Oklahoma Government News

A bill has been introduced in the Oklahoma state House of Representatives that would end the practice of granting professors tenure.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin is honoring an Okarche-based company for converting its 2,000th vehicle to run on compressed natural gas.

OKLAHOMA CITY - A 12-member jury has been seated in the federal bribery and conspiracy trial of the former leader of the Oklahoma State Senate who is accused of illegally accepting $400,000 in payments from three companies that wanted his influence on legislation.

Officials report that about 11,000 people are banned from casinos and gaming centers throughout Oklahoma because of compulsive gambling.

With the 2012 Oklahoma legislature in session, many lawmakers are picking up where they left off last year -- and that includes State Rep.

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Steve Sisney/The Oklahoman, AP Missouri's Kyley Simmons battles Oklahoma's Whitney Hand for the ball in the second half of the Sooners' 64-60 victory Saturday.

UConn at Oklahoma WHEN: Tonight, 9 p.m., ESPN2-TV WHERE: Lloyd Noble Center, Norman Okla.

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The FBI created a fake Georgia company in 2008 so an agent could go undercover to secretly investigate the Oklahoma Legislature for corruption.

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to decide the rights of two Oklahoma-based American Indian tribes to water in major streams in their historic territories in southeastern Oklahoma.

For 25 years, Phyllis’ Musical Revue and Fashion Show has occupied a permanent spot on the Central Coast’s social calendar.

Friday was a memorable day as the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Chickasaw Nation teamed up to honor Southeastern Oklahoma State University and president Larry Minks for the school's commitment to and support of Native American student success.

OKLAHOMA CITY &#8212 Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has issued a 30-day stay of execution to a death-row inmate scheduled to die next week for the 1986 shooting death of the mother of his two children.

The former leader of the Oklahoma Senate is set to go on trial on federal charges that he accepted more than $400,000 in illegal payments from three companies that sought his influence.

A new plan would seek to reduce Oklahoma's violent crime rate by up to 10 percent, require anyone who has been in an Oklahoma prison to be subject to post-incarceration supervision and contain costs by managing prison growth, proponents said Thursday.{linefeed} The idea began with a review of Oklahoma's corrections system and turned into a plan for ... (more)

Jan 23, 2012 Hermann Jaeger, Ozark Grape Hunter: Saving European Vineyards in the Late 19th Century From AP OKLAHOMA CITY -- An Oklahoma appeals court has upheld the life in prison sentences of a man convicted of two counts of first-degree murder for the shotgun slayings of two men at a Sperry residence.

A Senate Review by Senator Josh Brecheen On Monday, the Legislature gathered for Gov.

Nearly 2,000 people received a vulgar e-mail from the Oklahoma Insurance Department.

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.