Former Choctaw-Nicoma Park High School teacher Samuel Melton has pleaded guilty to sexual crimes against a young student, receiving a 42-year sentence—the longest ever for an Oklahoma sexual predator in the classroom according to a release from OK Attorney General Genter Drummond.
Melton pleaded guilty to multiple counts of rape by instrumentation, second-degree rape, sexual battery and sodomy as an adult employed by a school district.
Oklahoma saw a 20.2% decline in its manufacturing employment between 2000 and 2024. This translates to a loss of 35,569 jobs during that period. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis new data released August 1 shows U.S. manufacturing employment continued to fall in July 2025—reaching its lowest level since April 2022—even as billions of dollars pour into new plants and reshoring initiatives nationwide.
While policymakers often cite job creation as a central goal of bringing manufacturing back home, today’s highly automated factories mean employment is unlikely to return to past levels. U.S. manufacturing jobs have declined sharply over the past two decades, even as output has grown and Oklahoma’s manufacturing GDP increased by 10.6% over the same span.
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs President Jonathan Small yesterday criticized the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association (OSSAA) for arbitrarily banning four teenagers from playing basketball for Glencoe High School. The four youth used the state’s open-transfer process to attend the Glencoe district in the 2025-2026 school year.
Glencoe is located in northern Payne County, Oklahoma. The population was 601 at the 2010 census, an increase of 3.1 percent from the figure of 583 in 2000.
Editor’s Note: This story has expanded from when we first published it in June of this year. Additional warnings have been included. Parental concerns have grown as the school systems in Oklahoma hide information and presume even more authority over the precious young lives in their part-time care. Leftists hate the sovereign family.
Parents, please proceed with caution when the Oklahoma K-12 schools reconvene for the 2025-2026 school year in August. In June 2025, the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Instruction Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE), and the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) completed the unlawful expansion of school-based services, into Medicaid healthcare clinics, for ALL students. Public School based primary healthcare is not education. This merging of public schools with healthcare circumvents parental supervision and potentially puts big pharma solutions on behavioral issues and alternative lifestyle choices in the hands of government bureaucrats with parents clueless.
In a gathering filled with gratitude and excitement, the Cowboy family came together Tuesday to recognize and celebrate the historic $250 million state funding appropriation for Oklahoma State University’s new veterinary teaching hospital.
Hosted at the ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center, the event drew state leaders, alumni, faculty, staff, students and supporters who helped make the project a reality.
“This is a day many of us have long envisioned — and your advocacy, support and persistence made it happen,” OSU President Jim Hess said. “Now, we go to work.”
