Right to Farm Bill inspires strong support, rabid opposition on agriculture practices
Talk to supporters of the Right To Farm Bill that will be put before voters in November, and they’ll say the amendment protects agriculture from unfair regulations.
Matisse Exhibit Comes to OKC
Henri Emile Benoît Matisse was born on Dec. 31, 1869, in a tiny weaver's cottage on the rue du Chêne Arnaud in the textile town of Le Cateau-Cambrésis.
On A Wing and a Prayer - Eagle Aviary Takes Flight With Tribal Traditions
Jennifer Randell of Shawnee didn’t know if Kyla would ever be a true wild bald eagle.
Kyla, a young female bald eagle, had been kept in a pet kennel for most of her young life in Montana.
Lesser Prairie Chicken Makes a Comeback
Though US Won't Appeal Court Rulings on Lesser Prairie Chicken, Conservation Efforts See Success In Habitat, Population Numbers By Heide Brandes
10 Things to Try in OKC This Year
As Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
More than a Zoo - Oklahoma City Zoo Leads Conservation Efforts Locally and Globally
Elephants in Africa are facing threats daily thanks to poaching, dramatic loss of habitat, disease and more. In the past 25 years, the population of African elephants dropped from 1.6 million to less than 500,000.
Battle Lines drawn as Oklahoma Lawmakers Take Aim at Gays
OKLAHOMA CITY – A raft of proposed laws in socially conservative Oklahoma, criticized for being discriminatory measures aimed at limiting the rights of gay and transgender people, has prompted a pushback from human rights groups seeking to sink the proposals.
After Spoiled Butterfly Bash, One Oklahoma Town Tries to Help Monarchs
(Reuters) - The small town of Blanchard, Oklahoma, threw a big party this fall, but the guests of honor did not show up. Residents suspect foul play somewhere on the guests' international trek to the festivities.
Oklahoma unveils new execution protocols
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma set up new procedures on executions that include increasing by five times the dosage of a controversial sedative that was among the drugs used in a botched execution in April, which prompted the state to suspend lethal injections.
Victim in Oklahoma Food Warehouse Was Beheaded
A worker killed in an attack at an Oklahoma food distribution warehouse on Thursday was beheaded and the suspect, a fired coworker, had reportedly tried to convert his colleagues to Islam, law enforcement officials said on Friday.
Oklahoma Rape Suspect Arrested in Coma Dies
An Oklahoma suspect in multiple rapes who was arrested after a car crash left him in a coma died at a hospital on Tuesday hours before he was to be formally charged, prosecutors said.
Oklahoma Native Americans Tame Twisters with Sacred Rituals
Just over a year ago, tribal elder Gordon Yellowman watched on the TV news as a mile-wide tornado roared toward the homes of his Cheyenne-Arapaho people in Oklahoma.
On Iconic Route 66, German, Italian POWs Lie In Oklahoma Graves
Along America's most fabled road, Route 66, lie the almost forgotten graves of German and Italian prisoners of war brought to Oklahoma some 70 years ago and who now rest in the red soil of a former Wild West pioneer outpost.
Geological Society issues rare earthquake warning
The U.S. Geological Survey and the Oklahoma Geological Society issued a rare earthquake warning Monday for Oklahoma due to a major increase in earthquakes shaking the state, and many residents are heeding that warning.
Oklahoma examines what went wrong in execution
The autopsy of an inmate who died, apparently of a heart attack, during a botched execution was begun on Wednesday in Oklahoma, while Governor Mary Fallin called for an investigation into what went wrong in the death chamber.
Oklahoma does not have the drugs available for executions
Oklahoma, as of Monday, did not have the drugs needed to conduct an execution scheduled for this week but aims to obtain chemicals for the lethal injection by the time the death sentence is to be implemented on Thursday, officials said.
Oklahoma, Frenchwoman in tug-of-art over stolen Nazi painting
A 128-year-old French impressionist painting plundered by the Nazis during World War Two has become a political football in Oklahoma, with lawmakers calling for its immediate return and the state's pre-eminent university looking to keep the work.
Man Charged in "Atomic Wedgie" Murder
A 33-year-old Oklahoma man has been charged with killing his stepfather by giving him an "atomic wedgie," that caused the victim to suffocate on his own underwear.
Oklahoma Executes Man for Killings of Elderly Women
Oklahoma on Tuesday executed a man convicted of raping and murdering two elderly women in the 1980s, while Missouri appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to be allowed to proceed with an execution hours later.