Briefs and rulings from courthouses across the land.
An unusually heavy winter storm dumped inches of snow across parts of Texas and Oklahoma on Wednesday, closing schools and creating treacherous travel conditions across the region.
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Two suburban Oklahoma City high school students have died after a group of cross-country runners was struck by a pickup truck that police say was driven by man whose son was killed in a traffic crash over the weekend.
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Ninety-seven people sued New Dominion for property damages from “thousands of earthquakes” in central Oklahoma, allegedly caused by its underground injections of wastewater from fracking operations, in Cleveland County Court.
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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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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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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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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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