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At this year’s 2023 Oklahoma Learning Innovations Summit, it was announced that the Oklahoma Mesonetwasnamed the winner of the 2023 Team Leadership Oklahoma Online Excellence Award by the Oklahoma Council for Online Learning Excellence (COLE). The award praises the Mesonet’s “great talent and expertise within distance learning throughout the State of Oklahoma.” Each nominee goes through a review process by COLE and the Online Consortium of Oklahoma. Those selected as winners receive, among other prizes, an award plaque from COLE, a digital credential, and a letter of recognition from State Regents for Higher Education Chancellor Allison D. Garrett.
Read moreOKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) announced Monday it has entered into a lease agreement with The Geo Group, owner of the Great Plains Correctional Facility (GPCF) near Hinton. Under the agreement, ODOC will lease the Hinton facility from The Geo Group and begin operating the facility in early May 2023.
Read moreState Regent Joseph L. Parker Jr. was recognized as a state regent emeritus during Friday’s meeting of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. Appointed to a nine-year term as a State Regent by Gov. Brad Henry in May 2005 and reappointed by Gov. Mary Fallin in May 2014, Parker will complete his second nine-year term on the board May 15.
Read moreA Seminole man has been convicted by a federal jury of murder and two other charges in a case in which a local man was beaten, stabbed and shot to death in 2019.
Read more(Editor’s note: This is a developing story and further details will be published as they become available).
Read moreIn celebration of Law Day, hundreds of attorneys across Oklahoma will provide free legal advice to members of their communities in addition to many originated, members of the Seminole County Bar Association will host events and activities in conjunction with the statewide activities.
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