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Attorneys for Karl Fontenot are asking for sanctions against those they claim did not disclose more than 300 pages of potentially "exculpatory evidence" to their client.

Board member Allen McCall said this week he believed Robyn Allen’s sentence was excessive. At one point he and other pardon and parole board members wondered if they were looking at the right paperwork.

At least half of the men who were shot by police officers in Oklahoma last year had detailed histories of alleged domestic violence, and researchers are increasingly seeing a link between domestic violence and police shootings.

The FBI paid a man more than $23,000 to participate in sting operation against accused bomb maker Jerry Drake Varnell, according to testimony in a federal trial on Wednesday.

The GRDA’s board of directors unanimously approved a $476,295 contract for the devices with body camera manufacturer WatchGuard during the board’s regular meeting on Wednesday in Tulsa.

"Our hands are tied,” County Commissioner Karen Keith said. “There’s just not much Tulsa County can do.”

“I do not in any way condone or believe that discrimination, based on race, religion or sex, has any place within the workspace," Tulsa County Court Clerk Donald Newberry wrote in an email. "At the same time, I and all that work for this office, have taken an oath to uphold the Constitution, part of which is the protection of free speech."

The Frontier is tracking every jail death in Oklahoma in 2019. We hope to uncover more about how and why people die in Oklahoma jails. 

If Oklahoma's case continues on its course to go to trial in May, eyes will be on the state. The case would be the first to go to trial among the hundreds of opioid lawsuits pending in state and federal courts across the country.

The Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office more than doubled the amount of cash and property it seized during Fiscal Year 2018, taking nearly $1.2 million last year.