A botched execution that continued for 43 minutes, causing the condemned man to writhe and grimace in pain, didn’t violate clearly established law regarding cruel and unusual punishment, a…
A police officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been charged with first-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man, a charge that carries a minimum sentence of four years…
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says she has signed 18 bills supporting “pro-life and pro-family measures,” but she could not sign a measure making it a felony for doctors to perform…
An Arkansas lawyer has given up his law license in Arkansas and Oklahoma after acknowledging he converted more than $100,000 of law firm funds to his own use.
Oklahoma’s highest criminal appeals court has held the state’s forcible sodomy law doesn’t make it a crime to have oral sex with a victim who is so intoxicated as to…
A computer whiz installed software on random number-generating equipment while working as security director of the Iowa-based Multi-State Lottery Association that enabled him to rig games and direct a number…
As a lawsuit continues seeking to overturn new Federal Communications Commission rules cutting the cost prisoners pay for phone calls, a federal appeals court has partially stayed the imposition of…
An investigation of the sheriff’s office in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, launched after a close friend of the sheriff working as a reserve deputy said he mistakenly fired his handgun instead…
Corrected: Spencer Fane announced Monday that the 170-attorney firm is opening an Oklahoma City office, its first in the state, with at least 9 lawyers from the former Lester Loving…
A prosecutor who was home sick on Thursday shot an intruder who kicked in the back door of her home in Inola, Oklahoma, according to the local sheriff.
More than 20 years after one of the most notorious crimes of the 20th Century, the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City is still reverberating.
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