All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 13 2015 // A measure aimed at curbing the dangerous trend of texting while driving easily passed out of an Oklahoma House committee, the bill’s author reports.House Bill 1965, by state Rep. Terry O’Donnell, strengthens...
Feb 12 2015 // A Prague, Okla., resident has filed a lawsuit against two energy companies seeking class-action status for people in nine counties who were affected by recent earthquakes. Jennifer Lin Cooper filed the suit against...
Feb 11 2015 // A.M. Best has revised the outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the financial strength rating of B- (Fair) and the issuer credit ratings of “bb-” of the members of Oklahoma Farm Bureau Group: Oklahoma...
Feb 9 2015 // The former CEO of a now-defunct trucking company that left its employees stranded all over the country when it suddenly shut down in December 2009 has pleaded guilty in federal court in Oklahoma to charges of tax evasion...
Feb 9 2015 // A major insurer who had the financially shaky Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame on the hook for around $11,200 a couple weeks ago after the museum failed to pay its workers’ compensation premium on time now says the...
Feb 9 2015 // Oklahoma Sen. Ron Sharp, R-Shawnee, filed legislation to address the state’s high number of uninsured motorists, especially those with DUI convictions.Senate Bill 260 would require an individual convicted of driving...
Feb 6 2015 // For at the last 15 months, Kansas geologist Rex Buchanan estimates, he’s spent 90 percent of his time studying something once relatively rare in the state — earthquakes.He has learned a lot, said the director of...
Feb 6 2015 // A swarm of earthquakes has shaken parts of Alfalfa County in northern Oklahoma. The U.S. Geological Survey says four earthquakes have been recorded around Cherokee and Helena since late on Feb. 4, including a magnitude 4.3...
Feb 6 2015 // Concerned about the growing presence of drones in the skies above Oklahoma, a couple of state lawmakers have filed legislation to rein in their use.But state officials trying to attract unmanned aerial vehicle designers...
Feb 5 2015 // A SandRidge Energy injection well has been ordered shut down because of numerous earthquakes near the well in north-central Oklahoma.The Oklahoma Corporation Commission issued the order after a 4.1 magnitude earthquake was...
Feb 2 2015 // The Oklahoma Insurance Department announced that it issued 37 new captive insurance licenses last year, bringing the total number of licensed captives in the state to 47.Oklahoma has licensed pure, association, sponsored...
Feb 2 2015 // Authorities are investigating the theft of 30 bronze vases from a Norman cemetery, and officials say more than 200 other vases have been stolen recently in central Oklahoma.Cleveland County Sheriff Joe Lester told the...
Jan 29 2015 // A 4.2 magnitude earthquake shook part of Grant County in northern Oklahoma on Jan. 27.The U.S. Geological Survey says the 4.2 magnitude earthquake was recorded shortly before 10 a.m. about 13 miles south-southeast of...
Jan 28 2015 // Oklahoma Sen. Ron Sharp has filed legislation to address the state’s high number of uninsured motorists especially those with DUI convictions.Senate Bill 260 would require an individual convicted of Driving Under the...
Jan 28 2015 // The U.S. Drought Monitor says more than 1.8 million Oklahomans are being affected by an ongoing, deepening drought. The Oklahoma Water Resources Board says that in the past month, the percentage of Oklahoma classified as...
Jan 26 2015 // Oklahoma’s highest court has decided to hear a lawsuit that alleges two oil companies are liable for injuries a Prague woman suffered during a 2011 earthquake.The lawsuit by Sandra Ladra of Prague is among dozens of...
Jan 25 2015 // The shaky finances of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame seem to be attracting more attention than the museum itself.Executives at the nearly 30-year-old Tulsa nonprofit have sternly denied that the museum was in dire straits...
Jan 23 2015 // Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has filed workers’ compensation fraud charges in two separate cases.Pruitt’s office announced the charges against 30-year-old Nicholas Hurt and 48-year-old James Cramer....
Jan 21 2015 // After increasing rapidly over the past three years, the pace of earthquakes in Oklahoma held steady in 2014 at a rate higher than California and far higher than the historic average in Oklahoma.Oklahoma experienced 567...
Jan 20 2015 // The husband of a woman who was beheaded last year at an Oklahoma food-processing plant has been awarded $100,000 in death benefits plus $418 a week for the rest of his life.The Oklahoman newspaper reports the benefits were...