McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma prison officials say an inmate on the state's death row has apparently taken his own life. Matt Elliott, spokesman for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, said Wednesday that 35-year-old Jeremy Williams was found dead in his cell at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on Saturday. Authorities say members of the prison's staff discovered Williams' body while conducting a head count. Williams was sentenced to death for the June 22, 2004, murder of a bank teller during a robbery in Tulsa.
OWASSO, Okla. (AP) - An Oklahoma prosecutor says police officers in a Tulsa suburb were justified when they fatally shot a man who allegedly threatened them with an AK-47 assault rifle. Authorities say 39-year-old Duane Preciado was shot and killed on March 21 in Owasso. Preciado carried an AK-47 as he met Owasso Officers Casey Lawson and Laura Lehner as they responded to requests for a welfare check and was shot as he moved toward the officers while making threatening comments.
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) - The Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma will contribute to the U.S. Marshals Museum in Arkansas a statue of a native lighthorseman who worked with federal marshals to keep order in the Indian Territory. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the museum board voted Tuesday to accept the recommendation from the tribes' Intertribal Council for the statue. The tribes referred to their mounted police as lighthorsemen. The law enforcement entities currently remain under the title of marshals.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Customers of Oklahoma's largest electric utility could get a break on their electric bills next month under a settlement agreement reached between the company and state regulators. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter announced the $64 million rate reduction settlement agreement with Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. at a news conference on Tuesday. The agreement still must be approved by the three-member Oklahoma Corporation Commission.
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