Russell Mills

Tulsa

Anchor and Reporter at KRMG-FM (Tulsa, OK)

Anchor/Reporter at KRMG Radio, Tulsa, OK. Troubadour. Raconteur. Slayer of conspiracy theories, defender of the Facts. Politically and spiritually Agnostic. ॐ

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AG Drummond to keynote a ‘Faith Leaders Summit’ on human trafficking in Tulsa

Feb 20, 2025 | krmg.com | Russell Mills

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond and a panel of experts will attend an event designed to raise awareness of, and recruit help to combat, human trafficking. Among those in attendance, the director of the AG’s Human Trafficking Response Unit, Kevin Matthews. Metcalf is the founder of National Child Protection Task Force (NCPTF), and an expert in the field of human trafficking with decades of experience as an investigator and prosecutor.
Highway 75 near Preston reopened after hours-long closure due to ice

Feb 18, 2025 | krmg.com | Russell Mills

A sheet of ice on a hill near Preston, Oklahoma completely shut down traffic on U.S. Highway 75 Tuesday for several hours. As of 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, the road had reopened, but troopers warn that it could change again at any moment if there’s a bad wreck or if the precipitation worsens, so they are urging people to avoid the area. It’s the opening salvo in what will be a short-lived, but extremely difficult weather event.
‘Kingston’ expected to bring substantial snow, bitter cold to NE Oklahoma

Feb 17, 2025 | krmg.com | Russell Mills

The winter storm system dubbed “Kingston” is on track to dump several inches of snow in the Tulsa metro beginning Tuesday morning. In addition to snow totals approaching 6″ in the city, the storm will be accompanied by bitterly cold air, with wind chills expected to be near -17 to -18 degrees F. Wednesday and Thursday mornings.
Former chair of OK pardon and parole board now publicly advocates abolishing the death penalty

Feb 14, 2025 | krmg.com | Russell Mills

A man who served for several years on the Oklahoma Board of Corrections, then several more on the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, wants the state to end the practice of putting people to death. Adam Luck cites several factors in reaching that conclusion, not the least of which was that he witnessed the incompetence of the state in carrying out executions. Oklahoma famously botched two executions in 2014 and 2015, by using the wrong chemicals.
Storm chaser licensing bill explained

Feb 13, 2025 | krmg.com | Russell Mills

State Representative Scott Fetgatter (R-Okmulgee) says a bill he filed in the young legislative session dealing with storm chasers has gotten a lot of push back - largely because people have misconstrued its meaning. Oklahoma House Bill 2426 would create the Oklahoma Emergency Weather Response and Tracking Regulatory Act of 2025. Some media account made it appear that the state was mandating a licensing system for all storm chasers, and moreover, one that was rather complex and somewhat expensive.
Gov. Stitt on education: focus should be on learning, not immigration status

Feb 12, 2025 | krmg.com | Russell Mills

Saying the Oklahoma Constitution guarantees an education for “all kids,” and he’s opposed to tracking the immigration status of families with children in public schools. “I’m going to do what I can to change that,” Stitt said Wednesday. “Collecting, again, six, seven, eight-year-old kids’ addresses and immigration status in the state of Oklahoma, that’s not a public safety issue.
Bitter cold to kick off a roller coaster ride of temperatures in Tulsa

Feb 12, 2025 | krmg.com | Russell Mills

Temperatures will plunge overnight Wednesday, with wind chills expected to be in the single digits and approaching zero in the Tulsa metro early Thursday. Meteorologist Mike Lacy at the National Weather Service Office in Tulsa tells KRMG that will kick of a cycle of temperature changes over the next several days. By Saturday, air temperatures should be in the 50s, Lacy said, but by Sunday more Arctic air is due to arrive.
UPDATE: Wagoner County voters overwhelmingly opt to raise sales tax, other election results

Feb 12, 2025 | krmg.com | Russell Mills

Polls opened Tuesday morning for a number of school, municipal, and county elections in the Tulsa metro. In Wagoner County, voters overwhelmingly chose to raise the county sales tax to pay off a $13.4 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit against the sheriff’s office and the jail. The other option would have been an increase in property taxes.
More winter weather headed to NE Oklahoma

Feb 10, 2025 | krmg.com | Russell Mills

TULSA — The Tulsa metro could experience a range of wintry precipitation by mid-week, according to meteorologists. As often happens, the dividing line where rains transitions into sleet, snow and ice runs roughly along Interstate 44, which of course bisects the metro. Meteorologist Karen Hatfield at the National Weather Service Office in Tulsa tells KRMG the primary window of concern falls late Tuesday into early Wednesday, which could be bad news for the Wednesday morning commute.
First new development in decades coming to downtown Wagoner

Jan 30, 2025 | krmg.com | Russell Mills

In 2012, Rebecca Olson began her Broken Arrow accounting and tax preparation business with $550 and the pink laptop she used in college. A single mom with two sons, she went into her first tax season needing somewhere to work - and met a woman who was willing to lease her office space at a very reasonable rate on a trial basis. She eventually bought the building - and then a second building, this time in Wagoner.