Oklahoma News

About 75 state senators and representatives participated in a ceremony at the state Capitol on Monday organized in part by the bipartisan Oklahoma Legislative Prayer Caucus.

A judge on Monday sentenced a South Dakota inmate to death for his part in the killing of a prison guard during an unsuccessful escape attempt.

The FDA has approved a new drug doctors are calling a cure to a deadly disease and some Oklahomans played a part in making it happen.

Police say a 21-year-old Southern Nazarene University student was stabbed when he was taking food to the homeless.

The only two lawmakers who didn't introduce any legislation last year have returned to the Capitol this year with plenty of offerings.

Oklahomans are urged to join in the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut. This annual event is designed to prepare residents for an earthquake.

Oklahoma will try to snap a two-game losing streak when the Sooners meet No. 4 Missouri in Big 12 Conference basketball on Monday.

According to a copyright story in Sunday's The Oklahoman , Road Safety International LLC listed an Alpharetta, Ga.

As lawmakers return to the Capitol for the 2012 session, no issue is expected to receive as much attention as plans to overhaul the state's tax code and slash Oklahoma's individual income tax.

You have to be brave to jump into White Water Bay in February. But on Saturday, folks with a big heart stripped down, or dressed in costumes, to take the polar plunge to help raise money for the Special Olympics of Oklahoma .

In a recent mailing to Oklahoma child care providers from Oklahoma Department of Human Services, there was a flyer entitled " Let's Move! Child Care " that suggested Oklahoma child care providers to go the Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures website to sign up for the " Let's Move! Child Care" program.

As of Jan. 1, Oklahoma pharmacists and dispensers are required to report filled prescriptions within five minutes of handing the medication to customers.

Storm chaser Andy Gabrielson died Saturday afternoon when his vehicle was hit head on by a driver headed the wrong way on the Turner Turnpike.

Natural gas vehicles are not yet as common as more traditional uses of the fuel like gas-powered furnaces, stoves and water heaters.

A Massachusetts-based utility company says it has invested about $23 million of late-stage development capital to own the majority stake in a firm developing a wind power project in Oklahoma.

Tomorrow will end Tobacco-Free Oklahoma week. The Shawnee news-star.com reported that Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin had proclaimed this week Tobacco-Free week in Oklahoma.

Soldiers wait to train in a shoot house as members of the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Oklahoma Army National Guard train at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center near Hattiesburg in this American file photo taken in April.

The governor sent her letter Thursday, stating, "the State of Oklahoma repeatedly told you that if you will agree to dismiss your lawsuit, it will not initiate the adjudication and it will continue to mediate this dispute with the same mediator, and under the same mediaton rules, for so long as such mediation is productive." And she promised the ... (more)

Oklahoma's commissioner of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services has been named the interim director of the state's Department of Human Services.

New unemployment numbers show Oklahoma remains below the national average and last month the number of Oklahomans returning to work actually increased.