ATLANTA (AP) - Ohio plans to resume its process for removing inactive voters from its voter rolls. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that states can target registered voters who haven't cast ballots in a while. Civil rights groups and some Democrats argued that more Republican-led states could enact voter purges.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Attorneys representing Oklahoma teachers say a plan to overturn a package of tax hikes for funding teacher pay raises is deeply flawed and should be tossed by the state's highest court. The Oklahoma Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on a plan to ask voters to repeal tax hikes on cigarettes, fuel and energy production approved by the Legislature this year. The money from the taxes was to be used to fund an average $6,100 teacher pay increase.
GRANITE, Okla. (AP) - An Oklahoma prison was left without water after the water tower emptied following repairs to a water line break. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections said Monday that crews are working to find the cause of the problem at the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite while two, 1,000 gallon water tanks are being used to provide water. The department says the prison currently holds 1.028 inmates and that staff living on the prison grounds are also affected by the outage.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An Oklahoma City man sentenced to life in prison for the 1991 slaying of homeless man has been released due to DNA recovered at the scene. A judge on Monday vacated the sentence and dismissed the case against 61-year-old Johnny Tallbear, saying his blood doesn't match samples collected by police. The judge ordered Tallbear's immediate release. Tallbear says he feels relieved after fighting the murder charge for almost three decades. The Innocence Project took the case at Tallbear's request.
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