Hannah France
KGOU Reporter / ProducerHannah France started her work in public radio at KBIA in Columbia, Missouri while she was a college student. During her time there, she helped develop and produce a weekly community call-in show called The Check-In, for which she and her colleagues won a Gracie Award. She graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor's in journalism in 2021. Hannah takes interest in a wide variety of news topics, which serves her well as a reporter and producer for KGOU. When she's not keeping up on the news, she enjoys going to farmers markets and spending time with her three-legged cat, Cowboy.
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After a similar bill stalled in the legislature last year, a bill that seeks to provide sentencing reform for victims of domestic violence is one step closer to becoming law.
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Michael Dewayne Smith, 41, died at 10:20 a.m. Thursday, the first death row inmate executed in Oklahoma this year.
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The ex-police officer is the first in the nation to face harsher penalties under the 2022 reauthorization of the original act.
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Without enough foster families to support the more than 5,100 children in Oklahoma’s child welfare system, many children are moved hours from their homes, increasing the strain on youth, foster parents, caseworkers and families trying to regain custody.
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The first Monday in February marks the beginning of the Oklahoma legislative session. And Oklahoma lawmakers are gearing up to consider thousands of bills.
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At least 150 of Shawnee's 30,000 residents are experiencing homelessness. And because of an ordinance enacted this month, life might be getting a little more difficult for some of the community’s most vulnerable residents.
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What would have been Oklahoma’s first execution of 2024 has been delayed to determine the mental state of the death row inmate.
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Shawnee city commissioners Monday evening passed a "no sit, no lie" ordinance.
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The City Commissioners of Shawnee will vote Monday on whether to prohibit sitting and lying down in the city’s downtown area.
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Medical marijuana has been legal in Oklahoma since the passage of State Question 788 in 2018, but multiple women in the state have been prosecuted for using it since then — because they were pregnant.