1+ hour ago  (560+ words) The family of a man who died in the Tulsa Municipal Jail has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the City of Tulsa, a private security contractor and the jail administrator of ignoring years of warnings about dangerous conditions inside the…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (815+ words) When Cassandra Rhodes arrived home to her Drexel Flats apartment, a notice from Oklahoma City greeted her, stating her water would soon be shut off. On June 30, white sheets of paper marked with the city seal stuck to every door…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1211+ words) In five years, harm-reduction organizations distributed hundreds of thousands of sterile needles and syringes to drug users across Oklahoma, potentially saving lives and significantly reducing viral infection rates. The state law protecting the organizations from criminal prosecution sunset July 1, effectively…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (745+ words) A former Tulsa Public Schools administrator and two contractors are charged with defrauding and embezzling nearly $780,000 from voter-approved bond funds in what Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond called an “elaborate and very sophisticated scheme” that was difficult to detect. Chris…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (546+ words) The Tulsa Flyer and Oklahoma Eagle have joined with two other nonprofit Oklahoma media organizations to provide greater access to open records. Negotiations are underway with the City of Tulsa to change an executive order’s language that charges $50 to $85 an…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (631+ words) Eight years ago, Horsey was found starving and wandering after being abandoned north of Tulsa. Tulsa Police Officer Darin Howse adopted her for $100 from a shelter to be his hunting and outdoor partner. That partnership turned into a job with…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (972+ words) The day of Milana Swope’s routine immigration check-in appointment last September, her husband stayed with her in the waiting room until she was called to the back. Roger Swope, a U.S. citizen, remembers a young man calling his wife’s name for…...

9+ mon, 1+ day ago  (20+ words) The coalition will give businesses the chance to register their security cameras to the Tulsa Police Department’s shared network....

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (308+ words) The state of Oklahoma executed 52-year-old Raymond Eugene Johnson Thursday morning. He was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree arson for the deaths of his former girlfriend, Brooke Whitaker, and their seven-month-old daughter, Kya,…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (510+ words) As violent crime trends down across Tulsa, a new initiative hopes to tackle persistent hotspots. Organizers with My Brother’s Keeper Tulsa, Youth Services of Tulsa and the Terence Crutcher Foundation joined Mayor Monroe Nichols Tuesday for the relaunch of Secure…...