Oklahoma Watch

Corri Williams completed probation for burglary five years ago, but the punishment didn’t seem to end there.

As anxious policyholders await a pivotal Oklahoma Supreme Court decision in a bad-faith case involving the now-infamous State Farm documents, additional revealing documents, compiled decades ago by a State Farm whistleblower with Oklahoma roots, have surfaced at the Oklahoma City office of attorney Charles Weddle.

In early February, the city of Stillwater declared the Remington Ranch apartment complex a public nuisance. It was a unique and time-consuming approach to holding the problematic Tulsa-based landlord, Vesta Realty, accountable for the lack of heat and water tenants experienced for months on end.

A campaign donation to Oklahoma Treasurer Todd Russ from the owner of an investment firm that won a state bid further complicated the state’s Invest in Oklahoma program and may have led to the firm pulling out of the process.

Brent Rendel grabbed an ink pen, signed the back of the check he received from the Farmer Bridge Assistance program and took it straight to the bank to put the payment toward loans.

A long-overdue raise for low-income workers struggling to make ends meet? Or a burdensome mandate on small businesses that will lead to reduced hours for workers and higher consumer prices?

Kim McGuire had already spent nearly two weeks at St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City when a hospital case manager delivered the news: her insurance would not cover a transfer to a rehabilitation facility.

Nearly four years after their arrests, the criminal case against Epic Charter Schools’ founders took a step forward Thursday.

On Monday, the Oklahoma Supreme Court met en banc — that is, nine justices gathered live — to hear 40 minutes of oral argument over Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s effort to intervene in Hursh v. State Farm, a bad faith insurance case that has come to represent upwards of 1,000 similar cases involving hail damage to Oklahoma roofs.

In the town of Lamont, east of Blackwell and near the Kansas border, a Department of Energy atmospheric monitoring station sniffed out a compound never before detected in the air over North America. And it’s toxic.