STILLWATER — On the day after a jury was selected for his firstdegree murder trial, a Stillwater man unexpectedly pleaded no contest to a homicide charge reduced by Payne County First Assistant District Attorney J.R. Kalka to first-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Cushing oilfield worker outside the Blue Diamond Cabaret on Highway 51 east of Stillwater in 2023.With two in...
