Dollar Thrift second quarter profit jumps 15 pct, rental sales slip on low demandTULSA, Okla. — Rental car company Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc. on Tuesday posted a 15 percent increase in its second-quarter results, but saw rental sales slip as fewer consumers traveled. As polluted Oklahoma mining town slowly disappears, many holdouts give up the fightPICHER, Okla. — Two years ago, Orval “Hoppy” Ray vowed it would take someone meaner than him to make him leave the town where he was born. Oklahoma Tax Commission reduces bill for former college students who ran party businessEDMOND, Okla. — A student-run party business that received a $320,000 tax bill after boasting on the Internet “over a billion served” and “biggest party in the country” will now have to pay only $2,300. Man chuckles while being charged with murder in shooting deaths of 2 Okla. deputiesWEWOKA, Okla. — A man accused of killing two deputies who were trying to arrest him grinned and chuckled to himself as he appeared in court Monday and learned prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty. Okla. man charged with murder in shooting deaths of 2 deputiesWEWOKA, Okla. — A man accused of killing two deputies who were trying to arrest him grinned and chuckled to himself as he appeared in court Monday and learned prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty. Okla. man arrested in shooting deaths of 2 deputies allegedly tried to strangle his motherSEMINOLE, Okla. — An Oklahoma man jailed in the shooting deaths of two deputies was wanted for allegedly trying to strangle his mother, who told authorities that she and her other children were afraid of him, court records show. SBI: 2 Okla. sheriff’s deputies shot, killed as they try to serve domestic abuse warrantSEMINOLE, Okla. — A man opened fire on two sheriff’s deputies trying to serve a domestic abuse warrant Sunday in Oklahoma, killing both officers and wounding a woman who was passing by, state investigators said. Okla. trooper gets 5-day unpaid suspension for videotaped scuffle with ambulance driverSTROUD, Okla. — An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper caught on video cussing and fighting with the driver of an ambulance carrying a patient has been suspended for five days. Judge: Okla. can’t pursue damages against Ark. poultry firms in pollution lawsuitTULSA, Okla. — Oklahoma can’t pursue monetary damages in its environmental lawsuit against a dozen Arkansas poultry companies because it didn’t name the Cherokee Nation as a plaintiff, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in a major blow to the state. Okla. executes man convicted of 1995 slayings of 2 campers whose bodies were burnedMcALESTER, Okla. — A man convicted of the 1995 shooting deaths of two campers has been put to death in Oklahoma. Former president George W. Bush thanks troops amid thunderous Okla. applause in July 4 speechWOODWARD, Okla. — Former President George W. Bush was greeted by thunderous applause on the Fourth of July as he told thousands of spectators in a rural Oklahoma rodeo arena that the U.S. was “the greatest nation on the face of the earth.” Former president George W. Bush to speak at 4th of July celebration in remote Oklahoma townWOODWARD, Okla. — Former President George W. Bush, who has turned up in a handful of out-of-the-way places since leaving office, was set to spend part of Independence Day speaking at a remodeled rodeo arena in rural northwestern Oklahoma. Friendly territory: George W. Bush to spend Fourth of July in small Oklahoma townWOODWARD, Okla. — When the middle-of-nowhere town of Woodward invited George W. Bush to its Fourth of July celebration, no one really expected the former president to accept. But he did. 9 killed in northeast Oklahoma highway wreck; final victim found in wreckage hours after crashMIAMI, Okla. — Hours after a tractor-trailer slammed into stopped traffic on a northeast Oklahoma turnpike, tow trucks dislodged the rig from a crushed car to find the body of a ninth victim inside the mangled wreckage. 9 dead in northeast Okla. turnpike wreck, motorists stranded in heat for hoursMIAMI, Okla. — Two survivors of an Oklahoma traffic wreck that killed nine people when a tractor-trailer slammed into stopped cars were in critical condition Saturday. Rescue crews find 9th victim in car caught under tractor-trailer, hours after Okla. wreckMIAMI, Okla. — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a ninth fatality in a northeast Oklahoma turnpike wreck has been confirmed after crews found another body in a car that had been caught under a tractor-trailer. At least 8 dead in northeast Okla. turnpike wreck, motorists stranded in heat for hoursMIAMI, Okla. — At least eight people died Friday when a tractor-trailer slammed into a line of cars stopped on a northeast Oklahoma turnpike by an earlier accident, leaving twisted metal and debris strewn about the highway and stranding miles of traffic in scorching heat for hours. Highway Patrol confirms at least 8 dead in traffic accident on northeast Okla. interstateMIAMI, Okla. — A tractor-trailer slammed into a line of cars stopped on a northeast Oklahoma turnpike Friday afternoon, killing at least eight people , authorities said. Oklahoma law enforcement pleads for help to crack case of 2 slain girls on first anniversaryOKEMAH, Okla. — A year after two young girls were gunned down while taking a walk outside a rural Oklahoma town, authorities are stumped — no motive and no arrests. Continental flight from Houston to Omaha makes emergency landing in Tulsa, Okla.TULSA, Okla. — A spokeswoman for ExpressJet Airlines says a Continental Express jet with 53 people on board has made an emergency landing in Oklahoma. Republican Coburn of Okla. says he’ll run for second term in the US Senate in 2010TULSA, Okla. — Sen. Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican who has built a reputation as an anti-earmarks crusader, said Monday he will run for a second term next year. Okla. police arrest would-be burglar after he returns to the scene of the crime with more toolsTULSA, Okla. — Police said officers arrested a would-be burglar when he returned to the scene of the crime after failing the first time to get in. Police said officers were called about 8:30 p.m. Sunday to the pharmacy of a medical center where witnesses said someone had tried to break in — but had left. Former NFL player Sam Rayburn facing drug charges in Oklahoma hometownCHICKASHA, Okla. — Former NFL player Sam Rayburn is facing drug-related charges in his Oklahoma hometown. Arena Resources 1st-qtr profit drops 65 percent as commodity prices plummetTULSA, Okla. — Arena Resources Inc., an oil and natural gas exploration company, said Friday its first-quarter profit sank 65 percent as commodity prices plummeted. Williams Cos. CEO’s compensation rises 10 percent to $8.9 million in 2008TULSA, Okla. — The chief executive of natural gas provider Williams Cos. earned 10 percent more in 2008 than the previous year, according to an Associated Press analysis of a filing made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Lessons in forecasting, preparedness learned 10 years after Okla.-Kan. tornadoes killed 46DEL CITY, Okla. — Chris Stiles’ 8-year-old son met his dad at the door of their Oklahoma City home on May 3, 1999, pleading with his father for a plan as a tornado approached: “You need to do something about it.” Men find abandoned safe thought to be century old, rusted shut with locks broken offTULSA, Okla. — Two men said they’ve found an abandoned safe by the side of some railroad tracks and that it could be more than a century old. Bill Dodd, one of the men who found the safe about a month and a half ago, says it weighs about 4,000 pounds. It’s now on display at an east Tulsa sign company while the men decide what to do with it. |
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