Jenks News

Authorities have charged a Tulsa middle-school teacher in a sex case they say involved a teen boy the teacher was mentoring.

Document: View a copy of the affidavit. A Whitney Middle School teacher has been charged with lewd molestation, forcible sodomy and second-degree rape involving a boy he mentored with Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Free and near-free movies can be found in the Tulsa area this week at the following theaters: RiverWalk Movies in Jenks, free showings - "Zathura," 11:30 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

If you arrive early enough, you might have some fresh tomatoes this week. Also, be on the lookout for red, white and blue potatoes for the festive Fourth of July potato salad from Bon Appetit magazine.

If you water plants in the middle of the day in summer, will that scorch leaves in the hot sun? Sue M. - Jenks.

Collinsville grew 6.9 percent in 2008, making it one of the fastest growing cities in the state in the past year, according to a government report.

A pilot makes an emergency landing in Glenpool. It went down in a field near 181st and Yale around 8:45 Sunday night.

A total of 10 people have died since Friday as a result of the crash on the Will Rogers Turnpike near Miami.

A shaky economy isn't scaring away one local company whose business in Green Country continues to grow.

Despite the economy some businesses in the Tulsa area continue to grow and hire new employees, but is the growth only in certain parts of the metro.

The new Reasora s store in Jenks has a lot of firsts for the Tahlequah-based supermarket chain.

The AMC Summer Movie Camp at AMC Southroads 20, offering $1 family films - all rated G or PG - and all of them popular titles from last year.

Off to Oklahoma My wife Helen, my daughter Amy and her two boys, Andrew and Aaron, flew out of Austin Straubel Airport in Green Bay at 12:50 PM Saturday, June 6, on an American Eagle flight to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.

Tulsa School of Arts & Sciences, a charter school with just a few hundred students, outscored Booker T. Washington and Jenks high schools in the 2008 School Report Card issued by the Oklahoma Office of Accountability.

Despite sending player after player on to the next level, year after year, the Jenks Trojans look primed for another deep run towards a 6A state championship in 2009 after dropping the title tilt last season to cross town rivals Tulsa Union.

The Jenks City Council this week approved a measure that would give the municipal judge discretion to sentence misdemeanor offenders up to 30 days in jail instead of 10 days.

More than 1,000 horses, ponies and miniatures will compete for Pinto World Championship titles at Expo Square, 4145 E. 21st St.

Owasso High School will diversify its curriculum by adding a Chinese language program this fall, Superintendent Dr.

From the article about the Yale Avenue bridge , "Christianson said he ... is concerned that if a bridge is built, it will funnel traffic up Yale Avenue." Of course it will.

The preliminary hearing for a Jenks teen charged with first degree murder got underway Tuesday morning in Tulsa County District Court.