Local & Regional

The Tulsa Health Department’s Regional Prevention Coordinator  staff with the assistance of trained student volunteers recently conducted Tobacco Reward Reminder Visits  throughout Tulsa County in March.

61 tobacco retailer establishments were visited during recent RRVs. Of those retail establishments visited only one sold tobacco to a minor, resulting in a compliance rate of 99.9%.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has announced the third-annual Governor's Energy Conference will be held in Tulsa.

The event is presented by the governor's office and the University of Tulsa Collins College of Business. It will be Oct. 9 at the Tulsa Convention Center downtown.

The conference traditionally brings together top energy policy makers, executives and other people involved with the energy industry.

Gov. Fallin says this year's conference will focus on workforce development and research in the energy industry.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A group of Tulsa residents wants to change the name of the Brady Arts District after its namesake was linked with the Ku Klux Klan.

Several people went before the Tulsa City Council on Thursday and said the city shouldn't be honoring Tate Brady.

Brady was a Tulsa businessman who died in 1925 and many say he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

The city says it only has the authority to change the name of Brady Street because all other references didn't come from the city government.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Health officials say one new case of hepatitis has been found among thousands of patients of a Tulsa oral surgeon whose clinics were determined unsanitary by investigators.

The update released Thursday by the Tulsa Health Department includes one new case of hepatitis B, bringing the total to five since testing began in late March. Unchanged among the patients of Doctor W. Scott Harrington who were tested are the 70 cases of hepatitis C and three of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Senate has unveiled a new plan to divert $80 million in sales and use taxes to pay for the completion of an American Indian museum in Oklahoma City and build a new popular culture museum in Tulsa.

A Senate budget committee late Thursday approved both measures, which next must be considered by a similar committee in the House, where the proposals are likely to face strong resistance.