On April 28, 2006 Maynard Leroy Lane, 40, of Stillwater, pleaded guilty in Payne County District Court to charges of lewd molestation and rape by instrumentation of a 15-year-old girl in June, 2004. Prior to his guilty plea Lane had been free on $20,000 bond. Payne County Associate District Judge Robert Murphy Jr. accepted Lane’s [...]
That the United States ties with Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia with the second worst infant mortality rate of the industrialized nations at 5 deaths per 1000 births is terrible. That Oklahoma’s infant mortality rate is worse, much worse at 7.8 deaths per 1,000 births, is a disgrace. If one breaks down Oklahoma’s disgraceful rate [...]
A spokesman for Governor Brad Henry this week indicated that in the Governor’s view a guilty plea to a driving while intoxicated charge should not affect the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority Chairman’s serving on that authority. Oklahoma Turnpike Authority Chairman Douglas Riebel was arrested on the DWI complaint in Texas last November. This past week he [...]
Although it was Valentine’s Day, 2006 Linda Long had other things on her mind as she stood anxiously watching as smoke from a raging wildfire drifted across Brock Road, near Lone Grove, Oklahoma. She was mentally preparing herself to defend her home from the fire should the need arise. She was also watching for Wyatt, [...]
