Okla. House approves fund to pay for raises
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma legislators are taking a first step toward a cost-of-living adjustment for state pensioners by setting up an account that would be used fund the increased benefits.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma legislators are taking a first step toward a cost-of-living adjustment for state pensioners by setting up an account that would be used fund the increased benefits.
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma's largest Indian tribe will spend $100 million to build a 100-bed hospital, two new health care centers and to renovate two other health centers.
EL DORADO, Ark. (AP) - A jury in El Dorado has convicted an Oklahoma woman in the theft of five horses and equipment from the Southern Arkansas University rodeo team stables.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Senate Education Committee has referred to the full Senate a modified version of a bill that would make it easier for parents to urge school boards to close failing schools - or convert them into charters.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A group opposed to a set of public education principles known as common core state standards are rallying at the state Capitol and urging legislators to overturn them.
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A mental competency exam has been ordered for an 18-year-old charged with plotting to shoot fellow students at Bartlesville High School.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma is demanding Gov. Mary Fallin's office provide access to records surrounding her decision to reject the expansion of Medicaid in Oklahoma or face legal action.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A New York-based abortion rights group has filed a friend of the court brief in Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby's appeal of a ruling that its employee insurance plan must include emergency contraceptives such as the so-called morning after pill.
EL DORADO, Ark. (AP) - The trial is under way in El Dorado for an Arkansas woman charged with stealing horses and equipment from the Southern Arkansas University rodeo team stables in Magnolia.
ROFF, Okla. (AP) - The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says two people are dead after a three-vehicle crash in south central Oklahoma.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma Labor Commissioner Mark Costello is closing the agency's office in Tulsa and offering its 14 employees voluntary buyouts or jobs in the agency's Oklahoma City office.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn will hold a series of town hall meetings across Oklahoma beginning next week.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The nation's highest court is being asked to review a decision by Oklahoma's Supreme Court that invalidated a state anti-abortion law.
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - Five lawsuits against Narconon Arrowhead in Pittsburg County accuse counselors at the organization of trading drugs for sex and claim one patient's credit card was fraudulently charged for $14,500.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An Oklahoma representative has temporarily pulled a bill to provide in-state college tuition to United States citizens who graduated from an Oklahoma high school and were considered state residents at the time.
JOY, Okla. (AP) - The State Fire Marshal's office says two people were found dead after a house fire in south Oklahoma.
SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) - A former Oklahoma teacher who pleaded no contest to child exploitation and pornography charges is scheduled to be sentenced in Pottawatomie County.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Authorities in Oklahoma are sending out details over social media in hopes of finding clues in the 32-year-old unsolved killing of the so-called "Lime Lady."
SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) - The husband of a former McLoud school teacher who has pleaded no contest to child pornography and exploitation charges says she was manipulated by a co-defendant.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An Oklahoma City man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the shooting of an off-duty Oklahoma County sheriff's deputy during a robbery.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma mayors and other city officials are planning to be in Oklahoma City to observe Municipal Government Week.
