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A man drags tree limbs to a pile at the Foxcroft Woods Condominiums, Sunday, April 2, 2023, in Little Rock, Ark. Residents across a wide swath of the U.S. raced to assess the destruction from fierce storms that spawned possibly dozens of tornadoes from the South and the Midwest into the Northeast, killing at least 32 people. (Staci Vandagriff/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)

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More severe weather forecast for battered South, Midwest
By SEAN MURPHY - Associated Press Writer
Mon,04/03/23-2:51PM , 147 Reads
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — While residents across parts of the South and Midwest pummeled by deadly storms and wildfires sifted through the wreckage of their homes Monday, forecasters warned of more severe weather and fire danger in the days ahead across much of the same region.
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Former Norman High School English teacher Summer Boismier holds up a T-shirt with a QR code link to the Brooklyn Public Library at the Green Feather Book Company in Norman, Okla., on Oct. 6, 2022. Boismier found herself at the center of a political firestorm in Oklahoma after providing the QR code to her students and ultimately left her teaching job. (AP Photo/Sean Murphy)

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Banned book lesson thrusts Oklahoma teacher into campaign
By SEAN MURPHY - Associated Press Writer
Sun,11/06/22-7:35AM , 178 Reads
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Summer Boismier was living her childhood dream. She grew up a bookworm, became a high school English teacher, and filled both her classroom and home with her favorite literature.

She taught her students: “Stories are what is fundamental about the human experience. We all have them.”
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The Davis Correctional Facility, a private prison in Holdenville, Oklahoma, operated by Tennessee-based CoreCivic, is shown on Sept. 20, 2022. The 1,700-bed men’s prison where a correctional officer was fatally stabbed this summer has struggled to hire and retain staff and was operating at about 70% of its contractually obligated staffing level, according to a 2021 audit of the facility. (AP Photo/Sean Murphy)

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Staffing shortages, violence plague Oklahoma prisons
By SEAN MURPHY - Associated Press
Sat,09/24/22-7:03AM , 203 Reads
HOLDENVILLE, Okla. (AP) — Working as a prison guard in Oklahoma is becoming an ever more dangerous job as the state, with one of the highest incarceration rates in the United States, struggles with violence and understaffing at detention facilities.
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This Feb. 5, 2021, photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows James Coddington. Oklahoma executed Coddington on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, for a 1997 killing, despite a recommendation from the state's Pardon and Parole Board that his life be spared. He received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10:16 a.m. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP, File)

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Oklahoma executes James Coddington for 1997 hammer killing
By SEAN MURPHY - Associated Press
Thu,08/25/22-10:29AM , 170 Reads
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for a 1997 killing, despite a recommendation from the state's Pardon and Parole Board that his life be spared.
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