Sean Murphy, Associated Press

Richard Rojem had repeatedly denied responsibility for killing his former stepdaughter, Layla Cummings.

The two survivors of the attack, who are both now over 100 years old, sued in 2020 with the hope of seeing what their attorney called “justice in their lifetime.”

Ricky Dority used his pandemic relief money to hire a private investigator, who worked to free him along with students from Oklahoma City University’s Innocence Project.

Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general has warned that such a school would violate both state law and the Oklahoma constitution.

Jesse McFadden shot his wife, her three children and their two friends in the head and then killed himself, authorities confirmed Wednesday as concerns grew about why he was free as his trial on new sex charges loomed.

Authorities said the bodies were believed to include those of 14-year-old Ivy Webster and 16-year-old Brittany Brewer, along with Jesse McFadden, the felon authorities had said the teens were traveling with.

McCurtain County Commissioner Mark Jennings said he is resigning immediately and that he plans to release a formal statement “regarding the recent events in our county.”

A late blitz of opposition from faith leaders, law enforcement and prosecutors appeared to doom the measure. Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt and nearly every Republican senator opposed the idea.

Kevin Stitt is the first governor to say he has tested positive for the coronavirus, and says he is isolating at home.

Trump’s supporters faced off with protesters shouting “Black Lives Matter” in Tulsa as the president held his first campaign rally in months amid public health concerns about the coronavirus.

Verbal clashes sparked at times as hundreds of people converged amid a nationwide push for racial justice and tensions over the continued health and economic threats of COVID-19.

Prosecutors charged a reserve sheriff's deputy with manslaughter Monday in the death of a man who was fatally shot as he lay on the ground at the officer's feet — a shooting that was certain to raise questions about the use of volunteer officers to supplement full-time police.

Members of a University of Oklahoma fraternity apparently learned a racist chant that recently got their chapter disbanded during a national leadership cruise four years ago that was sponsored by the fraternity's national administration, the university's president said Friday.