For second year, state corrections board requests more than $1 billion in state funding
The top priority listed in the request document is an additional $10.1 million for employee salary increases.
Lawsuit filed in fight over Oklahoma City’s Sardis Lake, Kiamichi River water permit
The suit asks the court to vacate the OWRB’s approval of a permit allowing Oklahoma City to withdraw up to 37.5 billion gallons of water each year from Sardis Lake and the Kiamichi River.
Data: More than $50 million in meals, trips, cash payments to Oklahoma physicians since 2013
The money comes from companies marketing medications, vaccines and medical devices, ranging from HIV/AIDS drugs to contact lenses.
Opioid drug company at center of national doctor bribery scandal gave tens of thousands to Oklahoma physicians
In October the company’s founder was arrested in Arizona after being indicted for allegedly using a “speakers program” to bribe doctors to prescribe a powerful opioid painkiller to patients.
Federal appeals court rejects state’s request to reconsider decision in American Indian death penalty case
A spokesman for the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said Thursday that the state will seek to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
OU hospital authority asks court to OK $750 million deal transferring management, ownership to nonprofit
If approved by the court, the merger agreement would allow the nonprofit organization, OU Medicine Inc., to take over ownership of most of the hospitals and clinics that are part of the OU Medical System, currently owned by the for-profit Hospital Corp. of America, as well as take over management of the medical system from HCA.
Bartlesville woman sues city, officer after being shot in head by police while being beaten by boyfriend
Though the fatal police shooting of the man was covered by media at the time, it had not been publicly revealed that Brown had also been shot during the incident until the lawsuit was filed on Monday.
State prison board to consider legislative agenda closing some public meeting discussion, records
The Department is also seeking to add exemptions to state law that would make confidential some prisoner records, as well as a wide swath of information regarding Oklahoma Correctional Industries, an arm of DOC that employs prisoners in manufacturing and producing goods.
