OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Justin Humphrey, R-Lane, on Monday, Oct. 31, will hold interim studies to look community sentencing and qualified immunity as part of his desire to completely update Oklahoma’s criminal justice system.

MUSKOGEE –– The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that David Leroy Earls, age 36, of Tuskahoma, Okla., was sentenced to 140 months imprisonment and five years of supervised release for three counts of sexual abuse in Indian Country. Each count is ordered to run concurrently. The charges arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

CHOCTAW COUNTY –– A Rattan, Okla., man lost his life Sunday in a one-vehicle accident approximately two miles south of Spencerville, Okla. According to reports from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, James M.

This week, the Emergency Drought Commission met and directed an additional $5 million be added to the Emergency Drought Cost-Share program. This is in addition to the current $3 million in emergency drought cost-share funds already being made available to all 77 Oklahoma counties via distribution by local Conservation Districts.