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Oklahoma executes inmate for taking part in 2000 stabbing deaths of ranching couple
FILE - This June 29, 2011 file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows James DeRosa. DeRosa is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, June 18, 2013 for the Oct. 2, 2000 murders of Curtis Plummer, 73, and Gloria Plummer, 70. The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted last month against recommending that Gov. Mary Fallin commute DeRosa's death sentence to life in prison ...
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Audit of Oklahoma fire marshals office reveals failure to inspect some correctional facilities
The state fire marshal's office can't account for a missing shotgun and has failed to meet its legal duty to annually inspect all Oklahoma correctional facilities, a state audit has ...
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Prosecutors 14-Year-Old Murder Suspect Should Be Tried As Adult
TULSA, Oklahoma - A judge is expected to decide Wednesday whether murder suspect Joshua Mooney will be tried as a juvenile, a youthful offender or an adult. Prosecutors argue Mooney should be tried as an adult. Joshua Mooney was 14 in December, when deputies say he broke into a Jenks home and murdered Mary Escue, who was there visiting her parents. Prosecutors say it's important to ...
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Financial Website Ranks Tulsa Best City For Young Families
TULSA, Oklahoma - Tulsa just made the top of a website's list of best cities for young families. Financial education website CreditDonkey.com looked at unemployment rates, costs of living and daycare costs to find the top 10 cities for families just starting out. Tulsa came in first, boosted by an unemployment rate of 5.3 percent, more than 2 percentage points lower than the national ...
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Search on for credit card thief
TULSA - Tulsa police are asking for the public's help in a recent car break-in. TPD'sFinancial Crimes Unit posted a picture on Facebook of a man inside a local hardware store believed to have stolen a woman's credit cards. "This suspect recently broke into the victims car and used her credit cards at Home Depot and several other stores. Help us catch him!" the post ...
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Classen School of Advanced Studies valedictorian disappears while hiking with family in Ecuador
August Reiger, 18, went missing Sunday while hiking with his family during a vacation in Ecuador. Reiger graduated as a valedictorian from Classen School of Advanced Studies in Oklahoma City last ...
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Train engineers vision problems led to deadly Oklahoma wreck NTSB rules
WASHINGTON -- Two years before his failing vision likely contributed to a fatal crash in the Oklahoma Panhandle, freight train engineer Dan Hall told one of his eye doctors that he was having trouble distinguishing the color of train ...
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5-month-old Oklahoma baby overdoses on meth
A search warrant uncovered a ';major'; drug trafficking operationat the home. A can, with traces of meth on it, was found in the child’s room,explaining how the infant was exposed to dangerous drugs. Agents found 140 grams of meth, $3000 in cash, and drug paraphenelia. ';Basically this right here was all found in that ammo can with the packaging material in the ammo ...
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Gatesway Employees Go To Work For Spirit AeroSystems
Gatesway provides jobs for people living with intellectual or developmental disabilities. The employees will be assembling screw tray kits, and Gatesway says they are excited about their new jobs. "They like the challenge of something different and something new, so they're just really--they're just thrilled," said Gatesway CEO Judi Myers. Ten workers will start their jobs ...
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Tulsa 6th Grader To Talk To U.S. Congress About Type 1 Diabetes
TULSA, Oklahoma - An 11-year-old Tulsa sixth grader has been selected to go to Washington, D.C. to talk to Congress about funding for Type 1 Diabetes research. As Rick Wells shows us, in the video above, if this young man is as comfortable in Washington as he is in front of a TV camera, Congress doesn't stand a ...
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Suspect in MWC hostage standoff IDd
TODAY NEW DETAILS ABOUT A MAN, POLICE SAY GAVE THEM NO CHOICE BUT TO SHOOT AND KILL HIM IN A WAL-MART YESTERDAY AFTER TAKING A 2 YEAR OLD GIRL HOSTAGE. THIS IS 37-YEAR-OLD SAMMIE LAMONT WALLACE'. K-O-C-O'S DAN THOMAS IS LIVE AT THAT WAL-MART IN MIDWEST CITY. DAN, FIRST OF ALL .. HOW IS THAT LITTLE GIRL DOING...? SHE'S DOING JUST FINE, POLICE SAY SHE HAD NO CONNECTION TO THAT ...
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Hometown fans supporting The Swon Bros
MUSKOGEE, Okla. - The SwonBrothers aren't the only Oklahomans holding their breath as they await their Voice fate. The country duo's image filled the front page of the Muskogee Phoenix Tuesday, while discussions of the night's upcoming season finale results could be heard all around town. Up and down the streets of Muskogee, sign after sign in front of businesses displayed support ...
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Swatch parties pop up in Green Country
MUSKOGEE, Okla. - The Swon Brothers' family and friends are getting ready for another big night as they watch Zach and Colton from their hometown of Muskogee. Hundreds of the country duo's loved ones have shown up in full force throughout Season 4 of The Voice, and with the finale only hours away, they're expected to fill the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame once ...
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Court Grants Pastor Right to Sue Oklahoma Over Native American License Plate
An Oklahoma pastor has been given approval by a federal appeals court to sue the state over its license plate depicting the image of an Indian "rain god" made famous by a Native American ...
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Shipping container houses help tornado victims
EL RENO — We’ve all heard the phrase ';don’t judge a book by its cover.'; One Wisconsin-based company is applying that saying to special houses they build to help victims of natural disasters. They may not look like much on the outside; but once the doors swing open it makes people who have lost everything feel right at home. It looks like a normal 400 square foot ...
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Oklahoma executes man convicted of killing elderly couple
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma executed on Tuesday a man who was convicted of stabbing an elderly couple to death during a robbery at their home that netted $73, some of which he and convicted accomplices used to buy ...
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Oklahoma City police release video of robbery suspect
Oklahoma City police have released a video of a robber accused of stealing from four people at a northwest Oklahoma City gas station. The four people told police they were robbed at gunpoint Friday at ConocoPhillips, 201 W Britton Road, according to the incident ...
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Gunman riddles family’s car with bullets injuring couple but missing baby
DORCHESTER, MA — A car riddled with bullets was towed away in Dorchester, Massachusetts Monday not long after a 20-year-old woman and her boyfriend were shot. ';My niece had just pulled up. Her, her baby’s father and the baby. The guy came out of nowhere, coming at him and just started shooting,'; said Louis Jasey, the victim’s uncle. In the back seat of the car was ...
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Camp Noah offering free summer camp for children affected by disaster
NORMAN, OK — Camp Noah is a camp for elementary-aged children in communities impacted by disaster and they would like to invite parents to register their children to participate in the program June 24th – 28th in Norman. They have space for up to 60 campers for this fully funded camp. Of all the people affected by disaster, children are among the most emotionally vulnerable. ...
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Conoco robbery hopes to be solved using surveillance footage
OKLAHOMA CITY — Just before 4:00 Friday morning two couples, headed on a road trip, stopped at a Conoco in the 200 block of West Britton. They were just grabbing gas and fixing a headlight. They say a black male approached them and asked what was wrong and then quickly showed them a pocket pistol and said, ';Give me all your money.'; ';I immediately turned around and walked ...
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Oklahoma Summer Camp Caters To Non-Religious Kids
TULSA, Oklahoma - A Green Country camp that was in the center of a controversy over a fundraiser is teaching kids about science this week. Organizers for Camp Quest were asked to leave a Broken Arrow restaurant in April, when the restaurant's owner learned it was a camp for non-religious kids. Despite that dust up, dozens of children are spending the week outdoors with like-minded ...
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Model Of A Gathering Place For Tulsa Unveiled To The Public
TULSA, Oklahoma - Tulsans got their first look at "A Gathering Place" Tuesday. After years of planning, the final model is out for the start of a what's expected to be a world class park along Riverside Drive. It's going to be one of the largest and most expensive privately-funded parks in the United States, and while construction doesn't start until next year, the ...
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Edmond Rotarians celebrate 75 years serving community world
EDMOND -- On March 18, 1938, Rotary official Hal McNutt, of Stillwater, gave the Edmond Rotary Club its charter, which has resulted in 75 years of service to the community and ...
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Oklahoma corrections head quits amid flaps
Oklahoma's prisons chief resigned amid disagreements over whether more state corrections facilities should be run by private companies and whether his agency properly documented money held in reserve, but the governor's office said Tuesday she did not ask for him to step ...
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Seattle butcher shop finds success in marijuana fed pork
SEATTLE — It’s a different kind of head shop found just down the stairs from the Pike Place market. It’s the BB Ranch selling something that’s even better than bacon. It’s marijuana fed pork. ';The pig farmer has been feeding them marijuana for the last two and a half months of their life and they’ve been happy as hell,'; said William Von Schneidau, ...
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Oklahoma's massively ambitious transport plan for next eight years
The Oklahoma Department of Transport has adopted a massive transport improvement plan that will cost the state $4.8 billion over the next eight years and will incorporate around 1,700 individual project around the state aimed at making Oklahoma’s roads, bridges and highways safer and better to drive on.
Oklahoma has around 12,000 miles of highways and many more thousands of miles of roadway and streets, maintaining this massive expanse of tarmac is an ongoing process and in recent years the Department of Transport acknowledged that it has fallen behind. Read more
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