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An Oklahoma prosecutor said Friday he "fully expects" more young victims to emerge in the case of a former third-grade teacher accused of making child pornography involving her students and sharing it online with a retired college professor in Pennsylvania.
The plane involved in the crash that killed Oklahoma State women's basketball coach Kurt Budke and three others banked to the right and disappeared from radar before its nose dipped sharply, according to a preliminary federal report released Monday.
Oklahoma authorities have been at the forefront of the nation's battle against methamphetamine, but they will soon have a tough new opponent: a politically connected, well-heeled pharmaceutical industry.
A former Oklahoma judge convicted of exposing himself by using a sexual device while presiding over trials is not eligible to receive the retirement benefits from his 23-year career on the bench, the state's highest court ruled Tuesday.
An Oklahoma judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked from taking effect a new law designed to reduce the number of abortions performed in the state by restricting the ways in which doctors can treat women with abortion-inducing drugs.
The air is cool inside Ray Knight's makeshift coffee shop on the main strip in this tiny northern Oklahoma farming community, but there aren't many customers.
Republican Gov. Mary Fallin has signed a pair of bills intended to further restrict abortion in Oklahoma.
Tests to determine if bone fragments found on a remote South Pacific island are the remains of Amelia Earhart are inconclusive, researchers announced Wednesday, dashing hopes they might help explain what happened to the famed aviator who disappeared in 1937 while trying to fly around the world.
When Harry Coates campaigned for the Oklahoma state Senate in 2002, he had one approach to crime: "Lock 'em up and throw away the key."
Republican Mary Fallin (FAY-lihn) has taken her oath of office to become Oklahoma's first female governor.
The three bone fragments turned up on a deserted South Pacific island that lay along the course Amelia Earhart was following when she vanished. Nearby were several tantalizing artifacts: some old makeup, some glass bottles and shells that had been cut open.
A sedative Oklahoma used to execute a death row inmate that is commonly used to euthanize animals could become more popular because of a nationwide shortage of a key ingredient in several states' lethal injection formulas, death penalty experts say.
Gov. Brad Henry said Wednesday that voters shouldn't focus on a candidate's marital status or motherhood when they go to the polls next week to elect the first female governor in Oklahoma history.
In her quest to become Oklahoma's first female governor, Democrat Jari Askins has amassed an assortment of professional qualifications: she's been a judge, a legislator, the head of a state agency, and a corporate attorney.
A man convicted in the 1996 fatal shooting of a fisherman in eastern Oklahoma was put to death Thursday as Buddhist monks chanted inside the execution chamber.
Larry Jones, a traveling preacher from Oklahoma, gave 20 cents to a hungry child on the streets in Haiti in 1979 and felt more could be done to help starving children.
An overhaul of the state's pension system will be a top legislative priority as state leaders grapple with an expected hole in next year's budget, Republican House leaders said Wednesday.
After the deepest revenue plunge in modern history, Oklahoma collections continued to show steady improvement during the first month of the new fiscal year, state officials reported Tuesday.
One broke the gender barrier in Oklahoma politics, holding a statewide seat for a dozen years before winning two terms in Congress. The other succeeded her at the lieutenant governor's office and narrowly defeated the state's 16-year attorney general in the state's top political matchup — so far — of 2010.
An Oklahoma judicial candidate is fending off a political attack from his daughter, who has taken out a local newspaper ad urging voters: "Do not vote for my dad!"
Oklahoma will have $308.6 million more than expected available in revenue in the coming fiscal year, a state board projected — a sign Gov. Brad Henry cited Monday as showing that Oklahoma is slowly pulling out of the national economic slump.
A bill providing new tax breaks to the energy industry includes some unexpected provisions, but projections on the impact to state coffers have been overstated, the governor's top budget negotiator said Thursday.
An Oklahoma House budget panel on Wednesday approved a plan to save some money by transferring authority for state agencies' lawyers to the attorney general's office.
The property tax rate on new wireless technology infrastructure in the state would be nearly cut in half under a bill narrowly approved Tuesday by the Oklahoma House.
The Oklahoma Legislature overrode Gov. Brad Henry's veto of an abortion bill that will require women seeking abortions to complete lengthy questionnaires beforehand about their finances, education and relationships.
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