A former Oklahoma City Zoo employee has been sentenced to probation and community service after pleading guilty to trafficking stolen Galapagos tortoise hatchlings.

Federal prosecutors say an Oklahoma man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for illegally smuggling firearms to the Middle East to help fight the Islamic State.

The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission says the amount of unemployment payments since the coronavirus began a year ago has surpassed the amount paid during the past 10 years combined.

Authorities say a fire tore through an Oklahoma home, killing six people, including several children.

A Tulsa man charged as an accessory in the fatal shooting of one Tulsa police officer and wounding of another has gone on trial.

The Oklahoma State Department of Health has begun using the federal Centers for Disease Control count of deaths due to the illness caused by the coronavirus, raising the toll by about 2,500.

Oklahoma County's top prosecutor is asking the state's Pardon and Parole Board to reject a commutation request from a death row inmate.

Joe Exotic of “Tiger King” fame has found new attorneys, who say they plan to file a motion for a new trial in a matter of months.

Oklahoma State Medical Association President Dr. George Monks says he's encouraged and happy that the State Health Department will begin using federal Centers for Disease Control death reports for the illness caused by the coronavirus.

Health officials say Oklahoma expects to receive 31,500 doses of a newly approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine that only requires one dose.

A former employee of the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA team is facing federal charges for allegedly storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Police in Muskogee say two suspects are dead after a short police chase.

A new monthly survey shows continued economic improvement in nine Midwest and Plains states, but business leaders expressed concerns about rising inflation and bottlenecks in the supply chain causing delays.

The number of Oklahoma hospital patients with COVID-19 continues to sink.

As many as 10 death row inmates in Oklahoma could escape execution because of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Nearly a year after Congress passed a coronavirus relief bill, some Native American tribes are still in legal limbo over what's been distributed.

Oklahoma health officials say more than 1 million doses of coronavirus vaccine have been administered in the state.

Tulsa police say one of their officers is in a medically-induced coma after he lost consciousness and a pulse following an altercation with a patient in an ambulance.

Oklahoma health officials say genome sequencing will be up and running this week at the state health lab to help identify variants of the COVID-19 virus.

Supporters of an Oklahoma death row inmate have delivered a petition bearing more than 6 million signatures to the state's Pardon and Parole Board, seeking to save him from a lethal injection.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is thanking President Joe Biden's administration for quickly approving additional disaster assistance to help the state recover from last week's winter storm.

A white Oklahoma City police officer accused of fatally shooting a fleeing Black man three times in the back has been charged with first-degree manslaughter.

Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter is hiring outgoing U.S. Attorney Tim Downing for a new position in his office.

Armando Rubio, a Spanish-language broadcaster in Oklahoma, died from COVID-19 complications at 73.

Birds, bats and other wildlife appear to have taken a beating during the winter storm and deep freeze in the southern U.S. Scientists say it might take weeks or months to determine the extent of the harm.