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HIV Test Urged for 7,000 Oklahoma Dental Patients

HIV Test - WC

Health officials are urging 7,000 patients of an Oklahoma dentist to seek medical tests to ensure they haven't been exposed to hepatitis or the virus that causes AIDS. The Oklahoma and Tulsa health departments say the patients may have been exposed to viruses at clinics operated by W. Scott Harrington. The agencies said they found "major violations" of the Oklahoma Dental Act.

 

Report: Big Okla. quake in 2011 likely man-made

An unusual and widely felt 5.6-magnitude quake in Oklahoma in 2011 was probably caused when oil drilling waste was pushed deep underground, a team of university and federal scientists concluded.

 

Oklahoma teen arrested in school shooting and bombing plot

An Oklahoma high school student is in custody on charges he plotted to bomb and shoot students at the Bartlesville High School auditorium on the same day 26 people were shot and killed at an elementary school in Connecticut.

 

Tip nabs alleged 'Bucket List Bandit' in Okla.

Authorities knew they would need a lucky break to catch a middle-aged bank robber who pulled off a dizzying number of heists in a three-month crime spree that spanned across nine states....

 

Mover packs home, sells owner's stuff

A woman hired a moving company to take her belongings from Florida to Oklahoma, but they never made it.

 

14 fires rage across Oklahoma

Christopher Carlson sprang into action when smoke and embers ushered a fire that threatened to envelop his Noble, Oklahoma, home. After taking his 12-year-old stepson to safety, Carlson raced against time to assist neighbors and try to save his trailer from one of more than a dozen wildfires that, as of Saturday, had destroyed more than 120 structures.

 

Oklahoma, not Texas, can claim it had hottest summer ever in U.S., experts say

After recalculating data from last year, the nation's climatologists are declaring that Oklahoma suffered through the hottest summer ever recorded in the U.S. last year - not Texas as initially announced last fall.

 

Twisters kill 5 in Oklahoma; tear through Kansas, Iowa

Tornadoes

More than 200 emergency officials descended on a small Oklahoma town Sunday to help conduct door-to-door searches -- and make sure the death toll from suspected tornadoes didn't grow.

 

Report: Tulsa suspects confessed

Tulsa Shooters

Jake England told investigators he shot three of the five victims, while Alvin Watts told police he shot the other two, according to the incident report provided by police.

 

2 held in deadly Tulsa shooting rampage; no charge

Tulsa Shooting Suspects

Police arrested two men suspected in a deadly shooting rampage that terrorized Tulsa's African-American community, and said online postings indicated one may have been trying to avenge his father's death....

 

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