Oklahoma

A firefighter and paramedic in Oklahoma was arrested in North Texas after investigators said he fell for a sex crime ruse, where he intended to meet and have sex with a teenage girl.

Glynn Ray Simmons, the longest-serving inmate to be declared innocent of a crime, was in prison for 48 years, one month and 18 days.

A video released by officials in Oklahoma shows the moment a dog chewing on a lithium-ion battery sparked a rapid house fire.

The Tulsa Police Department released a video showing the moments a dog ignited a house fire after chewing a lithium-ion battery.

A World War I veteran is the first person identified from graves filled with more than a hundred victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that devastated the city’s Black community, the mayor said Friday.

Former Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma has died. He was 89.

The suit was an attempt to force the city of Tulsa and others to make recompense for the destruction of the once-thriving Black district by a white mob

The destruction was extensive in Sulphur, a town of about 5,000 people south of Oklahoma City, where a tornado destroyed building and sheared the roofs off houses

A 10-year-old boy woke up to discover his father killed his entire family and mother before killing himself, Oklahoma Police said on April 23.

Four members of the anti-government group “God’s Misfits” were arrested Saturday on charges of kidnapping and first-degree murder.

One Oklahoma family is growing after its pet octopus laid 50 eggs late last year.

The Oklahoma State Patrol said Saturday that it temporarily closed a highway south of Sallisaw after a barge struck a bridge over Arkansas River.

An Oklahoma district attorney said Thursday he doesn’t plan to file any charges in the case of Nex Benedict, the nonbinary 16-year-old Owasso teenager whose death following a fight in a high school bathroom was ruled a suicide.

Before Oklahoma became one of the last places in the U.S. to outlaw cockfighting in 2002, it wasn’t uncommon to see the bloodsport draw hundreds of spectators.

Nex Benedict died Feb. 8, one day after a fight inside a girl’s bathroom at an Oklahoma High School. Their death has renewed scrutiny of anti-trans policies and political rhetoric over gender identity.

Judge Traci Soderstrom sent more than 500 texts mocking prosecutors, laughing at the bailiff’s comment about a prosecutor’s genitals, praising the defense attorney and calling the prosecutor’s key witness a liar.

The helicopter crashed Jan. 20 in a pasture near Hydro, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) west of Oklahoma City.

A 5.1 magnitude earthquake shook an area near Oklahoma City late Friday night, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

An Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer was thrown into a field during a routine traffic stop after another car struck the vehicle he was standing beside.

Dash camera footage shows the incident when both the trooper and driver were struck during a traffic stop.