Oklahoma

Mauree Turner made history by winning a seat in Oklahoma’s House of Representatives, making them the first openly nonbinary person elected to a state legislature in the country. Turner, who is also the first Muslim legislator in the Sooner State, joins LX News to talk about the importance of representation for the Black, Muslim and LGBTQ community, and making sure...

One set of human remains, and perhaps a second, have been found in a Tulsa cemetery where investigators are searching for victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Oklahoma state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said Tuesday.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a request from Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s administration to allow the state, not tribal nations, to regulate environmental issues in Indian Country.

Carbon monoxide, a colorless and odorless gas, can be deadly if inhaled.

An Oklahoma State University student died after he was bucked off a bull he was riding during a rodeo in Texas.

A group of sorority sisters are quarantined together after their chapter reported 23 positive coronavirus cases at Oklahoma State University, NBC News reports. The outbreak was at an off-campus sorority house at the university’s Stillwater location, detected by rapid-antigen testing done at an off-campus clinic, according to a statement from Oklahoma State University on Saturday. The university and Payne County…

School officials in Oklahoma say a student knowingly attended classes with the coronavirus on the first day of school, thinking it was safe to do so because he was asymptomatic, NBC News reports.

Attorney James Meggesto who specializes in Native American law speaks on matters of tribal sovereignty now that more than half of state of Oklahoma is considered tribal land following recent Supreme Court ruling.

Rap superstar Kanye West has qualified to appear on Oklahoma’s presidential ballot, the first state where he met the requirements before the filing deadline.

An Oklahoma man who proudly flies Nazi flags at his home opened fire on a young woman who tried to steal one of those banners, officials said.

Supporters of President Donald Trump are filing into the Tulsa stadium where the president will hold his first rally in months

President Donald Trump held a campaign rally at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday night.

The 19,000-seat venue is expected to be full of supporters as Oklahoma sees a surge in coronavirus cases.

President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed criticism that his upcoming campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, could contribute to the spread of the coronavirus, saying, “I can tell you on COVID or coronavirus or whatever you want to call it—plenty of names— tremendous progress is being made.”

Police say an Oklahoma man whose two children died when he left them inside his hot truck for hours has been arrested on second-degree murder warrants.

Newly released body camera footage from an arrest in Oklahoma City last year shows a suspect saying “I can’t breathe” before he died at a hospital.

Severe weather is blowing across the South after apparent tornadoes tore through parts of Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. At least seven people have been killed, including a factory worker whose body was found a quarter mile from where an apparent tornado struck the factory in southern Oklahoma. A Louisiana man was swept away in flood waters after going out to...

An Oklahoma newspaper has apologized and retracted a story intended as an April Fools’ prank that claimed all students in one Tulsa-area school district must repeat their current grade level.

A man playing a video game in a mobile home in the Oklahoma City suburb of Midwest City was fatally shot Sunday, apparently in an accident, by his best friend who was cleaning a gun, police said.

A former wildlife park owner known as ‘Joe Exotic’ was sentenced on Wednesday to 22 years in federal prison for his role in a 2017 murder-for-hire scheme to kill a prominent animal rights activist, plus multiple violations of wildlife laws. Joseph Maldonado-Passage was found guilty in April of attempting to hire someone to murder Carole Baskin, a prominent animal rights activist, according…