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KWGS News

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Newscasts from KWGS. Posted Monday through Friday. Recapping the latest news from the Tulsa area and throughout Oklahoma.
  • Tulsa City Councilor Grant Miller was arrested last night. A famous face from TV visited Tulsa-area students this afternoon. Governor Stitt addresses why he vetoed legislation meant to help domestic violence victims. Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Ryan Walters is instructing schools to ignore new rules from the federal government related to Title IX.
  • A city councilor is arrested, Tulsa Public Schools lowers absenteeism rates, an activist is arrested at this week's Oklahoma State Board of Education meeting, and a former high-ranking Tulsa police officer is awarded half a million dollars in a discrimination lawsuit.
  • KWGS and the Oklahoma Public Media Exchange cover the 2024 solar eclipse! Plus, a U.S. Senator tries to help Tulsa secure federal funding to bolster its tech hub status and many races for public office in Oklahoma will be uncontested.
  • State officials give travel advice for viewing the solar eclipse in southeast Oklahoma, Tulsa County District 2 draws a close race, the Tulsa Public Schools Board of Education considers moving a special education program, and a bill in the State Legislature would require background checks and a fee to collect petition signatures.
  • The moving of a Tulsa special education program is getting pushback, the Tulsa Women's Commission continues to work on childcare issues, a new candidate has been announced for Tulsa County Commissioner, an Oklahoma court says the Osage Nation was disestablished and a midtown house from a famous designer has still not been sold.
  • Oklahoma executes its first death row prisoner of 2024, one of Oklahoma's Republican senators wants to protect in vitro fertilization, a Tulsan becomes a professional boxer, and Bartlesville's voters reject changes to the city charter.
  • A U.S. Senator from Oklahoma wants to protect IVF, the Mayor of Bartlesville reacts to a recent referendum on the city's charter and Tulsa United Way turns 100.
  • Oklahoma prepares to execute its first death row prisoner of 2024. A United States senator joins the fight to keep Tulsa's USPS center fully operational. Authorities search for a teenager last seen in Tulsa on Sunday. A Tulsa Public Schools board member discusses his re-election. State lawmakers consider removing absenteeism as a factor on school district report cards.
  • Results are in for Tuesday's area elections, a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma wants the USPS center in Tulsa to stay, a Tulsa teen is missing, a TPS board member talks about what he heard voters were focused on during Tuesday's races and a Tulsa boxer with big dreams prepares for his first professional fight.
  • Results for the Tulsa Public Schools Board of Education election are in, and concern over State Superintendent Ryan Walters was a driving factor in how some cast their votes. Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre bring their case before the Oklahoma Supreme Court. The state attorney general fights a taxpayer-funded religious charter school opening. Oklahoma prepares for the solar eclipse next week.
  • Survivors of the 1921 Race Massacre make their case to the state's supreme court, voters head to the polls for TPS elections, a major state supreme court decision favors the legislature, the case of the nation's first religious charter school is heard and Oklahoma will see a total eclipse next week.
  • Voters head to the polls to decide the fate of three Tulsa Public Schools board seats, the reparations lawsuit for survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre goes before the Oklahoma Supreme Court, the county health department looks forward to a conference to address racist stigmas in health care, and a major player in Epic Charter Schools' alleged racketeering scheme testifies.