Tulsa City Councilors tried and failed to “get” Mayor Dewey Bartlett and his chief of staff, Terry Simonson on allegations that they lied to the Tulsa City Council. Now, the trio of Burt B. Holmes, Nancy Rothman and Henryetta McIntosh have returned the favor and filed a civil lawsuit in Tulsa County District Court on [...]
U.S. Attorney Jane W. Duke, a special prosecutor from eastern Arkansas, is leading a federal grand jury in Tulsa in its investigation of corruption at the Tulsa Police Department. As a result, five Tulsa cops have been indicted including one of “Tulsa’s finest” who faces 58 counts of perjury, conspiracy to distribute drugs, witness tampering [...]
Tulsa Police say that a woman entering her residence at the Brighton Park Apartments at 51st and Yale shortly after 4 a.m. Thursday was confronted by two men armed with screwdrivers and who forced their way inside and demanded money. After the woman gave them money, they told her to take her clothes off but [...]
Standing in waist high weeds in front of an abandoned house, Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett on Wednesday unveiled a package of proposed city ordinances that are intended to address the growing problem of neglected vacant properties. Bartlett said, “We can’t allow this kind of situation to occur” Under Bartlett’s plan, which includes a Neglected Vacant [...]
