All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 12 2022 // A federal judge has given preliminary approval to a $34 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit against a chemical company over contamination of groundwater and soil in a southern Vermont community.Notices are going...
Jan 4 2022 // The Justice Department announced that it has obtained a settlement agreement with the Housing Authority of the Town of Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, and two of its former employees to resolve allegations that they violated federal...
Dec 15 2021 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready is encouraging residents to take precautions against porch piracy as the winter holiday season nears.According to C + R Research, 230 million Americans will be shopping online...
Dec 15 2021 // A wildfire that forced evacuations in rural southwestern Oklahoma last week destroyed five homes, 14 barns and nine vehicles, officials said Monday.Three of the burned homes were unoccupied, said Comanche County Emergency...
Dec 14 2021 // A former member of Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s cabinet has filed a claim for $60 million damages with the state attorney general’s office, alleging he was wrongly charged with bribery.Former Secretary of...
Dec 13 2021 // A grass fire in southwestern Oklahoma that forced evacuations was about 95 percent contained by late Friday, Dec. 10, emergency officials said.There were no reported deaths or injuries due to the fire near Lawton, which...
Dec 3 2021 // A Guymon, Oklahoma processing and packing facility – operated by one of the nation’s largest pork processors – failed to prevent workers from being exposed to repetitive motion injuries and did not record...
Nov 29 2021 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled last week that an earth-movement exclusion precludes insurance coverage for an oil and gas company facing several lawsuits accusing its operations of causing earthquakes.National American...
Nov 18 2021 // Oklahoma is among 12 state attorneys general filing a federal lawsuit over the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for health care workers.Attorney General John O’Connor said Nov. 16 that Oklahoma...
Nov 9 2021 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court overturned a ruling that drugmaker Johnson & Johnson must pay the state $465 million for its role in the opioid epidemic, determining that Oklahoma’s public nuisance law does not extend...
Nov 4 2021 // A total of 31 tornadoes last month was a record-high for October in Oklahoma dating to 1950, according to the National Weather Service.The previous high for October, the fifth most active month for tornadoes, was 27 in...
Oct 22 2021 // Texas utility regulators on Oct. 21 approved a rule requiring power companies to better prepare for winter weather — based on recommendations that were made, but never acted upon, a decade ago by experts and federal...
Oct 14 2021 // Two likely tornadoes touched down in the Oklahoma City area Wednesday in addition to two other suspected twisters in western Oklahoma as severe storms hit the state, according to the National Weather Service.There are no...
Oct 12 2021 // Severe storms brought suspected tornadoes and baseball-sized hail to parts of Oklahoma, but there were no reports Monday of deaths or injuries.The severe weather system that hit Oklahoma late Sunday also brought heavy...
Oct 7 2021 // Federal officials cited Valmont Coatings for one willful and five serious violations and proposed $202,000 in penalties following the death of a worker at its facility in Claremore, Oklahoma.The Occupational Safety and...
Sep 29 2021 // In a committee hearing on Sept. 28, Texas state senators were furious that natural gas companies won’t have to better prepare their facilities for extreme weather before this winter and rebuked the Texas Railroad...
Sep 23 2021 // Biggs Joins Oklahoma Workers’ Comp CommissionThe Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission (WCC) added Scott Biggs as its newest commissioner. The WCC and its three commissioners are tasked with carrying out...
Sep 22 2021 // The Oklahoma Insurance Department approved a 9.4% decrease in workers’ compensation insurance loss costs for 2022, a reduction that will lead to lower premiums for many Oklahoma businesses, the department said.Loss...
Sep 17 2021 // Oklahoma moved from No. 9 in the nation to No. 7 among states with the lowest percentages of structurally deficient bridges on the highway system in 2020, the state’s transportation department reports.Oklahoma was...
Aug 31 2021 // An Oklahoma court has approved Sentry Insurance Co.’s (Sentry) Insurance Business Transfer (IBT) Plan, insurance regulators say.This is the second IBT completed in the United States, according to the Oklahoma...