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In Oklahoma, Worst Drought Since Dust Bowl

Grassfires tearing across South

(Newser) - Oklahoma, home of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, is parched. The four months since Thanksgiving have been the driest since before the Dust Bowl in 1921, the AP reports, and the drought is raging from Louisiana to Colorado. Grass fires have torn through Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Forty percent...

Mom Gets 10-Year Sentence for Selling $31 of Pot

Patricia Marilyn Spottedcrow's kids were involved, judge says

(Newser) - When Patricia Marilyn Spottedcrow sold $31 worth of marijuana to a police informant, she never expected to find herself in prison at all—let alone for 10 years. Spottedcrow and her mother, Delita Starr, were caught selling to the same informant from Starr’s house on two separate occasions. Though...

Nurse Loses License Over Affair With Dying Patient

Amber Van Brunt admits to falling 'in love' with wheelchair-bound man

(Newser) - Bad idea: Having sex with a married man. Worse idea: Having sex with a married man who also happens to be your hospice patient. A nurse has lost her license for 20 years after admitting to doing just that, the Oklahoman reports. Amber Van Brunt, 33, is appealing the Oklahoma...

Hubby: Shooting Wife in Head Was Sex Fantasy Gone Bad

Gun turned out to be loaded, Oklahoman tells cops

(Newser) - Pressing the muzzle of a gun to his 50-year-old wife's head and pulling the trigger while they were having sex apparently was a major turn on for an Oklahoma man—until the gun actually fired and killed her. At least that's the story husband Arthur Sedille, 23, is giving cops....

Teacher Arrests Student for Using a Marker

Police then sent him to a juvenile detention center

(Newser) - A little over-reaction, maybe? An Oklahoma City teacher put a student under citizen’s arrest last week—for using a permanent marker. A little-known city law, probably aimed at stopping graffiti, bans people from using such markers on private property without the owner’s consent. The teacher told police the...

Oklahoma Executes Man Using Animal Drug

John Duty executed with new mixture of lethal injection drugs

(Newser) - Oklahoma has found a way around the nationwide shortage of a drug used in lethal injections . Convicted murderer John David Duty was put to death yesterday using a cocktail of drugs that included pentobarbital, a sedative typically used to euthanize dogs and cats, Tulsa World reports. He is believed to...

Facebook Yanks Jailed Killer's Page

Oklahoma inmate posted pics of himself with booze, weed

(Newser) - In many ways, Justin Walker was a typical Facebook user who turned to the site to post gripes about everyday life and pictures of himself partying with his buddies. Problem was, Walker is serving 30 years in an Oklahoma jail for murdering a sheriff. Walker—a member of the Aryan...

Federal Judge Blocks Oklahoma's Sharia Ban

Judge decides ban probably violates constitution

(Newser) - A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction preventing Oklahoma from adding to its constitution a ban on courts considering international or Sharia law. The judge found in favor of a Muslim leader who argued that his constitutional religious rights were in jeopardy, the Oklahoman reports. The ban was approved...

Judge Blocks Sharia Ban in Oklahoma

Council on American-Islamic Relations had filed suit

(Newser) - A federal judge has temporarily blocked implementation of Oklahoma's new amendment prohibiting the use of Sharia law in the courtroom. Voters in the state overwhelmingly passed the ban on the use of Islamic law, known as Sharia, as well as international legal standards as a basis for state court decisions....

English-Only, Anti-Sharia Measures Pass in Oklahoma
Oklahoma Votes Yes
to English, No to Sharia
unusual BALLOT MEASURES
Nov 3, 2010 2:05 AM CDT

Oklahoma Votes Yes to English, No to Sharia

...and the results of other unusual ballot measures

(Newser) - Oklahoma's voters passed a pair of ballot initiatives last night—and progressives and immigrant-rights groups are alarmed, AP reports. One of them requires that all official state actions be conducted in English, with exceptions for Native American languages and in cases when federal law requires otherwise. The other—described as...

Oklahoma to Vote on Islamic Law Ban
Oklahoma to Vote on Islamic Law Ban
Oct 29, 2010 7:14 AM CDT

Oklahoma to Vote on Islamic Law Ban

...except Sharia has never been used in the state

(Newser) - Next Tuesday, the people of Oklahoma will have their say on a measure to ban Islamic law from being used in the state—even though it never has been, the Los Angeles Times reports. In the US as a whole, only a few cases have even alluded to Sharia law....

Man Springs Pup From Pound; Flees on Lawnmower

High-speed chase not an option

(Newser) - Edwin Fry loves his prized pooch. When his dog, Buddy Tough, found himself locked up in the town kennel, Fry decided to bust him out of jail. Fry could have paid the $100 fine to have his dog released, but instead, he decided to visit the pound with a pair...

Gold-Painted Flasher Tries to Steal Soda Truck

Man exposes his genitals, butt in Oklahoma City Chili's

(Newser) - It's not every day that a flasher covered in gold paint tries to steal a soda truck from a Chili's parking lot. But that's what happened this weekend in Oklahoma City, where convicted felon Dominick Christian Thayer walked into a Chili's wearing nothing but shorts ... that revealed his genitals and...

Daughter Campaigns Against Dad in Oklahoma

Woman takes out an ad attacking John Mantooth

(Newser) - An Oklahoma judicial candidate is fending off a political attack from his own daughter, who has taken out a local newspaper ad urging voters: "Do not vote for my dad!" McClain County judicial hopeful John Mantooth's daughter and son-in-law paid for the quarter-page advertisement, which features a picture...

Tasered Granny Sues Town
 Tasered Granny Sues Town 
Jun 30, 2010 1:20 AM CDT

Tasered Granny Sues Town

Cops say 87-year-old threatened them with knife

(Newser) - An 87-year-old Oklahoma grandmother Tasered by police while she was hooked up to an oxygen machine in bed is suing the town of El Reno. Lona Varner is seeking at least $75,000, AP reports. Cops were called to Varner's home by her grandson, who told them she was suicidal,...

States Demand Ultrasounds to Curb Abortion

20 states encourage or mandate procedure

(Newser) - The latest weapon in the battle over abortion : Ultrasounds. Backed by anti-abortion groups who believe sonograms can stop women from aborting, 20 states have passed laws that require or encourage abortion providers to conduct the procedure, reports the New York Times . Ultrasounds are already mandatory in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi,...

Oklahoma Tornadoes Kill 6
 Oklahoma Tornadoes Kill 6 
May 11, 2010 1:20 AM CDT

Oklahoma Tornadoes Kill 6

Dozens injured as tempest rips through state

(Newser) - At least 6 people were killed as tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma yesterday. Dozens more were injured when winds flipped mobile homes and cars, and hailstones the size of baseballs crashed through windshields, AP reports. The dead include a child killed by flying debris and a man crushed by an RV,...

States Are Going Crazy, as Well as Broke
States Are Going Crazy,
as Well as Broke
gail collins
Apr 29, 2010 10:32 AM CDT

States Are Going Crazy, as Well as Broke

Arizona and Oklahoma are leaders in both insanity and insolvency

(Newser) - The Tea Partiers may be up in arms over the federal government meddling in their lives and not being able to balance its books, but Gail Collins points out that it's the states that are going into overdrive passing wacky laws (hello, Arizona, Oklahoma!) and whiffing on budget cuts...

Strict Anti-Abortion Bills Become Law in Oklahoma

Senate overrides governor's vetoes

(Newser) - The Oklahoma Senate today overrode Gov. Brad Henry's vetoes and put into law two restrictive measures on abortion. One of the laws requires women to undergo an ultrasound and listen to a detailed description of the fetus before getting an abortion. An anti-abortion group called it one of the most...

Oklahoma Governor Vetoes 2 Strict Abortion Bills

Calls forced ultrasound test unconstitutional

(Newser) - Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry vetoed two abortion bills that he said are an unconstitutional attempt to insert government into the private lives and decisions of citizens. One measure would have required women to undergo an intrusive ultrasound and listen to a detailed description of the fetus before getting an abortion....

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