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In the middle of an armed robbery of a Tulsa, Okla., grocery store by a man wearing a Batman mask, one customer leaped into action, charging, wrestling and subduing the gunman until police arrived. A surveillance video captured several minutes of the struggle as the customer, Craig Stutzman, single-handedly wrestled the robber across the store before finally pinning the phony Batman to the ground in the store's parking lot. Stutzman, 44, an American Airlines mechanic, had stopped at the Food Pyramid store to buy some dog food before leaving town for a family reunion, according to a Tulsa World report....

Brother Floyd Ferguson’s breath is visible during prayers in the cold, damp crypt at the Clear Creek Monastery near Some people say the world is slipping into a new Dark Age. Some might say the world has been in the Dark Ages for quite a while already. l In morality, in architecture, in craftsmanship and art and literature, the 21st century is a long way from the Renaissance, and many self-described “traditionalists” would suggest that it’s a long way down. l Less than a generation after the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, a growing number of Catholics want...

Mar 14, 2008, 6:03 am TULSA, Okla. (KFAQ) Officials say a military rocket crashed into a Tulsa apartment building. Residents returned to their apartment at the Canyon Creek Apartment complex to find the power out, so they called the power company. While waiting for power crews to arrive, they discovered their bathroom wall had been knocked out. They initially thought it was a power explosion of some kind. Until they found what looked like a rocket. Tulsa Police confirmed that the Air National Guard had been on a routine training mission in the area. Investigators say a military pilot told...

Saying Christians and Muslims can be friends, a Muslim scholar from Canada gave 15 reasons why they should to a downtown Tulsa audience Friday night. But a Christian minister from Tulsa who used to be a Muslim questioned the tolerance of his former religion and asked whether a program such as Friday's, held at the Tulsa Convention Center, could even take place in a Muslim nation.

HULBERT -- A vision born 35 years ago on the campus of the University of Kansas and nurtured in a monastery in France moved closer to reality this week, as monks at Our Lady of Clear Creek Monastery moved into their new residence building. The building is the first part of a monastic complex that will include an 80-by-180-foot church with a 110-foot bell tower. "This is a dream come true," said the Rev. Phillip Anderson, the prior, or leader, of the Benedictine community living at the monastery. "All of a sudden, after all these years, it's happening," he said....

A Tulsa Muslim suing his mosque will have to find another judge to hear the case. Judge Tom Thornbrugh recused himself, saying he's already formed an opinion on the suit. The plaintiff in the case is Jamal Miftah. News On 6 anchor Omar Villafranca reports the Muslim man says a 2006 letter to the editor, condemning Islamic terrorists, made him a target at his own mosque. Jamal Miftah is disturbed by Muslims killing in the name of Islam. He wrote an op-ed piece in 2006 calling Al-Qaeda leaders cowards for using young Muslims to attack others. Some members at his...

Breaking Headlines regarding Oral Roberts University Lawsuit. On Tuesday, three former ORU professors will announce they are suing the university for what they claim to be misuses and abuses of assets by President Richard Roberts. The lawsuit will also allege the university violated its tax status by being involved in a political race, and will address reports of sexual harassment.

"A noteworthy professional golfer isn't staying in a ritzy hotel during the 2007 PGA Championship. Instead, the golfer and his family are staying in a spacious, four-bedroom abode in south Tulsa. So who is it?..."

For reader, accident with apparent illegal alien crystallized city's changes TULSA, Okla. - “Our sovereignty is under direct attack,” warns a commanding voice emanating from a pool of light in the corner of an otherwise dark airplane hangar. Dan Howard, an airplane salesman by day, is in the middle of his weekly two-hour radio show titled Outraged Patriots, a nighttime broadcast devoted entirely to the topic of illegal immigration. Howard, who charges that the U.S. government is failing in its duty to protect the country from a “silent invasion” by illegal immigrants, taps into a deep vein of anger and...

Mac users 'ecstatic' about new Apple Store by: ALTHEA PETERSON World Staff Writer 6/30/2007 After up to 12 hours of waiting, the Tulsa Apple Store's first customers swarmed through its gates at Woodland Hills Mall on Friday evening. The 6 p.m. store opening coincided with the unveiling of Apple's iPhone nationwide. While many were in line to purchase the new phone, other local Apple fans were there to revel in the uniqueness of the new store. Rachelle Murphy, a member of the Tulsa Users of Macintosh Society from Broken Arrow, said it was an exciting day for Apple and Macintosh...

Apple devotees rush stores for iPhoneby: ROBERT EVATT World Staff Writer 6/30/2007  1:51 AM Customers wait long hours for the latest multimedia product Jay Kantor doesn't turn 15 until Aug. 12, but he got his birthday present early. He stood in line with his father, Jon Kantor, for nearly 12 hours to get it. "The iPhone is the coolest thing out right now," Jay said Friday while standing in line to buy Apple's newest product at the AT&T store at 1404 S. Lewis Ave. "Ever since I got a Macbook Pro, I knew about the quality of Apple products. So when...

Brother Dean Stafford preached Sunday on I Corinthians 13, the love chapter, in what is believed to be Tulsa County's oldest church building. Stafford has pastored the small, close-knit congregation for 40 years. For most of its 132 years, the small country church at 12222 S. 129th East Ave. was known simply as the White Church, because it was painted white at a time when most buildings in the area were not painted. The property has gone through various name changes and construction projects, but has been a church since 1875. For the past six decades, the congregation now known...

June 1957 – Residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma are enjoying their city’s anniversary, called “Tulsarama!” Most every city around the country enjoys parties; it’s a big tradition throughout the United States. Tulsa representatives decided they needed something unique and different in order to compete with Oklahoma City. They decided to entomb an automobile in a time capsule, using a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere as the car of choice.

Hundreds crammed into bleachers and behind barricades to see the Belvedere come out of the vault Friday afternoon. It was wet Friday morning, but the crowd that gathered wasn't going to let one day of rain spoil 50 years of history. News On 6 anchor Omar Villafranca reports hundreds of people, young and old, crowded near the courthouse to catch a glimpse of history, 50 years in the making. Simple curiosity drew visitors from all over the world. Silvester Humaj’s ‘59 Buick broke down on the way from Massachusetts. He didn't let car trouble keep him away from seeing the...

TULSA, Okla. - Hundreds watched Friday as a crane lifted a muddy package from a hole in the courthouse lawn: a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere buried to celebrate Oklahoma's 50 years of statehood. The wrapped car — a gold and white two-door hardtop — appeared brown and red as it came out of the hole, but it was unclear whether the color represented dirt or rust. A bit of shiny chrome was visible on the bumper. The car spent the last half-century covered in three layers of protective material and encased in a 12-by-20-foot concrete vault, supposedly tough enough to withstand...

This is a link to several stories the Tulsa World is running about the 1957 Plymouth that has been buried for fifty years in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma.http://www.tulsaworld.com/webextra/content/2007/buriedcarunearthed/default.aspx

Tulsa - Tulsa Police are searching for a man who has been exposing himself in convenience stores in South Tulsa. They say he is only wearing a diaper. That's right, a diaper. So far, he's been spotted at a store at 81st and Mingo as well as two stores near 91st and Memorial. Police say the man walks into the bathroom wearing plain clothes, then walks out wearing the diaper and goes into the store. Officers say in some cases, the man exposes himself to the attendant. In others, he just stands around in the diaper, talking. Witnesses says the...

(DOWNTOWN TULSA, Okla.) May 25 - Many people in the Hispanic community are not happy with a city council resolution that targets illegal immigrants. The resolution passed last night, and would require city police officers to check the immigration status of anyone arrested for a felony or misdemeanor. If they're found to be illegal, the resolution says police must notify immigration and customs enforcement within 24 hours. When someone is arrested they’re required to provide one of three things, a driver’s license, immigration papers or a green card. If this resolution becomes an ordinance and you don’t have either of...

Vice President Dick Cheney will be in Tulsa Friday morning. Cheney is visiting Tulsa for a fundraising luncheon for U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe. The fundraiser is taking place at the Doubletree Hotel in downtown Tulsa. Protestors are also planning to be outside the hotel during Cheney’s visit. Tulsa Police say there will be extra security in place at Tulsa International Airport and around the Doubletree Hotel on 7th Street during the Vice President’s visit. BY THE WAY.. I WILL BE AT THIS LUNCHEON TOMORROW! Check back on this thread for pics of Nappy Headed Protestors, Information about the event, inside...

Unruly crowd gathers at standoff Members of the Tulsa Police Special Operations Team team bring in an armored vehicle as they surround a murder suspect barricaded inside the Morning Star Apartments complex late Saturday.     4/15/2007   Police surrounded a north Tulsa apartment Saturday night attempting to take a murder suspect into custody. Units from across the city were called in to help disperse a large crowd that had gathered, with some in the crowd reportedly throwing rocks and firing a weapon toward police and others near where the suspect had holed up. The suspect, Rico Starks, 18,...

RUSH: Heather in the Claremont, Oklahoma, welcome to the EIB Network. Welcome. CALLER: Hello. How are you? RUSH: Good, thank you, how are you? CALLER: Pretty good. Pretty good. I have a question for you. It kind of goes in line with your little diner with the nurses, the sexy nurses in the -- RUSH: Hey, hey, hey, hey! Don't call this place a diner. This is the Heart Attack Grill. CALLER: Heart Attack Grill, okay. Well, I live in a suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and we have an issue where there's a haircutting place for men in Tulsa called...

RUSH: Ken in Tulsa, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hello, sir. CALLER: Good morning, Rush. How are you? RUSH: Never better, sir. Never better despite the cultural rot all around me. CALLER: Well, first of all, let me say that it's an honor to be on your show, and please keep up the good work. RUSH: Thank you, sir. I shall, because only I can really do it. CALLER: Sir? RUSH: Only I can really do it. Everybody else is a pretender. CALLER: Yes, that's true. This is in regard to your piece yesterday on the Heart Attack...

We covered this on the air yesterday, but again people are demanding details. We've often asked on the air why, if Islam the peaceful religion that many Muslims want us to believe it is, we don't hear more Muslims speaking out against Islamic terrorism. Well, now we may have an explanation. Jamal Miftah is a Muslim residing in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is an immigrant from Pakistan. Jamal Miftah is a member of the Islamic Center of Tulsa Mosque. On October 29th Jiftah wrote an article for the op-ed page of the Tulsa World. Here is what he wrote:

The governing board of Tulsa's Al-Salam mosque ruled Wednesday night that a Pakistani native who had been banned from the mosque can return. Houssam Elsoueissi, president of the operating council at the mosque, said he would announce at Friday's service that Jamal Miftah is free to attend services as long as there is no disturbance, and that no one at the mosque should confront him. Miftah was banned last week after a confrontation at the mosque over a guest commentary he wrote that appeared Oct. 29 in the Tulsa World.

Muslim banned from Mosque By Omar Villafranca A Tulsa man says a letter to the editor got him kicked out of his church. He says the letter published in the Tulsa World was anti al-qaede. But he say's members of his Mosque say it's anti-Muslim. Omar Villafranca spoke with the man. See video here

Some gasoline station owners in Oklahoma are dropping the Venezuelan state owned Citgo brand, saying sales have dropped significantly since the VenezuelanPresident Hugo Chavez criticized President George W. Bush in a speech last month. The president of Tulsa based Arkansas Valley, a wholesale distributor which delivers Citgo gas to about 30 stations in Oklahoma and Missouri, said sales fell 10 percent to 15 percent after Chavez's United Nations speech in which he referred to Bush as “the devil.” “We started losing business at our stores,” company president Weister Smith told the Tulsa World newspaper. “Some of our independent retailers came...

I refer you to this link: http://www.tulsaworld.com/NewsStory.asp?ID=061006_Ne_A1_Inhof10315

Fifteen months after Tulsa's Church of the Holy Spirit Episcopal became the only church in the state to cut ties with the Episcopal Church over the issues of gay clergy and biblical authority, the congregation has found a permanent rector and a permanent site. "We're not angry, and we're not frustrated," said the Rev. Briane Turley, whose first Sunday service in Tulsa was Aug. 5. "We want to have a positive message for this community. "We have a very strong sense of mission; we want to reach this neighborhood for Christ. We want to reach out to people in all...

Tulsa’s chief law enforcement agencies have conflicting philosophies over dealing with illegal immigrants. The Tulsa Police Department intends to continue its hands-off approach, while the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office wants to tackle enforcement head-on. “Right now we don’t have an immigration office in Tulsa, and in Oklahoma ICE (U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement) is stretched pretty thin,” said Tulsa County Undersheriff Brian Edwards. “There’s not many of them and there are 200 deputies.” Edwards said the Sheriff’s Office recently sent a letter to ICE requesting training that would enable deputies to be “cross-deputized” as immigration enforcement officers. “We operate the...

Police Chief Dave Been said Monday that the reaction of a group opposed to illegal immigration over the city’s hands-off policy on illegal immigrants makes it sound as if its members are “bigots.” Immigration Reform for Oklahoma Now (IRON) demanded that Mayor Kathy Taylor fire Been after comments he made in a Sunday Tulsa World article about how the city deals with illegal immigrants. Carol Helm, the director of IRON, said, “Chief Been is basically letting the citizens of Tulsa know that he is not enforcing all laws for all citizens.” Been said the Police Department’s nearly 20-year-old policy was...

TULSA, Okla. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Tulsa today announced a restriction on kite tubing on all Corps lakes in the Tulsa District. Col. Miroslav Kurka, commander of the Tulsa District, imposed the ban because of the potential for serious injuries caused by uncontrolled flight of these devices. Kite tubes are a relatively new derivative of large inner tubes towed behind speedboats that become airborne. One person died as the result of a kite tube accident this past week in Texas. Many kite tubing injuries are the direct result of the tubes reaching heights of 20...

A Creek County jury late Thursday convicted a former judge who was accused of exposing himself by using a sexual device while he presided over court cases. The panel deliberated more than five hours before returning a guilty verdict against Donald Thompson on all four counts of indecent exposure. The jury had requested a dinner break around 6:30 p.m. and sent a note to the judge at 8:49 p.m. that a decision had been reached. Jurors recommended one year in prison and a $10,000 fine on each count against the judge, 59, who served more than 20 years on the...

BRISTOW, Okla. (AP) -- Former Judge Donald D. Thompson, a veteran of 23 years on the bench, is on trial on charges he used a penis pump on himself in the courtroom while sitting in judgment of others. Over the past few days, the jurors have watched a defense attorney and a prosecutor pantomime masturbation. A doctor has lectured on the lengths the defendant was willing to go to enhance his sexual performance. The white-handled sexual device sits before the jury box for hours at a time. Occasionally an attorney picks it up and squeezes the handle, demonstrating the "sh-sh"...

A new law to protect the public from sex offenders has some people complaining it's too harsh. That law greatly restricts where sex offenders can live. They can't stay within two thousand feet of any school, public or private park or any day care facility. That narrows the options. NewsChannel 8's Joel Doepker spoke with a sex offender to get his story. No sex offender can live near a park. That includes golf courses. Adding all of those areas up, 97-percent of the city is off limits to a sex offender. And, one man tells us he has to sleep...

It has come to our attention that there are several unscrupulous business and organizations that are misinforming FFA, 4H students and others that : "The Texas Animal Health Commission requires all producers to register a premises identification" We all know this is false information and scare tactics. It is our understanding that TAHC has contracted numerous business and associations to be paid advocates for NAIS. That's right these organization and their subcontractors are on the payroll of TAHC to promote NAIS ! We don't know all the details at this time but appears these people are getting paid to sign...

Fellow Republicans: You have been waiting for the other shoe to drop? Please go to http://www.tulsatoday.com Read David Arnett's article in full color with appropriate pictures. The article is below, but I encourage you to go to the Tulsa Today website for full details. YOU CANNOT MISS THIS ONE!!!! The Taylor/Stipe Corruption By David Arnett, Publisher Sunday, 02 April 2006 Tulsa Today has discovered that Tulsa mayoral candidate Kathy Taylor, in her first year as Oklahoma Secretary of Commerce, used taxpayer money to fund a questionable foundation with close ties to former Democrat state senator and convicted felon Gene Stipe...

TULSA, Okla. A Tulsa woman who filed a complaint against Democratic mayoral candidate Kathy Taylor says the campaign manager for Taylor's opponent helped her write the complaint. Veretta Carter is challenging Taylor's eligibility to serve as mayor. Carter says Taylor wasn't a "qualified elector" in Tulsa when she filed for the office because she was registered to vote in two states _ Oklahoma and Florida.

Democrat Kathy Taylor, a mayoral candidate in Tulsa, OK voted in both Oklahoma and Florida during the closely contested 2000 Presidential election. She voted in person in Oklahoma and absentee in Broward County. Taylor also holds both Florida and Oklahoma drivers licences and owes the state of Florida 125,000+ of back property taxes. One set of laws for the masses, another for the enlightened Democrats. The amazing thing is that Taylor has not dropped out of the race. How brazen has their cheating become if a candidate for elected office flaunts such behavior?

Questions Frustrate Candidate...... Kathy Taylor, a Democrat running for Tulsa Mayor, storms off after agreeing to talk with reporters. KRMG received documents indicating she voted here in 2000 and also cast an absentee ballot in Florida. Taylor said she was living in Florida and voted there, but refused to discuss the reported Tulsa County ballot.

Tulsa Pastor Arrested In OKC On Lewdness Charge OKLAHOMA CITY -- An executive committee member of the Southern Baptist Convention was arrested on a lewdness charge for propositioning a plainclothes policeman outside a hotel, police said. Lonnie Latham, senior pastor at South Tulsa Baptist Church, was booked into Oklahoma County Jail Tuesday night on a misdemeanor charge of offering to engage in an act of lewdness, police Capt. Jeffrey Becker said. Latham was released on $500 bail Wednesday afternoon. Latham, who has spoken out against homosexuality, asked the officer to join him in his hotel room for oral sex. Latham...

Tulsa football coach Steve Kragthorpe does not want to replace Gary Barnett as coach at Colorado. Kragthorpe's name has been brought up as a possible candidate to become the next coach of the Buffaloes, but he released a statement Saturday shooting down the speculation. "I'm flattered that my name has been mentioned in conjunction with the head coaching position at the University of Colorado," he said. "However, I am not interested in the position at Colorado. Barnett was forced out last week after seven years at Colorado. Kragthorpe, in his third season at Tulsa, led the Golden Hurricane to the...

Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree and other supporters of reparations for Tulsa's 1921 Race Riot promised Sunday to continue their quest despite continued setbacks. "It's Greenwood time, it's Tulsa time . . . it's time to be paid for Tulsa's 1921 Race Riot, time to bring Greenwood back," Ogletree said during a three-hour event at Sanctuary Evangelistic Church, 1228 E. Fifth St. The program, which featured Ogletree; U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.; and Chicago Alderman Dorothy Tillman, was billed as a congressional hearing but sounded more like a revival meeting. About 10 of the 97 remaining black survivors of the...

Am probably moving to Tulsa in a couple of months. As everyone knows, real estate is a bubble in Kalifornia. Thus, when Kalifornians move east, they typically pay the asking price for a house and end up paying more than it's worth. Can anyone tell me, for the Tulsa/Broken Arrow/Bixby area how much less to offer on a house? Let's say I'm looking at a house for $210,000. Would $180,000 be a logical starting point or would it be an insult? Thanx in advance.

"Dan Hicks, the local Christian architect who the proposed the biblical creation exhibit, has condemned the oversight board's change of heart as a violation of Tulsa taxpayers constitutional liberties. He maintains there must be something very special about the Genesis account of creation for the Park and Recreation board to insist on suppressing it, especially when the zoo already features religious symbols in other displays, including a statue of an elephant-like, Hindu deity."

TULSA, Okla — Another flagship congregation in the Episcopal Church U.S.A. has left the denomination over the issue of biblical orthodoxy and the denomination’s stand on homosexuality. The leadership of Church of the Holy Spirit in Tulsa met with Oklahoma Bishop Robert Moody in late May to discuss the withdrawal. Church leadership said they hoped for an amicable parting of the ways. Steve Juett, senior warden of the Church of the Holy Spirit, told the Tulsa World the decision to leave the Episcopal Church was not based solely on the gay bishop issue, but was the culmination of many things...

The Tulsa Parks and Recreation Board voted 3-1 in favor of depicting a display that depicts the account of Genesis, the first book of the bible, that God created the world in 6 days and rested on the seventh.The vote came after more than two hours of public discussion from a standing room only crowd. Zoo employees, religious leaders, and others spoke in opposition saying that religion should not be a part of taxpayer funded 'education.'But those who favored the creationist exhibit, including Mayor Bill LaFortune, argued that the zoo had already exhibited religious items, including a statue of a...

TULSA, Oklahoma (AP) -- The Tulsa Zoo will add a display featuring the biblical account of creation following complaints to a city board about other displays with religious significance, including a Hindu elephant statue. The Tulsa Park and Recreation Board voted 3-1 on Tuesday in favor of a display depicting God's creation of the world in six days and his rest on the seventh, as told in Genesis, the first book of the Bible. The vote came after more than two hours of public comment from a standing-room-only crowd. Zoo employees, religious leaders and others spoke in opposition, saying religion...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- The Tulsa Zoo will add a display featuring the biblical account of creation following complaints to a city board about other displays with religious significance, including a Hindu elephant statue. The Tulsa Park and Recreation Board voted 3-1 on Tuesday in favor of a display depicting God's creation of the world in six days and his rest on the seventh, as told in Genesis, the first book of the Bible. The vote came after more than two hours of public comment from a standing-room-only crowd. Zoo employees, religious leaders and others spoke in opposition, saying religion...

A couple of displays at the Tulsa Zoo have angered some critics. And another that's been suggested is controversial too. Both have aspects of religion and another that's been suggested - are both creating controversy. Over by the elephants at the Tulsa Zoo, there is a statue of an elephant called "Ganesha". For Hindu's, Ganesha is a revered deity, one of the most important in the religion. But the curator of the exhibit at the Tulsa Zoo says it's not religious, in this setting. Brett Fidler: "We exhibit it out of the religious context, strictly as a museum piece." For...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) Nearly two years after the Episcopal Church USA elected a gay bishop in New Hampshire, members of a south Tulsa Episcopal church have decided to withdraw from the denomination. The leadership of Church of the Holy Spirit Episcopal met with Oklahoma Bishop Robert Moody last week to discuss details of the withdrawal. A congregational meeting was held Sunday to explain the situation to members. Steve Juett, senior warden of the Church of the Holy Spirit, said the decision to leave the Episcopal Church was not based solely on the gay bishop issue, but was the culmination of...