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A President Trump-backed candidate in Oklahoma is suddenly out of the race. Jackson Lahmeyer, the pastor who founded Pastors for Trump, suspended his campaign for Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District just one day after advancing to a Republican runoff. That is a very fast reversal. On Tuesday night, Lahmeyer was still being presented as the Trump-backed candidate moving forward. By Wednesday, President Trump was publicly moving his support to Mark Tedford. President Trump’s endorsement switch is here: The national rundown from CBS News ties together the sudden timing. Lahmeyer had just advanced to a runoff, but his campaign was already facing...

A Trump-backed pastor is preparing to drop out of Oklahoma's Republican primary after the Daily Mail exposed his intimate relationship with a campaign aide. Jackson Lahmeyer's campaign manager last night told his team that the married father-of-five was dropping out of the race and taking a sabbatical from preaching, sources told the Daily Mail. A formal announcement is expected Friday. Lahemeyer and his wife Kendra invited their congregation to a 'closed meeting' at Sheridan Church in Tulsa at 6.30pm Wednesday. Donald Trump hours after the news broke shared on Truth Social that he was switching his endorsement to Lahmeyer's rival...

TULSA, Okla. (KOKH) — Authorities say a suspect is recovering after being shot by a store clerk following a threat with a machete. Around 8 a.m. on Thursday, officers with the Tulsa Police Department responded to a shooting call at Naifeh's Food Mart, located in the 200 block of N. Mohawk Blvd. When police arrived, they found 61-year-old Donald Lockridge sitting outside the store. They soon realized he was suffering from a gunshot wound to the hip, and he was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Investigators learned that Lockridge walked into the store with a machete and...

As its national influence has risen, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has simultaneously grown more extreme. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the group’s “Red Rabbits” initiative. The Red Rabbits Security Commission, a subgroup within the DSA focused on “community defense” efforts, is, according to its authorizing resolution, preparing for a “national uprising against federal agents and police brutality.” In practice, that means training cadres in tactics like armed and unarmed self-defense, blocking intersections, and fighting “fascists” with umbrellas. A recent panel offered an unprecedented window into what the project looks like. Organizers from Minnesota, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia,...

Oklahoma resident Les Vandever said he is still stunned after seeing a man charging into a herd of bison in Yellowstone. "It was a moment of unbelievable stupidity," he said. “We were sitting in our car, just dumbfounded." Man charging into herd of Yellowstone bison (Photo by: Les Vandever) It’s the summer season in Yellowstone National Park, which means it’s open season for brazen bunglers to try their luck with bison. Les Vandever of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, was in Yellowstone last month when he stopped near Floating Island Lake in northern Yellowstone to see if he could spot any bears....

Brandon Magni says when he asked for a forfeit, he was told he could forfeit himself or call the policeThe travel baseball industry was rocked over the Memorial Day weekend by yet another shocking incident in what is shaping up to be one of the ugliest on record for youth baseball. Did an Oklahoma 11U baseball coach order his pitcher to hit an opponent? Was that boy then ordered to throw a fastball at the opposing team's dugout? Those are the accusations being thrown around by a coach out of Nebraska who says his dugout was targeted at a...

It’s unbaaaa-lievable. After a powerful tornado barreled through Enid, Okla., on April 23, the Sloat family was trapped beneath the earth in their storm shelter under tons of debris when they were suddenly rescued — by their two pet goats. “They saved us,” Adam Sloat, 53, told The Post. “No doubt about it.” The terrifying ordeal began when the approaching storm triggered a rare tornado emergency, the National Weather Service’s highest tornado warning. The bad news: a powerful EF-4 tornado — with winds reaching between 170-200 mph — was bearing down on the 50,000 residents of Enid at a few...

A suspect in a mass shooting at Arcadia Lake on Sunday night has been taken into custody, according to an arrest warrant. EDMOND, Okla. — A suspect in a mass shooting at Arcadia Lake on Sunday night was arrested Wednesday and is now facing a murder charge. What we know At about 9 p.m. Sunday, May 3, a mass shooting happened during a party at Arcadia Lake in Edmond, Oklahoma 18-year-old Jaylan Davis was arrested in connection to the shooting. At least one other suspect is believed to be outstanding One person died, and 22 others were injured by gunfire...

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Another member of the “peaceful left” is now facing the consequences after threatening to murder federal agents. 26-year-old Logan Murfin has been convicted on ten felony charges for repeatedly calling for ICE agents to be assassinated on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter.) ICE shared a photo of him in custody: In several of the deranged posts, Murfin compared ICE to the Gestapo and said that they all need to be “gunned down” and “executed” to avoid a repeat of the Holocaust. Here’s a look at some of the disgusting social media posts Murfin posted: Murfin is looking at...

SAYRE, Okla. (KOKH) — Oklahoma Senate Candidate Barry Christian, 54, was found dead on Thursday after he was declared missing, according to multiple reports. On Thursday afternoon, officials with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation confirmed that Christian's truck had been found in a rural area on the side of the road, south of Erick. A short time later, Christian's daughter told Sinclair Broadcast Group that a body was discovered inside the truck.

Missing State Senate candidate from western Oklahoma found dead A candidate for State Senate has been found dead, his campaign said in a news release. April 30, 2026 Addison Kliewer, Special Projects Producer/Digital Editor Barry Christian, a candidate for Senate District 38, disappeared on Tuesday. He was found dead on Thursday, according to a news release from his campaign. Investigators on scene near Erick, Oklahoma The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation confirmed that investigators were on the scene near Highway 30, just south of the town of Erick. OSBI confirmed to KOCO that a truck matching the one belonging to...

TULSA, Okla. — Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg drew a packed crowd Saturday, April 18, at Will Rogers High School for a town hall focused on key issues ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. A full gymnasium welcomed Buttigieg as he took the stage, with attendees filling the space to hear and take part in the discussion. The event was part of a broader series of stops as he continues engaging with communities ahead of November, following a fundraiser for the Kansas Democratic Party in Wichita. Tulsa mayor Monroe Nichols joined Buttigieg at the event after extending an invitation earlier...

Newly released footage shows the moment a gunman fired shots inside Pauls Valley High School, before being stopped by the school’s principal. The footage from April 7, 2026, shows suspect Victor Hawkins walking into the school and pointing his gun at two students. An affidavit outlines that Hawkins walked into the school, pointed his gun and yelled for everyone to “get on the ground.” Two students are seen on footage running away from Hawkins as he enters the school’s lobby. Principal Kirk Moore is then seen rushing towards the gunman and tackling him. While stopping the gunman, Moore was shot...

PITTSBURG COUNTY, Okla. — A McAlester mother is clinging to life at a Tulsa hospital following a brutal attack by an unidentified animal that investigators said is unlike anything they've seen in over 30 years. Alicia Maxey was found severely injured on Sunday morning in a remote yard near Blanco. While the family initially believed a dog was responsible, the sheer scale of the injuries has prompted the Pittsburg County Sheriff's Office to bring in wildlife experts to solve the mystery of what kind of animal attacked Alicia. According to investigators, Alicia had pulled into a nearby driveway. She was...

NEW: Video of transgender attorney Rob Hopkins is going viral after security cameras captured her being tackled to the ground and jailed for contempt. Hopkins, an Oklahoma attorney, ignored repeated warnings and continued arguing and interrupting the judge before the officers were called in to arrest her. “I’m a transgender attorney practicing all over the state!” Hopkins shouted, also yelling that he “couldn’t breathe” and requesting a female officer.

The Oklahoma State House on Tuesday passed a bipartisan bill that would make it legal to use the decomposed and ground-up remains of human corpses as soil fertilizer in the state. The legislation, HB 3660, seeks to include so-called “natural organic reduction” (NOR), a common euphemism for human composting, “as a form of cremation” under state law. Oklahoma’s lower chamber passed the bill 59-37, with both Republicans and Democrats voting in favor, prompting a harsh rebuke from one of the GOP lawmakers who opposes the legislation. “Today the House advanced HB3660, a bill to legalize the use of composted human...

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is expected to appoint Alan Armstrong, chairman of Williams Companies, to the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Markwayne Mullin, according to sources familiar with the process. The move comes as Mullin advances in the confirmation process to replace Kristi Noem as Department of Homeland Security under President Donald Trump. On Thursday, The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee advanced Sen. Mullin’s nomination in an 8 to 7 vote, setting up a vote before the full chamber as early as this week. If appointed, Armstrong would serve until the next election, when Oklahoma voters...

Americans hated President Joe Biden’s loose borders, Pennsylvania’s Sen. John Fetterman said on Wednesday as he suggested he would confirm Sen. Markwayne Mullin to the homeland security post. “Americans don’t like chaos,” Fetterman said to Mullin, adding: America definitely didn’t like the kinds of chaos during the Biden administration at the border. As a Democrat, I was alarmed that there were up to 300,000 encounters at our border once a month… That’s not sustainable, and that’s not manageable, and it’s making it impossible for us to assimilate [migrants]. “My experience with you has been consistent kindness and professionalism,” Fetterman told...

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.) confronted Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) Wednesday about his past comments calling him a snake, saying “tell it to my face.”Paul said Mullin has “anger issues” and said the public must be wondering whether the nominee has the temperament to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).The beef between the two men stems from comments Mullin made after Paul was attacked by his neighbor.Paul said Mullin made the comments when confronted by constituents rather than defend a vote.“Instead of explaining your vote to continue these welfare programs for refugees, you...