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UPDATE: The book is now available on Amazon. You can see a preview here and purchase on Kindle or in paperback. -- A year in the writing, Don Diehl's conversational book with his hound dog "Sadie" is due off the press this week and will be available on Amazon and soon at several area book-signing…

Anyone who has seen the 1973 hit movie “American Graffiti” has a glimpse of what was happening in Sapulpa (and other towns across the country) in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Graduates of Sapulpa High School’s Class of 1962 and other teens lived it. Some still do—at least in memory. That year is the…

The name “Egan” has made its print on Sapulpa from the beginning. The Egan brothers came to this area a century ago and opened general stores at Sapulpa, Kellyville and Tulsa. In more recent times, the grandson of John F. Egan has expanded the legacy. Peter D. Egan, 80, is best known ‘round here at…

The pole was stolen from Rex’s Barbershop near MLK and Mission Street in Sapulpa. Police said they do not know why the someone would steal the pole, but the pole reportedly cost between $800 and $1,000. Police said the thief pried the pole off the wall outside the barbershop. The owner said he came to…

Larry Smith has officially retired from the Sapulpa School District where he has been serving as deputy superintendent of schools the past four years. Over coffee recently, Smith told Sapulpa News & Views that education is constantly in the news -- and for good reason. There’s the state budget shortfall, testing or no testing debates,…

  A man believed to be involved in an armed robbery at a Sapulpa motel was arrested in a joint effort by police in Tulsa late Wednesday. Sapulpa police Maj. Mike Reed said undercover officers were conducting surveillance on a Toyota RAV4 about 10:40 p.m. when it entered Tulsa city limits. The vehicle was connected…

  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,…