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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Oklahoma executes inmate for couples 2000 deaths

    McALESTER, Okla. -- Oklahoma executed a 36-year-old man on Tuesday for taking part in the brutal killing of a ranching couple 13 years ago.James Lewis DeRosa was killed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, becoming the state's second inmate executed this year.At a clemency hearing last month, DeRosa took responsibility for his role in the Oct. 2, 2000, ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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