Last week I attended the most graphic, overt, and disturbing training I have attended in my 30 years of law enforcement. The training was intended to educate on illegal gangs and cartel activities, deeds, and movements. It revealed how the cartels use dismemberment, beheadings, and other forms of mutilation to impose fear and intimidate the public and rival gangs. I was outraged to be told these mutilations are not just occurring in Mexico but are now being carried out right here in the United States.

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MUSKOGEE — The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that Kevin Ray Ward, age 37, and Anthony Juan Armenta, age 32, both of McCurtain County, were found guilty by a federal jury of one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country, two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm in Indian Country, and one count of use, carry and brandish of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.

By Paul Monies Oklahoma Watch Organizers of an effort to place recreational marijuana before Oklahoma voters were notified Monday they have enough signatures and are asking the state’s high court to make sure the state question gets placed on the November ballot.

An Op-Ed by Dr. Mike Ritze Where there’s smoke, someone ought to investigate, don’t you think? All hell is breaking loose at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, and it’s time the candidates running to join that fray speak up and let us know where they stand.

Long-time University of Tulsa Law School professor Gary Allison lectures his law-school students: “Water flows down hill... and towards money.” Allison is absolutely correct, and his premise is being proven daily in Colorado, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas, where fights over water are a daily matter and the costs are in the billions.