Oklahoma News

10/10/08: From KTUL-TV: http://www.ktul.com Oklahoma City - Aubrey K. McClendon, chief executive officer of Chesapeake Energy Corporation, has sold the bulk of his stock in the company over the past three days in order to meet margin loan calls. Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corporation is the largest producer of natural gas in the U.S. Its stock closed Friday on the New York Stock Exchange at $16.52, down $1.19, well off the $74 top of its 52-week range.

Oklahoma Baptist University trustees said Friday they have named a Missouri university administrator as the Shawnee school's 15th president.

A strong storm system will take its time getting to Oklahoma. The National Weather Service said precipitation began increasing Saturday over the high Plains west of the state, as the system progressed slowly to ...

Broken Arrow Public Schools Interim Superintendent Gary Gerber said in a statement Friday that suspended Superintendent Jim Sisney entered the Education Service Center without authorization Monday night.

Oil prices briefly plunged below $79 a barrel Friday, dropping to the lowest level in nearly 13 months as investors grow more pessimistic about the prospects for resolving a mushrooming global economic crisis.

The first of more than 2,600 Oklahoma Army National Guard soldiers with the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team are coming home after a yearlong deployment to Iraq.

Oklahoma could be in a stormy weather pattern for several days. The National Weather Service said a potent system that brought snow to parts of the Rockies will move over the nation's midsection beginning late ...

The Oklahoma National Guard says more than 2,600 soldiers of the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team are to begin arriving home during the next week.

An advocacy group is suing over an Oklahoma law that prohibits a woman from getting an abortion unless she first has an ultrasound and the doctor describes to her what the fetus looks like.

Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 10, 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy was established in Annapolis, Md.

At the pump, retail gas prices kept falling, with a gallon of regular shedding 4.4 cents overnight to a new national average of $3.403, according to auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright ...

A painting of the USS Oklahoma Memorial was unveiled Wednesday at the state Capitol by two survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that sank the battleship, killing 429 sailors and Marines on Dec.

Governor Henry urges Oklahomans to have faith in our state's economy. He stressed on Thursday that we are in a good position to survive the current financial crisis.

President Bush has declared a major disaster exists in northern Oklahoma because of severe storms and flooding last month.

Staff reports Northwest Oklahomans are seeing some relief at the gas pumps since mid-September. Pump prices across Oklahoma have plummeted an average of 64 cents per gallon since Sept.

The man police think killed the leader of the San Francisco Hells Angels motorcycle gang last month surprised a smalltown police force in Oklahoma by turning himself in.

It was "a date which will live in infamy," and to the serviceman who fought so hard, a day to be memorialized and remembered.

Control of an Indian medical center that has been operated by the federal government has been transferred to the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

A new unit of the Oklahoma Air National Guard will be activated this weekend. A ceremony is scheduled for tomorrow for the 146th Air Support Operations Squadron.

Police say the man suspected of killing the leader of the San Francisco Hells Angels chapter has turned himself in.