By Associated Press

Oklahoma City, OK – Execution date sought for Young

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Attorney General Drew Edmondson has asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to set an execution date for Tulsa County death row inmate 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.

The Morgans were found beaten to death in their Tulsa apartment.

By Associated Press

Oklahoma City, OK – Panel to study texting and driving rules

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A legislative panel plans to investigate the potentially dangerous practice of texting while driving.

The House Public Safety Committee will convene a hearing on Thursday to take testimony from law enforcement and public safety advocates on the seriousness of the problem in the state.

By Associated Press

Lawton, OK – Comanche Co. man's death likely swine flu related

LAWTON, Okla. (AP) Health officials in Comanche County say swine flu complications likely led to the death of a Comanche County man.

The man's name and age were not released.

The county's health department says the man died Wednesday and that he had other medical conditions that put him at increased risk of complications from swine flu.

The death would be at least the fifth in Oklahoma related to swine flu also known as the H1N1 virus.

By Rich Fisher

By Associated Press

Tulsa, OK – According to the National Weather Service, Tulsa and surrounding counties are in a Flood Watch area through Friday afternoon, October 9th. The Tulsa Fire Department would like to take this opportunity to warn citizens about the dangers of flash flooding. What most citizens don't realize is that an average of 200 U.S. citizens drown every year from flash flooding. That is more than airline accidents and domestic terrorism. Flash flooding is the most dangerous weather related killer, ahead of earthquakes, tornadoes and hurrincanes.

Grove, OK – On Wednesday night, October 7th, 2009, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics (OBNDD) will be holding a public forum to discuss crime and substance abuse in northeastern Oklahoma. The event comes on the heels of a large OBNDD investigation in Ottawa and Delaware counties that netted more than 70 drug arrests.

By Associated Press

Norman, OK – Accident victims' families sue driver

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) Family members of the 10 people who were killed when a tractor-trailer slammed into a line of stopped cars on an Oklahoma turnpike have sued the truck's driver and his employer.

A lawsuit filed Sept. 28 in Cleveland County District Court names Donald L. Creed of Willard, Mo.; Kansas City, Kan.-based Associated Wholesale Grocers; two insurance companies, a California company and two individuals as defendants.

By Associated Press

Tulsa, OK – Officer shoots, kills man in Broken Arrow

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) Broken Arrow police say an officer investigating a domestic disturbance call has shot and killed a man.

Maj. Carole Newell says police were called about 11:45 p.m. Monday to a home in northeast Broken Arrow and were met by 29-year-old Nathan Samuel.

Newell says Samuel had a knife that he refused to put down and was shot and killed by an officer.

By National Weather Service