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Latino voters were instrumental in forming the national blue wave this midterm election. But available data suggests Oklahoma’s voting Latinos didn’t drive the same change as their counterparts in surrounding states.
PUTNAM CITY, Oklah. — Drivers honking and students pouring into a busy intersection near Mayfield Middle School have prompted a Putnam City resident to take matters into her own hands—and now push for a new state law to protect children walking near schools. Rebecca Ramirez said she stopped...
OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma City-area pastor was sentenced to 30 years in prison after being convicted of 17 criminal counts, including 13 counts of human trafficking for forced labor, according to the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics. The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics (OBN) began investigating Elmer Baca Flores in March...
In some of the biggest summer movies, you'll likely see friends kicking back in the truck bed, catching the open, unsheilded wind as the driver rolls down the road. Luckily in Oklahoma, you can live that fantasy. Laws in Oklahoma and Oklahoma City protect passengers' right to travel in the bed of a truck, but not all can feel this thrill. Here's what state and local law says about traveling in the bed of a pickup truck. Is it legal to ride in the back of a pickup truck? Neither Oklahoma state law nor OKC city ordinance restricts the ability of adult passengers to be in the bed of a pickup truck, even when it's on the highway. There are 21 states that don't have a law against pickup trucks, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety , including Oklahoma. Other states have some restrictions on what age people can be when they ride in the truck bed, like Texas, which only allows individuals 18 and older. Riding in the truck bed still comes with dangers. While riding in the truck bed is legal, passengers should still practice safe travel to prevent any unwanted injuries. Oklahoma also prohibits reckless
By the time I walked up to Integrity Recovery Center’s front door, I’d been trying to get a hold of the owners for months. Integrity’s website described the treatment facility as a “healing sanctuary” and showed photographs of a gleaming white mansion with a pool in the Los Angeles foothills. The place looked a little dingier in person, with trash in the driveway and weeds growing over a retaining wall.
In-N-Out might be coming to Oklahoma. We found some interesting possibilities for where that first restaurant could land.
OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma City community event is helping local families prepare for Thanksgiving with a free turkey giveaway on Sunday, Nov. 15. Primetime OKC and community partners are hosting a drive-thru turkey giveaway at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds starting at 2:30 p.m. The giveaway is set to take...
A metro neighborhood is fed up with repeated power surges; they say it's even fried some expensive appliances.
A town of about 10,000 people popped up in a single afternoon. Then it got to be the capital, first of a territory and then of a brand-new state. Three years later, voters moved the capital away. As it happens, losing that title turned into a strange kind of luck....
Oklahoma voters rejected the idea in 2018. A year later, Walmart and the state's optometrists reached a compromise. Here's what happened.
The Oklahoma Railway Museum in Oklahoma City on Tuesday showed off the ongoing cosmetic work on Santa Fe EMD FP45 90, the first FP45 ever built. The locomotive, which previously wore faded red-and-silver “Warbonnet” colors from its Super Fleet days, was renumbered to 5990 — the number it wore while wearing the blue-and-yellow “Freight Bonnet” colors in the 1980s — and now wears those colors once more.
One of the country's largest Asian food festivals is coming to Scissortail Park in November
Some of the best Saturdays in Oklahoma start with a pocket full of small bills and no real plan. You wander past a folding table, spot something odd or old or oddly perfect, and suddenly the whole morning has a story. Flea markets across the state turn a few dollars...
Stacey McCurry of Stillwater, Oklahoma, is suing the Grady County Sheriff's Office for an ATV that was stolen in Payne County in 2020. The office's reason for not handing it back, as KGOU reported it, is that a judge has already titled the machine to the county and the county paid to fix it.
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Tinnitus, or ringing in the ears, is the most common disability among military veterans and current soldiers, frequently caused by exposure to loud noises such as jet engines and gunfire. Researchers at the Hough Ear Institute in Oklahoma are actively working to explore better treatments...
2812 Classen Blvd — Reported Headquarters of Rigid Industrial Group. Rigid Industrial Group celebrated its expansion into Noble on Tuesday, moving into the 156,623-square-foot campus once occupied by figurine and collectibles maker United Design. The Norman-based industrial firm has already hired 120 people at the site and plans to add 80 more within the next year, with a goal of roughly 200 additional jobs across Cleveland County over the next three years.
3900 N.W. 14th St. — Approximate Block of Reported Electrical Damage. For years, residents of Oklahoma City's Talavera neighborhood have lived with an unwelcome houseguest: unpredictable power surges running through their homes. When they turned to their utility for help, they were told to buy surge protectors. Those devices, residents say, still didn't work.
Travelers and locals have new selfie-worthy stops along historic Route 66 in OKC, thanks to a gift of four custom shields from the Oklahoma Route 66 Centennial Commission, OG&E and the Inasmuch Foundation. Installed in Oklahoma City in late October, the shields now anchor districts along former alignments of Route...
OKLAHOMA CITY - Thanksgiving in Oklahoma means family, football and a table full of food, but cooking all of it can eat up the whole holiday. Between thawing the turkey, juggling oven space and timing every side to finish at once, hosting starts to feel like a shift at work. The good news: you can get a premade Thanksgiving dinner in Oklahoma City from local barbecue joints, caterers, diners and grocers.
