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Deborah Benjamin
It's about 2 p.m. on a Friday and Ben Engebretson and his two-man crew of Hamid Daraby and Babak Goli are working on a lawn on the far northwest side of Oklahoma City. As Daraby and Goli trim th...

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Deborah Benjamin
Daniel Sandate and his attorney James Branum sit among papers and boxes in what could best be described as an office disguised as a storage room. NO EXCUSES ...

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Deborah Benjamin
The cold, wet plaster crept down the torso of the young woman standing near the window. Her mummified chest looked a little like a tube top, only this top was a little slimy feeling. BREAST CANCER BO...

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Deborah Benjamin
With a lineup that resembles a sports team more than a band, the choral pop act The Polyphonic Spree could be charged with producing music that leans toward indulgence. But, if anything, the Spree nev...

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Deborah Benjamin
Norman resident Myrna Fletcher lives in a straw bale house. "We get the three little pigs jokes all the time," Fletcher said with a chuckle. Her house is just one example of home construction in the...

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Deborah Benjamin
If ever there were a public service announcement to get you to turn off the lights, this is it: "You can be unplugged for an hour and it won't kill you." That's the message Kyla McMoran, communicatio...

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Deborah Benjamin
Being bedridden with the flu didn't stop Paul Siler from speaking about the Birds of Avalon's forthcoming EP, "Outer Upper Inner." "I can't stand being sick. It's really, really annoying," Siler sai...

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Deborah Benjamin
The coughs can be heard across the metro, as many Oklahomans battle complications from influenza or related illnesses. But in Oklahoma City homeless shelters, a flu epidemic can have dire consequences...

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Deborah Benjamin
As the president of the Audubon Society of Central Oklahoma, Jane Cunningham and other Central Oklahoma Audubon chapter members, as well as members of Friends of Lake Hefner and the Sierra Club, are a...

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Deborah Benjamin
Military dismissals on the basis of homosexuality "basically devastates people's lives," according to Peggy Johnson, a lesbian and former petty officer second class on the USS Puget Sound. "Individu...