Oklahoma
The Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo has been an Oklahoma tradition since 1940. Part Wild West show and part Coliseum-style spectacle, the rodeo is part of Oklahoma's history that remained largely unchanged until the addition of women to the rodeo.
A promise made more than 30 years ago is giving a Bartlesville woman the chance for a free education. All it took was a little digging through some old files and a belief in commitment.
Demolition crews are busy tearing down an old bridge leading to downtown Tulsa. It's the Boulder Bridge, going across the railroad tracks on the north edge of downtown. The bridge was built eight decades ago and has just become too unsafe to keep open. Construction on the Boulder Bridge near Tulsa Union Station began in 1929. Now, the bridge is coming down.
STROUD, OK -- The countdown is on as a popular Route 66 restaurant is about to reopen after being nearly destroyed by a fire. On May 20, 2008, the Rock Cafe nearly burned to the ground, tearing apart a piece of Oklahoma history. Rock Cafe owner Dawn Welch has been putting the puzzle back for a little more than a year.
Travelling through Oklahoma, Kevin Connolly recalls the life of Cherokee-American Will Rogers, a star of silent and talking movies.
Golden shovels turned the first dirt Friday for construction of a $15 million hotel in the heart of downtown on a corner facing a historic railroad depot and the ConocoPhillips office.
A new poll of Oklahoma from Public Policy Polling (D) suggests that the 2010 Senate race in this deep-red state could potentially be a competitive one -- that is, if GOP Sen. Tom Coburn retires.
Oklahoma state legislature passed a resolution claiming sovereignty and rebuking Congress and the Executive Branch for issuing mandates that go beyond their Constitutional powers. Though largely symbolic, the resolution, passed by the Oklahoma Senate this week, could impact the ability of Oklahoma to use federal tax dollars offered to the state.
The Washington County District Attorney's office is in the process of preparing charges against a woman accused of attacking an umpire following a game last week in Bartlesville.
A Bartlesville police officer currently on administrative leave was arraigned Wednesday on charges of obtaining merchandise by false pretense. Ronald Robert Sweeten Jr. was arraigned in Nowata County on charges stemming from an incident alleged to have occurred in 2007. ... used his position at the Bartlesville Police Department to transfer a valuable Colt M-16 rifle owned by the BPD to himself for $500 by going through a Nowata gun dealer.
upwards of $6,000 in damage to Sooner Park early this morning... damage throughout the park and a backhoe on-site was still warm to the touch ... damage to the Sooner Pool building, light poles, fences and the SunFest storage area ... cut one of the cables to the Bruce Goff designed tower ...
Vandals caused about $5,000 in damage to a city park in Bartlesville early Friday morning. City officials say the damage will also delay the opening of a city pool by a week.
[Video done in Bartlesville. THIS IS GENIUS... in a weird way, of course.]
Although Gov. Brad Henry vetoed similar legislation 10 days earlier, House members Monday again approved a resolution claiming Oklahoma's sovereignty.
A Southwest Oklahoma man is all smiles after a horse he found won the Kentucky Derby. Frederick native Ralph Kinder finds race horses for a living--potential winners that no one has discovered yet. And Kinder sure found one. He found Mine that Bird last fall during a trip to Canada. He then bought the horse for the Double Eagle Ranch in New Mexico.
Judge has ruled that much of the fortune accumulated by late Bartlesville oilman Charles Foster Doornbos should be returned to his four daughters.
Gov. Brad Henry today applauded state senators for sustaining his veto of a bill that would have made it a crime for a scientist to perform any form of embryonic stem cell research. Senators voted 26-19 this morning to override his veto. Senators needed 32 votes to override it. The Republican-controlled Senate took up the override attempt minutes after the House voted to override the governor's action.
Five people were arrested Thursday, including an Oklahoma City firefighter, on allegations of using, manufacturing and distributing anabolic steroids.... [Great deer-in-the-headlights mugshot]
The state senate overwhelmingly approved a bill, 37-9, that authorizes the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry to issue aerial hunting permits to holders of commercial big game licenses. Those opposed to the measure cited concerns for safety.
Added Monday were nine more members, including the Rev. Sharon Watkins, former Bartlesville clergywoman
Some Bartlesville students have been honored for their forward-thinking. Sophomores Meagan Schwegler, Emily Mueller and Amanda Cole are regional champions in the Toshiba ExploraVision contest. ... The three Bartlesville students' project focuses on changing the exhaust systems in vehicles to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
It is the largest monthly contract award for roads and bridges in Oklahoma's history. Friday, state officials unveiled plans on how Oklahoma will spend its 250-million dollar portion of the President's economic stimulus package for road and bridge repairs. 7NEWS has learned 6 of the 40 proposed projects will happen in southwest Oklahoma.
"It will create jobs, it will help Oklahoma companies," Governor Henry said. "These dollars don't just fall in a hole somewhere; they turn over multiple times in our economy and will create a much bigger impact than just the $250 million will be awarded next Monday." The federal dollars will fund about 40 highway improvement projects across the state, including interstate repairs, major bridge improvements and safety initiatives such as cable barriers.
None of the sirens in Bartlesville went off despite two tornado warnings. The Washington County Emergency Management team stands by its decision. It released a statement saying, "the tornado was weak and short lived....and based on the information that our office received from NWS and trained spotters on the field, we believed the significant tornado threat would remain to the south and east of Bartlesville." However, some people wished they would have been warned.
The 112th anniversary of the historic Nellie Johnstone No. 1 oil discovery will be celebrated Wednesday with a drilling demonstration and gusher plus the presentation of a gift by a chapter of the Colonial Dames XVII Century Oklahoma Society.
A tornado is confirmed to have touched down in Washington County during storms that hit the area Thursday evening.... "The sirens were never sounded in the city of Bartlesville...."
The State Legislature honored Miss Oklahoma 2008 Kelsey Cartwright this week. During her reign, Cartwright has been traveling around the state and nation promoting her platform of open adoption to nontraditional families. She got the idea from her father's experience in attempting to learn about his adoption. Oklahoma currently has closed adoption laws and has placed legal barriers in the path of those wanting information about their adoption.
Oklahoma exports reached the $5 billion dollar level in 2008 — an increase of more than $500 million over 2007
Like characters in Charles Dickens' 1859 novel, the triumphs and tragedies of Bartlesville and Ponca City will forever be entwined. Separated by just 70 miles of highway, the fortunes of these two mirror image Oklahoma communities have been tied to the oil and gas industry for nearly a century.
Three Ochelata residents are being held on bonds ranging from $1,000 to a quarter of a million dollars after their arrests for drugs and related resisting arrest charges
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