The Oklahoma State University Biofuels Team’s ability to think small – microscopic, actually – stands to provide great dividends for consumers, a renewable energy company and one of the nation’s foremost automakers.

Biology based renewable energy company Coskata Inc. and automotive giant General Motors announced their cooperative plans to reduce fossil fuel consumption this past weekend, thanks in part to Coskata’s “next generation ethanol” process based on research…[more]

Oklahoma state school Superintendent Sandy Garrett has announced that teachers in 63 schools across the state will receive bonuses ranging from $500 to $3000 as a result of their students’ test scores.

In 33 schools, teachers will get each get $3000, the highest payout, because their students were either among the highest scoring or had the most improved scores from the previous year.

Teachers in the…[more]

Despite a decline in production, higher prices valued Oklahoma’s oil production at $470.6 million for November, 2007, up 56.3 percent over the same month in 2006.

Oil production was down 5.2 percent to 5.1 million barrels for the month to month comparison according to a report issued this week by the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association (OIPA).

The report also said that oil producers received an average…[more]

A press release from the office of Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry said he is “deeply disappointed and frustrated” that the Federal Emergency Management Agency denied the state’s request for individual assistance for people hit by last month’s deadly ice storm.

“I don’t understand how FEMA could assess the extensive damages from that ice storm and not conclude the obvious,” Henry said. “This was a storm of…[more]

A group of Internet pill peddlers may soon be forced to change their ways after Attorney General Drew Edmondson filed a petition for a permanent injunction against the company in Oklahoma County District Court.

Pure Energy Labs, Inc. and three of the company’s executives, Darrin Clanton, Brian Forrester and Chris Wilson, were named in the state’s action after the attorney general’s office received more than 115 complaints from…[more]

State Rep. Rebecca Hamilton today renewed her call for the state of Oklahoma to end indirect funding of the genocide in Darfur.

“Tragically, acts of genocide have become increasingly common in the past century,” said Hamilton, D-Oklahoma City. “The world has experienced mass murder in Germany, Cambodia, Rwanda and now in the Sudan. Every time it happens, our government officials throw up their hands and dismiss these atrocities…[more]

The State of Oklahoma has suffered another blow because of Gov. Brad Henry’s veto of bipartisan lawsuit reform legislation during the 2007 legislative session.

For the fourth consecutive year, the Judicial Hellholes report published by the nonpartisan American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) gives Oklahoma a “dishonorable mention.”

“America’s job-creators pay attention to the Judicial Hellholes report. This is very bad news for Oklahoma, and it is…[more]

WEBWIRE – Two years have passed since Jonathan Crider first heard the public service announcement saying kids his age living nearby were going hungry. Now at age 13, he has rallied his hometown community of Lawton to raise more than $20,000 for Food 4 Kids to help feed more than 100 children in Lawton public schools for an entire school year.

Jonathan can also add earning a truckload…[more]

Oklahoma City—OK Gov. Brad Henry announced today that “Operation Holiday Homecoming” appears to have reached its goal by raising enough funds and resources to ensure that members of the 45th Infantry Brigade are able to spend the holidays with their families before deployment to Iraq in early 2008.

Spearheaded by the American Legion of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs, the initiative accepted contributions to cover…[more]

The 1957 Plymouth Belvedere buried beneath the Tulsa County courthouse lawn and unearthed last summer will be treated to some restoration work soon.

Owners Levada Humbertson Carney, 88, and Catherine Humbertson Johnson, 93 are shipping the vehicle to New Jersey where it will be worked with both a degreaser and an acid-free rust remover.

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