The Hoover Crips, the city’s largest gang, are currently feuding with members of three other gangs: the Five-Tre Crips, the Neighborhood Crips and the Bloods, Sgt. Sean Larkin said Wednesday.
The Tulsa City Council and the Mayor’s Office begin receiving public input today on proposed projects to be included in a Vision 2025 sales tax renewal.
The first meeting is Monday at 6 p.m. in City Council chambers of City Hall, Second Street and Cincinnati Ave.
Well, for July 4th, when the Drillers host Corpus Christi, they’ve decided to with a new jersey set. It’s a blue top with red and white striped sleeves, meant to look like the flag. But it’s what’s underneath the team’s logo that caught some eyes on Twitter.
Dylan Goforth had followed Monroe Bird III through a tumultuous few months for the 21-year-old. He was paralyzed after being shot by a security guard in February. His family announced he died Tuesday, not long after he’d been brought home from the hospital.
After grassroots effort gathers more than 6,600 signatures seeking investigation of TCSO, a Tulsa County judge ended a six-hour hearing Tuesday ordering a grand jury to be convened on July 20. Attorneys for the Sheriff’s Office had tried to challenge the petition’s validity on technical grounds.
The two incidents share several key details. Terry Byrum, according to the report, was on the ground, having already been handcuffed and subdued by deputies when Bates arrived, placed his foot on Byrum’s head and fired his Taser.
Robert Bates is the focus of perhaps the most high-profile criminal case in Tulsa County. So how did almost everyone miss his court appearance Friday?
The legal wrangling over the 6,647 authenticated signatures seeking a grand jury investigation of the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office will extend into next week, following an order signed Thursday by District Judge Rebecca Nightingale.
And that legal wrangling, in part, will be paid for by the very people seeking the investigation in the first place.
