The Frontier - Illuminating journalism
WEB6 days ago · Impact: The Frontier and collaborators win a national reporting award for explanatory journalism. Frontier Staff September 30, 2024. Journalists in Oklahoma and three other states reported on how prosecutors are using the concept of “fetal personhood” to criminalize mothers who use drugs during their pregnancies, even if they give birth to ...
Judge in Innocent Man case agrees to suppress original …
WEBUPDATE Feb 23, 2024: A Tulsa County judge granted a motion to suppress the 1984 confession of Karl Fontenot on Friday afternoon, but stopped short of addressing the defense’s motion to dismiss the case.The state has 30 days to appeal the ruling to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. Fontenot, who was in the courtroom in Tulsa on Friday, declined to comment, but early in the hearing ...
Less than 24 hours away from execution, Bigler Stouffer says he’s …
WEBDec 8, 2021 · “To me, life without (parole) is worse than the death penalty,” he said. When Stouffer went to trial in 1985, jurors were told that he had almost committed the “perfect crime.”. Stouffer was convicted and sentenced to death for killing Reaves, a schoolteacher, and shooting Ivens.
GRDA plans to build, own and operate multimillion dollar water …
WEBJan 31, 2019 · The Walton Family Foundation is offering to pay GRDA for most of the estimated $15.6 to $18 million cost of the proposed whitewater park on the Illinois River in Adair County. The dam on the Illinois River just north of Watts that once formed Lake Frances, a source of drinking water for Siloam Springs, Ark., and site of a …
Judge orders second man in Ada's 'Innocent Man' case freed, state …
WEBDec 21, 2020 · Courtesy Netflix. An Oklahoma judge has ordered the second defendant in Ada’s so-called “Innocent Man” murder case to be immediately freed after spending 35 years in prison and excoriating investigators and prosecutors for withholding favorable evidence from his defense team for decades. Tommy Ward, who was convicted twice for …
Federal appeals court upholds overturned conviction in Ada …
WEBJul 14, 2021 · A federal appeals court has upheld a decision to overturn the conviction of one of two men in the 1985 kidnapping and murder of an Ada convenience store worker. Along with co-defendant Tommy Ward, Karl Fontenot was convicted twice in the kidnapping and murder of Donna Denise Haraway from an Ada convenience store in 1984 and sentenced to life ...
We fact-checked Oklahoma’s book-banning controversy - The …
WEBSep 20, 2022 · Fact Check. Editor’s note: Sept. 18-24 is Banned Books Week, with events nationwide protesting censorship. An Oklahoma teacher attracted national media attention and is out of the classroom after sharing a library QR code with students. And there have been reports of some Oklahoma school districts yanking classic titles from library shelves.
We fact-checked what Oklahoma law says about teaching ... - The …
WEBJul 11, 2024 · Claim: Oklahoma law already allows the Bible to be taught in public schools. Source: “Oklahoma law already explicitly allows Bibles in the classroom and enables teachers to use them in instruction,” Phil Bacharach, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office said in statements to several …
Announcer who made racist comments during basketball game …
WEBMar 12, 2021 · A broadcaster’s use of racist language before an Oklahoma high school girl’s basketball game sends shockwaves through a prep sports landscape that weeks earlier witnessed another incident of Black athletes targeted with slurs.
Still Waiting: Convicted of murder as a teenager, Dana Barker now …
WEBApr 17, 2019 · Barker now hopes for a new sentencing hearing that could give her a second chance at freedom. When she was 17, Barker says she was a troubled, angry teenager who had suffered years severe physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her late father, Joe Barker. “There was never an escape,” she said.