Abortion opponents in Mississippi, West Virginia and several other states are filing bills to ban an abortion procedure commonly used in the second trimester that opponents describe as dismembering a fetus.
DALLAS (AP) -- A former University of Oklahoma fraternity member who was shown in a video chanting a racial slur has issued an apology, as have the parents of a second student.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon's international headquarters may be in Illinois, but the fraternity's roots are firmly planted in the antebellum South. "We came up from Dixie land," says a ditty from an old songbook, boasting about SAE's success.
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- University of Oklahoma President David Boren has expelled two students he says have been identified as leading a racist chant as part of a fraternity event.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- With executions in Oklahoma on hold amid a constitutional review of its lethal injection formula, Republican legislators are pushing to make Oklahoma the first state in the nation to allow nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- An Oklahoma inmate executed amid a legal challenge over lethal injection began complaining about the effects on his body before the drugs were administered, prompting some to question whether he may have exaggerated his symptoms to help his fellow death row inmates' case.
Federal prosecutors say an Oklahoma woman who admitted running a mortgage fraud scheme in New Jersey that generated $4.7 million in fraudulent loans has been sentenced to four years in prison.