All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 21 2016 // Sandridge Energy has agreed to a plan from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s Oil and Gas Conservation Division (OGCD) that will both reduce the volume of wastewater being injected in the Medford and...
Jan 20 2016 // In Oklahoma, now the country’s earthquake capital, people are talking nervously about the big one as man-made quakes get stronger, more frequent and closer to major population centers. Next door in Kansas,...
Jan 20 2016 // An Oklahoma family’s eviction from their “dream house” following allegations of check fraud is threatening to derail the first trial over General Motors Co.’s deadly ignition-switch flaw.Robert...
Jan 19 2016 // Counting every raindrop or measuring every gust of wind is impossible, but New York is getting closer with a uniquely extensive statewide system of automated weather stations that should paint a dramatically clearer...
Jan 19 2016 // Oklahoma residents concerned with a dramatic increase in the number of earthquakes called for more regulations on the oil and gas industry on Jan. 15 and urged state leaders to take action to stop the quakes.About 200...
Jan 14 2016 // A group of Edmond residents has filed a lawsuit against 12 energy companies, claiming that their saltwater disposal wells were partly to blame for earthquakes in central Oklahoma in recent weeks.The lawsuit seeks a...
Jan 13 2016 // Oklahoma’s captive insurance industry grew in 2015 with the licensing of 26 captive insurers, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced.With the addition of the 26 new captives, Oklahoma currently regulates 73...
Jan 13 2016 // Blue Bell Creameries is seeking to reassure customers that its ice cream in safe, even as the Texas company tries to determine whether listeria has again been found at one of its plants.Blue Bell is in in the midst of...
Jan 11 2016 // Lawsuits have been refiled that allege a former Tulsa County volunteer sheriff’s deputy used excessive force when he fatally shot one man and used a stun gun on another.The lawsuits were refiled against Robert Bates,...
Jan 11 2016 // Bouncing from drought to flooding, back to drought and then to flooding again, 2015 finished as the wettest year on record in Oklahoma.State Climatologist Gary McManus said that 2015 ended with a statewide average of 53.88...
Jan 11 2016 // Allstate Regional Counsel Robert Zeman has been elected to serve as chairman of the board of directors of the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT). His term began Jan. 1.Zeman has served on the ICT board of directors since...
Jan 8 2016 // Three earthquakes capable of causing moderate damage have been recorded in northwestern Oklahoma.The U.S. Geological Survey reports a magnitude 4.7 quake hit just before 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 6 about 20 miles northwest of...
Jan 6 2016 // The state commission that regulates Oklahoma’s oil and natural gas industry on Jan. 4 ordered some injection well operators to reduce wastewater disposal volumes after at least a dozen earthquakes hit an area north...
Dec 31 2015 // The Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office says the deaths of five people in recent days are likely linked to a powerful weekend winter storm. Spokesman Eddie Johnson said that the dead include two women found outdoors...
Dec 31 2015 // A strong, 4.3-magnitude earthquake woke many people in the Oklahoma City area early on Dec. 29 and knocked out power to thousands of homes, the latest in a series of temblors that’s prompted state regulators to call...
Dec 30 2015 // If you scan the song/album list of the late, great Texas blues guitar powerhouse, Stevie Ray Vaughan, you’ll get an inkling of what the major stories from Insurance Journal’s South Central region in 2015 were...
Dec 30 2015 // Gov. Mary Fallin is extending a state of emergency to all 77 Oklahoma counties after another winter storm brought ice to western and central parts of the state and heavy flooding in the east and northeast.Fallin issued an...
Dec 29 2015 // The U.S. Labor Department has accused a Wichita Mountains roadside restaurant of violating wage and child labor laws.A U.S. District Court complaint filed in Oklahoma City says Meers Store & Restaurant owes more than...
Dec 28 2015 // Two earthquakes have rattled portions of Oklahoma that are becoming accustomed to experiencing many of the temblors.The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a 3.4 magnitude quake near Medford Sunday. Shortly before that, the...
Dec 22 2015 // An Oklahoma judge has rejected a request from two energy companies to throw out a lawsuit by a woman who claims she was injured in an earthquake caused by the injection of wastewater.Lincoln County District Judge Cynthia...