The Emergency Price Stabilization Act is in effect in the 12 Oklahoma counties hard hit by Saturday night’s tornadoes. The counties are Carter, Cotton, Garfield, Hughes, Kay, Lincoln, Love, Murray, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, Payne and Pontotoc. The law, also referred to as the price gouging statute, prohibits an increase of more than 10 percent for the …
A retired B-1B Lancer is undergoing extensive maintenance at Tinker Air Force Base after being pulled out of the Air Force’s Boneyard to replace one badly damaged in a 2022 engine explosion at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. The plane was made air worthy earlier this year and flown to Tinker in February …
The count remains unconfirmed but possibly up to three dozen or more tornadoes hit Oklahoma on Saturday, leaving four persons, one a baby, dead in the town of Holdenville and heavy destruction in the southern towns of Sulfur, Ardmore and Marietta. Two of the deaths happened in Holdenville, located about 75 miles southeast of …
The derailment of 35 rail cars and following explosion and fire resulted in a shutdown of Interstate 40 for most of the weekend in western New Mexico near the Arizona state line. The closure involved a nearly 50-mile stretch of the interstate because six of the derailed BNSF Railway cars were carrying propane. The …
Led by Georgia Republican Congressman Andrew Clyde, some 30 House Republican Representatives are going after President Biden’s latest regulations to put gas-powered vehicles out of business. No Oklahoma House members were part of the effort on Friday to file the bill under the Congressional Review Act, a law dating back nearly three decades that …
