Ben Fenwick

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 temperatures in 30 years in Oklahoma. “Warmer-than-average days hit Texas and the Great Plains the hardest in 2006, with average peak temperatures […]

The floodwaters that took the wife, daughter and niece of the leader of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma almost caught the chairman and two of his grandsons.   Shane Montgomery, grandson of Billy and Dorita Horse, said he, his cousin and Chairman Horse were ahead of his grandmother’s Dodge Caravan in their much larger GMC […]

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 convicted. Police say Frank Duane Welch (pictured), 45, strangled to death Jo Talley Cooper, 28, at her home in Norman in 1987. Police said […]

Two Oklahoma National Guard helicopters as well as other National Air Guard assets were in Texas readying for the possibility of Hurricane Dean hitting that state’s coast when the remnants of Tropical Storm Erin hit Oklahoma, state emergency and military officials said today.   Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman Michelann Ooten said two Oklahoma […]

At least two are dead and several missing after Tropical Storm Erin entered Oklahoma early Sunday, leaving flooding and fatalities in its wake. Emergency crews and law enforcement conducted rescue operations in the wake of a tropical storm that flooded parts of the state Sunday. Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman Michelann Ooten said flooding was especially […]

In the debate over whether Oklahoma will build a $1.8 billion coal-fired power plant or use natural gas for fuel, both sides agree that:” coal is dirty, plentiful and cheap; and ” natural gas is cleaner and more expensive. When Chesapeake Energy Corp. chief Aubrey McClendon made his appearance before the Oklahoma Corporation Commission about […]

In February, a plan to build 11 new power plants operating on coal in Texas ran into a slick, hard-hitting and savvy campaign against it ” the “Clean Sky Coalition.” Although several companies are said to have funded the million-dollar campaign, the one that garnered much of the focus was Chesapeake Energy Corp. In a […]

The CEO of one of the U.S.’ largest energy producers made a rare public appearance Monday before the State Corporation Commission in opposition to a proposed billion-dollar coal-fired power plant.   OG&E Electric Services announced earlier this year they signed an agreement with Red Rock Power Partners to build the plant pending regulatory approval. Others […]

Ba Luong hopes that Oklahoma City’s Vietnamese community will remember their heritage when the Vietnamese Freedom Boat, a traveling display of a boat used by South Vietnamese refugees to flee after the takeover of their country by Communists in the Seventies, makes its stop here Saturday and Sunday at Luong’s Super Cao Nguyen grocery. Luong’s […]

Oklahoma state Rep. Paul Wesselhöft, R-Moore, said he’ll be introducing legislation again pitting him against his most-disliked dog breed: the pit bull.   The legislator’s dogged pursuit has him announcing proposed legislation that would make it r-r-rough on the owners of vicious dogs which bite hard enough to cause injury, according to a release from […]