All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 21 2015 // Despite its opposition to making marijuana use legal, the Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to reject a lawsuit from Nebraska and Oklahoma that seeks to declare Colorado’s pot legalization...
Dec 21 2015 // Gov. Mary Fallin has requested a major disaster declaration from the federal government for 18 Oklahoma counties affected by a winter storm last month. Fallin’s office announced the request on Dec. 17. If approved,...
Dec 16 2015 // An Oklahoma official says 2015 is the state’s wettest year on record, beating a rainfall record set in 1957.The Oklahoman reports that the state has seen an average of 48 inches of rain this year, topping the...
Dec 14 2015 // Oklahoma wildlife officials say a discharge of partially treated wastewater from an Arkansas wastewater plant killed over 30,000 fish along a Siloam Springs tributary.The fish kill happened in September when the apparent...
Dec 11 2015 // Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission Chairman Robert Gilliland has reappointed Louis Pippin to the commission’s Self-Insurance Guaranty Fund (SIGF) board. Pippin, of Oklahoma City, fulfilled the remainder...
Dec 10 2015 // Two energy companies asked a judge on Dec. 9 to throw out a lawsuit by an Oklahoma woman who claims she was injured in an earthquake caused by the injection of wastewater deep into the ground — a long-used method to...
Dec 10 2015 // An Oklahoma insurance executive has been named co-chair of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump campaign in the state.Trump said in a news release that Bob Mills and Dan Keating will lead his campaign in the...
Dec 8 2015 // A federal judge has suspended activity in a lawsuit that challenges the ownership of a painting that hangs at a University of Oklahoma art gallery as negotiations continue with a French woman who claims the artwork was...
Dec 7 2015 // Houston-based Columbia Lloyds Insurance Co., a provider of homeowners and tenant dwelling insurance throughout Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, appointed John R. Todd as president and chief executive officer, and Shabbir...
Dec 7 2015 // In response to an increase in larger earthquakes in certain oil production areas of the state, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission said it’s working to have some disposal wells shut down and volume reduced at other...
Dec 4 2015 // The Oklahoma Corporation Commission is working to finalize a plan for wastewater disposal well operators to shut down or reduce volume in north-central Oklahoma, which has been rattled by a swarm of earthquakes.Commission...
Dec 2 2015 // At least seven earthquakes rattled north-central Oklahoma on Monday, Nov. 30, including one felt 300 miles away in Iowa, prompting concern from local residents and policymakers that the state isn’t doing enough to...
Dec 2 2015 // Authorities have written nearly 100 tickets for texting while driving in the first month Oklahoma state’s ban has been in effect.Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. John Vincent says troopers have written 91 tickets for...
Nov 23 2015 // A state audit of the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission indicates the agency has not been tracking some mandatory assessments.A sample test of claims paid from two funds showed roughly half had no supporting...
Nov 20 2015 // A magnitude 4.7 earthquake rattled northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas early on Nov. 19. It was the second quake over 4.0 magnitude to strike the northern part of the state in less than a week.Two smaller quakes struck...
Nov 17 2015 // A settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit on behalf of former residents of the old mining town of Picher, Okla., against a Tulsa-based appraisal firm involved with the federal buyout of property in the...
Nov 17 2015 // The truck that killed four members of a college women’s softball team in Oklahoma last year was driven by a Texas man with a history of using synthetic marijuana, U.S. safety investigators found.Russell Staley needed...
Nov 16 2015 // Kingstone Companies Inc., a New York-domiciled multi-line property/casualty insurance holding company, announced that its subsidiary, Kingstone Insurance Company, was granted approval to write P/C insurance in Connecticut...
Nov 16 2015 // A new law making it illegal to text and drive in Oklahoma became effective on Nov. 1.People caught reading or writing texts or emails while driving will be fined $100 under the Trooper Nicholas Dees and Trooper Keith Burch...
Nov 15 2015 // A $7.1 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit involving the controversial red-light camera system used in Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish from 2007 until 2010 has been approved.The Advocate reports checks will go...