OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An FBI informant says he was paid more than $23,000 for cooperating in an investigation that led to charges against a man accused of trying to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound (450-kilogram) bomb outside an Oklahoma City bank.
The state would join Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington with laws.
Her relatives determined the issue should "be handled within the family."
Oklahoma's new Republican governor wants to use a projected budget surplus to give a $1,200 pay raise for public school teachers that would bring the state to tops in the region for pay and benefits for educators.
Oklahoma's new governor and Republican leaders in the House and Senate each are expressing a willingness to consider some version of a Medicaid expansion that would extend health insurance to thousands of uninsured Oklahomans.
...proposing to reopen the 11th Street Arkansas River Bridge for the first time since 1980.
An Oklahoma Senate bill would rename a lake that's currently named for a man connected to the Ku Klux Klan in Tulsa.
Stitt says the governor's King Air 350 aircraft costs the state about $1 million annually.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has affirmed the life prison sentences of a man convicted of shooting his father and younger brother to death when the killer was still a high school student.
Oklahoma's new governor has launched a cost-saving effort for state government that includes ordering the sale of his office's state airplane and demanding agencies stop hiring contract lobbyists.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review the cases of two Oklahoma death row inmates.Attorneys argue people of color are more likely to be sentenced to death in Oklahoma when the victim is white.
Anti-abortion leaders are promising to pursue a change in the Kansas Constitution if the state's highest court rules that the document protects abortion rights.On each side of the abortion debate, legislators and activists emboldened by recent political developments plan to push aggressively in many states this year for bills high on their wish lists: either seeking to impose near-total bans on abortion or guaranteeing women's access to the procedure.
Pawhuska, Oklahoma Police Chief Rex Wikel says the department doesn't know if it's hemp or marijuana.
The case went unsolved until 2017.
Increasing sales of medical marijuana are putting revenue in Oklahoma's state coffers.Numbers from the Oklahoma Tax Commission show sales reached nearly $1 million in December, generating about $70,000 for the state from a special new tax on pot sales.
Some 800,000 federal employees missed their first paycheck Friday because of the government shutdown.
The child suffered what was described as "non-accidental abusive head trauma."
Oklahoma is delaying contracts for new road and bridge contracts because of uncertainty over federal funding for transportation projects amid the partial federal government shutdown. Transportation officials in Oklahoma this week announced plans to delay bids on 45 new highway projects worth about $137 million. Other states are preparing for that possibility if the shutdown continues, especially those that receive a large share of their highway money from the federal...
An Oklahoma economist who studies the state's energy industry predicts a significant slowdown in the coming year as a result of falling crude oil prices. Dr. Russell Evans released his regular Energy Index report that shows the first energy industry decline in eight months. The index measures the state's oil and gas industry and is a joint project of researchers at Oklahoma City University and industry trade groups.
An Oklahoma woman looking for love got more than she bargained for when she shared her exhilaration about illegally shooting a "bigo buck" on a dating app. She didn't know she was corresponding with a state game warden.
Oklahoma City police say a home where three people were found slain is the same home where a woman was found dead less than a year ago in a still unsolved homicide.
The National Weather Service says no one was killed in a tornado in Oklahoma in 2018, the first time that the state has not recorded a tornado-related death since 2006.
The man accused of killing a three-year-old Carl Junction girl takes a plea deal. Plus all the news you need to know before you walk out the door.
Authorities in Oklahoma are looking for a man who fired a gun into a Taco Bell after he didn't get the sauce he wanted.
