Sean Murphy

January 28, 2019 | Daily Business Review

Sebring Police Chief Thomas Dettman declined to release the names of some of the slain women in last week's bank robbery, citing a provision in the "Marsy's Law" amendment to the state constitution.

By Sean Murphy

5 minute read

March 03, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Aubrey McClendon, a natural gas industry titan, was killed when police say he drove his sport utility vehicle "straight into a wall" in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, a day after he was indicted on a charge of conspiring to rig bids to buy oil and natural gas leases in northwest Oklahoma.

By Sean Murphy

4 minute read

January 16, 2014 | Daily Report Online

In less than a month, two federal judges have struck down gay marriage bans in two conservative U.S. states for the same reason, concluding that they violate the Constitution's promise of equal treatment under the law.

By Brady McCombs and Sean Murphy

4 minute read

November 17, 2009 | Daily Report Online

OKLAHOMA CITY AP - A former Marine turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday after being named a suspect in the shooting deaths of four people whose bodies were found in a burning home, including a prostitute featured on the HBO reality series "Cathouse," police said.David Allen Tyner, 28, surrendered at the Mayes County Sheriff's Office on a warrant that included six murder complaints.

By SEAN MURPHY

3 minute read

August 27, 2009 | Daily Report Online

ANADARKO, Okla. AP - Authorities warned pastors in a town where a preacher was brutally killed inside her own church that they should take precautions at their buildings, even as police refused to say exactly what happened.District Attorney Bret Burns, who described the killing as "horrific," held a closed-door session with about two dozen pastors, along with members of law enforcement.

By SEAN MURPHY

3 minute read

September 18, 2008 | Daily Report Online

OKLAHOMA CITY AP - A federal judge has dismissed a libel lawsuit filed against best-selling author John Grisham and two other writers over books they wrote about the wrongful conviction of two men in a 1982 murder.The lawsuit was filed last year by former Pontotoc County District Attorney Bill Peterson, former Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation investigator Gary Rogers and Melvin Hett, a state criminalist.

By SEAN MURPHY

2 minute read

October 29, 2008 | Daily Report Online

MANGUM, Okla. AP - A decade after a convicted killer escaped from an Oklahoma prison and vanished along with the assistant warden's pretty young wife, the two were found living together on a Texas chicken ranch.Now, the woman, Bobbi Parker, is back with her husband and fighting in court to prove she was a kidnap victim, not a lovestruck accomplice to escape.

By SEAN MURPHY

4 minute read

June 16, 2009 | Daily Report Online

OKLAHOMA CITY AP - Bothered that an ambulance driver failed to yield to him as he raced to provide backup on a call - and angered further when he thought the driver flipped him an obscene gesture - state Trooper Daniel Martin decided to stop the ambulance and give the driver a piece of his mind.What Martin didn't know then, his lawyer said Monday, was that there was a patient in the back of the ambulance.

By SEAN MURPHY

3 minute read

January 15, 2009 | Daily Report Online

OKLAHOMA CITY AP - An ex-convict accused of strangling his ex-girlfriend and her four young children was returned to Oklahoma early Thursday from Texas following his arrest after a car crash.Joshua Steven Durcho, 25, arrived at the Canadian County jail in El Reno, about 25 miles west of Oklahoma City, around 2 a.m., authorities said.

By SEAN MURPHY

3 minute read

July 31, 2007 | Daily Report Online

OKLAHOMA CITY AP - Love's Travel Stops Country Stores has settled a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a black cashier who claimed she was discriminated against because of her race and fired because she supported a former manager who sued the company.In a consent decree signed Monday by U.S. District Judge David L.

By Sean Murphy

3 minute read