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Deck the halls with care
Tulsans are putting up Christmas lights and decorations on everything that is flammable. Following some simple tips and cautions can keep the home fires low, however.
Corrections, clarifications
A Saturday Tulsa World Sports story on high school football winning streaks had four schools listed under the wrong header.
Scouting hero gets house restored
Bill Shaffer has been changing America one kid at a time since 1969.
Both Inhofe, Coburn vote against measure
Oklahoma's two Republican senators — Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn — voted against Saturday's effort to advance the health-care bill.
Program provides help to doctors with addictions
Just like everyone else, doctors need help when an addiction takes control of their lives, says Dr. Merlin Kilbury, the associate director of a statewide program that provides that assistance.
Medical board ranks among nation's best
Oklahoma's medical board ranks among the top 10 in the country for its effectiveness in disciplining doctors, according to an annual report published by Public Citizen, a national nonprofit consumer advocacy ...
Sites give information on doctors' pasts
Since 2000, the Oklahoma Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision has disciplined more than 300 doctors. Most of the time, the state places the practitioners on probation. Sometimes it revokes their ...
For the holidays, tour a home, view a vintage car
The Broken Arrow Historical Society is hosting a Sunday event over the Thanksgiving weekend that has nothing to do with eating, power shopping or watching sporting events.
Roll Call
Here's how Oklahoma senators and House of Representatives members voted on key bills and amendments last week. A 'Y' means the member voted for the measure; an 'N' means the member voted against the measure; ...
Survivors asked to decorate tree
The Tulsa County District Attorney's Office is inviting those affected by violent crime to decorate a Christmas tree this holiday season.
Unborn baby killed in one-car rollover
A Tulsa woman who was seven months pregnant was critically injured, and her unborn child was killed, in a one-vehicle accident Friday on the Turner Turnpike.
Cuts hurt law enforcers
Budget cuts are proving particularly troubling for prosecutors and others who enforce state laws.
New round of tax projects on OKC ballot
Oklahoma City voters will decide Dec. 8 whether to buy into another round of MAPS, the 16-year-long series of sales tax-funded projects that have remade the city's interior and rebuilt its sprawling school ...
City Hall to take fourth furlough day
City Hall will be closed Wednesday as city workers take their fourth furlough day ahead of the regular Thanksgiving holiday Thursday and Friday.
2 men are stabbed at apartments
Two men were stabbed Saturday evening during a disturbance at the Comanche Park Apartments.
Shooting claims man, 34
An ongoing dispute apparently led to a fatal shooting Saturday evening.
Shopping for auld lang syne
This one is about the Square.
Holiday tradition continues
Tally's Good Food Cafe is open for business every day — except the fourth Thursday in November.
N. Tulsa grocery deal took initiative
A successful team often benefits from a player who rises to the occasion.
Bartlett selects chief of staff
Terry Simonson, a longtime Tulsa political figure who has served in two mayoral administrations and Tulsa County government, will be incoming Mayor Dewey Bartlett's chief of staff and general counsel.
'Grand' biking
Abby and Alex Ruicker are a couple of kids who like to ride their bikes. Doesn't sound like much of a story, does it?
Stimulus jobs data plagued by errors
Errors and poor estimates pepper the stimulus data that Oklahoma contractors recently submitted to the federal government.
One doctor has been given one last chance by the board
It is his last chanceto remain a physician,and Dr. Lynn Baggett isgrabbing it.
Higher standards
Five years ago, Dr. Billy Conn Beets prescribed 11 prescriptions for a 2-month-old baby he diagnosed with acute bronchitis.
Fatal shooting under investigation
Police find 34-year-old man fatally shot Saturday evening at residence in 1000 block of North Troost Avenue.
Two stabbed at Comanche Park Apartments
Police say the 20-year-old men are expected to survive their injuries.
Car hits pole, at least 100 with no power
AEP-PSO crews were still working to restore power to at least 100 customers in the Harvard Avenue and 36th Street area at noon Saturday.
Separate trials being sought
The lawyer for a man accused in the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old boy has asked a Comanche County judge that is client be tried separately from his co-defendant.
Ousted leader discourages donations
The fired president of Feed The Children said Friday that donors should not give to the charity until 'all of this mess is cleaned up.'
Locust Grove man is charged in OKC deaths
A cage fighter from Locust Grove was charged Friday with six counts of first- degree murder in the Nov. 9 deaths of four people and two fetuses.
Tulsa man charged with murder in companion's slaying
A man was charged Friday with first-degree murder in a shooting death that followed a night of partying with the victim, court records show.
Felon given life term for arson
A frequent felon incurred stiff sentences at a Tulsa County trial Friday and picked up three new counts tied to an escape after Thursday's court session.
ME's ex-investigator due trial on sex-battery count
OKLAHOMA CITY — The former chief investigator for the state Medical Examiner's Office was ordered Friday to stand trial on a sexual battery charge.
Former coach handed probation in sex case
A former East Central High School girls softball coach who had been charged with molesting a teenager received a two-year probation Friday.
Learning from each other
As a college freshman at Brandeis University, an essentially Jewish school, Dvora Weisberg was shocked when her new Catholic roommate asked her, 'Why did you kill Jesus?'
Founder to speak about home culture
American teenagers are being kidnapped and brainwashed by an electronic culture with values their parents would never accept, says a man who has probably preached to more teens than anyone else in Ame ...
Faiths cooperating: A vision
Eboo Patel has a dream.
Allow parents to return adopted kids, panel urged
Relief should be provided to parents who adopt from the state a child who eventually develops violent or severe mental-health tendencies, an attorney told a legislative panel Friday.
NSU, Connors to combine efforts at Muskogee campus
Connors State College and Northeastern State University will combine their operations at NSU's Muskogee campus, the institutions have announced.
TPS adds swine-flu vaccine clinics
Tulsa Public Schools announced Friday the dates of added H1N1 vaccine clinics for students and employees at 10 schools.
Young victim remembered for his big dreams, sense of humor
With hundreds of people gathered Friday to remember the life of 9-year-old Tommy Wolf, the Rev. Rick Stansberry addressed the question likely on everyone's mind. Why?
Partially disabled man is killed in house fire
A partially disabled man apparently died from smoke inhalation while trying to escape from his home after his bed caught fire Friday morning.
Ethics panel facing furloughs during election year
The state agency that is charged with policing political campaigns will be furloughing staff members right in the middle of the 2010 election cycle if current budget projections hold up, an official said ...
Woman charged in son's drowning
Police arrested a woman Friday evening on a second-degree manslaughter charge in the drowning death of her infant son.
Board's meeting is under scrutiny
Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater has been asked to determine whether the state Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services violated the Open Meeting Act when it recently slashed its ...
Officer must face trial on drug count
A Tulsa police officer was bound over for trial Friday on an upgraded charge of possessing cocaine with an intent to distribute it.
Keeping them warm, fed
With all of the good that's happened in Hannah Kinnison's life, she's spreading the love this Thanksgiving.
Fundraising efforts up at charter sites
Tough economic times in public education have local charter schools trying new fundraising efforts and pinching pennies.
Senators near vote on health-care bill
The U.S. Senate on Friday talked itself toward a crucial showdown vote over the weekend to begin formal consideration of a historic but highly controversial health-care reform bill.
City history
Six former Tulsa mayors and Mayor Kathy Taylor gathered Friday at the BOK Center to tape group and individual video interviews that will be part of the new Tulsa Mayors Library.
