OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, June 28 -- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * Attorney General Gentner Drummond made the following statement today after the execution of Richard Rojem Jr. The death row inmate was convicted and sentenced to die for the July 1984 kidnapping, rape and murder of his 7-year-old former stepdaughter, Layla Dawn Cummings, in Washita County. "Justice for Layla Cummings was finally served this morning with the exe  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, June 28 -- Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education issued the following news on June 27, 2024: The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education today set tuition and mandatory fee levels for Oklahoma's public colleges and universities. Tuition and mandatory fees for resident undergraduate students in 2024-25 will not increase at 13 institutions across the state system of higher education. For in-state undergraduate students, tuition and mandatory fees will increase a  more

EDMOND, Oklahoma, June 27 -- The University of Central Oklahoma issued the following news release: The Oklahoma Press Association recently honored the University of Central Oklahoma's Joe Hight as a member of its "Half Century Club," recognizing his 50 years of dedicated service and commitment to journalism. Hight serves as the endowed chair of journalism ethics in the UCO Department of Mass Communication and as director of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame. "This well-deserved honor recog  more