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GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) - A nationwide call for more “safe places” for homeless teens in need of help may soon be answered in the Upstate. Area QuikTrip stores are “TXT 4 HELP” locations that displaying signs with contact information that connects at risk teens or human trafficking victims to the organization National Safe Place Network. That’s a national outreach and prevention program for youth in crisis that has more than 20,000 locations across the U.S. displaying yellow and black Safe Place signs, the universal symbol of help and safety for all young people. They partner with youth-friendly businesses and community...

On the first real night of heavy looting and chaos in Ferguson Missouri a Quick Trip convenience store was looted and then burned to the ground. In sharing why, and explaining the motive, you can grasp an understanding of how the Ferguson “street talk” is driving the chaos. A personal message to LEO: If Captain Ron Johnson and/or the authorities in/around Ferguson want to get out ahead of the thug behavior you only need to understand this simple outline and then deploy your digital forensics team – ASAP. After the Quick Trip was destroyed the following message was spray painted...

LOCAL HERO: Jim Bridenstine, TASM director, Navy pilot and a 1993 graduate of Jenks High School, is one of the individuals getting in at the ground floor of the Rocket Racing League. He has flown F-18s and E-2s for the Navy and has fought in Afghanistan and Iraq. At a Press Conference Tuesday at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum and Planetarium, Executive Director Jim Bridenstine announced the first-ever QuikTrip Air and Rocket Racing Show, and a new partnership with the Rocket Racing League - which will highlight the day’s events. The QuikTrip Air and Rocket Show will be held...