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Okla. man to be tried on charge from 1997 death
A judge has ruled there is enough evidence to put a Sallisaw man on trial for a 1997 beating death during a robbery. During a preliminary hearing Friday, Sequoyah County Special Judge Larry Langley ordered 38-year-old Rex Richard Robbins III to be tried on a first-degree murder charge. He is ...
Man arrested after Enid infant shows injuries
Police in Enid say a man is charged with harming a child after an infant's mother brought the baby to a hospital seeking treatment for injuries. Officials said Friday that the 1-year-old baby had numerous visible injuries. However, the baby wasn't gravely hurt. Enid police say detectives spoke to the ...
OU student accused of illegal grade changes
Authorities have charged a University of Oklahoma student with computer-related crimes for allegedly changing his grades. Prosecutors on Thursday charged 24-year-old Roja Osman Hamad with five counts of computer fraud or unlawful use of a computer or system. The Norman Transcript reports (http://is.gd/erahCW ) Hamad is accused of changing the ...
Okla. court upholds life sentence in uncle's death
An Oklahoma appeals court has upheld the life prison sentence of a 38-year-old man who was convicted of first-degree murder for shooting his uncle to death. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals handed down the decision Friday in the case of Patrick Shane Yargee. A jury in Tulsa County found ...
Life prison sentence upheld by Okla. appeals court
The life prison sentences of two men convicted of first-degree murder have been upheld by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. In separate decisions Friday, the court affirmed the convictions and sentences of 25-year-old Jerlon D. Morgan and 22-year-old William S. Hurt. A Tulsa County jury found them guilty in ...
Board denies clemency for condemned Okla. inmate
The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied clemency Friday for a death row inmate scheduled to be executed next month for the slayings of an elderly Le Flore County couple 13 years ago. The five-member board voted 3-2 against recommending that Gov. Mary Fallin commute the death sentence of James ...
Plans to fund Okla. pop culture museum still alive
Backers of a museum devoted to Oklahoma popular culture said they're still hopeful state lawmakers will approve $40 million for the project before adjourning in two weeks. The Tulsa-based museum, dubbed OKPOP, has been in the works for years and would be dedicated to Oklahoma authors, musicians and actors, and ...
Okla. lawmakers near passage of DNA testing bill
Convicted criminals who maintain their innocence would have a way to seek DNA testing to help prove their cases under a bill that is nearing final passage in the Legislature and would eliminate Oklahoma's dubious distinction as the only state in the nation without such a program. The Oklahoma House ...
Sallisaw man bound over for trial on murder charge
An eastern Oklahoma man has been bound over for trial in connection with a 1997 killing. Sequoyah County Special Judge Larry Langley ruled Friday that Rex Robbins III should be bound over for trial in the beating death of 28-year-old Mitchell Nixon. The Southwest Times Record reports (http://bit.ly/10ybQ5j ) that ...
Tulsa man says machete attack was self-defense
A police report says a Tulsa man arrested in the death of a 20-year-old woman told authorities he was acting in self-defense when he struck her with a machete. Joshua Andrew Reynolds was arrested on a first-degree murder complaint in Thursday's death of Melissa Lemery. Police found Lemery's body in ...
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