For the first time in its 60-year history, the Sooner Schooner, the University of Oklahoma’s iconic covered wagon mascot, is being driven by a Native American woman. Brianna Howard, a junior at OU and a citizen of the Choctaw Nation, first drove the Schooner onto the field during the football team’s season opener against Illinois…
The guys at the sheriff’s office call her a cool dude with long hair because, they say, she’s meaner than any of them — on the gun range and in the field. Her name is Lt. Dakota Black. She’s a trained tracker and detective with the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Lt. Dakota…
An Oklahoma death row inmate was hospitalized Thursday after being found unresponsive in his cell, officials said, just hours after being granted clemency on the same day he was scheduled to be executed. Forty-six-year-old Tremane Wood was granted clemency Thursday morning by Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt. After that decision came down, Wood met with his…
A death row inmate in Oklahoma was preparing for his scheduled execution Thursday when Gov. Kevin Sitt spared his life and announced his decision to commute Wood’s sentence from death to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Tremane Wood, 46, is the sixth condemned person to receive clemency in the state in the…
A chemical spill left dozens hospitalized and forced hundreds to evacuate from a western Oklahoma city on Wednesday night, according to local authorities and the CBS affiliate station KWTV. The incident occurred around 10 p.m. local time in Weatherford, Oklahoma, where a semi-truck began leaking ammonia, which is toxic, KWTV reported, citing officials. Southwest Oklahoma State…
A voting board in Oklahoma decided Wednesday to recommend clemency for Tremane Wood, a death row inmate who is scheduled to receive a lethal injection next week at the state penitentiary in McAlester. Wood, 46, faces execution for his conviction in the 2001 murder of Ronnie Wipf, a migrant farmworker, at an Oklahoma City hotel…
OKLAHOMA CITY — After successfully passing a law to remove cell phones from Oklahoma classrooms, two state lawmakers are now turning their attention to broader concerns around classroom technology, including Chromebooks, screen time, and artificial intelligence. State Senator Ally Seifried (R-Rogers County) and Representative Chad Caldwell (R-Enid) are leading an interim study to examine how…
The parents of the 29-year-old gunman who opened fire on a Dallas immigration facility in September told police their son was “completely normal” before he moved to Washington state and returned home several years ago, believing he had “radiation sickness” and was “allergic to plastic,” according to newly released records. Joshua Jahn had begun wearing…
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma — The Academy of Classical Christian Studies high school girls basketball team in Oklahoma City returned to the court this week, their first practice since last season’s division championship game, where they hit a buzzer-beater against Apache High School that both ended the game, and started it all. After seemingly winning the…
An invasive marine species has made its way to a small lake in Oklahoma. Though its impact on the ecosystem remains unknown, its presence has locals scratching their heads. What’s happening? As The Oklahoman reported, two people headed to a small lake just outside Sulphur to fish. While there, they spotted a peach blossom jellyfish….