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News On 6 uncovered one of the extras for the new movie August: Osage County - under wraps - right in the middle of Tulsa.
Kerry Godfrey is part of Hollywood now.
Friday, Godfrey was working on a well-worn, rusty 1965 Dodge, that's going to be driven for a movie by one of the stars. The thing is it's not actually a well-worn, rusty truck.
The thing is it's not actually a well worn, rusty truck.
"Most of the time we try to make things look better, in this case, we're downgrading it," Godfrey said.
One hot topic that came up was the recent violent attacks on U.S. embassies in the Middle East. Candidates were asked what they would have done in response to the assassination of the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
Olson said, "What we need to do is give Libya, give those countries in the Middle East, an opportunity to do the right thing, because, as of yet, they are not our enemies, but they are not our friends."
"I think that the solution is that we need to elect Mitt Romney in November," Bridenstine said.
Katie Keleher told FOX23 that she spotted George Clooney while she was eating dinner at Frank and Lola's in Bartlesville.
"My eyes got really big and I started freaking out," said Katie. She said Clooney was eating dinner at a table near hers.
"I could hear him talking and his voice sounded just like it does on t.v.," said Katie.
A resident in Bartlesville made a big celebrity sighting Thursday.
George Clooney snapped a picture with a fan in a Bartlesville store.
The A-lister is a producer on the film, August: Osage County, which is filming now in Bartlesville and Pawhuska.
Houston's ConocoPhillips, the oil giant formed ten years ago by merging Conoco Inc., with Phillips Petroleum, will spin off its refinery business effective tomorrow, May 1, 2012. ... The upstream company, which will retain the ConocoPhillps name and continue to headquarter in Houston, is the largest independent oil and gas in the US. The refining and distribution company will be named Phillips 66 and will also be headquartered in Houston. ... There is as yet no word about job losses here in Houston or at the former headquarters company towns of Bartlesville (Phillips) and Ponca City (Conoco), Oklahoma.
The former home of Bartlesville Office Supply, the Kress building, has recently been the target of a renovation and rejuvenation project. ... "When the Kress stores went under, they knew their buildings were architecturally significant," Oldroyd said. The company donated all of their blue prints and plans to The National Building Museum in Washington D.C. The builders also took photos whenever they made any structural changes to the building and sent them to the corporate office as proof of those changes. Oldroyd contacted the museum and was able to have all the blue prints and pictures sent to him. "It was a tremendous tool in seeing what the building was originally like," Oldroyd said.
Popping up all over Bartlesville in recent weeks have been lily-like plants, their pink and aromatic blossoms held aloft by stems — but with no leaves to be seen. Area residents have been asking what these leafless flowers are, so 2News went to Green Thumb Nursery on Nowata Road to find out. "They are Lycoris," said a nursery employee Wednesday morning, explaining though they are locally known as 'Surprise Lilies' or 'Naked Ladies.' She said every year one or two people call asking about these leafless flowers — but in truth, they are not leafless.
For more than three months, Prusinowski endured wind, rain and triple-digit temperatures to make a 2,000-mile journey on foot in order to connect with the Lenape Indians, also known as Delaware Indians, and their migration from the Delaware Valley in the northeast to their final stopping point in the Midwest. His solo trek began at his hometown of Fishtown, Penn., and ended recently in Bartlesville.
A Philadelphia man will celebrate Wednesday night after walking 2 000 miles from Penn Treaty Park to Bartlesville Oklahoma to draw attention to ... "The Trail of Tears"
Police arrested a Bartlesville woman Saturday evening after the residents of a house on Seminole Avenue came home to find the pink pajama-clad woman in their house destroying their possessions... asked by the residents what she was doing in their house replied, " I don't know!" ... had broken a few "very expensive" porcelain Indian collectables and had poured "an entire case of water" on a flat screen television ... said she went into the house and "tore (expletive) up" because she was angry from all the voices.
Speaking with individuals inside, police learned there had been a party at the house when a small group of people — one of whom was later identified as Morrow — showed up wearing "fitted" hats, not "snapback" hats as the rest of the party goers in the house wore, according to a witness. He told police it was then, during a fight about their wearing fitted hats, that Morrow pulled out a gun. He said at this point the group was kicked out of the house and that was when he heard the shots and the house was hit with bullets.
Eastland Shopping Center in Bartlesville celebrated the 4th on Friday evening with a fireworks display that was interrupted by a small grass fire. Officials from the fireworks company in charge of the show say a multi-shot cake malfunctioned and the shot came out the side of the tube instead of being launched into the sky.
Former U.S. Marine Lance Corporal William Ely is spending his 4th of July weekend braving the heat - and overcoming injury - to support service men and women back on the front lines. Ely injured his back and legs during training and was unable to follow his unit as they were deployed to Afghanistan. Ely started the morning collecting care packages with the Blue Star Mothers. The care packages will go to support members of his unit. Then if was off and running under the hot July sun. "He had to learn to walk again, so to be able to run and do this is pretty amazing," said Angel Barrows, President of the Bartlesville Blue Star Mothers. Ely then ran through Ochelata along U.S. Highway 75. The Marine was escorted by many veterans and Patriot Guard Riders, finishing up his run in the Ochelata 4th of July parade.
Pictures of an unhealthy horse in Bartlesville are spreading across the internet. The owner says his reputation is being ruined because people are accusing him of animal cruelty, but that's just not the case. "She got bred by an accident, she's 24 years old and now she's having to nurse a foal, and the foal is pulling her down," says Cecil Moles about the horse in question named Baby.
Thomas alleges in the lawsuit that he was advised by some superiors that the BPD was a "paramilitary organization" ...
A local woman and her 13-year-old son have been arrested in connection with an incident that allegedly has left a 5-year-old boy in critical condition.... "... alleged that a 13-year-old living in the home had picked the boy up over his head and slammed him to the ground as well as having the child fight other children." ... [Mother] was baby-sitting the victim along with four other children at the residence.... the five were in addition to her own four children... seven children total were taken into protective custody....
The University of Colorado's Sea Level Research Group decided in May to add 0.3 millimeters -- or about the thickness of a fingernail -- every year to its actual measurements of sea levels... director of the widely relied-upon research center, told FoxNews.com that his group added the 0.3 millimeters per year to the actual sea level measurements because land masses, still rebounding from the ice age, are rising and increasing the amount of water that oceans can hold....
A Bartlesville woman died early Saturday from injuries sustained a week before in a fall near the Caney River. David Cox said his wife, Deborah Cox, 60, stepped off the Pathfinder Parkway — near a steep trail leading to the river — and tumbled down the bank onto some rocks while the couple was at the end of Delaware Avenue, south of the river, watching their grandchildren fish around 4:15 p.m. on June 3.
The caller said he was being chased by a white sport utility vehicle — adding that he himself had a flat tire put was not stopping. Police sent to the area saw an older SUV on Adams go through the intersection with Dewey Avenue and then the light at Cherokee Avenue, but saw no SUV following it or any flat tire on the vehicle. At the request of police, the RV's driver — identified as Madera — pulled over and spoke with police. According to police, they found him "confused and incoherent" and found him telling conflicting stories. He seemed extremely nervous, said police. [Meth, of course]
I recently had the opportunity to see The Tree of Life while sitting two rows in front of Terrence Malick's 99-year-old mother. The special screening took place in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, a small town north of Tulsa.
Cabler leads a team of volunteers [from Bartlesville] who use chainsaws to clear debris. He says removing downed trees typically leads to more meaningful conversations when people are in great times of need. "That's what's really saddened us a lot of times," he shares. "You'll run into people who no one has even come to check on them, or their neighbors haven't even checked on them. Neighbors don't know each other anymore a lot of times."
Cox said however six rotations or instances of wall clouds were seen in Washington County, among them being one spotted over Food Pyramid on U.S. Highway 75 south of Bartlesville, one above downtown Bartlesville, another above downtown Dewey, one north of Dewey and one north of Ramona.
Bartlesville Police Chief Tom Holland announced that local emergency personnel working in Joplin have recovered five bodies. The Fire Department located two dead and one survivor of the storm while members of the Police Department found three bodies in a nursing home.
Several crews from Washington County left Sunday night for the Joplin, Missouri area to help with the search and rescue effort after the devastating tornado hit there. Crews from Washington County Emergency Management, Bartlesville Fire Department, Bartlesville Police Department and numerous other volunteers were on site Monday morning.
Several crews from local agencies are assisting in search and rescue efforts in the Joplin, Mo., area after a devastating tornado hit the city. Crews from the Bartlesville Fire Department, Bartlesville Police Department, the Washington County Sheriff's Office and Washington County Emergency Management are all on the scene. According to BPD Capt. Jay Hastings, the department sent six or seven members of the Special Operations Team (SOT), as well as several reserves. "I'm not sure how many reserves went right now," he told the Examiner-Enterprise today. "They are going to work security." According to Washington County Undersheriff Steve Johnson, the sheriff's office has two deputies there right now.
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