Oklahoma City OK

There’s a stretch of Route 66 in Arcadia, Oklahoma that I can never just “drive past.” The parking lot is always packed, trucks and road-trippers squeezed in tight, and before I even open the car door I can smell fried chicken in the air. It’s the kind...

OKLAHOMA — A Bethany Middle School employee was arrested Wednesday after police say the individual was caught using a THC vape device on school property. According to the Bethany Police Department, officers responded to the school after receiving a report that an employee had been using a THC vape in a bathroom...

Two top Oklahoma County jail employees were fired because they were lovers who created a hostile work environment and not for being whistleblowers, the jail trust claims in a federal court filing. When asked about the new allegations, an attorney for the former jail employees told The Oklahoman the explosive...

You can smell it before you see it. That slow, steady hickory smoke hanging in the air is what pulled me toward Leo’s BBQ. Since 1974, this place has been doing one thing exceptionally well, and it does not need flashy updates or reinvention to prove it. The ribs arrive tender enough to make you pause, the meat...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Credit card users could soon be paying more after the state Senate approved a measure that would increase a cap on what businesses could charge their consumers. Senate Bill 2132, by Sen. Spencer Kern, R-Duncan, would increase the surcharge fee, or the amount that businesses can charge their customers,...

OKLAHOMA CITY - A man who was found dead following an officer-involved shooting on Monday evening in northwest Oklahoma City has been identified, according to investigators. The Oklahoma City Police Department says officers responded to the 5200 block of Harmon Drive just before 6 p.m. in response to reports of a...

Edmond, OK – Two men were arrested Monday in connection with an identity theft investigation involving an Elk City business. According to a press release from the Elk City Police Department, officers with the Criminal Investigations Division executed a search warrant on Monday, February 16, 2026, at a residence in...

The nonprofit Oklahoma City Search & Rescue Team has issued an alert for a missing Yukon juvenile. Leah Linhart, age 15, was reported as a runaway after last being seen around 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17 leaving the Yukon High School campus near E Vandament Avenue and S Yukon Parkway.

A phoned-in threat sent St. Anthony Hospital’s Midtown campus into lockdown Monday afternoon, after a caller said they planned to come to the facility and commit an act of violence. Staff moved fast, securing entrances and screening anyone coming in while Oklahoma City police converged on the hospital. Authorities...

Sgt. Christian Walsh of Barnsdall said he was as surprised as anyone when he arrested a member of a drug cartel. That’s also when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement noticed Walsh, he said. “When they fingerprinted him, it hit in the federal system that he was wanted for violations,”...