John Durkee

In the local news:

• A senate panel aproves funds for the OK Pop Museum.
• Gasoline prices in Tulsa could go higher.
• Tulsa celebrates Mayfest.

In the local news:

• Gasoline prices in Tulsa are nearing record territory at $3.82 per gallon.
• The Mayor wants legislative action on the proposed OK-Pops Museum.
• What is causing Oklahoma's rash of earthquakes? Joe Wertz reports.

Making Tulsa news this morning:

•  Voters approve TPS Technology School Bond.
• Two people are dead in Grand Lake boat crash.
• Gasoline prices take a huge Tulsa jump.

In the KWGS Local News:

• Governor Fallin signs the Oklahoma Income Tax Cut bill.
• Voters in Tulsa and Glenpool decide the fate of school bond issues.
• A wreck causes huge problems on the Muskogee Turnpike.

In the local news this morning:

• Declining sales tax revenue is causing a $2-Million dollar Tulsa budget shortfall.
• The Ten Commandments will be the focus of a school board meeting in Muldrow.
• An Oklahoma Senator speaks out on the gun debate.

Topping the local news:

• Not all Tulsa Councilors agree with the Mayor's proposal to fund public safety.
• Insure Oklahoma will have to be "reworked" to survive.
• Remember the Picher Tornado: Five years later.

Picher, Oklahoma, today is a ghost town. Five years ago, it was a community is turmoil.

Abandoned mine shafts dot the landscape and piles of contaminated chat surround the town. The federal government was in the process of buying out the town's residents when an E-F 4 tornado leveled the community. Tomorrow marks the fifth anniversary of that tornado.

Tulsa Red Cross volunteer Linda Jones remembers rolling into the Ottawa County town in the Red Cross disaster van.

Traffic crashes take two lives with in a 12-hour period in south Tulsa. The first accident happened just before sunset near 56th and South Peoria Avenue. In this crash, a motorcycle rider was killed in the wreck.

Just before 3AM this morning, an SUV went out of control on Riverside Drive. It slammed into a tree in Tulsa's Riverparks at 36th Street. Police authorities say the vehicle then burst into flames with the driver, fatally, trapped inside.

Topping the local news:

• Oklahoma House Democrats call for state testing firm to be fired.
• City of Tulsa gets federal dollars to clean-up brownfields.
• Two fatalities in Tulsa traffic in less than 12-hours.

In the local news:

• Hertz will relocate Dollar-Thrifty headquarters from Tulsa.
• An explosion causes damage and injuries at Eufaula.
• The Tulsa mayoral race heats up.