Oklahoma News

Supporters of an Oklahoma soldier who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for the shooting death of an Iraqi detainee are trying to win him a new trial.

Oklahomans are lending a hand to one community in Kenya. They're working in an African country right now at an orphanage for children.

A heat wave blistered Oklahoma on Friday, sending temperatures soaring to near-record levels for a second day in some parts of the state.

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A couple charged in Oklahoma with unlawful removal of a dead body have agreed to be returned to that state from Montana, where they were arrested.

A quirk of the clock and the calendar has given a Stillwater family an unforgettable memory.

Drought, followed by a late freeze, followed by floods combined to reduce the yield.

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The NCAA is citing Oklahoma State for a potential major rules violation in its baseball program.

Oregon investigators say autopsy results from remains found in a rental storage unit are consistent with the medical history of a missing 11-year-old Oklahoma girl, but the identity needs to be confirmed through dental records.

The uncle of a 14-year-old girl who died in a traffic accident east of Lawton says both families involved in the wreck were headed to a southern Oklahoma church camp.

The 29 Oklahoma-based American Indian tribes that offer gaming contributed almost $106 million to state coffers during the just-completed fiscal year, according to a report from the Office of State Finance.

Oklahoma's new electronic verification system for vehicle insurance is now online and fully operational.

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' Attorneys for a McCurtain County man scheduled to die Thursday for killing two campers in southern Oklahoma have filed a motion seeking to spare their client's life.

Former President George W. Bush kisses his wife, Laura, following an address to a Fourth of July crowd at the Let Freedom Ring 2009 festival at Crystal Beach Park Arena in Woodward, Okla., Saturday, July 4, 2009.

An Oklahoma couple has been arrested after being accused of burying their 11-year-old daughter, digging her up and moving her at least a half dozen times.

State officials are asking Oklahomans to join them in an ambitious goal to reduce tobacco use rates in Oklahoma to below the national average by 2012.

Rising oil prices may be helping boost an economic gauge for Oklahoma. The state's Business Conditions Index rose to 53.6 in June, the first time the gauge has been in positive territory - at 50 or above - since December.

When Al Franken assumes his new Senate perch Tuesday, the numbers will tell his tale: Minnesota's second senator, the symbolic 60th vote for Democrats - and No.

Sarkeys Foundation Executive Director Kim Henry has announced the Foundation's 2009 grant awards in the amount of $1,186,054 to assist a variety of Oklahoma nonprofits, including several Norman organizations.