First Oklahoma man sentenced to life without parole for drug trafficking now hopes for release
It’s too late for Leland Dodd to watch his children grow up, but he dreams of fishing in the Arkansas River again one day.
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Serving life without parole for drugs, Oklahoma man now hopes for release
In the early 1990s Oklahoma did not have any drug court programs that could have allowed Kevin Ott to seek treatment, and his life without parole sentence disqualified him from entering rehab.
Kevin Stitt’s teacher problem
Advertising campaigns touting Stitt’s support among educators have been criticized as being misleading and the gubernatorial candidate’s high school chemistry teacher says he won’t vote for his former student.
Joe Exotic kept an AR-15 he said was ‘For Carole’
Investigator testified “Joe would have nothing to lose to try and follow out his original plans and have her killed — or have one one of his cultish followers do it.”
Entrepreneur says he’s been cut out of Oklahoma tribe’s online poker venture
It was Fereidoun Khalilian — “Prince Fred,” or “Khalifa,” as he sometimes signs emails — who put the concept of a Native-owned poker website together. The Iowa Tribe later changed the name of the venture, said his software didn’t work and now won’t even take his phone calls.
Joe Exotic pleads not guilty to murder-for hire charges
In a jailhouse interview earlier this month, Maldonado-Passage told The Frontier that he had been “set up.”
Little help for Oklahoma diabetics as cost of insulin soars
A study at the Oklahoma Legislature to examine high insulin prices was abruptly canceled. “It’s frustrating, but it doesn’t change the fact that I intend to file legislation to look at how we can address this issue,” Rep. Forrest Bennett said.
