Thousands of tips came in during the first week, but almost none were real. People sent subscriptions to LGBTQ+ news, song lyrics and part of the script of the Bee Movie.
Karen Keith worked as a reporter early in her career and now serves as one of three Tulsa County Commissioners. Next up? Possibly the most powerful position in local city government.
Sanchez, 44, was convicted of first-degree murder in 2006 for killing Juli Busken, a 21-year-old dance student at the University of Oklahoma. Busken had been abducted, raped and shot in the back of the head.
Oklahoma has been responsible for nearly a quarter of all executions in the country since resuming the death penalty in 2021. Only Texas, which put 10 people to death in that same period, has executed more.
Rep. Monroe Nichols, D-Tulsa, is one of the more outspoken members of Oklahoma’s Legislature. Now he wants to take his talents to Tulsa’s City Hall where he would become the city’s first Black mayor. The election isn’t for 12 months, but Nichols declared his candidacy early in order to get a head start campaigning, and, …
Tulsa Superintendent Deborah Gist is expected to resign in hopes of avoiding a state takeover.
Cannon was the second person executed by Oklahoma in 2023, and the ninth since the state resumed use of the death penalty in 2021. Two more executions are scheduled this year as the state continues to empty out its death row.
Jemaine Cannon, 51, is set to die for the 1995 murder of Sharonda White Clark. Cannon will be the second person Oklahoma has put to death this year and the ninth since the state resumed executions in 2021.
