It appears unlikely that Oklahoma judges, district attorneys or statewide elected officials will be getting a pay raise any time soon.
Military officials say an Oklahoma soldier has died in Afghanistan.
Two new Democratic lawmakers have been sworn into office during separate ceremonies in the House and Senate.
A legislative committee recommends Oklahoma create its own health insurance exchange to avoid having the federal government establish one for it.
The Defense Department says a soldier from Oklahoma who was based at Fort Carson, Colo., has died in Afghanistan.
Prosecutors in Sedgwick County have dropped drug charges against former heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Morrison, less than a year after unrelated drug charges were dismissed in Emporia.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul will hold a campaign rally in Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma County prosecutors have charged a Midwest City man with first-degree murder in the death of his aunt at her home.
An Associated Press survey of the nation's top methamphetamine-producing states shows national lab seizures rose again last year.
A lawsuit challenging a scholarship program for children with disabilities is prompting a state lawmaker to seek a constitutional amendment.
An Oklahoma City man told police he used a harpoon to defend his home from two intruders on Wednesday morning.
Vian High School says its homecoming queen has died after suddenly falling ill with a suspected case of the flu.
An Oklahoma man has been arrested after Bullhead City, Ariz., police say he attacked three hospital workers. A police department spokeswoman says 23-year-old Cory Shane Brummett of Sapulpa, Okla., was arrested Monday on...
The superintendent of Oklahoma's largest school district says he's "very concerned" that the state Department of Education may take over 24 schools identified as needing improvement.
Officials say a new $7.5 million jail in Caddo County will soon begin accepting inmates.
Three energy companies are announcing plans to build a 210-mile pipeline that will carry crude from western and north-central Oklahoma to the storage facility in Cushing. Construction on the project will begin in July and is...
Three energy companies have announced plans to build a 210-mile pipeline to carry crude oil from western and north-central Oklahoma to the storage facility in Cushing.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded a federally recognized Oklahoma Indian tribe more than $117,000 for affordable housing programs.
More witnesses are scheduled to testify in the bribery and extortion trial of the former leader of the Oklahoma Senate.
A hearing in Okfuskee County District Court is scheduled for a man accused of fatally shooting two young girls in eastern Oklahoma.
Aaryn Ellenberg scored 23 points last night to as Oklahoma upset No. 14 Texas A&M 64-55. Morgan Hook added 18 points and Whitney Hand had 11 for the Sooners, who tied the Aggies for second plan in the Big 12 standings....
After pledging to Oklahoma's oil and gas industry that it would make good on tax breaks temporarily set aside during a fiscal crisis, some legislators believe the state should repay developers only about 50 cents on the...
Attorney General Scott Pruitt has asked the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to set an execution date for a death row inmate who was convicted of a fatal 1975 shooting.
Despite impassioned pleas from district attorneys to limit access to a key ingredient used to make meth, a House committee has narrowly rejected a bill that would require a prescription to purchase certain cold medicines.
Authorities have issued an Amber Alert for two young boys whose mother allegedly threatened to drive a vehicle with the children in it into a lake before she allowed their father to have visitation.
A retired early childhood development professor accused of conspiring with a former Oklahoma school teacher to make child pornography involving her students has waived his extradition hearing in Pennsylvania.
Two bills to reduce Oklahoma's personal income tax have cleared a Senate committee over the objections of some Democrats who say the proposals dangerously threaten core state services.
A memorial service for Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony Shadid is scheduled for March 3 in Oklahoma City.
American Airlines workers in Tulsa say they are stepping up efforts to save hundreds of local jobs that could be on the bankrupt company's chopping block.
A 22-year-old Oklahoma woman who reportedly contracted salmonella after eating at Taco Bell has sued the fast-food company, seeking more than $75,000 in damages.
Increased tax collections will give Oklahoma lawmakers about $47 million more to spend on the upcoming fiscal year - money that Gov. Mary Fallin says should be returned to Oklahomans in the form of a tax cut.
A once-powerful Washington figure himself, Newt Gingrich says he'd shrink the role of the nation's capital if sent back as president.
A natural gas driller and a pipeline company are proposing to build a new pipeline to carry natural gas from Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale to the New York and New England markets.
A Pontotoc County man is in critical condition at an Oklahoma City hospital following a storm that overturned his mobile home and killed his wife.
Searchers on the ground and by air have been trying to find a small airplane that disappeared from radar and lost radio contact over West Texas.
Authorities have resumed the search for a single-engine airplane that disappeared from radar and lost radio contact over West Texas.
Oklahoma's multicounty grand jury will resume meeting this week after it did not finish its investigation earlier in the month.
Testimony is scheduled to resume in the bribery and extortion trial of the former leader of the Oklahoma Senate.
Attorneys are expected to give their final arguments Tuesday in the trial of two white supremacist brothers accused of bombing a city official in Arizona because he is black.
By The Associated Press Authorities were searching early Tuesday for a small airplane that disappeared from radar and radio contact the night before.
An Oklahoma man is in custody after northern Arizona authorities say they found methamphetamine and nearly $60,000 in cash in his vehicle.
Oklahoma's House speaker has derailed a plan to reinstate for Oklahoma National Guard members the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that bars gays from openly serving in the military.
Oklahoma prosecutors want the Legislature to revive a bill that would require a prescription to purchase cold tablets that contain a key ingredient used to make methamphetamine.
The Cherokee Nation has distributed nearly $3 million to public schools in northeastern Oklahoma.
An approaching storm system is bringing severe weather to Oklahoma.
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is dangling the prospect of gas as low as $2 a gallon if he's elected.
The trial of an Oklahoma woman accused of killing her newborn baby has been postponed.
The nation's largest protestant denomination will remain "Baptist" but it's thinking about whether to stay "Southern" for much longer.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has scheduled an April 19 hearing on a lawsuit concerning the water rights of two Oklahoma-based American Indian tribes in their historic territories in southeastern Oklahoma.
Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich plans to wrap up his visit to the Sooner State with a speech to Oklahoma lawmakers.
An Oklahoma lawmaker is pushing a bill to require drug testing for certain welfare recipients.
Authorities say five teenagers have been arrested after an early morning home invasion in Broken Arrow.
The Rogers County sheriff says a woman was killed when she got into an argument with a man who later left in a pickup truck, running her over and dragging her body for several feet.
Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich will become the fifth Republican candidate to visit Oklahoma in recent months.
Mike Miller and Matt Russell had two RBIs each to help lead Cal Poly to a 6-0 victory over Oklahoma State in California.
An Oklahoma legislator who is accused of offering a fellow lawmaker an $80,000 job in exchange for her agreement to not seek re-election to the Senate is running for a seat on the Cleveland County Board of Commissioners.
A spokesman for the Colorado U.S. Attorney's Office says an assistant U.S. Attorney died while snowshoeing in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Am 18-year-old Frisco, Texas, woman who was reported missing has been found in Oklahoma.
The director of the Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs is retiring.
The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded a small earthquake in central Oklahoma.
Ottawa County authorities say skeletal remains have been found in a wooded area near Cardin.
The Oklahoma baseball team rallied from two runs down to take a season-opening win over Pepperdine in college baseball.
The Oklahoma State Cowboys were held to two hits in a season-opening baseball loss to Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Thirty-two soldiers with the Oklahoma National Guard's 45th Infantry Brigade are back home after deployment to Afghanistan and Kuwait.
Despite the defeat in a Senate subcommittee of a bill that would require prescriptions for cold medicines that contain pseudoephedrine - supporters of the idea say they'll continue to fight for the requirement.
By The Associated Press Oklahoma tax deductions and exemptions that would be eliminated under Gov. Mary Fallin's income tax plan, according to a review conducted by the state Tax Commission and...
Investigators say DNA has linked a Colorado inmate suspected of being the "Ether Man" serial rapist to a string of sexual assaults that roiled the University of Oklahoma campus from 1985 to 2005.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says a 17-month-old Waurika girl who was allegedly abducted by her father has been found safe in Florida.
The University of Oklahoma is remembering journalist Anthony Shadid as one if its "most outstanding former students."
Prosecutors have dropped kidnapping and assault charges against a McAlester man after the alleged victim failed to appear in court.
Production of Marcellus Shale natural gas in Pennsylvania rose again in the second half of 2011, slightly exceeding projections.
A Roland man has been sentenced to four years in prison for the shooting death of a 1-year-old girl during an apparent robbery attempt.
Gov. Mary Fallin will be on hand as a group of Oklahoma National Guard soldiers return from a deployment in Afghanistan.
Oklahoma Department of Transportation officials say dramatic changes are in store for motorists traveling in downtown Oklahoma City as westbound lanes of the new Interstate 40 Crosstown highway open this weekend.
A bill that would prevent teenage drivers from using cell phones while driving has cleared a Senate panel.
The federal bribery trial of the Oklahoma Senate's former leader is wrapping up its first week.
Oklahoma County prosecutors have filed two first-degree murder counts against three people in the death of a pregnant Midwest City woman.
New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid has died in eastern Syria while on a reporting assignment.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs says two property owners who are leasing land in Broken Arrow to an Oklahoma tribe that plans to build a casino must obtain a lease approved by the agency.
A heated, nose-to-nose exchange between two legislators erupted on the Oklahoma House floor after one lawmaker objected to comments being made over a simple resolution declaring March "Music Therapy Month" in the state.
Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich is planning a stop at Tulsa's Oral Roberts University next week - the same place rival Rick Santorum visited a week ago.
Over-the-counter sales of cold medicines that contain a key ingredient used to make meth will continue after Oklahoma lawmakers killed a bill to require a prescription to buy them.
A death-row inmate originally scheduled to be executed Thursday night will instead be put to death March 17 if the governor's legal team decides against commuting the man's sentence to life in prison.
Authorities in northeastern Oklahoma are investigating after two people were found dead in Mayes County.
An Oklahoma City Metro Transit Bus and a sport utility vehicle have collided just west of downtown - injuring 12 people, including one in serious condition.
The Oklahoma State Department of Health has confirmed meningitis as the cause of death of an infant in Pawnee County.
Officials say a collision involving an Oklahoma City school bus resulted in two high school students being taken to a local hospital.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a Nevada man is hospitalized in Fort Smith, Ark., after jumping from a moving Greyhound bus on Interstate 40 in eastern Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a 5-year-old boy was killed when he was trying to climb into the back of a moving pickup truck.
Authorities say a vehicle driven by a man who was found dead on the side of a Choctaw road earlier this week has been found.
Oklahoma voters will have the final say on whether state office holders can keep their jobs after being called up for military service.
The trial of Oklahoma's former Senate leader is scheduled to continue in federal court in Oklahoma City..
The nephew of a Midwest City woman who was found dead in her home earlier this week has been arrested on a first-degree murder complaint.
Police say a Colorado prison inmate has been connected to 14 sexual assaults that occurred in Norman from 1985 to 2001.
The Oklahoma Senate has overwhelmingly approved an anti-abortion "personhood" bill that declares life begins at conception, despite objections from the medical community that the bill could have dire unintended consequences.
Oklahoma's judges and statewide elected officials will not receive a pay hike under a resolution approved by a House committee.
Authorities in Enid have arrested a man on suspicion of second-degree murder after another man died in a bar fight.
The Chickasaw and Choctaw nations are asking a federal court for partial summary judgment in the tribes' lawsuit against Oklahoma over water rights.
Oklahoma House Speaker Kris Steele's water bill that sets a statewide goal of keeping Oklahoma's water demand static for the next 50 years has cleared its first legislative hurdle.
Authorities in southern Oklahoma are searching for a man and his toddler daughter who haven't been seen in nearly two weeks.
A coalition of Indian tribes is welcoming a court ruling that tribes cannot be held in contempt for commercial ventures such as personal loans offered over the Internet.
The attorney for a Council Hill man whose first-degree murder conviction was overturned plans to seek a bond hearing if his client's new trial is postponed.
Health officials are trying to determine if the death of a 4-month-old Pawnee County boy and the illness of a Tulsa elementary school student are from bacterial meningitis.
The Cherokee Nation has released details of a report that show the Tahlequah-based tribe has an estimated $1 billion impact on the state's economy.
Testimony is set to resume in federal court in the bribery and conspiracy trial of the former leader of the Oklahoma Senate.
Democrats have regained an Oklahoma House seat they lost during the GOP sweep of 2010.
Democrats in Oklahoma City have kept a downtown-area Senate seat in their party's hands.
A Guthrie woman has won a special Republican primary for a legislative seat left open by the death of a state senator.
The polls have closed in two primary and two general elections for Oklahoma legislative seats left vacant by the deaths of two lawmakers and the departure of two others.
One of the owners of a solid waste management company says the former leader of the Oklahoma Senate did no legal work for the company although he was paid $141,000 over three years.
A bill to gradually increase the legal age to purchase tobacco in Oklahoma from 18 to 21 has passed out of a House committee.
Oklahoma State will open Big 12 play with a home game against Texas and also host new conference members West Virginia and TCU next season.
The Midwest City police chief says a 64-year-old woman was found dead and her nephew and his girlfriend were found unresponsive and nude in an adjacent bedroom, suffering from gas asphyxiation after a stove was left on.
Oklahoma will hit the road to face both of its new Big 12 opponents.
State finance officials say sales tax collections to Oklahoma's general revenue fund last month reached an all-time high.
Organizers of Occupy protests from the around the Midwest will gather in St. Louis next month, pledging to re-emerge from a "winter lull" as bigger and stronger than before.
Oklahoma voters will have the final say on whether the governor should be involved in the parole process for nonviolent criminals.
Authorities are investigating after a body was found alongside a road in Choctaw.
Freezing fog has slickened roadways across Oklahoma and led to numerous automobile crashes across the state.
Voters head to the polls Tuesday in special primary and general elections for four seats in the Oklahoma Legislature.
Salina will name the basketball court at its Bicentennial Center after Kurt Budke, a native of the city who died in a plane crash while coaching Oklahoma State's women's basketball team.
Legislative leaders are pushing forward with a new 50-year water plan for Oklahoma, even though two Native American tribes have sued the state over water rights in southeast Oklahoma.
Oklahoma County prosecutors have charged the husband of a slain pregnant woman with first-degree murder.
A portrait of former U.S. President Zachary Taylor will be unveiled in the Oklahoma House.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys are scheduled to deliver opening statements in the trial of the former leader of the Oklahoma Senate who is accused of illegally accepting more than $400,000 in payments from three companies...
Midwest City police have found one person dead at a residence and two others who had to be taken to a hospital.
Tomorrow's primary is the first step in filling four seats in the state Legislature. Among the seats open are Senate District 20 in north-central Oklahoma and House District 71 in Tulsa. Voters will also decide races for...
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin is honoring an Okarche-based company for converting its 2,000th vehicle to run on compressed natural gas.
Authorities are removing more than a dozen emaciated horses from a property in rural Logan County.
The deaths of two lawmakers and the departure of two others for jobs in the private sector have thrown open four seats in the Oklahoma Legislature.
The state medical examiner's office says a Blanchard woman who was found dead last month was stabbed to death.
Authorities say a 7-year-old boy who was found at the bottom of a swimming pool has died.
Highway crews are plowing roadways and applying salt and sand as a winter storm makes its way across Oklahoma.
An Oklahoma County judge has sentenced a man to life in prison for the shaking death of his 5-month-old daughter.
Cleveland County sheriff's deputies have moved prisoners from the jail in downtown Norman to the new F. DeWayne Beggs Detention Center.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin for the former leader of the Oklahoma state Senate who faces federal charges of bribery, conspiracy, extortion and mail fraud.
Authorities closed a federal highway in western Oklahoma after numerous cars failed to maneuver an incline left slippery by falling snow.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has been asked to help probe a homicide in Murray County.
Residents in Arkansas and Oklahoma are preparing for an approaching winter storm that threatened to dump snow, sleet and freezing rain on both states.
Wild horse protection advocates are accusing the federal Bureau of Land Management of stacking a public advisory board with friends of cattle ranchers at the expense mustangs. And they say they are worried the panel is...
Authorities are investigating the death of a Mulhall woman found alongside a highway in Logan County as suspicious.
As natural gas prices continue to drop, the recent nationwide boom in drilling is slowing.
It's been nearly six years since state workers have seen a pay raise, and it's unlikely one will come anytime soon.
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.
The first significant winter storm of the season for Oklahoma and Arkansas is expected to move into the two states starting during the weekend.
Tulsa firefighters say the body of a man has been found in the debris of a burned home.
A Bartlesville man has been convicted of second-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife.
The Maine caucuses come at a critical time for Mitt Romney.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is casting himself as a strict conservative as he looks to reset his campaign following three losses to rival Rick Santorum.
President Barack Obama's shifting over contraception coverage has united conservative Republicans in protest even as they split over which GOP presidential hopeful should face him in the general election.
An Oklahoma County judge facing felony charges of fraud, perjury and conspiracy says she will resign on March 1.
Delaware County authorities say a 16-year-old Afton boy who deputies believe was shot by his estranged girlfriend has died.
Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum's visit to the Sooner State this week is energizing Republican Party officials, who are optimistic Oklahoma can shed its reputation as a flyover state when it comes to presidential...
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has asked the state Supreme Court to decide the rights of two Oklahoma-based American Indian tribes to water in two major streams in their historic territories in southeastern Oklahoma.
Housing authorities in Oklahoma have received $14.5 million to make large-scale improvements to public housing units throughout the state.
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.
A Monroe couple accused of child neglect and sexual abuse has been bound over for trial.
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak has announced the resignation of a state employee who sent an official email to hundreds of people that contained an off-color term for breasts.
The Broken Arrow Police Department says two elementary schools are on lockdown after a man reportedly tried to abduct a 13-year-old girl from a bus stop.
Oklahoma City firefighters say one person has died after an overnight fire at an abandoned warehouse.
An Oklahoma anti-war group says the Army private accused of leaking classified material to Wikileaks should receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
A Dallas businessman has been sentenced to a maximum 20 years in prison over a $7 million investment scam.
Winter isn't done with Oklahoma just yet.
A state House panel has approved legislation its author says would save money by consolidating the state's fiber communications network.
Delaware County authorities say an 18-year-old girl shot her former teenage boyfriend and then killed herself.
Gov. Mary Fallin has appointed a federal prosecutor and former U.S. Department of Justice attorney to serve as her general counsel.
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, in his words, "callousness toward life and family and faith."
All of a sudden, abortion, contraception and gay marriage are at the center of American political discourse, with the struggling - though improving - economy pushed to the background.
The stepfather of Oscar- and Grammy winner, Cher, has died in Oklahoma City.
An Oklahoma state worker is facing disciplinary action after an official email that contained an off-color term for breasts was sent to hundreds of people.
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.
President Barack Obama says his decision to free 10 states from the No Child Left Behind education law will give the flexibility they need to set high standards for students and hold schools accountable.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is defending his use of spending earmarks in Congress, saying some were necessary for defense or health programs.
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.
Budget writers in the Oklahoma House plan to quiz the directors of the state's largest health organizations about their budgetary needs.
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