• Girl, 2, dies after eating button battery

    Girl, 2, dies after eating button battery - January 01, 2016

    JAY, Okla. (AP) - An Oklahoma family is mourning after a 2-year-old girl died after swallowing a button battery. The Oklahoman reports Brianna Florer died this week. Kent Vice, her grandfather, says ...

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  • Former Tulsa sheriff seeking dismissal of 1 of 2 charges

    Former Tulsa sheriff seeking dismissal of 1 of 2 charges - January 01, 2016

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A former sheriff in Oklahoma wants a charge dismissed alleging he failed to release an internal report questioning the training level of a reserve deputy who later fatally shot an ...

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  • Another quake rocks Edmond area

    Another quake rocks Edmond area - January 01, 2016

    EDMOND, Okla. (AP) - A 4.2 magnitude earthquake centered north of Oklahoma City hit Friday morning, the latest in a series of quakes that's prompted state regulators to call for more restrictions on ...

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  • Search resumes for Strickland

    Search resumes for Strickland - January 01, 2016

    The search has resumed at a north Oklahoma lake for a country music singer from Arkansas who disappeared while hunting nearly a week ago. The Kay County Sheriff's Office says the Oklahoma Highw...

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  • Labor Commissioner, ex-AP journalist among Oklahoma’s deaths

    Labor Commissioner, ex-AP journalist among Oklahoma’s deaths - December 31, 2015

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma Labor Commissioner Mark Costello and former Associated Press reporter Gaylord Shaw, who broke the news that President Richard Nixon would resign, are among the notable Ok...

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  • Labor Commissioner, ex-AP journalist among Oklahoma’s deaths

    Labor Commissioner, ex-AP journalist among Oklahoma’s deaths - December 31, 2015

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma Labor Commissioner Mark Costello and former Associated Press reporter Gaylord Shaw, who broke the news that President Richard Nixon would resign, are among the notable Ok...

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  • Unemployment up in most Oklahoma counties

    Unemployment up in most Oklahoma counties - December 31, 2015

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - State employment officials say the unemployment rate increased in most of Oklahoma's 77 counties last month, but the number of people employed in three major metropolitan areas in...

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  • Police: Grocery store workers find drugs in crate of bananas

    Police: Grocery store workers find drugs in crate of bananas - December 31, 2015

    TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) - Police say employees at a northeast Oklahoma grocery store found a cache of illegal drugs when they opened a crate of bananas. Tahlequah Police Chief Nate King says officers w...

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  • Yukon standoff ends after man surrenders

    Yukon standoff ends after man surrenders - December 31, 2015

    YUKON, Okla. (AP) - Authorities in Oklahoma City say a man has surrendered to police after an hours-long standoff that began when a bail bondsman was attempting to serve a warrant on him. Police say ...

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  • Oklahoma sets new state, single-site rainfall records

    Oklahoma sets new state, single-site rainfall records - December 31, 2015

    NORMAN, Okla. (AP) - A weather station in southeast Oklahoma is the new state record holder for annual rainfall total, topping the previous record from 1990 by more than an inch. State Climatologist ...

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