OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Police in Oklahoma City have arrested a 36-year-old man after investigators found a body buried in a shallow grave and covered with tires in the backyard of his home. Authorities say Jimmy Vongphakdy was arrested on a first-degree murder complaint. Oklahoma County court records do not indicate whether Vongphakdy is represented by an attorney who can speak on his behalf. Court documents filed Friday indicate that police received a tip on Wednesday about a body at a residence.
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) - Authorities in central Oklahoma say a man whose body was recovered from Lake Thunderbird is apparently a homicide victim. The body of 32-year-old Kevin Price of Noble was pulled from the water near the southeast side of the lake around 2 p.m. Friday. Authorities were alerted after a woman reported finding his body in the lake. Officials say his death is being investigated as a homicide and that the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is investigating.
CHEROKEE, Okla. (AP) - The U.S. Geological Survey says a 4.4 magnitude earthquake shook parts of northern Oklahoma and neighboring Kansas. Geologists say the earthquake was recorded at 8:59 a.m. Saturday about 16 miles east of Cherokee, which is about 100 miles northwest of Oklahoma City. The earthquake was recorded at a depth of five miles. News outlets in Wichita, Kansas _ about 75 miles northeast of the earthquake's epicenter _ reported feeling the quake.
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Cold-case investigators are executing search warrants and performing DNA tests in hopes of identifying a suspect in the death of a 16-year-old girl 20 years ago. Dena Dean was last reported alive on June 6, 1998, at a shopping center in west Tulsa. The Webster High School honor student had just left work at a nearby restaurant and planned to meet a friend at a nearby supermarket. Her car was later found abandoned at the shopping center, and authorities found her body six days later.
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