A new study documents Tulsa is home to the second highest divorced population in the nation. Economic, legal, and social shifts reshaped marriage from a faith based standard in the second half of the 20th century, and states began to adopt no-fault divorce laws throughout the 1960s and 1970s that made it easier to end a marriage. Meanwhile, changing social and cultural attitudes have made it more common for couples to cohabitate, combine finances, and raise children prior to getting married—or without getting married at all.

Updated 6/3: Dr. Preston Phillips, Orthopedic Surgeon specializing in spinal surgery and joint reconstruction, was assassinated Wednesday June 1 in the second-floor orthopedic offices of the Natalie Medical Building within Tulsa’s St. Francis Hospital complex at approximately 5 pm by a patient Dr. Phillips had performed back surgery on May 19.