That time Brad Pitt was a no-show but the city changed its approach to solving problems anyway
The Urban Data Pioneers met Friday to begin changing the culture regarding how city employees use data to identify and solve problems.
Testimony: Sheriff’s Office had history of falsifying records
Billy McKelvey, a former Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office captain, testified Monday that the Sheriff’s Office falsified several documents involving Elliott Williams’ death.
Testimony: Jailers blocked nurse from giving dying inmate water
Former TCSO Capt. Billy McKelvey testified about his investigation into the 2011 death of Elliott Williams in Tulsa’s jail. The investigation found that dozens of detention and medical staff could have helped Williams but did not because of an assumption that he was faking paralysis.
By the time deadly riot rocked private prison, company that ran it had reaped millions in state tax dollars
While private prison company CCA reaped more than $2 million in taxpayer benefits, one of their prisons saw the deadliest riot in Oklahoma history. Meanwhile state prisons languished under financial difficulties.
Listen Frontier: Crisis in black education
We talk to Dr. Ebony Johnson, the interim executive director of Student and Family Support Services, and Mikeale Campbell about the crisis in black education.
Jurors view video of Williams’ last hours in Tulsa’s jail
During the first day of testimony in a federal trial, jurors watched a 10 minute video of Elliott Williams trying to reach food and water as he lay paralyzed on the floor of his Tulsa jail cell.
Jury selected in Elliott Williams case
The jury is made up of five women and five men. Attorneys clashed Wednesday over attempts by the defense to remove all three black jurors from the pool.
Under court order, Scott Pruitt releases thousands of emails
Less than a week after Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt was confirmed to head the nation’s Environmental Protection Agency, Pruitt released a batch of emails under court order to watchdog group Center for Media and Democracy.
