The final plan for A Gathering Place for Tulsa park along Riverside Drive will be unveiled Tuesday - a moment officials at the George Kaiser Family Foundation have been anxious to see come for nearly seven years. Find stories, interviews and photos about the upcoming Tulsa park designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh and his team of architects.
LeBron James' 32 points and Ray Allen's 3-pointer gave the Miami Heat a chance to come back in OT. The Spurs led by 10 going into the fourth quarter.
“Ferra chose to expand to Oklahoma because its central location enables us to easily provide service to our customer base on both coasts and international markets, said Ferra Engineering CEO Mark Sherrer in a statement Tuesday.
The brothers from Muskogee made it further than any other duo on the four seasons of the NBC reality singing competition but lost out to fellow Team Blake artist Danielle Bradbery.
Plan for new Tulsa park to be unveiled The final plan for A Gathering Place for Tulsa park along Riverside Drive will be unveiled Tuesday - ...
KEVIN CANFIELD World Staff Writer
Broken Arrow man fired gun to scare girlfriend, charges claim Alvin Dewayne Butler is charged with assault and reckless conduct with a firearm.
DYLAN GOFORTH World Staff Writer
Man shot on apartment complex's basketball court The shooting occurred at the Canyon Creek Apartments, 2102 E. 51st St.
'A Gathering Place for Tulsa' plans unveiled The estimated cost of Phase 1 of the park has increased from $150 million to $200 million.
Man who crashed car during police chase to be jailed after hospital release Freddie Allen Hayes had been wanted on various warrants, police said.
View: Intersections: 122nd and Albuquerque Tulsa World photo intern, Garett Fisbeck, explores the Tulsa area one throw of a dart at a time.
Garett Fisbeck Staff Photographer
Electronic-waste trailer stolen from MET recycling center Electronic waste collection by the Metropolitan Environment Trust has been suspended.
Judge denies Cherokee freedmen injunction request A Tribal Council candidate had requested the injunction so that freedmen descendents could vote.
DAVID HARPER World Staff Writer
TCC Metro campus to remain closed Wednesday Technicians are working to rebuild and replace a power distribution panel that caught fire Monday night, ...
AMANDA BLAND AND KENDRICK MARSHALLWorld Staff Writers
Military plans would put women in most combat jobs Maj. Gen. Bennet Sacolick, director of force management for U.S. Special Operations Command, said 'the ...
LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press
Execution set for Oklahoma man in 2 stabbing deaths Prosecutors said the man and a co-defendant talked their way into the victims' rural LeFlore County home, ...
Associated Press
Tornado insurance claims near 71,000 in Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak said insurance payments from the storms have topped $560 million.
Officials to review probe of suspended Owasso city manager by July 1 The investigative report won’t be presented to the city council Tuesday night, Owasso Mayor Doug Bonebrake ...
RHETT MORGAN World Staff Writer
Highs in the 90s, limited thunderstorm chances forecast for Tulsa area this week Scattered showers and thunderstorms will be possible both Wednesday and Thursday in the Tulsa area.
Staff Reports
House committee takes up tough immigration bill Meanwhile in the Senate, a Republican lawmaker floated a compromise border security proposal he hopes ...
ERICA WERNER Associated Press
U.S., Taliban to start talks on ending Afghan war After months of delays, the Taliban opened a political office in the Qatari capital of Doha, paving the ...
PATRICK QUINN Associated Press
Obama administration threatens veto of Rep. Frank Lucas' farm bill Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Cheyenne, is the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee and will be managing ...
CHRIS CASTEEL NewsOK.com
Coweta man to serve prison time in fatal hit-and-run He pleaded no contest to felony leaving the scene of a fatal collision and misdemeanor negligent homicide ...
KENDRICK MARSHALL World Staff Writer
WikiLeaks case in recess until June 25 The prosecution and defense will spend the next week negotiating written statements from some 17 witnesses, ...
NTSB: Poor eyesight probable cause in Oklahoma Panhandle train crash Investigators also proposed 16 new safety recommendations to curb future accidents.
Wayne's World: Tax Foundation says 39 percent of Oklahoma's total general revenue comes from federal government The state ranks 14th in its dependence on federal aid, bringing to mind a recent disagreement between ...
Wayne Greene Senior Writer
Wayne's World: Inhofe among senators targeted for 'protecting' military rapists Inhofe voted against a proposal to remove commanding officers from the military justice system in sexual ...
Electrical malfunction shutters TCC Metro Campus at least through Tuesday Tulsa Community College's Metro Campus has canceled classes for Tuesday because of an electrical malfunction ...
TCC Metro Campus to remain closed Tuesday due to electrical malfunction The unveiling of the plans for a Gathering Place for Tulsa will still take place Tuesday.
Woman's body found in northwest Oklahoma City, her son arrested She had injuries on her body consistent with homicide, police report.
STAFF REPORTS NewsOK.com
Norman man threatens Fallin's 'child' and local sheriff in emails He told investigators he sent the emails from the Norman Public Library and was arrested June 7 on “unrelated ...
ANDREW KNITTLE NewsOK.com
Execution set for Oklahoma man in 2 stabbing deaths Oklahoma corrections officials are preparing to execute the second death row inmate to be put to death ...
AP Wire Service
Police kill man who took girl at Oklahoma store Authorities say a police officer shot and killed a man who'd taken a toddler hostage at a Walmart Market ...
Theft, assault charges filed against Tulsa man Gary Colbert Jr., 22, is accused of stealing a 1985 Chevrolet pickup truck and then punching a woman ...
Will Rogers Says George Washington - of course he was great - he was the Father of our Country on account of having ...
Report: U.S. adult smoking rate dips to 18 percent Fewer U.S. adults are smoking, a new government report says.
MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer
Obama: NSA secret data gathering 'transparent' President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy ...
KIMBERLY DOZIERAP Intelligence Writer
Susan G. Komen for the Cure names Judith Salerno as new president, CEO Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced Monday that a physician with a long career in health policy and ...
JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press
Assad: EU will pay price for arming rebels Syria's President Bashar Assad warned that Europe 'will pay a price' if it delivers weapons to rebels ...
Obama, Putin disagree on Syrian civil war Deep differences over Syria's civil war clouded a summit of world leaders Monday, with Russian President ...
JULIE PACE Associated Press
Military plans would put women in most combat jobs Women may be able to start training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later under ...
Supreme Court rejects Arizona voter-citizenship law The Supreme Court on Monday struck down an Arizona law requiring that people registering to vote in federal ...
MICHAEL DOYLE McClatchy News Service (MCT)
Cancer killed California serial killer Richard Ramirez Cancer killed the serial killer known as the Night Stalker, who terrorized Southern California in the ...
150th anniversary of Gettysburg to be commemorated with 10 days of activities, remembrances The battlefield is never totally at rest.
CHUCK RAASCH USA TODAY
Pioneering photojournalist's subjects as historic as she was With a click of the camera pressed against her forehead, the photojournalist broke ground in a way her ...
Wire Reports
Ex-hit man says he was heartbroken Bulger was an FBI informant A former gangster who admitted killing 20 people was unemotional Monday when describing his line of work ...
DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press
Former Tulsa dentist is sued by another former patient Another former patient of W. Scott Harrington has sued the Tulsa oral surgeon, alleging that he contracted ...
SHANNON MUCHMORE World Staff Writer
Pen pals for 8 decades finally meet Sadie Fanali and Lorraine Thomas have been pen pals since 1932. On Friday, the two 91-year-olds cried ...
SARAH HUSSAIN NewsOK.com
Action Line: Disclosure rules updated for small platforms by FTC Dear Action Line: Are there guidelines for these online advertisers explaining how they must make 'disclosures' ...
PHIL MULKINSWorld Action Line Editor
Upside Down: Soggy Start To Summer Buildings are reflected in a puddle near 10th and Main streets Monday.
Local, Area Briefs The case of a Tulsa police officer who is accused of robbing Hispanic drivers during traffic stops is ...
BILL BRAUN World Staff Writer
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Births: 6/18/2013 (Tulsans unless indicated)
Nation Briefs An attorney representing inmates at two California prisons has told a federal judge that prisoners vulnerable ...
Daily U.S. Casualties Afghanistan: As of Monday, at least 2,100 members of the U.S. military had died as a result of the ...
News Briefs Former President Bill Clinton urged Israel to make peace with Palestinians in order to survive as a Jewish ...
McCain presses Obama on secret emails Republican Sen. John McCain on Monday questioned President Barack Obama about his political appointees' ...
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Pinto World Championship continues two-week run in Tulsa After winning a world title on first day of the Pinto World Championship last week, Kari McKelvie already ...
SAMANTHA VICENT World Staff Writer
Way back when: Today in history A nail-studded bomb was detonated on an early morning Jerusalem bus crowded with high school students ...
GENE CURTIS
Tulsa Sidewalk Stories video series focuses on the city's poor walkability Six months after her grandmother was struck and killed by a car on Cherry Street, Josie Carlson is working ...
Jay Cronley: Seven midyear resolutions to work on Upon the arrival of summer on Friday, I'm thinking about putting some moves on the following seven problem ...
JAY CRONLEY World Staff Columnist
State ranks 42nd in U.S. for college degrees Oklahoma ranks 42nd in the nation for the number of adults who have college degrees, up from 43rd place ...
KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer
Tulsa mayor says tax extension even more needed after council's decision on police The financial consequences of a City Council decision to fund a second police academy in the next fiscal ...
ZACK STOYCOFF World Staff Writer
TPS' deputy-superintendent search advances The Tulsa school board's search for a deputy superintendent - and a candidate to succeed Superintendent ...
ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
Tyrone Dale David Woodfork won't be targeted for death penalty, Tulsa County prosecutors say Tulsa County prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty for a Tulsan who is accused of raping and ...
Oklahoma Dept. of Correction director submits resignation Department of Corrections Director Justin Jones is resigning effective Oct. 1.
BARBARA HOBEROCKWorld Capitol Bureau
Store clerk fights off armed robbers One of the men held a gun to the employee's head, but he grabbed the gun, and the robbers fled.
Tulsa woman crashes through brick wall, cited A person inside a nearby house said the crash sounded 'like an earthquake.'
Man gets life in prison for fatal shooting in Tulsa bar Jacob Wayne Smith, 31, was convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of Luis Torres.
Child's baby-sitter charged with raping her multiple times The 9-year-old girl told a family member the man had been “raping her ... for two years.”
UPDATED: Death penalty won't be sought in Strait slaying Tyrone Woodfork faces a first-degree murder charge and two first-degree rape counts in connection with ...
BILL BRAUN World staff writer
Texas man drowns in Red River below Denison Dam Enrique Amador's body was recovered about 10 feet from the riverbank in about 4 feet of water.
Tulsa school board interviews deputy superintendent candidate More than 20 people have applied for the position, and others might be interviewed in the future.
Department of Corrections director resigning Justin Jones has run afoul of policymakers who want to put more state inmates in private prisons.
Street project closes some Woodland Hills parking lot entrances A pavement repair project near Woodland Hills Mall will close multiple lanes of 71st Street and adjacent ...
Armed robbers steal vehicle at gas station The thieves instructed one of the victims to remove his pants before stealing the vehicle, police sa ...
Bartlett calls for vote on permanent tax extension for public safety He said his tax extension would not fund the additional officers hired by the City Council’s budget ...
Pair arrested in Oklahoma City after posing as deputies Officials say the men spent about 45 minutes at a gas station, posing as Oklahoma County sheriff's d ...
Lightning sparks house fire that displaces family Four people and three dogs evacuated prior to firefighters arriving; there were no injuries.
Report of British hacking of diplomats angers nations The Guardian's report laid out in explicit detail steps taken by GCHQ to monitor foreign officials' conversations ...
RAPHAEL SATTER Associated Press
Chance for storms again this afternoon, tonight The forecast calls for a 20 percent chance of showers and storms this afternoon and a 30 percent tonight ...
Arizona law on voter registration tossed out by Supreme Court The justices voted 7-2 to throw out Arizona's voter-approved requirement that prospective voters document ...
JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press
High court says driver records protected The Supreme Court says lawyers may not obtain personal information from state driver license records ...
Owasso man jailed on child abuse complaints Lee Thao, 44, of Owasso was jailed on a child abuse by caretaker complaint for reportedly striking two ...
KENDRICK MARSHALL,World Staff Writer
Brothers arrested following bar fight, scuffle with police Tulsa police were called to 3340 Bar at 3340 S. Peoria Avenue in response to a fight that had broken ...
KENDRICK MARSHALL
Jail inmate hospitalized after cutting himself The inmate was treated and later released.
Mental health in Tulsa: Follow-up care is lacking, MHAT official says Nearly two years ago, William Boyd Sturdivant II climbed a communications tower and stayed there for ...
AMANDA BLAND World Staff Writer
2 found dead after fire in Canadian County Authorities say two people were found dead after a weekend house fire in Canadian County.
Israeli official blasts idea of Palestinian state The idea of Palestinians establishing a state in the territory they seek has 'reached a dead end,' a ...
IAN DEITCH Associated Press
Crews battle hot spots in Colorado wildfire Firefighters are getting a better handle on the most destructive wildfire ever in Colorado, but they're ...
THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press
Obama: Northern Ireland peace will be tested President Barack Obama declared peace in Northern Ireland a 'blueprint' for those living amid conflict ...
JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press
Current, former officials call secret surveillance 'essential' Current and former top U.S. officials on Sunday defended the government's collection of phone and Internet ...
STEPHEN BRAUN Associated Press
Graham: Without immigration, GOP to fail in 2016 Republicans are 'in a demographic death spiral' and will fail in their effort to win the presidency if ...
PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press
Bombings, attacks across Iraq kill 51 A blistering string of apparently coordinated bombings and a shooting across Iraq killed at least 51 ...
Turkey divisions widen Riot police firing tear gas and water cannons repelled thousands of anti-government protesters attempting ...
ELENA BECATOROS & SUZAN FRASERAssociated Press
G8 faces uncertain recoveries Europe is mired in debt and recession. Financial markets have hit violent ups and downs on fears that ...
DAVID MCHUGH & SHAWN POGATCHNIKAssociated Press
Federal judge in Microsoft antitrust case Thomas Penfield Jackson dies at 76 Thomas Penfield Jackson, who as a federal judge in Washington presided over a historic Microsoft antitrust ...
House fire in Coweta takes 13-year-old boy A Wagoner County 13-year-old boy died early Sunday after a fire swept through a single-family Coweta ...
Residents eager to return to homes in Colorado fire zone With evacuees eager to return, firefighters worked Sunday to dig up and extinguish hot spots to protect ...
Pope blesses hundreds of Harley-Davidsons Biker culture came to the Vatican on Sunday as Pope Francis blessed thousands of Harley-Davidsons and ...
NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
Oklahoma Rep. Frank Lucas is hopeful his farm bill will make it through the House this week. 'It's a difference between those who are wearing dress shoes and those who are wearing boots,'' Rep. ...
CHRIS CASTEEL
Tulsa Zoo giraffe, 21, euthanized after foot injury The Tulsa Zoo's male giraffe, Samburu, was euthanized Saturday after he fractured a foot, zoo officials ...
IRS supervisor in DC admits she reviewed 'tea party' cases An Internal Revenue Service supervisor in Washington says she was personally involved in scrutinizing ...
STEPHEN OHLEMACHERAssociated Press
Nation Briefs A 25-year-old contestant from Connecticut won the title of Miss USA in Las Vegas on Sunday night.
Births: 6/17/2013 (Tulsans unless indicated)
News Briefs Heavy weekend rains caused severe flooding in the Mexican city of Piedras Negras on the border with Texas. ...
Daily U.S. casualties Afghanistan: As of Sunday, at least 2,100 members of the U.S. military had died as a result of the ...
Survey shows texting while driving is still a problem among teens While more teens are using seat belts and driving with fewer friends in the car, texting and driving ...
SARA PLUMMER World Staff Writer
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Corrections, clarifications A Thursday Tulsa World Sports column incorrectly referred to the Grand River Dam Authority.
Will Rogers Says I don't care to deal with a man after he has become famous. I am interested in what he was doing when ...
Way back when: Today in history Argentine President Leopoldo Galtieri was forced to resign by his fellow officers after leading Argentina ...
OU finds online material to replace costly textbooks Leading the effort at OU is Associate Chemistry Professor Mark Morvant, executive director of the school's ...
WAYNE GREENE World Senior Writer
World analysis shows wide disparity in driver's testing results in Oklahoma The odds of passing a driver's test for a Class D license might depend in part on where the test is taken ...
CURTIS KILLMAN World Staff Writer
'Most Wanted' charged in 2012 robbery A man who police said acted as a lookout during an armed robbery last year is the Tulsa Police Department's ...
JERRY WOFFORD World Staff Writer
Don't let your car be a summer crime target Tulsa police are asking people to secure their belongings as they spend more time outside in the summer, ...
Police: Gang arrests may slow drug trade Tulsa police are hoping the recent indictment of four Hoover Crips will go a long way toward curbing ...
Readers step up to help teen needing life-sustaining medication He doesn't particularly like coffee, but Charles Browne brought a Starbucks cup to the office just to ...
MICHAEL OVERALL World Staff Writer
Tech academy proposed to reach high school dropouts At-risk youths in Tulsa could soon have a new path to high school credentials and job skills that would ...
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Owasso's city manager ordered videos showing vice mayor's traffic stop to be purged, memo shows Suspended Owasso City Manager Rodney Ray ordered the deletion of two police videos showing the field ...
Wayne Greene: Tax Foundation says 39 percent of Oklahoma's total general revenue comes from federal government The state ranks 14th in its dependence on federal aid, bringing to mind a recent disagreement between ...
Homeless teens do whatever it takes to survive on the streets The pregnant, homeless 16-year-old sat in the dark on a curb in a north Tulsa park with a phone in hand ...
GINNIE GRAHAM World Staff Writer
Toby Keith, Garth Brooks set benefit concert Garth Brooks, Willie Nelson, Trisha Yearwood and Ronnie Dunn will join Toby Keith July 6 for his Oklahoma ...
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Religious imagery of Oklahoma tag wasn't considered, senator says An Oklahoma minister is challenging the state license plate's depiction of an Apache warrior.
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Water emergency over, Broken Arrow gets back to business Restaurants and other businesses that were shut down about 24 hours by the city's water emergency began ...
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A Tribal Council candidate had requested the injunction so that freedmen descendents could vote.
Prosecutors said the man and a co-defendant talked their way into the victims' rural LeFlore County home, slashed their throats and left with $73 and the couple's truck.
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