The night began when Cary Aspinwall and I, both working for the Tulsa World at the time, piled into my SUV along with World photographer John Clanton for the drive to McAlester.
In partnership with The Frontier, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting spent more than a year unearthing the causes. The reporting included obtaining a decade’s worth of state prison data never before analyzed by the state itself.
Ziva Branstetter sits down with her mentor, Mary Hargrove, for a discussion about Hargrove’s distinguished career and about journalism today.
A judge on Saturday issued an order stopping the seven executions Arkansas had scheduled for later this month.
During testimony Tuesday, I agreed with the state’s attorney who cross-examined me that I’m not a doctor nor a scientist. However, I took issue with her assertion that our research wasn’t scientific.
After about 30 years as a journalist based in Tulsa, I’m leaving for a new opportunity. But The Frontier is here to stay and nothing could make me happier.
After The Frontier requested copies of inmate mortality reviews under Sheriff Vic Regalado, TCSO said they aren’t public. That decision came one day after the Sheriff’s Office was found liable in the 2011 death of Elliott Williams.
The sudden resignation of Gov. Mary Fallin’s general counsel, Jennifer Chance, is linked to her referral of legal business to her husband, The Frontier has learned. Chance suggested that relatives of former Reserve Deputy Robert Bates hire her husband to seek commutation of his sentence.
