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Fields of Green: A Frontier and ProPublica investigation into Oklahoma’s medical marijuana black market. Chinese criminal networks have taken over much of the illicit marijuana market in Oklahoma, stoking a wave of crime that includes violence, money laundering and human trafficking. And authorities suspect some of those involved have links ...
We fact-checked what Oklahoma law says about teaching ... - The …
Jul 11, 2024 · Claim: Oklahoma law already allows the Bible to be taught in public schools. Source: “Oklahoma law already explicitly allows Bibles in the classroom and enables teachers to use them in instruction,” Phil Bacharach, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office said in statements to several media outlets. Fact check: Mostly true.
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. Along with co-defendant Tommy Ward, Karl Fontenot was convicted twice in the kidnapping and murder of Donna Denise Haraway from an Ada convenience store in 1984 and sentenced to life ...
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.
We fact-checked the Oklahoma governor’s debate between
Oct 21, 2022 · Claim: The state of Oklahoma did not lose $17 million in Swadley’s Foggy Bottom Kitchen scandal. Stitt said: “To say that the taxpayers have lost $17 million in the Swadley’s scandal is simply untrue.” Fact check: Mixed A state spending watchdog found that Oklahoma spent over $16.7 million to build, maintain and operate the Swadley’s Foggy Bottom Kitchen restaurants in state parks ...
We fact-checked Oklahoma’s book-banning controversy - The …
Sep 20, 2022 · Fact Check. Editor’s note: Sept. 18-24 is Banned Books Week, with events nationwide protesting censorship. An Oklahoma teacher attracted national media attention and is out of the classroom after sharing a library QR code with students. And there have been reports of some Oklahoma school districts yanking classic titles from library shelves.
Two truths & a lie: What records show in Richard Glossip case
Sep 13, 2015 · Two truths and a lie: What records, interviews reveal about Richard Glossip’s murder conviction. Glossip told detectives interrogating him for Barry Van Treese’s murder: “I told you, and this is the God’s honest truth, I had a hunch that Justin did it, and that’s as far as it went. I do not know one hundred percent.”.
Judge orders second man in Ada's 'Innocent Man' case freed, state …
Dec 21, 2020 · Courtesy Netflix. An Oklahoma judge has ordered the second defendant in Ada’s so-called “Innocent Man” murder case to be immediately freed after spending 35 years in prison and excoriating investigators and prosecutors for withholding favorable evidence from his defense team for decades. Tommy Ward, who was convicted twice for the 1984 ...
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 ...