OKLAHOMA CITY – Gov. Stitt on Wednesday signed into law a bill that will protect motorists fleeing a riot from criminal and civil liability.

After a long week of hearing bills on the Senate floor, we’ve officially concluded our work on House bills. Of the approximately 320 House bills that made it through the committee process, we approved approaching 280 of them. Our main focus now shifts to completing the Fiscal Year 2022 budget, which will begin on July 1.

The House of Representatives voted on a party-line vote on H.R. 51 to make Washington, D.C., the nation’s 51st state, with 216 Democrats in favor and 208 Republicans opposed, and with the measure now proceeding to the U.S. Senate where it is almost certainly doomed to failure with 60 votes still needed to advance legislation making permanent changes to law.

Funeral services for Tracy Herman, of Soper, Okla., are pending with Miller & Miller Funeral Home. Tracy passed away April 23, 2021 in North Carolina, at the age of 51..

Funeral services for Jimmy Don Babb, Jr., of Oklahoma City, formerly of Hugo, Okla., were held at 1 p.m. April 24, 2021 at Rogan Funeral Home Chapel. Jimmy passed away April 15, 2021, at the age of 41.

Funeral services for Angela Crippin, of Soper, Okla., were held at 2 p.m. Friday, April 23, 2021 at Miller & Miller Funeral Home Chapel.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Deputy Commissioner Keith Reed with the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) issued the following statement after the CDC and FDA announced their recommendation to resume distribution and administration of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The decision comes after the CDC and FDA recommendation to pause use of the vaccine on April 13 that cited an occurrence of rare blood clotting responses in six Americans.