TULSA, Oklahoma, March 26 -- The Cherokee Nation, a federally-recognized Native American tribe, issued the following news on March 25, 2024: The Cherokee Nation's tenth Cherokee Warrior Flight departed Monday for Washington, D.C., with eight veterans who served during the Vietnam War. The Cherokee Nation funds the flight for Cherokee veterans to see the national war memorials erected in their honor at the nation's capital. "This trip is one small way for us to say thank you to our Cherokee ve  more

TULSA, Oklahoma, March 26 -- The Cherokee Nation, a federally-recognized Native American tribe, issued the following news on March 25, 2024: On Tuesday, March 26, Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. will call for the renewal of the tribal-state car tag compact as the Cherokee Nation distributes record funding to more than 100 school districts in Northeast Oklahoma. The distribution of funds will be part of the tribe's annual Public School Appreciation Day event at the Hard Rock Hot  more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- The FBI issued the following news release on March 25, 2024: Director Christopher Wray has named Rebecca A. Day as the special agent in charge of the Anchorage Field Office in Alaska. Ms. Day most recently served as a section chief in the Critical Incident Response Group at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Ms. Day joined the FBI as a special agent in 2006 and was assigned to the Las Vegas Field Office, where she investigated organized crime and drug matters and serv  more

TULSA, Oklahoma, March 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma issued the following news release on March 25, 2024: Today, U.S. District Judge J. Phillip Calabrese sentenced Josiah Gammill, 21, to 604 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release for Murder in the Second Degree. According to court documents, in March 2021, Gammill was driving with Hunter Majors. They pulled off the side of a back road to use the restroom. Gammill retrieved a  more

TULSA, Oklahoma, March 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma issued the following news release on March 25, 2024: Today, U.S. District Judge Terence C. Kern sentenced Phillip Barry Albert, 64, of Tulsa, to 30 months imprisonment, followed by 1 year of supervised release, for Tax Evasion. Judge Kern further ordered Albert to pay more than $3.6 million in restitution. According to court documents, from 2004 through 2021, Phillip Barry Albert was the Presiden  more

TULSA, Oklahoma, March 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma issued the following news release on March 25, 2024: Today, U.S. District Judge J. Phillip Calabrese sentenced Martin Andrew Breshears, 56, Tulsa to 120 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for Assault with Intent to Commit Murder in Indian Country. In June 2022, Breshears assaulted the wheelchair-confined victim on two separate occasions. The first assault was with a br  more