On Monday, August 17th, Junior Achievement of Oklahoma will celebrate a milestone fundraiser, hosting the 25th Annual JA Golf Classic at Cedar Ridge Country Club in Broken Arrow, Okla.
Through the last quarter century of the event, businesses and philanthropists who have a passion for preparing and inspiring young students have come together to provide financial literacy, career readiness and entrepreneurship resources across the state of Oklahoma.
More than 1,000 families from across the Green Country came to Oklahoma State University-Tulsa to receive free school supplies, various community resources and live entertainment at the sixth annual OSU-Tulsa Community Back to School Bash yesterday evening.
Tulsa metro-area families, as well as families from Muskogee, Okmulgee, Locust Grove and others, congregated on the OSU-Tulsa campus to celebrate and prepare for a successful school year.
Circle Cinema, Tulsa’s nonprofit arthouse theater, has added more showtimes Thursday August 6th for Reading Lolita in Tehran. Directed by Israeli Filmmaker Eran Riklis and based on Azar Nafisi’s #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, the film follows a professor who secretly gathers seven of her most dedicated female students in post-revolution Iran to read banned Western classics, including Lolita, The Great Gatsby, and Pride and Prejudice.
The film stars Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson), Zar Amir Ebrahimi (Holy Spider), and Mina Kavani (No Bears), and is presented in Persian and English.
TULSA, Okla. – An inmate in federal prison was sentenced Monday for Drug Conspiracy after coordinating the delivery of nearly five kilograms of cocaine to the Tulsa area, U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson announced. U.S. District Judge John D. Russell sentenced Rafael Gonzalez, 33, to 180 months imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release.
In 2023, the Drug Enforcement Administration began an investigation into individuals bringing large quantities of methamphetamine and cocaine from Mexico into Tulsa, Oklahoma. The investigation revealed that Gonzalez coordinated with other inmates and people outside of prison to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine. Court documents show that he coordinated the delivery of nearly five kilograms of cocaine to the Tulsa area and drug proceeds to various locations in Texas.
“ONE FOR THE ROAD” TRACES HOW OKLAHOMA MUSICIANS HELPED CREATE THE SOUNDTRACK OF THE MOTHER ROAD
TULSA, Ok. — As Route 66 celebrates its 100th anniversary, The Church Studio, located in Tulsa, the Capital of Route 66, has opened a new exhibit exploring the Oklahoma music and musicians that traveled along America’s most famous highway.
