A review of property records by The Frontier found mansions and luxury homes, cattle ranches, airplane hangars, radio broadcast towers and hundreds of acres of land were fully or partially exempted from property taxes under religious exemptions.
Officials with Oklahoma’s only refugee resettlement organization have already begun to urge Gov. Kevin Stitt to offer his approval for new refugees.
Jesse Rodgers’ ‘church’ hasn’t had a congregation or service in more than five years. But it has been used to obtain tax exemptions for his family’s house.
A new ruling requires speedier assessment of minors booked into the jail to weigh whether they can be transferred to juvenile detention
Stitt had initially called for $10 million in appropriations for the voter-mandated County Community Safety Investment Fund as part of his 2020 budget proposal.
In one unsuccessful plot, Maldonado-Passage allegedly gave a worker at the Wynnewood Zoo an envelope stuffed with $3,000 in cash, a new cell phone and a fake ID and sent him to Florida to kill his rival.
OU’s baboon breeding program has been transferred to the Michale E. Keeling Center near Bastrop, Texas.
The latest amendment to the agreement between the TDA and a company owned by the Hanson family pushes the required construction completion date past the final repayment date of a $2 million low-interest loan provided to the Hansons.
