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Red tape binds Oklahoma man's chance to save brother's life
LATTA — Frances Henley has two sons. She’s terrified government red tape could wind up killing one of them."I wouldn’t have called the media if I wasn’t absolutely desperate,” said Henley, 69, of Latta, a small town near Ada.Henley’s older son, Robert Henley, 48, of Virginia has been diagnosed with leukemia and is being treated at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md."They’re telling me I really need a bone marrow transplant (to survive),” he said.Time is critical because strong chemotherapy treatments have the disease in remission and the leukemia needs to be in remission for the transplant to work, he said.Read more on NewsOK.com
Package sparks Oklahoma capitol evacuation
Gov. Brad Henry and about 100 other people were evacuated from the state Capitol for about 30 minutes Monday after a man said to be acting suspiciously discarded a briefcase in one of the building’s entrances.The briefcase was found later to contain nothing suspicious, just papers, books and some paper clips, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Capt.Read more on NewsOK.com
Panel to review Oklahoma Department of Human Services' policy
The adoption policies of DHS need further review, the co-chairman of a legislative task force on adoption said Monday.Especially troubling is the dilemma adoptive parents face when the child they adopt develops mental or violent problems, and they are told they must keep the child although the child poses a threat to them or others in their family, said Rep.Read more on NewsOK.com
World reacts to news of Tulsa minister's death
Expressions of sympathy and support flooded in from around the world Monday as Victory Christian Center members and personnel mourned the loss of their founding pastor.
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Western Plains Youth and Family Services seeks Christmas donations
WOODWARD — The staff at Western Plains Youth and Family Services is asking the community to help provide Christmas presents for the 50 to 60 children in the agency’s care."We understand that it is a hard year to give,” said Kevin Evans, executive director, noting that numerous families who have come to Western Plains for help are struggling because of the recession.The agency is facing its own financial troubles through budget cuts, he said."This year we have had more kids in our shelter and in our programs — we just have more kids to buy for,” he said.Western Plains sponsors an Angel Tree program each year to try "to ensure that every kid gets something,” Evans said.
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Licensing authority offers Alva doctor favorable sentence
A physician assistant with a long record of substance and alcohol abuse last week was allowed to keep his medical license.
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Powerball jackpot is Oklahoma's fourth
KIOWA — The winning ticket in Saturday night’s Powerball drawing, worth $32.8 million, was sold at Kwik Chek #38 at 505 S Garfield in Kiowa, officials said Monday."We joke about it around here that the lottery is the retirement fund,” said Kenna Dunlay, store manager.
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Office to investigate claims of embezzlement in Maud
MAUD — The state auditor’s office will investigate allegations of embezzlement and forgery surrounding money missing from the city of Maud’s water department, officials said.City Hall was broken into Nov.
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Locust Grove man, 28, arraigned in 6 deaths, house fire
A preliminary autopsy report for a former cast member of the HBO show "Cathouse” states the woman received multiple gunshot, stabbing and slashing wounds, the state medical examiner’s office said.A gunshot wound to the right temple was the probable cause of death for Brooke Phillips, 22, of Moore, the office said.Another woman whose body was found in a burning Oklahoma City house on Nov.
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Inquiry could link prison fights to Oklahoma City case
Officials are investigating a possible link between weekend fights at three prisons and the arrest of a man accused of shooting, stabbing and then burning a man and three women in a southwest Oklahoma City house Nov.Read more on NewsOK.com
AAA to offer Tipsy Tow for holiday
AAA Oklahoma’s Tipsy Tow service will be provided for the first time over the Thanksgiving holiday in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Muskogee, Ardmore, Enid, Lawton and Shawnee.AAA Oklahoma will give drivers who have too much to drink, and their vehicle, a free ride home from 6 p.m.
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Officials: Former President Clinton visits Tulsa mayor's house
Former President Bill Clinton visited Mayor Kathy Taylor?s Tulsa house Friday evening for a charity event.
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$32.8 M Powerball ticket bought at Pittsburg County store
KIOWA — The winning ticket in Saturday night's Powerball drawing, worth $32.8 million, was sold at Kwik Chek #38 at 505 S Garfield in Kiowa, officials said Monday.
"We joke about it around here that the lottery is the retirement fund," said Kenna Dunlay, store manager.
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Sunny skies expected in Oklahoma on Tuesday
Sunny conditions will be the rule across Oklahoma on Tuesday.
The National Weather Service said northwesterly winds are expected behind a fast-moving cold front.
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Government issues record 2.1M recall for dropside cribs
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Government safety regulators say more than 2.1 million dropside cribs by Stork Craft Manufacturing are being recalled, the biggest crib recall in U.S history.
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Adam Lambert's American Music Awards performance subject of complaints by 1,500 viewers, ABC says
NEW YORK (AP) — ABC says more than 1,500 people have called to complain about Adam Lambert's sexually charged performance at the American Music Awards.
The network characterized the response as "moderate." Before his performance, Lambert said that he wanted to break down a double standard that existed where female performers are often sexually provocative while men don't do it that often.
There were also hostile comments online about the "American Idol" glam rocker who sang his new song "For Your Entertainment" on Sunday's show with an elaborate, S&M-themed production.
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Mike Gundy: OSU quarterback Zac Robinson expected to practice tonight
STILLWATER ? Mike Gundy said today that he expects quarterback Zac Robinson to practice tonight, increasing his chances for playing in Saturday?s Bedlam game.
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OSU's Russell Okung a finalist for the Outland Trophy
By Brandon Chatmon, Staff Writer, bchatmon@opubco.
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Canada woman to fight insurance company over Facebook
MONTREAL (AP) — A Canadian woman on sick leave for depression said Monday she would fight an insurance company's decision to cut her benefits after her agent found photos on Facebook of her vacationing, at a bar and at a party.
Nathalie Blanchard said Monday she was diagnosed with major depression and was receiving monthly sick-leave benefits until payments dried up this fall.
When Blanchard called her insurance provider, Manulife, to find out why, she says she was told the Facebook photos showed she was able to work.
"If you have insurance, be careful.
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Suspicious package at Oklahoma Capitol found to be harmless; office workers return
Offices on the east side of the state Capitol are being evacuated this afternoon as a precautionary method.
A man being questioned by Oklahoma City police ran into the east side of the Capitol, the state Highway Patrol said.
Law officers tackled the man in the doorway, but the man threw a package onto the X-ray machine that scans packages and briefcases being brought into the Capitol, patrol Capt.
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Oklahoma inmates remain hospitalized after prison fights
Four Oklahoma prison inmates remain hospitalized with stab wounds after a series of fights broke out at three separate prisons.
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Mom: Son in coma heard everything for 23 years
BRUSSELS (AP) ? A man who emerged from what doctors thought was a vegetative state says he was fully conscious for 23 years but could not respond because he was paralyzed, his mother said Monday.
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Oklahoma unemployment rate hits 21-year high
Oklahoma's unemployment rate climbed to 7.1 percent in October, the state's highest rate in more than 20 years, officials reported.
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Mark Sanford, South Carolina governor faces 37 charges he broke state ethics laws
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford faces ethics charges he broke state laws more than three dozen times by violating rules on airplane travel and campaign money, according to details of the allegations released Monday.
It's up to the state attorney general to decide whether to file criminal charges.
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Bob Stoops: OU linebacker Ryan Reynolds doubtful vs. No. 11 Cowboys
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops says it's doubtful starting middle linebacker Ryan Reynolds will play in the Sooners' rivalry game this week against No.
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Hate crimes against gays, religious groups up sharply in 2008, FBI says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Reports of hate crimes against gays and religious groups increased sharply in 2008, according to new FBI data released Monday.
Overall, the number of reported hate crimes increased about 2 percent.
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Tipsy Tow now includes Thanksgiving holiday
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — AAA Oklahoma is expanding its program to give drinkers a ride home to now include the Thanksgiving holiday.
AAA spokesman Chuck Mai says the program will begin at 6 p.m.
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Oklahoma poultry litter trial marred by more delays
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma's trial against the Arkansas poultry industry continues to be marred by delays and squabbling attorneys.
Things boiled over again Monday morning, when poultry company attorneys objected to an expert witness Oklahoma wanted to put on the stand.
The objection caught U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell by surprise, because he was out of state late Friday when the motion was lodged with the court.
Frizzell, as if assessing the trial so far, said, "this is absurd," and added that any lawsuit could be boiled down to a handful of key documents.
Instead, Frizzell has been bombarded with thousands of legal briefs, which he complained about last week.
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Thanksgiving travelers: Are you worried about catching flu or another illness while traveling this week?
Thanksgiving travelers: Are you worried about catching flu or another illness while traveling this week?
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Suspect arraigned on charges of killing six and burning bodies in Oklahoma City
The 28-year-old man accused of killing four adults and two unborn children in southwest Oklahoma City was arraigned today.
Bail was denied for David Allen Tyner of Locust Grove.
An arraignment is the court hearing where a defendant is officially told what he is charged with.
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Michael Jackson wins 4 at AMAs; Taylor Swift top artist
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Quiz could help buy Oklahoma City some smoke alarms
If 6,000 people go online to take a two-minute quiz, the Oklahoma City Fire Department could land enough money to buy thousands of smoke alarms.Read more on NewsOK.com
Giraffe arrives at Tulsa Zoo with injured neck
The newest female giraffe at the Tulsa Zoo injured herself while being transported from Ohio to Oklahoma and now has a noticeable crick in her neck that may be permanent, zoo officials said. Despite her injury Amali, the 5-year-old giraffe from the Wilds zoo near Cumberland, Ohio, is stable and has been eating, moving and interacting with the other giraffes in the exhibit since she arrived on Oct.
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Earthquake reported near Oklahoma City
A small earthquake was reported late Sunday near Oklahoma City, the third quake reported near the metro in the last nine days.
The temblor, measuring 2.6 on the Richter scale, struck about 11:45 p.m.
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More Oklahomans are applying for Salvation Army bell ringer jobs
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Salvation Army officials in Oklahoma City are seeing an increase in the number of people applying for jobs as bell ringers in the agency's annual Red Kettle campaign.
Spokeswoman Heidi Brandes says with the number of people out of work — applications for the $7.25 an hour job ringing a bell is up 20 percent over previous years.
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Fog this morning to give way to more pleasant fall weather in Oklahoma
Dense fog blanketed most of central and western Oklahoma this morning, but skies are expected to clear this afternoon and yield to mostly pleasant weather through the rest of the week.
The National Weather Service issued a fog advisory through 9 a.m.
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Tulsa man arrested after meth fire
Fire investigators arrested a longtime felon after a meth lab burst into flames and damaged the man's home Monday.
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Two saved from burning Tulsa building after police officer sees smoke
Authorities pulled two people from a burning home early Monday after a police officer noticed the blaze while on patrol.
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Pastor Billy Joe Daugherty ‘graduates to heaven’
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Rep. Terry Harrison to run for Pittsburg Co. DA post
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Democratic state Rep.
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Astronauts take spacewalk No. 3 after suit snag
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The third and final spacewalk of space shuttle Atlantis' mission is finally under way.
Monday's spacewalk was delayed an hour by problems with an astronaut's suit.
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Winning Powerball ticket sold in Oklahoma
State sees win with lottery
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Law’s change makes all Oklahoma incident reports public
Open records experts in Oklahoma say a change to a clause regarding law enforcement incident reports will make rules for police more similar to other government organizations.The change, effective Nov.Read more on NewsOK.com
Pawhuska museum evokes Boy Scouts’ state origins
PAWHUSKA — Have you heard about the rescued kitten, sounds of "God Save the King” coming from an Episcopal church in Pawhuska, or pushing older women from one side of the dirt street to the other?Perhaps you have heard that the first Boy Scout troop in America was organized in Pawhuska in 1909 by the Rev.Read more on NewsOK.com
Picher stimulus funds on hold
PICHER — More than $135,000 in federal stimulus money originally meant for this dying town’s housing authority remains held up as the authority explores what it could do with the money.The Picher Housing Authority never sought the money, but the federal stimulus package included money for every active housing authority in the country — even the one for this toxic town with few remaining residents and no running water.Only three of the authority’s 54 units remain occupied, the authority’s executive director said.Members of the state’s Congressional delegation this summer asked the federal government to put a hold on the $135,494 in stimulus money for the housing authority.At the time,Read more on NewsOK.com
Oklahoma country singer Jody of "Jude 'n' Jody," 74, dies at home
Harold Dean "Jody” Taylor, who with Jude Northcutt formed the "Jude ’n’ Jody” country music duo, died Saturday at his home in Lexington.Read more on NewsOK.com
Mayor Mick Cornett's team fumbles football prize
Mayor Mick Cornett’s hope of using his sports broadcasting background to help Oklahoma City win a $15,000 fantasy football contest prize appears gloomy."It doesn’t look so good at all right now, does it?” Cornett said.Cornett joined the Yahoo!Read more on NewsOK.com
Trees could grow into Oklahoma cash crop
A potential moneymaker for the state could be going up in smoke.Loggers, businessmen and entrepreneurs have come up with a variety of uses and ideas in which the Eastern red cedar — considered a pest by many — could be developed into products generating tax revenue for the state.Rep.Read more on NewsOK.com
Democrats fight over health care bill
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Sunday sparred with each other over how to fix the nation’s troubled health care system, the moderates threatening to scuttle legislation if their demands weren’t met, and more liberal members warning their party leaders not to bend.The dispute among Democrats foretells of a rowdy floor debate next month on legislation that would extend health care coverage to roughly 31 million Americans.Read more on NewsOK.com
$32.8M Powerball ticket sold in Oklahoma
The winning ticket in Saturday night's Powerball drawing was sold in Oklahoma, officials said Sunday.
The winning ticket is worth $32.8 million.
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