(NATIONAL) It’s officially winter, and Christmas week to boot. With cases of COVID-19 showing no signs of stopping, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued guidance on the best ways to celebrate while keeping yourself and your loved ones safe. For holiday travel, the best recommendation they
(BROKEN ARROW, Okla.) There was a heavy police presence at a Broken Arrow restaurant following a shooting Tuesday night. Broken Arrow Police Officer Chris Walker told us the shooting happened in the parking lot of Oklahoma Joe's Barbeque on West Albany at about 7:30 p.m. We’
(TULSA, Okla.) EMSA has been busier than usual due to the weekend’s winter storm and cold weather. EMSA spokesperson Adam Paluka told us their wreck response nearly doubled on Sunday. Medics responded to 53 car accidents in Tulsa, Bixby, Jenks and Sand Springs instead of their typical 30. “Between
(TULSA, Okla.) Watching Maria Morris expertly measure and mix ingredients, you’d never know those hands were once tools for self-destruction. “When my daughter passed away, I was just like, I don't, I don't care,” Morris said. “I don't care anymore. Being very promiscuous,
(TULSA, Okla.) “At this point being that it’s early December, we’ve got to get this going ASAP.” Christmas, like everything else, is shaping up to be a little different in Green Country this year. For Fostering Connections, a Tulsa non-profit helping foster kids throughout Oklahoma, the difference is
(TULSA, Okla.) Union Public Schools is shifting all elementary and secondary students to distance learning beginning Friday, Dec. 4. Students at all school sites will remain in distance learning through Dec. 18 and will not return to in-person school until Jan. 4, 2021. “The number of adult positive cases and
(TULSA, Okla.) U.S. Attorneys and Native Americans tribes are coming together to develop and implement new missing person protocols for indigenous people. Muscogee (Creek) Nation Chief David Hilland and Cherokee Nation Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. joined U.S. Attorneys Trent Shores and Brian Kuester in Tulsa on Monday to
(TULSA, Okla.) “When it’s safe, we’ll return.” LeeAnne Jimenez is vice president of the Tulsa Classroom Teachers Association, a union for Tulsa Public Schools teachers. She’s been a teacher for 24 years, teaching mostly third through fifth grade. “Teachers are very concerned for their own health and
(TULSA, Okla.) It seems like a simple enough question, but finding the answer to how many Oklahomans are dying from COVID-19 every day? Not so simple. If you’ve signed up for daily number reports from the Oklahoma State Department of Health, you might be comforted sometimes by the common
(TULSA, Okla.) Verified News Network (VNN) announced they are partnering with more journalists and affiliates this November. VNN Michigan and VNN Alabama will be online in December 2020. These new partnerships expand VNN’s journalist count to six, with a goal of having journalists in every state in the next
(TULSA, Okla.) A Tulsa-based company is working to help people have fun during the pandemic, and giving gamers a chance to help others, too. “2020 was slated to be THE YEAR for Let’s Go Urban until COVID happened,” Let’s Go Urban founder Stephanee Kockelman said. “We had businesses
(TULSA, Okla.) Plentiful low-level moisture and steady south winds will maintain mild conditions including unseasonably warm overnight lows through Monday night. A cold front will move into northeast Oklahoma late Monday night and sweep through western Arkansas by mid-Tuesday afternoon. Temperatures on Tuesday will have minimal recovery behind the cold