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Compensation case not simple ••The state has a limit of $175,000, and a federal case is hard to prove.
exonerated Michelle Murphy: She spent 20 years in prision in the death of her son before recently being exonerated.
By ZIVA BRANSTETTER World Enterprise Editor
and CARY ASPINWALL World Staff Writer
seeking compensation for the 20 Attorneys for a woman recently years she spent in prison. exonerated in the murder of her But if Michelle Murphy hopes to infant have taken the first step in recover more than the state’s maxi-
Prosecutor
city of Tulsa have exchanged letters placing each other on notice Tim Harris: The to preserve evidence in the case, Tulsa County disin expectation of a tort claim to be trict attorney was filed soon, records show. the prosecutor on Murphy’s attorney, Richard Murphy’s case. O’Carroll, said: “We are going to seek justice as much as it can be found in a monetary form for Miss Murphy.” Though Murphy served nearly mum of $175,000, she will have to 20 years in prison before she was get over a high legal bar in federal exonerated in her baby’s death, court, experts say. See case A10 Attorneys for Murphy and the
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State execs get big pay raises Dozens of directors for state agencies have quietly received hefty pay raises in the last two fiscal years, according to records requested by the Tulsa World. The raises total more than $750,000 and average more than $16,000 per person. One director received a 58-percent increase — a raise of more than $46,000 a year. Find out who got the biggest raises and what the governor had to say about them.
Education initiative offers new model
A Gathering place: 4,300 to be planted
By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
ImpactTulsa is launching with a specific end in mind: improving educational outcomes for students across the metro area. But it’s the method that sets this new initiative apart. The idea, which came from a national network called Strive Together, is to harness expertise, resources and a variety of perspectives from across an entire region to collectively set goals, work to achieve them and measure progress. ImpactTulsa already counts the leaders of 10 school districts, See goals A9
Hurbano Esparza (center) feeds a log into an industrial wood chipper with Richard Schmidt (left) and Adam Bennett at the future site of A Gathering Place for Tulsa on Wednesday. The trimming makes room for park features and for new trees. Photos by MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World
Tree trove
By JULIANA KEEPING
Arborist helping decide what stays, what goes By KEVIN CANFIELD
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ill Preaus stopped in the middle of the swath of trees and pointed to the hackberry. It was a hackberry stump, actually, no more than 5 inches in diameter. But what a story it told. “It was growing basically in the shade,” Preaus said after marking off the years, ring by ring, with a black marker. “So it was really struggling to survive. Had it been out in the full
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Arborist Bill Preaus discusses the tree-removal plan for A Gathering Place for Tulsa on Wednesday. “There is a reason for every tree we’re taking out,” Preaus said. “It isn’t just hodgepodge.”
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NORMAN — At 12:34 a.m. Oct. 9, a post went up on 19-year-old freshman Alan J. Hruby’s Twitter account appearing to indicate he was in his dorm at the University of Oklahoma. “Home. @headington hall,” reads the post, accompanied by a picture of the state-of-the-art residence hall that opened in 2013. Seven minutes later, another post went up, this one including a photograph of the university’s nearby football stadium, apparently taken from Hruby’s sixth-floor dorm room. “You could say we have a good view,” the post reads. Just 20 minutes later, police pulled Hruby over in Duncan, about 70 miles away. See Hruby A6
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