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In this photo provided by the Southwest Ledger, people from Idabel, Okla., call for the resignation of several McCurtain County officials, early Monday, April 17, 2023, after tapes with the officials' racist comments surfaced over the weekend. (Christopher Bryan/Southwest Ledger via AP)

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Oklahoma officials accused of talk of killing journalists
By SEAN MURPHY - Associated Press Writer
Mon,04/17/23-3:40PM , 221 Reads
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's governor is seeking the resignation of four county officials after a newspaper's audio recording apparently captured some of them complaining about two of the paper's journalists and knowing hit men and where two holes are dug.
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A sign is displayed at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind., on Aug. 28, 2020. A judge tossed 49-year-old Bruce Webster's death sentence in accordance with a 2002 Supreme Court decision that executing anyone with an intellectual disability violated Eight Amendment protections against “cruel and unusual” punishment. But Justice Department still hasn’t authorized his transfer to a less restrictive unit. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

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Inmate stuck on US death row despite vacated death sentence
By MICHAEL TARM - AP Legal Affairs Writer
Sun,04/16/23-6:56AM , 114 Reads
CHICAGO (AP) — When the U.S. prisons director visited the penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, this past week, she stopped by the federal death row where Bruce Webster is in a solitary, 12-by-7 foot cell, 23 hours a day.
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Glenda Starke wears a transgender flag as a counterprotest during a rally in favor of a ban on gender-affirming health care legislation, March 20, 2023, at the Missouri Statehouse in Jefferson City, Mo. Minors in Missouri soon will be required to undergo 18 months of therapy before receiving gender-affirming health care under an emergency rule released Thursday, April 13, 2023, by the state's Republican attorney general. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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Transgender adults brace for treatment cutoffs in Missouri
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and DAVID A. LIEB - Associated Press
Fri,04/14/23-7:15PM , 97 Reads
Ellie Bridgman spent her Thursday night shift at a local gas station in Union, Missouri, planning for the day she'll lose access to gender-affirming treatments the transgender and nonbinary 23-year-old credits with making “life worth living.”
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Opinion: A household name may not survive
Fri,04/14/23-4:24PM , 271 Reads 55,460 Statewide
Evidence abounds that the world is changing more rapidly than most of us would prefer. And it seems like everything’s changing all at once, turning something relatively stable into something completely different.
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