Read our latest @tusaworld investigation: Internal auditor at school land office ousted amid conflict of interest questions about Stitt appointee tulsaworld.com/news/state-and… The Commissioners of the Land Office may be an obscure state agency you don't hear about often, but it's a $2.7 billion big deal that oversees state real estate and other investments used to fund public ed at the K-12 and higher ed level.

BREAKING: Stitt approves parole for ex-police officer convicted in notorious 1982 crossbow murder of Michele Powers in Tulsa tulsaworld.com/news/state-and… “The use of a poison-tipped arrow — a nerve agent, mainly used for hunting — it paralyzed her entire body, and she lived for several more days with virtually no use of her physical functions. It’s got to be a gruesome way to die,” said a Tulsa County Assistant District Attorney.

The Statewide Virtual Charter School Board balked after learning 57 percent of OK taxpayer dollars for proposed new school called Scissortail Preparatory would be paid to outside school management outfit. #oklaed tulsaworld.com/news/state-and… The Scissortail Prep application was presented by John Paul Jordan, a Yukon attorney and former state representative in House District 43 from 2014-18.

BREAKING: The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation confirmed to @tulsaworld on Tuesday that it has completed its years-long investigation into @EpicCharter Schools & turned over case to state attorney general for its consideration. #oklaed tulsaworld.com/news/local/edu… The state auditor & inspector told lawmakers at the Capitol Tuesday that mismanagement by co-founders of Epic is “the largest amount of reported abuse of taxpayer funds in the history of this state” — and she has no idea why the attorney general has not brought criminal charges.

THREAD: State Auditor Cindy Byrd just dropped some bombshells about the investigation into ousted founders @EpicCharter during a speech in Tulsa.
tulsaworld.com/news/local/gov… #oklaed First off, Byrd said neither Ben Harris and David Chaney nor their longtime CFO Josh Brock have been exonerated and the term of Oklahoma’s multicounty grand jury simply expired on Sept. 7, “before the case was finished.”