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Lawmakers Request Interim Study on Opioid Prescriptions - July 19, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. John Talley, R-Stillwater, has requested an interim study to investigate clinical outcomes of patients with pain following policies resulting in rapid reductions in opioid pr...
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Oklahomans May Be Eligible for Financial Help to Get Health Insurance - July 19, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY – Starting this month, Oklahoma residents who received or are approved to receive unemployment compensation during 2021 may be eligible for financial help to purchase health insurance....
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Modernizing state government - July 18, 2021
By Sen. Bill Coleman Among the more than 600 bills signed into law this session, you’ll find that we passed numerous measures to modernize government services and make them more e...
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Sen. Floyd to study youth suicide - July 18, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY – Senate Democratic Leader Kay Floyd plans to study youth suicide during the interim as suicide rates across the state continue to skyrocket. Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Tre...
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Lawmakers Request Prohibition of Vaccine Mandates for Healthcare Workers - July 18, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY – A group of House members last Friday sent a letter to Gov. Kevin Stitt requesting executive action to prohibit vaccine mandates for Oklahoma healthcare workers. This comes in respo...
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Floyd Cooper, acclaimed children’s illustrator, dead at 65 - July 18, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — An award-winning illustrator and author of children’s books, whose mission to offer candid and positive images of Black history included subjects ranging from Frederick Douglass an...
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Choctaw Nation reinstates mask mandate at health facilities - July 18, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma is reinstating a mask requirement for visitors at tribal health facilities. Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority announced on Facebook on Frid...
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Boston gangster cites health concerns in bid for release - July 17, 2021
BOSTON (AP) — A notorious New England gangster locked up for life for a slew of killings says his health is in peril behind bars and he wants out. Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi wrote in a let...
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Troubled Oklahoma school hires interim superintendent, defying state - July 17, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Board members of a southwest Oklahoma City school district have defied the state Board of Education and hired an interim superintendent. The Western Heights school board voted 3...
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Police chief: 1 dead in Oklahoma asphalt plant explosion - July 17, 2021
ARDMORE, Okla. (AP) — Police say one person has been killed in an explosion at an asphalt plant in southern Oklahoma. Police Chief Kevin Norris says one fatality has been confirmed but that no on...
