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After Jon Echols and Jeff Starling debated, we checked the facts and found a few statements that weren’t entirely true. Claim: Article 2, Section 5 of the Oklahoma Constitution, which forbids the use ...

The hotlines have relied on private donations for years after an economic downturn led to budget cuts. Katy McHenry a housing navigator for 211 Eastern Oklahoma sits at a desk. COURTESY 211 Eastern ...

The Merediths were forced to abandon their house after it filled with black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive ...

New data shows overall homelessness dipped slightly for the first time since 2018, even as more families with children and unaccompanied youth fall into crisis.

Mitch didn’t realize when his family rushed out of their house last August that they wouldn’t be able to return. Katie Campbell/ProPublica ...

The Merediths are staying in a house that’s less than half the size of their Darlene Lane house. “It’s been tough on them,” Kara said of her daughters. “They don’t understand how we can’t just go buy ...

The Merediths invited family members to write Bible verses on the studs of the house. “Our faith is what’s most important to us, and we wanted to put that into the bones of the house,” Kara said.

“We’re in a position where we can’t move on,” Mitch said. “We know we’re going to lose the house. Everything we worked for is gone.” Katie Campbell/ProPublica ...

Mitch took matters into his own hands, drilling a hole in the side of the house to drain the fluid. He dug a pit and installed a sump pump to divert the flow into an aerobic septic tank. As of late ...

“God, we just continue to pray that you will put a heavy conviction on these people’s hearts, and that they would do the right thing,” Kara prayed before a town hall meeting held by the Oklahoma ...