Oklahoma

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Tornado-producing storm deals deadly weather to Oklahoma and Texas

12:59am April 21, 2025

Additional heavy rain is expected across the Plains this week. With streams already swollen and the ground saturated, that leaves the area at risk of additional flooding.

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Supreme Court orders new trial for death row inmate in Oklahoma

10:45am February 25, 2025

The court reversed the state court's judgement and sent the case back for a new trial.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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