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Three people killed and one missing after tornadoes strike Texas town

Homes in Perryton, 110 miles north of Amarillo, reduced to rubble and power was cut in the aftermath of the storm

The Guardian - US

2023 is on track for more ballot measures than previous odd years

Welcome to the Friday, June 16, Brew.

Ballotpedia

Tornado devastates Texas Panhandle town, killing 3 and injuring dozens

The number of deaths has climbed to three after a tornado tore through the Texas Panhandle town of Perryton, leaving dozens more injured widespread damage

The Independent UK

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Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #65

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

Ballotpedia

What to know about Texas, other games on Kentucky football’s 2024 SEC schedule

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The matchups for the first SEC football season with Texas and Oklahoma as league members are set.

Tribune News Service

Ten Takeaways From the New-Look 2024 SEC Football Schedule

With newcomers Texas and Oklahoma on the way, the 16-team slate is balanced while restoring old rivalries.

Sports Illustrated

Georgia gets Alabama, Texas on road in 2024

ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia football fans will have to wait a while longer to check out College Station, Texas, but Austin, Texas, is on the docket for 2024. So is Oxford, Miss.; Lexington, Ky.; and — get this — Tuscaloosa, Ala.

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Black Wall Street pop-up market symbolizing broader changes coming to West Side reopens this weekend

The market was started by Lavern Herron in 2021 in the wake of the pandemic and reckoning with the death of George Floyd. Three years on, it’s flourishing. Shoppers can find a range of local vendors, plus food and live music.

Chicago Sun-Times

Reinstatement ordered for Oklahoma officers who fatally shot unarmed Black man

Two southwest Oklahoma police officers who fatally shot an unarmed Black man have been ordered by an arbitrator to be reinstated

The Independent UK

Quirky dungarees brand set to take over Northern Quarter institution

It'll open its doors on the site of Oklahoma on High Street

Manchester Evening News

Conor Daly to join rebranded Nitrocross series in Oklahoma

After losing his IndyCar Series drive at Ed Carpenter Racing to Ryan Hunter-Reay, who ironically drove for Dreyer Reinbold at the Indianapolis 500, Daly will make his debut in the rebranded rallycross-style series – the brainchild of American action sports superhero Travis Pastrana.

Motorsport

Photos: Shangri-La Resort in Oklahoma to open new par-3 course, The Battlefield

The Oklahoma resort said it spent $15 million to build the par-3 course that honors military veterans.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #64

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

Ballotpedia

Oklahoma panel denies clemency for man convicted of woman's 1995 stabbing death

A state panel in Oklahoma has denied recommending clemency for a man convicted of stabbing a Tulsa woman to death with a butcher knife in 1995

The Independent UK

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The Conversation

Oklahoma OKs the nation's first religious charter school – but litigation is likely to follow

U.S. courts have long wrestled with the extent to which government funding can be used at private religious schools. And on June 5, 2023, Oklahoma’s five-person Statewide Virtual Charter School Board pushed this much-debated question into new territory by approving plans for a religious charter school – the first in…

Salon

Oklahoma wages war on secular education

A new taxpayer-funded religious school is a Christian nationalist move to destroy separation of church and state

Reason

What is the Significance of an Attorney General's Confession of Error in a State Capital Case?

In my Supreme Court amicus brief for the victim's family in Oklahoma v. Richard Glossip, I argue that the Oklahoma Attorney General's unfounded confession of "error" should not dictate the case's outcome.

WEKU

Federal Indian boarding schools still exist, but what's inside may be surprising

The schools were tools of the U.S. government's attempts to erase tribal culture. But the few that remain have become places Native families want their children to attend.

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Al Jazeera

Oklahoma approves first taxpayer-funded religious school in US

The school board’s vote sets in motion a battle between religious freedom and the separation of church and state.

The Independent UK

Oklahoma approves first-ever taxpayer-funded religious school in case expected to draw legal battle

Nation’s first publicly funded religious school sets up a major challenge over separation of church and state

The Independent UK

Oklahoma school board approves what would be the 1st taxpayer-funded religious school in US

An Oklahoma school board has voted to approve what would be the nation's first publicly funded religious school

Sports Illustrated

Tennessee May Be Oklahoma’s Toughest Test for Another WCWS Title

The Lady Vols are set to face the two-time reigning champs in the second round on Saturday, and have the talent necessary to pull a massive upset.

Daily Mirror

Mum shares red flags she spotted of daughter, 12, before ‘stabbing her brother to death’

In a tragic incident in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a 12-year-old girl allegedly fatally stabbed her 9-year-old brother - now her mum has shared the red flags she saw just two weeks prior

The Independent UK

Alabama senator condemned by his own brother for ‘ignorant, hateful rants’

The senator’s brother is an Oklahoma-based guitarist and songwriter

The Independent UK

Oklahoma’s Supreme Court struck down two abortion bans. But a 113-year-old law is severely restricting access

A state law from 1910 threatens abortion providers with a felony punishable up to five years in prison, writes Alex Woodward

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