Tulsa’s First Black Mayor Plans To Address An Ugly History
Earlier this month, former Oklahoma state Rep. Monroe Nichols (D) was elected the first Black mayor of Tulsa. Among other plans, Nichols wants to help heal a community still grappling …
Earlier this month, former Oklahoma state Rep. Monroe Nichols (D) was elected the first Black mayor of Tulsa. Among other plans, Nichols wants to help heal a community still grappling …
Fred Harris, a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the turbulent 1960s, died Saturday. He was 94. Harris’ wife, Margaret Elliston, …
EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma’s education superintendent has sent an email to public school superintendents requiring them to show students his video announcement of a new Department of Religious Freedom …
Less than two weeks after Ryan Walters, the top school official in Oklahoma, came under fire for tapping the far-right founder of “Libs of TikTok” for an advisory committee of …
OKMULGEE, Okla. — The television ads look and sound like any others that inundate voters’ living rooms in the final weeks before an election. Ominous music. Faded, unflattering official profile …
MCALESTER, Okla. — Linda Wood was not in the courtroom when her son Jake Wood was sentenced. She had already seen her youngest son, Tremane Wood, go to death row …
Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s right-wing state school superintendent, set off a firestorm when he said he planned to spend $6 million to buy Bibles for every classroom in Oklahoma. But then …
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for his role in the 1992 shooting death of a convenience store owner after the governor rejected a recommendation from the …
Earlier this year, Oklahoma state lawmakers passed a historic law requiring reduced sentences for survivors of domestic violence who could prove their crimes were related to their abuse. The Oklahoma …
In June of 1992, 31-year-old Kenneth Meers was killed by a single bullet during a robbery at the convenience store he owned in Oklahoma City. Prosecutors charged 26-year-old Glenn Bethany …