City Councilor Blake Ewing’s businesses were cited by the Oklahoma Tax Commission in 19 separate tax liens since 2010. Five of Ewing’s businesses failed to pay a combined $168,000 in taxes already collected but not paid to the state, an investigation by The Frontier found.
Frenchel Johnson learned on a jail TV that the man she fell in love 16 years ago was gone. He’d been shot by a police officer. Even harder for Johnson to understand was the way in which he died: with his hands in the air.
More than a week after Terence Crutcher was killed by a Tulsa police officer, hundreds of people enjoyed a day of events focused on justice and healing.
The father of Terence Crutcher told an attorney last week that his family recognized his late son’s common-law marriage and that the couple’s children should be with their mother, statements that appear to conflict with claims in a petition filed by his attorneys Monday.
Days after the state’s largest earthquake, a state-sponsored workshop on induced seismicity featured panels led by energy industry executives. Days later, state and federal officials cut the number of injection wells closed in response to the earthquake by nearly half, records show.
An analysis of data by The Frontier shows that of about 1,100 earthquake insurance claims filed with companies, just 202 residential claims are listed as paid during the past six years. The median payout during that time was about $5,500, with about 73 claims paid over $10,000.
A 200-square-mile swath of Oklahoma impacted by the earthquake is off limits to state regulators scrambling to respond to Saturday’s earthquake. They say they have no idea how many energy-related operations are there and no authority to close them.
After state officials announced this week that a petition to legalize medical marijuana in Oklahoma had gained enough signatures, attention turned to Attorney General Scott Pruitt. How much would Pruitt change the language of State Question 788? The petition— spearheaded by a group with the reassuring name Oklahomans for Health — seeks a vote on legalizing marijuana for …
