Saturday, June 6, 2026 • Good chance of rain and storms. Highs near 80. 🌩️

• 5 ways to spend your weekend in Tulsa June 5-7 (Tulsa Flyer)

• Pride on 39th kicks off in Oklahoma City with weekend festivities (KOCO)

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⚾ College Baseball Super Regionals ⚾

Oklahoma Sooners @ Kansas Jayhawks, Game 1
When: 5 p.m.
Where: Hoglund Ballpark in Lawrence, Kansas
TV: ESPN2

Best 2 of 3. The winner goes to the Men’s College World Series in Omaha.

By Garrett Yalch, The Frontier
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The mother of a man who died by suicide at the Tulsa Municipal Jail has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the private security contractor that runs the city lockup. 

The Frontier reported in March that at least seven people have died at the 70-bed jail for misdemeanor detainees over the past three years. 

Amanda Cullum, the mother of Jeffrey Fetterhoff, filed the lawsuit on May 8 in Tulsa County District Court against Allied Universal Security Services. The lawsuit also names jail administrator Weston Hardin and detention officer Jasmine Owens as defendants.

Fetterhoff told Owens when he was being booked into the jail in October 2025 that he had a mental illness and had recently attempted suicide, the lawsuit claims. Despite his history of mental illness, Owens placed him alone in a cell with a wall-mounted phone and cord.

Two days later, Fetterhoff was found unresponsive with the cord around his neck. The suit alleges detention officers failed to intervene or monitor the cell’s surveillance camera.

Cullum is suing for claims of negligence, gross negligence, negligent hiring and training, and wrongful death, and seeks damages exceeding $75,000.

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Here’s what’s happening in Oklahoma today:

• Jailhouse phone calls overshadow latest Swadley hearing (News 9)

• Stitt appoints new leader of embattled Mental Health Department (Oklahoma Voice)

• Why Oklahoma's minimum wage question might look strange to voters (KOSU)

• Oklahoma colleges prepare for new free speech requirements under SB 1725 (Gaylord News)

• State superintendent candidates debate how to improve Oklahoma education rankings, teacher wages (Tulsa Flyer)

• First-degree murder charges filed against 2 men in Arcadia Lake mass shooting (KOSU)

• Woman arrested in Carter County, accused of filming video of passenger in leadup to alleged DWI crash (KXII)

• Oklahoma law creates new penalties for abortion pill distribution (StateImpact Oklahoma)

• Bottle rockets legal in Oklahoma after 45-year ban (KTEN)

• Oklahoma ethics agency to consider regulating use of AI in political campaigns (Oklahoma Voice)

• Oklahoma to extend state services to eligible foster care youth until age 21 (Oklahoma Voice)

• Muskogee leaders seeking input on Broadway Streetscape Project (2 News Oklahoma)

• City of Guthrie announces major summer street paving project (Guthrie News Page)

• 'Oklahoma Today' magazine to stop publishing after 70 years (KOSU)

• Inside north Tulsa’s C’est Bon Kitchen, chef David Franklin honors his Louisiana roots (The Oklahoma Eagle)

• Taylor Hanson's Food on the Move hosts volunteer day, brings community together with garden (Tulsa World)*

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