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The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced last week that Patrick Wayne McHenry, age 29, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was found guilty by a federal jury of Conspiracy to Commit Kidnapping, Kidnapping, Carjacking, Robbery in Indian Country, and the Carry/Use of a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence.
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Sen.NathanDahm,RBroken Arrow, has filed Senate Joint Resolution 2 proposing an amendment to Section 1 Article 1 of the Oklahoma Constitution. If passed by the Legislature, the proposed amendment would be put to a vote of the people in the next election.
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Oklahoma Watch and reporter Whitney Bryen are suing the City of Tulsa seeking details of an incident that resulted in the violent arrest of a woman in the throes of a mental health crisis.
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released its 2022 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) Part 1 to Congress. The report found 582,462 people were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2022. COVID-19 and its economic impacts could have led to significant increases in homelessness however, investments, partnerships, and government agency outreach resulted in only a .3% increase in the number of people experiencing homelessness from 2020 to 2022. The Biden-Harris Administration intends not only to stop but reverse the post-2016 trend of rising homelessness and reduce it by 25% by 2025, as stated in All In, The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness, which was released yesterday by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. Compared with 2020, homelessness in shelters declined by 1.6%, while homelessness among people in unsheltered settings increased by 3.4%. The rate of overall homelessness is due in large part to a robust federal response that prevented evictions through Emergency Rental Assistance distributed to more than three million households, expanded resources for vulnerable families through the Child Tax Credit, and provided other financial transfers through stimulus.
Read moreAfter a historically low rate of change between 2020 and 2021, the U.S. resident population increased by 0.4%, or 1,256,003, to 333,287,557 in 2022, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2022 national and state population estimates and components of change released today.
Read moreDr. Shelly Wells, RN-to-BSN program director and professor of nursing with the Northwestern Oklahoma State University Charles Morton Share Trust Division of Nursing, participated as a panel member at the plenary session of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) fall conference in Bethesda, Maryland.
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