TULSA, Okla. A former Ottawa County assistant district attorney was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Wednesday for using his position as a prosecutor to offer preferential legal treatment in exchange for sexual acts. Daniel Thomas Giraldi, 45, of Joplin, pleaded guilty in U.S. Federal Court in July 2022 to one count of […]
Another tribal nation in the state had the boundaries of its reservation affirmed Thursday, as the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruled the Quapaw Nation's reservation was never disestablished.