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A gurney in the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla. on Oct. 9, 2014.

A federal judge rules Oklahoma's lethal injection method is constitutional

Jun 06, 2022
In a federal trial earlier this year, attorneys for 28 death row inmates argued the method could violate the amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.
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National
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt speaks after signing into law a bill making it a felony to perform an abortion, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, on April 12, 2022, in Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma governor signs the nation's strictest abortion ban

May 26, 2022
Oklahoma now becomes the first state in the nation to effectively end availability of the procedure.
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Roe v. Wade and the future of reproductive rights in America
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt poses for a photo with the bill he signed, making it a felony to perform an abortion, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, on April 12, 2022, in Oklahoma City, following a bill signing ceremony.

Oklahoma's legislature passes a bill banning nearly all abortions

May 19, 2022
If Gov. Kevin Stitt signs the bill, the legislation would go into effect immediately.
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on April 12 in Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma governor signs Texas-style abortion ban into law

May 03, 2022
The bill signing comes on the heels of a leaked draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court that it is considering weakening or overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
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National
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed a bill prohibiting the use of nonbinary gender markers on state birth certificates.

Oklahoma bans nonbinary gender identities on birth certificates

Apr 27, 2022
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill explicitly prohibiting the use of nonbinary gender markers on state birth certificates, a ban experts say is the first of its kind in the nation.
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Politics
Emily Wales, interim CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes, speaks to a group of abortion rights advocates outside the state Capitol in Oklahoma City on Tuesday. The Oklahoma House gave final legislative approval to a bill that would make performi

Oklahoma's vote to ban most abortions comes at a key moment for reproductive rights

Apr 06, 2022
It's the latest conservative legislature to approve a new restriction on abortion, as the country awaits a Supreme Court decision that could upend Roe v. Wade.
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National
Abortion rights advocates gather outside the Oklahoma Capitol on Tuesday in Oklahoma City to protest several anti-abortion bills being considered by the GOP-led Legislature.

With little discussion, Oklahoma passes a bill to make most abortions illegal

Apr 05, 2022
The state's Republican-controlled House gives final legislative approval to a bill that would make performing an abortion a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
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Oklahoma's Pardon and Parole Board recommended earlier this month that Julius Jones' death sentence be commuted to<strong> </strong>life in prison.

Okla. governor grants clemency to Julius Jones hours before he was set to be executed

Nov 18, 2021
Oklahoma Kevin Stitt commuted the death sentence of Julius Jones after a public outcry. Jones, who maintains he was wrongly convicted of a 1999 murder, now faces life in prison without parole.
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Glenda "Cookie" Parton, 80, disappeared when she was searching for her son, Dwayne Selby, 59. Selby and his friend Jack Grimes, 76, were also missing.

An Oklahoma woman vanishes while searching for her missing son and his friend

Nov 01, 2021
Eighty-year-old Glenda Parton's vehicle was found abandoned near Tulsa last Tuesday after she was searching for her son and his friend who also had gone missing.
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Politics

Teachers and civil rights groups sue over Oklahoma's ban on critical race theory

Oct 20, 2021
The lawsuit argues that Oklahoma's law banning lessons on gender and race interferes with students' and educators' First Amendment right to learn and talk about those issues in school.
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Politics
Imam Mohamed Herbert of the Islamic Society of Tulsa, the city's only mosque, whose congregation is preparing to aid in resettling the 850 Afghan refugees bound for the city.

Oklahoma Welcomes Hundreds Of Afghan Refugees — Despite The State GOP's Objections

Sep 29, 2021
Oklahoma is welcoming more Afghan refugees than any state besides California and Texas. The state Republican party opposes it, but elected GOP leaders are defying it and eager to help new arrivals.
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Reba McEntire appears at the Country Music Association Awards in 2019. The singer was rescued from a building in Oklahoma this week after a staircase collapsed.

Reba McEntire Is Rescued By Emergency Workers After A Staircase Collapsed

Sep 16, 2021
McEntire and members of her team were checking out a historical building in Atoka, Okla. They got trapped inside after its staircase collapsed and had to be rescued.
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Protesters gather outside the entrance to a rally for then-President Donald Trump in June in Tulsa, Okla. A new state law increases penalties for protesters who block public roadways and grants legal immunity to drivers who unintentionally harm them as t

Oklahoma Law Grants Immunity To Drivers Who Unintentionally Harm Protesters

Apr 22, 2021
The new law also makes blocking public roadways a misdemeanor offense.
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Live Updates: Winter Storms 2021

As Oklahoma Endures Winter Storm, Cherokee Nation Scrambles To Help Elders

Feb 17, 2021
"Some of our population lives marginally so many or our people cannot ride out a storm like this," Chief Chuck Hoskin says. "We're looking ... to pull space heaters to get them out to elders."
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Weather

Oklahoma Ice Storm Leaves 300,000 Without Power

Oct 27, 2020
The early season arrival of a mix of rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain and gusty winds, which first struck on Monday night, caught public utility companies unprepared for the massive power losses.
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Coronavirus Live Updates
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt attends President Trump's campaign rally last month in Tulsa. Stitt dismisses the notion that he became infected at the June 20 event, saying it was too long ago.

Oklahoma Governor Tests Positive For Coronavirus

Jul 15, 2020
Gov. Kevin Stitt is the first governor known to have tested positive for the virus. Oklahoma saw its largest one-day increase of cases on Wednesday.
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Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice
The city of Tulsa, Okla., resumed a test excavation for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Graves Investigation on July 13 at Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa.

Excavation Begins For Possible Mass Grave From 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Jul 14, 2020
Tulsa officials have begun a test excavation to determine if land on city-owned Oaklawn Cemetery is the site of a mass grave of victims of the race massacre. Most of the victims have never been found.
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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that about half of the land in Oklahoma is within a Native American reservation as stated in treaties.

Supreme Court Rules That About Half Of Oklahoma Is Native American Land

Jul 09, 2020
"Today we are asked whether the land these treaties promised remains an Indian reservation. ... Because Congress has not said otherwise, we hold the government to its word," wrote Justice Gorsuch.
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Shots - Health News
Amber England, who led the successful campaign for a ballot initiative to give 200,000 more Oklahomans health coverage, talked with supporters online this week. Voters narrowly approved the Medicaid expansion measure Tuesday, despite opposition by the st

Oklahoma Votes For Medicaid Expansion Over Objections Of Republican State Leaders

Jul 01, 2020
A narrow majority approved the ballot measure, making Oklahoma the 37th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. An estimated 200,000 uninsured adults will now qualify for coverage.
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Coronavirus Live Updates
Six Flags is preparing to reopen its Frontier City theme park in Oklahoma City on June 5, requiring visitors and staff to wear face masks.

Six Flags Will Reopen Its First Park On June 5, Requiring Masks And Health Checks

May 26, 2020
Six Flags says it will use thermal imaging to screen temperatures of guests and employees before they can enter.
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National
This image made from video provided by Thomas Marcum shows a tornado seen from State Highway 48 in Durant, Okla., on Wednesday.

Several Dead, Dozens Injured, As Tornadoes Hit Oklahoma, Texas

Apr 22, 2020
A tornado in southeast Texas killed at least three people and injured as many as 30 others, local authorities said. Another storm in south-central Oklahoma killed one person.
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Coronavirus Live Updates

Federal Judge Allows Some Abortions To Continue In Oklahoma

Apr 06, 2020
Patients have been turned away for abortions after Republican state officials said an executive order suspending elective procedures during the coronavirus pandemic applies to abortions.
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Obituaries
Former Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, seen on Capitol Hill in 2013, has died at the age of 72.

Former Sen. Tom Coburn, Fiscal Hawk And 'Dr. No,' Dies At 72

Mar 28, 2020
The Republican from Oklahoma died Saturday after a fight with prostate cancer. During his time in Congress, Coburn earned a reputation for fighting spending, no matter whom he crossed in the process.
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Shots - Health News
The house that John High rents with his son in Norman, Okla., doesn't even have a windowless room he could retreat to in a tornado, he says, and he can't afford to build a a wheelchair-accessible storm shelter.

Many Tornado Alley Residents With Disabilities Lack Safe Options In A Storm

Feb 18, 2020
Oklahoma used to have more public shelters that could accommodate wheelchairs. But many have closed, and there's still no financial aid for renters with disabilities to build safe alternatives.
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Photograph of an African-American man with a camera looking at the skeletons of iron beds which rise above the ashes of a burned-out block after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, in Oklahoma.

New Research Identifies Possible Mass Graves From 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Dec 17, 2019
"I'm as confident as I can be in the results that this is a very big candidate for something associated with the massacre," a senior researcher at the Oklahoma Archeological Survey said on Monday.

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