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HOLTON, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man already convicted of raping two women and acquitted in the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl won't face additional rape charges, but will stand trial in relation to explicit images of an underage girl that authorities found via his Facebook profile. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Jacob Ewing will go on trial in October on charges that include attempted rape and in November on 10 felony counts of sexual exploitation of a child. District Judge Norbert Marek ruled during a sometimes heated hearing T...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Board of Education has approved nearly 900 emergency teaching certificates so far this year and likely will be required to approve more. Oklahoma schools have grown increasingly reliant on filling classroom vacancies with emergency-certified teachers amid a statewide shortage of qualified applicants. State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister tells the Tulsa World that more than 600 emergency certificates were approved Thursday. That's compared to the more than 300 approved in July 2016. The certificates allow i...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An ethics watchdog group filed a complaint asking for an investigation into Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's frequent flights to his home state of Oklahoma at taxpayer expense. The group American Oversight sent a letter Thursday to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel asking for an investigation into whether Pruitt violated federal rules by using government resources to travel to Oklahoma for "personal or political reasons." "The Trump administration is seeking to cut EPA's budget by 31%, p...
CROMWELL, Okla. (AP) — State investigators have identified a man whose body was found on the side of a highway in central Oklahoma as a native of Thailand who had been living in Florida. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said Friday that 41-year-old Thanakrit Thuetong had been living in the United States since 2012 and may have been driving along Interstate 40 to visit relatives in California. OSBI agents say Thuetong parked his 2009 black Pontiac in the parking lot of a Seminole County convenience store Friday afternoon. S...
