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BOK Center ticket system working again
Tickets.com, the online system that provides tickets for BOK Center events, is back online after being down Friday morning. Van Halen fans, who were eagerly awaiting their Tulsa concert, can now get pre-sale tickets to the concert and other events. The system was shut down due to an undisclosed problem. According to BOK Center officials, they worked closely with Tickets.com
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Remembering the 10 in Stillwater
January 27th, 2012 marks eleven years since the Oklahoma State family lost ten members of the men's basketball program in a plane crash in Colorado. The chartered plane went down in snowy weather, prompting the university to change its travel policies. A "Remember the 10" memorial now stands at Gallagher-Iba arena. Tragedy struck OSU again, in November, when the university
Local News
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Tulsa Councilors vote for new massage ordinance
Tulsa city councilors have voted without objection to crackdown on massage parlors. For four years, law enforcers have been fighting for it. Now they have the means to help combat it. Many Tulsa Police Officers are excited about those changes but it was delayed by a heated debate between councilors on stiffer bans for people arrested for prostitution in massage
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Hole In Woman's Roof Repaired After FOX23 Investigation
It has taken time, and plenty of leg work for Charlene Mann’s roof to get repaired. Knocks went unanswered when FOX 23’s Frank Wiley approached Mann’s rental company, Habitat 4 Hope. A couple days later, he went back, and didn't get much further. Even her four grandkids knew something was wrong. "My grandson said 'Me-Me, why do we have to
National News
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Barefoot Bandit learns his fate
SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced the young man known as the "Barefoot Bandit" to 6 1/2 years in prison for his two-year, international crime spree. Colton Harris-Moore hopscotched his way across the United States carrying out a series of break-ins that included stealing boats and planes. He was finally arrested in the Bahamas in 2010. ©2012 Associated
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US gov't to extend and expand foreclosure program
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is expanding its signature foreclosure-prevention program to try to help those with heavy debt loads avoid losing their homes. The Home Affordable Modification Program will also be extended through 2013. The three-year old program has strived to help those at risk of foreclosure lower their monthly payments. But it has failed to help more
World News
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Haiti president now says no pardon for Duvalier
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's president is backing away from a possible pardon for former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. President Michel Martelly says he will let justice run its course in the case of the man known as "Baby Doc." Martelly says he was misunderstood in a Thursday interview with The Associated Press when asked about Duvalier and responded that he
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UN weapons experts going to Tehran
VIENNA (AP) — Diplomats say the U.N. nuclear agency is including two senior weapons experts on a mission to Iran on Saturday. The move is an unusually clear statement on the team's prime focus — wresting information from Iranian officials on suspicions the country has secretly worked on atomic arms. Iran has flatly refused to discuss such allegations for more
Business News
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Facebook IPO filing could come next week
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Wall Street Journal says Facebook could file regulatory papers for its initial public offering of stock as early as next week. The newspaper cites unnamed people familiar with the matter in saying that the social networking company could raise as much as $10 billion. Facebook's expected launch as a publicly traded company is the most
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Ford posts big profits
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford's stock price fell after weak sales in Europe and production losses in Asia hurt fourth-quarter earnings. Ford Motor Co. reported $13.62 billion in net income, but investors brushed off the result because most of that came from an accounting change. Excluding that change, earnings totaled $1.1 billion, or 20 cents a share, missing Wall Street
