District Judge Glenn Jones rejected a request from David “Hooligan” Tyner, 30, to prevent prosecutors from seeking the death penalty when his case goes to trial next month.

Democratic Rep. Eric Proctor wrote the bill that would give owners of mobile home parks immunity from civil liability if they let residents take shelter in a park office during severe weather. Fallin vetoed the bill last week, citing concerns that it treats mobile home park owners differently than other business owners. It was the Legislature’s first vote to override a veto by Fallin.

Fifty-six-year-old Garry Allen is scheduled to die by injection on Thursday. Allen pleaded guilty to capital murder after being shot in the head during his November 1986 arrest. He killed 24-year-old Gail Titsworth, with whom he had children, outside a daycare where she had picked up her sons days after she moved away from Allen. An officer shot Allen after he tried to shoot the officer.

Bobbi Parker, 49, was convicted in September for helping Randolph Franklin Dial escape from the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite in 1994. They were discovered 11 years later, living as man and wife on a chicken farm in east Texas.

The new facility will be built next to the $600 million data center Google opened near Pryor last fall, said data center operations manager Mike Wooten. Google will hire employees to work on deployment of servers and equipment maintenance, and is looking primarily for local residents to fill the positions, he said.

The Ultrasound Act was approved in 2010 when the Republican-controlled Oklahoma Senate overrode a veto issued by then-Governor Brad Henry, a Democrat. The law was immediately
blocked by a temporary injunction and never was enforced.

Oklahoma Senate Bill 1443 would require that the laws of the state be interpreted and construed “to acknowledge on behalf of the unborn child at every stage of development all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of this state.”

But one Oklahoma town took center stage Thursday as Obama wrapped up a two-day tour of four states promoting his energy policy.

The rain also likely brought some areas out of drought conditions, Associate State Climatologist Gary McManus said. Improvements began in October, and the latest rainfall benefitted areas from the Interstate 44 corridor to northwestern Oklahoma.

The Justice Department said that BizJet, a Tulsa firm, had bribed officials at four Mexican state and federal agencies and the Panama civil aviation authority. It said top officials at BizJet “orchestrated, authorized and approved” of the payoffs.