After nearly a decade of fighting to have her conviction for first-degree murder overturned, her release from prison came with a cost.
The announcement comes a little more than a year after the Legislature passed a larger worker’s compensation bill that included a provision intended to shore up the fund’s finances.
While non-Indians who have been arrested on relatively low-level crimes usually receive a bond hearing within 24 hours, American Indians arrested on similar complaints could find themselves waiting days or even weeks while federal, state and tribal authorities decide who, if anyone, will pursue charges against them.
On Tuesday, the Oklahoma Water Resources Board unanimously approved a measure to push back the deadline for the settlement agreement between the Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes, the state and Oklahoma City to go into effect from Sept. 30 to May of 2022.
Two political action committees that sought to oust a pair of incumbent state House Republicans during the June primary failed to report spending tens of thousands of dollars in the effort to state ethics officials.
The only requirements for opening a poultry feeding operation is submitting an application to the Oklahoma Department of Food and Forestry with basic information about the operation and paying a $10 application fee.
The ramifications of GREY2K USA Worldwide’s videos, filmed without the knowledge of the trainers, could have a much wider effect on the dog racing industry as a whole, as almost all of the dogs are shipped to other states to perform in sanctioned races, and some of the individuals filmed allegedly doing live-lure training co-own dogs or train dogs for individuals who are highly-placed in the national dog racing industry, according to the group.
Thousands of Oklahoma companies that received federal assistance to retain workers during the COVID-19 pandemic reported retaining no jobs and others reported laying workers off even after receiving the assistance.