Plans to restore Oklahoma state parks scaled back • Oklahoma Voice
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation received 10 percent of the funding it requested from lawmakers to rehabilitate state parks. The...
Oklahoma’s food donation law has little effect • Oklahoma Voice
OKLAHOMA CITY – A Clinton woman was heartbroken when she saw her students throwing away leftover food from the cafeteria every day. Sally James, 70,...
Oklahomans gain access to financing for hail-resistant roofs • Oklahoma Voice
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma residents will soon have access to financing to retrofit their homes with weatherproof roofs. In May, the Strengthen Oklahoma Homes Act...
Opening of new veterans home planned for late fall • Oklahoma Voice
OKLAHOMA CITY – A new veterans home is under construction in Sallisaw. The Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs is expected to open the 175-bed home...
“Oklahoma’s Grandma Moses” called herself a “memory artist”
“Moving to Oklahoma” was painted in 1962 by Oklahoma artist Augusta Metcalfe. Metcalfe, who was born in Kansas in 1881, began drawing as a small...
Legal action or attention? What experts say about Ryan Walters’ memo
Ryan Walters announced that Oklahoma schools must teach the Bible Ryan Walters announced plans Thursday morning to require Bible study in Oklahoma classrooms. The letter...
Catholic charter school in Oklahoma vows to ‘fight’ court ruling, but state fails to cancel its contract • Oklahoma Voice
BROKEN ARROW – Leaders of a Catholic charter school in Oklahoma have said they will “continue to fight to keep the school open” after the...
Death row inmate Richard Rojem Jr. of Oklahoma was executed for the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in 1984.
The state of Oklahoma executed Richard Rojem Jr. on Thursday; the official time of death was 10:16 a.m. Rojem was sentenced to death for kidnapping,...
Richard Rojem executed after decades on death row
The year with the most executions worldwide in ten years According to Amnesty International, 2023 was the deadliest year for executions in nearly a decade,...
Death row inmate Richard Rojem Jr. of Oklahoma is scheduled to be executed on Thursday morning
The state of Oklahoma will execute a man on Thursday morning who kidnapped, raped and murdered his seven-year-old former stepdaughter. Richard Rojem Jr. was sentenced...