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Man injured in accidental shooting in NE Oklahoma City
KFOR - Oklahoma
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June 12, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – A man was injured in an accidental shooting in Northeast Oklahoma City, police say. According to the Oklahoma City Police Department, officers responded to the area of NE 36th St. and Lottie Ave. regarding a shooting. Upon...
Oklahoma City kids enjoy courtside NBA game with Shaquille O'Neal
KOCO 5 - Oklahoma
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June 12, 2025
OUR OLIVIA HICKEY HAS THE STORY. WHEN TWO LOCAL KIDS HEADED TO THE PAYCOM CENTER FOR THE OKC VERSUS INDIANA MATCHUP, THEY EXPECTED TO SEE ALL OF THEIR FAVORITE PLAYERS ON THE COURT. WHAT THEY DIDN’T EXPECT IS TO WATCH THE GAME WITH AN NBA LEGEND....
Asian longhorned tick threatens U.S. livestock and health
KOLR/KOZL - Missouri
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June 12, 2025
The National Veterinary Services Laboratory identified a dangerous tick species in Northeast Oklahoma in early June. The same species was also identified for the first time in St. Louis County in late February. The species in question is the Asian...
Influential campaign donors on video at Oklahoma cockfighting event
KVIA - Texas
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June 12, 2025
By Erin Christy Click here for updates on this story MCINTOSH COUNTY, Oklahoma (KJRH) — Acting undercover, investigators with Animal Wellness Action said they went to a cockfighting event in Shady Grove, a community in McIntosh County. The video...
Oklahoma woman spends confused weekend in county
Marion County Record - Kansas
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June 11, 2025
An Oklahoma woman apparently suffering a mental health crisis Saturday caused tense moments for emergency workers after she ran out of gasoline near Burns, pulled her Jeep Wrangler into the entrance of an abandoned farmstead, and vanished. The...
Oklahoma’s loophole: How Tyson’s water use goes unchecked
Investigate Midwest
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June 11, 2025
As Jill Trapp steered her pickup truck down the red dirt roads of southeast Oklahoma, she raised a hand to greet a passing neighbor — a calf roper who once made it to the National Finals Rodeo. She drove on, passing a modest cowboy church where...
What are the Implications of the 2025 Budget Reconciliation Bill for Hospitals?
KFF
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June 12, 2025
On May 22, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a budget reconciliation bill—called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)—that includes significant reductions in federal Medicaid spending to help offset the cost of tax cuts, along with...
Highest-paying management jobs for people in Oklahoma City
WV News - West Virginia
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Highest-paying management jobs for people in Oklahoma City Managers are the glue holding companies and organizations together. At the executive level, managers are responsible for overall strategy and improving the bottom line. At lower levels,...
Get the Facts: Immigration Raids in Oklahoma
KOCO 5 - Oklahoma
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June 12, 2025
CHANTEL, GETTING THE FACTS ON THIS TONIGHT. YEAH, LOTS OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SHARING MISINFORMATION ONLINE ABOUT ICE RAIDS, BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN THEY’RE NOT HAPPENING, RIGHT? WELL, I DUG INTO WHAT’S ACTUALLY GOING ON AND WHAT ATTORNEYS ARE SAYING....
State approves new veterinary teaching hospital in Stillwater
News9 - Oklahoma
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The State of Oklahoma approves a new veterinary teaching hospital to be built at the OSU campus in Stillwater. Thursday, June 12th 2025, 6:01 am By: Aniysa Mapp STILLWATER, Okla. - The State of Oklahoma greenlights $250,000,000 in funding for the...
‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Batter Rural Hospital Finances, Researchers Say
KFF Health News - California
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June 12, 2025
Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez Cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs proposed in President Donald Trump’s budget plan would rapidly push more than 300 financially struggling rural hospitals toward a fiscal cliff, according to researchers who...
Oklahoma Veterans Council names Democratic Leader Julia Kirt Senator of the Year
The Journal Record - Oklahoma
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June 11, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY — Senate Democratic Leader Julia Kirt said she was honored to have been named Senator of the Year by the Oklahoma Veterans Council. Each year, the Senate and House meet in a special joint session to honor Oklahoma’s military...
Opinion: Medicaid cuts would devastate mental health, substance use treatment services in red states
STAT - Massachusetts
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June 12, 2025
When House Republicans voted in the wee hours of the morning of May 22 to cut approximately $700 billion from Medicaid, they moved one step closer to rendering dangerously vulnerable the millions of Medicaid recipients struggling with mental...
New Oklahoma law makes it easier to access birth control
The Oklahoman
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OKLAHOMA CITY- A new law that gives women access to a six month prescription of birth control will make it easier to access pregnancy prevention medication, one health advocate said. Maintaining access to contraceptives can be difficult for women...
Oklahoma AG joins bipartisan push to oppose Trump bill's ban on AI regulation
The Oklahoman
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OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma’s attorney general is pushing back on a congressional effort to bar states from regulating artificial intelligence for the next decade. Attorney General Gentner Drummond is one of a bipartisan coalition of 40 attorneys...
Oklahoma's first mountain lion kittens confirmed in state: What it means
The Oklahoman
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The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation announced the first confirmed sightings of mountain lion kittens in the state. The two separate mountain lions and the kittens were seen on trail cameras in different regions of the state, in...
Making procedural sedation easy
dvm360
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Gianluca Bini, DVM, MRCVS, DACVAA, owner and founder of the Safe Pet Anesthesia teleconsulting and training company and assistant professor of anesthesiology and pain management at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, shared his expertise with...
Police: Person taken to hospital after accidental shooting in northeast OKC
KOCO 5 - Oklahoma
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June 12, 2025
HOMEPAGE KOCO.COM. 639 TURNING TO THE BREAKING NEWS FROM OVERNIGHT. ONE PERSON IS IN THE HOSPITAL RIGHT NOW AFTER THEY WERE SHOT BY ACCIDENT. IT HAPPENED AROUND ONE THIS MORNING. WE WERE AT THE SCENE CLOSE TO NORTHEAST 36TH AND LOTTIE. OKLAHOMA...
Oklahoma Lottery Seeks Online Ticket Sales to Adapt to Changing Landscape
Times News Global
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June 11, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — The Oklahoma Lottery Commission is seeking legislative approval to modernize its operations amid a changing gambling landscape. The commission aims to create an online ticket sales platform, known as an ‘iLottery,’ similar...
End of hospital emergency abortion care rule will affect rural KY women
Public News Service
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Abortion rights advocates in Kentucky are concerned as the Department of Health and Human Services has revoked a policy requiring hospitals to provide abortion care in emergency situations. Known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act,...