Mike Hixenbaugh

3 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Mike Hixenbaugh |Roberto Daza |Antonia Hylton |Ala'a Ibrahim

TULSA, Okla. — The women have spent decades trying to forget, but some memories haunt them. The way the children’s pastor wrapped them in his arms. The terrifying stories he told about demons and the warmth in his voice as he promised to protect them. The chill of his hands on parts of their bodies where no grown man’s hands should be. The blood some of them found in their underwear afterward. They can still picture the spaces where it happened: A church nursery. A childhood bedroom.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Mike Hixenbaugh |Roberto Daza |Antonia Hylton

One Of America's Largest And Best Playgrounds Is A World-Class, Free Waterfront Wonderland In TulsaAs a lifelong Tulsan who has traveled all over the United States, I've got a long and ever-growing personal list of what makes my hometown — a …

2 months ago | nbcnews.com | Mike Hixenbaugh

A decade ago, the Salvation Army fired a talented young music director after discovering that he’d sent graphic sexual messages to a child — only for another branch of the ministry to hire him a year later to lead youth camps in a different part of the country, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Louisville, Kentucky. Those camps are where the music director, Joel Collier, met then-14-year-old Riley Neville in 2017.

2 months ago | nbcnews.com | Mike Hixenbaugh |Antonia Hylton

The indictment of former megachurch pastor Robert Morris on child sex abuse charges this week was made possible by an accuser who refused to quit, a novel legal theory and an archaic section of state criminal code that dates to Oklahoma’s origins on the wild frontier. Morris, a leading national figure in the American evangelical movement and the founder of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, was charged Wednesday with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child.

Feb 26, 2025 | yahoo.com | Mike Hixenbaugh

This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. Texas state regulators are investigating a medical school’s failure to notify surviving family members before cutting up and leasing out the bodies of their loved ones. The Texas Funeral Service Commission notified the University of North Texas Health Science Center on Oct.