Tulsa Police said a man was shot in the head at the Apache Manor Apartments near Apache and Harvard. The man is expected to survive.

The standards were created by a committee of teachers selected by the Board of Education and will be open for comment through January 21st for any Oklahoman wishing to comment on the social studies standards.

According to her retirement statement, Spurlock will step down from her position on March 1, 2025. “Over the next couple of weeks, I will continue to work with the team to ensure that OSBI operations remain uninterrupted and the impact of change is minimal,” wrote Spurlock. “While it is my time to transition from my current role, I remain committed to ensuring that distractions do not overshadow the tremendous work that is done by the OSBI team all across our great state.”

BOK said they will work with clients to remediate any issues when the provider is back on. The outage is affecting mobile banking and some debit cards.

According to the Tulsa Historical Society, Holmes and Chester Cadieux co-founded QuikTrip Corporation in 1958. QuikTrip has become one of the country’s most successful convenience store networks.

City officials said they learned the building near Seneca was on fire around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. By 2:15 a.m., the building and the site’s equipment were deemed a complete loss.

She will oversee education, youth, and resilience initiatives on behalf of the Nichols Administration, the City of Tulsa’s announcement said.

Jason Lynn was arrested in connection to the murder of Alan Underwood Jr. who was found dead in the snow last Friday.

Babudar was arrested in 2022, and accused of robbing a credit union in Bixby. Following Babudar’s arrest, FBI investigators were able to tie him to a string of robberies across the Midwest.

A Winter Storm Warning is in effect until noon Friday for much of southeast and east central Oklahoma and all of western Arkansas.

The Oklahoma National Guard (OKNG), Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (DPS), Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA), Department of Transportation (ODOT), and Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management (OEM) are actively mobilizing resources to protect public safety and maintain essential services as heavy snow and freezing temperatures continue to affect communities across the state, the announcement said.

According to TPD, this is Tulsa’s first homicide of 2025.

NWS says the greater potential for a mix of precipitation types remains south of I-40, with all precipitation forecast to become snow overnight Thursday night. They say this wintry weather will likely impact the Thursday evening commute and the Friday morning commute.

Chief Lance Arnold began his career in law enforcement in Oklahoma, serving 20 years with the Norman Police Department before becoming Chief of Police in Weatherford, Texas.

If the Muskogee County Public Safety 2025 proposition passes, the roughly 0.8% tax would fund shared police, fire and emergency services projects. Those projects are expected to cost $60 million. Once the projects are completed, the tax would drop to 0.5% to fund EMS and public safety. The current county sales tax rate is 0.65%.