Oklahoma News

There may be a last ditch effort to keep the kitchen open at a metro senior center that recently stopped serving meals.

Ken Miller has filed campaign paperwork indicating his plans to seek the state treasurer post in 2010.

The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is dishing out more than $450 million in stimulus dollars, but they're not all going to Oklahoma companies.

State Sen. Susan Paddack is entering the race to become Oklahoma's next state superintendent.

A list of some of the state tax exemptions, credits and deductions approved by lawmakers and the Oklahoma Tax Commission's estimate of their cost: - Livestock purchased outside Oklahoma and brought into the state for feeding or breeding purposes, and which is later resold, $48 million.

Oklahoma gives away billions of dollars in tax revenue through hundreds of exemptions, credits and deductions that some lawmakers say the state may no longer be able to afford as it slips deeper into a revenue shortfall.

The bill that could drastically change health care is one step closer to becoming law.

Two state lawmakers from Tulsa are forming a bipartisan caucus to promote the interests of Oklahoma's second largest city.

One of the biggest complaints with President Obama's $787 billion stimulus package is not enough money going toward infrastructure projects.

The state of Wisconsin is offering Mercury Marine Inc. an incentive package worth up to $70 million in order to consolidate manufacturing in Fond du Lac instead of Oklahoma.

Two Oklahoma senators plan to spend the night outside the state Capitol to draw attention to cuts to senior nutrition programs due to a deepening state budget shortfall.

Over the past few months I've visited with thousands of Oklahomans who are concerned about how the health care reform bills moving through Congress will affect their lives and their families' lives.

New unemployment numbers paint a bleak picture about the U.S. economy in crisis.

The Internal Revenue Service is looking for hundreds of people in Oklahoma, but it has some good news for them.

A circus elephant that escaped and was hit by a sport utility vehicle in northwestern Oklahoma is apparently back with its owner.

Oklahoma family members of a 22-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Hood have been notified that he was one of the 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist went on a shooting rampage at the Texas base.

It's not unusual to see a deer or a cow crossing Oklahoma's rural highways. But an elephant? An Oklahoma couple driving home from church nearly rammed a pachyderm that had escaped from a nearby circus late Wednesday.

Lieutenant Michael Behenna says he killed the suspect Al-Queda terrorist in self-defense. Herbert MacDonnell, the nation's leading expert on blood spatter and crime scene evidence, found evidence that supported Behenna's story.

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' A state lawmaker says he plans to file legislation to protect Oklahomans from encroachments on speech, assembly and religious beliefs.

A federal grand jury has indicted eight Mexican nationals who are accused of plotting to traffic drugs in northeast Oklahoma.