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January 19, 2022

Oklahoma on-duty officers step into the classroom to serve during staff shortages

Oklahoma police officers stepped into the classroom on Tuesday to help schools struggling with staffing shortages.

January 17, 2022

Oklahoma pastor accused of smearing spit on man’s face during sermon in viral video

An Oklahoma pastor is getting some flak online for what many deemed was an unhygienic sermon on Sunday.

January 17, 2022

Midwest hospital chain stops using race-based COVID-19 treatment plan amid backlash

SSM Health, a Catholic hospital chain that operates 23 hospitals in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, has stopped using race as a determining factor for prioritizing COVID-19 treatment.

January 16, 2022

Dallas Frazier, writer of Oak Ridge Boys hit 'Elvira' and other songs, dead at 82

Songwriter Dallas Frazier, a multi-time Grammy winner who is enshrined in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, died on Friday, according to a report. He was 82.

January 12, 2022

Man arrested in deaths of victims found in Kansas, Oklahoma

A Kansas man has been arrested in the 2019 robbery, kidnapping and shooting deaths of two men whose bodies were found hours apart in an Oklahoma ditch and a Kansas trailer.

January 11, 2022

Former Oklahoma police officer sentenced to 25 years in murder of daughter’s boyfriend

A former Oklahoma police officer convicted of killing his daughter's boyfriend after five trials was sentenced last week to 25 years in prison.

January 11, 2022

Oklahoma death row inmates seek firing squad as alternative to lethal injection

Two Oklahoma death row inmates facing executions in the coming months offered firing squad as a less problematic alternative to the state's three-drug lethal injection, one of their attorneys told a federal judge on Monday.

January 9, 2022

Oklahoma driver who killed 4 from California in DUI crash gets 4 concurrent 30-year sentences

An Oklahoma driver whose wrong-way, DUI crash in 2020 led to the deaths of four members of a California family, was sentenced Saturday to four 30-years-to-life sentences that she will serve concurrently, according to authorities. 

January 9, 2022

Oklahoma murder suspects had sex in bed of crowbar attack victim as she was dying nearby: police

A man and woman arrested in the death of an Oklahoma woman engaged in sex in the victim’s bed while she struggled for life just steps away in the living room after suffering a brutal crowbar beating, according to police.

January 7, 2022

Oklahoma septic-tank murder suspect’s Waffle House visit may prompt bond revocation: report

An Oklahoma contractor accused of shooting an employee dead and then burying him under a septic tank could have his bond revoked as he awaits trial, in part because of an unauthorized visit to a Waffle House restaurant, according to a report.