Oklahoma

More than two-thirds of Oklahoma county jails no longer allow families or friends to visit in-person, making costly phone calls and video messages the only way to stay in touch with detainees.

Eight-year-old Petronila Ramos-Mejia didn’t want to go to her babysitter that evening. She wanted to stay with her grandfather, Juan Mejia-Garcia.

OKLAHOMA CITY – A bill that would have nearly doubled the pay of the state’s Pardon and Parole Board failed after a lawmaker didn’t get the response he sought for a man serving life for murder.

Oklahoma prosecutors say they will pursue a murder charge, but not the death penalty, against longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip for his role in the 1997 killing of his former boss.

The Greater Tulsa Area Hispanic and Latinx Affairs Commission officially opposes a bill that would charge undocumented immigrants accused of any crime with a felony in Oklahoma.

Dallas Morning News columnist Dallas Cothrum coined the term in a March opinion piece about migration from Texas to Oklahoma, noting that in 2023, Oklahoma had a net gain of 2,000 people.

Following a week of uncertainty, Tulsa’s Community Outreach Psychiatric Emergency Services, or COPES, will continue to receive funding — at least temporarily.

The chief of a local volunteer fire department wants Gov. Kevin Stitt impeached following threats from the governor to dissolve the state forestry service.

The city of Tulsa has dismissed a traffic case against a Native motorist despite the state ruling he was not granted immunity from local prosecution.

State authorities have reported four deaths related to the fires and high winds that tore through Oklahoma Friday and Saturday.