By The Associated Press, The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City)
The Oklahoma Legislature is pushing forward a bill to allow the death penalty for child rapists, despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that such a penalty is unconstitutional.
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Oklahomans looking to file for extended federal unemployment benefits may not have that option if the United States Congress fails to extend a key deadline set to expire soon, the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission reported Wednesday.
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STIGLER, Okla. — For more than five years, a Ten Commandments monument on Haskell County government land generated litigation and far-reaching discussion. The marker's relocation on Wednesday, however, unearthed little more than dirt. Amid a contingent made largely of about a half-dozen media members, workers completed the move of the 8-foot-by-3-foot granite slab from the Haskell County courthouse lawn to a spot about a block east.
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New York Governor David Paterson replaced a governor caught up in a scandal. Now Paterson is accused of wrongdoing himself and has declined to run for election. Facing a myriad of challenges, including a $9 billion budget shortfall, Paterson is finding it difficult to be effective in his final months in office.
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Reprimands issued by the state Ethics Commission's against candidates or state employees found violating campaign or ethics rules are unconstitutional, an attorney who handles ethics cases told a House committee Wednesday.
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A former state senator said Wednesday he would use the state treasurer's office to fight governmental waste while the chairman of the House budget committee said he had the best private and public sector experience to bring to the treasurer's office.
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Oklahoma is among the top five states in the country to reduce nonpoint-source pollution in waterways, the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts said Wednesday.
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Little known to consumers, the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry's Consumer Protection Services Division is tasked with checking every commercial scale and measuring device in the state. That includes all of those price scanners and registers at store checkouts, as well as scales found at scrap metal yards and those used to check semitrailer truck weights.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and eight other governors have asked the Obama administration to extend the deadline for applying for a second round of Race to the Top grants for schools to July 1.
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Gov. Brad Henry (D) Elected: November 2002, 2006 Term expires: January 2011
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