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Tornado watch issued for Tulsa County, surrounding area
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 4 months ago
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Other counties under the watch, in effect until 3 p.m., are: Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, McIntosh, Muskogee, Nowata, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Ottawa, Rogers, Sequoyah, Wagoner and Washington. Counties under the tornado watch until noon are:
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EMSA helps its paramedic provider avoid taxes, investigation shows
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 4 months ago
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Paramedics Plus, to avoid paying taxes on at least $7.1 million in purchases statewide since 2009, records show. Of that total, about $6.3 million went to buy fuel for ambulances, records show. Paramedics Plus is required to "supply, at the
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Coburn: Senate rule changes allow majority to bypass filibuster
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 4 months ago
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Sen. Tom Coburn said changes in Senate Rules that passed Thursday will hinder his efforts to obstruct misguided policy and profligate spending in Washington. They handicapped a lot of the tools I've learned to stop bills from coming to the floor,
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Suspect in mother's killing had history of violence toward her
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 4 months ago
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Tulsa police arrested Henry David Hank Laird on Wednesday after a 28-hour manhunt. A warrant was issued for his arrest after his mother, 56-year-old Linda Laird, was found beaten to death at the foot of a staircase in their home near 74th Street and
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EMSA board reviews audit critical of agency spending
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 4 months ago
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Ed Shadid, a physician and Oklahoma City councilor. "If there's anything like business as usual or anything like the lack of board governance that's outlined in this report, then we will not have the trust of the public." The board's meeting was held
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State audit critical of EMSA travel spending
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 4 months ago
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CEO and a retirement party costing $4,300 at which three employees were given $400 Mont Blanc pens, according to an investigative audit by the state Auditor and Inspector's Office. The audit, released today, follows an earlier Tulsa World
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City Council approval of future Tulsa city attorneys sought
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 4 months ago
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Two years after a failed effort by the council to make the attorney an elected position, Councilor G.T...I disagreed with the proposal because I don't think politicizing the city attorney's job is in the best interest of the city, he said. But at the
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Tulsa records 188 auto-pedestrian accidents in 2012
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 4 months ago
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There were 188 auto-pedestrian accidents in 2012, according to Tulsa Police Department data. Many of them were due to pedestrians failing to use protected crosswalks, crossing in dimly lit areas or attempting to beat oncoming traffic, police said.
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Monday: Burglaries last year expected to hit 6-year low
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 4 months ago
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Shellie Wood-Seibert attributes the drop to increased teamwork within the unit and throughout the police department. Residential and commercial burglaries exceeded 7,000 in 2010 and 2011, but the unofficial total for 2012 sits at 6,367, Wood-Seibert
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Way back when: Today in history
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 4 months ago
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Tulsa World readers were told by a big headline and a yellow ribbon draped over the World masthead. They referred to the 52 Americans who had been held hostage in Iran for 444 days after young Muslim revolutionaries stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
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