who was about 500 yards south of where the pickup was stuck, Balderrama said.
"I'm a little queasy," I said as we pulled out of a hammerhead turn, an aerobatic maneuver that turned my stomach more than anything I've experienced on the dozens of roller coasters I've braved in ...past years. The air show will feature the Navy's Blue Angels, the Army's Golden Knights parachute team and the Air Combat Command's F-15 Strike Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon aerial demonstration teams. "When people say the National Guard, you automatically assume Army," Tim Tanner said. "The general public doesn't even realize there is an air component to that. It's getting that A-N-G out there. It's helped our recruiting efforts 10-fold."
"I think our citizens have spoken and want us to do something about that perception," Mick Cornett said. "People don't necessarily know where to go. I think that leads to the frustration." "I think ...the Oklahoma City public is accustomed to parking in the doorway of wherever they want to go," Willa Johnson said. "To go further than that is a change for them. Change is painful, and it's difficult." "How does the market drive the parking in Bricktown?" Terry Taylor said. "We are also looking at the location of the current parking and how it relates to the traffic generators such as the ballpark and the movie theater."
Jim Roth was sworn in to his new post Monday. His former chief deputy, Linda Simpson, succeeded him at Monday's county commissioners meeting. Simpson, who said she does not plan to run for the post, ...will fill the position until the election.
"I think it reflects the current culture where we place a very low priority with public transportation," Mick Cornett said. "It shows that it's getting worse, not better."
"There is no getting over it, but hopefully she'll learn some ways to deal with her grief and her anger because she is pretty angry," Melissa Storey said. "She gets upset. She'll cry. She says she's ...angry at the bad guys." "There is not one day that I don't wake up and realize he is not going to call me today," Storey said. "He's not going to walk through the door. There are plenty of times I fall to the floor crying, but I still pick myself up and go on living." "We celebrate the man that he was," Storey said. "I know he wants us to keep going and find reasons to laugh and smile and have good days. Granted, we have plenty of bad ones. But he is going to get us through this. You have to create a whole new normal because the normal that you knew was blown apart forever," Storey said.
"There isn't anything over there but the ground," Morton said. Morton, of Poteau, is one of 47 Oklahoma National Guard soldiers who came home Thursday after a year in Afghanistan. The group is the ...first part of a contingent of 450 Oklahoma Guardsmen returning to the state from Afghanistan. Military officials said the rest of the troops will be returning during the next month. "It was overwhelming," she said. "He was the last off the bus, so it scared me for a minute."
