Cops: Oklahoma Trooper Fatally Shot Man After Rescuing Him

Police say an Oklahoma man was shot and killed on Friday after he attacked the state troopers who had just rescued him from rising floodwaters, the Associated Press reports.

Police say an Oklahoma man was shot and killed on Friday after he attacked the state troopers who had just rescued him from rising floodwaters, the Associated Press reports.

At least 13 people were killed when a tornado struck the Mexican border city of Ciudad Acuna on Monday, NBC News reports. The tornado, which flipped cars, destroyed homes, and ripped an infant—still missing—from its mother’s arms. At least 230 people were injured.
It’s often said that you can’t pick your family, and the 2015 corollary is “and you can’t pick the insane bullshit they post on Facebook.” Like your idiot cousin’s receipt for $71 from Joe’s Crab Shack with the hilarious joke “find sour cream” scrawled in the tip line.
The 73-year-old volunteer deputy who shot and killed Eric Harris after mistakenly drawing his gun instead of his Taser was charged with second-degree manslaughter on Monday, The New York Times reports.
On Friday, authorities released footage of the final moments of Eric Courtney Harris, the unarmed Oklahoma man shot and killed by a Tulsa County reserve deputy who claims he mistakenly fired his gun instead of his Taser.
On Thursday, a 73-year-old reserve deputy working undercover as a member of the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office Violent Crimes Task Force shot and killed a suspect resisting arrest, the Tulsa World reports. The reserve deputy believed he had pulled out his Taser and not a gun, police said.
The Oklahoma Kappa chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon is down two members today after they were caught on video screaming racist lyrics: according to a message from the university's president, he's expelled two of the bros involved.
We periodically run letters from death row inmates. Today's is from Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip, who came within one day of being executed last month before being (temporarily) spared by the Supreme Court.
A criminally thirsty Tulsa woman was arrested on Thursday after allegedly trying to bite off her boyfriend's penis in his sleep, KOTV reports.
An Oklahoma woman who taught a high school sex ed class has been accused of having sex with a teen student, including multiple times in the school's teachers' lounge, the Enid News & Eagle reports. According to her handwritten, mistake-filled confession, the suspended teacher deeply regrets "the deasion."
The white man who shot Sentinel, Oklahoma's black police chief three times in the chest and once in the arm on Thursday morning was released after questioning, The Oklahoman reports.
A 4o-year-old father was arrested by police last Friday on a felony maiming charge after he allegedly bit the ear off a man he got in an argument with at the Lanes at Coffee Creek bowling alley in Owasso, Okla. Doctors were apparently unable to reattach the ear.
While most devil worshipers express their allegiance to Old Scratch with Slayer tapes and questionable facial hair, one of Satan's little helpers took a more direct approach Thursday night, plowing his car through the Oklahoma statehouse's controversial Ten Commandments monument.
The mother of Alton Alexander Nolen—the Oklahoma processing plant employee accused of stabbing two of his co-workers and beheading one—has released a statement through her Facebook page in which she expresses her dismay at her son's terrifying behavior. "On behalf of my son, Alton Nolen, my heart is so heavy right…
The man who is accused of beheading a coworker in a Moore, Oklahoma Vaughn Foods processing plant has regained consciousness and was interviewed by detectives on Friday.
A bus carrying the North Central Texas College softball team through Oklahoma was struck by a tractor-trailer late Friday night, killing four and injuring fifteen. The tractor-trailer had allegedly crossed over the center median of highway I-35.
A man allegedly beheaded a woman following a workplace dispute at a Vaughn Foods processing plant in Moore, Okla., Thursday afternoon, KFOR reports. The man, identified as 30-year-old Alton Alexander Nolen, apparently tried to kill another woman on the premises, but was shot by an off-duty police officer employed by…
Jon Ohlman, 24, and Cody Hudson, 18, for no apparent reason other than they were bored and are dumb, allegedly ruined about $2,500 worth of merchandise at a Owasso, Okla. Walmart store after spraying toys, fabrics, and shoes with doe urine. "It's weird. It's very weird and disgusting," shopper Cali Emberson told Fox23…
Officer Daniel Holtzclaw of the Oklahoma City Police Department was arrested last week on charges that he'd sexually assaulted and raped eight black women while allegedly threatening to arrest them if they did not submit to him. He has now been charged after his arrest in the middle of August.
There are innumerable ways to screw up your first day of work, but some of them have a little more panache than others. A new teacher in Wagoner, Okla. was arrested on her first day after showing up at the school both drunk and without pants.