State crashes leave two dead
Two men died Monday in separate state wrecks, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.
Stephen
McAlester
Heath was pronounced dead at the scene of a crash about 9 p.m. Monday on Crowder Blocker Road, 1.3 miles east of Crowder in Pittsburg County, the patrol reported.
Heath was driving west on Crowder Blocker Road when the vehicle went off the roadway at a curve and rolled. Heath did not wear a seat belt and was thrown from the vehicle.
Heath,
59,
of
Oliver of Checotah
Farrimond was pronounced
Farrimond,
79, dead at the scene of a collision about 7:55 p.m. on U.S. 62 at 23rd Street South, 6 miles north of Boynton in Muskogee County.
Farrimond was a passenger in a car driven by Elizabeth Farrimond, 73, of Checotah. She was taken to a Muskogee hospital and admitted for treatment for injuries, the patrol reported.
Elizabeth Farrimond was driving south on U.S. 62 when her vehicle hit a tractor-trailer driven by Sidney Coryell, 43, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, as it was backing onto U.S. 62 from 23rd Street, the patrol reported. Coryell was not injured.
It was not known if the Farrimonds wore seat belts. Coryell wore a seat belt.
TULSA — A 63-year-old man convicted of murder and a hate crime in the fatal shooting of his Lebanese neighbor was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Stanley Vernon Majors was convicted earlier this month of gunning down 37-year-old Khalid Jabara outside of his Tulsa home in August 2016. The murder charge carried a life sentence, and the jury recommended that Majors never get the chance to go free — a recommendation the judge followed Tuesday.
The jury foreman, Randall Hardee, told The Tulsa World that the jury agreed that Majors was having mental problems, but that he also understood the consequences of his actions. Jurors also found it difficult to ignore that Majors had antagonized the Jabara family for years, he said.
“I don’t know how somebody could treat a whole other family like that,” Hardee said. “At the end of the day,