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Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin on Wednesday signed into law a prohibition on abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, making it the fourth state to ban such late-term abortions.

An elderly Oklahoma man landed himself in jail after using bolt cutters to break his prized pooch from the pound.

Oklahoma Republicans rejected anti-Washington sentiment on Tuesday, selecting a two-term congresswoman as their nominee for governor rather than a tea party-backed conservative who once called for the creation of a new state militia to protect state sovereignty.

U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma City defeated state Sen. Randy Brogdon and two other candidates and would be the state's first female governor if elected Nov. 2. Democrats chose between Attorney General Drew Edmondson and Lt. Gov. Jari Askins.

An Oklahoma elementary school student has died of bacterial meningitis, officials said Thursday, and two other students are hospitalized with the illness.

The FBI has released long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal ...

It sounds like the movie "Twister" -- teams of scientists in vans, armed with high-tech measuring equipment, barreling across the Oklahoma plains in search of tornadoes. But these scientists are colleagues, not rivals, and these storms aren't Hollywood digital wizardry but the real thing.

Emergency crews on Wednesday searched for survivors after a cluster of unusual tornadoes tore across Oklahoma, killing at least eight people in a town in the southern part of the state.

At 8 a.m. today, nearly 6,400 customers of the Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives remain without power that was cause by last week's winter storm, said Michelann Ooten, spokeswoman for the state Department of Emergency Management.
Lake Region Electric Cooperative reported 250 outages. Ozarks Electric Cooperative reported just more than 6,100 outages.
At the height outages, about 40,000 customers across the state were without power.see more on NewsOK.com