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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Attorneys for the last two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday to reconsider the case they dismissed last month ...
The bill intended to work around legal challenges by banning all religious and foreign law from being used in the state. The Oklahoma Council on American–Islamic Relations lobbied against this bill, arguing that it infringes on religious freedom and also threatens the validity of international business contracts. [23]
(The Center Square) – Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton filed a bill that would give members of the Tennessee General Assembly the authority to question local ordinances they believe ...
The Don't Make a Wave Committee was the name of the anti-nuclear organization which later evolved into Greenpeace, a global environmental organization.The Don't Make a Wave Committee was founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to protest and attempt to halt further underground nuclear testing by the United States in the National Wildlife Refuge at Amchitka in the Aleutian Islands of ...
Bill LaFortune served as district attorney of Tulsa County, as a special judge for Tulsa County, and as Assistant Attorney General for the state of Oklahoma. Running as a Republican, he was elected mayor in 2002, but he was unsuccessful in his bid for re-election on April 5, 2006 when he lost to his Democratic opponent, former Oklahoma ...
State Rep. Monroe Nichols, D-Tulsa, who is also running for mayor, said his city’s homeless population is growing, and residents are frustrated. The most recent data for Tulsa County shows ...
Mike Turpen was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he attended Tulsa Public Schools. After high school, Turpen attended and graduated from the University of Tulsa, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in history in 1972. In 1974, he received his Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Tulsa College of Law.
All 20 Democrats in the House voted against the bill on Thursday, but 77 of the 81 Republican members voted, as Rep. Jon Echols, of Oklahoma City, put it, "to signal to those in our country ...