Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Jury Awards $20 Million for Oklahoma Gas Well Blast

An Oklahoma jury awarded $10 million each to the families of two men who died in a natural gas well explosion that killed five in 2018 - the deadliest drilling incident since the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 people a decade ago.

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Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Oklahoma Zookeeper Gets 22 Years in Murder-for-Hire Case

A flamboyant Oklahoma zookeeper known as Joe Exotic was sentenced Wednesday to over two decades in federal prison for trying to hire a hit man to kill a rival animal sanctuary operator in Florida.

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Monday, January 13, 2020

Oklahoma Takes on More Opioid Makers in New Lawsuit

Oklahoma officials sued opioid distributors McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen in state court Monday, claiming the companies failed to stop and report suspiciously large orders of opioid prescription drugs that were diverted and killed scores of addicts.

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Friday, January 10, 2020

Oklahoma Reaches $8.75 Million Settlement With Opiate Maker

The state of Oklahoma will receive $8.75 million from two pharmaceutical companies in a deal announced Friday that will end legal action the state was considering against the opioid manufacturers.

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