In a policy reversal, the Oklahoma National Guard will no longer process benefit requests from same-sex couples after being notified by Gov. Mary Fallin's office that doing so violates state law banning gay marriage.
“We have always strived to feature marquee non-conference opponents on the Oklahoma schedule,” said OU athletics director Joe Castiglione said in a statement.
In just 12 years, natural gas plant builder Thomas Russell Co. grew from a Tulsa startup to a $750 million company.
The incarceration rate in Oklahoma is among the highest in the nation with approximately 26,000 people behind bars at any given time.
In the Greek culture, families generously share and celebrate food.
Baby Veronica court proceeding continues Meeting for a second-straight day, Baby Veronica's competing sets of parents spent several hours at a ...
MICHAEL OVERALL World Staff Writer
Tulsa school bus involved in crash; no injuries reported The bus was traveling east on 41st when one of its front tires went off the road
KENDRICK MARSHALL World Staff Writer
Health Department confirms patient contracted hepatitis C from Tulsa dentist An investigation into a Tulsa dentist has revealed that one person contracted hepatitis C as a direct ...
Staff Reports
New OU band director out of step with tradition, needs, alumni and parents say As fans trekked to Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Saturday before the Sooners' matchup against ...
SILAS ALLEN NewsOK.com
Man in "Scream" mask robs dollar store at gunpoint The robber took an undisclosed amount of money before he fled on foot, Officer Leland Ashley said.
OU Board of Regents to meet Wednesday The Regents will consider architectural firms to provide construction of storm-hardened shelters in the ...
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Baby Veronica case: Parents return to court for third day Her biological father from Oklahoma and her adoptive parents from South Carolina spent several hours ...
Tulsa storage facility fire contained A cause of the fire is under investigation.
New bee species found in northwestern Oklahoma The bee belongs to a group of solitary bees commonly known as 'wool carder bees' because their cotton-like ...
Faculty from Vietnam visiting Oklahoma State The group is the fourth delegation of visiting faculty from the university to visit OSU.
Chapel takes shape at women's prison in McLoud The Rev. Charles Freyder, a chaplain at the prison, said many inmates wanted to help build the chapel ...
CARLA HINTON NewsOK.com
Three injured at Oklahoma State Fair during thunderstorm The storm included heavy downpours, lightning and some strong winds.
BRYAN DEAN NewsOK.com
Medical examiner working to identify six bodies found in Foss Lake An anthropologist from the office has been at the lake and is returning there today to help gather three ...
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News Briefs Emergency flights began arriving in Acapulco on Tuesday to evacuate some of the thousands of tourists ...
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Way back when: Today in history Adm. William F. Halsey, commander of the 3rd Fleet rode a white horse in Tokyo but he didn't enjoy it. ...
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Will Rogers Says They are a pretty tough bunch of hyenas, those Senators ... Every time we let one of them out, a worse ...
Power outage leaves 3,500 customers without service An AEP-PSO spokesperson said a transformer failure at the Dawson substation about 3:40 a.m. Wednesday ...
Tulsa Club owner Josh Barrett vows to remake historic building The Tulsa Club building was completed on Dec. 26, 1927, as a joint venture between the Tulsa Club and ...
KEVIN CANFIELD World Staff Writer
Tulsa police officer cleared of civil-rights violations in pushups lawsuit The lawsuit by Brian Lumpkin, 24, alleged that Officers James Bohanon and Kevin Warne had violated his ...
JARREL WADE World Staff Writer
Change in state lottery split again suggested Oklahoma Lottery Commission Executive Director Rollo Redburn on Tuesday sent up a trial balloon for ...
BARBARA HOBEROCKWorld Capitol Bureau
Edmond educator named Oklahoma's 2014 Teacher of the Year Peter Markes always knew he wanted to teach. But it wasn't until he started making money playing the ...
TIM WILLERT NewsOK.com
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New trial ordered for ex-officers in post-Katrina killings A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a new trial for five former New Orleans police officers convicted ...
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Navy Yard gunman told police he was hearing voices A month before he went on the rampage that left 13 dead, Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis complained ...
ERIC TUCKER JACK GILLUM & LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated Press
Hispanic group, NAACP join Texas Voter ID lawsuit The Mexican American Legislative Caucus and the Texas NAACP filed a lawsuit Tuesday to overturn the state's ...
Roll out the carpet for Matt Kenseth Matt Kenseth will win the 2013 Chase for the Championship.
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Daily U.S. Casualties Afghanistan: As of Tuesday, at least 2,135 members of the U.S. military had died as a result of the U.S.-led ...
Dutch king says the welfare state is gone King Willem-Alexander delivered a message to the Dutch people from the government Tuesday in a nationally ...
Russia resists U.N. use of force Russia insisted Tuesday that a U.N. Security Council resolution governing Syria's handling of its chemical ...
Colorado flood damage assessment begins The emergency airlifts of flood victims waned Tuesday, leaving rescue crews to search the nooks and crannies ...
P. SOLOMON BANDA & BEN NEARYAssociated Press
Children's Safety Day set Saturday at gun museum The fourth annual Children's Safety Day is planned Saturday at the J.M. Davis Arms and Historical Mu ...
RHETT MORGAN World Staff Writer
High court issues sex offender registry ruling The Oklahoma Supreme Court says people who have been convicted of sex crimes in other states are not ...
Teen prostitute leaves shelter to return to street life A 15-year-old prostitute has left a Tulsa shelter and is back on the streets, saying she prefers the ...
SHEILA STOGSDILL World Correspondent
Gov. Fallin talks education, economic issues at Press Club 'Maybe someday we'll have a woman president,' Gov. Mary Fallin told an audience here Tuesday before quickly ...
CHRIS CASTEEL NewsOK.com
Tulsa County judge rejects bid for grand jury to probe drowning death of toddler in Sand Springs A Tulsa County judge has denied a petition to impanel a grand jury to investigate the death of a 19-month-old ...
Owasso to seek ODOT help for widening Garnett Road The City Council approved a resolution Tuesday night to move forward with a roughly $8 million project ...
Corrections, Clarifications A Tuesday Tulsa World Scene story listed the incorrect day for a Philbrook Museum of Art event. Joyce ...
Biking begins again for MS Oklahoma Nearly 600 cyclists will be hitting the highways of central Oklahoma this weekend for Bike MS: The Mother ...
MIKE AVERILL World Staff Writer
Best Used Cars for 2013: Honda, Toyota, Ford dominate Edmunds list Edmunds.com last week released its annual list of Best Used Cars for 2013, a list of 17 cars across every ...
PHIL MULKINSWorld Action Line Editor
Ginnie Graham: Study shows students benefit big from arts-related field trips After a single visit to an art museum, thousands of students understood themes of irony, farming choices ...
GINNIE GRAHAM World Staff Writer
Students at Tulsa's Thoreau Demonstration Academy have a message for their sick friend: Stay strong If Luis Delarosa didn't know that he was missed at Thoreau Demonstration Academy before, his classmates ...
ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
Tulsa trash board reimbursing QuikTrip for green-waste stickers The city is refunding to Quik-Trip the money the company spent for thousands of green-waste stickers ...
ZACK STOYCOFF World Staff Writer
'Improve Our Tulsa' makes marketing pitch The campaign to convince Tulsans to 'Improve Our Tulsa' kicked off Tuesday with a logo, campaign website ...
Cherokee Nation's $1.3 billion impact on Oklahoma cited by economist The Cherokee Nation's $1.3 billion impact on Oklahoma is special because of how the tribe's influence ...
Oklahoma National Guard defies Pentagon on same-sex benefit requests In a policy reversal, the Oklahoma National Guard will no longer process benefit requests from same-sex ...
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Baby Veronica update: Both sides spend several hours in court Matt and Melanie Capobianco raised Veronica for the first two years of her life, but she has lived with ...
Baby Veronica's parents meet in Tulsa court In the longest hearing yet since the custody battle moved to Oklahoma, Baby Veronica's two sets of parents ...
Death notices for September 17 Including Tulsa and northeastern Oklahoma.
John E. Hoover: Artrell Woods' story is heartbreaking, but all stemmed from choices he made How can one not have sympathy for Artrell Woods?
JOHN E. HOOVER World Sports Columnist
Latest Tulsa homicide likely related to drugs A man's body was found in a car early Monday in what Tulsa police say is the city's 43rd homicide of ...
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OSU will investigate claims made in Sports Illustrated series Citing a strong appetite for its "Dirty Game" series on Oklahoma State football, Sports Illustrated released ...
KELLY HINES World Sports Writer
OU Notebook: Rest and recovery The Sooners return to practice this week, but they'll take Saturday off to rest for their Sept. 28 trip ...
GUERIN EMIG World Sports Writer
Reynolds finds way back on OU team Jaz Reynolds afforded himself a quick glance at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium’s scoreboard while registering ...
ERIC BAILEY World Sports Writer
Ex-players Nethon, McGee say Cowboy football does care In the final chapter of "The Dirty Game," Sports Illustrated said so many players have been jettisoned ...
JIMMIE TRAMEL World Sports Writer
John "Allen" Gonzalez John “Allen” Gonzalez was born on September 20, 1972, to Johnny and Linda Gonzalez. On September 13, ...
4-day prostitution sting in Tulsa, Rogers, Ottawa and Delaware counties leads to 42 arrests The bureau's Human Trafficking Unit concluded a four-day operation Friday that focused on organized sex ...
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Tulsa Club owner Josh Barrett vows to remake historic building
Former OSU player in SI story explains what he wants: money Said Woods about wanting money, "Bottom line. That’s all. For pain and suffering. For me taking a whole ...
Former OSU player Artrell Woods says he wants to get paid Former Oklahoma State receiver Artrell Woods was a central figure in Sports Illustrated's final chapter ...
Forbes 400 wealth list contains several Oklahomans Forbes' latest annual ranking of the 400 richest Americans includes several billionaires with Oklahoma ...
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Oklahoma National Guard reverses stance on same-sex couple benefits Oklahoma now joins Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana as the only states that have publicly said they will ...
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Study: Oklahoma tops cuts to per-pupil spending since recession At 22.8 percent, Oklahoma has had the largest percentage cuts to per-pupil spending in the nation since ...
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White House pushes back on Putin's Syria op-ed The White House pushed back Thursday against Russian President Vladimir Putin for his opinion piece in ...
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