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BIXBY, Okla. (AP) — A Black business leader and community activist who joined Tulsa civic leaders in fighting then-President Donald Trump's plan to hold a campaign rally on Juneteenth in a city known as the site of one of the nation's deadliest white-on-Black mob attacks has been killed in what police describe as a domestic incident at her home. Investigators were trying Thursday to develop a timeline that led to Sherry Gamble Smith and her husband, Martin Everett Smith, being fatally wounded in their home in the Tulsa suburb of Bixby, Oklahoma. Police dispatched on a call about a reported...

BIXBY, Oklahoma - Local and federal authorities are investigating after an explosion outside an Air Force recruiting station in Bixby late Monday. Bixby Police say they started getting calls about an explosion just after 10:30 p.m. The recruiting station is located in the Post Rock Plaza in the 10400 block of South 82nd East Avenue just off South Memorial Drive.

The founder and former chief executive of troubled Bixby Energy, an alternative energy startup, will appear in U.S. District Court in St. Paul this afternoon after being arrested this morning by federal agents. Bob Walker, also the retired founder of mattress maker Select Comfort Corp., is scheduled to appear before Magistrate Judge Janie S. Mayeron at 2 p.m., Jeanne Cooney, community relations director for the U.S. Attorney's office said today. The charges against Walker will be revealed in court, Cooney said. Last Wednesday, Ramsey-based Bixby Energy admitted to defrauding investors of between $2.5 million and $7 million and agreed to...