Here are a few of my writing samples, ranging from human interest stories to business profiles to hard news reporting.
By Heide Brandes (Reuters) - The small town of Blanchard, Oklahoma, threw a big party this fall, but the guests of honor did not show up. Residents suspect ...
By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma set up new procedures on executions that include increasing by five times the dosage of a controversial ...
By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Sept 26 (Reuters) - A worker killed in an attack at an Oklahoma food distribution warehouse on Thursday was beheaded a...
By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma suspect in multiple rapes who was arrested after a car crash left him in a coma died at a hospital on...
By Heide Brandes (Reuters) - Just over a year ago, tribal elder Gordon Yellowman watched on the TV news as a mile-wide tornado roared toward the homes of hi...
By Heide Brandes EL RENO Okla. (Reuters) - Along America's most fabled road, Route 66, lie the almost forgotten graves of German and Italian prisoners of wa...
The U.S. Geological Survey and the Oklahoma Geological Society issued a rare earthquake warning Monday for Oklahoma due to a major increase in earthquakes sh...
By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - The autopsy of an inmate who died, apparently of a heart attack, during a botched execution was begun on Wednesda...
Written by Heide Brandes in the March 2014 Issue U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Rusty Dunagan was seven weeks into his second tour of combat when a bomb took almo...
By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma, as of Monday, did not have the drugs needed to conduct an execution scheduled for this week but aims to...
(Reuters) - A 128-year-old French impressionist painting plundered by the Nazis during World War Two has become a political football in Oklahoma, with lawmak...
(Reuters) - A 33-year-old Oklahoma man has been charged with killing his stepfather by giving him an "atomic wedgie," that caused the victim to suffocate on ...
Oklahoma executes man convicted of killing two women; Missouri execution stayed By Heide Brandes, Reuters OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma on Tuesday executed a man...
Music stars from across the nation joined forces in Oklahoma on Wednesday in a benefit concert for victims of the deadly tornado that struck the state last w...
Hundreds of people gathered in stormy weather on Thursday to mourn a 9-year-old girl who loved to sing, dance and paint, as funerals began for 24 victims of ...
MOORE, Okla.–After a second tornado in 14 years caused devastating damage to this city Monday, Mayor Glenn Lewis gathered at City Hall with many of the same ...
Who: Heidemarie Brandes and her fiance, Ashley N. Hall, both of Oklahoma City Where, when, why: When Ash and I decided to take a romantic trip to Central Am...
PRIMAL FEAR — The Psychology of Being Lost By Heide Brandes I was hiking back on the stretch of the Buffalo River Trail in Arkansas I had spent most of the d...
ARTS: CELTIC PUNK Written by Heide Brandes in the March 2012 Issue If you’ve hit any of the metro’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, you may have heard the R...
THE PINK CEILING Women still earn less than men in the workplace, but causes are varied By Heide Brandes Despite the equal pay movement in America, a recen...