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1 week ago | 
nondoc.com | Andrea Hancock |Matt Patterson |Bennett Brinkman
The state has had no shortage of rainy days over the past few weeks, but a new report from State Auditor and Inspector Cindy Byrd shows the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office has not saved up for one. On the contrary, Byrd’s audit highlights poor financial practices within the agency — no surprise after her office released Part One of the review in June 2024, the same month Cleveland County Sheriff Chris Amason was reelected with 53.4 percent of the vote in a three-way race.
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1 month ago | 
nondoc.com | Tristan Loveless |Bennett Brinkman
With all precincts reporting, pastor Bryan Logan clinched the Republican nomination for the open State Senate District 8 seat in eastern Oklahoma, earning 55.56 percent of the 5,205 votes cast to defeat tag agent David Nelson. Meanwhile, to the north, the House District 74 Republican primary in Owasso is headed to a May 13 runoff between Sheila Vancuren and Kevin Norwood.
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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 | Tristan Loveless |Bennett Brinkman |Sasha Ndisabiye
Amid the legislative hustle and bustle at the State Capitol, multiple Oklahoma legal cases have seen developments with implications for state agencies, tribes and religious organizations. In this legal roundup, find updates on cases involving municipal jurisdiction over tribal citizens, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, the Corporation Commission, the Judicial Nominating Commission and more. More than four years after a Tulsa police officer pulled over Keith Stitt, Gov.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
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 23, 2025 | 
nondoc.com | Bennett Brinkman |Tres Savage
Sen. Regina Goodwin is challenging a traffic citation that turned into a half-hour ordeal captured by body camera footage showing the longtime legislator repeatedly arguing with a deputy sheriff, refusing to provide her driver’s license and being encouraged to conclude the discussion by an attorney and Tulsa’s new mayor. “The issue will be handled in court,” Goodwin said by text message Thursday.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
nondoc.com | Bennett Brinkman |Tres Savage |Michael Mcnutt |Sasha Ndisabiye
B.C. Clark’s anniversary jingle is back on airwaves for the 68th year, and people on Twitter are complaining about the Thunder’s absence from the NBA’s coveted Dec. 25 schedule, which can only mean one thing: Christmastime is here.
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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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Nov 26, 2024 | 
nondoc.com | Bennett Brinkman
An Oklahoma City Public Schools educator who previously pleaded to resolve a 2018 criminal charge for grabbing a co-worker’s crotch was arrested again Tuesday after a 13-year-old student was injured during some sort of wrestling activity in a classroom. John Marshall Enterprise Middle School teacher Kiera Smith, 41, was arrested on an allegation of aggravated assault and battery and booked into the Oklahoma County Jail.
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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.
