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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Hometown fans supporting The Swon Bros

    MUSKOGEE, Okla. - The SwonBrothers aren't the only Oklahomans holding their breath as they await their Voice fate. The country duo's image filled the front page of the Muskogee Phoenix Tuesday, while discussions of the night's upcoming season finale results could be heard all around town. Up and down the streets of Muskogee, sign after sign in front of businesses displayed support ...

  • Swatch parties pop up in Green Country

    MUSKOGEE, Okla. - The Swon Brothers' family and friends are getting ready for another big night as they watch Zach and Colton from their hometown of Muskogee. Hundreds of the country duo's loved ones have shown up in full force throughout Season 4 of The Voice, and with the finale only hours away, they're expected to fill the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame once ...

Movie Review

The French Connection [DVD]

The French Connection [DVD]

Prior to its release in late 1971 and subsequent winning of five of that year's Academy Awards, including best picture, director, and actor, there had never been a movie quite like The French Connection. There have been dozens and dozens since--most of what we associate with police-themed TV shows, especially Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue owe a direct debt to the film--whic ... ...

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  • Court Grants Pastor Right to Sue Oklahoma Over Native American License Plate

    An Oklahoma pastor has been given approval by a federal appeals court to sue the state over its license plate depicting the image of an Indian "rain god" made famous by a Native American ...

  • Shipping container houses help tornado victims

    EL RENO — We’ve all heard the phrase ';don’t judge a book by its cover.'; One Wisconsin-based company is applying that saying to special houses they build to help victims of natural disasters. They may not look like much on the outside; but once the doors swing open it makes people who have lost everything feel right at home. It looks like a normal 400 square foot ...

  • Oklahoma executes man convicted of killing elderly couple

    OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma executed on Tuesday a man who was convicted of stabbing an elderly couple to death during a robbery at their home that netted $73, some of which he and convicted accomplices used to buy ...

  • Oklahoma City police release video of robbery suspect

    Oklahoma City police have released a video of a robber accused of stealing from four people at a northwest Oklahoma City gas station. The four people told police they were robbed at gunpoint Friday at ConocoPhillips, 201 W Britton Road, according to the incident ...

  • Gunman riddles family’s car with bullets injuring couple but missing baby

    DORCHESTER, MA — A car riddled with bullets was towed away in Dorchester, Massachusetts Monday not long after a 20-year-old woman and her boyfriend were shot. ';My niece had just pulled up. Her, her baby’s father and the baby. The guy came out of nowhere, coming at him and just started shooting,'; said Louis Jasey, the victim’s uncle. In the back seat of the car was ...

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