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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Nearly 100 educators and administrators were running for seats in the Oklahoma Legislature during a primary election Tuesday that also will narrow the crowded field for governor and decide the nation's first medical marijuana b...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Latest on Oklahoma's primary election (all times local): 7 p.m. Polls have closed for Oklahoma's 2018 primary election. Polls closed at 7 p.m. Tuesday after opening at 7 a.m. for Oklahoma's first open governor's race since 20...

WAYNOKA, Okla. – Student-athletes at Waynoka High School will have some new faces to work with come August. Hiring a new head coach at the high school level is never easy. Waynoka superintendent Scott Cline and his team were tasked with filling five...

The Kiowa District Hospital Board conducted business in open session in approximately 30 minutes on June 20. They met in executive session before the meeting began near 30 minutes and about another one and a half hours at the end of the meeting. KDH...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma voters on Tuesday were winnowing a crowded field of candidates seeking the state's top job following an eight-year reign of Republican dominance. With no race for the U.S. Senate this cycle, much of the money and attenti...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma primary voters were weighing Tuesday whether to approve one of the least-restrictive state laws allowing medical marijuana, the nation's first cannabis ballot question of the year. State Question 788 , the result of a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — All but one of the institutions in the Regional University System of Oklahoma will increase tuition this fall under fiscal 2019 budgets approved by regents. The budgets approved last week include increases in tuition and m...

Barbara Breford Littlefield, 90, passed away at her home in Colorado on May 25, 2018. She was the daughter of Earnest Breford and Lorena Joseph Breford. Barbara lived in Alva, Oklahoma, during her college years....

Dorothea Elizabeth Haley, 91 of Emporia, Kansas, died Sunday, June 17, 2018, at the Holiday Resort Care Center in Emporia. Dorothea was born January 2, 1927, in Olpe, Kansas, the daughter of Fred and Elizabeth (Voeste) Hohne. She was baptized at the...

Peggy K. Shafer, wife of Carl Shafer and former Alva resident, passed away June 15, 2018, after a long illness at College Station, Texas....

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Latest on Oklahoma's primary election (all times local): 6:40 a.m. Oklahoma health officials will meet next month to consider emergency rules regarding medical marijuana after voters easily approved the medicinal use of t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — At least six Republican incumbents were bounced from office during Oklahoma's primary election, including several who were targeted by pro-education groups. Tuesday's primary election was the first test for many of the nearly 1...