OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Oklahoma Senate has voted to punish a state senator who police say was found with a teenage boy in a motel room. Police officials in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore are still ...

Sen. Ralph Shortey resigned his position, Wednesday afternoon. Monday, Shortey hired defense attorney Ed Blau who announced the Senator would resign by Wednesday evening. Last week, Shortey turned ...

Videos from Moore police body cameras show officers scolding a former state senator they found in a hotel room with a 17-year-old boy. The videos of the March 9 incident at the Super 8 Motel with ...

Disgraced former state senator Ralph Shortey pleaded guilty in federal court to child trafficking charges. It's part of a plea deal where prosecutors agreed to drop child porn charges. Shortey didn't ...

Former Oklahoma state Sen. Ralph Shortey, 35, R- Oklahoma City, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for soliciting sex online with a 17-year-old boy. The official charge was one count of child ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- An Oklahoma state senator accused of hiring a 17-year-old boy for sex has resigned. Republican Sen. Ralph Shortey submitted his resignation letter Wednesday. He was arrested last ...

A Republican state senator facing child prostitution charges involving a 17-year-old boy has surrendered to authorities in Cleveland County. State Sen. Ralph Shortey was booked Thursday into the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — State Sen. Ralph Shortey will keep his legislative retirement benefits regardless of whether he is convicted in a child prostitution case. His annual pension will be about $9,200 if he ...

The FBI is investigating a state senator who is accused of soliciting sex from an underage boy, and has executed a search warrant at his home, the agency confirmed Monday. Meanwhile, the Secret ...

Having finally talked with Oklahoma State Sen. Ralph Shortey, we can tell you this: He did not expect the little ban on fetuses in food he's proposed to get the kind of attention it's gotten. He also ...