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News Articles: Oklahoma

The U.S. Supreme Court

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  • Law

Can charter schools be religious? If so, what does that mean for public education?

The case could transform public education in the United States.

April 30, 2025
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Damage to Maurices clothing is shown in Ada, Okla., after severe weather passed the area on Sunday.

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  • Weather

Tornado-producing storm deals deadly weather to Oklahoma and Texas

Additional heavy rain is expected across the Plains this week. With streams already swollen and the ground saturated, that leaves the area at risk of additional flooding.

April 21, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Anti-death penalty activists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 29 in an attempt to prevent the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip.

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  • Law

Supreme Court orders new trial for death row inmate in Oklahoma

The court reversed the state court's judgement and sent the case back for a new trial.

February 25, 2025
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Anti-death penalty activists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 29, 2015, in an attempt to prevent the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip. Glossip has been on death row for more than 25 years, always insisting he is innocent. His case is back at the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

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  • Law

True crime drama at Supreme Court pits Oklahoma against its top criminal court

Richard Glossip has had nine execution dates set over the years. He's eaten his last meal three times. He was tried twice and has had multiple appeals, including one at the Supreme Court.

October 09, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
People gather outside the Stonewall Inn on Feb. 26 in New York City for a vigil for Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old who identified as nonbinary.

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  • National

Oklahoma prosecutors will not press charges in Nex Benedict case

Benedict, a nonbinary teen, died by suicide after a high school fight. The Tulsa County district attorney says the fight was mutual and there's not enough evidence to press charges.

March 22, 2024
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By:
  • Emma Bowman
Nex Benedict was frequently targeted by bullies at their Oklahoma high school because of their gender identity.

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  • National

What happened to Nex Benedict?

Benedict was attacked at their Oklahoma high school, and found dead at home the next day. The medical examiner's office says the nonbinary 16-year-old died by suicide. Their family has questions.

March 15, 2024
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By:
  • C Mandler
A photograph of Nex Benedict, a nonbinary teenager who died one day after a fight in a high school bathroom, is projected during a candlelight service at Point A Gallery, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, in Oklahoma City.

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  • National

Vigils held nationwide for nonbinary Oklahoma teen who died following school fight

Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old who identified as nonbinary, got into an altercation with three girls in an Owasso High School bathroom who were picking on Benedict and some friends.

February 26, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
An ice fisherman stands on the frozen Molly's Falls Pond in Marshfield, Vt., on Sunday.

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  • Weather

Much of the U.S. is still in the grip of icy weather that is blamed for 72 deaths

The numbing cold is expected to ease in the coming days as water systems in Memphis and other Tennessee cities battle broken pipes that have caused boil-water notices.

January 21, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
McAlester Regional Health Center's administrative offices in McAlester, Oklahoma.

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  • Health

In this Oklahoma town, almost everyone knows someone who's been sued by the hospital

U.S. hospitals face growing scrutiny over aggressive debt collection tactics. At one community hospital, few patients get financial aid when they can't afford to pay. Many more are taken to court.

January 19, 2024
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  • Mitchell Black and
  • Noam Levey
Glynn Simmons reacts as he leaves court after a judge ruled to approve his "actual innocence" claim during a hearing at the Oklahoma County Courthouse on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, in Oklahoma City, Okla.

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  • Law

An Oklahoma judge ruled a man who spent 48 years in prison for murder is innocent

Glynn Simmons, 71, was released in July after prosecutors agreed that key evidence in his case was not turned over to his defense lawyers. He is the longest imprisoned U.S. inmate to be exonerated.

December 20, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
FILE - Delegates hold up their ballots at the Southern Baptist Convention in New Orleans on June 13, 2023. On Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, Southern Baptist leaders ousted an Oklahoma church whose pastor defended his blackface performance at one church event and his impersonation of a Native American woman at another.

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  • Religion

Southern Baptists expel church as pastor defends blackface and Native caricatures

Matoaka Baptist Church pastor said he was impersonating Ray Charles in one incident and dressed as a Native woman during "Cowboys and Indians Night" at a church camp.

September 19, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Nicole Blackmon says she is mourning two children, the teenager she lost to gun violence and her stillborn baby. She is suing Tennessee because she says abortion bans interfered with her care.

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  • Health

Women fight abortion bans in 3 more states with legal actions

Patients and doctors in Tennessee, Idaho and Oklahoma are taking legal action against state abortion bans. Women told dramatic stories of dangerous pregnancies and delayed care.

September 13, 2023
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Forrest Avenue, in the South Highland neighborhood, is dark except for streetlights in the early hours of Saturday, June 17, 2023, following a storm, in Shreveport, La.

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  • Weather

Power outages continue across the southern U.S. as a heat wave grips Texas

More than 300,000 customers in the southern U.S. remained without power Monday as the bulk of outages were in Oklahoma, where heavy weekend storms carried winds as strong as 80 mph around Tulsa.

June 20, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Dustin and Jaci Statton in an engagement photo from 2021. Jaci found out she had a partial molar pregnancy and couldn't get the abortion she needed in Oklahoma. They traveled to Kansas for care.

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  • Your Health

'I'll lose my family.' A husband's dread during an abortion ordeal in Oklahoma

Jaci and Dustin Statton didn't think Oklahoma's abortion bans would affect them. They were open to having more kids. They didn't imagine Jaci would face a life-threatening pregnancy, though.

May 02, 2023
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
An Endangered Missing Advisory issued Monday said 14-year-old Ivy Webster and 16-year-old Brittany Brewer were last spotted with Jesse McFadden, a convicted sex offender.

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  • National

Police discover 7 bodies at the home of a sex offender on his scheduled court date

A search for two missing Oklahoma teenagers and a convicted sex offender ended within hours on Monday when police found seven bodies, including five teenagers, on a rural property.

May 02, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
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