{"id":120443,"date":"2025-08-30T08:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120443\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T08:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:42:08","slug":"12-local-breaking-news-stories-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120443\/","title":{"rendered":"12 local breaking news stories this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tulsa World newsroom sent out 12 breaking news emails\/Tulsa World app alerts this week. <\/p>\n<p>Our breaking news email newsletter is the best way to keep up with things that are happening locally when they happen. It\u2019s our most popular newsletter. If you download the Tulsa World app on your phone, you can get these same alerts.<\/p>\n<p>Projects reporter Andrea Eger broke the news on Thursday with an exclusive on Gov. Kevin Stitt\u2019s appointees finding a workaround to set a special meeting of the state Board of Education.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"072525-tul-nws-stateedboard-acd (copy)\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1763\" height=\"1175\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Andrea Eger broke the news Thursday about Gov. Kevin Stitt\u2019s appointees on the state Board of Education.<\/p>\n<p>            Annie Davenport, <\/p>\n<p>Tulsa World Archive\n        <\/p>\n<p>The day before, she and reporter Steve Metzer, who works in Oklahoma City at the capitol, teamed up to explain the state auditor\u2019s latest report on Oklahoma\u2019s mismanagement of more than $90 million in federal funds.<\/p>\n<p>Metzer filed another breaking story that same day when the attorney general announced that the Oklahoma Highway Patrol can\u2019t abandon highways in Tulsa and Oklahoma City as it proclaimed earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\n                                People are also reading\u2026\n                            <\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, reporter Kevin Canfield worked on two breaking stories Wednesday: At noon he told you the city council halted a proposal to expand Tulsa\u2019s human rights ordinances. At 7:30 that night, he reported councilors just approved the much talked about plan on medians and sidewalks.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the breaking news email newsletter at <a href=\"http:\/\/tulsaworld.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tulsaworld.com\/newsletters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Will Rogers says <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, here we are, flying out of Tulsa, the first town in America to become a city. This is one of the best and busiest airports in the country.&#8221; \u2013 May 13, 1933, provided by the Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore, excerpted from his published works<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tulsa World newsroom sent out 12 breaking news emails\/Tulsa World app alerts this week. 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