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Bomb squad called to Oklahoma City apartment building
Oklahoma City Police Department's bomb squad robot has been sent to an apartment where an apparent explosive device was found, police Lt. Rod Strecker said.
Police received a tip about 5:30 p.m. about an explosive at the Briar Glen apartments in the 1100 block of S. Independence, Strecker said. A cylindrical object was found in an apartment, and 15 to 18 apartments were evacuated, he said.
The bomb squad was still working at 9 p.m., Strecker said. read more
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Lawman who caught Timothy McVeigh speaks of arrest
The lawman who arrested Tim McVeigh said today he survived the encounter because of his old-school training and because the Oklahoma City bomber was a coward.
?I just happened to be at the right spot at the right time and things fell in place. And I was kept safe and the bad guy went to jail,? Charlie Hanger said.
Hanger was an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper when he arrested McVeigh during a traffic stop 75 minutes after the deadly April 19, 1995, bombing.
The lawman arrested McVeigh for a firearms offense after noticing the bulge of a loaded handgun underneath McVeigh's jacket. read more
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Oklahoman landscape artist Wilson Hurley dies in Albuquerque
Wilson Hurley, a native Oklahoman and an award-winning landscape artist, died this morning in Albuquerque, N.M. He was 84.
Hurley, who was born in Tulsa, painted murals that hang in the Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Museum and has paintings hanging in the Oklahoma State Capitol.
?With art, regardless of the efforts and the shenanigans you go to make it, you don?t want the public to see it,? Hurley told the Oklahoman in 2005. ?The last thing you want people to say when they look at it is, ?Boy, that guy worked hard? and ?Boy, that sucker?s big.? You want them to just get absorbed.?
Hurley had been diagnosed last year with Lou Gehrig?s disease. read more
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