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Local Stories for April 2012
Stories for Monday, April 30
TCC's Tulsa Achieves program will cost roughly $4.8 million this year
Today was the deadline for high school seniors in Tulsa County to apply for the Tulsa Achieves scholarship at Tulsa Community College. Any Tulsa County high school student who is a U.S. citizen and graduates with at least a 2.0 grade point average is eligible for the program, which pays ...
Oklahoma Supreme Court voids results from special election in Tulsa
The Oklahoma Supreme Court voided a special election for a state House seat in Tulsa. This was the race between Republican Katie Henke and Democrat Dan Arthrell. Arthrell won on election night by three votes and the results were challenged by the Oklahoma Republican party. During a hand recount, Henke ...
Oklahoma to use next-to-last dose of pentobarbital for Tuesday execution
Tomorrow's scheduled execution of Michael Selsor will use one of Oklahoma's two doses of pentobarbital. Selsor is set to be executed at 6pm Tuesday for the death of a Tulsa convenience store clerk in 1975. Oklahoma Department of Corrections Jerry Massie tells KRMG pentobarbital is one of the three drugs ...
Mock disaster drill scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at Jenks Middle School
Jenks Middle School in south Tulsa will host a huge disaster response drill Tuesday afternoon. Bonnie Rogers of Jenks Schools tells KRMG that 200 to 300 volunteers and some 25 agencies will take part in the drill. The Jenks School District holds such drills roughly every two years. This year's ...
Tulsa police captain on administrative duty pending hearing on protective order
A Tulsa police captain has been placed on administrative duty pending the outcome of a protective order hearing in Osage County District Court. Capt. Shawn King is the defendant in the case; court records show the plaintiff to be Keena Roberts and four minor children. KRMG called the court clerk's ...
QT moves forward with store at I-44 and Peoria
If you want an indication of progress at I-44 and Peoria, just look to the corner of the old Camelot hotel. You will see dirt work in progress for a new QuikTrip store. The company announced the store more than three years ago but then put the construction on hold ...
Company expresses interest in Tulsa-to-Oklahoma City passenger rail service
Cynics will snicker. But a former Tulsa city councilor is convinced we are getting closer to being able to board a train in Tulsa for a quick trip to Oklahoma City. "I did speak with a private company a couple of weeks ago, who would be interested in funding the ...
Cross dressing bandit busted
He thought he was picking up a woman looking for a ride. But instead he picked a man dressed like a woman who took his wallet at gunpoint. Tulsa police officer Leland Ashley says the victim was driving on Admiral near Memorial just after midnight Monday morning when he noticed ...
Flooding forces homes to be evacuated in Osage County
We are hearing about flooding that is forcing families out of their homes in Osage County in the Burbank area, west of Pawhuska. We understand about 12 families have been evacuated from their homes. The Red Cross is providing food and drinks to emergency workers responding to the flooding. Emergency ...
EPA offical resigns over 'crucify' remark
The Obama administration's top environmental official in the oil-rich South and Southwest region has resigned after Republicans targeted him over remarks made two years ago when he used the word "crucify'' to describe his approach to enforcement. In a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson sent Sunday, Al Armendariz says ...
Behenna awaits verdict on appeal
These are a tense few weeks for the family of Oklahoma Army Lt. Michael Behenna. Behenna's in the Army prison at Ft. Leavenworth serving a 15-year sentence for murder. He killed an Al Qaeda operative during an interrogation in Iraq in 2008. Last week, a civilian appeals court, which oversees ...
Tulsa man sought for maiming girlfriend
The latest suspect on the Most Wanted list for Tulsa County is accused of a violent crime. Police are looking for 49-year-old Virgil Poole for Kidnapping and Maiming. Jason Willingham, spokesman for the Tulsa Police Department, says, “December the 8th, 2011, he locked his girlfriend in the closet, hit her ...
A chocolate lovers dream is now open in Tulsa
They say the best way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. That might be true for a woman as well but you get there with chocolate. That goal just got easier when Russell Stover Candies opened a new, huge store in the old Lone Star steak house on ...
Chance for severe weather late this afternoon
We still have a chance for severe weather after a heavy rain downpour moved out of the Tulsa area early Monday morning. News On 6 Chief Meteorologist Travis Meyer tells us conditions are favorable for re-development of some thunderstorms late this afternoon or tonight and then again tomorrow. He says, ...
Drought over for Tulsa area
After two years of dry conditions in our area the drought is officially over this morning. Mark Plate is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Tulsa. "Even though it has been dry over the last week to ten days, we have had enough rainfall ovet the past few months ...
Oklahoma death row inmate faces execution Tuesday
It's been almost 37 years since Debbie Huggins' father was shot to death during a robbery at a Tulsa convenience store where both of her parents worked. On Tuesday, the man who was twice convicted of killing Clayton Chandler is scheduled to die by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State ...
Severe storms uproot trees in northern Oklahoma
Severe thunderstorms prompted tornado warnings in northern Oklahoma, but there were no confirmed tornadoes and no injuries were immediately reported. The National Weather Service issued warnings for Kay, Osage and Washington counties after numerous severe thunderstorms moved into the region late Sunday. The weather service says spotters reported a funnel ...
Stories for Sunday, April 29
Shots fired after armed robbery at Tulsa eatery
Customers having breakfast at a Tulsa Panera Bread watched as an armed robber entered the store just before taking cash and shooting at an SUV while leaving the scene. The robbery took place around 7:00 a.m. Sunday in the Tulsa Hills Shopping Center near 71st and Highway 75. KRMG has ...
Medal of Honor Day Ceremony in Tulsa pays tribute to American war heroes
Hundreds of veterans and citizens gathered in Tulsa’s Veteran’s Park Saturday to hear stories of valor in war and pay tribute to American servicemen and women. A retired US Army Sergeant Major from Wisconsin was the guest of honor at this 10th annual event in Tulsa. In 1967, Kenneth E. ...
Man killed while lying on highway
A 22 year old Broken Arrow man is dead after being run over by a car while lying in the middle of a highway. We're told this all happened shortly after 3:00a.m. Sunday about three miles south of Broken Arrow on Highway 259. That's where troopers say Zachary Smith was hit by ...
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