Nation Nov 24 Viola Ford Fletcher, one of the last survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at age 111 By Jamie Stengle, Associated Press
Nation Nov 13 Oklahoma governor spares the life of death row inmate just before scheduled lethal injection Stitt granted clemency on Thursday to 46-year-old Tremane Wood, who was sentenced to die for the stabbing death of a man during a botched robbery on New Year's Day 2002. By Sean Murphy, Associated Press
Nation Nov 13 Dozens hospitalized, hundreds evacuated after an ammonia gas leak in Oklahoma A leaking tanker truck spewed dangerous ammonia gas outside a hotel overnight, filling its hallways with fumes and forcing hundreds of nearby residents of a small Oklahoma city to evacuate, authorities said Thursday. By Cliff Brunt, Kathy McCormack, Sarah Brumfield, Associated Press
Politics Sep 25 Ryan Walters resigns as Oklahoma’s top public schools official to lead conservative educators’ group Walters has been involved in several controversial initiatives, including promoting religion in classrooms and requiring teachers to pass ideology exams. By Associated Press
Politics Aug 19 Oklahoma to require ideology test for teachers from New York and California Oklahoma will require applicants for teaching jobs from California and New York to pass an exam that the state’s top education official says is designed to safeguard against “radical leftist ideology.”… By Heather Hollingsworth, Jamie Stengle, Associated Press
May 22 Supreme Court 4-4 vote ends Oklahoma’s taxpayer-funded Catholic charter school By Mark Sherman, Associated Press The outcome keeps in place an Oklahoma court decision that invalidated a vote by a state charter school board to approve the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which would have been the nation’s first religious charter school. But… Continue reading
Apr 30 Watch 7:34 Justices appear divided in Supreme Court case over publicly-funded religious schools By John Yang, Ali Schmitz, Ian Couzens, Taylor Bowie Oklahoma's charter school board approved the creation of a Catholic virtual school in 2023, establishing the nation’s first publicly-funded religious charter school. Oklahoma's Supreme Court blocked it, saying it violated the state constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court heard the case… Continue watching
Apr 30 Parts of Oklahoma and Texas see record rainfall after storm leaves 3 dead in Pennsylvania By Sarah Brumfield, Marc Levy, Associated Press Slow-moving thunderstorms dropped record rainfall across much of southern Oklahoma and northern Texas Wednesday, triggering flash flooding and forcing evacuations, as residents in Pennsylvania and Ohio picked up from a powerful storm that left more than half a million customers… Continue reading
Apr 30 How this ‘vessel of freedom’ in Oklahoma honors Vietnamese refugees who built new lives in America By Adam Kemp A new art installation in the heart of Oklahoma City’s Asian District marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. Continue reading
Apr 29 LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case on whether public money can go to Catholic charter school By Mark Sherman, Associated Press Chief Justice John Roberts appears to hold the key vote over whether the Supreme Court will allow the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school. Continue reading