The sanctions for cattle stealing in the state of Oklahoma has been increased by the state senate. This is to address the increasing incidents of cattle rustling in the area as well as its nearby states.
Privately held oil and gas exploration and production company Chaparral Energy Inc. has planned to miss the interest payment due April 1 tied to a $300 million bond, according to people familiar with the matter.
The state of Nebraska and Oklahoma has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court to challenge Colorado's legalization of marijuana, which they argue has contributed direct and significant impact on their law enforcement and judicial system.
The majority of US Supreme Court justices refused to get involved in a dispute between two neighboring states and Colorado over the legalization of pot.
A U.S. Army reservist was asked to leave a gun range after identifying himself as a Muslim, the latest in a series of cases across the nation regarding Islamophobia.
Four high school wrestlers in Oklahoma were charged Monday with raping two other wrestlers — including a 12-year-old boy — on a school bus after a tournament last month.
The District 18 Drug Task Force arrested a Green Country police chief and his wife Sunday after law enforcement found drugs in their home. Investigators said a tip mentioning drug activity lead them to the home of Hartshorne Police Chief Josh Brillo and his wife Heather.
Daniel Holtzclaw's attorney Scott Adams is requesting a new trial in the sexual assault case. The former Oklahoma City police officer was found guilty in December on 18 charges, which included rape, sexual battery and other charges
US President Barack Obama has ordered the Supreme Court to dismiss the case filed by Oklahoma and Nebraska against Colorado pot law. Although the federal government has waged war against cannabis, the present administration sees no argument in connection with state laws regarding legalizing marijuana.
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin on Tuesday denied a stay of execution for a convicted murderer despite a plea to put off Wednesday's scheduled lethal injection from those who say the state may be putting to death an innocent man.
Americans marched in star-spangled parades, ran relay races, gathered for fireworks shows and crowned a new world hot dog eating champion as they celebrated Independence Day in traditional style on Saturday.
The Supreme Court on Monday found that a lethal injection drug used by Oklahoma does not violate the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, a ruling that provoked a caustic debate among the justices about the death penalty in America.
The U.S. government's appeals process for reviewing flood insurance claim disputes is riddled with flaws, but there is no evidence of systematic underpayments by insurers to flood victims, an investigation by U.S. Senate staffers has found.
Torrential rains have killed at least nine people in Texas and Oklahoma, including two in Houston where floods turned streets into rivers and led to about 1,000 calls for help in the fourth-most populous U.S. city, officials said on Tuesday.
Agreeing there must be a 48-hour waiting period between a woman consulting her doctor about an abortion and the time it can be performed, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed the second of two major abortion regulation bills into law Monday.
Sue Ann Arnall, the ex-wife of Oklahoma oil executive Harold Hamm, lost an appeal of the couple's divorce case because she had accepted an award of nearly $1 billion, the state Supreme Court said on Tuesday.
The U.S. Supreme Court was set on Wednesday to hear arguments in a case brought by three death row inmates challenging Oklahoma's method of execution by lethal injection as a violation of the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Oklahoma prosecutors charged a sheriff's reserve deputy with second-degree manslaughter on Monday in the fatal shooting of a black man this month in Tulsa, the most recent in a series of U.S. cases that have raised questions about race relations and policing.
Oklahoma state representatives voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to advance a bill that would provide immunity from lawsuits to clergy who refuse to conduct marriages for same-sex couples.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to temporarily block the execution of three Oklahoma inmates who are challenging the state’s lethal injection procedure.
