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Damage is widespread and entire neighborhoods have been leveled. The American Red Cross has 20 relief vehicles headed to Oklahoma to assist with recovery efforts.

A huge tornado with winds of up to 200 miles per hour devastated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, ripping up at least two elementary schools and a hospital and leaving a wake of tangled wreckage.

Charges were filed against a University of Oklahoma student Thursday after the student allegedly changed faculty members' passcodes and his own grades on Wednesday.

Betsy Hames isn't a lawyer, but the law permeates nearly every aspect of her job overseeing employee relations in Emory University's human resources department.

"If that's art, then I'm a Hottentot !" President Harry Truman's ill-judged comments referred to Yasuo Kuniyoshi 's Circus Girl Resting , around 1925 In the 1990s, a long held suspicion was confirmed: the US Central Intelligence Agency secretly sent Abstract Expressionism and other forms of American art and music abroad in the 1950s and 1960s as ... (more)

Harold Newland participated in commencement at the University of Oklahoma this weekend - more than 54 years after earning his degree.

Here's video of the large tornado that struck Cleburne, Texas, last night. It was shot by Paige Burress, a University of Oklahoma student who chases with the group Texas Storm Chasers The tornado was one of a dozen twisters that struck north Texas Wednesday night, killing 6 and injuring dozens.

A police officer arrests a driver who failed a field sobriety test at a DUI traffic checkpoint in Miami, Florida.

Whitney Woods of Norman, Okla., received a doctorate of audiology from the College of Allied Health at the University of Oklahoma.

Passy Kepoali was flying to OKC from Montreal with her twin 3- year-old boys. She was in town to see her nephew graduate from the University of Oklahoma.

The National Transportation and Safety Board wants blood alcohol content standards dropped to .05, about the level found in two beers or one martini.

Secretary of State Jesse White believes the idea of reducing Illinois' drunk-driving threshold merits "further study," his office confirmed Tuesday after a federal agency recommended all states scrap their .08 DUI standards.

A University of Oklahoma physics professor is the recipient of a grant from the Simons Foundation Fellows Program in Theoretical Physics for research.

A new highly useful app has just been released by a group of cardiologists from the University of Oklahoma called iImplant.

A decade-old benchmark for determining when a driver is legally intoxicated -- the 0.08 blood-alcohol content rate -- should be lowered to 0.05, reducing the amount a motorist can imbibe before being presumed to be drunk, federal safety officials said Tuesday.

"We are honored and pleased to be recognized by the ACEC for our work at OU. It is a privilege to have designed this award-winning facility in support of our client's commitment to sustainability today and in the future." Jacobs provided full-service architecture and engineering, including construction administration, on OU's new utility plant.

Nyla Ali Khan knows well the power of the pen. The writings of the University of Oklahoma visiting professor and granddaughter of the first prime minister of Kashmir are making headlines in both India and Pakistan.

Evan Fry of Franklin was recognized in April as a Big Man on Campus at the University of Oklahoma for outstanding accomplishments in leadership, service, honors and academics.

In what appears to be a world first, scientists at the University of Oklahoma have filed protection for the 'vegas strip steak', claiming they've developed a unique way of removing the meat from the shoulder of a cow.

On Friday, Dr. John McArthur was named Cameron University's 17th president, effective July 1, 2013.