Board member Allen McCall said this week he believed Robyn Allen’s sentence was excessive. At one point he and other pardon and parole board members wondered if they were looking at the right paperwork.

At least half of the men who were shot by police officers in Oklahoma last year had detailed histories of alleged domestic violence, and researchers are increasingly seeing a link between domestic violence and police shootings.

The FBI paid a man more than $23,000 to participate in sting operation against accused bomb maker Jerry Drake Varnell, according to testimony in a federal trial on Wednesday.

The GRDA’s board of directors unanimously approved a $476,295 contract for the devices with body camera manufacturer WatchGuard during the board’s regular meeting on Wednesday in Tulsa.

"Our hands are tied,” County Commissioner Karen Keith said. “There’s just not much Tulsa County can do.”