Millions more go to Oklahoma hospitals as managed care begins

Oklahoma hospitals are seeing a financial bump as the Oklahoma Health Care Authority makes the first of a new payment type under SoonerSelect, the state’s new managed care system for Medicaid.

Key criminal justice bills in limbo as session winds down

Bills to charge more shoplifting offenses as felonies and mandate lenient prison sentences for domestic violence survivors are in limbo with three weeks to go in the legislative session, but several other criminal justice measures have been signed into law.

Cole to keynote Stephens Co. GOP’s 20th annual Fish Fry

DUNCAN – Prepping a fair barn rodeo arena into a white tableclothed dinner venue for up to 800 visitors will be the challenge for the Stephens County Republican Party’s group of volunteers this week as Stephens County GOP hosts its 20th annual Fish Fry.

Judge issues injunction against state Treasurer’s ‘blacklist’

OKLAHOMA CITY – A district judge issued a temporary injunction May 7 against State Treasurer Todd Russ and his enforcement of a state ‘blacklist’ of financial firms that he claims “boycott” energy companies.

Drummond fires state Treasurer’s attorney in ESG case

OKLAHOMA CITY – Expressing “extreme disappointment” with stateTreasurer Todd Russ and his hand-picked legal counsel in the lawsuit over Oklahoma’s anti-ESG (environmental, social and governance) law, Attorney General Gentner Drummond fired the outside attorney and removed Russ from any...

Yellow van leads to 5 arrests in medical marijuana farm robbery

DUNCAN – An Asian man accused of murder in a pot farm robbery in Okfuskee County on Jan. 7 is alleged to be the ringleader of a gang that robbed a Stephens County marijuana farm the morning of Jan. 27.

Four Grady Co. residents sentenced in fentanyl death

OKLAHOMA CITY – Four Grady County residents have been sentenced to imprisonment for almost 34 years collectively for their respective roles in the distribution of fentanyl that resulted in the death of another person in Indian Country.

McAlester man pleads guilty to bank fraud, arrested for shoplifting

MUSKOGEE – A McAlester man released from custody while awaiting sentencing in federal district court here after admitting he committed bank fraud 13 months ago was arrested last month for shoplifting.Bradley Scott Sutterfield, 43, pleaded guilty March 5, 2024, to one count of bank fraud.

Three indicted for marijuana farms fraud due in court in June

KINGFISHER – Three men indicted by an Oklahoma multicounty grand jury last December on 13 felony counts accusing them of filing fraudulent documents for illegal marijuana farms are scheduled to return to district court here next month.

Pham a principal figure in Grady Co. lawsuit

Kevin Paul Pham, one of three men indicted by an Oklahoma multicounty grand jury on 13 felony counts accusing them of filing fraudulent documents for illegal marijuana farms, is listed as the r egistered agent for Blessed Chickasha Collective.