Oklahoma

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True crime drama at Supreme Court pits Oklahoma against its top criminal court

5:00am October 09, 2024

Richard Glossip has had nine execution dates set over the years. He's eaten his last meal three times. He was tried twice and has had multiple appeals, including one at the Supreme Court.

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Nex Benedict was frequently targeted by bullies at their Oklahoma high school because of their gender identity.

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What happened to Nex Benedict?

4:47pm March 15, 2024

by C Mandler

Benedict was attacked at their Oklahoma high school, and found dead at home the next day. The medical examiner's office says the nonbinary 16-year-old died by suicide. Their family has questions.

A photograph of Nex Benedict, a nonbinary teenager who died one day after a fight in a high school bathroom, is projected during a candlelight service at Point A Gallery, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, in Oklahoma City.

National

Vigils held nationwide for nonbinary Oklahoma teen who died following school fight

2:46am February 26, 2024

by The Associated Press

Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old who identified as nonbinary, got into an altercation with three girls in an Owasso High School bathroom who were picking on Benedict and some friends.

An ice fisherman stands on the frozen Molly's Falls Pond in Marshfield, Vt., on Sunday.

National

Much of the U.S. is still in the grip of icy weather that is blamed for 72 deaths

9:18pm January 21, 2024

by The Associated Press

The numbing cold is expected to ease in the coming days as water systems in Memphis and other Tennessee cities battle broken pipes that have caused boil-water notices.

McAlester Regional Health Center's administrative offices in McAlester, Oklahoma.

In this Oklahoma town, almost everyone knows someone who's been sued by the hospital

5:00am January 19, 2024

U.S. hospitals face growing scrutiny over aggressive debt collection tactics. At one community hospital, few patients get financial aid when they can't afford to pay. Many more are taken to court.

Glynn Simmons reacts as he leaves court after a judge ruled to approve his "actual innocence" claim during a hearing at the Oklahoma County Courthouse on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, in Oklahoma City, Okla.

National

An Oklahoma judge ruled a man who spent 48 years in prison for murder is innocent

3:30pm December 20, 2023

by The Associated Press

Glynn Simmons, 71, was released in July after prosecutors agreed that key evidence in his case was not turned over to his defense lawyers. He is the longest imprisoned U.S. inmate to be exonerated.

FILE - Delegates hold up their ballots at the Southern Baptist Convention in New Orleans on June 13, 2023. On Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, Southern Baptist leaders ousted an Oklahoma church whose pastor defended his blackface performance at one church event and his impersonation of a Native American woman at another.

Southern Baptists expel church as pastor defends blackface and Native caricatures

6:33pm September 19, 2023

by The Associated Press

Matoaka Baptist Church pastor said he was impersonating Ray Charles in one incident and dressed as a Native woman during "Cowboys and Indians Night" at a church camp.

Nicole Blackmon says she is mourning two children, the teenager she lost to gun violence and her stillborn baby. She is suing Tennessee because she says abortion bans interfered with her care.

Health & Safety

Women fight abortion bans in 3 more states with legal actions

6:02pm September 13, 2023

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

Patients and doctors in Tennessee, Idaho and Oklahoma are taking legal action against state abortion bans. Women told dramatic stories of dangerous pregnancies and delayed care.

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Forrest Avenue, in the South Highland neighborhood, is dark except for streetlights in the early hours of Saturday, June 17, 2023, following a storm, in Shreveport, La.

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Power outages continue across the southern U.S. as a heat wave grips Texas

1:34am June 20, 2023

by The Associated Press

More than 300,000 customers in the southern U.S. remained without power Monday as the bulk of outages were in Oklahoma, where heavy weekend storms carried winds as strong as 80 mph around Tulsa.

An Endangered Missing Advisory issued Monday said 14-year-old Ivy Webster and 16-year-old Brittany Brewer were last spotted with Jesse McFadden, a convicted sex offender.

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Police discover 7 bodies at the home of a sex offender on his scheduled court date

12:45pm May 02, 2023

by Emily Olson

A search for two missing Oklahoma teenagers and a convicted sex offender ended within hours on Monday when police found seven bodies, including five teenagers, on a rural property.