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1 month ago | 
nondoc.com | Andrea Hancock |Bennett Brinkman |Matt Patterson
It has been a difficult March in the state after high winds and wildfires ravaged communities, leaving four dead and 400 homes destroyed, according to the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management. In trying times, it is easy — understandable, in fact — to fall behind on other items of news, whether you were personally affected by the fires or simply hold concern for those who were.
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2 months ago | 
nondoc.com | Andrea Hancock |Tristan Loveless |Michael Mcnutt |Bennett Brinkman
The Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the death sentence of Daniel Raul Santiago Vasquez, convicted for murdering a woman in 2018 while she was seven months pregnant. The same day the court upheld Vasquez’s death penalty, it also held that refusing a breathalyzer test during a DUI traffic stop is admissible evidence and issued an order barring felons from owning airsoft guns.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
nondoc.com | Michael Mcnutt |Tristan Loveless |Matt Patterson |Andrea Hancock
It has been a fraught few weeks for Oklahoma’s relationship with the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
nondoc.com | Andrea Hancock
(Editor’s note: The following article contains graphic details about a woman’s death that readers may find upsetting.)When 32-year-old Kayla Lee Turley died Aug. 9, 2023, her death yielded no headlines and capped a tragic spiral that included several arrests for burglary and drug possession, as well as a divorce for which she was supposed to be in court that week.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
nondoc.com | Bennett Brinkman |Tristan Loveless |Andrea Hancock |Michael Mcnutt
Despite a stay in the civil case against Swadley’s Foggy Bottom Kitchen that had been set to begin this week, several other high-profile legal happenings in the state deserve your attention. The Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department’s civil case against Swadley’s was stayed in October pending the outcome of the criminal fraud case against its officers, which alleges the restaurant overcharged the state for construction costs and other services. The civil trial was supposed to begin Monday.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
nondoc.com | Andrea Hancock
After representing Ward 7 on the Norman City Council for 11 years, Stephen Tyler Holman is stepping away from the post — in order to challenge incumbent Mayor Larry Heikkila. Holman has served on the dais alongside Heikkila since 2021, when Heikkila defeated then-incumbent Brea Clark. As Heikkila seeks reelection, the 2025 mayoral matchup will take place alongside Norman elections for the City Council’s odd-numbered wards and a Norman Public Schools Board of Education seat.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
nondoc.com | Bennett Brinkman |Sasha Ndisabiye |Andrea Hancock |Matt Patterson
Within this roundup of recent legal happenings in Oklahoma, you’ll find new details about the prosecution of a double homicide involving an anti-government organization and information on a settlement with the family of Bennie Edwards, a homeless man who was fatally shot by an Oklahoma City Police Department sergeant in 2020.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
nondoc.com | Andrea Hancock |Bennett Brinkman |Sasha Ndisabiye |Michael Mcnutt
If attorneys for St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtue School have their way, Oklahoma could become the birthplace of the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest , with proponents for and against the Catholic charter school all alleging infringements of the First Amendment right to exercise religion freely. Along with a laundry list of religious institutes and Republican attorneys general, Gov.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
nondoc.com | Michael Mcnutt |Tristan Loveless |Andrea Hancock |Tres Savage
The University of Texas may have won the Red River Rivalry this year, but Oklahomans may take some consolation in learning the state of Texas has paid the state of Oklahoma $10 million to settle a dispute about the actual Red River. Meanwhile, Attorney General Gentner Drummond continues to butt heads with Gov.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
nondoc.com | Andrea Hancock
For the first time in state history, an Oklahoma Supreme Court justice lost her judgeship at the ballot box Tuesday. Of about 1.44 million votes cast, only 49.76 percent were in favor of retaining Justice Yvonne Kauger, just shy of the simple majority the 87-year-old needed to keep her seat on Oklahoma’s highest civil court. Born in 1937, Kauger was appointed to her position in 1984 by Gov.
