Catherine Roberts

On the heels of a large number of meth-trafficking related arrests in Oklahoma City earlier this week, investigators shut down a major methamphetamine pipeline in Tulsa.

The two cases aren’t related, but U.S. Attorney for Oklahoma’s Northern District Danny Williams says it’s indicative of a larger trend.

“What we’re seeing at the federal level is, we’re not talking about the shake-and-bake,” Williams said. “We’re talking about multi-pounds, hundreds of millions of dollars worth of meth. It is big-time business.”

The Osage Negotiated Rulemaking Committee finishes up revisions to its oil and gas regulations. Jeff Henry with the Osage County Cattlemen’s Association says the results are disappointing.

“The net effect is nothing really got changed,” he said. “There were a couple changes that were included that we consider to be somewhat minor.”

The Cattlemen’s Association is advocating for updates to the rules that would bring them into alignment with all other counties in Oklahoma.

Two suspects, one from Tulsa and one from Austin, are indicted in federal court for conspiracy and possession of more than 500 grams of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.

The suspects are Gonzalo Ponce-Arturez, 35, from Austin, Texas, and Raven Frederick-Holmes, 31, from Tulsa.

U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma Danny Williams' office released a statement, part of which follows:

It's official - the University of Tulsa is moving to the Big East athletic conference.

The move will be effective 2014.

TU President Steadman Upham said the move will resurrect old rivalries between other TU and other teams that recently left Conference-USA.

He also said the move will allow TU to compete on the highest possible level.

TU won 49 conference championships in C-USA.

The move will affect all TU sports, not just football or basketball.

The Big East will change its name in July.

Twin bills, entitled the Nondiscrimination in Treatment Act, have passed in the House and Senate and moved to committee in the opposite chambers.

The measures would require healthcare professionals to provide life-preserving treatments to any patient regardless of whether they’re elderly, disabled, or terminally ill.

The City of Tulsa and the Tulsa Police Department recognize Mike Harrell for his quick action saving two women from a dog attack.

“I’m very, very thankful for being in the right place at the right time,” Harrell said, “and being able to have the right equipment.”

Harrell shot and killed the dog as it was in the process of two church volunteers last month.

Mayor Bartlett says Harrell’s quick action in saving the two women shows both Harrell’s heroism and the importance of Second Amendment rights.

The Tulsa Health Department is notifying patients of dentist Scott Harrington of a potential of infection from hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or HIV.

The Health Department’s Dr. Bruce Dart says they’re sending notices to patients from 2007 and later, but that any patient of Harrington’s should get tested at the free clinic to be set up by the Health Department.

“If you’ve ever been a patient of Dr. Harrington’s, come to our clinic,” Dart said.

The Oklahoma chapter of the Sierra Club says it opposes a bill, approved by the State House of Representatives, that would limit the activities related to the U.N.’s “Agenda 21,” an initiative designed to help cities become more environmentally sustainable.

The Sierra Club’s David Ocamb says unintended consequences could affect the ability of state universities to conduct sustainability research.

“All of these programs are political subdivisions of the state, and are at risk from this preposterous piece of legislation,” Ocamb said.

Legal lectures and panel discussions about marriage equality laws will take place in the evenings all this week at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center.

Toby Jenkins is the Executive Director of Oklahomans for Equality.

“We felt like it was important that we educated and gave Tulsans the proper information about the marriage equality hearings that are going on at the Supreme Court,” Jenkins said.

The Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority proposes another increase in water and wastewater rates.

The increase would be seven percent for water and nine percent for sewer.

The City’s Water and Sewer Director Clayton Edwards says that’s about on par with rate increases of the previous few years.

“Last year when we had similar rates for an average customer,” Edwards said, “it increased the monthly bill about $3.75.”

“We’re probably looking at a similar increase,” he said, in the “neighborhood of three, four dollars increase per month.”