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Man arrested in burglary of Tulsa police vehicle, theft of weapons
Updated: Fri, May 25, 2012
A man who is described as a notorious burglar and was wanted in the burglary of an unmarked police vehicle May 16 was arrested Wednesday, Tulsa police said.
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Lawton soldier killed in Afghanistan
Published: Tue, May 22, 2012
2nd Lt. Tobias C. Alexander, 30, died from wounds suffered when his unit was attacked with a roadside bomb Sunday in Afghanistan. Also killed was Capt. Jesse A. Ozbat, 28, of Prince George, Va. Read More
Study would be needed before ending C-130 program in Oklahoma City
Published: Thu, May 10, 2012
The U.S. House Armed Services Committee has approved a defense funding bill that would delay efforts to end a program in Oklahoma City to upgrade the cockpits of U.S. Air Force C-130 transport planes. Read More
U.S. suspends recovery of troop remains in North Korea
Published: Thu, Mar 22, 2012
WASHINGTON — The United States said Wednesday it is suspending efforts to recover remains of thousands of fallen service members in North Korea, the latest sign that a recent thaw in relations is over.
The U.S. was in the process of resuming the hunt for remains missing from the 1950-53 Korean War that had... Read More
Coins spill from armored car onto Tulsa roadway
Published: Fri, Feb 24, 2012
TULSA -- Crews made a big sweep Friday afternoon in Tulsa after boxes of coins spilled from an armored vehicle.
According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol's facebook site, workers from several agencies, including the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, the armored vehicle company and the patrol helped sweep up... Read More
Fort Sill museum gets another piece of history
Published: Thu, Dec 15, 2011
FORT SILL -- Officials added another piece of history to the Field Artillery Museum on Friday as they placed a piece of the World Trade center on permanent display.
The twisted and smashed I-beam, measuring about 31 inches tall by about 16 inches wide, was recovered at the trade center site in June 2002 by the... Read More
US reducing naval firepower aimed at Gadhafi
Updated: Sun, Mar 27, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a sign of U.S. confidence that the weeklong assault on Libya has tamed Moammar Gadhafi's air defenses, the Pentagon has reduced the amount of naval firepower arrayed against him, officials said Sunday. The move, not yet publicly announced, reinforces the White House message of a diminishing... Read More
US pressures allies to command Libya mission
Updated: Thu, Mar 24, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) — Anxious to reduce its front-line air combat role in Libya, the Obama administration pressed Thursday for allies who first pushed for the campaign to come up with a workable alternative. U.S. officials said the leadership handoff would come within a few days — with President Barack Obama... Read More
Allies launch Libya force as Gadhafi hits rebels
Updated: Sat, Mar 19, 2011
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — French fighter jets fired the first shots at Moammar Gadhafi's troops on Saturday, launching the broadest international military effort since the Iraq war in support of an uprising that had seemed on the verge of defeat. In the hours before the no-fly zone over Libya went into effect,... Read More
Success on both sides sows fear of Libya civil war
Updated: Sat, Mar 5, 2011
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi loyalists swept into the opposition-held city closest to Tripoli on Saturday, tightening security around the regime-held capital. To the east, rebel forces captured a key oil port as the country veered toward civil war. Rebels said government forces had moved in to Zawiya,... Read More
Mine fields circle Jesus' traditional baptism site
Published: Wed, Jan 19, 2011
This site is Christianity's third holiest — after the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, on the spot where Christian belief says Jesus was crucified and resurrected, and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where tradition holds Jesus was born — and the baptism marks the beginning of Jesus' public... Read More
UN Security Council meets on Korea tensions
Published: Sun, Dec 19, 2010
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council met in emergency session Sunday amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and a North Korean warning of a "catastrophe" if South Korea goes ahead with a live-fire drill. Russia called for the meeting, and Moscow wants the U.N.'s most powerful body to adopt... Read More
SKorea to hold firing drills despite NKorea threat
Published: Sat, Dec 18, 2010
YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea (AP) — South Korean troops geared up Saturday for artillery drills on a border island shelled by North Korea last month despite Pyongyang's threat to retaliate again, as Russia and China expressed concerns over rising tensions on the divided peninsula. The North warned Friday... Read More
With Afghan control by 2014, Obama sees combat end
Published: Sat, Nov 20, 2010
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — President Barack Obama on Saturday said for the first time he wants U.S. troops out of major combat in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, the date he and other NATO leaders set for moving Afghans into the lead role in fighting the Taliban. Allies had different interpretations about the... Read More
All Wars Are Crimes
Updated: Tue, Oct 12, 2010
Civil War descendant reviews current conflicts with historical perspective. Read More
Bar patrons beat would-be robber in Tulsa, police say
Updated: Fri, Oct 8, 2010
Tulsa police arrested a man Thursday night they allege attempted to rob a bar but was instead beaten by the bar patrons until police arrived, police said.
The man was taken to a local hospital and put into the Intensive Care Unit, said Officer Jason Willingham. The man is expected to survive.
Police allege... Read More
Couple charged in nuclear weapons secrets case
Published: Fri, Sep 17, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) — A scientist and his wife who both once worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory were arrested Friday after an FBI sting operation and charged with conspiring to help develop a nuclear weapon for Venezuela. After their arrest, the two appeared in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M. They were... Read More
Gunmen burst into factory in Honduras, kill 15
Published: Tue, Sep 7, 2010
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Men armed with assault rifles burst into a shoe factory and opened fire Tuesday, killing at least 15 workers and wounding eight, Honduran authorities said. National police spokesman Leonel Sauceda called the attack in the northern city of San Pedro Sula "a massacre." He said the... Read More
Pakistan Taliban say their bomber kills 43 Shiites
Published: Fri, Sep 3, 2010
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bombing claimed by the Pakistani Taliban killed at least 43 Shiite Muslims at a procession in southwest Pakistan on Friday. The assault sharply drove up the toll of sectarian assaults in a country battered by massive flooding. To the northwest in Pakistan's restive tribal... Read More
US engineer convicted of selling secrets to China
Published: Mon, Aug 9, 2010
HONOLULU (AP) — A federal jury in Hawaii on Monday convicted a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer of selling military secrets to China. Noshir Gowadia was convicted on 14 counts, including conspiracy, violating the arms export control act and money laundering. He was found not guilty on three counts of... Read More
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