WASHINGTON, July 16 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: ST. LOUIS Dollar General Stores will pay $295,000 and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) age discrimination, harassment, and retaliation lawsuit, the federal agency announced today. According to the lawsuit, from July 2016 until January 2018, a newly hired Dollar General regional director in Oklahoma harassed district managers who were in their  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on July 19, 2024: A federal judge convicted a medical doctor and former member of the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure (KBML) today for unlawfully distributing opioids. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Michael Fletcher, 61, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a physician at Interventional Pain Specialists (IPS) in Crestview Hills, Kentucky, and a board member of the KBML. In his role at   more

TULSA, Oklahoma, July 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma issued the following news release on July 19, 2024: Today, U.S. District Judge John F. Heil, III, sentenced Arnold Dean Howell, Jr., 31, of Sapulpa, to 360 months imprisonment for Second Degree Murder in Indian Country. Howell is ordered to serve five years of supervised release following release from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. "Howell will serve 30 years in prison for the harm he has caused," sa  more