Oklahoma

Highs of 109 degrees Fahrenheit forecast for Saturday and 110 F (43.3 C) on Sunday in Dallas would break the current record of 107 F each day

The high court’s decision gives hope to advocates for racial justice that government may make amends in one of the worst single acts of violence against Black people in U.S. history

Since 1996, tornadoes in the United States have killed 815 people in mobile or manufactured homes, representing 53% of all the people killed at home during a tornado

Record high temperatures around 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) are forecast in parts of western Texas on Monday

About 475,000 customers were without electricity in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma as of Friday morning, as another series of fierce storms made its way through Southern states

The Florida governor sought to project strength by campaigning in one of the more than a dozen states scheduled to hold its GOP primary on Super Tuesday next March, weeks after the earliest states vote

The approval came despite a warning from Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond that it was unconstitutional

Missouri and Nebraska proposals are poised for action as well, and could add to the list of at least 17 states that have enacted laws restricting or banning gender affirming care for minors

Glossip had been scheduled to be put to death on May 18 despite statements by new Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond that Glossip did not receive a fair trial

The mother-in-law of a registered sex offender who was found dead on a rural Oklahoma property with his wife, her teenage children and two visiting teens says he kept the family “under lock and key” and always had to know where they were

The bodies were discovered Monday on a rural property during a search for two missing teenagers and a convicted sex offender

Ryan Walters has the state’s top public education job, even fellow Republicans are worried that Walters hasn’t pivoted from campaigning to governing the state’s largest agency

Police say a man shot and killed another man at Rose State College in Oklahoma. No one else was hurt in Monday’s shooting, and the suspect is in custody

Central Oklahoma saw tornadoes with two deaths and several injuries reported in the town of Cole and a third death in another county. The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center says an additional round of storms is expected Thursday night in the region

Twenty-five U.S. jurisdictions have legalized the drug, while others have only decriminalized. If you’re traveling, make sure to avoid legal issues

Since Roe v. Wade fell, states with strict abortion bans are trying to reach outside their borders to keep their residents from getting abortions in other states

Growth in wind and solar significantly drove the increase in renewable energy and contributed 14% of the electricity produced domestically in 2022

Idaho lawmakers passed a bill this week seeking to add the state to the list of those authorizing firing squads, which currently includes Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina

The bill signed by the Republican governor makes Arkansas the fourth state to place such restrictions at public schools

Previously, the right to an abortion could only take place in the case of medical emergency

A group of 65 Ukrainian soldiers has been training at the historic Fort Sill Army Post and are expected to depart for Germany in the next several days

Firing squads will be used only if the state cannot obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections

Although it’s unclear what steps the EPA might take if states don’t cooperate, the agency told Norfolk Southern that it expects the company to take legal action if it is unable to ship the waste

Kim Reynolds was expected to sign into law after it got final legislative approval Thursday

If an athlete who becomes pregnant goes to school in a state with strict abortion laws and chooses to tell their coach, the coach may find themself in an increasingly difficult position

Governor Tim Walz’s executive order parallels legislation awaiting a floor vote in the state House to make Minnesota a ‘trans refuge state’

Oklahoma voters will decide Tuesday whether to approve a ballot measure that legalizes consuming the plant for adults 21 and older