Sex offender Melvin Platt headed to prison after previously suspended sentence revoked
Convicted sex offender Melvin Platt's suspended sentence was revoked Wednesday after a hearing where he said his prosecution for the assault of an ex-girlfriend...
Tulsa County: Dodson, Lamkin elected to school board, Broken Arrow passes 7 bonds
Voters in Tulsa County elected members of three school boards and two city councils Tuesday night, while also weighing in on several bond packages....
Martinez wins OKCPS seat, Millwood ousts board president, EPS incumbent reelected
In education elections around Oklahoma County, voters affirmed incumbent school board members, tapped a newcomer to the Oklahoma City Public Schools governing body and...
McAlester voters reject sales tax for road projects
A one-cent sales tax increase proposed for McAlester street and infrastructure improvements has failed on a local Election Day that also saw voters in...
Norman voters say yes to permanent homeless shelter, elect Trey Kirby in Ward 5
Norman voters on Tuesday approved an $8 million bond that will pay for the construction of the city's first-ever permanent homeless shelter after rejecting...
OK Supreme Court finds Energy Discrimination Elimination Act unconstitutional as applied to OPERS
A narrow majority of the Oklahoma Supreme Court found today that the Energy Discrimination Elimination Act of 2022 is unconstitutional as applied to the...
Suspended Coal County sheriff pleads no contest, fate in office unresolved
Nearly five months after a state multi-county grand jury indictment, suspended Coal County Sheriff Jason Smith has accepted a plea deal while a removal...
With $3 million budgeted for new state plane, Stitt family flights scrutinized
Eight years after he sold a state airplane in one of his first efficiency-focused executive orders, outgoing Gov. Kevin Stitt has asked the Oklahoma...
SCOTUS declines to hear Stroble income tax case, Muscogee Nation weighs options
The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear Stroble v. Oklahoma Tax Commission, leaving the Oklahoma Supreme Court's controversial ruling on income tax jurisdiction intact.
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Legal roundup: Court of Criminal Appeals weighs in on definition of ‘sexual relations,’ riot laws and more
As Oklahoma courts focused on their own dockets in March, court viewers across the nation were engrossed by the civil trial of Ohio-based rapper...
