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Thieves steal from church caught on camera
OKLAHOMA CITY – Police are working to arrest two thieves who targeted Crown Heights Baptist Church in Oklahoma City. Surveillance video shows a white van sitting across the street from the church’s parking lot for five minutes. Then one man inside the van walks up to a trailer carrying a high dollar lawn mower. Once he is sure no one is around, the van backs up, he hitches the ...
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Man barricaded inside Canadian County house
Union City emergency personnel said multiple agencies are at the scene, including Union City police, Mustang police, El Reno Police tactical team, Canadian County Sheriff's deputies and Mercy ...
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Man sends KFOR email threatening Governor Sheriff
OKLAHOMA CITY, — A McClain county man faces several charges after he sent an email to KFOR threatening to kill Governor Fallin, her family, and several sheriff’s deputies. The threats are all part of a rambling email sent by an account owned by Scott Helling. Much of it is hard to read, and laced with profanity. At one point the email says, ';…enough is enough, time to ...
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Oklahoma’s Swon Brothers come up short on ‘The Voice’
Danielle Bradbery won the Season 4 finale on NBC’s ';The Voice.'; Danielle Bradbery, the 16-year-old country-singing beauty, captured the Season 4 crown on ';The Voice'; Tuesday night. Michelle Chamuel finished second and the Swon Brothers took third on NBC’s popular singing competition. Bradbery’s victory came as no surprise. She was considered the ...
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OKC Valedictorian Vanishes In South America
OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma City valedictorian vanished Sunday while on a family vacation in South America, according to authorities in the United States and Ecuador. Family members say local authorities believe the teen may have been kidnapped. Officials with the American Embassy in Ecuador tell News 9 they have been notified of the disappearance and are monitoring the situation closely. ...
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Many Tulsa Residents Wowed By Plans For New Park On Riverside Drive
"It's exciting, it's really exciting. There are all kinds of ideas and they have baked in the entire community's input," said Tulsa resident Billie ...
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Man Arrested For Alleged Deadly Threats On OK Governors Child Authorities
McCLAIN COUNTY, Oklahoma - A man is in jail Tuesday night accused of threatening to kill the McClain County Sheriff, a detective and one of Governor Fallin's children. According to court documents, Scott Helling sent an email from a library in Norman claiming authorities were responsible for his son's death and theft of his personal property. Helling is facing one charge of ...
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Owasso City Council Still Taking No Action Against Embattled City Manager
OWASSO, Oklahoma - Rodney Ray is on paid leave while Owasso's city council discusses what, if any, action it will take with regard to his employment as city manager. The city council met behind closed doors Tuesday night to talk about an internal investigation into allegations against Ray. Councilors say the details of the meeting will never be discussed, but this special meeting comes ...
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Green Country Residents Take Class In Protecting Home From Wildfires
DRUMRIGHT, Oklahoma - Wildfire season is upon us. It's been nearly a year since residents in parts of Green Country fought their way through devastating wildfires. People in Creek County are understandably on edge. But this time, they're learning how to protect their homes and land. So many wildfire rage in the outskirts of towns, and fire experts say living rural means learning ...
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Ex-mobster tells of Bulger gangs killings
"You killed friends?" Bulger attorney Hank Brennan shot. "Yes," replied prosecution witness John Martorano. "Families?" "Yes." "Strangers?" "Yes." "Innocent people?" "Yes," said Martorano, who has admitted to 20 murders and who earlier served 12 years in prison on a government deal for his cooperation in the case ...
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James Lewis DeRosa Executed In Oklahoma After Being Convicted Of Killing Couple
McALESTER, Okla. -- Oklahoma executed a 36-year-old man on Tuesday for the October 2000 stabbing deaths of a couple on whose ranch he had worked. James Lewis DeRosa was killed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was the second inmate the state executed this year. Prosecutors say DeRosa and an accomplice, 33-year-old John Eric Castleberry, went to Curtis and ...
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Man arrested in northeast Oklahoma City shooting
Joseph Moore, 33, was arrested on complaints of shooting with intent to kill and robbery Tuesday after a man was shot in Oklahoma City Tuesday morning, police ...
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Man sought in southwest Oklahoma City bank robbery
A bank was robbed Tuesday afternoon in southwest Oklahoma City, and FBI agents are searching for the robber. No one was hurt in the robbery and no weapon was ...
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Oklahoma executes inmate for taking part in 2000 stabbing deaths of ranching couple
FILE - This June 29, 2011 file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows James DeRosa. DeRosa is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, June 18, 2013 for the Oct. 2, 2000 murders of Curtis Plummer, 73, and Gloria Plummer, 70. The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted last month against recommending that Gov. Mary Fallin commute DeRosa's death sentence to life in prison ...
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Audit of Oklahoma fire marshals office reveals failure to inspect some correctional facilities
The state fire marshal's office can't account for a missing shotgun and has failed to meet its legal duty to annually inspect all Oklahoma correctional facilities, a state audit has ...
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Prosecutors 14-Year-Old Murder Suspect Should Be Tried As Adult
TULSA, Oklahoma - A judge is expected to decide Wednesday whether murder suspect Joshua Mooney will be tried as a juvenile, a youthful offender or an adult. Prosecutors argue Mooney should be tried as an adult. Joshua Mooney was 14 in December, when deputies say he broke into a Jenks home and murdered Mary Escue, who was there visiting her parents. Prosecutors say it's important to ...
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Financial Website Ranks Tulsa Best City For Young Families
TULSA, Oklahoma - Tulsa just made the top of a website's list of best cities for young families. Financial education website CreditDonkey.com looked at unemployment rates, costs of living and daycare costs to find the top 10 cities for families just starting out. Tulsa came in first, boosted by an unemployment rate of 5.3 percent, more than 2 percentage points lower than the national ...
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Search on for credit card thief
TULSA - Tulsa police are asking for the public's help in a recent car break-in. TPD'sFinancial Crimes Unit posted a picture on Facebook of a man inside a local hardware store believed to have stolen a woman's credit cards. "This suspect recently broke into the victims car and used her credit cards at Home Depot and several other stores. Help us catch him!" the post ...
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Classen School of Advanced Studies valedictorian disappears while hiking with family in Ecuador
August Reiger, 18, went missing Sunday while hiking with his family during a vacation in Ecuador. Reiger graduated as a valedictorian from Classen School of Advanced Studies in Oklahoma City last ...
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Train engineers vision problems led to deadly Oklahoma wreck NTSB rules
WASHINGTON -- Two years before his failing vision likely contributed to a fatal crash in the Oklahoma Panhandle, freight train engineer Dan Hall told one of his eye doctors that he was having trouble distinguishing the color of train ...
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5-month-old Oklahoma baby overdoses on meth
A search warrant uncovered a ';major'; drug trafficking operationat the home. A can, with traces of meth on it, was found in the child’s room,explaining how the infant was exposed to dangerous drugs. Agents found 140 grams of meth, $3000 in cash, and drug paraphenelia. ';Basically this right here was all found in that ammo can with the packaging material in the ammo ...
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Prosecutors charge Oklahoma City man in stabbing death of mother
Fredric Hardeman Jr., 38, was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in connection with the death of his 60-year-old mother, Ocie Hardeman, Oklahoma City police ...
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Gatesway Employees Go To Work For Spirit AeroSystems
Gatesway provides jobs for people living with intellectual or developmental disabilities. The employees will be assembling screw tray kits, and Gatesway says they are excited about their new jobs. "They like the challenge of something different and something new, so they're just really--they're just thrilled," said Gatesway CEO Judi Myers. Ten workers will start their jobs ...
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Tulsa 6th Grader To Talk To U.S. Congress About Type 1 Diabetes
TULSA, Oklahoma - An 11-year-old Tulsa sixth grader has been selected to go to Washington, D.C. to talk to Congress about funding for Type 1 Diabetes research. As Rick Wells shows us, in the video above, if this young man is as comfortable in Washington as he is in front of a TV camera, Congress doesn't stand a ...
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Suspect in MWC hostage standoff IDd
TODAY NEW DETAILS ABOUT A MAN, POLICE SAY GAVE THEM NO CHOICE BUT TO SHOOT AND KILL HIM IN A WAL-MART YESTERDAY AFTER TAKING A 2 YEAR OLD GIRL HOSTAGE. THIS IS 37-YEAR-OLD SAMMIE LAMONT WALLACE'. K-O-C-O'S DAN THOMAS IS LIVE AT THAT WAL-MART IN MIDWEST CITY. DAN, FIRST OF ALL .. HOW IS THAT LITTLE GIRL DOING...? SHE'S DOING JUST FINE, POLICE SAY SHE HAD NO CONNECTION TO THAT ...
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Oklahoma City's ambitious overhaul of downtown
Oklahoma City with her 550,000 residents in the city core and a further 700,000 in the wider metropolitan area is the largest urban area in the state and Oklahoma’s largest city. We are therefore the economic hub of the state, so Project 180 was always going to cause a significant amount of disruption.
When construction on the Devon Tower was first reported by Oklahoma City news media in October, 2009 many residents of the city waited in anticipation to see what the finished product would look like. The 50-story building, will be the new headquarters of Devon Energy, will be the tallest building in the city and will contain 1.8 million square feet of office space. It is a true substantiation of the city’s status as a commercial power hub. Read more
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