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  A Sequoyah County man - who deputies suspect bough t over $130,000 in vehicles with other people's identities - is in jail. Sheriff Ron Lockhart says they arrested Bronson Thurman in Sapulpa Friday. Police say he bought the cars from two different Tulsa dealerships. Lockhart said Turman, who used to live in Sallisaw, used…

A Sapulpa native stars in one of popsugar.com's most memorable memes from Super Bowl 50. Dancing in the background during the halftime show's Bruno Mars set was Mark Sumner, who was choir director at Sapulpa High School for eight years. Sumner, an Oklahoma State University graduate who is the director of University of California Choral…

Beck, 97, talked to the Tulsa World recently about his service as an Army Air Corps firefighter in WWII, helping put out fires and rescue airmen from crashed B-29s. Now that he was all cleaned and wrapped, Paul Beck couldn’t decide what he was more worried about. His burned body or his wounded dignity.

We previously shared with you that the Eufaula killer in an awful bank robbery last month had actually been convicted in Sapulpa back in 2006. Turns out, there's a lot more to that story about how he was wrongfully freed from prison. Twice. Officials from Creek and Tulsa counties, as well as the Texas Department of Criminal Justice,…

Russell Wagner, who along with wife Meagan Wagner is participating in the launch program, said that not having access to a commercial kitchen was the biggest obstacle they faced while trying to start their business Mr. Salsa. The Wagners’ company will provide fresh, cold, ready-to-eat salsas that Wagner said he envisions being sold in refrigerated…

In winning the title of Miss Oklahoma USA, Taylor Gorton earned a crown, a sash and a platform that allows her to reach many people — maybe even the Hanson brothers? In 2010, when Gorton was a National American Miss Teen, she told an interviewer her favorite childhood memory was attending a Hanson concert in…

Really glad that one of our local knuckleheads didn't keep this guy from completing his journey.

It’s a fairly common occurrence. You buy something online based on a photo and when you get it, it looks nothing like what you thought.Most people would just send it back and order something else. But not Michelle Dugan. For this Glenpool resident, her daughter’s purchase of a prom dress online sparked the idea for…

Sapulpa realtor Bob Nale has compiled a book of his commercial real estate dealings over the past 40 years -- including nearly the last one of 2015. The self-published book will be of special interest to local history buffs.

It was nearly 40 years ago when Sapulpa artist Russell Crosby was approached by a co-worker about doing a painting of his grandfather. The result, a neat Christmas gift for mom and the capturing of an important and otherwise forgotten piece of railroad legacy.