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By Staff Reports & NewsOK.com
Published: 10/8/2009 2:32 AM
Last Modified: 10/8/2009 4:17 AM

Tulsa animal shelter to host expo, open house

Tulsa Animal Welfare will host its second Trick or Treat Animal Expo and Fall Open House from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.

The event at the city's animal shelter, 3031 N. Erie Ave., celebrates national Adopt-a-Dog Month and encourages community adoptions of all animals as well as use of shelter services.

Tulsa-area rescue groups, shelters and animal advocacy organizations will provide information, and several organizations will have animals available for adoption.

Obedience and agility demonstrations will be ongoing, and information on legislative updates and breed-specific laws will be available.

Tours of the shelter will be offered every half-hour from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. People desiring a tour should meet in the lobby.

Laura Morris of Club K-9 and the Tulsa Dog Training Club will be on site to answer questions on animal care and handling.

A special rate on adoptions is available this month, with the first animal available for $75 and the second for $25.

People who adopt animals from the shelter Saturday will receive free microchips and pet tags for those animals, courtesy of the Oklahoma Alliance for Animals.

Pet owners who bring their animals to the event may purchase microchips for $20. No appointment is necessary.

A pet costume parade at 3 p.m. will highlight the day.

People who wish to participate can get entry forms at the Tulsa Animal Welfare booth at the event and in the lobby.

All participants must be at the staging area by 2:45 p.m.

— Brian Barber, World staff writer

Trial can proceed against alleged Dial accomplice

MANGUM — District Judge Richard Darby overruled a motion Wednesday to dismiss the criminal case against deputy warden's wife who fled her husband's prison with a convicted murderer and spent a decade on the run with the fugitive.

Defense attorney Garvin Isaacs filed a motion to dismiss the case against Bobbi Parker last month, arguing that the statute of limitations in the case ran out Aug. 31, 1997 — three years after convicted murderer Randolph Franklin Dial escaped from the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite.

Parker drove the van that carried Dial off the prison property, but it has long been debated whether she was kidnapped or went willingly.

The controversy reignited on April 4, 2005, when authorities found Dial and Parker living together on a chicken farm in east Texas.

Prosecutors contend that it was only then that Parker's role in the escape could truly be investigated and that the statute of limitations began April 6, upon Parker's return to Oklahoma.

Darby agreed with the state's conclusion, stating simply, "Whether she was a kidnap victim or participant is what the trial is all about."

A trial date has been set for Jan. 11.

Dial, who died in June 2007 after being returned to prison, killed Broken Arrow martial arts instructor Kelly Dean Hogan, 28, in 1981.

— Ron Jackson, The Oklahoman

AG seeks execution date for Tulsa County killer

OKLAHOMA CITY — Attorney General Drew Edmondson asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday to set an execution date for a Tulsa man who was convicted of killing two people.

Julius R. Young, now 60, was sentenced to death for the 1993 murders of Joyland Evette Morgan, 20, and her son, Kewan Dontae Morgan, 6.

The Morgans were found beaten to death in their Tulsa apartment.

Testimony at Young's trial indicated that Joyslon Edwards, the mother and grandmother of the victims, was trying to end a relationship with Young.

— From The World Capitol Bureau By Staff Reports & NewsOK.com

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