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Tribal elders recall painful boarding school memories

ANADARKO, Okla. – Native American tribal elders who were once students at government-backed Indian boarding schools testified Saturday about the hardships they endured, including beatings, w...

DATE: Jul 9, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Nevada spiritual leader to give first Hindu prayer in Oklahoma Senate

OKLAHOMA CITY – A spiritual leader from Nevada will deliver the Oklahoma Senate’s first Hindu prayer, part of an interfaith movement in a Legislature in the Bible Belt that has faced critici...

DATE: Apr 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Teacher runs for office to fight Oklahoma education cuts

Grass-roots movement tries to counter attacks on spending

DATE: Jul 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Guns banned, but are Okla. lawmakers packing?

OKLAHOMA CITY – It’s become a common scene at the Oklahoma Capitol: While construction workers, employees and visiting schoolchildren wait patiently to walk through the metal detectors guard...

DATE: May 14, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Southern Plains braces for more storms, floods

OKLAHOMA CITY – Residents of the southern Plains cleaned up Thursday after a night of storms that spawned 51 tornadoes, assessing the damage and flooding under sunny skies but with the threa...

DATE: May 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Oklahoma carries out its first execution since botched one

McALESTER, Okla. – Oklahoma executed a death row inmate Thursday in its first lethal injection since a botched one last spring, and it carried out the punishment with a three-drug method tha...

DATE: Jan 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

The wind shifts on wind-power industry

A call for tighter rules on turbines

DATE: Nov 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Oklahoma court rejects death-row inmates’ claims

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled late Wednesday that two death row inmates are not entitled to know the source of the drugs that will be used to kill them, putting them back ...

DATE: Apr 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Oklahoma Sen. Coburn to retire after current session

OKLAHOMA CITY – U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn will finish out the current congressional session and then resign from his seat nearly two years before his term is scheduled to end, he said in a statem...

DATE: Jan 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New school year awaits kids who survived twister

MOORE, Okla. – One young girl is so afraid of the wind that she carries headphones to block out the sound. Other kids are traumatized by the memory of their narrow escape from the storm and...

DATE: Aug 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Twister relief show draws scalpers

Country stars to play concert at Okla. school

DATE: Jul 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

Deadly Okla. tornado widest on record, rare EF5

OKLAHOMA CITY – The deadly tornado that plowed through an area near Oklahoma City last week was even larger and more powerful than previously estimated – a record 2.6 miles wide with winds t...

DATE: Jun 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World