• Tulsa man accused of trying to steal firetruck

    Tulsa man accused of trying to steal firetruck - August 01, 2021

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man has been arrested after being accused of trying to steal a firetruck. Tulsa police say they were called to a fire station around 3 a.m. on Saturday. After arriv...

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  • House Republicans Plan Numerous Education Studies

    House Republicans Plan Numerous Education Studies - August 01, 2021

    OKLAHOMA CITY – House Republicans have planned a total of 17 interim studies focusing on various aspects of K-12 and higher education. Among the studies are one by Majority Floor Leader Jon Echol...

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  • Body of missing Arkansas woman found in Oklahoma pond

    Body of missing Arkansas woman found in Oklahoma pond - August 01, 2021

    ROCK ISLAND, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says the body of a woman reported missing in Fort Smith, Arkansas, has been found in a pond in eastern Oklahoma and three men wer...

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  • Oklahoma virus hospitalizations top 700, 225 in ICU

    Oklahoma virus hospitalizations top 700, 225 in ICU - August 01, 2021

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus in Oklahoma has topped 700 for the first time since mid-February. The Oklahoma State Department of Health on Friday rep...

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  • 19 bodies reburied amid protests in search for Tulsa victims

    19 bodies reburied amid protests in search for Tulsa victims - August 01, 2021

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The bodies of 19 people exhumed from a Tulsa cemetery during a search for Tulsa Race Massacre victims have been reburied while protesters objected outside the cemetery. The re...

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  • Third former Kansas jail employee arrested in theft probe

    Third former Kansas jail employee arrested in theft probe - July 31, 2021

    CONCORDIA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says a third person has been arrested as part of an investigation into theft of public money at the Cloud County Jail. Nicholas Clanin, o...

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  • SEC welcomes Texas, Oklahoma after boards accept invitations

    SEC welcomes Texas, Oklahoma after boards accept invitations - July 31, 2021

    Regents at Texas and Oklahoma have voted to accept invitations to the Southeastern Conference. The two Big 12 rivals will start competing in the SEC in 2025. Texas and Oklahoma are bound to the Big...

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  • Saginaw Grant, noted Native American character actor, dies

    Saginaw Grant, noted Native American character actor, dies - July 31, 2021

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Saginaw Grant, a prolific Native American character actor and hereditary chief of the Sac & Fox Nation of Oklahoma, has died. He was 85. Grant's publicist, Lani Carmichael,...

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  • Oklahoma GOP likens vaccine mandates to persecution of Jews

    Oklahoma GOP likens vaccine mandates to persecution of Jews - July 31, 2021

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Republican Party is facing fierce criticism for a Facebook post likening vaccine mandates to the persecution of Jewish people in Nazi Germany. The post from Frid...

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  • NWS to add categories to alerts for ‘destructive’ thunderstorms

    NWS to add categories to alerts for ‘destructive’ thunderstorms - July 30, 2021

    OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Oklahoma is no stranger to severe weather across the state, and the National Weather Service is updating the way it labels certain storms. The National Weather Service is u...

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