Happy Birthday To Jan. 31: Chad Grimes, Bill Bishop, Bret Burnham Feb. 1: Tricia Coday, Dean Welty, Jeffery Melkus Feb. 2: Dylan Moore, Lisa Welty, Jerry Cell, Deric Wagner Feb. 3: Bobby Gerloff, Vanessa Gerloff Feb. 4: Noah Ring Feb. 5: Chad Novak,...

The Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Action Committee invites communities to take action for children by participating in the 11th annual “Build a Blue Ribbon Tree for Kids” campaign. The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH), along with var...

Sunday, Jan. 27, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Announcements: Freedom UMC is having their annual Pancake Supper on Feb. 2 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the UMC Fellowship Hall. Shirley Wagner...

Fifth graders in Oklahoma City Public Schools will be joining older peers in middle schools across the district under a proposal unveiled this week. The fifth-through-eighth-grade middle school model isn’t very common, especially in large districts....

SHAWNEE – Women's tennis coaches in the Great American Conference have picked Oklahoma Baptist to successfully defend its league championship, according to votes cast in the annual pre-season poll. The Lady Bison finished first, narrowly in front o...

DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern men's tennis will head into the 2019 spring season as the favorite to repeat as the Great American Conference champions in the GAC Preseason Poll released on Wednesday. The Savage Storm earned 16 points in the poll and e...

Oklahoma football coach Lincoln Riley's salary jumped to $6 million and he had his contract extended a year, through the 2023 season. Riley and Oklahoma's Board of Regents agreed in principle to the extension and salary increase earlier in the...

ENID, Okla. (AP) — Crews are working to contain thousands of gallons of crude oil that leaked into a creek in northern Oklahoma. Oklahoma Corporation Commission spokesman Matt Skinner said Wednesday oil extends for about 5 miles (8 kilometers) in B...

NEW YORK (AP) — A former Oklahoma State assistant basketball coach pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking bribes from business advisers to steer them to star college athletes expected to turn pro. Lamont Evans, 41, entered the plea in New York federal c...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City businessman Clay Bennett is resigning from the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, effective immediately, citing health concerns. University officials confirmed Bennett's resignation on Wednesday, shortly a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has named Chickasaw Nation lawmaker and former state Rep. Lisa Billy as secretary of Native American Affairs. Billy has served in the Chickasaw Nation Legislature since 2016 and served previously in t...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A historic but dilapidated Tulsa bridge that has been closed for nearly four decades should be restored for pedestrian use, according to preservationists. The Route 66 Commission has proposed reopening the 11th Street Arkansas R...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's new Republican governor and GOP leaders in the House and Senate expressed willingness on Wednesday to consider some version of a Medicaid expansion that would extend health insurance to tens of thousands of O...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge says Oklahoma Gas and Electric has agreed to reduce a rate increase request for its Arkansas customers from $6.4 million to $3.3 million. Oklahoma City-based OG&E is Oklahoma's l...

SALINA, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a man has been found dead in a burned home in northeastern Oklahoma. Mayes County Sheriff's Capt. Rod Howell says the body was found after firefighters put out the blaze early Wednesday near Salina, about 50 m...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A prosecutor says there are no plans to offer a plea deal to a 17-year-old charged with fatally shooting a man and raping an 81-year-old woman. The Tulsa World reports that at a preliminary hearing Tuesday for Deonte James G...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A proposal to strip the Kansas secretary of state's office of its power to prosecute voter fraud cases has cleared its first major hurdle in the Legislature. The bill endorsed Wednesday by a House committee would dismantle a k...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The new head of Kansas' prison system is telling legislators that more frequent inmate transfers and housing offenders two to a cell helped contribute to several riots during the past two years. Interim Corrections Secretary R...

ROSE HILL, Kan. (AP) — Federal health inspectors are investigating after a 38-year-old Sedgwick County man died when a trailer backed over him. The Butler County Sheriff's Office said 38-year-old Stephen Farmer, of Sedgwick County, died early W...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The owner of a defunct laboratory in Lenexa has been ordered to pay $544,287 for storing hazardous waste without a license. U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister announced Tuesday that 63-year-old Ahmed El-Sherif was found g...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas attorney general says the state has dropped former Secretary of State Kris Kobach's appeal of a contempt order arising from a lawsuit over a proof-of-citizenship law. Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced Tuesday t...