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WEBSep 30, 2024 · Impact: The Frontier and collaborators win a national reporting award for explanatory journalism. Frontier Staff September 30, 2024. Journalists in Oklahoma and three other states reported on how prosecutors are using the concept of “fetal personhood” to criminalize mothers who use drugs during their pregnancies, even if they give birth to ...
Judge in Innocent Man case agrees to suppress original …
WEBUPDATE Feb 23, 2024: A Tulsa County judge granted a motion to suppress the 1984 confession of Karl Fontenot on Friday afternoon, but stopped short of addressing the defense’s motion to dismiss the case.The state has 30 days to appeal the ruling to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. Fontenot, who was in the courtroom in Tulsa on Friday, declined to comment, but early in the hearing ...
We fact-checked what Oklahoma law says about teaching ... - The …
WEBJul 11, 2024 · Claim: Oklahoma law already allows the Bible to be taught in public schools. Source: “Oklahoma law already explicitly allows Bibles in the classroom and enables teachers to use them in instruction,” Phil Bacharach, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office said in statements to several …
Judge orders second man in Ada's 'Innocent Man' case freed, state …
WEBDec 21, 2020 · Courtesy Netflix. An Oklahoma judge has ordered the second defendant in Ada’s so-called “Innocent Man” murder case to be immediately freed after spending 35 years in prison and excoriating investigators and prosecutors for withholding favorable evidence from his defense team for decades. Tommy Ward, who was convicted twice for …
Let down and locked up: Why Oklahoma’s female incarceration is …
WEBSep 20, 2017 · When their paths crossed in June, Allen and her daughter were among more than 3,000 women serving time in Oklahoma, which for 25 years has led the nation in locking up women. The state imprisons 151 out of every 100,000 women, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics – more than double the national rate.. In partnership with The Frontier, an Oklahoma journalism startup, Reveal from ...
Oklahoma’s Jim Inhofe reflects on more than three decades in the …
WEBJan 11, 2023 · In 2015, Inhofe famously brought a snowball onto the Senate Floor in an attempt to disprove the existence of climate change. He also authored a book in 2012 titled The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future.. Inhofe called for a criminal investigation into top climate change scientists in 2009, claiming they “manipulated data to prove the scientific ...
Federal appeals court upholds overturned conviction in Ada …
WEBJul 14, 2021 · A federal appeals court has upheld a decision to overturn the conviction of one of two men in the 1985 kidnapping and murder of an Ada convenience store worker. Along with co-defendant Tommy Ward, Karl Fontenot was convicted twice in the kidnapping and murder of Donna Denise Haraway from an Ada convenience store in 1984 and sentenced to life ...
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WEBAbout Us. Ashlynd Huffman. Courtesy. The Frontier has a mission to produce fearless, independent journalism with impact. We hold those in power accountable, give a voice to the powerless and tell stories that matter to Oklahomans. We strive to produce fair, accurate reporting governed by our code of ethics.
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WEBAri Fife September 16, 2024. After the state banned abortion, it lost federal funding for family planning programs. Oklahoma is now paying for attorneys and to replace lost federal dollars. State health officials say they can’t give women pregnancy counseling that includes information on abortion, or refer them to a hotline.
Public records website has found a new way to monetize access to …
WEBJul 9, 2020 · A privately-owned website that holds Oklahoma court documents behind a paywall has found a new way to monetize public records: Selling advertisements.. Visitors to ODCR.com this week may have noticed a change in the site’s design. Skinny advertisements for national companies like Geico, Amazon or Best Buy appear in prominent locations on the homepage.