• Pugh files legislation to extend early in-person voting

    Pugh files legislation to extend early in-person voting - January 28, 2021

    OKLAHOMA CITY – While more Oklahomans voted in November than in the 2016 presidential election, the state still ranks last for voter turnout as a share of the total voting-eligible population acco...

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  • Rural vs. Urban: COVID-19 continues to ravage rural Oklahoma

    Rural vs. Urban: COVID-19 continues to ravage rural Oklahoma - January 27, 2021

    by PEYTON YAGER OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Urban areas in Oklahoma are seeing more total cases of COVID-19, but rural areas are seeing a higher case rate causing pressure inside rural hospitals and f...

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  • Secret Reports show State leads nation in positive coronavirus tests

    Secret Reports show State leads nation in positive coronavirus tests - January 27, 2021

    by HICHAM RAACHE WASHINGTON (KFOR) – Once-secret COVID-19 State Profile Reports for all 50 states, as well as Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, have been made public. The Biden administration ...

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  • Oklahoma seeking to return $2M worth of hydroxychloroquine

    Oklahoma seeking to return $2M worth of hydroxychloroquine - January 27, 2021

    by SEAN MURPHY OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma attorney general’s office is attempting to return $2 million worth of a malaria drug once touted by former President Donald Trump as an effective ...

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  • Oklahoma Supreme Court rejects Stitt’s gambling compacts

    Oklahoma Supreme Court rejects Stitt’s gambling compacts - January 27, 2021

    by SEAN MURPHY OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court has rejected gambling compacts that Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt negotiated with two Oklahoma-based Native American tribes, delivering ...

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  • OCCC removes Land Run monument

    OCCC removes Land Run monument - January 27, 2021

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City Community College has recently removed the controversial Land Run monument from its campus, college officials said. The concrete monument quickly became the subje...

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  • One-day record of 65 COVID-19 deaths reported in Oklahoma

    One-day record of 65 COVID-19 deaths reported in Oklahoma - January 27, 2021

    by KEN MILLER OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma State Department of Health will receive an approximately 16% increase in coronavirus vaccine per week during the next three weeks, deputy state healt...

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  • PTC Names January Students of the Month

    PTC Names January Students of the Month - January 27, 2021

    Mikayla Myer and Adriana Palomares are the Pioneer Technology Center (PTC) January Students of the Month. Myer, a senior from Tonkawa High School, represents the Cosmetology program. Her instructor...

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  • Hofmeister’s Student Advisory Council meets virtually

    Hofmeister’s Student Advisory Council meets virtually - January 27, 2021

    Students share lessons, challenges of school during pandemic    OKLAHOMA CITY (Jan. 27, 2021) – High school students across Oklahoma met virtually with State Superintendent of Public Ins...

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  • Sen. Warren Hamilton files Equal Protection and Equal Justice Act

    Sen. Warren Hamilton files Equal Protection and Equal Justice Act - January 27, 2021

    OKLAHOMA CITY – State Sen. Warren Hamilton, R-McCurtain, has filed the Equal Protection and Equal Justice Act, which would abolish abortion in the state. Senate Bill 495 would ensure equal justic...

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