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Tulsa, OK –
Acting United States Attorney Thomas Scott Woodward announced that Federal
search and arrest warrants were served yesterday in the Tulsa area resulting in the arrests of eight Mexican nationals for participating in a wide ranging drug trafficking conspiracy.

By Rich Fisher

By Associated Press

Tulsa, OK – TULSA, Okla. (AP) Authorities say a Eufaula family that wanted to buy land in Latimer County has been missing for nearly two weeks.

A sheriff's deputy found the pickup truck of Bobby and Sherrilynn Jamison and their 6-year-old daughter, Madyson, about 30 miles from their home on Saturday. Officials say a small, hungry dog was inside the vehicle.

Volunteers, police officers, firefighters and Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers searched for the family over the weekend.

By Associated Press

Tulsa, OK – Tulsa area hospitals recommend flu vaccinations

TULSA, Okla. (AP) Hospitals in the Tulsa are highly recommending but not requiring staff members get vaccinations for both the seasonal and the swine flu.

Dr. Steve Swyden at St. Francis Hospital says there's not enough swine flu vaccine for everyone yet. He says people who work with high-risk groups and in the Children's Hospital are strongly encouraged to get vaccinated.

By Associated Press

Tulsa, OK – Execution date set for Tulsa Co. killer

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) An execution date has been set for a Tulsa County inmate convicted in the 1993 killings of a woman and her 6-year-old son.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday scheduled a Jan. 14 execution for 60-year-old Julius Recardo Young.

Young was sentenced to death for the October 1993 murders of 20-year-old Joyland Evette Morgan and her son, 6-year-old Kewan Dontae Morgan. Joyland Morgan was the daughter of Young's girlfriend.

Oklahoma City, OK – Oklahoma's unemployment rate dropped slightly to 6.7 percent in September. That is an improvement of one-tenth of one percentage point from the previous month.

Compared to September 2008, the state's unemployment rate increase by 2.7 percentage points.

We are still better than the national average of 9.8 percent.

By Rich Fisher

By John Durkee

Tulsa, OK –
The cement is flowing!

Work started this morning on pouring new concrete for the 40-plus bridges along the inter-dispersal loop downtown. This is the first time in 40-years at new concrete has been poured on the roadway.

The work is still expected to take several more months. Then the road will be closed in the opposite direction.

By Associated Press

Tulsa, OK – State's expert wraps up testimony in poultry case

TULSA, Okla. (AP) A geologist in Oklahoma's pollution lawsuit against the Arkansas poultry industry has finally wrapped up testimony two weeks after he took the stand.

The sluggish pace of the federal trial was illustrated during the testimony of J. Berton Fisher, who first took the stand on Oct. 8.

By Associated Press

Tulsa, OK – TULSA, Okla. (AP) Officials at the Tulsa City-County Health Department say they're expecting about 10,000 more doses of swine flu vaccine.

The vaccine will be offered to high-risk groups that include children. Health officials say school official have been given information about school-based vaccinations but it's up to them to contact the Health Department to set up vaccination clinics.