Glenpool would like to capture expiring Vision 2025 funds to pay for street, water and sewer projects, economic development and police and fire department equipment. GLENPOOL — City councilors have voted to place two propositions to capture a portion of the expiring Vision 2025 tax on the April 5 ballot. Councilors also moved Monday to…
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Beck, 97, talked to the Tulsa World recently about his service as an Army Air Corps firefighter in WWII, helping put out fires and rescue airmen from crashed B-29s. Now that he was all cleaned and wrapped, Paul Beck couldn’t decide what he was more worried about. His burned body or his wounded dignity.
We previously shared with you that the Eufaula killer in an awful bank robbery last month had actually been convicted in Sapulpa back in 2006. Turns out, there’s a lot more to that story about how he was wrongfully freed from prison. Twice. Officials from Creek and Tulsa counties, as well as the Texas Department of Criminal Justice,…
Police were unable to identify Kevin Leroy Smith as a suspect until DNA evidence recovered through a sexual assault exam matched a sample he provided when he was indicted in July 2014 in a federal child pornography case. A Sapulpa man convicted of federal child pornography charges pleaded guilty Monday to Tulsa County charges stemming from the 2013 rape…
The Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum receives significant support to construct the museum and the planned tower from Bennett Steel and American Heritage Bank
Taylor says he “cannot fathom how this could be considered in any way beneficial for the children of Oklahoma.”
It’s been said that the quickest way to a man’s heart is his stomach. Women, on the other hand, typically require a bit more finesse.
Pretty Water, Allen-Bowden, Lone Star on the chopping block in new bill.
Russell Wagner, who along with wife Meagan Wagner is participating in the launch program, said that not having access to a commercial kitchen was the biggest obstacle they faced while trying to start their business Mr. Salsa. The Wagners’ company will provide fresh, cold, ready-to-eat salsas that Wagner said he envisions being sold in refrigerated…
In winning the title of Miss Oklahoma USA, Taylor Gorton earned a crown, a sash and a platform that allows her to reach many people — maybe even the Hanson brothers? In 2010, when Gorton was a National American Miss Teen, she told an interviewer her favorite childhood memory was attending a Hanson concert in…
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