Several executions are expected to take place in the United States this week, with two scheduled Tuesday and one each on Thursday and Friday. The executions were ordered in Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma and South Carolina. If all of the procedures are carried out as planned, the inmates’ deaths will bring the national total of executions…
Gunfire broke out at a Juneteenth celebration Saturday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing one person and wounding seven others, according to police and the organizers of the event. No arrests have been made. The 2025 Tulsa Juneteenth Festival took place in the city’s Greenwood district, historically home to the affluent community known as “Black Wall Street”…
TULSA, Okla. – On Saturday, June 14, 2025, the historic Big 10 Ballroom on East Apache Street pulsed with music, movement, and meaning as Tulsa’s Juneteenth Festival unveiled the “Legacy & Luxury” Fashion Show. The runway experience honored the past while spotlighting the brilliance of Black fashion’s future. Featuring collections from local designers, the event…
9-year-old who survived tornado shows how far he’s come one year later – CBS News Watch CBS News River Garrett’s family survived a deadly tornado in May 2024, but their ranch in northern Oklahoma was leveled. Dave Malkoff went back one year later. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live…
Bartlesville, Oklahoma — A year after a tornado flattened his family’s home, 9-year-old River Garrett isn’t focused on what was lost — but on what can still be built. “Rebuilding, it takes a while, it takes hard work. But to me, it’s putting something back together where it is better than before,” River said, outside…
Two vehicles collided head-on and burst into flames on a two-lane highway in rural eastern Kansas, killing eight people, including two high school students, a former teacher-coach and a school employee from Oklahoma, authorities said Monday. The crash occurred at about 5:45 p.m. Sunday on U.S. 169 outside of the small town of Greeley, about…
Former high school teacher Ryan Walters was elected Oklahoma state superintendent of schools in 2022, but more than two years later, the state still ranks 49th in education. “I was elected to turn the state’s education system around,” Walters told CBS News. “We were 49th when I was elected. We’re working to move all these…
Oklahoma governor and schools chief at odds over collecting students’ immigration data – CBS News Watch CBS News A proposal approved by the Oklahoma Board of Education that would require students to submit their immigration status during enrollment is drawing backlash, including from the state’s conservative governor. Shanelle Kaul has details. Be the first to…
Severe weather threatened more than 45 million Americans on Easter Sunday, as a treacherous string of thunderstorms continued to strike parts of the southern and midwestern United States, causing flooding and at times tornado risks across a substantial block of the country from East Texas to southeastern Iowa and Illinois. In Oklahoma, people braced for…
As attorney general of Oklahoma, Gentner Drummond has personally attended nine executions. Since taking office in 2023, he’s approved of every death row case in the state — except one. “I believed it my duty to look at…every person on death row,” he told CBS News. “When I stumbled across Richard Glossip, it was different….