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Oklahoma law enforcement officers patrolling the state’s roads and highways may soon have a new tool for testing drivers who they believe may be under the influence of marijuana. Signed by Gov. Kevin Stitt on May 21, HB 4161 directs the Oklahoma Depa...

For now, Jake Phelps can catch his breath as he figures out what comes next for his business. Phelps closed his Capital City Barbershop along North Classen Boulevard on March 21 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, even before barber shops and hair...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Clad in his camouflage uniform with three stars on each collar, Lee Levy II walks the shop floor in the sprawling Building 3001 on Tinker Air Force Base. The lieutenant general is in his element as he exchanges hellos or salutes...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Lilly Thomson sells Girl Scout cookies just about as well as anyone, and she proved it by moving more than 6,000 boxes of Thin Mints, Tagalongs and Do-si-dos this year, earning her a trip to Disney World. But the trip was far fro...

ARCADIA, Okla. (AP) — The rumble of motorcycles announces the arrival of a group of tourists on a bright early May morning at the Round Barn in Arcadia. "They're here," one of the barn's staff members said aloud. Within moments, the silence of an o...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Sitting in an Oklahoma City Zoo auditorium last year, Trisha McDonald got the spark that would send her on the adventure of her life. McDonald listened as Greg Rasmussen, who's considered the world's leading expert on African p...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A project seeking to find photographs of the 988 Oklahomans who died in the Vietnam War has located images for all but two — one a soldier, the other a Marine. Army Pfc. Jesse Willard Dowling, a Lawton native, was killed Jun...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — As a cat lover, the story on her local news about a tiger cub that had been rejected by its mom hooked Terry Bronson almost immediately. Zoya, a Siberian tiger cub born at the Philadelphia Zoo, was motherless. The news report i...

MIDWEST CITY, Okla. (AP) — After playing a crucial role in World War II and years lying derelict in a school parking lot, an Oklahoma-built C-47 Skytrain is finally coming home. Tail no. 42-92838 came off the assembly line at the Douglas Aircraft P...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Reina Wilson works in a fish bowl. Not the kind that involves underwater windmills and colorful fish. This one overflows with television monitors and computer screens and seeks to keep motorists moving along. Wilson works as a tr...