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Drummond calls pending state employee insurance hike wrong, easily avoidable

Monday, August 10 by Ponca City Now

OKLAHOMA CITY – Attorney General Gentner Drummond is calling the pending HealthChoice premium increases a crisis years in the making and entirely avoidable. HealthChoice is Oklahoma's self-funded health insurance plan, administered by the Employees Group Insurance Division (EGID) and covering more than 180,000 state, education and local government employees, retirees and their families. At a... Read More.

‘We made a mistake:’ Rogers County releases wrong inmate, inmate found short time later

Friday, March 6 by News 6

ROGERS COUNTY, Okla. - The Rogers County Sheriff says it mistakenly released the wrong inmate from the county jail. The inmate was found at a gas station a couple blocks away a short time later and taken back into custody. To put it plainly, Rogers County Sheriff Scott Walton says they messed up- but he says his... Read More.

Cleveland County deputies arrest driver in wrong lane, uncover weapons and drugs

Tuesday, September 16 by KOKH

CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLA (KOKH) — Early Monday morning, Cleveland County Sheriff deputies arrested a driver traveling in the wrong lane on Shields Boulevard. The car was driving northbound in the southbound lane when deputies made the traffic stop. Inside the vehicle, deputies recovered a weapon, ammunition, drug paraphernalia, and packaged drugs. Terry Evans, who was driving the... Read More.

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Wrong drug labels used by Oklahoma during recent executions

Monday, March 7 by Lyman James

Oklahoma has used the wrong drug labels during at least three recent executions, prison officials said Friday during testimony in a federal trial on whether the state’s three-drug lethal injection method is unconstitutional. Despite the improper labels, Department of Corrections Director Scott Crow and his chief of operations, Justin Farris, both testified that they were... Read More.

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