All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 15 2019 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court has rejected a request by drugmakers to immediately postpone the start of what is expected to be the first state trial in lawsuits accusing the companies of fueling an opioid epidemic.The court...
Mar 14 2019 // Legislation that would make the Small Employer Quality Jobs Program more accessible to startup companies and small businesses has passed the Oklahoma House of Representatives with a bipartisan vote of 88 to 5.The Small...
Mar 12 2019 // The Oklahoma House of Representatives has unanimously passed legislation that will allow paid firefighters after retirement to return to service as volunteers without effect to their state pensions.House Bill 2051 passed...
Mar 11 2019 // Sometimes in forecasting tornadoes, you can get everything technically right, and yet it all goes horribly wrong.Three days before the killer Alabama tornado struck, government severe-storm meteorologists cautioned that...
Mar 11 2019 // OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP and two other drugmakers on Friday lost a bid to delay a landmark trial set for May in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit by Oklahoma’s attorney general accusing them of helping fuel an...
Mar 8 2019 // Sometimes in forecasting tornadoes, you can get everything technically right, and yet it all goes horribly wrong.Three days before the killer Alabama tornado struck, government severe-storm meteorologists cautioned that...
Mar 7 2019 // Sometimes in forecasting tornadoes, you can get everything technically right, and yet it all goes horribly wrong.Three days before the killer Alabama tornado struck, government severe-storm meteorologists cautioned that...
Mar 7 2019 // Pharmaceutical companies have asked for a 100-day postponement of an Oklahoma trial accusing them of fraudulently marketing drugs that have fueled the nation’s opioid crisis.Several states have filed lawsuits against...
Mar 5 2019 // Chicago-based Ryan Specialty Group LLC has acquired the assets and operations of Westphalen Insurance Services Inc. (Westphalen), an independently owned wholesale insurance brokerage with offices in Edmond, Oklahoma.The...
Mar 1 2019 // Tulsa County has reached a $350,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed by the estate of a local jail inmate who hanged himself in his cell a decade ago.The settlement was agreed to last week with Carolyn Cox, the mother of...
Mar 1 2019 // The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority has temporarily closed its customer service center to free up more staff to respond to the high volume of applications for medical marijuana cards.The number of applications...
Feb 26 2019 // Ohio’s Department of Transportation is seeking permission to apply changes in speed limits anytime statewide.The department currently is allowed to impose variable speed limits based on road conditions on only a few...
Feb 24 2019 // Multiple fire crews are responding to a blaze that has badly damaged businesses in Guthrie, north of Oklahoma City. Firefighters battled to contain a structure fire Saturday afternoon after officials say it consumed two...
Feb 19 2019 // A storm system could yield snow and ice in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas, according to the National Weather Service. The NWS issued a winter weather advisory for Tuesday through Wednesday morning for parts of western Texas,...
Feb 18 2019 // Credit Ratings of Oklahoma Farm Bureau Mutual Group UpgradedRatings agency AM Best has upgraded the Financial Strength Rating to B++ (Good) from B+ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings to “bbb” from...
Feb 13 2019 // Forestry officials say conditions in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles are ideal for sparking wildfires.Oklahoma Forestry Service officials say danger levels are high Monday in western Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Panhandle....
Feb 12 2019 // Chicago-based Ryan Specialty Group LLC has reached a definitive agreement to acquire the assets and operations of Westphalen Insurance Services Inc. (Westphalen), an independently owned wholesale insurance brokerage...
Feb 11 2019 // An attorney said video will show that an Oklahoma elementary school principal was using his cellphone when he crashed a bus filled with students in Texas, injuring 27 passengers — a charge the principal has denied.David...
Feb 6 2019 // AM Best has upgraded the Financial Strength Rating to B++ (Good) from B+ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings to “bbb” from “bbb-” for the members of the Oklahoma Farm Bureau Group:...
Feb 5 2019 // Crews are working to contain thousands of gallons of crude oil that leaked into a creek in northern Oklahoma.Oklahoma Corporation Commission spokesman Matt Skinner said oil extends for about five miles in Black Bear Creek...