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We fact-checked what Oklahoma law says about teaching ... - The …
Jul 11, 2024 · State law prohibits the teaching of sectarian or religious doctrine in Oklahoma public schools but allows the reading of Scripture.The current Oklahoma academic standards do not list the Bible as a required text in public instruction.
Judge in Innocent Man case agrees to suppress original …
UPDATE 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 …
Jul 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.
Let down and locked up: Why Oklahoma’s female incarceration is …
Sep 20, 2017 · When their paths crossed in June, Allen and her daughter were among more than 3,000 women serving time in Oklahoma, which for 25 years has led the nation in locking up women. The state imprisons 151 out of every 100,000 women, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics – more than double the national rate.. In partnership with The Frontier, an Oklahoma journalism startup, Reveal from ...
We fact-checked candidates for Oklahoma Attorney General
Jun 21, 2022 · Attorney General John O’Connor faced off with challenger Gentner Drummond on issues ranging from criminal prosecution to utility rates during a debate Thursday hosted by NonDoc and News 9 at Oklahoma City Community College.
Two truths & a lie: What records show in Richard Glossip case
Sep 13, 2015 · It was Jan. 8, 1997, and Oklahoma City police had discovered motel owner Barry Van Treese’s beaten, lifeless body inside room 102 at the Best Budget Inn.
Public records website has found a new way to monetize access to …
Jul 9, 2020 · A privately-owned website that holds Oklahoma court documents behind a paywall has found a new way to monetize public records: Selling advertisements.. Visitors to ODCR.com this week may have noticed a change in the site’s design. Skinny advertisements for national companies like Geico, Amazon or Best Buy appear in prominent locations on the homepage.
Oklahoma’s Jim Inhofe reflects on more than three decades in the …
Jan 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, …
Oklahoma is trying to treat people with severe mental illness in jail ...
Jul 19, 2023 · Dr. Jason Beaman, interim chair of the school of Forensic Sciences and former chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, said twice-monthly, in-person visits are inadequate.