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OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Oklahoma Gas & Electric, the utility subsidiary of OGE Energy Corp. (NYSE: OGE), announced today that, pending regulatory approval, it will acquire two existing power plants to meet customers' energy...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's newly elected governor has tapped a former state senator from Tulsa to be his secretary of budget. Gov.-elect Kevin Stitt announced Thursday he plans to hire former state Sen. Mike Mazzei (MAY'-zee) to the newly c...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An employee at a Tulsa Walgreens with a concealed-carry license fatally shot an armed man after an argument that began at the photo counter, police said Thursday. The man who died after the shooting Wednesday evening was i...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities say the possible release of pepper spray may be responsible for respiratory complaints that forced the evacuation of a store in downtown Oklahoma City. An Oklahoma City Fire Department hazardous materials team was c...

EL RENO, Okla. (AP) — A father and son who ran an Oklahoma-based publishing company have agreed to pay back about $1 million to the thousands of writers and musicians they defrauded, according to the state's attorney general. Richard Tate, who f...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has denied a new hearing for a death row inmate convicted of beating his 87-year-old mother to death. The court handed down the ruling Thursday to 63-year-old Darrell Wayne Frederick, who s...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — An affidavit alleges University of Kansas football player Pooka Williams punched a woman in the stomach and grabbed her by the throat earlier this month. The Lawrence Journal-World reported the 18-year-old woman showed the o...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas must fix its troubled child welfare system now or more vulnerable children will suffer, a coalition of legislators and children's advocates say in a report released Thursday. The group, Strengthen Families Rebuild Hope, s...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Police officers fatally shot a mentally distressed woman after ignoring SWAT team members' advice and entering a suburban Kansas City home to apprehend her "in direct violation of police policies and protocols," according to a wro...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Fewer Kansas high school athletes are going on to compete at the state's junior colleges since out-of-state roster restrictions were eliminated. The number of Kansas football players in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Confer...

GREENUP, Ky. (AP) — A jail inmate who escaped from authorities and tried hitchhiking along a highway didn't enjoy freedom for long because the motorist he flagged down was a law enforcement officer. Greenup County Jailer Mike Worthington told The I...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigned Thursday after clashing with President Donald Trump over the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria and after two years of deep disagreements over America's role in the world. Mattis, p...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's demand for border wall funds hurled the federal government closer to a shutdown as House Republicans approved a package Thursday with his $5.7 billion request that is almost certain to be rejected by the S...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rattled by accusations he was caving on his promised border wall, President Donald Trump instead bowed to a conservative backlash. After signaling earlier in the week that he was backing off a government shutdown threat, Trump r...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration miscalculated the potential benefits of putting better brakes on trains that haul explosive fuels when it scrapped an Obama-era rule over cost concerns, The Associated Press has found. A...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks went into another slide Thursday in what is shaping up as the worst December on Wall Street since the depths of the Great Depression, with prices dragged down by rising fears of a recession somewhere on the horizon. The Dow J...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials on Thursday said two alleged Chinese hackers carried out an extensive campaign on behalf of Beijing's main intelligence agency to steal trade secrets and other information from government agencies and "a who's who" o...

An online fundraiser started by an Air Force veteran to pay for construction of President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall was up to millions of dollars Thursday, bringing further attention to an issue that could lead to a government shutdown....

WASHINGTON (AP) — Military leaders were scrambling Thursday to devise a swift but safe departure of troops from Syria, as outraged lawmakers appealed to President Donald Trump to reverse an abrupt withdrawal order that rattled Washington's allies a...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a chilling warning Thursday about the rising threat of a nuclear war, putting the blame squarely on the U.S., which he accused of irresponsibly pulling out of arms control treaties. Speaking at h...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is setting out to do what this year's farm bill didn't: tighten work requirements for millions of Americans who receive federal food assistance. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday proposed a r...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed a wide-ranging criminal justice bill on Thursday that will reduce some of the harshest sentences for federal drug offenders and boost prison rehabilitation programs, handing President Donald Trump a legislative v...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A Chinese national employed by an Oklahoma petroleum company has been charged with stealing trade secrets. Federal prosecutors in Tulsa said Friday that 35-year-old Hongjin Tan is accused of stealing trade secrets from his u...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's largest electricity provider plans to spend $53 million to buy two power plants, which the utility says would save customers money and lower power plant emissions. Oklahoma Gas & Electric announced a plan Thursday t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office says a jail inmate has died at a hospital while undergoing treatment for an undisclosed medical condition. Sheriff's spokesman Mark Opgrande says 36-year-old Larry Freed died about 11 p.m. T...