All the headlines from our Oklahoma Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 14 2014 // A powerful storm system swept across Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma late on Sunday and early Monday, killing at least one person and injuring four others, emergency officials said, as millions of people were in the path of...
Oct 13 2014 // Oklahoma wheat farmers want the U.S. Department of Agriculture to implement now a policy that’s scheduled to start in 2016 that farmers say would help ease the financial pain of ongoing drought.The policy is part of...
Oct 13 2014 // The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded a 4.3 magnitude earthquake near Cushing in north-central Oklahoma. Cushing Emergency Management Director Bob Noltensmeyer says there are no injuries or major damage as a result of...
Oct 10 2014 // Allowing more students and faculty at colleges and universities to carry guns on campus would be a serious mistake and jeopardize the public’s safety, the University of Oklahoma president told members of a state...
Oct 8 2014 // Oklahomans can learn more about insurance company filings by using a new online tool that contains rate filings for property, casualty, life and health insurance products, the Oklahoma Insurance Department...
Oct 8 2014 // Local governments and some other entities in New Mexico are now eligible for federal assistance to recover from flooding and storm damage suffered during last summer. The White House says a disaster declaration by...
Oct 8 2014 // A January hearing is set on a proposed settlement of hundreds of lawsuits against Mountain State University.Media outlets reported that a three-judge mass litigation panel gave preliminary approval to the settlement Monday...
Oct 7 2014 // The family of a man who died after a struggle with police outside of a Moore movie theater in February has filed a claim against the city.The Oklahoman reports that Luis Rodriguez’s family filed a tort claim against...
Oct 7 2014 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak announce that new, emergency rules for registered federal health insurance program navigators have been approved by Gov. Mary Fallin.“The roles and duties of navigators...
Oct 6 2014 // The parents of an Oklahoma teenager killed in a drunken driving accident after he left an Ottawa County high school campus have settled a civil lawsuit against the school district.Duane and Donna Kerns sued the Fairland...
Oct 6 2014 // Government officials say the rate of earthquakes in Oklahoma of magnitude 3.0 or greater has risen significantly and that statistics show an increased chance for a magnitude 5.5 or greater quake in the state.From January...
Oct 6 2014 // Ohio employers will receive another $1 billion rebate and workers will benefit from a major new investment in worker safety research and training, according to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC).The...
Oct 3 2014 // United Services Automobile Association (USAA), the insurer that specializes in coverage for military families, has filed for permission from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to use unmanned drone aircraft at...
Oct 2 2014 // Some of the health-insurance subsidies being offered under the Affordable Care Act represent an “abuse of discretion” by the federal government, a federal judge in Oklahoma ruled on Sept. 30, marking another...
Oct 1 2014 // Authorities say an overnight fire has caused about $1 million in damage to a northwest Oklahoma City office complex. The blaze broke out early on Sept. 29 at the Wilshire Gardens Office Park. Firefighters battled the blaze...
Oct 1 2014 // The softball coach who was driving a team bus smashed into by an errant truck did everything he could to save four players who died in the accident, a relative said, even as investigators tried to solve the mystery of why...
Sep 30 2014 // The driver of a tractor-trailer that crashed into a bus and killed four college students on Interstate 35 in southern Oklahoma told investigators he was distracted.Russell Staley, 53, of Saginaw, Texas, was traveling...
Sep 28 2014 // A man who was shot after authorities say he beheaded one woman and attacked another at an Oklahoma food processing plant from which he had just been fired has regained consciousness and was interviewed by detectives on...
Sep 26 2014 // A Seminole woman pleaded with Oklahoma state lawmakers recently to “demand changes in the staffing and other requirements of our state’s long-term care facilities.”“We tried to do precisely that...
Sep 25 2014 // An investigation by the Oklahoma Insurance Department’s Anti-Fraud Unit has led to the arrest of former insurance agent Nathan Sullivan, Jr., 47. Sullivan is accused of defrauding a Weatherford woman out of more than...