God helps son to get family dog Bobby Ross Jr. • Modified: April 7, 2001 at 12:00 am • Published: April 7, 2001 NOT too long ago, a 7-year-old boy started e-mailing me at work, begging me to buy him a dog. This child, whose birth I had the privilege of witnessing, went so far as to remind me that God made dogs, so obviously our family needed … Continue reading God helps son to get family dog
Toting Bibles and bike tools Young men answer Mormon Church call for two-year mission Bobby Ross Jr. Published: April 7, 2001 EDMOND – A car honks. The driver yells an indecipherable insult. Three Mormon missionaries riding their bicycles on a side street near the University of Central Oklahoma just smile and keep pedaling. “I don’t think we really want to know what he said,” quips Trevor Alvord, 20, … Continue reading Toting Bibles and bike tools
By Bobby Ross Jr. | The Oklahoman McALESTER, Okla. — Just hours after Gov. Frank Keating and the U.S. Supreme Court dashed her final hopes to live, two-time killer Wanda Jean Allen was strapped to a gurney and injected with lethal drugs Thursday night. Allen, 41, was pronounced dead at 9:21 p.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. “Two families were victimized by Wanda Jean Allen,” Attorney … Continue reading Wanda Jean Allen executed: Two-time killer dies by lethal injection
Execution day starts early, lasts 18 hours Bobby Ross Jr. Nine times this year and 28 times since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1977, Oklahoma has led prisoners to the execution chamber. Here’s a look behind the scenes on a recent execution day. McALESTER – At 6 a.m., before the sun has time to scale the towering white walls of the Oklahoma … Continue reading Execution day starts early, lasts 18 hours
By Bobby Ross Jr. The 1990s: I graduated from Oklahoma Christian University, married the love of my life and welcomed my three gifts from God into the world. Oh, and I got paid to write newspaper stories. With full knowledge that I’m probably leaving out a few important ones, my Top 10 stories of the decade: 10. Garth Brooks: 1992 My wife, Tamie, and … Continue reading The 1990s in review: My Top 10 stories of the decade
Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) December 26, 1999, Sunday CITY EDITION Violence: Who’s to blame? Society looks at media, entertainment sources BYLINE: Bobby Ross Jr., Staff Writer SECTION: NEWS; LENGTH: 2410 words Bullets fly on television and at the movies, subjecting viewers to scenes of serious violence every four minutes, a recent study found. Certain video games let consumers get in touch with their “gun-toting, cold-blooded murderer side,” as … Continue reading Violence: Who’s to blame? Society looks at media, entertainment sources
Violence: Who’s to blame? Society looks at media, entertainment sources BYLINE: Bobby Ross Jr., Staff Writer SECTION: NEWS; LENGTH: 2410 words Bullets fly on television and at the movies, subjecting viewers to scenes of serious violence every four minutes, a recent study found. Certain video games let consumers get in touch with their “gun-toting, cold-blooded murderer side,” as one advertisement put it. “Kill your friends, guilt-free,” declared another. Some … Continue reading Violence: Who’s to blame? Society looks at media, entertainment sources
A choice, but for whom? BYLINE: Bobby Ross Jr., Griff Palmer, Staff Writers SECTION: NEWS; LENGTH: 2948 words Just as private schools have always done, Oklahoma City’s newest public schools have become a haven for the wealthy and well-educated, a study by The Oklahoman has found. The numbers suggest that the district’s 5-year-old school choice movement – which has coincided with the dismantling of court-ordered desegregation – has produced … Continue reading A choice, but for whom?
Bobby Ross Jr. • Modified: September 13, 1999 at 12:00 am • Published: September 13, 1999 It’s 3:50 a.m., and I can’t sleep. For 31 years, God has blessed me with the world’s best parents and four wonderful grandparents. Some children never enjoy the riches of knowing their grandparents, so I realize how fortunate I am. I can’t thank God enough. The telephone ringing in the middle of … Continue reading Your grandmother knows how much you loved her
Faith. Family. Fastballs. 