TULSA, Ok. - Tulsa Police are on the lookout for suspects in the armed robbery of the Super-8 Motel near 31st and South Memorial. It happened about 4:30 this morning. The News On Six's Gary Kruse says, "A black male, probably about 24, 5-4, slender, went inside. Taller black male, probably about six feet, stayed outside and pulled his hoodie up over his face." Kruse says the man who went inside took cash and credit cards from the clerk. Both men left in a cream-colored car.

TULSA, Ok. - A speeding car goes airborne before landing upside down near 61st and South Memorial, killing the driver. The News On Six's Gary Kruse says police spotted the car speeding northbound on Memorial from 71st and gave chase before the car crashed just north of 61st. Kruse says, "Went off the roadway to the east near T.G.I.F. into the parking lot, did a perfect field goal-like (flip) underneath the movie theater sign, then vaulted over two lanes of traffic and struck the One Eton Square apartment building about 25 feet up." When the vehicle came down, it hit a wall, causing a woman inside an apartment to injure her hand. The driver was alone inside the car and died at the scene about midnight this morning.

TULSA, Ok. - Lewd molestation charges are filed against a Tulsa Union school teacher. Tulsa Police say former Big Brother volunteer Curt Carson is accused of molesting a 13-year old boy at Carson's home back in 2002 and 2003. Police say Carson was arrested after a telephone sting when he allegedly admitted to molesting the boy who only came forward last year. Carson is on paid suspension and is out of jail on bond. (Photo courtesy the News On 6 and the Tulsa County Jail)   

TULSA, Ok. - The Tulsa Police Department plans to hire the next class of recruits for the police academy. Tulsa Police Recruitment Officer Jesse Guardiola says they'll start testing applicants in mid-August. He says, "It's a new era. The sun is shining again on the police department." The police chief wants an academy class to replace retiring officers and Mayor Bartlett supports the plan if the city has the money. The plan is not in the city budget and also is not in the plans before the end of the calendar year.

TULSA, Ok. - A man is dead after being shot several times during what may have been a rolling gun battle last night. Tulsa Police Sergeant Steve Stoltz says the victim's pickup truck drove through a yard and struck two parked cars in a driveway after he was shot at 210 East 44th Street North about eleven last night. Stoltz says, "Victim was transported to the hospital. (I) believe he was pronounced dead on arrival from multiple gunshot wounds. Looks like we recovered several shell casings belonging to a rifle in the street." He says the suspects fired up to fifteen shots into the victim's truck after it crashed. He says some of those shots went into a house where several people were sleeping, but no one was hurt. A pistol was recovered from the victim's vehicle. Stoltz says the victim and the suspects apparently knew each other.

TULSA, Ok. - Tulsa Police received the report of a home invasion and robbery overnight. The 12-year old victim told Tulsa Police Corporal Carl Goforth that, when he answered the door about 11:30 last night, four juveniles ran inside and took an X-box before running away on foot. "Apparently, that's all they wanted. Didn't ask for anything else, passed up quite a bit of things they could have grabbed. The suspects were described as juveniles and they decided they wanted to take the X-box," Goforth says. Police were looking for the suspects near the scene on 25th Street just west of Garnett.

TULSA, Ok. - A man was shot and killed during a home invasion overnight. A woman told police that the suspects entered the house at 628 East 27th Place North about 2:30 this morning. The News On 6's Gary Kruse says, "Three men entered with the intent of robbing them. They pushed her around and the man who was in the house started scuffling with one of the intruders." Kruse says that's when the man was shot. The victim died later at the hospital. Police are looking for the suspects who left the scene after taking some cash, a boom-box and possibly a cell phone.

TULSA, Ok. - A pickup truck collision with a concrete embankment killed the driver. The crash happened about 2:30 this morning where the eastbound Sand Springs Expressway meets the Inner Dispersal Loop. Tulsa Police Captain Travis Yates says the driver's head and body struck the concrete. Yates says, "We believe the subject probably became unconscious at that point, or deceased at that point. The vehicle continued to travel, riding the concrete embankment to where it came to rest here i the 200-block south." Yates said traffic was diverted at Gilcrease Museum Road until the investigation was completed.

TULSA, Ok. - Tulsa city councilors say police layoffs and potential rehires cost the city over a million dollars. Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan told the Tulsa City Council yesterday that the remaining officers either have gone on to other employment or just won't be returning to the TPD. Jordan says, "Basically, they've gotten jobs a other places. They applied at other police departments, some have gone into other professions, people have moved on." The department still wants to start an academy class next spring if the money is there to do it.

TULSA, Ok. - Tulsa has recorded 24 homicides to this point in 2010. That's good news when you compare it to 34 that were recorded by this time last year. The FBI says 1,180 people have been murdered in Tulsa in the past 30 years and 957 of those homicides have been solved, which is 20% above the national average. Tulsa Police Homicide Sergeant Mike Huff says in all but a few cases, the killings have one thing in common. Huff says, "Most people know the person that killed them." He says homicides are harder to solve these days because criminals are smarter about crime scene evidence and sometimes pick up shell casings. Plus, he says people are more reluctant to get involved as witnesses than they were 10-15 years ago.

TULSA, Ok. - A truck is found partially hanging from a bridge on Tulsa's Inner Dispersal Loop. The News On Six's Gary Kruse says the whole right side of the pickup truck is hanging down below the bridge in the closed construction zone on the eastbound, north side of the loop over Iroquois Street. Kruse says, "It's fallen between two big i-beams and it's just wedged there now. They're using the aerial scope ladder to go up underneath and above it to make sure there is nobody around it and, so far, they haven't found anybody around it."  Police received a call about a crash on the IDL around two this morning, but nothing was found until later when a train coming through spotted the debris behind a building. Crews arrived with a wrecker and lowered the truck to the ground.

TULSA, Ok. - Two men armed with a gun robbed a pharmacy early this morning. Tulsa Police Sergeant Bryan Bryden says the hold-up started right after 1:30 a.m. at the CVS Pharmacy at 71st and South Yale. Bryden says, "One produced a handgun, went back to the pharmacy and demanded drugs from the pharmacist, got several kinds of prescription medications and ran out of the store and got into a blue, possibly Chevy Blazer SUV-type vehicle and left the scene eastbound on 71st Street." Bryden says two employees and a customer were inside the store during the robbery but no one was hurt. He says police are looking for the suspects.

TULSA, Ok. - Tulsa Police found a hit and run driving suspect after he left the scene of a crash on Cherry Street early this morning. The accident happened about 2 a.m. when the driver hit a parked pickup truck just east of Peoria Street on 15th Street. His vehicle overturned during the crash but he was able to get out of the car and witnesses told police that he walked away but returned and then went down an alley before police found him. The News On 6's Gary Kruse says, "He refused to go to the hospital and as a result he was taken to jail, facing hit and run and DUI charges." No one was inside the car that he struck.

TULSA, Ok. - Tulsa Police are looking for a man accused of armed robbery at a Whattaburger restaurant overnight. Tulsa Police Sergeant Clay Ballenger says the suspect at first demanded an order of fries at the location on 41st between Yale and Sheridan. "He asked for an order of fries and when they brought the fries, he said he didn't have the money. When the clerk said he couldn't give him the fries, he pulled out a large knife, a machete-type knife, he said, 'Then just open the register and give me everything.'" When the clerk said he couldn't open the register, the bandit left with the fries. Ballenger says the suspect still committed armed robbery because he demanded money out of the register.

TULSA, Ok. - A man was hospitalized in critical condition after a shooting during an argument yesterday evening. Tulsa Police say the 27-year old victim and a friend ran away after the shooting that happened at a duplex near the intersection of North Atlanta Street and East Archer Street. The victim collapsed nearby and was taken to the hospital. Police are looking for two suspects in the shooting.

TULSA, Ok. - Two teenage drivers are involved in two different accidents overnight, one of them involving a police chase. The News On Six's Gary Kruse says the chase started when an officer tried to make a curfew check in River Parks and the 18-year old female driver took off down Riverside Drive allegedly at speeds up to 100 mph. Kruse says, "The chase continued to about 116th Street South and Riverside where the driver lost control and came to rest between two utility poles." The crash knocked the power out in a neighborhood. Earlier, a 16-year girl rolled her car on North 52nd West Avenue near 113th Street North but was not seriously hurt.

TULSA, Ok. - A teenager who was walking down the street overnight near 1300 North Trenton was the victim of a drive-by shooting. Tulsa Police Corporal August Terbrock says the 17-year old victim was shot in the back about 10:15 p.m. yesterday by someone who was  inside an older model, white Honda or Acura. Terbrock says, "He ran from the scene, was able to get to the area of 1200 North St. Louis where we located him. He was transported to the hospital with what appeared to be non life-threatening injuries." Terbrock says no one has been arrested.

TULSA, Ok. - A 4-year old boy drowned in the swimming pool at a Tulsa motel. Tulsa Police Captain Brett Bailey says the boy was with other children yesterday evening and was being watched by a man at the pool at the EconoLodge near 31st and Memorial. "He was watching more than one and this one child then got under the water," Bailey says. Paramedics were called and tried to resuscitate the boy but he was pronounced dead after he was transported to a hospital. His name has not been released.

TULSA, Ok. - Tulsa Police are making more robbery arrests, despite the recent budget crisis resulting in fewer officers on patrol. Police arrested 25 robbery suspects in the first 18 days of May. Tulsa Police Sergeant Dave Walker says police are responding quickly to robbery calls, allowing them to nab more suspects quicker. Walker says, "It ought to stand as a warning that it doesn't matter what day and age we're in, cops still like catching robbers." Unfortunately, robberies are on the rise in Tulsa with around 400 so far this year. That's 80 more than at this time a year ago.

TULSA, Ok. - 46-year old Daniel Paul Hedge is facing several complaints of spreading an infectious disease known as Hepatitis-C and knowingly engaging in spreading HIV-AIDS when he was arrested Saturday night. Hedge started to fight with three EMSA workers and one firefighter as they were trying to treat his wounds after a fight near Admiral and Lewis. Paramedics told police they were trying to treat Hedge's serious wounds and stop the bleeding, but he wouldn't cooperate. A police report says that's when Hedge allegedly slung his head so that blood hit the workers and then he spat at them, hitting a Fire Captain's face and EMSA crew members. Hedge is being held on $50,000 bond.

TULSA, Ok. - Three men storm into the back door of a Tulsa eatery, shooting guns and killing the cook before they leave. The shooting and robbery happened around 11:30 p.m. Thursday at the Rib Crib at 1601 South Harvard. Tulsa Police Captain Karen Tipler says the trio robbed the employees, and possibly the store, and then made the employees get on the floor. "While they were on the floor, cell phones were taken from the witnesses. The suspects left the store. The witnesses heard some more shots fired as they were going back out of the store and they went back and found that one of their co-workers had been killed," Tipler said. About an hour later during a search of the area, officers had traced a man who ran away from them to a house near 21st and Pittsburg where he was let inside and apparently was allowed by the resident to change his clothes. He was arrested by police when he came out of the house. Police searched the area and found a pistol. Witnesses were unable to positively identify the suspect but he was taken in for questioning. Two other people were robbed near the restaurant after the Rib Crib shooting. Police are looking for the other suspects.

TULSA, Ok. - A man was shot to death during an argument with another man inside a convenience store. Tulsa Police Captain Karen Tipler said the shooter, who is a former Okmulgee County reserve deputy, was inside Moe's Grill near 5th and South Lewis yesterday evening about 7:15 when he recognized another man who was inside the store and an argument started. "At some point, he pulled up his shirt and told the guy, 'hey, you know you can get some of this' and he was fearing for his life, so he pulled his gun and made sure that if the gun battle was going to ensue, he was going to be on top of it," Tipler said. The victim was shot and died at the scene. Neither man's name has been released. Police took the shooter and another man in for questioning.

UNDATED - Lawmen chased a stolen car driver from near the homicide scene near 61st and South Peoria all the way to Chouteau, Oklahoma, at speeds reportedly exceeding 100 miles an hour. The car was stolen near 5700 South Peoria right after the shooting about midnight this morning. The chase ended when Chouteau Police planted stop-sticks in the roadway and flattened the front tires on the car. The News On Six's Gary Kruse says, "Two people were taken into custody. The stolen car was not badly damaged. There were no injuries of any officers or any property damage. As it turned out, it was just a stolen car that happened to be spotted so close to where the fatal shooting occured." Kruse says the chase covered over 40 miles and included efforts by the Tulsa Police Department, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and the Chouteau Police Department.

TULSA, Ok. - An 18-year old man died and a 20-year old woman was wounded when someone opened fire into a Tulsa apartment overnight. The shots were fired around midnight this morning near 1100 East 61st. Tulsa Police Captain Travis Yates says, "(The) door was open and the next thing they knew shots were being fired inside the apartment. Nobody saw anything. We don't have any suspect description, we don't have any vehicle description at this time, but there were multiple rounds fired inside the residence. Unfortunately, we did have a victim that was deceased from that." Yates says the deceased victim died at the hospital. The female who was shot in the foot is expected to survive. Yates says 25 officers showed up at the scene to help calm some of the people who knew the victims.

TULSA, Ok. - Vandals struck in several places near 3100 South Harvard overnight. The News On Six's Gary Kruse reports vandals set a vehicle on fire and slashed tires at several locations in the same general area. "One officer was flagged down and started interviewing some people about seven vehicles that had all four tires slashed behind a medical center near 33rd and Harvard," Kruse said. One van was burned and another van had the window smashed out at Christ United Methodist Church at 3500 South Harvard. Attempts were made to damage several other vehicles that were parked at the same location and at the Wendy's Restaurant just east of 31st and Harvard. No one has been arrested.

TULSA, Ok. - Being in the right place at the right time helped police nab three suspects from an armed robbery. Tulsa Police Sergeant Jeff Davis says after a man was robbed at gunpoint near 31st and Sheridan about midnight this morning, shots were fired and an officer nearby spotted a vehicle speeding away. "Decided (it) looked suspicious enough that he would follow it. Followed the vehicle, got on the radio, let the officers in the area know. About the same time, Southside had a robbery go out. Same description," Davis said. The Broken Arrow Expressway was shut down near Harvard while officers arrested the three suspects at that location. Police recovered items allegedly taken in the robbery and the victim identified the suspects as the ones who robbed him.

TULSA, Ok. - Tulsa Police tracked down six people to a Tulsa motel and questioned them about some recent robberies. Information from a pizza delivery robbery early this morning near 31st and South Hudson led police to the Regency Inn motel near Skelly Drive and Memorial. Tulsa Police Sergeant Sandy Bayles said, "There was a room number that these individuals were supposed to be at. As officers were setting up, the suspects came out of the Inn and were taken into custody." Bayles said officers were questioning this morning's suspects about a similar pizza delivery robbery last night.

TULSA, Ok. - A carjacking got worse early Wednesday when the carjackers crashed the stolen vehicle into a house and ran away. The carjacking started about 2 a.m. near East Latimer Street and North Florence Place. The News On Six's Gary Kruse says, "When they stopped, the men came up to them. One of them pulled a gun and demanded the car. The woman and the daughter were both able to get away. The car took off." Kruse says the car crashed about three blocks away near 1100 North Florence. It's believed that the suspects jumped out of the car and fled on foot but a canine search of the area failed to find them.

TULSA, Ok. - A man inside a car keeping police at bay with a gun to his head for over three hours is shot and killed when he points the gun at police. The Tulsa Police Special Operations Team responded to the scene near 3100 North 74th East Avenue around 7:30 last night. Tulsa Police Officer Jason Willingham says, "The entire time he would get in his car, he'd stand up, walk around a little bit, then he's go back and sit down, the whole time holding a gun to his head until that last second he pointed it at officers." Willingham says a Special Operations Team sniper shot the man who died at the scene. The names of the dead man and the shooter may be released later today.

TULSA, Ok. - A Tulsa Police traffic stop turned into an alleged drug bust early this morning. When officers stopped a car at 24th and Memorial around 3:30, they noticed an aroma wafting from the car. The News On Six's Gary Kruse says police "conducted a search at which time they found an AR-15 type rifle in the trunk and a sack containing approximately 50 pounds of marijuana." Kruse says the owner of the car was a passenger at the time of the stop. He persuaded the police to let the other people inside the car to go, but the driver could face charges for possessing the rifle and the marijuana.

TULSA, Ok. - A man dressed in a blue jacket and a blue stocking cap is the suspect in the armed robbery of a Tulsa convenience store. Tulsa Police Sergeant Mark Mears was on the scene about 10:30 last night at the Stop-N-Shop at 61st and South Garnett. Mears says, "He implied a weapon. The clerk never actually saw one. I don't know what the exact loss was. It was cash, no one was hurt." Mears says the suspect left the store southbound in a white Buick.

TULSA, Ok. - A man dressed in a blue jacket and a blue stocking cap is the suspect in the armed robbery of a Tulsa convenience store. Tulsa Police Sergeant Mark Mears was on the scene about 10:30 last night at the Stop-N-Shop at 61st and South Garnett. Mears says, "He implied a weapon. The clerk never actually saw one. I don't know what the exact loss was. It was cash, no one was hurt." Mears says the suspect left the store southbound in a white Buick.

TULSA, Ok. - Monroe Middle School in North Tulsa is targeted again by thieves taking copper tubing. Tulsa Police responded to an alarm trip there about 2 a.m. today where thieves had climbed onto the roof and stole several thousand dollars worth of copper coils from the air conditioning units. Police say the same thing has happened at other times over the last few weeks. Officers spotted a man walking away from the school at 2010 East 48th Street North. He was placed under arrest for questioning.

TULSA, Ok. - For the second time in ten days a Tulsa drug store is the scene of a robbery. A man robbed the Walgreen's at 15th and Lewis around 10 last night. Tulsa Police Sergeant Gary Otterstrom says, "A white male wearing all dark clothing entered the store and went immediately to the pharmacy. When he arrived at the pharmacy, he was wearing a ski mask with colorful objects on it." Otterstrom says the suspect implied that he had a gun before he took Oxycontin and Hydrocodone pills from the pharmacy and left the building westbound. Otterstrom believes the suspect had a car waiting for him on the church parking lot behind the store.

TULSA, Ok. - Thieves apparently trying to steal guns at a Tulsa gun store don't get away with it early this morning. Tulsa Police Corporal Bruce Burton said the suspects used an apparently stolen flat-bed truck to smash in the front of the Sooner Gun Store near 61st and South Mingo. Burton said, "They just crashed it in. There were a lot of glass that remained on the bed of the truck so we know that that's the truck that they used." Burton said he and another officer in another patrol car followed the suspects who were leaving the store just before police arrived. Four people were arrested. Nothing was taken in the break-in because the guns were locked in a vault inside the store.

TULSA, Ok. - Drunk driving is risky business but getting involved in a crash and leaving the scene means jail time for one driver. Tulsa Police Corporal Mark Secrist says the driver was involved in a collision at 21st and Yale last night about 11:30, but then drove away into a neighborhood and bailed out of his truck. Secrist said, "He had tried to gain entry into a house and the homeowner came out and held him for us until we were able to take custody of him." The crash caused the other vehicle to overturn but the driver was only shaken-up.

TULSA, Ok. - Parents are relieved now after their 6-year old daughter Angelica Renee Torres went missing from her home near downtown Tulsa, but was found 3 hours later after a major search by her family, Tulsa Police and Tulsa firefighters. Tulsa Police Sergeant John Adams said the girl was outdoors about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday when her parents decided it was time to go inside, but the girl wanted to keep playing. Adams said, "A lot of officers on the ground, got the fire department out, canvassed the whole, entire area. Incidents like this, bad weather approaching and all, it would have really been a benefit to have a helicopter. We could probably have found her a lot quicker than we did." Adams says the girl got lost in the neighborhood, but later walked up to an officer who had been looking for her in the area of North Peoria and East Independence Street. The officer said he knew it was her from her clothing description that her parents had provided.

TULSA, Ok. - Two men were jailed and their vehicle was seized by Tulsa Police after a traffic stop lead to the recovery of alleged cocaine and methamphetamine. It all started about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday near 31st and Highway 169 when police made a traffic stop and searched the vehicle. Later overnight, a police canine officer received a possible minor injury when an alleged drunk driver rear-ended his police car as it was stopped for the traffic signal at 11th and Sheridan. The collision knocked the police car about 15 feet and almost into the intersection. The woman failed a field sobriety test and was taken to jail.

TULSA, Ok. - Vandals operating under the cover of darkness sliced tires on parked vehicles overnight. The News On 6's Gary Kruse says the damage was inflicted on vehicles parked in a neighborhood near 3100 South Braden. He says, "These people, described as three young men wearing dark clothing and hoods, had slashed nine tires on three cars and left. Apparently, when they did the one car that just had the one flat, the dogs of that homeowner started barking and scared them off." Kruse says no one has been arrested.

TULSA, Ok. - A man with a knife robbed an East Tulsa convenience store and a home in rural Sapulpa was gutted by fire. The News On 6's Gary Kruse arrived right after the All-Star Store near 21st and 129th East Avenue was robbed about 1:40 a.m. today. Kruse says, "He came in, demanded cash and took cash and a couple of cartons of cigarettes and out the door he went. No one was hurt." No one has been arrested. About 10:45 p.m. Monday, Sapulpa firefighters had to haul water from about a mile away to extinguish a housefire near 83rd Street South and South 177th West Avenue. The man who lives there returned home and opened the door to find flames rolling out at him. He was not hurt.

TULSA, Ok. - A stabbing early this morning may be the result of some gang activity. That's what Tulsa Police Corporal Mark Shelton said after the stabbing at the Apache Manor Apartments at 2402 North Marion around 2:30 a.m. Shelton says, "After a brief struggle, the victim was stabbed in the side just above the hip. He was transported to (a hospital) and is considered to be in good condition." Shelton says the victim refused to cooperate in the investigation.

TULSA, Ok. - A convenience store clerk was robbed during a trip to take out the trash early Friday. Tulsa police say three men armed with guns took the victim's wallet and a small amount of cash that it contained at the Super Stop store near 4449 North Cincinnati around 1:42 a.m. No one was injured and no one has been arrested. A suspicious fire damaged a house early this morning near 25000 E. 6th Street in Wagoner County. Oak Grove and Catoosa firefighters responded along with Wagoner County sheriff's deputies. The homeowner who was in Tulsa was called by a neighbor and told that his house was on fire. The fire damaged one bedroom in the house and there also was smoke damage throughout the house. The homeowner said a custom truck with a trailer and a car inside the trailer was missing from the property. Investigators said the fire may have been caused by someone trying to cover up a burglary.

TULSA, Ok. - Tulsa Police and Tulsa County Deputies are investigating two break-ins that both happened at about 4 a.m. today. Deputies responded to the Tulsa Thunder Soccer Club where someone broke into the storage trailer at 3625 South Elwood. The front glass door was broken out, but it's yet to be determined whether anything was taken. About the same time, Tulsa Police responded to an alarm at the football storage facility at Bishop Kelley High School near 41st and Hudson. Police don't believe anything was taken in that break-in.

TULSA, Ok. - A man who may be responsible for several recent armed robberies was apprehended thanks to an alert citizen. Tulsa Police say it may be the same man who tried to enter the Papa John's Pizza at 11th and Delaware last night and about thirty minutes later robbed the Sonic Drive-In at 38th and South Harvard. The suspect forced a carhop to go inside the business where he fired a gunshot into the ceiling but no one was hurt. He took cash and left. A citizen followed the suspect and called police. Police later spotted the suspect's vehicle and stopped it. That's when they found evidence inside the vehicle that allegedly was connected to the Sonic robbery. Police arrested the passenger who was inside the vehicle. Police believe the passenger may have been responsible for robberies at two other Sonics and a Braum's Restaurant in the last month. The driver was not arrested. 

TULSA, Ok. - The mayor says he intends to investigate whether the city can hire some officers, perhaps sheriff's deputies, on a contract basis and for less money than police officers are paid. Mayor Bartlett says, "I'm not trying to break up a union or I'm not trying to merge the sheriff's department into the Tulsa Police Department. I'm not trying to do that at all. I'm just wanting to make sure that we've looked at whatever options we have available to us to provide good public safety for the citizens of Tulsa." The mayor said he would ask the feds about whether he can use federal grant money to hire deputies for city police work. The city has laid off 89 officers who are eligible to be rehired.

TULSA, Ok. - AM 740 and FM 102.3 News/Talk KRMG's April Hill reports two Tulsa men have quite a story to tell at the water cooler today. Saturday afternoon, the engine of their airplane died. The only possible safe landing in site? The Arkansas River. Flight instructor Homer Woolslayer says they were landing with little time to think. He said, "We put it on some sand and then went off into the water. I just kept the nose high and I couldn't remember if Lucas had put the wheels back up for a water-type landing or what. There wasn't much time to think about it." Woolslayer and his student Lucas Galan were stuck on a sand bar until rescuers could get to the two by boat. On shore, Galan's brother Nick was left shaking his head in disbelief. Nick Galan said, "That's insane. I can't believe he's still, like, standing right there smiling about it." Federal investigators are looking into what caused the plane's engine to fail.

TULSA, Ok. - Three people were injured when gunshots were fired on the parking lot at the Bradford Apartments located near 32nd Street North and North Frankfort. Tulsa Police say the victims were shot about 8:15 p.m. Thursday at the apartment complex. Police say a female was shot in the hip, another victim was shot several times and still another victim was wounded in the eye. All of the victims were being treated at local hospitals. Police say about 20 people were in the parking lot when the shots were fired. An investigation is underway.

TULSA, Ok. - Two people received apparent minor injuries in a two-alarm fire overnight at the London Square Apartments. The fire at 5900 South Lewis was reported about 2 a.m. today. When firemen arrived at the scene, they found smoke and flames shooting up to 30 feet in the air from an upstairs apartment, but the fire quickly spread to other parts of the building. The News On Six's Gary Kruse says, "One Red Cross official said they have a room full of people they are talking with and because of the number they may wind up opening a shelter for those that are displaced by the fire." Kruse says a couple of firefighters may have been temporarily overcome by smoke and were treated at the scene. Tulsa Police Sergeant Clay Ballenger said, "Officers were able to go through the smoke and get the people out. One officer even carried a baby out because the lady had too many children to carry out so we're really glad they got here quickly and got everybody out as far as we know." Firefighters spent about an hour getting the fire under control. A fire investigator was called to determine what started the fire.

TULSA, Ok. - A drive-by shooting sent the mother and the father of four children to the hospital Sunday. The shooting happened just before 3:30 p.m. near 1800 North Atlanta Avenue. Tulsa Police Officer Jason Willingham says numerous shots were fired with at least two guns while the couple's young children were inside the house. Willingham says, "Any shooting is disturbing, but anytime you have a home that's occupied by four children, all toddler aged and smaller, it is extremely disturbing and hopefully we can find those responsible for the shooting and bring them to justice." Willingham says at least four people were seen leaving the scene in a gold or light tan, four door, 2000 Pontiac Grand Am. He says police have no motive for the shootings. If you have information that could help police, call Crime Stoppers at 596-COPS.

TULSA, Ok. - Tulsa police are investigating an overnight armed robbery at a North Tulsa convenience store. The News On 6's Gary Kruse says it happened at Ben's Quik-Stop near 3000 East Pine about 11:13 p.m. Thursday. Police said three men, two of them wearing tan coats and the other man dressed all in black and two of them armed with pistols, came into the store and demanded cash and robbed the store and a customer who was there. No one was injured. Police used a canine to track the bandits for about a block to where the tracks disappeared. Police believe the suspects had a car parked there. No one has been arrested.

TULSA, Ok. - A suspended Tulsa police officer continues to be paid while laid off officers have no city paychecks coming in. Officer Thomas Fees (shown) has been suspended for three weeks on accusations of pointing a loaded gun at employees of a bar three weeks ago. The News On Six's Lori Fullbright spoke with Tulsa Police Captain Jonathan Brooks. He explains why Fees is not suspended without pay and why his salary is not given to a laid off officer. Brooks says, "It's not that simple because even though he's been accused, he's still afforded, just as every other person, due process." The city's legal advisor says you can't suspend someone without pay who is accused of a felony because that's taking disciplinary action from the start. He says they must wait until an employee is bound over for trial.