Here are the nine must-know stories from both Oklahoma and around the world.
9 – Oklahoma Senator MarkWayne Mullin is challenging the leader of the Teamsters union to an MMA fight in Tulsa. It came after a heated debate in a committee continued with a conversation on Twitter. Sean O’Brien, the head of the union, has yet to respond.
8 — JPMorgan Chase to pay nearly $300 million to Jeffery Epstein’s victims. The banking giant gave loans to Epstein and allowed her to withdraw large sums of cash even though the bank reportedly knew sex crimes had occurred.
7 – The trial of a former state legislator accused of involuntary manslaughter is underway. Prosecutors say Dan Kirby was driving drunk when he crashed his motorcycle last July killed his passenger Sheryl Bischel.
6 – An Oklahoma man drowns in Keystone Lake over the weekend. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says Felix Aderinwale drowned while celebrating his son’s birthday.
5 – The person who killed five people and pleaded guilty in a 2022 mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ club in Colorado Springs has been sentenced to life in prison. In court, victims of last year’s attack called the shooter a “monster.”
4 – The hunt continues for a Weatherford man who troopers say murdered a family member. OHP is looking for 20-year-old Rodolfo Sotelo. They say he stabbed a family member to death.
3 – One of the four people killed in last week’s devastating tornado in Matador Texas is from Oklahoma. Texas officials say Randy Rolin, 59, of Purcell He was in town on Wednesday when the storm hit. He leaves behind a wife and two children.
2 – It will be a Sooner State Sizzler today and tomorrow. Lacie Swope says there are near-record temperatures. EMSA issues its first medical heat alert of the summer.
1 – After a vote to overrule the governor on tribal compacts fell one vote short, the state senate says it will vote again. Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed bills to extend the tribal tobacco tax and motor vehicle registration compacts. Senate leaders say nine members were absent for yesterday’s veto override effort. Senator Greg Treat says they will try again next month.
