Latest Oklahoma Headlines
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Popular Tulsa, Oklahoma Restaurant, Music Venue Burns
Feb 22 2022 // A popular Tulsa barbecue restaurant that also served as a music venue has burned, fire officials said. BurnCo Barbecue was reported on fire about 10:30 p.m. Feb. 16, according to the Tulsa Fire Department, and District...
Judge Told Release of Insurance Info OK in New Mexico Clergy Abuse Case
Feb 17 2022 // A federal judge has been told that Archdiocese of Santa Fe records that would indicate how much insurance money is available to help pay a settlement of clergy sex abuse claims can be made public if they are redacted to...
Probe Begins After Oklahoma City Apartment Fire Smoldered For Days
Feb 15 2022 // Investigators were set to begin digging through rubble to determine the cause of a massive fire that smoldered for four days and engulfed a $65 million luxury apartment complex in Oklahoma City that had been under...
Oklahoma Commission Approves 2021 Winter Storm Cost Recovery Orders
Feb 15 2022 // The Oklahoma Corporation Commission voted to approve two orders for state utilities to recover natural gas costs incurred during the February 2021 winter storm. The commission approved separate orders for CenterPoint...
Trustees OK $9M Settlement in Nevada Bus Driver Sex Crimes Case
Feb 15 2022 // School trustees in Las Vegas have approved a $9 million settlement in a case involving a former school bus driver who was sent to prison in 2018 for sexually assaulting special education preschoolers. The Clark County...
Massive Fire Burns Empty Five-Story Building Complex in Oklahoma City
Feb 10 2022 // A massive fire ripped through an empty five-story hotel and apartment complex in northwest Oklahoma City that was under construction, fire officials said. There were no injuries reported in the blaze late Feb. 8 at the...
4.5 Earthquake Hits Northern Oklahoma
Feb 1 2022 // A 4.5 magnitude earthquake struck northern Oklahoma at 11:10 a.m. CST Jan. 31 about seven kilometers northwest of Medford, the United States Geological Survey confirmed. A USGS Community Internet Intensity Map reported...
Oklahoma Oil Tank Battery Explosion and Fire Injures 2
Jan 26 2022 // Two workers were injured Jan. 24 in an explosion and fire at a central Oklahoma oil tank battery, officials said. The incident happened shortly before 2 p.m. at a Devon Energy oil well pad in Okarche, Oklahoma, about 35...
Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas Among States With Highest Frozen Pipe Claims
Jan 25 2022 // State Farm paid more than $471 million in claims from frozen pipes in 2021, and more than two/thirds of claims can be rooted back to one state: Texas. The Lone Star State accounted for $343 million of frozen pipes claim...
Judge Gives Preliminary OK to Firm’s $34M ‘Forever Chemical’ Settlement in Vermont
Jan 12 2022 // A federal judge has given preliminary approval to a $34 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit against a chemical company over contamination of groundwater and soil in a southern Vermont community. Notices are going...
Oklahoma Housing Agency to Settle Federal Race Discrimination Lawsuit for $75K
Jan 4 2022 // The Justice Department announced that it has obtained a settlement agreement with the Housing Authority of the Town of Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, and two of its former employees to resolve allegations that they violated federal...
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Warns Against Porch Piracy
Dec 15 2021 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready is encouraging residents to take precautions against porch piracy as the winter holiday season nears. According to C + R Research, 230 million Americans will be shopping online...
Oklahoma Wildfire Destroys 5 Homes, 14 Barns
Dec 15 2021 // A wildfire that forced evacuations in rural southwestern Oklahoma last week destroyed five homes, 14 barns and nine vehicles, officials said Monday. Three of the burned homes were unoccupied, said Comanche County Emergency...
Ex-Oklahoma Cabinet Secretary Files $60 Million Claim over Bribery Charge
Dec 14 2021 // A former member of Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s cabinet has filed a claim for $60 million damages with the state attorney general’s office, alleging he was wrongly charged with bribery. Former Secretary of...
Oklahoma Grass Fire Forces Evacuations
Dec 13 2021 // A grass fire in southwestern Oklahoma that forced evacuations was about 95 percent contained by late Friday, Dec. 10, emergency officials said. There were no reported deaths or injuries due to the fire near Lawton, which...
Oklahoma Pork Plant Faces $27,000 Penalty Over Unsafe Work Conditions
Dec 3 2021 // A Guymon, Oklahoma processing and packing facility – operated by one of the nation’s largest pork processors – failed to prevent workers from being exposed to repetitive motion injuries and did not record...
Oklahoma High Court Rules National American Off Hook in Earthquake Lawsuits
Nov 29 2021 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled last week that an earth-movement exclusion precludes insurance coverage for an oil and gas company facing several lawsuits accusing its operations of causing earthquakes. National American...
Oklahoma Attorney General Joins Suit Over Health Vaccine Mandate
Nov 18 2021 // Oklahoma is among 12 state attorneys general filing a federal lawsuit over the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for health care workers. Attorney General John O’Connor said Nov. 16 that Oklahoma...
Oklahoma Supreme Court Tosses $465 Million Opioid Ruling Against J&J
Nov 9 2021 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court overturned a ruling that drugmaker Johnson & Johnson must pay the state $465 million for its role in the opioid epidemic, determining that Oklahoma’s public nuisance law does not extend...
31 October Tornadoes Breaks Oklahoma Monthly Record
Nov 4 2021 // A total of 31 tornadoes last month was a record-high for October in Oklahoma dating to 1950, according to the National Weather Service. The previous high for October, the fifth most active month for tornadoes, was 27 in...
