OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An appeals court has upheld a man's life prison sentence in the death of an Oklahoma man who had cerebral palsy and delayed cognitive reasoning. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals Tuesday affirmed the first-degree murder conviction of 45-year old James Jones, who was convicted in Tulsa County of the June 21, 2015, death of 27-year-old Chazz Holly of Talala. Holly's family found his body alongside the Indian Nation Turnpike near Antlers on July 19, 2015.
HOUSTON (AP) - A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal from a 45-year-old man on Texas death row for the 2004 suffocation of a retired TCU professor whose body was found in Oklahoma after she was abducted in Fort Worth. Attorneys for Edward Lee Busby argued unsuccessfully to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Busby, from Gray County in the Texas Panhandle, was mentally impaired, making him ineligible for execution, and had deficient legal help at his trial and in earlier stages of his appeals.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit alleging officials at an Oklahoma school did nothing to stop sexual attacks against a middle school student. The ruling dated Monday allows the lawsuit against Washington Public Schools to go forward. An attorney for the school and the two officials did not immediately return a phone call for comment.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Part of the U.S. Air Force's recently grounded bomber fleet is currently undergoing maintenance at Oklahoma's Tinker Air Force Base. The Oklahoman reports that the commander of the Air Force Global Strike Command ordered a "safety stand down" of all B-1B Lancers last week. The order comes after an emergency landing in Texas last month prompted an investigation revealing problems with the long-range bomber's ejection seats.
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