Oklahoma News

Over the past few months I've visited with thousands of Oklahomans who are concerned about how the health care reform bills moving through Congress will affect their lives and their families' lives.

New unemployment numbers paint a bleak picture about the U.S. economy in crisis.

The Internal Revenue Service is looking for hundreds of people in Oklahoma, but it has some good news for them.

A circus elephant that escaped and was hit by a sport utility vehicle in northwestern Oklahoma is apparently back with its owner.

Oklahoma family members of a 22-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Hood have been notified that he was one of the 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist went on a shooting rampage at the Texas base.

It's not unusual to see a deer or a cow crossing Oklahoma's rural highways. But an elephant? An Oklahoma couple driving home from church nearly rammed a pachyderm that had escaped from a nearby circus late Wednesday.

Lieutenant Michael Behenna says he killed the suspect Al-Queda terrorist in self-defense. Herbert MacDonnell, the nation's leading expert on blood spatter and crime scene evidence, found evidence that supported Behenna's story.

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' A state lawmaker says he plans to file legislation to protect Oklahomans from encroachments on speech, assembly and religious beliefs.

A federal grand jury has indicted eight Mexican nationals who are accused of plotting to traffic drugs in northeast Oklahoma.

A statewide " Vaccination Blitz" is scheduled this Saturday, November 7, as Oklahoma's county health departments work to vaccinate as many Oklahomans against H1N1 flu as time and vaccine supplies allow.

Hundreds of seniors waved empty paper plates Wednesday to protest cutbacks in nutrition programs for the elderly that could eliminate thousands of meals for some of Oklahoma's most vulnerable citizens.

Hundreds of seniors are at the state Capitol to express their frustration over cuts to nutrition programs for the elderly.

State prison officials have asked for about 15,000 doses of swine flu vaccine, but state health officials say none has been provided and there are no plans to do so yet.

In June, state officials created a statewide fraud hotline to give law enforcement another way to prevent fraud, abuse, or waste of stimulus money.

Higher education officials in the Sooner State are seeking more money. The governing body of Oklahoma's 25 colleges and universities approved a budget request on Tuesday of nearly $1.1 billion for the next fiscal year.

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' Attorney General Drew Edmondson wants the state tobacco trust's board of directors to help fund a cancer research and treatment center at the University of Oklahoma.

A birth date is now required to purchase some common cold medicines from Oklahoma pharmacies.

The director of the non-profit organization Junior Achievement of Oklahoma has been arrested for child pornography.

However, it's becoming more difficult to accomplish this goal due to rising ED volumes, driven by the poor economy and the influx of patients due to the flu season.

Almost 200 pieces of legislation passed by the Oklahoma Legislature last spring becn law Sunday, including measures that change the way Oklahomans file and litigate lawsuits, promote wind energy and make health care more available and affordable for the uninsured.