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University of Tulsa students spend hours playing esports
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — In high school, other kids called Solomon Ring "a gaming nerd," alone in his room night after night staring at a screen, supposedly with no friends. "It's more social than people think," Ring said. "You might be alone in your r...
Oklahoma car accident survivor inspires new jewelry line
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — When she started physical therapy two summers ago, Izzy Kitterman could barely move her arms and needed a machine to pump oxygen to her lungs through a tube sticking into her neck. But in the long hours of grueling therapy s...
Oklahoma car accident survivor inspires new jewelry line
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — When she started physical therapy two summers ago, Izzy Kitterman could barely move her arms and needed a machine to pump oxygen to her lungs through a tube sticking into her neck. But in the long hours of grueling therapy s...
Oklahoma architect's legacy will live on in Tulsa
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Bob Jones came to Tulsa in 1954 to oversee design work for the new Civic Center, a radically modern project that attracted national and even international attention. A German publication declared it one of the "top a...
Oklahoma residents concerned over new butane facility
JENKS, Okla. (AP) — The town had a population under 2,000 people in the 1950s, when several oil storage tanks were built nearly two miles from downtown Jenks, where they remained uncontroversial for decades. Until a couple of things changed. F...
First Oklahoma Cherokee immersion students to graduate
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Thirteen years ago, in an unguarded moment on her first day of kindergarten, Emilee Chavez spoke a single word of English. And a classmate immediately ran to tell the teacher. "Hey," the teacher raised her voice harshly, "you c...
Teacher raises funds to purchase shoes for students
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Earlier this month in Bethany Martin's kindergarten class, a little boy's ragged old shoe literally ripped in half. Sequoyah Elementary, a Title 1 school northeast of downtown Tulsa, has a donation closet for exactly this kind o...
Tulsa minister forms outreach program to assist the homeless
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Driving through downtown Tulsa during an afternoon rain storm, Noe Rodriguez parks his white SUV under an interstate overpass and watches in the rear-view mirror as a raggedly dressed man takes off in the opposite direction, b...
