• First 2020 Ponca Politics cover wide range of topics

    First 2020 Ponca Politics cover wide range of topics - March 02, 2020

    Thank you Sen. Coleman, Rep. Luttrell, Rep. Pfeiffer and Shasta Scott for being part of our first Ponca Politics Forum of 2020. A wide range of topics were discussed including education, Medicaid e...

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  • State Election Board offers tips, reminders for Oklahoma voters

    State Election Board offers tips, reminders for Oklahoma voters - March 02, 2020

    OKLAHOMA CITY –The State Election Board and Secretary Paul Ziriax offer these tips and reminders for Oklahoma voters before they head to the polls for the March 3 Presidential Preferential Primary. ...

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  • Sanders energizing red-state progressives

    Sanders energizing red-state progressives - March 01, 2020

    TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) — Solidly conservative states like Oklahoma and Utah might seem like tough territory for progressive presidential candidates like Bernie Sanders. However, these states are prov...

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  • Students end sit-in outside University of Oklahoma offices

    Students end sit-in outside University of Oklahoma offices - March 01, 2020

    NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Dozens of students at the University of Oklahoma have ended a sit-in outside the University's administrative offices following two instances of professors using racial slurs in ...

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  • Oklahoma Governor’s tribal fight raises ancestry questions

    Oklahoma Governor’s tribal fight raises ancestry questions - March 01, 2020

    OKLAHOMA (AP) --When Oklahoma’s new Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Cherokee Nation citizen, was elected in 2018, many tribal citizens embraced him. However, now Stitt is facing fierce blowback for e...

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  • Recruiter told Oklahoma students to line up by skin color

    Recruiter told Oklahoma students to line up by skin color - March 01, 2020

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A college recruiter was fired after high school students in Oklahoma City said that he had them line up by the color of their skin and then by their hair texture. Harding Cha...

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  • Chinese national sentenced to prison for trade secrets theft

    Chinese national sentenced to prison for trade secrets theft - February 29, 2020

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Prosecutors say that a Chinese national who admitted to stealing trade secrets from a U.S. petroleum company has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. Hongjin Tan ple...

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  • Superintendent: Prop at Black History Month event was wrong

    Superintendent: Prop at Black History Month event was wrong - February 29, 2020

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Oklahoma City's school superintendent has apologized after a cardboard photo frame emblazoned with watermelons was used at a high school's Black History Month event celebrating s...

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  • American Airlines plans $550 million boost to Oklahoma base

    American Airlines plans $550 million boost to Oklahoma base - February 29, 2020

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) — American Airlines plans to spend $550 million over the next seven years to spruce up its maintenance base in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The airline said on Friday that it will build a new ...

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  • Two more Oklahomans being tested for coronavirus

    Two more Oklahomans being tested for coronavirus - February 27, 2020

    TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) – Two more Oklahomans are being tested for possible exposure to the coronavirus. Laurence Burnsed, state epidemiologist, told Channel 8 that these people are being tested beca...

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