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Senate President Pro Tem Greg Treat, R-Oklahoma City, said he would work against a rumored effort by Gov. Kevin Stitt to recruit Republicans to run against senate incumbents.
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Oklahoma's soon-to-be largest mental health hospital is officially beginning construction.
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LaFortune served as mayor from 1970 to 1978, and was the grandfather of current mayor G.T. Bynum.
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Local headlines for Friday, March 29, 2024
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Lawmakers are at the halfway point in this year’s legislative session, and just a fraction of the education bills filed at the top of the session have survived big legislative deadlines.
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Local headlines for Thursday, March 28, 2024
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Schools will soon be required to allow students to take excused absences for 4-H activities.
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Members of Oklahoma’s LGBTQ+ community came together for an annual gathering at the Oklahoma State Capitol Tuesday. “The People’s Hearing,” is a storytelling event aimed at fostering solidarity among trans and gender-nonconforming Oklahomans. This year, like the last, a main theme was remembering nonbinary and trans youth lost to suicide.
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Guthrie residents will vote whether to keep an existing sales tax for municipal improvements over the next 15 years. Since voters first approved it in 2016, the Capital Improvement Projects sales tax has collected 3/4s of a penny on every dollar spent in the city.
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The medical examiner’s report shows a combination of prescription and over-the-counter medications in Benedict’s system at the time of their death. The report also says Benedict suffered from depression, anxiety and self-harm.
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As Al Gore's running mate in 2000, Lieberman became the first Jewish candidate on a presidential ticket of one of the two major parties. He later became an independent and was a leader of No Labels.
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Critics of an initiative petition that seeks to raise the minimum wage are asking the Oklahoma Supreme Court to revisit its decision that the petition was constitutional.
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A bill that would allow Oklahomans to be charged with battery against an unborn child passed another legislative hurdle.
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