OWASSO, Okla. — Threefold Widows Ministry held their first ever fashion show, “Threads of Hope”, on Saturday in support of their mission to help widows in Kenya. The ministry was started by women from Freedom Church in Owasso following a mission trip. They started the ministry to help widows become new providers for their families. …
Tulsa is likely not the first place most people think of when it comes to couture fashion, but Parker D. Wayne wants to change that. Whether he’s holding runway shows in parking garages or a sold-out 600-person show in an abandoned church, Wayne’s forward-thinking influence is helping to springboard Tulsa’s growing fashion community into a…
OWASSO, Okla. — Threads of Hope is hosting their first ever fashion show in support of Threefold Widows Ministry in Kenya on March 29 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The ministry was started by women from Freedom Church in Owasso following a mission trip. They started the ministry to help widows become new providers…
Two US states executed convicted murderers on Thursday, the third and fourth death sentences carried out in the country this week. In Oklahoma, a man convicted of killing a woman during a home robbery was put to death. And in Florida, another man was executed for the rape and murder of a child and the…
Oklahoma executed a man Thrusday for fatally shooting a woman 20 years ago during a home invasion and robbery. Wendell Grissom, the death row inmate, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. A prison official told the Associated Press that Grissom, 56, was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.m. It was the…
A 53-year-old man convicted of murder was put to death by lethal injection in Arizona on Wednesday in the first execution in the southwestern U.S. state in more than two years. Aaron Gunches, who had dropped legal efforts to halt his execution, was sentenced to death for the 2002 murder of Ted Price, his girlfriend’s ex-husband. “Justice…
A massive storm system that brought high winds, rain, tornadoes and wildfires killed at least 42 people in the Midwest and South over the weekend. Some survived the extreme weather by leaving just in the nick of time or riding out the storm. Aaleigha Contreras, 9, convinced her family to evacuate their home in Poplar…
Intense fires in Stillwater, Oklahoma, left homes ravaged by flames on Friday, March 14. Footage from Jeff Bartlett shows fires consuming homes west of Stillwater city off State Highway 51. The City of Stillwater Emergency Management issued an evacuation order for several places to the west of Stillwater City on Friday with active firefighting going…
The General Services Administration, working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, has notified landlords that federal agencies will be terminating hundreds of leases for offices and buildings in the coming months. A GSA planning document dated March 10 lists the dates when many of the cancellations are expected to go into effect. That does…
The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear a case on whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma. The justices said they would review an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision invalidating a state board’s approval of an application by the Catholic Church in Oklahoma to open a…