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In their new book, "Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland" from the University of Oklahoma Press, professors Shirley and Wayne Wiegand recount the 1940 arrest and trial of four people for their a...

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Merit pay for teachers " now being called "performance pay" " is not a replacement for across-the-board pay raises, according to education experts brought in to testify before Oklahoma's House Educa...

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Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson announced Wednesday he has requested a moratorium on Oklahoma executions, pending a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court regarding lethal injection, according to...

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Here's a recent arrival from south of the border that has Oklahomans scrambling to get one: the chiminea. Chimineas " as well as a variety of other fire pits " can be had throughout the metro area. K...

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Oklahoma State Treasurer Scott Meacham said he studied the coal vs. gas argument for several months after he first heard about Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co.'s proposal to build a massive coal-fired pl...

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One Oklahoma City advertising agency handled the ads for each side in the coal vs. gas fight over a new state power plant. Oklahoma State Treasurer Scott Meacham said ad agency Ackerman McQueen calle...

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Each year in September, the population of one part of Oklahoma City swells by hundreds of thousands for 11 days. In 2006, a million people attended the 100th State Fair of Oklahoma " and this year, it...

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The Oklahoma Corporation Commission Monday implied it would reject an application by Oklahoma Gas and Electric to build a $1.87 billion dollar coal-fired electric plant.   During deliberations ...

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Two Noble police officers now face felony charges in the shooting death of a young boy last month, according to charges filed in Cleveland County Court.   Robert Shawn Richardson, 29, and Paul ...

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An Oklahoma federal judge ordered former state Sen. Gene Stipe to undergo a mental evaluation at a Missouri federal inmate hospital on Tuesday, records show.  According to the ruling filed in th...

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A rocket contending for a $2 million NASA moon lander prize crashed Saturday at the Oklahoma Spaceport at Burns Flat, according to an industry news publication. The New Scientist reports that Armadil...

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According to a report by U.S. Public Interest Research Group " a public science watchdog group in Washington, D.C. " global warming came on with a vengeance in 2006, resulting in the highest temperatu...

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The fight has begun over a faith-based initiative set to take effect Nov. 1, which would use tax dollars to fund religious organizations ministering to inmates of Oklahoma's prison system. Passed in ...

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A new bill will sever relations between the Cherokee Nation and the United States, cutting off $270 million in government funding to the tribe, "until such time that they return the Freedmen to full c...

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Oklahoma prison officials executed a man Tuesday for a 1987 murder that went unsolved for more than a decade until police compared the DNA from a second murder for which he was also convicte...