A defense contractor employee went on a shooting rampage Monday inside a building at the heavily secured Washington Navy Yard, spraying bullets in the hallways and firing from a balcony onto office workers in an atrium below, authorities and witnesses said. Thirteen people were killed, including the gunman.
Citing a strong appetite for its "Dirty Game" series on Oklahoma State football, Sports Illustrated released the fifth and final chapter a day earlier than originally announced.
BNSF Railway Co. announced Monday it is spending $125 million to expand and improve its system in Oklahoma. Projects will include a new bypass connection at the Cherokee rail yard in west Tulsa and extending a siding area on the carrier's tracks near Mannford.
As summer fades, so do the songs and sounds of summer. But that gives way to a fall music bonanza.
Oklahoma National Guard defies Pentagon on same-sex benefit requests In a policy reversal, the Oklahoma National Guard will no longer process benefit requests from same-sex ...
PHILLIP O'CONNOR NewsOK.com
'Improve Our Tulsa' makes marketing pitch The campaign to convince Tulsans to 'Improve Our Tulsa' kicked off Tuesday with a logo, campaign website ...
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Cherokee Nation's $1.3 billion impact on Oklahoma cited by economist The Cherokee Nation's $1.3 billion impact on Oklahoma is special because of how the tribe's influence ...
JARREL WADE World Staff Writer
Tulsa Club owner Josh Barrett vows to remake historic building It's a testament to architect Bruce Goff's vision that nearly 100 years after he designed the Tulsa Club ...
KEVIN CANFIELD World Staff Writer
Change in state lottery split again suggested Oklahoma Lottery Commission Executive Director Rollo Redburn on Tuesday sent up a trial balloon for ...
BARBARA HOBEROCKWorld Capitol Bureau
Local, State briefs The Oklahoma Supreme Court says people who have been convicted of sex crimes in other states are not ...
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Hispanic group, NAACP join Texas Voter ID lawsuit The Mexican American Legislative Caucus and the Texas NAACP filed a lawsuit Tuesday to overturn the state's ...
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Colorado flood damage assessment begins The emergency airlifts of flood victims waned Tuesday, leaving rescue crews to search the nooks and crannies ...
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Tulsa police officer cleared of civil-rights violations in pushups lawsuit After two days of arguments and nearly five hours of deliberation, a Tulsa federal jury has determined ...
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Baby Veronica court proceeding continues Meeting for a second-straight day, Baby Veronica's competing sets of parents spent several hours at a ...
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Teen prostitute leaves shelter to return to street life A 15-year-old prostitute has left a Tulsa shelter and is back on the streets, saying she prefers the ...
SHEILA STOGSDILL World Correspondent
Russia resists U.N. use of force Russia insisted Tuesday that a U.N. Security Council resolution governing Syria's handling of its chemical ...
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Navy Yard gunman told police he was hearing voices A month before he went on the rampage that left 13 dead, Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis complained ...
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Way back when: Today in history Adm. William F. Halsey, commander of the 3rd Fleet rode a white horse in Tokyo but he didn't enjoy it. ...
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New trial ordered for ex-officers in post-Katrina killings A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a new trial for five former New Orleans police officers convicted ...
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Dutch king says the welfare state is gone King Willem-Alexander delivered a message to the Dutch people from the government Tuesday in a nationally ...
Acapulco Anguish Emergency flights began arriving in Acapulco on Tuesday to evacuate some of the thousands of tourists ...
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Daily U.S. Casualties Afghanistan: As of Tuesday, at least 2,135 members of the U.S. military had died as a result of the U.S.-led ...
Tulsa County judge rejects bid for grand jury to probe drowning death of toddler in Sand Springs A Tulsa County judge has denied a petition to impanel a grand jury to investigate the death of a 19-month-old ...
RHETT MORGAN World Staff Writer
Edmond educator named Oklahoma's 2014 Teacher of the Year Peter Markes always knew he wanted to teach. But it wasn't until he started making money playing the ...
TIM WILLERT NewsOK.com
Gov. Fallin talks education, economic issues at Press Club 'Maybe someday we'll have a woman president,' Gov. Mary Fallin told an audience here Tuesday before quickly ...
CHRIS CASTEEL NewsOK.com
Owasso to seek ODOT help for widening Garnett Road The City Council approved a resolution Tuesday night to move forward with a roughly $8 million project ...
Tulsa trash board reimbursing QuikTrip for green-waste stickers The city is refunding to Quik-Trip the money the company spent for thousands of green-waste stickers ...
Editorial: Was background check on Navy shipyard shooter thorough? The loss of 12 lives, 13 counting the suspect, in the Navy shipyard shootings Monday is tragic. With ...
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Students at Tulsa's Thoreau Demonstration Academy have a message for their sick friend: Stay strong If Luis Delarosa didn't know that he was missed at Thoreau Demonstration Academy before, his classmates ...
ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
Rites held for Locust Grove woman who helped spot forest fires Situated atop the tallest hill in the area and rising 60 feet off the ground, Oma McCuistion's lookout ...
TIM STANLEY World Staff Writer
New OU band director out of step with tradition, needs, alumni and parents say As fans trekked to Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Saturday before the Sooners' matchup against ...
SILAS ALLEN NewsOK.com
Biking begins again for MS Oklahoma Nearly 600 cyclists will be hitting the highways of central Oklahoma this weekend for Bike MS: The Mother ...
MIKE AVERILL World Staff Writer
Routine maintenance key to keeping your vehicle running Pinchpennies throughout time have pointed to the family truckster and said, 'I'm going to drive that ...
PHIL MULKINSWorld Action Line Editor
Best Used Cars for 2013: Honda, Toyota, Ford dominate Edmunds list Edmunds.com last week released its annual list of Best Used Cars for 2013, a list of 17 cars across ...
Will Rogers Says They are a pretty tough bunch of hyenas, those Senators ... Every time we let one of them out, a worse ...
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Ginnie Graham: Study shows students benefit big from arts-related field trips After a single visit to an art museum, thousands of students understood themes of irony, farming choices ...
GINNIE GRAHAM World Staff Writer
City refunding QuikTrip's unsold green-waste stickers The convenience store chain was the sole distributor of the 50-cent stickers residents were required to place on bags of extra yard waste.
Pushups for Tulsa police officer didn't violate man's civil rights, jury says The plaintiff alleged in a lawsuit that he was made to perform pushups to avoid a ticket or jail.
Owasso moves toward widening Garnett in heavily traveled area The upgrade from 96th to 106th streets north is a candidate for federal funding assistance.
Navy Yard gunman told police he was hearing voices Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis complained to police in Rhode Island last month that people last month that people were talking to him through the walls and ceilings of his hotel rooms.
ERIC TUCKER, JACK GILLUM AND LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated Press
Federal gun laws didn’t block Navy Yard shooter The gunman in the mass shootings at the Washington Navy Yard had a history of violent outbursts.
ALICIA A. CALDWELL Associated Press
OSU police issue warning after second attack near student housing The most recent assault occurred about 4 a.m. Sept. 7 in the area of the Morrison Apartments.
DYLAN GOFORTH World Staff Writer
Russia opposes use of force in resolution on Syria Russia insisted Tuesday that a U.N. resolution governing Syria’s chemical weapons not allow the use of force.
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Colorado flood attention turns to damage tallies as airlifts wane The emergency airlifts of flood victims waned Tuesday, leaving transportation officials to gauge what it will take to rebuild the wasted landscape.
P. SOLOMON BANDA AND BEN NEARYAssociated Press
New trial ordered in post-Katrina bridge killings A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a new trial for five former New Orleans police officers convicted civil rights violations.
MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press
Change in state lottery split again suggested The Oklahoma Lottery Commission has a plan for bigger prizes and more education dollars.
Broken Arrow man arrested after alleged DUI-crash injures son Kevin Martin, 24, was arrested just after 6 p.m. Sunday after the crash in east Broken Arrow.
Seventh-graders spell out their support to classmate fighting cancer If Luis Delarosa didn’t know he was missed at Thoreau Demonstration Academy before, he knows it ...
Out-of-state prisoner charged in Tulsa double murder brought back to face prosecution Hilliard Andrew Fulgham is accused of killing Linda Wright, 45, and Dorothy Lindley, 60, in 2006.
Baby Veronica update: Both sides spend several hours in court Matt and Melanie Capobianco raised Veronica for the first two years of her life, but she has lived with ...
Cherokee, Oklahoma leaders tout tribe's billion-dollar economic impact on state The tribe pumps millions of dollars into northeastern Oklahoma counties each year.
Senate, House ensnared in health care controversy Implacable Republican opposition to Obamacare has Congress once more veering closer to gridlock.
DAVID ESPO AP Special Correspondent
Oklahoma National Guard reverses stance on same-sex couple benefits Oklahoma now joins Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana as the only states that have publicly said they will ...
Edmond teacher named Oklahoma Teacher of the Year He will represent Oklahoma in the national Teacher of the Year competition in the spring of 2014.
View: University of Oklahoma football is a contact sport for the players and fans When over 80,000 people descend on Norman, contact is inevitable.
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Navy Yard shooting victims had long careers there One of the victim's sons is in Army basic training in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Supreme Court rules on sex offender lawsuit The justices ruled that the many amendments made to the law can't be applied retroactively.
White House criticizes lawmakers opposing gun bill Although some Democrats voted in April against a measure that would have required background checks for ...
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Improve Our Tulsa campaign for capital improvement projects launches City voters on Nov. 12 will consider separate ballot propositions to extend 1.1 percent in sales taxes ...
Weather World: Colorado flooding photos and videos More than 2,300 people and 850 pets have been airlifted to safety by Tuesday, according to the Colorado ...
Althea Peterson Staff Writer
Judge denies grand jury petition in toddler's death In a order filed Tuesday, Presiding District Judge William C. Kellough denied the petition, finding it ...
Colorado evacuees return to find more heartbreak As many as eight people were believed to be dead, according to state officials, and hundreds were still ...
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Gunman in Navy Yard rampage was hearing voices He had been treated since August by Veterans Affairs, the officials said.
BRETT ZONGKER, ERIC TUCKER AND LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated Press
Police: Search continues for man who robbed elderly woman Police said a male grabbed cash from the hands of a 71-year-old woman as she was standing in line before ...
Rain possible again in Tulsa area today During the past two days, an Oklahoma Mesonet site on the northeast Tulsa Community College campus has ...
New study warns of U.S. long-term debt problems The Congressional Budget Office report said government spending on health care and Social Security would ...
ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press
Court orders resentencing for man accused in deaths of Edmond residents The Denver-based appeals court agreed with his defense team, which argued that it was unconstitutional ...
Wayne's World: Where the new Oklahoma independent voters are They're in fast-growing, urban areas, and you can find them in the same places where Republicans vot ...
Wayne Greene Editorial Pages Editor
Altus man electrocuted while working on house He was pronounced dead at a hospital. Police are investigating but said it appears to be an accident ...
Three sentenced in 2011 death of Fort Gibson teen Authorities accused six people of entering a house and robbing the teen and three others.
Missing Kansas City girl found in Edmond; mother arrested on abduction complaints The 13-year-old girl was recovered unharmed and is waiting to be reunited with her father, Deputy U.S. ...
BRYAN DEAN NewsOK.com
Flood damage to Oklahoma City office building exceeds $2 million Repairing the May 31 flood damage to the seven-story building at 100 N Walker Ave. Oklahoma City is expected ...
WILLIAM CRUM NewsOK.com
Kansas woman dies in Payne County wreck Grant was driving a 1992 Toyota Corolla south on Interstate 35, just 13 miles west of Stillwater about ...
U.N. cites 'clear evidence' of Syria chemical attack U.N. inspectors said Monday there is 'clear and convincing evidence' that chemical weapons were used ...
EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
Concordia put upright The crippled Costa Concordia cruise ship was pulled upright early Tuesday after a complicated, 19-hour ...
FRANCES D'EMILIO Associated Press
Big storms hit Mexico on both coasts; 34 dead The remnants of Hurricane Ingrid and Tropical Storm Manuel drenched Mexico's Gulf and Pacific coasts ...
AP Wire Service
Colorado floodwaters recede, revealing devastation Weary Colorado evacuees began returning home after days of rain and flooding, but Monday's clearing skies ...
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N.C. officer charged with voluntary manslaughter in shooting death of unarmed man An unarmed man seeking help after a car crash over the weekend was shot 10 times by the Charlotte police ...
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Malaysian insurgency leader Chin Peng dies The tough former communist guerrilla who led a bloody but failed insurgency against British rule in Malaysia ...
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Report: Drug-resistant bacteria are common killers For the first time, the government is estimating how many people die from drug-resistant bacteria each ...
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American Theatre Company wins downtown Tulsa landscaping contest Faded paint and boarded windows marked the old machine shop that would become American Theatre Company's ...
Students have strong views on Constitution Fourth-grader Caleb Mangesho has strong opinions about what the U.S. Constitution means to him.
KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer
Father of 19-month-old drowning victim seeks grand jury probe The father of a 19-month-old girl who drowned in a koi pond in Sand Springs last year wants a grand jury ...
CCA, which operates Oklahoma private prisons, found in contempt for prison understaffing in Idaho A federal judge says private prison company Corrections Corporation of America is in contempt of court ...
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Businessman reappointed to state regents post Tulsan Joseph 'Jody' Parker has been reappointed by Gov. Mary Fallin to the Oklahoma State Regents for ...
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Man pleads no contest in fatal 2010 traffic crash Cody Allen Zimmer, now 24, will be sentenced Oct. 30 by Tulsa County District Judge William Kellough ...
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Nation Briefs New York City mayoral candidate Bill Thompson conceded the Democratic primary race to front-runner Bill ...
Daily U.S. Casualties Afghanistan: As of Monday, at least 2,134 members of the U.S. military had died as a result of the ...
News Briefs A top policewoman in southern Afghanistan died Monday after being shot by unknown attackers, months after ...
Memorial to fallen soldier Pfc. Jon Townsend dedicated in Claremore Pfc. Jon Ross Townsend epitomized selflessness, demonstrating the word of God with his actions, his mother ...
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4-day prostitution sting in Tulsa, Rogers, Ottawa and Delaware counties leads to 42 arrests The bureau's Human Trafficking Unit concluded a four-day operation Friday that focused on organized sex ...
Baby Veronica's parents meet in Tulsa court In the longest hearing yet since the custody battle moved to Oklahoma, Baby Veronica's two sets of parents ...
Jay Cronley: College football coaches are having their own huddles With the explosion of questionable material surrounding college football, the following meeting could ...
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Latest Tulsa homicide likely related to drugs A man's body was found in a car early Monday in what Tulsa police say is the city's 43rd homicide of ...
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Any Given Child program brings arts to school kids The curtain had just gone down on the Tulsa Ballet's special Monday afternoon performance, and fifth-graders ...
Tulsa school board OKs nearly $6 million in raises for teachers, staff The Tulsa school board approved nearly $6 million in additional funding for employee salary increases ...
Cherokee Nation's economic impact on state tops $1.3 billion The Cherokee Nation's total economic impact on Oklahoma grew during the last year by more than 20 percent, ...
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Official: 42 arrests made in prostitution, human trafficking busts in northeast Oklahoma The bureau’s Human Trafficking Unit concluded a four-day operation Friday that focused on organized sex ...
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The campaign to convince Tulsans to "Improve Our Tulsa" kicked off Tuesday with a logo, campaign website and plenty of optimism for the $918.7 million capital improvements proposal headed to voters Nov. 12.
It's a testament to architect Bruce Goff's vision that nearly 100 years after he designed the Tulsa Club building, the 11-story Zig-Zag Art Deco structure at Fifth Street and Cincinnati Avenue still shimmers with potential. Click here to view a slideshow of the inside of the Tulsa Club. Click here to read John Clanton's blog about the building.
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