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When I was a child, two books that illustrated how journalists asked very tough and uncomfortable questions to the most powerful people in the country got me thinking “This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.” So I started doing it.

Law enforcement reports of whether Snelson was armed have varied — some said he had a knife, others said he was holding a lighter, while others have avoided saying what he might have been holding.

Methamphetamine had a part in 330 overdose deaths in Oklahoma in 2017 — up 136 percent from 2012.

I’ve been here since Day 1, back when we were in a small side office in the Philtower building waiting for our permanent office to open up.

The bill, proposed by Sen. Joseph Silk, R-Broken Bow, would require the state AG to ensure all abortions resulted in criminal charges. Abortions rose in Oklahoma in 2017 after several years of being in decline.

After my family sold the Tulsa World in 2013, I was pulled back into the news business by a desire to focus on investigative journalism.

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For years, Payne and his attorneys fought to have evidence from the crime scene undergo forensic DNA testing. But the results were not enough to convince a Comanche County judge for a new hearing.

“They (sex offenders) just won’t register,” Adams said. “And that’s what happened. Our number of registered sex offenders has went down and our number of arrests has just skyrocketed.

Oklahoma prisons are facing critical staffing shortages. Oklahoma Department of Corrections spent $15.5 million on overtime pay last fiscal year.