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Tulsa Police’s Most Wanted Criminal is charged with kidnapping and maiming his girlfriend in a violent domestic incident. According to court documents, Poole trapped his girlfriend in a closet for on two separate occasions last December, forcing her to use a litter box.

He’s also charged with maiming her by using a curling iron to cause third degree burns on her body. Virgil Wallace Poole Jr. is wanted on a $525,000 bond. He should be considered armed and dangerous. Poole is described as a 49-year-old white male, 5’08″ tall, weighing 180 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes.

The Tulsa Ballet announced Thursday the passing of co-founder and talented Oklahoma-born dancer Edna Moscelyne Larkin Jasinski. Miss Larkin was born in Miami, Oklahoma in 1925 to Russian-born mother Eva Matlagova and Shawnee Peoria/Welsh father Ruben (Babe) Larkin. More >

The number one killer during severe weather in Green Country is flash flooding, and flash flood season is in full swing. More >

A Tulsa company has announced it is buying a family-owned New England heating oil and propane business. NGL Energy Partners LP announced the signing of an agreement with Downeast Energy Corporation to acquire the company. More >

A woman wanted by the U.S. Secret Service as well as other law enforcement agencies is being featured as Tulsa’s Most Wanted this week. Police say 29-year-old Tameka Denise Johnson is heavily involved in fraudulent activity and is suspected in crime in a four-state area. More >

Tulsa police are looking for two men shown in a pair of surveillance photos in connection with the murder of 85-year-old north Tulsan Nancy Strait. Tulsa Police Sgt. Dave Walker says the men could have information on the break-in and assault that ended in Strait’s death. More >

A survey of Tulsa residents shows race relations in the community are poor and the city would benefit from increasing racial diversity in neighborhoods. The John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation released results of its survey Thursday. More >

One of two Oklahoma men accused of going on a racially motivated shooting spree in a predominantly black section of Tulsa this month says he has no ill-will toward black people and counts several of them among his friends. More >

The mother of one of two men accused of shooting and killing three African-Americans in Tulsa, Oklahoma, earlier this month said Tuesday her son was “a very good kid.” “I’m still devastated from the news. I can’t wrap my head around that,” Teri Alexander told CNN from the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center in McCloud, Oklahoma. She’s serving an 18-year sentence on an arson conviction.

Alexander’s son, Jake England, and his friend, Alvin Watts, are accused of first-degree murder and other charges in the April 6 shooting spree, which came a day after he posted a message lamenting his father’s death two years earlier “at the hands of a f–king n—-r.”

A judge entered not guilty pleas Monday for two Oklahoma men accused of going on a racially-motivated shooting spree in a predominantly black section of Tulsa this month, killing three people and wounding two others. More >