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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — The Team on Flash Point tackle the biggest political issues impacting Oklahoma and the country. This week Host Kevin Ogle, and regular Todd Lamb are joined by Oklahoma County Commissioner Carrie Blumert who is filling in for regular Mike Turpen. The trio discuss a controversial exchange between U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin […]

YouTube has removed a video of Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt speaking about a cockfighter rally and fundraiser for violating the company’s community guidelines by promoting cruelty to animals.

Animal groups alongside Former Governor Keating, Former Attorney General Edmondson are calling Governor Stitt’s embrace of cockfighting as an ’embarrassment’.

Eleven people, including a district director for the Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission, are facing charges relating to illegal cockfighting.

Officials say three men were arrested in Marshall County following an illegal cockfighting investigation.

A Oklahoma couple has been placed under arrest after police say they were involved in cockfighting.

IDABEL, Okla. (AP) — So many residents of northern Texas cross the border into McCurtain County in far southeast Oklahoma each week that the area has earned the nickname of the “Dallas-Fort Worth Hamptons.” With its clean rivers and lakes, these forested foothills of the Ouchita Mountains have become dotted with luxury cabins, and a […]

HONOLULU (AP) — A shooting that killed two people and wounded three others in Hawaii began with an argument at a cockfight attended by 100 to 200 people, according to court documents. Probable cause papers detailing one of the most serious shootings in state history were made public Thursday after an initial court appearance for […]

HONOLULU (AP) — Police in Hawaii have vowed to step up illegal gambling enforcement after one of the most serious shootings in state history called attention to the dangers that come with cockfighting, which has deep roots in the islands and remains popular despite being illegal. The shooting early Saturday in a rural community more […]

House Bill 2530 passed the House today after failing by one vote on Monday.

A group of advocates against cockfighting have responded to House Bill 2530 and discussed how it could affect Oklahoma.

A bill to lower the punishment for cockfighting failed in the House on Monday.

A local policy group wants lawmakers who accepted donations from groups associated with cockfighting to give that money to humane societies.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The competitors stand rigidly upright with their hands behind their backs, waiting to absorb a brutal slap to the face. When the open-handed blow is delivered, there’s a sharp report and the reaction can be dramatic. Some fighters barely move, while others stumble backward or fall to the floor. Some are […]

As a bill that would reduce the cockfighting punishment advances into legislature, animal advocacy groups who are against the act are coming together.

Despite an animal advocacy group outcrying that Oklahoma is the cockfighting capital of the country, a bill that would lessen the punishment for the act is made progress at the state Capitol Wednesday.

Weeks after an animal advocacy group labeled Oklahoma the “Cockfighting Capital” of the U.S., two bills to reduce the punishment for cockfighting is making it’s way through the capitol.

New reports from an investigation by Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy suggest staging fights between birds in Oklahoma is becoming a problem statewide.

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Mexican authorities have identified 19 of the 20 people shot to death Sunday in a clandestine cockfighting ring in Zinapecuaro, Michoacan. The victims include three U.S. citizens whom the Michoacan Attorney General’s Office only identified by first names: Melissa S., Salvador A. and Jose Abiel A. The latter allegedly […]

House Bill 3283, a bill that drops charges for cockfighting from a felony to a misdemeanor, has passed the House’s Criminal Justice and Corrections committee.