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Oklahoma Bar Association to reimburse client losses

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Ninety people who lost money or other property through the death or dishonest conduct of their attorney will have their losses reimbursed by the Oklahoma Bar Association this year. The OBA Clients’ Security Fund will pay out more than $210,000 to those clients of deceased, suspended or former lawyers whose actions led to the losses.

Lawmaker says probation fees being diverted

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State Rep. Justin Humphrey says fees imposed on individuals released from prison and placed on probation have not been used for oversight of those convicted criminals. Instead, he said the money is being diverted to other uses, and he has asked Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond to investigate.

A good show at the Orpheum Theatre

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In July of 1910 a simple announcement in the Tulsa Tribune changed the course of history for the little town of Durant, Oklahoma: “Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Allison will leave Monday for Durant, Oklahoma where they will make their future home.”

New mobile training lab visits Washington Irving

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The Durant School District’s new mobile Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Education (STEM) bus visited Washington Irving Elementary School recently and the bus, which school officials say is a mobile training lab, will be used at all school sites.