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.
Updated: Yesterday, the City of Tulsa, Community Care, and other community and healthcare partners announced the creation of Tulsa’s first Office of Health and Well-being to employ staff, analyze data, program activity and generally grow government in the Socialist Democrat style of Mayor Monroe Nichols and the George Kaiser Family Foundation.
The Office is being created, officials claim, to improve health outcomes across Tulsa by aligning resources, sharing data, and fostering collaboration among healthcare providers, public health agencies, and community organizations. Observers question if “aligning, sharing, and fostering” among the local Medical Industrial Complex will help any human individual become healthy?
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.
In an exclusive interview on Fox & Friends this morning, President Donald J. Trump provided an inside look at yesterday’s historic White House peace summit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and key European leaders. Detailing his bold diplomacy, President Trump emphasized his unwavering commitment to stopping the bloodshed and securing lasting peace, rallying European allies to lead on security and paving the way for an ultimate resolution to the war.
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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.
