Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anthony DeVore, president of the Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission, shows off a rooster at a farm in Wilson on January 29, 2024. (Photo ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Attempts through the Oklahoma Legislature to downgrade charges for cockfighting from a felony to a misdemeanor failed in both the ...
Raising roosters is big business. Now a push to ease penalties for cockfighting is ruffling feathers
Troy Thompson raises 2,000 to 3,000 roosters annually on his farm in Oklahoma. The birds are tethered to "teepees" when they're five to six months old. "If these aren't penned up, you know, they're ...
Before Oklahoma became one of the last places in the U.S. to outlaw cockfighting in 2002, it wasn't uncommon to see hundreds of spectators packed into small arenas in rural parts of the state to watch ...
Editor's note: This story has been updated with a response from Gov. Kevin Stitt's office. Gov. Kevin Stitt drew fire Wednesday from an animal rights group, former Gov. Frank Keating, former state ...
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Oklahoma Gamefowl PAC to fold amid ethics violations; officials charged with attending cockfight
The political action committee of the Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission has agreed to pay $10,000 in civil penalties to the state for ethics violations that included accepting excessive donations and ...
MCINTOSH COUNTY, Okla. — A few months ago, FOX23 went In Depth on a cockfighting operation in McIntosh County that shined a new light on a group of lobbyists who have been making donations at the ...
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