Oklahoma News

Winter weather seems to finally be making an appearance in the metro, and many Oklahomans are out planning ahead for the first winter storm this year.

Oklahoma law enforcement officers would have more leeway to stop those suspected of driving uninsured vehicles under a measure approved by a House committee.

A former construction company executive was sentenced this week to two years in prison for wire fraud and money laundering.

An Oklahoma couple has been arraigned on federal murder and kidnapping charges for the death of a man who was strangled by a noose and whose body was dumped at Texarkana Speedway.

The shooting happened about 4 p.m. Thursday near the line between Delaware and Ottawa counties.

State Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak said Friday the employee who wrote an e-mail announcing an award for the woman with the biggest breasts has handed in his resignation and taken responsibility for his mistake.

An Oklahoma anti-war group said the Army private accused of leaking classified material to Wikileaks should receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Rick Santorum stirs his ever-growing crowds when he promises to right a country awash in "immoral debt" and to replace an administration he argues has "callousness toward life and family and faith." Of the GOP presidential hopefuls, Santorum is by far the most public and emphatic about his faith, drawing on his Catholicism and deeply held views on ... (more)

I took this stand because I'm sick of the hypocrisy of Republican lawmakers who want to police women's reproductive health As a woman and a 31-year veteran of the legislative process in Oklahoma , I am increasingly offended by state law trends that solely focus on the female's role in the reproductive process.

A state worker is facing disciplinary action after sending an official email to hundreds of people Thursday that contained an off-color term for breasts, the Oklahoma Insurance Department said.

Ten states are being granted waivers to free them from some requirements of the No Child Left Behind education reform law, with President Barack Obama explaining Thursday that the move aims to "combine greater freedom with greater accountability." Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and ... (more)

While Miss Oklahoma 2011 Betty Thompson is in Altus this week for Saturday's Miss Altus Pageant, she is also visiting various schools in Altus and the surrounding area.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin 's spokesman says Fallin plans to issue a 30-day reprieve to a death row inmate scheduled to die next week for the 1986 shooting death of the mother of his two children.

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Oklahoma lawmakers will be joined by the Council of State Governments and a Texas lawmaker to discuss a plan that supporters say will reduce crime and prison costs in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Highway patrol along with other safety agencies work everyday to keep people safe.

An international medical procedure may hold hope for an Oklahoma seven-year-old who almost died in an overheated vehicle.

A Nowata County man charged in connection with the December 2011 kidnapping and assault of two Joplin, Missouri women has waived his preliminary hearing and has been bound over for trial.

Thirty-one Native American tribes in Oklahoma are getting more than $90 million in Indian Housing Block Grants according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

A car and a tractor-trailer were involved in an early-morning accident at the eastbound I-40 access road between Mustang Road and the Kilpatrick Turnpike.