Here are a few of my writing samples, ranging from human interest stories to business profiles to hard news reporting.
Long Road to Liberty Defining the African-American experience in Oklahoma, these pioneers came to settle one of America's last frontiers and create a new sta...
The Ongoing Evolution of Desmond Mason and Why 2015 Will be His Year “I’ve always been the outsider,” Desmond Mason said, his tall, NBA-sized frame squashed...
OKLAHOMA CITY – A raft of proposed laws in socially conservative Oklahoma, criticized for being discriminatory measures aimed at limiting the rights of gay a...
TO SEE THE WORLD’S BEST COLLECTION OF CHINESE ART, YOU WON’T GO TO CHINA TAIWAN’S NATIONAL PLACE MUSEUM HOUSES MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF CHINESE ART, ARTI...
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 ...
Written by Heide Brandes in the November 2014 Issue On a dark Thursday night that promised rain, MaryDoris Casey was creeping around some dumpsters behind a...
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...
All copy written by Heide Brandes
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...
AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD AT YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK Easy day hikes, children’s programs make Yosemite a popular destination for fall By Heide Brandes The hik...
Special magazine focusing on Oklahoma as a place to locate a business or expand a business. All copy written by Heide Brandes.
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...
Written by Heide Brandes in the February 2014 Issue The Vintage Doll, Mimi LaRue, is adorable in a 1950s-style pink and white dress, white stellar heels and...
(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...