Samson Tamijani

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Concerts returning to Chapman Stadium in 2026, TU confirms

3 days ago | kjrh.com | Samson Tamijani

TULSA, Okla. — More than 30,000 rocked out to Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe and Alice Cooper on a jamming August night in 2023. It was the first time Tulsa concertgoers could do so outside at a venue as large as Chapman Stadium since 1990. And it apparently brought such good buzz to the University of Tulsa and Route 66 that second-year Director of Athletics Justin Moore believes it's time to run it back with more concerts in 2026.
Bernie Sanders to Tulsa crowd: 'Oklahomans do not want more wars'

6 days ago | kjrh.com | Samson Tamijani

TULSA, Okla. — Independent Vermont senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was handed a letter onstage with the president's announcement of military strikes on Iran during his Tulsa rally on June 21. After an assistant handed the letter, Sen. Sanders paused a moment before informing the crowd and strongly condemning Pres. Trump's order. "The people of Oklahoma and the people of Vermont do not want another war," the senator said to applause.
Tulsa Juneteenth Festival honors 'freedom, resilience'

1 week ago | kjrh.com | Samson Tamijani

TULSA, Okla. — Beyond the OKC Thunder playing in the most important pro sports day in Oklahoma's history was one of the most important celebrations of freedom this side of the Red River in the Greenwood district. "I think Tulsa sometimes is overlooked by the things that we have going on," Tulsa Juneteenth, Inc. executive director Lauren Corbitt told 2 News.
Judge allowing poultry pollution case to continue, agrees pollution continues

1 week ago | kjrh.com | Samson Tamijani

TULSA, Okla. — A Tulsa federal judge again sided with the state’s top prosecutor in a nearly 20-year court battle over pollution in the Illinois River watershed, allegedly caused by chicken slaughterhouses. The 2005 lawsuit was filed against poultry giants Tyson Foods, Cal-Maine, Cargill, Peterson Farms, and Simmons Foods, among others. The State of Oklahoma has argued ever since that the corporations' facilities dumped millions of tons of pollutants in chicken litter into nearby rivers and creeks.
Bristow city, business leaders champion engine facility expansion plans

1 week ago | kjrh.com | Samson Tamijani

BRISTOW, Okla. — Bristow could be the next hub for the state's aerospace industry, if you ask its city and business leaders. If that's the case, it's gonna start with Kratos Defense & Security's expansion of its manufacturing facility. "This is gonna jumpstart the economy," Bristow vice mayor Judd Johns said. The cause of the jumpstart is the doubling in size of the former consolidated turbine specialists facility, run since 2019 by the military contractor corporation.
Hominy water declared safe to drink after confusion

1 week ago | kjrh.com | Samson Tamijani

HOMINY, Okla. — After a mandated boil water order was suspended for the city limits of Hominy on its twenty-second day, city leaders and the state environmental quality agency had to clear up some confusion. "I had been taking showers the last couple of times. I wasn't supposed to be but I did," Dale Sharpnack said, rehashing his wariness of living under the boil order for so long.
New city budget could end River Parks programs like FreedomFest, director warns

2 weeks ago | kjrh.com | Samson Tamijani

TULSA, Okla. — River Parks Authority executive director Jeff Edwards believes if adjustments are not made to the current city budget proposal, numerous programs and events will be in jeopardy. "I'm here to tell you guys tonight our board will actively have to discuss whether we can continue to host FreedomFest," Edwards told the Tulsa City Council on June 11. Mayor Monroe Nichols' budget draft asks for a 15% drop for the River Parks Authority from what it originally requested.
FUTURE UNCERTAIN: Polaris hits back at City of Muskogee after annexation vote

2 weeks ago | kjrh.com | Samson Tamijani

MUSKOGEE, Okla. — A Polaris Technologies representative told 2 News it was blindsided by City of Muskogee's decision to move toward annexing the land its data center sits upon. "The City of Muskogee is seeking annexation of the remaining properties in the John T. Griffith Industrial Park, most of which have already been annexed in," a city official remarked during a June 9 city council meeting.
'The challenge persists': Tulsa annual homelessness report shows 4% increase

2 weeks ago | kjrh.com | Samson Tamijani

TULSA, Okla. — The amount of people still unhoused in Tulsa County continues going in the wrong direction, but it is slowing. The annual Tulsa City/County Point-in-Time results, or PIT, were released on June 10 with a press conference from Mayor Monroe Nichols, Housing Solutions Tulsa CEO Mark Smith, and Tulsa Day Center CEO Mack Haltom, among others.
'Not the Oklahoma Standard': Tulsa protesters advocate against ICE raids

2 weeks ago | kjrh.com | Samson Tamijani

TULSA, Okla. — A group of about 50 made their voices heard outside Tulsa City Hall on June 9, decrying the Trump administration's mobilization of the military in Los Angeles and the ICE arrests that caused protests there. "That's not how Americans operate," Katie Powell said. "That's sure as heck not how Oklahomans operate. Here in Oklahoma, we operate on what I like to call, and what we all in Oklahoma like to call, the Oklahoma Standard.