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WEBTracing the source of dark money-fueled attack ads that helped topple the Oklahoma Senate’s next leader. Clifton Adcock August 26, 2024. The attempts to build layers of secrecy around a tangled web of independent political groups span numerous post office boxes, corporate filings and other records across several states. View All Stories.
Judge orders second man in Ada's 'Innocent Man' case freed, state …
WEBDec 21, 2020 · Courtesy Netflix. An Oklahoma judge has ordered the second defendant in Ada’s so-called “Innocent Man” murder case to be immediately freed after spending 35 years in prison and excoriating investigators and prosecutors for withholding favorable evidence from his defense team for decades. Tommy Ward, who was convicted twice for …
Judge in Innocent Man case agrees to suppress original …
WEBUPDATE Feb 23, 2024: A Tulsa County judge granted a motion to suppress the 1984 confession of Karl Fontenot on Friday afternoon, but stopped short of addressing the defense’s motion to dismiss the case.The state has 30 days to appeal the ruling to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. Fontenot, who was in the courtroom in Tulsa on Friday, declined to comment, but early in the hearing ...
Federal appeals court upholds overturned conviction in Ada …
WEBJul 14, 2021 · A federal appeals court has upheld a decision to overturn the conviction of one of two men in the 1985 kidnapping and murder of an Ada convenience store worker. Along with co-defendant Tommy Ward, Karl Fontenot was convicted twice in the kidnapping and murder of Donna Denise Haraway from an Ada convenience store in 1984 and sentenced to life ...
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WEBKayla Branch May 28, 2024. The governor cited a need for smaller government last year when he disbanded the mostly unfunded council made up primarily of volunteers and state employees. The group had worked to coordinate funding and services between providers as the number of unsheltered Oklahomans continues to grow.
Oklahoma’s Jim Inhofe reflects on more than three decades in the …
WEBJan 11, 2023 · In 2015, Inhofe famously brought a snowball onto the Senate Floor in an attempt to disprove the existence of climate change. He also authored a book in 2012 titled The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future.. Inhofe called for a criminal investigation into top climate change scientists in 2009, claiming they “manipulated data to prove the scientific ...
Doerflinger a member of secret, ‘luxury’ social club since 2010
WEBMar 27, 2016 · For the past six years, state Finance Secretary Preston Doerflinger has been a member of the Royal Order of Jesters, a secretive social club that celebrates drinking and bills itself as “a luxury organization” only for those “who can afford it.”. Doerflinger was inducted into the Tulsa chapter of the Royal Order of Jesters, affiliated ...
We fact-checked Oklahoma’s book-banning controversy - The …
WEBSep 20, 2022 · Fact Check. Editor’s note: Sept. 18-24 is Banned Books Week, with events nationwide protesting censorship. An Oklahoma teacher attracted national media attention and is out of the classroom after sharing a library QR code with students. And there have been reports of some Oklahoma school districts yanking classic titles from library shelves.
We fact-checked GOP hopefuls for state superintendent
WEBJun 26, 2022 · From opposition funding from teacher’s unions to how many Oklahoma students live in poverty, we looked into candidates’ claims. Republican hopefuls for Oklahoma state superintendent of public instruction debated on education policy on Wednesday at an event hosted by NonDoc and News 9 …
Tulsa-based Ross Group Construction settles federal small …
WEBJun 3, 2020 · A Tulsa-based construction company has agreed to pay the federal government $2.8 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it set up front companies to fraudulently obtain government construction contracts meant for small disadvantaged businesses.. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it had reached a settlement with the Tulsa-based Ross Group Construction Corporation, stemming from ...
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